BlueMonday1984

Boy named after Star Wars character denied passport due to copyright infringement

So you're saying that they've got books worth at least a grand which their owners are literally using to flaunt their wealth?

I'm legally obligated to say stealing is legally and morally wrong buuuuuuuut

This reminded me of that prediction I made w.r.t the "AI Doom" criti-hype (and touched on after SB 1047 popped up) back when OpenAI was gunning (heh) for DoD dollars.

Personally, I suspect that this might provide another case of "AI doom" becoming a double-edged sword for the AI industry. What can be dismissed as a simple error on their products' parts gets potentially a lot more problematic to deal with when a vocal minority is primed to find malice where none exists.

Pulling out a pretty solid Tweet @ai_shame showed me:

To pull out a point I've been hammering since Baldur Bjarnason talked about AI's public image, I fully anticipate tech's reputation cratering once the AI bubble bursts. Precisely how the public will view the tech industry at large in the aftermath I don't know, but I'd put good money on them being broadly hostile to it.

Ffs I just swapped to Proton for drive and email. Thankfully only done a couple of email migrations.

Its worse for me - I've got a metric shitload of emails on Proton. Thankfully, I'm not using them for anything particularly important.

Why do I get the feeling we're gonna see a colossal tech crash

Yes.

If this gets CUDA open-sourced, I will be one very happy man.

Their radical idea of building a social network that did not require a either VC funding or large amounts of volunteer labour has come to a disappointing, if not entirely surprising end. Going in without a great idea on how to monetise the thing was probably not the best strategy as it turns out.

I never used Cohost, but I know a couple people who do and fuuuuuuuck this sucks. 'Least Newgrounds is still going, though that's a bit of an apples-to-oranges comparison.

I knew Kagi was kinda screwed the moment the CEO went off like Castle Bravo, but jeez

I'm gonna risk coming off too harsh and say this gaggle of meth microdosing ratfucks don't deserve rehab, they deserve to rot in jail. Fuck them.

New piece from The Atlantic: A New Tool to Warp Reality (archive)

Turns out the bullshit firehoses undeservedly called chatbots have some capacity to generate a reality distortion field of sorts around them.