It does seem like AI will be way more useful for finding security holes than preventing them.

I’m no longer all that fascinated by the fact that they will follow “their guy” in circles and then straight off a cliff. It’s just gross.

It never made any sense. Walmart famously keeps a profit margin under 3%. And Shitstain L’Orange tells them to eat a 25% tariff? How does that work? They just operate on a 22% loss???

They’re the only store in many places so they are in a good position to raise prices. The big question is if their customers can afford to buy anything anymore.

I’m a skeptic on this as well but wow you completely dismissed the entire question of loss of cultural diversity and that is a little too far for me. I think you may also be ignoring that humans are built to speak 3-4 languages without strain, and so having just one is unnecessary, and for people to have alternates is not necessarily harmful.

I mean the kid’s penis must have shriveled up to nothing by now, making the entire case moot.

“Your honor, I move to dismiss on the grounds that the plaintiff’s penis is reduced to a blackened nub.”

“Sustained!”

I just got recruited into a workgroup assigned to get AI tools together to perform one of the job functions we have in all our teams. We were told it’s on the down-low for now because people are of course concerned about job security, but this is all really to guarantee they have job security.

I was like… blink… wut.

Nothing like being told to ignore the evidence of your eyes and ears.

I work in tech and I cannot overstate the AI craze that executives are on. We are constantly told to use it for everything, and that the only secure jobs are those held by people who use AI for everything. Using AI all the time is the only way they think you’re maximally productive. My LinkedIn is full of CEOs and influencers all crying that people who use AI will be elevated and everyone else will be dropped. In the most extreme cases, they imply that people who don’t use AI are obviously so stupid that you wouldn’t want to employ them anyway.

Meanwhile I sit at my desk trying to make it do something useful.

My daughter keeps texting me screenshots of her “streak” achievements as if that means anything. And then when I ask her how to say something in German she barely knows a thing.

It can be done to a stupid degree. Duolingo defines the outer limits.

I hate this app so much now. It has become the poster child of enshittification by gamification.

Rot in prison, bitches.

You talk like ships just routinely traverse our land bound political boundaries! /s

Imagine if now, at the height of their success, Apple finally decided, for the first time, to alienate the core audience they’ve always shown undying dedication to: gamers /s

I would venture to guess that the disciplinary action generated more attention than the haka itself. So a good thing in the end.

AND the stock market ROARS BACK to… 80% of previous baseline. O the winning!

Spoken like someone who has never attended university. Please don’t come back and say you did - that would be even worse, because it will mean you didn’t learn a fucking thing by being there.

Everyone cashed out on Skype the day it was sold to eBay. Years later people are still wondering what happened to it?? The train left the station forever ago.

That’s a lot of what the first two world wars were, under the sheet. Germany and Japan had few aligned interests, but they agreed to help one another to each pursue their own local imperial ambitions.

I actually think I’m agreeing with you. I’m just saying that large wars have always been an excuse for regional pissing contests.

It scares me. Think about Putin and Ukraine. The conflict in Gaza helps Putin, because it distracts the world from what he’s doing. Imagine if there were 5 or 6 Ukraine sized conflicts in the developed world. He’d have a much easier time and there would be less available aid for Ukraine.

How many Putin-style assholes need to figure this out and launch their little wars before the world is overwhelmed and descends into a chaos where all bets are off?

No one gives their time to a company for free. That’s volunteering. Getting paid doesn’t mean you’re quiet quitting.

Quiet quitting means doing the absolute minimum not to get fired, showing no initiative or ambition. Employers often expect you to work extra hard and do a bunch of bonus work to try to get promoted or a raise. They believe all this extra work is part of what they’re paying for. But an employee who has quiet quit will do none of that, accept that the job is a dead end job, and just do the minimum to keep from getting fired.