Strokes don’t usually last over an hour like this. Are you OK?

The mindset of businessmen is something truly wonderous to behold.

Back in the late '80s when viruses were becoming a Real Thing™, in one company I worked for one of the VPs of Sales went off on this long rant at a company meeting about viruses and how he’d been infected so many times and learned how to not get infected. Apparently half of his advice was nonsense and one of the techies calmly shot that stuff down. The following exchanged then happened:

VP: How many times have you been infected?

T: Never. I’ve never been infected by a computer virus.

You’d think at this point it would be argument over, right? The VP had already expressed that he’d been infected literally dozens of times, sometimes multiple times by the same virus because he was too stupid to clean all his disks. The techie guy had never been infected. Case closed. Listen to the techie, right?

Wrong.

Management was impressed by the VP’s “extensive experience” and literally thought the techie’s “lack of experience” in dealing with viral infections was a stroke against him. So corporate policy was expanded with anti-virus measures that were ineffective because a clueless VP with “lots of experience” (where “experience” was defined as “stupidly being infected dozens of times”) trumped a technical staffer who was able to mysteriously remain virus-free.

So what you say here? Rings true. Oh so fucking true.

Uh … did you just have a stroke while typing?

The Guardian is supposedly “left” and yet they’re following the scripts handed down by right wing extremist techbrodudes.

It’s almost as if its “leftism” is like most “leftism” in the anglosphere: complete and utter performative bullshit.

Pete Townshend called. He wants you to stop stealing his line. 😆

Ew! There’s no way that thing is getting anywhere near me!

If you think LLMbeciles are right more often than wrong then you’re either profoundly ignorant or profoundly inattentive.

The world’s oldest early-teen edgelord makes japanimation wank toys.

What. A. Surprise.

Apparently the USAF thinks their future adversaries are a) stupid, and b) devoid of any hint of taste.

Compared to American “AI” firms it’s positively a pauper. They put in a few million dollars, not multiple tens of billions.

But go ahead. Completely look past the obvious point so you can score Innarwebtube points. Just do it without me. Buh-bye.

I believe you misspelled “Butlerian Jihad”.

You misspelled “blow up all that sweet data”.

Because telling something to make a picture is not you making it. It’s that thing making it.

I’m baffled by how this is so fucking hard to comprehend?

Remember when Zuck the Fuck thought everybody would be flocking to his Metaverse of legless apparitions stuck right at the bottom of the uncanny valley?

If you’re in a tightly regulated industry, take DETAILED notes and store them off-site for when the lawsuits inevitably hit and they go hunting for someone to pin the blame on. Make sure that it’s clear that a) you didn’t use the stuff that breached regulation, and b) you know who did.

“you’re in IT and you don’t embrace AI? wtf is wrong with you?”

This is always hilarious to me. “You’re an expert, unlike me, and you’re not whole-hog into this thing that’s in your field of expertise and not mine, while I am? What’s wrong with you?”

The arrogance of the capitalist class is beyond amazing.

As opposed to the “capabilities” of LLMbeciles that will from a three word query (“What is inukpunk?”) generate a wall of text detailing a literary movement that doesn’t exist, right down to making up Tumblr and Reddit posts “that are now lost” to support the claims when pressed.

Oh, I really want inukpunk to become a real thing. Specifically I use it mentally to describe Tanya Tagaq’s music and attitude, but as a literary form it would kick ass on ice too.

It is a tool like a double-clawed hammer with the claws pointing upward, not toward the hammer.

That would entail going to the USA which I decided I would never set foot in again … IN 1999.

As to how I know what people do or don’t do? In the broader sphere, I look at results. And there aren’t any. Well, sorry, there are. All negative. The English “left” gave us Brexit and now Keir Starmer. The American “left” gave us two terms of Trump and the world’s latest Nazi state.

I’ll believe there’s a meaningful American (and British) “left” when I see it. Until then, it’s basically a rounding error in terms of influence.