Have you ever seen a claude.md? This is the most ridiculous thing I've come across as a software developer. It's basically a prayer to the #AI gods, written as an act of faith that the computer will do the right thing.
Why on earth would you submit yourself to this as a responsible developer? Why would you relinquish control over the machine and shackle yourself to a private third party that could change or disappear overnight‽
You're not driving anymore, you're just a passenger.
This is so sad.
ai
RE: https://tldr.nettime.org/@tante/116454270791245630
been thinking about #DavidGraeber a lot lately. i think the Venn Diagram of people trapped in #BullshitJobs and aisloppers is a circle.
i would bet you that if people could earn a living without a bullshit job ―and, yes, a lot of tech work is bullshit― they’d have whole careers and lives outside of this capitalist hellscape.
capitalists are using #AI to gaslight us into believing we need them as the middlemen between our lives and a life worth living.
it’s a lie.
cut the middlemen out.
I can't but laugh sooo hard at the #Anthropic #Claude leak
Code is rewritten a bunch of times already to avoid legal bs lol
It proves again it's mostly just an illusion
If you make your work open source you don't have to worry about your shitty code "leaking" 
Activating Two Trap Cards at Once, or: A Gentle Response to the Popularity of Vibecoding https://lobste.rs/s/8lbmm8 #ai #math #plt #python #vibecoding
https://gist.github.com/MostAwesomeDude/560185c24f959f6fec229739cb5a6735
"Acclaimed journalist and '#EmpireOfAI' author #KarenHao sat down with award-winning writer #NaomiKlein for a conversation on the precarious #AI moment we find ourselves in."
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z1B__Efqacc
#artificialIntelligence #AGI #SamAltman #tech #BigTech #OpenAI #SiliconValley #surveillance #techFutures #technosolutionism #techWorkers #labour #books @bookstodon
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〈Over 60% of Asia-Pacific enterprises plan to increase sovereign AI spending〉 www.bworldonline.com/technology/2...#SovereignAI #AI #LLM #AsiaPacific
Over 60% of Asia-Pacific enter...
〈Over 60% of Asia-Pacific enterprises plan to increase sovereign AI spending〉
#Business #Approaches
Generative AI vegetarianism · Saying no to AI as a mindful lifestyle choice https://ilo.im/16bbjb
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#AI #NoAI #Design #ProductDesign #UxDesign #UiDesign #WebDesign #Development #Frontend #Backend
I used AI. It worked. I hated it via @ed https://lobste.rs/s/7d8dxv #ai #programming
https://taggart-tech.com/reckoning/
A good review of reasons insurance companies are pulling back from insuring companies that lean on generative AI. Point 4, "The main problem is not just the error, but the incentive not to see it" is especially damning: use of AI not only obscures audit trails, it sets up perverse incentives against accountability, pushing costs and risk to other parts of an organization, its customers, or society. The net result is that whatever "local" advantages AI may provide turn into downstream risk that cannot be easily accounted for. Insurance companies are (rightly) allergic to this state of affairs.
Another example of how (whole)-systems thinking is very helpful for parsing the effects of technology changes like this.
https://freakonometrics.hypotheses.org/89367
#AI #GenAI #GenerativeAI #LLMs #AgenticAI #GPT #ChatGPT #Claude #Gemini #ActuarialScience #insurance
Another example of how (whole)-systems thinking is very helpful for parsing the effects of technology changes like this.
https://freakonometrics.hypotheses.org/89367
#AI #GenAI #GenerativeAI #LLMs #AgenticAI #GPT #ChatGPT #Claude #Gemini #ActuarialScience #insurance
Google CEO tries to tell University students to love AI. They tell him to BOO off.
It is good to see kids are saying no and fighting back. Do you know why? Because the future of bots, AI and robots doesn't offer any jobs to these young kids. They know greedy AI companies want to get rid of working class. It is simple as that.
For those who wish to read instead of the clip. See BBC page: https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/ce8pqd54qneo
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#Meta to cut 10% of staff as it pours billions into #AI
Meta said Thursday it plans to lay off roughly 10% of its workforce, or about 8,000 people, the latest in a string of #tech industry #layoffs fueled in part by #ArtificialIntelligence.
The company is also closing around 6,000 open roles, Janelle Gale, Meta’s chief people officer, wrote in a memo published by Bloomberg.
The layoffs will go into effect on May 20.
#jobs #labor #AIisComingForYourJobs
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-04-23/meta-tells-staff-it-will-cut-10-of-jobs-in-push-for-efficiency
So @TheGuardian is now posting stories with AI slop pasted in?
That's what this reads like to me:
Specifically, check out the para after "The rate in Glasgow had been edging towards 30%, and exceeded that in the latest week after several years of lower office attendance." ,
which reads like a straight copy/paste of some ChadGPT output 'facts'.
#AISlop #AI #Journalism #Writing #News #NewsPapers #TheGuardian
Subtoot about LLM chatter I've seen in my RSS reader and around the web lately.
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So Anthropic employees are using Claude Code to contribute AI-generated code to open source repositories and hiding the fact using their own internal “undercover mode”.
Totally trustworthy people.
Elizabeth Lopatto has some things to say about Marc Andreessen (and other techbros).
> Marc Andreessen is a philosophical zombie. https://www.theverge.com/tldr/897566/marc-andreessen-is-a-philosophical-zombie
"I’ve been wondering for a while why many of our Silicon Valley overlords behave like they’ve repeatedly sustained traumatic brain injuries, and I think I’ve come to a conclusion … If you stop using some skill, mental or physical, you lose it and its benefits."
[contd]
This is only step 1. I said it before. Publishers love AI. If they say they will never publish AI generated books, they are lying to you and they will always lie to you. HarperCollins Partners with ‘AI-Powered’ Animation House Toonstar https://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/industry-news/publisher-news/article/100065-harpercollins-partners-with-ai-powered-animation-house-toonstar.html #AI #Publishing
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Mastodon has a new human-over-AI contribution policy.
tl;dr:
- The human contributor is the sole party responsible for the contribution.
- If AI was used to generate a significant portion of your contribution (i.e. beyond simple autocomplete), we require you to disclose it in the Pull Request description.
- If you cannot guarantee the provenance and legal safety of the AI-generated code, do not submit it.
- Cases of repeated violations of these ... guidelines could result in a ban from our repositories.
New, by me: How AI Assistants are Moving the Security Goalposts
AI-based assistants or “agents” — autonomous programs that have access to the user’s computer, files, online services and can automate virtually any task — are growing in popularity with developers and IT workers. But as so many eyebrow-raising headlines over the past few weeks have shown, these powerful and assertive new tools are rapidly shifting the security priorities for organizations, while blurring the lines between data and code, trusted co-worker and insider threat, ninja hacker and novice code jockey.
Read more (and boost please!):
https://krebsonsecurity.com/2026/03/how-ai-assistants-are-moving-the-security-goalposts/
Re-reading The Soul Gained and Lost: Artificial Intelligence as a Philosophical Project by Phil Agre as catharsis. Here.
#AI #GenAI #GenerativeAI
#AI #GenAI #GenerativeAI
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I think it is meaningful that Marvin Minsky, sometimes called the "father of AI", seemed to hold human beings in low regard.
Here's John Searle in 1983:
I share with Weizenbaum the belief that Minsky has clearly expressed a disdain for human intelligence. We're on the order of household pets. Our brains are no more than food or trash. Obviously Minsky doesn't speak for all AI researchers then or since, but his "meat machine" language is all over the place, and this disdain or even contempt for human intelligence and achievement is also common.
It definitely doesn't speak to a curiosity about intelligence, which I think requires at least a little bit of love and esteem.
#AI #ArtificialIntelligence #intelligence #GenAI #GenerativeAI
Here's John Searle in 1983:
Marvin Minsky of MIT says that the next generation of computers will be so intelligent that we will ‘be lucky if they are willing to keep us around the house as household pets.'
Professor Marvin Minsky of MIT, once pronounced—a belief he still holds—that ‘‘the brain is merely a meat machine.’’
I share with Weizenbaum the belief that Minsky has clearly expressed a disdain for human intelligence. We're on the order of household pets. Our brains are no more than food or trash. Obviously Minsky doesn't speak for all AI researchers then or since, but his "meat machine" language is all over the place, and this disdain or even contempt for human intelligence and achievement is also common.
It definitely doesn't speak to a curiosity about intelligence, which I think requires at least a little bit of love and esteem.
#AI #ArtificialIntelligence #intelligence #GenAI #GenerativeAI
Part 3/3 See Parts 1 & 2
What is the number #1 most EFFECTIVE and Most Expensive type of Advertising in existence??
🏆 🏆 🏆 #WORD_OF_MOUTH #Advertising = TRUST! Without it?.. >> 🍲 🍲 🍲 Soup Line..
And each website (Fediverse) is also your own #Decentralized #Advertising_Hub where you make 100% ON THE Advertisement profits, sold from your site! Not #Notech! = BOOYA!
Remember 📏 #Calculators were allowed in schools? Most kids could not afford a calculator at that time. So not only did calculators divide student socially; but also the thought was that they would be used to #CHEAT_ON_TESTS.✅
🏁 #Cheating Pandemic Started There;)
But I asked myself even back then ( Just a kid being honest with himself ) " If I let the calculator do all the work; what am I learning?? And am I EXERCISING the BRAIN like my kick ass arms!??
🥊 💪 💪
The 🧠 #brain is like a #muscle if you don’t #work_it_out how is it supposed to get #BIGGER, #FASTER, #STRONGER and SMARTER?
IF YOU DON'T USE IT YOU WILL LOSE IT! And PURPOSE of Chatgpt, OpenAI and now Whale Seek. Just like your #Dumbphone and turned you into the #WALKING_DEAD!?
🧎 🧎♂️ 🧎♀️
Hello Anyone Home?
YOU are #learning #how to #copy NOT #CREATE!
YOU are being taught #HOW TO #COPY = AKA to steal is #IP_THEFT! You are kept trapped in a BOX (THINK #GAZA), just like AMERICAN ONLINE, until many realized they are not even on the #Internet.
They were #trapped in a #dedicated #CENTRALIZED #advertising_box 📦 📦 📦 ALL ALONG.. SAME SAME: Chatgpt, openAI and now Whale seek. NOT EVEN CLOSE TO #AI!
🌉 #OVERNIGHT! #YOU AND ALL YOUR #CONTENT CAN BE #BANNED, #TAKEN_DOWN AND YOU ARE #OUT_OF_BUSINESS = #LUNACY!
Considering its your livelihood under the control and Free speech is under scrutiny by inept OTHERS??
While #American_Online (AOL) was making a fortune in #advertising off of YOU, Until some (NOT ALL) actually found the REAL Internet by #accident? DURING THE LAST 2 DECADES. It was over for American online OVERNIGHT.
The Exact same IS NOW happening with (JEWS, KKK, NAZI'S PAGAN.GOV, CENTRALIZED BANKS, SOCIAL NETWORKS, BIGTECH, SUCH AS #GOOGLE, #MICROSOFT, #AMAZON, #APPLE, #META, #FACEBOOK, #INSTAGRAM, #TWITTER AND #YOUTUBE = #Centralized Social Networking and #CENTRALIZED APP STORES.
Now 🔍 🎩 🔎 Identified as #ILLEGAL #Pegasus 🦄 #ASSASSINATION 🔫 #Tracking Surveillance Hub is OVER ROVER 🛰️ 📡 #BANNED_FOREVER!!
Chatgpt, OpenAI and Whale Seek >> (Advance Predictive search with audio = #Alexa #REBRANDED).
This tech was invented in 1999 when Major Search Engines started to copy every page on the internet ( #without user #consent) and PASTED it into there data base S (THEFT) (aka LLM’s) to make money (PROFIT) from search OFF their #stolen_content (Your Content!? w/o Consent, IS INFACT the pure definition of #COPYRIGHT_INFRINGEMENT. 🚔 🚔 🚔 🚔 🚑
It gets worse.. including #Illegal Bigtech 3rd party 🍪 🍪 🍪 #Cookie injections into 3rd party #Browser's which is called #CONCEALMENT OF #LIABILITY by all bigtech ( = #Felony Section 2 Sherman Anti Trust Act) by use of 3RD PARTY #SHAWDOW_BROKER COMPANIES??
Why not make that 🥠 🥠 🥠 #fortune for yourself instead with #REAL_CONTENT.. #Yours;) Massively Improving the quality (not Quantity) of content on the 🌐 WWW Internet.
TastingTraffic launching soon. Earn up to 300K net in the comforts of your own living room.
#Big_Kudos to 🇦🇺 #Australia protecting INNOCENT HEARTS! BRAVO #AUSSIES!
“This is a global problem and we want young Australians essentially to have a childhood,” #prime_minister #Anthony_Albanese said when introducing the bill last week. “We want #parents to have #peace of #mind.”
The Online Safety Amendment (Social Media Minimum Age) Bill 2024 sets Australia up as a test case for a growing number of governments which have legislated, or have said they plan to legislate, an age restriction #on_social_media (DAVIDv COMMENT: NOTICE #CENTRALIZED_SOCIAL_MEDIA ONLY NOT THE ENTIRE #WWW INTERNET). Countries including France and some US states have passed laws to restrict access for children without parental permission, but the Australian #ban is #absolute. A full under-14s #ban in #Florida is being #challenged in court on #free_speech_grounds.
IF YOU ARE UNDERAGE YOUR PARENTS ARE YOUR FREE SPEECH! If not a #Jew_Terrorist or #Godless_Pagan_DIRTBAGS.Gov!
DavidV: "This is EXCLUSIVELY A BIGTECH CENTRALIZED SOCIAL NETWORK PROBLEM #NOT A #WWW_INTERNET_PROBLEM!"
“It’s #cart before #horse,” Sunita Bose, managing director of #Digital_Industry Group, which has most #social_media companies as members, told Reuters. “We have the bill but we don’t have guidance from the Australian government around what are the right methods that a whole host of services subject to this law will need to employ.”
https://au.news.yahoo.com/australia-ban-under-16s-social-124305590.html
📛 DISCLAIMER: We Cover the 'Way' the #News is #COVERED_UP! 👿
WELCOME TO #DECENTRALIZED_GLOBALIZATION 🌐 #GLOBALIZATION is NOT Dead! It's just the Beginning!..
The NEW DIGITAL GLOBAL ORDER | NO NATIONALITY LEFT BEHIND | COMING SOON! 🌏 🌍 🌎
🔴 The #Next #Global_Superpower Isn't Who You #Think 🧠 WHO is TastingTraffic.com?
🧠 https://youtu.be/uiUPD-z9DTg
DavidV: 25 YEARS 24/7 Experience:
* Software Architect (PhD) Supervisor -25 years 300K PMS (project management) hours
* EXPERT BLACK BOX TESTER (1999)
* Founder of WebTafficCops.com the 1ST Dedicated CLICK FRAUD ENGINE on the Planet (1999)
* Founder of SEO (Search Engine Optimization, (1999)
* Founder of RTB (Real Time Bidding (1999)
* Founder of HFT (High Frequency Trading 2001)
* Founder of the first Screen Recorder (Applets) on the Planet (2000)
* Founder of DEVSECOPS (2000)
* Founder and CREATOR OF #BULLETPROOF MONERO full NODES via WWW. (2016)
🍷 🍾 #TASTINGTRAFFIC_LLC | The Largest (WWW) #DIGITAL_TRAFFIC PROVIDER in the WORLD since 1999.
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JOBS FOR ALL WORLDWIDE COMING SOON;!
Part 3/3. See Parts 1 & 2.
Part 2/3. See Parts 1 & 3.
LEADING THE WAY?? ;) XOXO 💋 UGH!
🇦🇺 #Australia to #BAN UNDER 16 from #SOCIAL_MEDIA after passing #LANDMARK_LAW 👨⚖️ 👩⚖️
Australia will banned 👶 children under 16 from using #social_media after its #senate_approved what will become a world-first #law.
WE THE PEOPLE HAVE DETERMINED THAT your so -called centralized BIG TECH including #APP_STORES are NOTHING MORE than Surveillance Privacy and #IP_Theft Hubs #stealing your ideas and inventions for the last 3 decades. 🌐 🛰️ 📡
BELOW cannot be trusted. #FINTECH SURVEILLANCE #HUBS
🥊 #BOYCOTT THE #IRS - Licensed accountants are in fact OFFICERS of IRS (employees).. they are not your friend they are the 🐀 #rats..
🥊 #BOYCOTT 🏦 #CENTRALIZED_BANKS: if Government suspects tax evasion they can and will simply withdraw your money from you bank account without warning or notice. This happened twice to us and it was not our fault.
🥊 #BOYCOTT: 🇫🇷 #SWIFT BANK WIRE TRANSFERS ( #France ). ALL FEES PAID to FRANCE andas well as #USD CURRENCY #PAPER_TRAILS FOR SALE to Highest Bidder W/0 #Consent of Tax Payers;)
🇱🇷 💿 📀 🔮 📦 REMEMBER AMERICA ONLINE? Where you all were kept in a BOX (Mouse Trap really 🐀 ).. until many realized they are not even on the 🌐 Internet??
They were being trapped in a #dedicated_advertising_box!? see image.
📦 WHILE American Online was making a fortune in advertising from you; you thought you were on the internet--but in fact you never left their SHITTY APP (APP STORES HELLO??) to EXCLUSIVELY sell you JEW TERRORIST products and services for the last 2 decades!.
📦 WELCOME TO: Chatgpt, openAI and now WhaleSeek. (ALL Bogus AI -- A LIE = #IP_THEFT)
📦 AMERICA ONLINE #RE-BRANDED 30 YEAR OLD TECH AND STRATEGY!? and you all FELL for it Just like we did back in the 90's:(
📦 Yes you desperately need REAL AI. But it doesn't exist. TastingTraffic LLC invented REAL AI called #PROGRAMMATIC AT BEST since 1999;)
📦 Same game plan here with these useless applications. YOU LEARN NOTHING (THE #MEAN 📏 at Most with #LLM SCRAPED data) BUT WILL #COST YOU EVERYTHING. 🚑
~ You are hindering the advancement of your own 🧠 intelligence and knowledge. Real Intelligence is not COPIED; real intelligence its earned through the USE of the brain.
Currently you are all working for Bigtech and YOU DON'T EVEN KNOW IT. you are the PRODUCT when you should be making the #LIONS_SHARE CALLED A #PROFIT! 🤑
Why do you continue to drive traffic to 3rd party CENTRALIZED WEB SITES called Social Networks making them a fortune while you get paid pie crumbs when you should be driving traffic to your own sites and/or Video Podcast SELLING your own PRODUCTS and SERVICES for your OWN HUGE profit and making the 🦁 LIONS SHARE for YOU, YOUR COMPANY and YOUR #OWN FAMILY??
Not some 3rd party CENTRALIZED UN-TRUSTED COPYCAT Surveillance APPLICATION or worse dishit useless #Social_Media Platforms.
Aka someone else s family..
What do all the centralized services do? They scour the Internet with 🤖 🤖 🤖 #BOTS AS DUMB AS YOUR CELLPHONE AND #COPY ALL YOUR #PAGES, #IMAGES and #code (CODE ONLY IF AN APP in unsecured app stores >>
#HTML ONLY ON WWW BUT CANNOT COPY #CODE;) from any SITE ON THE www NET if using the correct software stack??
#AI huh UNDER ANOTHER NAME?? Its #copyright_Infringement! = MASSIVE #IP_THEFT.
NEWS FLASH THE DUMB PHONES were DUMBED DOWN FIRST. Now you are being dumbed down even further by worthless COPYCAT applications.
When you should be building out your own YouTube Streaming and Podcast platforms called #Silos Decentralized = #Fediverse = #Mastodon etc; to BUILD #Traffic 🛣️ 🛣️ 🛣️ --aka customers directly to your own podcasts, PRODUCTS or services YOU are selling..
Part 2/3. See Parts 1 & 3.
