Today in linkedin hell:
Xbox Producer Recommends Laid Off Workers Should Use AI To ‘Help Reduce The Emotional And Cognitive Load That Comes With Job Loss’
https://aftermath.site/xbox-microsoft-layoffs-ai-prompt-chatgpt-matt
this post was submitted on 29 Jun 2025
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Today in "I wish I didn't know who these people are", guess who is a source for the New York Times now.
If anybody doesn't click, Cremieux and the NYT are trying to jump start a birther type conspiracy for Zohran Mamdani. NYT respects Crem's privacy and doesn't mention he's a raging eugenicist trying to smear a poc candidate. He's just an academic and an opponent of affirmative action.
Also dropped this in the other thread about this but some fam member I think is dropping some lols on the guy. https://bsky.app/profile/larkshead.bsky.social/post/3ljkqiag3u22z it gets less lol when you get to the "yeah we worried he might become a school shooter" bit.
Ye it was a real "oh fuck I recognise this nick, this cannot mean anything good" moment
I had a straight-up "wait I thought he was back in his hole after being outed" moment. I hate that all the weird little dumbasses we know here keep becoming relevant.
Rainbow, an Italian animation studio known for making Winx Club, is looking to hire a prompt engineer :-) Had I been Italian I would be considering applying if only to stop them from trying to sell NFTs and whitewashing their characters.
Managers: "AI will make employees more productive!"
WaPo: "AI note takers are flooding Zoom calls as workers opt to skip meetings" https://archive.ph/ejC53
Managers: "not like that!!!!"
This meeting could have been a text document of plausible sounding jibberish nobody needs to read.
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LWronger posts article entitled
"Authors Have a Responsibility to Communicate Clearly"
OK, title case, obviously serious.
The context for this essay is serious, high-stakes communication: papers, technical blog posts, and tweet threads.
Nope he's going for satire.
And ladies, he's available!
I eas slightly saddened to scroll over his dating profile and see almost every seemed to be related to AI even his other activities. Also not sure how well a reference to a chad meme will make you do in the current dating in SV.
Bruh, there's a part where he laments that he had a hard time getting into meditation because he was paranoid that it was a form of wire heading. Beyond parody. The whole profile is 🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩
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Maybe it's to hammer home the idea that time before DOOM is limited and you might as well get your rocks off with him before that happens.
All this technology and we still haven't gotten past Grease 2.
New blogpost from Iris Meredith: Vulgar, horny and threatening, a how-to guide on opposing the tech industry
Very practical no notes
Ed Zitron's planning a follow-up to "The Subprime AI Crisis":
(Its gonna be a premium column, BTW)
EDIT: Swapped the image for one that's easier-to-read
https://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-swicg/2025Feb/0025.html
found this while stalking @self@awful.systems's mastodon, the people working on ActivityPub want to shoehorn Ai into it somehow.
including possible effects on the protocols from issues like such as AI fuzzing attempts, to social engineering by AI's,
"You know those massive problems we already had going back decades? Well what if the same problems happened in the future but with the letters 'A' and 'I' prepended? Scary!"
through to how we deal with and approach and facilitate Avatars and Agents.
Gosh darn it don't tell me LLM hype is going to ruin the existing definition of "agent" already well established in web standards.
Gosh darn it don't tell me LLM hype is going to ruin the existing definition of "agent" already well established in web standards.
Sorry to be the bearer of bad news. If you skim places like HN or more chillingly the mainstream tech news outlets, I've not seen the term Agent used to mean anything but AI agents in many months. The usage has shifted to AI being the implied default, and otherwise having to be specified.
New thread from Baldur Bjarnason publicly sneering at his fellow programmers:
Anybody who has been around programmers for more than five minutes should not be surprised that many of them are enthusiastically adopting a tool that is harmful, destroying industries, sabotaging education, and hindering the energy transition because they feel it's giving them a moderate advantage
That they respond to those pointing some of this out with mockery ("nuts", "shove your concern up your ass") and that their peers see this mockery as reasonable discourse is also not surprising. Tech is entirely built on the backs of workers with no regard for externalities or second order effects
Tech is also extremely bad at software. We habitually make fragile, insecure, complex, and hard to maintain code that backs poor UIs. The best case scenario is that LLMs accelerate already broken software dev processes in an industry that is built around monopolies and billionaire extremists
But, sure, feeling discouraged by the state of the industry is "like quitting carpentry as a career thanks to the invention of the table saw"
Whatever
EDIT: Found out where Baldur got the "table saw" quote from - added it accordingly.
This ties back into the recurring question of drawing boundaries around "AI" as a concept. Too many people just blithely accept that it's just a specific set of machine learning techniques applied to sufficiently large sets of data. This in spite of the fact that we're several AI "cycles" deep where every 30 years or so (whenever it stops being "retro") some new algorithm or mechanism is definitely going to usher in Terminator II: Judgement Day.
This narrow frame focused on LLMs still allows for some discussion of the problems we're seeing (energy use, training data sourcing, etc) but it cuts off a lot of the wider conversations about the social, political, and economic causes and impacts of outsourcing the business of being human to a computer.
Stop killing games has hit the orange site. Of course, someone is very distressed by the fact that democratic processes exist.
HPE buys Juniper. Fuck.
The extreme hypercentralisation really does suck :|
Also HP has so far had this kind of a reverse Midas touch where they turn every networking gear company they touch into HP.
now now, it's not HP it's ~~Proliant~~ ~~HPE~~ HPE Aruba...
coming soon: HPE Aruniper?
This is golden: https://soundcloud.com/ericwbailey/rfc-2119
God I remember having to cite RFC at other vendors when I worked in support and it was never not a pain in the ass to try and find the right line that described the appropriate feature. And then when I was done I knew I sounded like this even as I hit send anyway.
Comic Book Guy energy