I think the Vibecoding reddit has accidentally stumbled on the best description of vibecoding: It's "roleplay for guys [it is always guys] who want to feel like hackers without doing the hard part". (Source: https://www.reddit.com/r/vibecoding/comments/1mu6t8z/whats_the_point_of_vibe_coding_if_i_still_have_to/ ) #ai #vibecoding

"So if ChatGPT destroys literacy and law, then ChatGPT is going to kill God. By this I don’t mean that the bearded guy in the sky is going to be found dead of a gunshot wound to the chest, but that monotheistic religion as we have traditionally understood it will not be able to function in a post-literacy regime." (Original title: ChatGPT is going to kill God)

An und für sich

ChatGPT is going to kill God

I hate generative AI. I hate how it’s destroying writing pedagogy and giving students even more excuses not to read (because they can just re...

Read another "Diversity and Inclusion" thing by some organization that argues that "Diverse teams produce better results because ..." whatever. We demand diversity and inclusion because it is _right_.

"There are hells on earth and Dubai is one: an infernal creation born of the worst of human tendencies."

Sidecar

Caitlín Doherty, Everything Else — Sidecar

In Dubai.

"Whatever" is a brilliant essay on "AI" by @npub1wlqd...6ayh: "But I think the core of what pisses me off is that selling this magic machine requires selling the idea that doing things is worthless. Because if doing something has some value, then it must be somehow better than pushing a button and receiving Whatever for essentially no cost."

The rise of Whatever / fuzzy notepad

Google's emissions are up over 50%, Amazon builds huge data centers powered by 75% natural gas. Remember all those posts telling us that "AIs climate impact isn't that bad" supported by some really funky math/perspective and/or numbers Sam Altman invented? Here's the actual impact. "AI" is a fossil fuel technology. https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/24/technology/amazon-ai-data-centers.html?unlocked_article_code=1.SU8.2JRa.e3Ju6r_pL1Im

the Guardian

Google’s emissions up 51% as AI electricity demand derails efforts to go green

Increase influenced by datacentre growth, with estimated power required by 2026 equalling that of Japan’s

Loving this: "The Copilot Delusion" Quotes: "Copilot isn’t that. It’s just the ghost of a thousand blog posts and cocky stack-overflow posts whispering, "Hey, I saw this once. With my eyes. Which means it's good code. Let’s deploy it." Then vanishing when the app hits production and the landing gear won’t come down." "The problem isn’t just laziness. It’s degradation. Engineers stop exploring. Stop improving. Stop caring. One more layer of abstraction. One more lazy fetch call inside a render loop. Eventually, you’re living in a cathedral of technical debt, and every user pays." "At that point, you’re not working with a copilot. You’re playing Russian roulette with a loaded dependency graph." "But even if you're just slapping together another CRUD app for some bloated enterprise, you still owe your users respect. You owe them dignity." https://deplet.ing/the-copilot-delusion/

"Discriminative AI turns the complex and contradictory, the wild and weird world of physics and chemistry and people into simple data. It is the tool to build tools. The mold that you can use to shape the world into computer-processable bits of information of higher abstractions." (Original title: Forcing the world into machines)

Smashing Frames

Forcing the world into machines

When people talk about “AI” these days – which depending on how healthy and well-adjusted your social environment is can be very ...

Using AI image generators to create Ghibli style images just shows that you neither respect those pieces of art and their creators as well as not understanding their message of the importance of humanity.

BBC tested AI assistants for summarization and concluded: "91% of AI responses had at least some issues. 51% had “significant” issues." (Original title: AI chatbots are still hopelessly terrible at summarizing news)

Pivot to AI

AI chatbots are still hopelessly terrible at summarizing news

BBC News has run as much content-free AI puffery as any other media outlet. But they had their noses rubbed hard in what trash LLMs were when Apple...

You don't compromise on people's fucking humanity. (Original title: If Not Now, Then Never)

Lefty Cartoons

If Not Now, Then Never

Check out the timelapse video of this cartoon being drawn! TRANSCRIPT OF CARTOON This cartoon has four panels. They mostly focus on two members of ...

AI: The New Aesthetics of Fascism "In other words, the AI industry now finds that it needs all the allies it can get. And it can’t afford to be picky. If the only places that people are seeing AI imagery is (at)BasedEphebophile1488’s verified X account – well, at least it’s being used at all."

New Socialist

AI: The New Aesthetics of Fascism

It's embarrassing, destructive, and looks like shit: AI-generated art is the perfect aesthetic form for the far right.

I increasingly think that accepting the "digital souvereignity" narrative was a pyrrhic victory for European and non-European NGOs. It might have lead to a bit of money here and there but it also plays super into the cards of right-wing thinking.

It's super revealing that Zuckerberg basically equates "lack of masculine energy" and "female energy" which then he calls "neutered". Not great to kinda imply women are neutered men. His world view is basically at pickup-artist/incel levels.

What a fucking fucker.

goblin.band

@javi

<p>holy fuck. Zuck finally went full Elon in public.</p><p>Full text of</p><p>his threads

"Because #AI the 4 day work week can come true". This is bullshit. Recent studies show that we could feed and house and take care of literally _everybody_'s needs with everyone just working 30% of what we consider "full time" today. We literally could all work less than 2 days every week and be fine. Capitalism just doesn't allow for that conceptually. Don't fall for that bogus argument.

It's time for the myth that #AI can summarize things to die. "Apple Intelligence notification summaries are honestly pretty bad Summaries are often wrong, usually odd, sometimes funny, rarely helpful." (Original title: Apple Intelligence notification summaries are honestly pretty bad)

Ars Technica

Apple Intelligence notification summaries are honestly pretty bad

Summaries are often wrong, usually odd, sometimes funny, rarely helpful.

If Europe and the EU would not themselves experiment with fascism right now, with the way that the US will probably act in the next years there's a huge window to actually change the web and tech if one had some will to actually do something. (And I am not talking about "EU Unicorns" or a "European Palantir". I mean something that actually puts the common good and the people using technology to structure parts of their lives front and center.)

Since nobody wanted to pay for Copilot Pro, Microsoft is now leveraging their Office365 monopoly, adding it to the service and raising prices there. Luckily Nadella did bend the knee to Trump so there won't be any repercussions. (More importantly: We see again that #AI isn't economically sustainable) (Original title: Microsoft is bundling its AI-powered Office features into Microsoft 365 subscriptions)

The Verge

Microsoft is bundling its AI-powered Office features into Microsoft 365 subscriptions

Microsoft quietly announces big Microsoft 365 changes.

The old world is dying, and the new world struggles to be born: now is the time of monsters. Antonio Gramsci