Good luck, have fun, get Altman first.

Calls someone a turd

Stinks up the place

What a fine example you set

The farmer in this meme is a proponent of regenerative agriculture, just sayin’

Best option is to stay watchful and get more educated, I guess. One never knows when it’s your turn to pull a switch.

You can lock it down. Don’t log in to apple services or install the stock LLM, add and configure Lulu, run open source apps, install homebrew, and so forth.

Experiment with cmd-rightarrow, cmd-option-rightarrow, etc

Doesn’t require looking at keyboard

same magnitude as the whole population of Gaza

“more than the tens of thousands that were recently killed in Gaza”

If english is not your first language, you should know that those are very different statements.

Wait wait, what genocides over two million people? This century? Plural, you say?

Wow wonder how I am able to do it without that problem then.

Just lift the fuckin seat to pee then omg

Use your foot for that if you have to

FTA:

most fears about AI are best understood as fears about capitalism

• Ted Chiang, being, as usual, succinct

OS/2, surely. Or maybe BeOS?

Peg Spez

Smedley Butler, where are you when we need you?

When I was young and A.I. was a science fiction topic, I was convinced that increasing efficiency in code and design would be a major benefit, doing more with less, the everyday magic of software disappearing into the walls and devices like magic gnomes.

I forgot about the ads.

Hostile, anti-democratic work environment with indentured overtones: next-level strategies required.

cf. the CIA/OST manual from mid-20th C on sabotage and resistance under the risk of death.

Innocent seeming tactics like work-to-rule or demanding policy adherence whenever possible can slow foolish management. Talk to coworkers carefully. Document spectacular failures of management directives but innocently, as if you don’t know whose fault it is. Set things up so they will break later, when you are not around and without a trace.

Ask for reasons; the last paragraph of the article sums up that asking them to explain the insanity is effective. Remember: it is slow and cumulative effort required to change things, be patient and persistent and alert for opportunities and risks.

Great article full of interviews with workers sharing their plight and solutions.

Yes, I had a really nice canon slr and a rollei compact with the good zeiss glass, but went on a long cycle trip and grams counted, so I reused a disposable camera: plastic fixed lens, single speed, reloading it inside the sleeping bag at night and sealing it up with duck tape. Developed at whatever one-hour available at the small towns we passed through.

Turned out okay, but great shots. I sold many of those photos. Because I had any camera at all.

It really is a matter of degree, though. Even fancy perfume has horse piss in it. It doesn’t mean you might as well wallow in the pigpen.

No maybe Mullvad can’t control the flow of that money into dangerous hands. But the customers can, if they organize.