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mirrorwitch

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  • There was an underlying tension with an academia, and a society, that takes "productivity" by itself as an end goal, and the autogenerators are just the logical conclusion/extreme form of that. The tiny part of of me that can still be optimistic hopes that this leads to a real good reexamination of what academia (and society) is even for.

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  • can somebody tell me whether neovim is selling out to LLMs or led by transphobes or getting money from Anduril or something, so I decide whether to switch before getting disappointed again

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  • Semi-OT but a blog post where I'm just kinda gawking at the technology that saved my daughter's life and the absurdity of comparing it to what now first comes to mind when we talk of "tech".

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  • what I'm thinking about is for how many years now they have been promising that just one more datacenter will fix the "hallucinations", yet this mess is indistinguishable from nonsense output from three years ago. I see "AI" is going well

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  • wait, was this brain-rotting cognitive hazard posted at the linked page on microsoft dot com documentation? if so they have already removed it

    edit: archive caught it

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  • Men on Mastodon who never snark on male founders, or CEOs, or engineers, or guys sharing their work, have decided to target Limor since she shared it.

    hey mr. adafruit watch this, I can weaponise oppression olympics too, I'm a trans woman from the third world: fuck off with profiteering from your selling out to the planet-destroying plagiarism machine that's proudly empowering ICE and the IDF. it's not your country that will pay the price for your meaningless carbon output to generate nonsense until it looks right. and you brag about it. pega teu fascism-assisted hardware design e enfia no cu. happy never to be an adafruit customer again. assholes.

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  • Ars Technica published a story about that nonsense of a github bot "posting" on its "blog" about human developers having rejected its "contributions" to matplotlib.

    Ars Technica quote developer Scott Shambaugh extensively, like:

    “As autonomous systems become more common, the boundary between human intent and machine output will grow harder to trace,” Shambaugh wrote. “Communities built on trust and volunteer effort will need tools and norms to address that reality.”

    If you find that to be long-winded inanity, yep, you guessed it: Shambaugh never said that, the Ars Technica article itself is random chatbot output, and his "quotes" are all made up.

    https://infosec.exchange/@mttaggart/116065340523529645

    Ars Technica has removed the article, but mittaggart (linked above) saved a copy: https://mttaggart.neocities.org/ars-whoopsie

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  • Today in Seems Legit News:

    "As a concrete example, an engineer at Spotify on their morning commute from Slack on their cell phone can tell Claude to fix a bug or add a new feature to the iOS app,” Söderström said. “And once Claude finishes that work, the engineer then gets a new version of the app, pushed to them on Slack on their phone, so that he can then merge it to production, all before they even arrive at the office."

    • why is engineer working before contracted time
    • if engineer can do everything by cellphone why does engineer have to commute in the first place
    • if Claude can do everything anyway why do you still have engineers at all
    • if "no engineer has written a line of code since December", when are your lowering your subscription prices Spotify
    • why is hypothetical engineer a "he", Spotify
    • do you often merge Claude code to production without even a review, Spotify
    • in unrelated news, Anna's Archive has socialised Spotify metadata and 6TB of music, Gods bless them https://torrentfreak.com/annas-archive-quietly-releases-millions-of-spotify-tracks-despite-legal-pushback/
    • though I won't do anything with that as I assume everything from Spotify is "AI" "music" anyway and I listen to my bands either from bandcamp, soulseek, or just downloaded from youtube videos uploaded over 10 years ago

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  • Have you considered paying good money for a human artist to draw it for you? :)

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  • The other one is meant to be serious? And low volume??

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  • load-bearing "fairly"

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  • I am a better sysadmin than I was before agentic coding because now I can solve problems myself that I would have previously needed to hand off to someone else.

    more fodder for my theory that LLMs are a way to cash on the artificial isolation caused by the erosion of any real community in late stage capitalism (or to put it more simply, the "AI" is a maladaptative solution to the problem of not having friends)

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  • I see that Silicon Valley has transcended AGI technology and can now execute NP-complete problems.

    A Guy in India Nationals from the Philippines, Completely

    WAYMO exec admits under oath cars in the US have "human operators" based in Philippineshttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ClPDbwql34o

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  • I feel like I just read someone reviewing Toccata and Fugue in D Minor by complaining that there's no upbeat sections and no overall chorus and the song isn't about anything, that we're just "tossed about on the storms of emotion that by the end we are all seasick to"

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  • OT but, though this is mostly about appreciating things in nature rather than navigating a city by car or on foot, this book has helped me a lot with not being anymore a person with a "bad sense of direction", even when walking downtown: The Natural Navigator by Tristan Gooley . I really recommend it for people who hike, even occasionally.

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    Wireborn husbands, ELIZA effect, Clippy, empathy (ramble)