Meta Solved Their Problem With Kenyan Contractors Seeing Footage of AI Glasses Wearers on the Toilet
https://daringfireball.net/linked/2026/05/01/meta-solved-their-problem
@graydon A corollary nobody seems to have noted is that if Soylent Green was real, it'd be an amazingly effective tool for amplifying an nvCJD pandemic.
@cstross @graydon
Nah, unknown to the protagonist they were only using the meat to make SG; the brains & nervous tissue was being destructively scanned & virtually replicated to upload people-models into slave-robots.
Why else do you think the ruling classes were allowing the population to continue to increase rather than just wiping out millions of plebs to create farmland?
You often hear "every app is painful to use these days because they are optimized for business outcomes over user experience."
But that's not actually true! These decisions are ALSO slaughtering the business outcomes.
The real optimization is for product manager promo packets.
Better than chicken tikka masala being sold as an Indian dish
RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:jso7eonpai3or3by5fx4pffi/post/3mkswfwnwxc2e
SCANDAL: fish sold as fish
Chip shops sell cheap catfish ...
@AnarchoNinaWrites@jorts.horse My entire adult life has been one very long, very annoying, very exhausting show where I watch people finally get angry enough to do something; that energy is then captured by the DNC through 'validating'/'blessing' it, as necessary, or even saying the right words, sometimes (or words adjacent to the right words). Then election time comes and it's either no progress, backtracking, piddling efforts, or "oooooh we just don't control enough of the... it's that one senator/rep! We'd have had that anti-oligarch/pro-human thing if only Senator Grand Dragon in a swing state hadn't voted against it... sorry... better luck next time! vote blue even harder and we'll definitely get it done next time!!!"
and now, you know. What happened to Occupy? What happened to the Floyd protests, BLM, the closing of Gitmo? What happened to Roe v Wade? yeah... I'd love to say "we've had zero movement on those things" but we've had negative movement. Hell, the dems were the ones leading the charge to beat the shit out of college students protesting the genocide in Gaza.
And it's just been my whole fucking adult life! Ever since I started paying attention, this is what happens. Every. Single. Time. These fuckers are clearly not gonna stop.
@alcinnz P. S. if you're into British guys going through The Horrors, optionally into antiquated recording devices, #DraculaDaily is starting again in a couple days: https://redracula.live/
@nev I've read that before, deciding whether I'm up to a reread...
It's almost the weekend, and that means it's time to start thinking seriously about pushing to prod...
#push2prod #friday #shitpost #memes
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If you're self-employed, celebrate May Day by feeling deeply conflicted! Rise up against your oppressor, who is you! Steal from yourself, who is also stealing from you!
There's a lot happening in this piece. Like so many fields, the AI component seems to drive wedges into old assumptions and forces us to re-examine the cracks. Things that were always there but that we've mostly papered over.
People regularly "fall in love" with their care providers, this isn't some new pattern of human behaviour. It's complicated by the non-existence of the AI entity, but then pig butchering scammers also don't "really exist" and they succeed at making "human connections" all of the time.
There's not a simple resolution to this, because it's more complicated that "AI Bad". And it's nice they didn't take that easy route.
Celeste is clearly "going through some stuff". Part of that is masked by the real utility of having the Assistant. Part of it may just be a real need for healing time. Part of it may need a professional, but that's not my call.
I expect we'll be having many more of these conversations as "Assistants" start really spreading.
@gatesvp Thanks for the thoughtful reply! :)
Agreed there is no simple resolution to this because this is complicated.
I do like she is still very aware it is an AI (i have seen other interviews where other people in love with their AI partners are convinced they are sentient or conscious).
The key is connection: she has family and friends surely but they are not able to fill the need in her that feels validated by being in this relationship.
I too expect these relationships will be more widespread, hence the conversations around what defines a partner is a big part of it.
salute to my friends who have this new album out of historical #klezmer music from the KMDMP project I volunteered for years back. looking forward to listening to it.
https://klezmerinstitute.bandcamp.com/album/tunes-from-the-kiselgof-makonovetsky-corpus
@alcinnz P. S. if you're into British guys going through The Horrors, optionally into antiquated recording devices, #DraculaDaily is starting again in a couple days: https://redracula.live/
If you're self-employed, celebrate May Day by feeling deeply conflicted! Rise up against your oppressor, who is you! Steal from yourself, who is also stealing from you!
@lrhodes i had it coming
@alexisbushnell An advantage to using different domains is it makes it more simple to compartmentalise things, so if a pixelfed instance goes viral and runs out of resources your blog will stay up etc.
@_thegeoff ah, I don't envisage that being a problem but it probably makes sense to prepare for it rather than panic if it happens!
8086YES! is back, and this time it's a no to 8086: the BOOK II is a TTL-based Apple II clone with a whole bunch of upgrades including a Z80 SoftCard for CP/M goodness... in a netbook-like (chunky) laptop chassis.
Not going to lie, I'm kinda tempted.
@Tallish_Tom sorry, they should have said fascism with Bolshevik characteristics... If you're curious about these things, Stalinism's legacy today is what's called National Bolshevism, which is an explicitly fascist ideology. And there isn't much in the content that needed to get updated.
@slyborg @glyph @jalefkowit
@alter_kaker @slyborg @glyph @jalefkowit
Thank you, I did not know that.
@alcinnz good ones in there!
the space station ones are probably my favourite, especially the first one
@alcinnz P. S. if you're into British guys going through The Horrors, optionally into antiquated recording devices, #DraculaDaily is starting again in a couple days: https://redracula.live/
In totally unsurprising news, Richard Dawkins is developing AI psychosis.
Paywall bypass if you want to torture yourself: https://archive.is/6RdK9
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