Mozilla announces more AI in Firefox, still failing to understand that at this point their market share is made of tech savvy people who do not want that.

Mozilla, please. Stop chasing the fads. Get your own values.

People use Firefox to get access to an open web, use a sturdy browser, and not to be tracked. Build in that direction and that direction only.

Nobody from your current user base will recommend Firefox with AI to their friends.

https://blog.mozilla.org/en/firefox/ai-window/

#firefox #ai #privacy

PEOPLE: we would not like ai in our browser it serves no useful purpose and is destroying our world

MOZILLA: brrrr brrr here comes the yummy ai airplane open wide brrrr hey why aren't you opening your mouth for this yummy ai? ok here it comes again brrrrr brrr...

I keep hoping that the AI hype cycle will bust, but the polygraph hype cycle hasn't even busted yet. Turns out, folks just get really attached to machines when salespeople lie about their capabilities.

There is absolutely no legitimate reason the US should be going after Venezuela.

None.

It is pure violent spectacle to quench the thirst of bigots.

I did a thing.

I’ve had a long-standing love of stickers on laptops. I know a lot of you do too! So I built a site to highlight them. At Hope next week I’ll take as many pics (with permission) of the best stickered laptops I can find and post them.

It’s always sad when a laptop gets upgraded, the old one tossed, and that sticker canvas is lost. I’m trying to preserve it.

Please submit pics of your laptops so I can “seed the tip jar,” as it were.

https://stickertop.art

Mozilla: We're going to start listening to our users!

Users: Don't put any more "AI" in Firefox.

Mozilla: Not like that.

#mozilla #users #AI #NobodyWants #firefox #listening

I am beyond devastated to share the news that Neil W. Perry, my @AU_MTD PhD advisee and dear friend, died yesterday in a car accident.

Our institution hasn’t yet posted the news, but Methodist University, where he worked, has a nice memorial for him:

https://www.methodist.edu/news/passing-of-neil-perry-part-time-faculty-in-communication-and-media/

The kids hate so-called "AI". They make fun of it. "That's AI" means "that's BS."

It's all such a waste. So much potential from Mozilla, squandered year after year.

They could have been the heroes.

@KevinCarson1 this is hilarious. You want transparency about Epstein? We'll give you transparency, we are transparently suppressing the release of the Epstein files.

@Alice

People on Bluesky are gonna be real mad in 1-2 years when they read this

These things I already miss about #Germany

AI bros, please understand that only ChatGPT wants to talk to you

@axeln I definitely don’t agree with that but I can absolutely guarantee conflict will be escalated against a Black or Brown country in an attempt to move the attention away from the depravity of the US politicians.

It’s like clockwork. Whenever white politicians are in the midst of a scandal they can’t control, the give the US citizenry blood.

It’s a US tradition.

I’ve been testing a theory: many people who are high on #AI and #LLMs are just new to automation and don’t realize you can automate processes with simple programming, if/then conditions, and API calls with zero AI involved.

So far it’s been working!

Whenever I’ve been asked to make an AI flow or find a way to implement AI in our work with a client, I’ve returned back with an automation flow that uses 0 AI.

Things like “when a new document is added here, add a link to it in this spreadsheet and then create a task in our project management software assigned to X with label Y”.

And the people who were frothing at the mouth at how I must change my mind on AI have (so far) all responded with resounding enthusiasm and excitement.

They think it’s the same thing. They just don’t understand how much automation is possible without any generative tools.

This #FursuitFriday has to be this photo from @AutomataDog 💜💜💜

I can't express how rare a photo of me suiting in the US is 😅I work every con I attend and love every second I do but finding time to run around as a dumb dog is at a premium 😅

#furry #fursuit