Sergio Visinoni

> [...] thinking-like activities without actually thinking (which is both hard and dangerous): they have all the form and shape of real thinking, but the outcomes are predetermined and the substance doesn't actually have to be there. deadsimpletech.com/blog/dont-th...

“Microsoft offers buyouts to around 60,000 employees to contain costs | Reuters” www.reuters.com/technology/m... Free cash flow's doing great I see.

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The first Gen AI ad I saw that showed a use case scenario was a person had to read a screenplay and then didn't, so they trick the person they're meant to do this for into thinking they did. The entire purpose of this technology is to trick people and it turns out no one likes being tricked.

I've never liked bullies. Instead of engaging with them at their level, I prefer to deconstruct and highlight the weakness of their arguments. Just did that with the recent "Don't be a Loser" line from DHH, and here it is. #bealoser makemeacto.cc/be-a-loser/

Musk has gone too far right

As I've got momentum building up in the shop, I decided this work deserves the official label of "Fuck Big Tech" collection. #2 in the series is titled "Sovereign Cloud". Worked on it during the weekend, it went up in my daughter's bedroom last night. She promised she'll tidy up her desk next

I've recently learned of a company that has what I called Schrödinger's meetings. People do not accept or reject meeting invites, and you'll only figure out who attends when the meeting starts. And of course all of the company's attention is going into pushing AI adoption to improve productivity.

Actress Susan Sarandon being arrested earlier today for protesting Benjamin Netanyahu’s speech at the United Nations. One is speaking out against genocide, one is committing it. One was arrested, one was not.

No thanks Notion Calendar. I prefer to create events with humans.

Mistral is the company that provides generative AI models to @ecosiasearch.bsky.social totalenergies.com/newsroom/tot...

“why are all the ai ceos all of a sudden saying this weird thing?” burning man was last week and this may actually just be the explanation

Just trying a new marketing trick

One of the best things of summer is being mostly offline. Another one is reading tons of books! Here's the review of the books I read in July and August, including a couple from @doctorow.pluralistic.net and the great one by Sarah Winn-Williams. makemeacto.cc/books-i-read... #booksky

"AGI has been achieved" is a self-fulfilling prophecy. If enough media and people believe the statement, it's an indicator that human intelligence has declined to the point that it's actually *below* what advanced LLMs can "display". "achieved" by lowering the threshold and making people dumber.

Looks like we’re using Gitmo to imprison immigrants again. This is an ICE charter airline owned by ICE’s flight broker using the callsign they use for all their ICE flights.

*The Struggle Continues! AINTIFA INTERNATIONAL

Modern Dependency Problems (with apologies and thanks to XKCD) Probably needs more arrows, tbh

Extremely subjective and uninformed take here but I reckon people becoming addicted to genAI has created a very significant increase in just total cognitive shutdown moments. You know when someone hears something they're avoiding engaging with and they become one of those startled paralysed goats

When I see news media proudly showing "AI-generated" reconstructions of the disaster in Nepal (caused by climate change), I can't help but wonder if we might not after all deserve extinction. Wonder where human decency has disappeared. Why not throw some cigarette butts in the forest while at it?

If Jensen Huang has time to attend a $1 million-a-head dinner at Mar-a-Lago and fly across the world to meet with President Xi Jinping, he can find time to testify in front of Congress about reports that NVIDIA technology is powering Russia’s war machine.

if you are or know a pregnancy expert who could talk to me about Emily Oster's pregnancy work, hit me up here or by email (ifbookscouldkill on gmail). or ignore me, that's your prerogative also.

Lots of "ethics aside" people announcing their conscientious boycotts of Codeberg in my feed today, like I didn't have plenty of reasons to love Codeberg already.

OpenAI is doing this because Mythos got airtime thanks to the media that does press-release-as-aservice. So now, as one security engineer put it, “something which would have been an embarrassment ten years ago is now repackaged as a capability demo, a heroic AI-vs-AI story and a marketing pitch"

I just want to state for the record I'm completely on board with all of the ToU changes at #Codeberg. 🚫 Ban cryptocurrency. 🚫 Ban slop. It is long past time to reel in the technolibertarian dystopia we've all been suffering through for years now. I truly believe in *heavily* moderated spaces […]

For folks looking to read/listen to other good folks, I've just put together a summer list. Only high-quality and personally vetted recommendations in there makemeacto.cc/how-to-expan...

What I loved the most about the #worldcup Spain (Pedro Sanchez), beating Argentina (Milei) in the USA (Trump's feud), by leveraging the power of the collective over egocentric individuals. There's hope for the future

futurism.com/future-socie... lol

I'll summarize this: Mamdani asked NYers to keep air conditioning at 78 degrees. A wave criticism hit online. A MSNBC broadcast pointed out the US Department of Energy recommends that 78 degree figure. Immediately after, the US Department of Energy deleted 6,000 web pages related to energy saving.

Company: "I have AI FOMO!" Accenture: "Here's a bunch of expensive slides on how to drive AI adoption." Company: "I'm spending too much on tokens!" Accenture: "Here's a bunch of slides on how to curb token usage." Instead of AI replacing big consultancy firms, it's the new cash cow.

@oxide.computer I just unlocked two achievements in the past couple of weeks: * I have been rejected in a job application at 0xide. ☹️ * I got my first PR merged in Omicron. 😁 I guess I'll try again in a few months!

After completing the transition to Ghost, I've finally published issue 3 of the Something Big Is Happening series. To celebrate the move, this issue is available to everyone for free! It covers AI and SWE, OSS projects, AI enshittification and fossil fuel investments. rush.mn/x9hVGL

Significant increase (..almost ~50% 🤯) in cumulative generation from coal in the latest ISP. FY27 projection is a mere ~27%~ higher than where we thought we would be in 2024 ISP 🥲.

Going through older magazines, this @tomgauld.bsky.social is so on point on the state of corporations disdain for their customers and enshittification… (from @newscientist.com )

To those who changed the notification sound in Google Meet. Please don't. First the icons, now this. What metrics are you trying to move exactly by confusing people? Oh, right, the only metric Google is looking at is AI usage these days. Everything else is cosmetic.

I've said this before and it's a good day to say it again: media outlets have horny male editors and horny male photographers who want to snap creep pics of women in skimpy outfits, and that is a big part of why they illustrate a deadly event with this type of stuff