IN FRENCH FRY RESTAURANT, A RESEMBLANCE NOTED

As long as you don't think that the idea of using computers in, say, air traffic control or weather forecasting is some kind of mad techbro fantasy that will kill everyone*, you're not who I'm thinking of in group 2

* Both real takes I've seen here on Bluesky

It's the New New Normal

Although I wouldn't want to be an US pension advisor dealing with an investor whose safe conservative S&P 500 investment has just had 20-30% of its total value punched out of it.

Yeah, I'm more worried about side damage to the honest parts of tech - good robust machine learning projects, scientific computing that needs clusters and GPUs, and so on - than to the global economy.

I think there's at least two different crowds - there's I think most people in this thread, who are techy, but sceptical about Big Tech, worried about its politics, and angry about the forced use of bad products. Then there are people who have radicalised themselves against the concept of computer

"This domain may be for sale!"

You know how the podcast for the Citation Needed Tumblr you ran with @conorlastowka.bsky.social had a regular bit where Conor would play a studio executive reacting to weird Wikipedia movie synopses? Well, a decade later, I still immediately read this in that voice

It's a good thing her songs are so catchy

imagine if you'd been fighting a war against another country and discovered that you actually agreed on everything. would be honestly embarrassing

(realistically, I guess the split is actually science-minded Dems who say "Of course aliens exist somewhere in the universe" vs Evangelicals who say "It was Adam and Eve, not Adam and Q'Blantharx-4."

This is actually amazing. AI is making my most delirious fever dreams a reality.

(If that's how bad things are on the Virgin narrowboat, I'd hate to see how it's going on the Avanti narrowboat)