Reading, Shadowrun, walking. Living and working in Toronto. Sysadmin (or whatever it’s called this month). He/him.
I applaud your optimism that most people can do this without AI but have you gone and met people? Most people are not that capable of producing torrents of shameless bullshit as conscience or awareness of social and/or professional costs rear their head at some point.
I came here for his full-throated support of Apple Music staying installed no matter what and I am so sorely disappointed.
A really good lesson on offline backups of things like issue trackers, though.
This whole festival sounds like it could have used conflict of interest subtitles. When somebody’s voice is saying “I actually think that AI (blah, blah)” there’s one subtitle with the words and another with phrasing such as “(Person)'s annual stock award will be increased by (number)% if paid subscriptions to (company)'s AI product rise by (number)%.”
So that’s why people are getting Amazon to give them ANFO instructions.
https://bigshoulders.city/@wakingrufus/112091215389890653
Earlier:
I know that crowd’s politics are ultra-reactionary, and yet it’s still fascinating just how few ideas the tech revanchists have that aren’t “this thing is bad and should be rolled back”. Do they have any ideas developed from socially acceptable principle at all?
Just a minor paragraph rewrite for clarity.
It’s always so tedious when these little conflict of interest notes are left out of articles.