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Experienced user https://fasterandworse.com I have been making these videos about tech & design: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLwvAAoSdsXWxHwFbULgbpVGiLmJZv4X1g and in audio: https://pnc.st/s/faster-and-worse Australian based in Amsterdam
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peter thiel when asked if humanity should be wiped out

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I posted this on twitter ~3y ago and it struck a chord. Still relevant?

submitted 57 days ago • 7 comments

The thing is, I can criticise gen ai exactly the same as I criticised crypto and I’ll be able to criticise the next *thing* the same way because they are all just shitty products disguised as technologies and they use potential to distract from lack of purpose

submitted 184 days ago • 11 comments

"the glass half full question becomes irrelevant when the glass is full of piss" www.youtube.com/watch?v=NuIM...

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

Cada dia mais convencida q IA generativa realmente eh slot machine como disse @fasterandworse.com. e digo como usuária.. "soh mais um prompt e vai sair o que pedi"

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Computers used to scream every time they connected to the Internet. They knew. They tried to warn us. We did not listen.

submitted 5 days ago • 56 comments

tell your nearest big ai-critical account to make sure to call them "products" instead of "tools" or "technologies" please

submitted 3 days ago • 2 comments

You thought the dot com bubble where people raised millions on PPT slides was ridiculous? Welcome to the age of unbridled AI Hype where Sutskever gets $2B to promise not to release "superintelligence" & Murati gets $2 BILLION to...? Sure. Its definitely not a bubble. techcrunch.com/2025/06/20/m...

submitted 2 days ago • 7 comments

me: there’s nothing worse than opening a blank document microsoft word: hold my beer

submitted 1 day ago • 30 comments

"AI" is a marketing term, because laying out exactly what it would have to entail if it were real is naturally horrifying

submitted 1 day ago • 5 comments

When an update adds something useful, the marketing copy always says what it's going to help you do. They only call out "functionalities" or "features" in aggregate when none of them do anything.

submitted 1 day ago • 1 comment

What the world needs now: another sensitive semi-art-film about how tough it is to be Zuck.

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THIRTY PERCENT AND FIFTY PERCENT ARE DIFFERENT NUMBERS

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Meta beats Kadrey, AI training was fair use — what this means pivot-to-ai.com/2025/06/26/m... - text pivottoai.libsyn.com/20250526-met... - podcast www.youtube.com/watch?v=zncW... - video

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I'd like more attention to this post. It isn't really about a16z or Marc's stupendously high-IQ bonce. It's my theory of the entire AI bubble in all its cheque-kiting not-technically-a-Ponzi glory. This scam will go much longer than it shuold, because it *has to*. pivot-to-ai.com/2025/04/10/a...

submitted 2 days ago • 6 comments

oh this fucking loser is back at it, taking money from people who want a better life and providing nothing.

submitted 3 days ago • 5 comments

Latest from me, and I hate to report this, but the Front Mission 3 remake seems to have fed all the 2D images into AI. It looks genuinely terrible, and butchers the visual identity of the original.

submitted 3 days ago • 19 comments

Ross Douthat does an impressive job of making Peter Thiel seem smart in this interview, just be being obviously much dumber than Peter Thiel. www.nytimes.com/2025/06/26/o...

submitted 2 days ago • 28 comments

I say this as an academic, whose job it is to analyze stuff: people online really need to stop overanalyzing everything

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why are blue jays like that, you ask? because they're gaudy crows, they're the guncles, the queer cousins, and they are assholes.

submitted 3 days ago • 4 comments

tell your nearest big ai-critical account to make sure to call them "products" instead of "tools" or "technologies" please

submitted 3 days ago • 2 comments

every austerity movement has its earnest, stupid advocates who desperately promise that you can do more with less if you subscribe to their cockamamy bullshit about tech being able to do transcendently more than it's truly able to do; and reducing human thought to something flattened and computable.

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Verizon’s new AI chatbot — customer disservice We don’t care. We don’t have to. We’re the phone company. pivot-to-ai.com/2025/06/25/v... - text www.youtube.com/watch?v=EGeD... - video

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What if drivers had to press the button to cross a road junction? From acuity.design/what-if-publ...

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AAAAAAAAAAAAHAHAHAHHAA so this comes ONE DAY after the Anthropic decision that pirating the books you train on is not fair use and guess what, *all* the LLMs trained on pirated books

submitted 3 days ago • 3 comments

the word "product" does not appear in this article "tool" 15 times "technology" 5 times

submitted 3 days ago • 3 comments

FUCKING NOOOOOOOOOO

submitted 3 days ago • 21 comments

nonsense occurrences like this every day but we still have to admit it can be "useful"

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I tested an AI chatbot supposed to answer student questions trained SPECIFICALLY on my course material. I could not allow it student facing because it was subtly wrong, which in security (esp cryptography) is really REALLY bad. And it didn't know how many 'r's in strawberry...

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As @emilymbender.bsky.social & @alexhanna.bsky.social write in The AI Con: "Troll the hell out of them...The more we can pierce the cultural bubble that Sam Altman and his kind live in, the better we can upset the idea that the encroaching of these systems is...inevitable." So repeat: "Bro, what."

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Once again, it must be said as loudly as possible: AI can't do the things described in this paragraph, and there is no pathway to it ever being able to do them.

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If I understand this correctly, the city of Lyon is switching to OnlyOffice and is putting its weight behind an effort to make local collaborative software, named Territoire Numérique Ouvert, in an effort to be less dependent on US-made software and Microsoft www.lyon.fr/actualite/ac...

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Literally the opening vignette to Audrey Watters's brilliant book, _Teaching Machines_ is about how little Khan knows about the history of education and what a grifter he is. mitpress.mit.edu/978026254606...

submitted 3 days ago • 3 comments