my main concern is the harm rather than the output, so i don't really need to hear a product testimonial from someone who found it useful. because i don't care

I keep getting asked at worked if I've tried asking the latest Coding AI du jour and at no point have I ever wanted to try them. 🤬

Usually come up with some excuse or other but I figure at some point some exec is gonna get suspicious 😰

I've been asked a few times about these tools and refused every time.

(I'm also very sad that one of them is borrowing the name from one of my favorite Star Trek characters, Dax)

New Gas-Powered Data Centers Could Emit More Greenhouse Gases Than Entire Nations A WIRED review of permits for data center projects using natural gas and linked to OpenAI, Meta, Microsoft, and xAI shows they could emit more than 129 million tons of greenhouse gases per year.

NEW: I've been shocked by some of the numbers I've been seeing on behind-the-meter power plants for data centers, so I did a little math.

less than a dozen gas plants being built to power data centers for big tech companies could emit a maximum of nearly 130 million tons of CO2e each year (!)

This Is Just To Say

I have turned off
the AI features
that were in
the update

and which
you were probably
hoping
to monetize

Fuck you
they were stupid
so unnecessary
and so annoying

psst @warren.senate.gov please!!

how is this not essentially round tripping?

why are people still investing in this despite the clearly dodgy practices

Tech CEOs suggest AI job losses could be offset by UBI which they will violently oppose PALO ALTO, CA - A group of Silicon Valley tech CEOs assure North Americans that job losses from artificial intelligence could easily be mitigated by universal basic income, while also adding that they...

Tech CEOs suggest AI job losses could be offset by Universal Basic Income, which they will violently oppose

thebeaverton.com/2025/11/tech...

This discourse rolls around every six months and I'm always happy to chime in: ELEMENTARY is a great TV show qua TV show and best modern interpretation of Holmes, including that one you're thinking of, which was more of one dude's intermittent hobby, which also somehow turned into CRIME DR. WHO.

I hate Al and I refuse to use it Peter, if you don't use Al a bunch of super rich men will lose a lot of money I already said I hated Al Harry, you don't need to sell it to me

OpenAI: We’re burning money like the Joker. A miracle needs to happen for us to turn a profit

Microsoft: Please please use our AI systems, we’re teetering on the edge here

Anthropic: I wonder what’ll kill us first: lawsuits, regulations or model collapse

Media and universities: AI is here to stay

btw I'm really hoping The Pope excommunicates Vance

The hidden religious divide erupting into politics The “cradle” vs. “convert” fight comes to Washington.

www.vox.com/politics/405...

Vox had an interesting piece on the differences between cradle & convert Catholics.

They've been a thing for at least 20 years

"Luddites" is a good term for those who oppose AI because the Luddites weren't against *all* technology, just forms of technology that they knew would pay workers less and turn out a shittier product

When it comes to writing, the process is the purpose. You don’t have to always like or enjoy the process, but if you don’t respect it enough to do it yourself, there is no purpose.

AI will never fill that void.

www.thehandbasket.co/p/refusing-t...

I call him "sir" 100000% more than I say it to any humans, but I don't salute.

Oh so now copyright matters.

I literally came to support this platform because I've been so sick and tired of other platforms (looking at you twitter) for incorporating gen AI on their sites.

What a way to reward the people that made you big enough to compete with twitter.

People can just say shit until an S-1, and people just lap it up. 😬🤬

Sycophantic AI decreases prosocial intentions and promotes dependence Despite rising concerns about sycophancy—excessive agreement or flattery from artificial intelligence (AI) systems—little is known about its prevalence or consequences. We show that sycophancy is wide...

OK, I'm obsessed with this study in @science.org

It took Reddit "Am I The Asshole" posts & asked LLMs if the poster was the asshole. Aaand (surprise) AI was more likely to tell people they were NOT the asshole ... even when humans said yeah YTA 🧪

www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Rule 5 “Everyone can be conned” writ large.

I still use cursive occasionally, but I've heard that independent of whether or not people wind up using cursive, it helps with learning fine motor skills.

Google Search is now using AI to replace headlines Let us know if you see more.

I appreciate @seanhollister.bsky.social 's reporting here about the latest step Google is taking in their quest to destroy the information ecosystem and disempower information seekers:

www.theverge.com/tech/896490/...

🧵>>

full slop*

I've heard of at least some of them turning to essentially oversized generators to get the power, which are tremendously inefficient.

So have people been ignoring that directive to use Claude??

they weren't already dogfooding Copilot????