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fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻 ✍️ 🥐 🇵🇷") wrote:

They grab product X from the fridge, snap open the can, pour their drink in a cup with ice and set it near the cup of coffee and bottle water.

"Product X: The offical soft drink of the home office drink trifecta"

Cut to manager asking person a question but the person is too busy enjoying product X.

"I'm sorry can you repeat that?"

fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻 ✍️ 🥐 🇵🇷") wrote:

The commerical would open with the 15min until meeting chime from your calendar.

Person is running around, getting their desk prepared for the workday—lighting a candle, taking out their notebook, realizing their laptop is almost dead to plugging it in and hearing the chime for that.

Lots of sensory elements while preparing.

Then they sit down, 1 minute before the Zoom call. *what am I missing?... ah yes!*

fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻 ✍️ 🥐 🇵🇷") wrote:

If I were the marketing director for a soft drink company, I'd position my product to be an official drink of the home office drink trifecta.

Has no one done this yet??

jscalzi@threads.net ("John Scalzi") wrote:

We all know that if she had been elected, we wouldn't be in a war right now. But I bet if she HAD to start a war, she wouldn't have fucked it up as badly as this shambling dimwit has

fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻 ✍️ 🥐 🇵🇷") wrote:

Preparing for a nice long work sprint:

✅ scented candle (fresh linen or ocean-y)

✅ phone easel to watch 2000s indie music videos

✅ cup full of ice with cherry sparkling water

✅ separate cup with ice and straw for 1 part lemonade zero, 2 parts mineral water

✅ laptop with 8% battery life because I forgot to charge it

✅ Notebook to write out my "Cold Harbor" for the day iykyk

✅ AirPods with stickers from my niece

dysfun@treehouse.systems ("gaytabase") wrote:

sigh there appears to be no way to tell which arm target(s) you are being compiled for on aarch64.

db@social.lol ("David Bushell 🪿") wrote:

Svelte fans know it's true

dysfun@treehouse.systems ("gaytabase") wrote:

i have just combed my hair. this was a mistake.

Boosted by fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻 ✍️ 🥐 🇵🇷"):
joakimfors@mastodon.green ("Joakim Fors") wrote:

@fromjason @markwyner

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falcennial ("millennial fulcrum") wrote:

@fromjason SEVEN PEOPLE CAN'T ALL BE WRONG!!! 😂💀

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JessTheUnstill@infosec.exchange ("Jess👾") wrote:

@fromjason Then I saw this one the other day - companies trying to frame giving workers the tools they "need" to do their jobs as a "perk"😣

https://mastodon.social/@elizayer/116210538719032389

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glyph ("Glyph") wrote:

More to the point though in this metaphor where you're getting a potentially-infected scrape at work, we are living in the pre-germ-theory age of AI. We are aware that it might be dangerous sometimes, but we don't know to whom or why. We are attempting to combat miasma with bloodletting right now, and putting the miasma-generator in every home before we know what it's actually doing.

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yksteldus@squawk.social ("Yksteldus") wrote:

baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason") wrote:

RE: https://mastodon.social/@glyph/116220491984902015

I’ve never used any of the LLM chatbots, avoided them even in the early days, because they had all the hallmarks of a major cognitive and psychological hazard from the very beginning.

“I’m not gonna use this shit until I can be sure it won’t mess me or others up” is an entirely reasonable position to take, but for some reason it makes even those who are otherwise lukewarm on the tech quite angry.

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glyph ("Glyph") wrote:

I don't want to be a catastrophist but every day I am politely asking "this seems like it might be incredibly toxic brain poison. I don't think I want to use something that could be a brain poison. could you show me some data that indicates it's safe?" And this request is ignored. No study has come out showing it *IS* a brain poison, but there are definitely a few that show it might be, and nothing in the way of a *successful* safety test.

baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason") wrote:

“"If AI is writing the work and AI is reading the work, do we even need to be there at all?" Education workers reveal a growing crisis on campus and off”

https://www.bloodinthemachine.com/p/if-ai-is-writing-the-work-and-ai

This is such depressing reading.

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orhun@fosstodon.org ("Orhun Parmaksız 👾") wrote:

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dysfun@treehouse.systems ("gaytabase") wrote:

btw the EU is leaning towards LLM output not being copyrightable too https://www.europarl.europa.eu/news/en/press-room/20260306IPR37511/protecting-copyrighted-work-and-the-eu-s-creative-sector-in-the-age-of-ai

slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:

Americans underestimate the probability that 8 years of Trump rule and dozens of terrible SCOTUS rulings will do to US public finances and infrastructure what 15 years of Tory misrule did to the UK.

A future President with a huge majority could reach Starmer levels of f’d in terms of room to spend and/or borrow.

db@social.lol ("David Bushell ☕") wrote:

huh, genuinely thought wix.com was a British company, must have been the huge ad spend a few years ago

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glyph ("Glyph") wrote:

2. If it is "nuts" to dismiss this experience, then it would be "nuts" to dismiss mine: I have seen many, many high profile people in tech, who I have respect for, take *absolutely unhinged* risks with LLM technology that they have never, in decades-long careers, taken with any other tool or technology. It reads like a kind of cognitive decline. It's scary. And many of these people are *leaders* who use their influence to steamroll objections to these tools because they're "obviously" so good

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glyph ("Glyph") wrote:

1. YES THEY ARE.

They are vibe-coding mission-critical AWS modules. They are generating tech debt at scale. They don't THINK that that's what they're doing. Do you think most programmers conceive of their daily (non-LLM) activities as "putting in lots of bugs"? No, that is never what we say we're doing. Yet, we turn around, and there all the bugs are.

With LLMs, we can look at the mission-critical AWS modules and ask after the fact, were they vibe-coded? AWS says yes https://arstechnica.com/civis/threads/after-outages-amazon-to-make-senior-engineers-sign-off-on-ai-assisted-changes.1511983/

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glyph ("Glyph") wrote:

But, as Cory puts it:

"""
It is nuts to deny the experiences these people are having. They're not vibe-coding mission-critical AWS modules. They're not generating tech debt at scale.
"""

I had a very visceral emotional reaction to this particular paragraph, and I find it very important to refute. Here are two points to consider:

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randahl ("Randahl Fink") wrote:

Those who keep complaining that wind turbines do not work when the winds are not blowing, just realized that oil does not work when the Hormuz Strait is not open.

db@social.lol ("David Bushell ☕") wrote:

created a second porkbun.com account to push my dying domains for failed side quests 🫡

adam@social.lol ("Adam") wrote:

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fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻 ✍️ 🥐 🇵🇷") wrote:

The more I hear Altman speak, and I could be totally wrong, the more I believe his deal with Microsoft was a miscalculation on his part.

It sounds like he's figuring out late that the real product isn't the AI, there's no moat for LLMs or Agentic AI, it's the infrastructure. It's the datacenters and $40k GPUs. It's selling retail compute to the masses.

It's in whose benefit to allow OpenAI to become both a software and compute provider? They won't let him do that.

https://fromjason.xyz/p/notebook/any-technology-indistinguishable-from-magic-is-hiding-something/

fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻 ✍️ 🥐 🇵🇷") wrote:

Sam Altman: “We see a future where intelligence is a utility, like electricity or water, and people buy it from us on a meter.”

So, replace "intelligence" with "compute" and you have big tech's vision for us. Computational power metered like a utility.

Interesting to hear Altman say this when OpenAI isn't really a data center hyperascaler. They're a software company. He buys his compute from papa Microslop.

https://mastodon.social/@fromjason/116191400688736544

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paninid@mastodon.world ("Coach Pāṇini ®") wrote:

Legit incredible.

fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻 ✍️ 🥐 🇵🇷") wrote:

The Hype Williams era of Hip-Hop videos is unmatched. His directorial debut Belly was mostly a flop outside of hip-hop circles, so Hollywood never gave him a second chance.

Makes you wonder what could've been.