may my revenant embody the stuff vc nightmares are made of

lawns in addition to other things are fine, but also all the stuff self said applies pretty hard

we’re lucky in ZA that we’re pretty good with getting a lot of this stuff out, which I’m often pretty happy about, but that’s an incident of geography (and personal location)

I wonder how long until these clowns start posting kagi signups with referral links embedded

No, it’s supposed to be “firefox with all the weird mozilla pitch decisions removed” but it seems they still struggle to catch some

The Quantified Self

(e: damn lemmy for posting to the wrong chain)

today’s a fucking trip and a half

in a mall I saw some Honor laptop[0] ads with “AI” pitch sauce slathered all over it

later walking between art galleries I saw a roadsign ad for a property sales company promising “more effective strategies using AI” (more effective strategies for… selling… houses…? I guess…? (x up for doubt))

and now I get this shit in my mailbox from someone who absolutely purchased a dataset with this address in it:

From: Ai Everything GLOBAL <newsletter@event.aieverythingglobal.com>
Subject: Join the AI Elite—G42, TII, DIEZ, Dell & More!

[0] - I didn’t even know they were in ZA, but nope, 2-floor hanging banners and ads allllll over elevator doors and shit

Ah, copilot is so extremely popular that MS has decided to bundle it into O365 for free a moderate “depends by region” price increase

I’m sure that’ll totally make people want it even more! hordes at the gate!

what do anthropic, aws, and palantir all have in common? except for being the fucking worst, of course

the dollar signs in their eyes seem to share a bit of a glow…

lol, no, but this was good post

some inane fucking thing from bloomberg or NYT or someone’s Bad Visualisations Department. it’s at least 35 points of psychic damage

10 centibasilisk simtime units in old money

I have been having this feeling in a couple places too, heh

last I saw that wasn’t really well-insulated from upstream’s bullshit

one of the recent things moz pulled ended up enabled in librewolf on basically the same day/timeline

mozilla is having another wee purge on the foundation side

this shit reads exactly like corporate raider playbook

I can’t stress enough how important it is to be careful who you trust with your life

strong agree

minor upside: it’s going to be a good time to make lists of people who suddenly feel comfortable to mask off

fucking fuck this sucks

ugh that sucks, I’m sorry

anyway post your favorite fuckhead accelerationist here, mastodon’s a shooting gallery tonight

I’ve intentionally been avoiding feeds the last few days because I just do not have the headspace for it, but I quickly checked on shit now

and

fuck

Stephanie Kirchgaessner is the deputy head of investigations for Guardian US, based in Washington DC

Hannah Devlin is the Guardian’s science correspondent, having previously been science editor of the Times. She has a PhD in biomedical imaging from the University of Oxford.

so is it that both these fuckers are ideologically bankrupt, or are they willing complicit ghouls?

yep, and alongside: go-nowhere hype-du-jour businesses are a remarkably good vehicle for pushing money from A->B for many of these people

what I appreciate (inasfar as something to laugh at) is that when this is pointed out they double down like it’s their life savings riding on the game

this has me howling with laughter, thanks