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RET @oldmate.bsky.social · 13h

The implication seems to be that this is somehow a positive development. Why would anyone wish such a thing on themselves or their colleagues?

An ad for some diabolical bullshit called Fireflies.ai with a slightly menacing, apparently female robot pictured, overlaid with the text "AI AGENTS CAN NOW JOIN YOUR MEETINGS AND START TALKING" as if that's something anyone who has ever attended a meeting would want.

RET @oldmate.bsky.social · 18h

Two gravy boats, one cup

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Margaret Morgan 🇳🇱🇦🇺🇪🇺 @margaretmorgan.bsky.social · 1d

@irisvanrooij.bsky.social, Professor of Computational Cognitive Science, reveals AI slop being used by #ScienceDirect, and, unsurprisingly, getting it wrong.

"Stochastic regurgitation" is just the best term for what these programs do.

irisvanrooijcogsci.com/2025/08/12/a...

AI slop and the destruction of knowledge

Cite as: van Rooij, I. (2025) AI slop and the destruction of knowledge. This week I was looking for info on what cognitive scientists mean when they speak of ‘domain-general’ cognition. I was curio…

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RET @oldmate.bsky.social · 1d

This country is so broken.

Louisa @louisathelast.bsky.social · 3d

Well, an acquaintance who relies on the ACA marketplace for insurance just received a notice explaining that their fee for coverage will be rising. Right now they pay $180 a month. The new price?

$2733.15 a month.

RET @oldmate.bsky.social · 1d

Such a great cameo.

a man is sitting in a dental chair getting his teeth examined by a dentist and a nurse .

Alt: Scene from Little Shop of Horrors where the dentist is huffing the laughing gas.

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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 1d

OpenAI is a social arsonist.

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RET @oldmate.bsky.social · 2d

I struggle to imagine how serious people can equate modelling the patterns of written text with any sort of cognitive capacity. It makes as much sense as saying if you feed your cat enough tuna it will develop gills.

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RET @oldmate.bsky.social · 2d

Another cracking post from @sarah-j-smith.bsky.social

"Generative AI is a dancing bear, a superficially impressive technical parlour trick that cannot translate to real world value for the enterprise."

Come for the text, stay for the great infographics.
totallyathing.substack.com/p/where-we-a...

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Jess Calarco @jessicacalarco.com · 2d

We have progressed from data collection to data analysis.

My 11-year-old sitting with her pile of Halloween candy, sorting it into a bar graph

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Philip Bump @pbump.com · 2d

F. Scott Fitzgerald: In my book I invented Gatsby lifestyle as a cautionary tale

The president: At long last, we have created the Gatsby lifestyle from the classic novel The Great Gatsby

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RET @oldmate.bsky.social · 3d

No, and that should have been nose-on-face obvious to everyone. The fundamentals of this industry are so rotten, it beggars belief that anyone would invest in it. Three years in, and there's not a single profitable success story, other than Nvidia, the shovel merchant in this goldrush.

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Justin Hendrix @justinhendrix.bsky.social · 3d

"Many of the deals OpenAI has struck — with chipmakers, cloud computing companies and others — are strangely circular. OpenAI receives billions from tech companies before sending those billions back to the same companies to pay for computing power and other services." www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

How OpenAI Uses Complex and Circular Deals to Fuel Its Multibillion-Dollar Rise

Here are seven unusual financial agreements helping to drive the ambitions of the poster child of the A.I. revolution.

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RET @oldmate.bsky.social · 3d

The nuclear winter it's going to visit on Silicon Valley when it does burst will be terrible, but they've got no-one to blame but themselves. So much capital just incinerated through FOMO.

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WholesomeMemes @wholesomememe.bsky.social · 3d

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RET @oldmate.bsky.social · 3d

Just catching up with Cory Doctorow's blog: "Bain & Co say the sector needs to be grossing $2T by 2030 in order to break even, which is more than the combined grosses of Amazon, Google, Microsoft, Apple, Nvidia and Meta"
How can anyone take this "industry" seriously?
pluralistic.net/2025/10/29/w...

Pluralistic: When AI prophecy fails (29 Oct 2025) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow

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RET @oldmate.bsky.social · 3d

Check out @baldurbjarnason.com and the chapter of his book "The Intelligence Illusion" on this very topic. There's a version of it here in this blog post: softwarecrisis.dev/letters/llme...

The LLMentalist Effect: how chat-based Large Language Models rep…

The new era of tech seems to be built on superstitious behaviour

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RET @oldmate.bsky.social · 5d

I get your point, but remain unconvinced. Training burns those GPUs out at a pretty phenomenal rate, and the running cost of the data centre in electricity and water can't be handwaved away completely.

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RET @oldmate.bsky.social · 5d

Yes. I hope OpenAI get the book thrown at them in the case that was brought against them recently. All of them have this massive "we're all trying to find the guy who did this" mentality towards the harms their products do. Someone wrote the code. Someone decided to release it.

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RET @oldmate.bsky.social · 5d

I have seen comments - from people who are more knowledgeable than I - that a data centre designed for GPUs would require major rework to suit standard server equipment, it's not a simple swap out.

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RET @oldmate.bsky.social · 8d

This is brilliant. You don't even need to read the original TSP article, this skewering of it is all you'll need.

Michael Taylor @ausindimedia.bsky.social · 9d

“I see a different Barnaby to you.”

theaimn.net/an-open-lett...

An Open Letter to Jason Koutsoukis on Barnaby Joyce

Dear Jason, I read your Saturday Paper piece on Barnaby Joyce with growing frustration; not at Joyce, who is at least consistently what he is, but at your framing of his potential defection as primari...

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RET @oldmate.bsky.social · 9d

Coming into this thread late, having just found the time to watch your video with Adam Becker, but I must say I am surprised no-one has commented on how unbelievably offensive this statement is. How is the cost being measured? Dollars or lives?

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RET @oldmate.bsky.social · 13d

I Never Look Back, Dàrling.It Distracts From The Now..Gif GIF

Alt: GIF of The Incredibles' Edna Mode: "I Never Look Back, Darling. It Distracts From The Now."

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Spelling Mistakes Cost Lives @darrencullen.bsky.social · Aug 7

Did a new one

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RET @oldmate.bsky.social · 14d

The number of times they have hosted (amongst others) Stephanie Kelton and Steven Hail for seminars, yet still persist with this monetarist nonsense.

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RET @oldmate.bsky.social · 14d

He has quite the void inside, you know.

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