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.

"Fun" new consequence of the #AI wave: Documentation is no longer written for people but for AI

GSV Sleeper Service

David Gerard (@davidgerard@circumstances.run)

Microsoft refuses pull request to put documentation in readable table form because LLMs are bad at parsing tables https://github.com/MicrosoftDocs/...

Not a better comment on what #AI is actually for than this image (found in a chat channel)

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

With Universities now rolling out "Vice Chancellor of AI" roles I wonder who's left to keep the #AI industry in check and who's supposed to build a new scientific system after the current crop of academics have outsourced their thinking and writing to stochastic parrots? Should especially Universities have a different standard? The assumption that students "will use AI in their jobs" and therefore they should get to acquire the actual skills themselves is such a bleak case of epistemic injustice.

Times Higher Education (THE)

First pro vice-chancellor for artificial intelligence appointed

Professor filling first-of-its-kind role says universities need to encourage students to use AI in their studies, or risk them falling behind

#AI is a phenomenon of desperation. The "innovators" ran out of steam a long time ago. "Something you already have but now worse and for high rent" isn't the sales pitch people are looking for. But tech literally has nothing else.

The worst thing that the whole #AI hype created is the emergence of the "prompt battle" as an event format. The literal fucking worst.

This story about video game developers just illustrates how the short term thinking in businesses based on pumping stock value (for example by firing a bunch of people) is cancerous: You lose your teams, you lose so many talented people and their years, sometimes decades of experience. Sure right now everyone hope "AI" will fix things but let's be grown up here: #AI can't really do any of that. (Original title: Video Game Developers Are Leaving The Industry And Doing Something, Anything Else)

Aftermath

Video Game Developers Are Leaving The Industry And Doing Something, Anything Else - Aftermath

From line cooks to bike repairs, people who used to be video game developers are being forced to try something new

80% of all #AI projects fail. And that is mostly not for technical reasons, it's because AI/IT projects are a replacement action.

Smashing Frames

Why "AI" projects fail

&#8220;By some estimates, more than 80 percent of AI projects fail—twice the rate of failure for information technology projects that do not invo...

The way that the #ai "industry" uses terminology of inclusion and democracy when peddling their climate destroying spam machines is deeply offensive to me.

Companies and managers from big companies claim large productivity gains in software development through #AI. But maybe it's not all that simple.

Smashing Frames

Productivity gains in Software Development through AI

Especially in IT and software development numbers keep popping up about &#8220;savings&#8221; through AI. Amazon for example claims to have &#8220;...

This kind of is an #AI cartoon (Original title: Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Joy)

Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Joy

Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Joy

Very much not surprising how Silicon Valley now moves to support Trump. Tech's libertarian beliefs and Trump's agenda of destroying any form of active state and government (aside from his own personal will) go together perfetly.

Silicon Valley and Venture Capitalists Back Trump After Shooting

Elon Musk, Bill Ackman, and other tech and finance leaders used the attempted Trump assassination to declare support for his 2024 campaign.

This cursed #AI unconference raises more red flags than a dude named Chad.

AI RENAISSANCE

AI RENAISSANCE

A 7-day unconference focused on building new infrastructure, business models, and institutions for public, open-source, and decentralized forms of AI.

Throwing some random data at OpenAI's API does not make you a #AI expert or even show any form of digital literacy. Quite the opposite. I mean it's fun that you cost Microsoft and OpenAI money every time you do it but you're also simultaneously killing our planet so the laughter kinda does down quickly.