homesweethomeMrL
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- Comment on Shopify CEO Tobi Lütke tells employees to prove AI can’t do the job before asking for resources. 4 weeks ago:
Lol. What a maroon.
- Comment on Intel report says China aims to displace U.S. as top AI power by 2030. 5 weeks ago:
Knock yourselves out.
- Comment on Cellebrite halts product use in Serbia over abuse of phone-cracking software against civil society. 2 months ago:
slow clap
- Comment on U.S. Workers Are More Worried Than Hopeful About Future AI Use in the Workplace. 2 months ago:
Incorrect. U.S. Workers are split into two camps:
- one group has never used AI and thinks it sounds "neat"
- the other group has used AI and is extremely pissed off.
As time moves on, we expect one of these groups to expand and the other to shrink.
(Technically there’s a third group which is the devs who “well actually” their favorite transmutation of AI until you just wander away while smiling and nodding.)
- Comment on HP adds 15 minutes waiting time for telephone support calls 2 months ago:
Indeed. Ironic, as some of the early ones were quite good.
- Comment on HP adds 15 minutes waiting time for telephone support calls 2 months ago:
Hey kids, gather 'round you’ll be amazed to hear this.
Once upon a time, HP was just H and P and they both had some pretty good gear for sale. Then they became HP and their gear was still pretty dang good. Some of it is still going actually.
But then, The Enshittification Monsters of Silicon Valley decided they wanted the Eternal More and HP then became HP now. They ransacked the land of ideas, they fired The Old Heads, and they brought in New CEO who was very exceptional in her ridiculous evilness. And now it’s all radioactive.
But still. Once upon a garage it was a good thing. Heed the lessons well.
- Comment on The Generative AI Con. 2 months ago:
Spot on.
- Comment on Jeep Introduces Pop-Up Ads That Appear Every Time You Stop 2 months ago:
Can I interest you in some AI hype? New in box!
- Comment on Technology for lab-grown eggs or sperm on brink of viability, UK fertility watchdog finds 3 months ago:
Hey, anybody ever read “Brave New World”?
- Comment on AI prototypes for UK welfare system dropped as officials lament ‘false starts’ 3 months ago:
Ministers have shut down or dropped at least half a dozen artificial intelligence prototypes intended for the welfare system, the Guardian has learned, in a sign of the headwinds facing Keir Starmer’s effort to increase government efficiency.
AI and “efficiency” are not even on the same planet right now. Did he mean to say “government burning piles of money in return for feathering oligarch’s nests and little else”? Because that would be true.
This month the prime minister declared “AI is the way … to transform our public services” and wrote to all cabinet ministers “tasking them with driving AI adoption and growth … and making that a top priority for their departments”.
Yeah I think a lot of managers are being given this particular marching order - “Figure out something to do with AI quickly!” It’s insanity. You can build a bot to repeat a limited number of things, or you can hire people to be behind the bot actually making the decisions. Those are you options for “AI adoption and growth”.
Writing in December after a year of running i.AI, the Whitehall AI incubator, its director, Laura Gilbert, admitted “there have been abundant blockers, frustrations and false starts”, but said “if something fails, we try, try again and find another route to impact”.
She said that of 57 ideas tested, 11 made it to rollout in various stages of testing and scaling. She added it has been working with US AI firms including OpenAI, Anthropic, Google and Microsoft.
For numbers we expect to be padded, that’s miserable. And yes, the usual money vacuums are involved, no surprise there.
The hype train has eaten minds - which we should not be surprised about given the predictable success of blatant propaganda around the world - but it’s time to grow up and explain to the techbros that they fucked this up super big time. There is nothing worthwhile for most of the human-interaction use cases. And there won’t be anytime soon.
- Comment on Oracle and Microsoft are reportedly in talks to take over TikTok 3 months ago:
Accidentally.
- Comment on Threads is offically getting ads 3 months ago:
😱
- Comment on Sam Altman's World now wants to link AI agents to your digital identity 3 months ago:
Geez he gets more Wallace-and-Gromit looking every day.
- Comment on Meta tells Brazil it's only axing fact checkers in USA 3 months ago:
Remember that good thing Meta did?
Yeah me neither
- Comment on Politics content to be pushed on all Instagram and Threads users 3 months ago:
Hey kids! Fascism sure is cool! Look at my awesome luxury sweatshop!
- Comment on The TikTok Ban Paradox: How Platform Restrictions Create What They Aim to Prevent 4 months ago:
It also ensure those who don’t pay are tracked by default, which is a key component of not having privacy.
- Comment on The TikTok Ban Paradox: How Platform Restrictions Create What They Aim to Prevent 4 months ago:
wtf is techpolicy dot press
- Comment on Pornhub Is Pulling Out of Florida 4 months ago:
There are times when a Floridectomy is the right choice.
- Comment on Face Recognition Threatens to Replace Tickets, ID at Sports Events – and Beyond 4 months ago:
“One ticket please”
“Three hundred dollars. Scan your FACE.”
*opens fire*
- Comment on Face Recognition Threatens to Replace Tickets, ID at Sports Events – and Beyond 4 months ago:
It can be two things.
- Comment on AI Features Fall Short: 73% of iPhone Users and 87% of Samsung Users Say They Add Little or No Value 4 months ago:
“Fall Short”? Dude, in anyone’s book that’s “Abysmal Failure”.
- Comment on AI Features Fall Short: 73% of iPhone Users and 87% of Samsung Users Say They Add Little or No Value 4 months ago:
I would pay more for a phone without it (not that I should have to pay more for less).
Sounds like being a vegetarian on the road.
- Comment on Texas AG Launches Investigations into Character.AI, Reddit, Instagram, Discord, and Other Companies over Children’s Privacy and Safety Practices as Texas Leads the Nation in Data Privacy Enforcement 4 months ago:
Well I’m sure this will turn out well.
- Comment on What If Free Speech Means Banning TikTok? 4 months ago:
“Free Speech” isn’t owned by TikTok. Ban away.
Need to speek freely? Do so! Need TikTok to do it? HA.
- Comment on What If Free Speech Means Banning TikTok? 4 months ago:
Yes, but that describes all social media with engagement algorithms.
Hmmmmmmm
- Comment on TikTok's Role in Romania's Election Should Be a Wake-Up Call 4 months ago:
Exactly.
- Comment on Facebook, Instagram, and Threads are down 4 months ago:
“We’re aware that a technical issue is impacting some users’ ability to access our apps,” Meta says on X. “We’re working to get things back to normal as quickly as possible and apologize for any inconvenience.”
“We know there’s a technical issue impacting some people’s ability to access Instagram,” Instagram says on X. “We’re working to get things back to normal as quickly as possible and are sorry for any inconvenience.”
X. Lol.
- Comment on LinkedIn wants to have its TikTok era 4 months ago:
LInkedIn has nothing. It’s running on pure momentum from early 2000s and this gambit will probably kill it. Which is good.
- Comment on Microsoft gets community note on Twitter for saying Snapdragon Copilot+ PCs are the fastest Windows devices, saying Snapdragon CPUs can't game and have "less computing power” than Intel and AMD chips 5 months ago:
What’s “Twitter”?
- Comment on Microsoft is scraping Word and Excel data to "train AI models" 5 months ago:
EULA