Old Fucking Punk @lwriemen@librem.one

The one bright spot of LLMs is that we've learned exactly how morally and creatively bankrupt this industry is, and how fast people are willing to throw away everything they said they cared about for decades - craft, understanding, efficiency, detail, all of it - just to cosplay competence and bandwagon their way to groupthink targets they don't even realize were made up to manipulate them.

Christ it's embarassing.

The fact that we're willing to rely on LLMs to generate code knowing that it only mostly works because that code has been generated before thousands of times is not an indication that stochastic models are good, it's a massive, punishing indictment of computing as a field.

Using an insanely huge expensive model to quasi-reproduce work that's been created thousands of times already isn't productive or efficient. It's a symptom of profound failures of language, practice, process and imagination.

RE: https://infosec.exchange/@darkuncle/116778528340746246

“When writing is hard, it’s often not just because we are tired, underfed, or inefficient but because our mind is trying to tell us crucial things. How many draft texts to colleagues or family members have we all stared at in frustration, wondering why they don’t feel quite right—until we finally realize that they need to be rethought completely, or not sent at all? When a book I was writing became an almost hopeless grind, I tore up 90 percent of the manuscript; it became a far more honest work for having been halted at a conceptual dead end, forcing me to turn back.

AI can’t make that kind of judgment.”

Holds equally for code.

#AI #writing #code #LLMs

“The Psychology of Software Teams by Cat Hicks is a vital companion for any leader building a humane, high-performing organization. She skillfully dismantles the ‘Brains-in-Jars’ myth, proving that innovation is not a solitary act but the result of social learning. By introducing cognitive scaffolding and fostering thriving ecosystems, Hicks provides the missing link between organizational design and the individual human experience."

- Matthew Skelton, Team Topologies

https://www.drcathicks.com/#book

Any Madison, Wisconsin peeps?

I'll be speaking tomorrow at two public libraries, the Verona Library at 10:00 am and the Meadowridge Library at 2:00.

I've never been here before. What a lovely place. And the people are definitely nice.

https://www.madisonpubliclibrary.org/spaces/events/teri-kanefield-firehose-falsehood-408691

Hey, who remembers that time that the South lost the Civil War, so slavery was abolished? But racist Texans didn't want the slavery party to stop, so they kept slavery going for another 2 years after abolition? But then a bunch of Black Union soldiers from the United States Colored Troop under General Gordon Granger marched into South Texas with guns, and threatened to shoot anyone that wouldn't release their slaves? So then those Black soldiers finally forced those racist Texans to release their slaves? But then American people pretended that Juneteenth celebrates the news of slavery reaching the far reaches of Texas, when "the news" was really Black Union soldiers with guns? Because we lie to ourselves and talk about Texas like a distant space colony that was out of contact with the rest of humanity, but in reality people traveled to Texas every single day during that two years, and everyone knew what was going on? And no white people went to jail for keeping slaves for 2 years after abolition, because Lincoln was a self-admitted white supremacist and slavery sympathizer?

Happy Juneteenth!

RE: https://ni.hil.ist/@library/116776717996350095

This is the new Mastodon account for the Anarchist Library. If you're not familiar with this project, it is arguably the best English-language resource for finding anarchist texts available on the Internet. Give em a follow, and keep your distro tables, infoshops and reading groups stocked with all the latest zines, and most obscure 19th century anarchist texts the project has to offer.

The 2020 Presidential election was not stolen, Trump is just a pathetic sore loser. Please voice your opposition to unconstitutional federal interference in elections.

https://www.lwv.org/take-action/oppose-proposed-mail-and-absentee-ballot-regulations

Trillions invested, entire industries destroyed, our information ecosystem fundamentally compromised, and all we accomplished was, at best, a 0-5% bump in overall aconomic productivity.

RE: https://mastodon.ar.al/@aral/116770333053823108

@BerserkEd_PT @_elena @aral

One #problem with #realnameregistration is that it can be used as an #ID for governmental services as well

That is what you could call a #thecirclescenario

Another problem is the #superapp

In #China it became nearly impossible to exist without the #微信 #app , known as #WeChat internationally

If you analyse what #AnnaZeiter said in interviews there are possibilities they want #WSocial to become a #superapp

I'll write it in more detail, in the future, I promise…

Reminder: every operational vehicle sold by Tesla is a surveillance apparatus operated by state actors and robber-barons (one could argue these are one and the same these days).