[Speaking as an ex-“one of those”.] You’re not as ex as you think you are. post is still dripping with it

^ This. This is the actual truth of it. You can always find a 500 person company that does a shit job at forced integration and you can find a 2000 user company that tied all their systems together and moved at paces that made everyone sick with risk. You can find individuals who tried to make copilot write micron code (horrible) and who used claude to write ansible code (~magic)

I love Doctorow, I read most of his stuff, I recently read Reverse Centaur, it had its informed moments. It made some strong points that stand out as to where using AI makes sense. It also has some perspective issues, being written by someone who focused on case studies with the worst possible outcomes. A lot of the same problems in this article.

AI can, in the right circumstances with the right needs, remove many manhours of tedious shitty labor, or it can be used by shitty people to vacantly crap out slop 24x7. It’s only as useful as its implementation/workload.

But what never gets better is the societal and ecological impact. The slop pouring into journalism, YouTube, Instagram, Facebook, TikTok, and the scams running with perfect English vocabulary. The shitty AF water and electricity usage. The corporate bribery. Those are along for the ride by default.

If AI went away, right this very moment, my job would grind to a snail’s pace for months while we once again pivot back to another way improved but not unlike we did prior. We would have a man-century of meetings on how to recreate all the processes affordably. We are doing more now with fewer people, but they’re paying more in tokens + labor. This is not to say that any of us would be horribly sad.

This article is based on a case study by one guy on a 500-person company that didn’t want to implement AI and did a poor job of implementing it. Yeah, many of us work for some place like that and some of us work for places that got it working. That’s the reason for the big divide. It’s not always a delusional asshole lying about it working, it’s about it working when engineers who have the right workload use it to solve their needs. Still too fucking expensive on all accounts.

AI is not worth the investment. It’s not worth the money. It’s not worth the damage. But the argument that it doesn’t do anything because you see it do jack shit somewhere doesn’t hold up to even light scrutiny.

My alias predates roomba on other platforms.

“Why should I change, he’s the one that sucks.”

that’s the gestapo on video in 2026

https://loops.video/v/gMKlrvhFDv

🧩 Why whatever are you talking about—no clankers here! just us fellow skinbags!

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people have voted for far worse.

A decade or so ago, you look at his manifesto and the history of the Luddite movement, they REALLY read differently now.

I blame the right often for not having concerns unless they were personally affected, but I have some empathy for what they saw.

Every time something like this happens we need a map with a country that changes color

For what he’s trying to do, it’s not even a horrible use-case. But as someone is a ready to go to the mat on fact checking, he’s definitely not anywhere near arduous enough about it.

He’s not treating it like aunt marge. You wouldn’t make a tv show around finding out truth, then go ask your aunt Marge and not follow up on her answers.

AI for general information gives you approximate directions at best, maybe you got a wikipedia page and maybe you’re reading 297 regurgitations of some asshole that didn’t know what the fuck he was talking about on reddit who got reposted over and over.

On the upside, if you don’t wear the sweater for a couple years, it’ll still work like you left it.

https://browse.library.kiwix.org/#lang=eng&category=wikipedia

And the schools themselves are just doing it because they’re scared to death someone will record something in the school get they’ll end up in legal trouble.

25 was good, insurance costs often go down, you’re more likely to now be seen as a responsible adult by default. Your body is probably not rapidly deteriorating.

The best I have for you all at that age is, you’re probably not feeling a effects of age yet, you can probably still party and most of your friends aren’t married with children so you probably still have people to party with.

30’s you recover more slowly, your friends start getting sparse as they start their own families.

40’s you have to work to not fall to sloth, energy isn’t a given, you have to schedule to get time with your friends

50’s you need to start being careful about how you do things. your friends have grown children, if you don’t do body maintenance you will fall into disrepair and it’s hard AF to get out of that. Many people find stuff they used to enjoy eating now causes them discomfort. Your knees, back, ankles might pop when you get out of bed or occasionally when you go up steps

I have an account on both, both servers run by the same guy.

They’re both functionally equivalent. One doesn’t surface data significantly better than the other. For a webpage, Piefed moves a little faster on an average release. I prefer the user acct in the upper right with drop down rather than center top page with a dropdown.

I prefer seeing up and down votes upfront on my posts.

I like lemmy’s interface a bit better. I like the speed and cleanliness of piefed.

no wrong answers.

I leave one up at the house jic, i went mc wardriving and saw nothing anywhere.

I am the only meshcore anywhere near me.

I am the only meshtastic for 2 miles, but topology is a harsh mistress

God, I can’t even get enough meshtastic users to get out of my neighborhood :)

There’s not enough non-ISP mesh out there. for it to be useful. If they block unauthorized TLS, You’re limited to line of sight or VERY short range radio.

They’ll require isps to block anything they can’t decode and force MITM SSL keys

You can block this at the router. No watch history for anyone.