Caught an AI bro in the wild trying to shoot back at Merriam-Webster - and failing:

If the AI industry gets bailed out (and that’s a multi-hundred billion dollar “if”), it will be because the technology they create makes shit like this possible.

To try and end this on a somewhat lighter note (source):

🎶 Butt hole sun, won’t you come

🎶 And wash the pain away

Also, fake old-celluloid-film filter for something that was supposed to be from 20 years ago? Really?

I was gonna say that was probably the slop extruder’s doing, but it looks to have been applied manually for some godforsaken reason. Best guess is whoever was behind this audiovisual extrusion thought “celluloid filter = Nostalgia^tm”.

Well done to Avi on blowing a pile of venture capital cash to make his own life feel a bit better. The rest of us will probably pass this one by.

Money buys happiness, but he sure ain’t doing that right.

hallucinatory RETVRN clips about the good old days

Nostalgiabait is the slopgens’ specialty - being utterly incapable of creating anything new isn’t an issue if you’re trying to fabricate an idealis-

such as, uh, walmart 20 years ago?

Okay, stop everything, who the actual fuck would be nostalgic for going to a fucking Wal-Mart? I’ve got zero nostalgia for ASDA or any other British big-box hellscape like it, what the fuck’s so different across the pond?

(Even from a “making nostalgiabait” angle, something like, say, McDonalds would be a much better choice - unlike Wal-Mart, McD’s directly targets kids with their advertising, all-but guaranteeing you’ve got fuzzy childhood memories to take advantage of.)

New Ed Zitron to start the week off: The Case Against Generative AI

Its also gonna be an apocalypse-level event for Silicon Valley, who have incinerated hundreds of billions of dollars and every last remaining bit of goodwill they had through creating and marketing the cultural pollution engines behind this bubble.

For the artists whose life work was stolen and abused by SV to pollute human culture, for the workers forcibly deskilled by capital’s digital slop looms, for the millions of people who have had to suffer through the myriad harms of the AI cancer, the bubble’s burst will be grounds to celebrate like nothing else.

Training the kids not to trust AI at such a young age. Real forward-thinking, that Massachusets contractor! /s

Not marking with the chatbot is apparently not an option. AI might save money in the future! So kid, we’re gonna keep treating you with contempt. It’s good preparation for your future.

AI as an ideology shows contempt for humans and human-made work, so seeing believers in AI double-down is completely unsurprising

Quick PSA: There’s an open letter calling for a fork of Rails, specifically to purge it of David Heil Hitler’s influence.

New premium column from Ed Zitron: OpenAI Needs A Trillion Dollars In The Next Four Years. Features Ed calling Google and Oracle out for failing to protect their investors from Saltman before the cutoff.

>spotify

Winamp was literally right there, do fascists now know anything beyond mindless consu- oh, wait, I answered my own question, of fucking course they are

There’s a lot of hype for Omarchy because its an open endorsement of fascism disguised as a Linux distro. Its success would further entrench fascists in Linux and the FOSS ecosystem.

is it because i am being forced to look at the opinions [of people] whose only experience with writing code is vibecoding the latest greatest b2b saas slop in the new flashy javascript framework and then deploying it on some platform that is literally just an aws wrapper with a 1000% upcharge, whose idea of a perfect operating system is one with an llm pre-installed and a billion flashy animations happening anytime you move a window???

Absolutely. Fascists are not known for their technical prowess.

Okay, let’s see what the dumbshits are trying to sell this time

(This took longer than I’d liked, because copy-paste is pretty laggy on Cloudflare’s shit-ass page)

Built for the rise of agents and machines, NET Dollar will enable seamless, automated transactions without human intervention.

“Agents” are automatic data breach machines, letting them repeat that time they stole vibe-coders’ crypto on a larger scale is a terrible idea

The rise of autonomous agents and connected devices is creating a new economic paradigm

Autonomous agents don’t exist, and the only “new economic paradigm” being made is one where tech is completely unmoored from reality

These systems need a reliable medium of exchange that can handle high-frequency, automated transactions without human intervention.

See my previous point

Rules, triggers, and workflows can be embedded directly into payments, making them smarter and adaptable.

Went so well for Wolf Game, didn’t it?

NET Dollar will work across networks and ecosystems, enabling frictionless, global commerce.

And by “frictionless, global commerce”, I presume they mean “sanctions evasion and ransomware”

Every coin will be fully collateralized by a U.S. dollar, ensuring transparency, reliability, and price stability.

Just like Tether! /s

NET Dollar will be made available soon.

How about never.

Honestly, I don’t see a way for grifters to wedge themselves into sneerspaces - not easily, at least.

Grifters require some degree of uncritical hype to get by in a space - given sneerspaces are built to make fun of such uncritical hype, building it up here would be very difficult, if not damn-nigh impossible.

Besides, there’s much more lucrative spaces for grifters to venture into, like venture capital.

Flagged dead on HN, to nobody’s surprise. There’s a couple of fascists on there, but that’s about it. There’s more fascists on lemmy.ml, too.

A year in, there’s just one problem — AI video still doesn’t work. Two people told The Wrap: [The Wrap]

The Lionsgate catalog is too small to create a model. In fact, the Disney catalog is too small to create a model.

Google Veo 3 can’t keep a scene together, keep characters consistent, or take direction — and that’s training on twenty years of YouTube.

Oh no, who could have seen this coming (except every single artist both inside and outside the film industry)

Who’s left to do actual work? Who would start a new project that depends on these institutions? Does ruby just die now?

Honestly, it probably will. The RubyGems takeover shattered any trust people had in the Ruby ecosystem - that’s something which is damn-nigh impossible to recover from.

A full timeline on the RubyGems takeover has been put together - looks like the entire situation’s been caused by pressure from Shopify.

Found a well-done essay by Jared White recently: AI Apologists and the Humanist Legacy of Steve Jobs, which does a good job sneering the ideology of AI and arguing for a more pro-human approach to tech.