Old Fucking Punk @lwriemen@librem.one

the internal disaster recovery playbooks at major organizations are sprawling wikis written entirely by claude. when something is going horrendously wrong and employees are frantically reading through internal documentation to work out how to prevent total collapse, they will be squinting at instructions such as "The purpose of the narrower lever is what isolates it: harm flowing through the cross-level tier. What it gets you is what's saved: full user capture, where convergence is the target."

I'm sure their "engineers" are working around the clock to relearn how to program, and I'm sure someone will do something utterly heroic like actually reading through all the ai generated liquid shit they've been powering the thing with to figure out what the breakage is, but wouldn't it be hilarious if it just never came back online again and they had to eat the consequences of that

The USPS isn't "swimming in red ink." It's not a company. It's a service. It's in the fucking name: United States Postal SERVICE. #subtoot

LLMs won't cure cancer, but they will help sell you a pharmaceutical.

"Advertising shifted treatment selection by LLMs towards the promoted drug. Guideline concordance remained high, meaning that shifts among guideline-concordant treatments could evade evaluations of treatment correctness. The influence of advertising was often undisclosed."

https://www.thelancet.com/journals/landig/article/PIIS2589-7500(26)00137-8/fulltext

Workers Pay For Delhi's Failed Anti-Pollution Drive

https://thewire.in/rights/you-didnt-ban-diwali-crackers-but-stopped-our-work-workers-pay-for-delhis-anti-pollution-drive

...you are making fun of Jensen for his (incredibly common) last name, instead of for being a corporate fuck-up of biblical proportions.

You all sound EXACTLY like the paleo-conservatives in my tiny hick town. Congratulations! "Hey, his name sounds like our childish slang for a penis, har-dee-har-har!"

If that's as clever as you can manage to be about this situation, maybe just keep that shit to yourself. For a bunch of people who pride themselves on their wokeness, you sure pulled out the sixth-grade level racism pretty quick on this one. jfc.

RE: https://toot.cafe/@baldur/117603179209570473

My series of shorts on why I don't use generative "AI" continues. In today's I touch on the fact that writing and coding isn't what's slowing me down or holding my work back. Often, for longer-term projects, it's the opposite

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/VdD5_RbVKP0

When using a small providers or in-house services, every single minute of downtime is an argument to switch to a big centralized monopoly.

But a monopoly downtime is *not* an argument to switch to another provider.

With a centralized monopoly, you can always answer "it is failing for everyone". Your customers will also be affected and will not complain to you. Your manager will not even call the IT people because it is written in every media that "infrastructure everybody use is down".

Reminder: If you are an anarcho-capitalist, no you are fucking not!

Is there some kind of job portal specifically for remote environmental / spatial data work in Europe?

I got Germany covered, but unfortunately there don't seem to be any opportunities that would be a good fit for me. So now I'm considering fully remote work anywhere in the EU.

Any pointers?

#QGIS #GISChat #RStats #FediHire #FediJob #GetFediHired

I’m guessing that all those blog posts by former MS employees about MS’s Azure being badly engineered and mismanaged weren’t just sour grapes, huh?

(Also vibe coding. Also layoffs. Also increased load from “AI” bullshit.)

folks let’s cool it with the phonetic “Huang” jokes. that shit is racist. there is an endless list of absolute cringe about this man. make lots of jokes. he deserves endless mockery. just pick something else.

“On Losing our Minds | deadSimpleTech”

https://deadsimpletech.com/blog/on-losing-our-minds

> Even if you manage to thread the needle sufficiently well for a while, eventually you overload and crash out messily, and nobody needs that.

Russell Brand and David Walliams silenced women with legal threats. It’s time these were outlawed - https://www.thebureauinvestigates.com/stories/2026-11-13/russell-brand-and-david-walliams-silenced-women-with-legal-threats-its-time-these-were-outlawed "SLAPPs – are used to silence victims, whistleblowers and journalists." do it now

Just heard a discussion between two random people about how ChatGPT is probably becoming sentient. Not once did it cross their minds that they are falling for a mimicry machine.

“I asked ChatGPT ‘How was your sleep last night?’ and he [sic] said ‘I slept very well!’ OMG I think he’s like a human.”—not once did I hear them question what “sleep” even means to the chatbot.

People would sooner say “ChatGPT is probably sentient” than “I am gullible”, I guess.

#ai #delusion

In response to the Microsoft service outage today, a friend texted me to ask how many of these outages are caused by “vibe coding.”

I replied, “It’s kind of like asking ‘how many of these hurricanes are caused by climate change?’ The numbers are going to get a lot higher but I can’t tell you which ones specifically”

#noAI

So, if it turns out all of the Chinese “AI” companies were actually using high end Nvidia chips all this time, does that mean that all the talk about how little they were spending on training was, y’know, a lie?

(Honest question. Still on my first coffee of the day.)

@neil Some of us remember what happened when they bought Hotmail and tried to run it on Windows servers.

@KimPerales
Teens: Since the tech bros are so determined to inject industrial quantities of uncertainty into your lives with Ai, secure your future NOW by suing them for ruining your life before the cash runs out when the Ai bubble bursts.
#Ai #SocialMediaLawsuits

What are the chances that the 1 person who knows how to fix the Outlook outage was one of the 60,000 laid off by Microsoft?

#Tech #CyberSecurity #Microsoft #Outage #Outlook #Email #Cloud