evilstevie @evilstevie@mastod1.ddns.net

I miss Web 1.0. You click a link, you get to the website, you read the content. What a concept.

Today I deleted more code than I created 🎉

Coffee sketching
HB mechanical pencil
35 minutes

following Effin' Birds on LinkedIn is essential

Some thoughts on turning fifty as a man who didn't expect to (and often didn't want to) survive until twenty.

https://open.substack.com/pub/howardhardiman/p/fifty-years?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android&r=1zuzo

@nixCraft knowledge of how shit works

A drop of dream fuel - The Eternity Gate by John Blanche

“My god!” She exclaimed.

“What is it?” He asked.

“There’s no time to explain.”

She jumped up and from her desk in the operations room and ran to the metal locker in the corner.

She flung it open to reveal a full-bore shotgun, which she grabbed, along with as many shells as she could fit in her hands and jeans pockets.

“Veronica?! What are you doing!!” He screamed, now standing as well.

But it was too late. She had already charged through the door and had headed on to the datacenter floor.

He walked out onto the balcony to see what was going on. He was treated to only the briefest listen to the familiar white noise hum of the servers and equipment racks, before the tranquility was shattered by the unmistakable carnage of several shot gun shells being fired towards the hardware.

He ducked for cover. It must’ve only been a couple of seconds, but it felt like an eternity as she laid waste to the computers that until just a few minutes ago she had been peacefully monitoring.

The shooting subsided, he felt comfortable enough to stand up once again.

Dust, bits of servers, smoke and other debris filled the air.

She slowly walked back up the stairs, now covered in a dirty layer of the various materials, and holding a still smoking shotgun.

“What the hell was that about?!” He asked.

“The AI,” she said. “It started podcasting.”

#microfiction

There once was an X from place B
Who satisfied predicate P
The X did thing A
In a specified way
Resulting in circumstance C.

Of course Niantic used Pokemon Go for location training on autonomous weapons, but we weren't worried because it was just a fun game that got people outside.

Of course Snapchat and Instagram used filters to train facial recognition, but we weren't worried because it made our selfies look better and that puppy tongue was so cute.

Of course 23&Me was building a blood quantum database, but we weren't worried because we were curious about our background and it was just harmless fun.

We've been training a surveillance apparatus beyond the wildest dreams of any dictator this whole time.

We weren't worried because it's not like a bigoted authoritarian regime would rise and start abusing it, right?

...right?

40 bucks off marketplace. Needs a 4mm flat drive belt (on the way from aliexpress) but bodged it with 2x 1mm square belts for the time being. Looks and sounds sick

a few more IR shots, again at 550nm+ #photography #infrared

Gotta admit, I’m glad they’re stripping Trump’s name from the Kennedy Center while he’s still alive and coherent enough to feel the burn.

This is fine

Office has a censor filter in internal comms to replace swear words with other terms. Added a rule changing "AI" to "my cat", so we get "According to my cat..." and "I asked my cat and it said..."

Via Everyone Hates Elon, London:

Imagine having enough wealth to end world hunger 166 times over but you chose not to (and chose to incite violence instead)

#EveryoneHatesElon #FuckElon #USpol #TaxTheRich #immigrant #racist #ukpol #HateSpeech #ChildPorn #BelfastRiots #EpsteinFiles #EpsteinClass #ElonMusk

KPMG issued a report citing all the transformational ways GenAI has transformed industry, it’s been widely cited.

One minor problem: it turns they used AI to write the report, and it made up all of the evidence.

KPMG have now withdrawn the report in full.

https://www.ft.com/content/b3828e92-4961-4b39-84f0-c42f33be3c3f