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Thursday--that liminal day that tastes of almost-Friday

Beep boop... training data located

Sweet mother of Roko it's an infohazard!

I never really realized that before.

The final race to ~~bubble collapse~~ AGI is afoot so Sergey Brin thinks his workers should work 60 hours a week, and churn out LLM assisted code, and be in the office "at least" 5 days a week https://9to5google.com/2025/02/27/sergey-brin-google-agi/

Of course most people don't have enough money to hire an army of assistants, they have friends and family that they actually like, or they have aspirations beyond babysitting shitty Gemini output every waking hour to further enrich billionaires.

But no no, he's right! Those lazy 40-hour workers (the ones who dodged layoffs so far) are doing the bare minimum!

US techno-fascism roundup part the fourth:

1. DOGE is reportedly using AI to assess the "what did you do last week" bullet points form all federal workers

2. Their privacy impact assessment for this had this to say

   The individual federal government employees can opt out simply by not responding to the email

   But Mr. Musk apparently forgot about this as he threatens to fire everyone who won't respond (stuff like maternity leave be damned I guess)

3. A particularly unhappy person got an AI generated video of Trump sucking Musk's toes to display on TVs in government buildings.

4. Hey firing people is hard. I know, what if we got the computers to fire people for us!

Does creating a cover of Get Low called "Z-Pain" for your wife, or commissioning the creation of a giant green statue for your wife strike you as the sorts of things someone in an unhealthy marriage would do? I think not!

After this post I went back and read all the fallout from when they added and subsequently "paused" AI Explain and it was as entertaining as I remember (1, 2, 3, 4, 5).

This has some real "furbies talking to eachother" energy.

Computer understanders, click this link for some psychic damage! :D (aside: I tried to upload this as an image but it didn't work)

Trick question; it's both an economic move and an ideological move.

SEOs match quality websites to those users trying to find them. As much as Google and Bing like to pretend that they're perfect there are very real indexing issues that crop up and need experts to debug, mitigate, and prevent; so in a very real way the SEOs do make the web better for users.

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For example let's say there was a user who wanted to read a website full of LLM written articles and ads but they keep stumbling across low quality websites with poor SEO practices like Wikipedia instead, why that would be terrible. In order to prevent this terrible possiblity it is the noble duty of SEOs to buy well respected high ranking domain names so that users get a brand they can trust. Like Forbes. Or Radioshack.

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Sincerely, the myseonews.now "staff".

Well that was amusing

Asking "what is blockchain good for other than cryptocurrencies" is like asking "what is internet good for other than websites" pre-broadband

Days since last "bitcoin is like the early internet": zero :(

I’d like to go back to 1988 and ask “Is anyone actually using the Internet?”

Days since last "bitcoin is like the early internet": zero :(

So therefore, email will never become as popular as sending envelope mails. I rest my case.

Days since last "bitcoin is like the early internet": zero :(

An update to my post about facebook from yesterday; turns out it's much worse:

https://transparency.meta.com/policies/community-standards/hateful-conduct/

[Do not post} Insults, including those about [...] Mental characteristics, including but not limited to allegations of stupidity, intellectual capacity, and mental illness, and unsupported comparisons between PC groups on the basis of inherent intellectual capacity. We do allow allegations of mental illness or abnormality when based on gender or sexual orientation, given political and religious discourse about transgenderism and homosexuality and common non-serious usage of words like “weird.”

You can see the full diff from last version if you click "Jan 8, 2025" and yeah it's a doozy.

Like many here on awful.systems I have a pretty thick skin, but reading the above put me in a really weird mood all day. I couldn't really concentrate on work. It's hard to believe that they published this with a straight face, and harder to believe that the media isn't dunking on them for it.

On the bright side the policy technically lets you go around calling people insane for being straight or cisgender* if anyone is still on there and wants to get banned from that platform in a blaze of glory.

* or indeed simply having a gender and I'm not sure fascists know how to use words right.