Jackbooted Thot @socialism.tools · 21hOpus 5.5 is incredible but it still can't perform miracles (making xcode work properly) 022
Jackbooted Thot @socialism.tools · 29/09/2026Just found out they haven’t put an accelerometer in the siri remote for years. where did joy and whimsy go? 000
Jackbooted Thot @socialism.tools · 24/09/2026I’m going through the app review process for Apple/Google and holy shit this is so awful. why do you need apple to review apps on TEST FLIGHT 000
Jackbooted Thot @socialism.tools · 22/09/2026you this take all the time about using small fees to deter AI behavior but, even ignoring the inequality part, this has been tested before by different people for different things and afaik it basically never works 000
Jackbooted Thot @socialism.tools · 19/09/2026i was laughing my ass off at the trailer for this in the theater 000
Jackbooted Thot @socialism.tools · 18/09/2026Resident Evil movie was solidly Fine but felt like a videogame let's play (derogatory) 000
Reposted by Jackbooted ThotSE Gyges @segyges.bsky.social · 17/09/2026I'm back, I missed you all. Since this is an important subject I know too much about, here's a 🧵 explaining that AI Safety Is Mostly A Sex Cult. I don't think these people should make policy. (1/?) (alternative title: Time For Some Cult Theory) 1003229769
Reposted by Jackbooted Thot21st Century Schizoid Tran @grayathena.bsky.social · 11/09/2026mrw the Houthis are advancing and the Iranians are hitting more tankers 958993
Reposted by Jackbooted ThotBenjamin Riley @benjaminjriley.bsky.social · 08/09/2026SPECIAL REPORT Last month, Alpha School invited people to follow student social media accounts "if curious about life in our high schools." I accepted their offer. What I've found shocks me. Forget the AI and ask instead: Is Alpha Schools a cult? Follow along for a summary of my findings.buildcognitiveresonance.substack.comSPECIAL REPORT: My So-Called Alpha SchoolWhat is it like to be a student in Alpha School’s high school boot camp? 481006385
Jackbooted Thot @socialism.tools · 09/09/2026now we wait for an android oem to copy the features with like 30% of the privacy protection and then we've got always on invisible mics everywhere! 110
Jackbooted Thot @socialism.tools · 09/09/2026there's an AI lab (cult) that "calculates" your risk of dying from AI and the younger you are the higher it goes. mortalityrisk.ai Mine is 62%. The solution it provides? Donate money to the AI risk foundation and - if you laugh you lose! - message the President of the United States, Donald Trump. 100
Jackbooted Thot @socialism.tools · 08/09/2026if the style examples here are real / easy for normal people to achieve ... i am very interested to see what happens openai.com/index/introd...openai.comIntroducing ChatGPT Images 2.5ChatGPT Images 2.5 helps turn your ideas, sketches, and reference photos into more personalized, polished images that better reflect your ideas. 100
Jackbooted Thot @socialism.tools · 03/09/2026ARC AGI 3 results? who cares. I don't want my AI to be gaming. the real good news? 110
Reposted by Jackbooted ThotDSA National Tech Committee @tech.dsausa.org · 02/09/2026Excited to share an upcoming reading group for AGAINST TECH OLIGARCHY by JS Tan and Clarissa Redwine around the tech worker activism and class struggle in Silicon Valley. The virtual kickoff call is September 14th, join us to get a copy of the hardcover book for free! RSVP here: tinyurl.com/ato-914 096
Jackbooted Thot @socialism.tools · 02/09/2026rahm youll be delighted to know DSA has a snazzy website for our ideas program.dsausa.orgprogram.dsausa.orgDSA ProgramWorkers Deserve More! 000
Reposted by Jackbooted ThotDan Luu @danluu.com · 01/09/2026How accurate have Ed Zitron's AI skeptic predictions been? danluu.com/zitron/ 1944375
Reposted by Jackbooted ThotGore Vidal Sassoon @jimmyjazz1968.bsky.social · 28/08/2026STEPHEN A: Skip I want to ADDRESS this issue. [BAYLESS nods] You KNOW I am sensitive to the Gestapo-like unaccountable ICE army brutalizing immigrants and citizens alike BAYLESS: Absolutely STEPHEN A: BUT! 1632
Reposted by Jackbooted ThotCarl Zimmer @carlzimmer.com · 27/08/2026The lab is a mysterious place--where some people have "magic hands," and some experiments just won't work. Here's my story about the unspoken knowledge of science, and the struggle to share it. Gift link: nyti.ms/3UccF7Z 1021158
Jackbooted Thot @socialism.tools · 27/08/2026Company X has announced an all-new way to work: a no-code app builder powered by AI. It's simple, easy to use, doesn't do like 20% of what you need, has little to no logging and auditing built in, and doesn't let you export the code 000
Reposted by Jackbooted ThotProPublica @propublica.org · 27/08/2026DHS repeatedly said that an aggressive Chicago apartment raid was prompted by intel on a Venezuelan gang takeover. Records reveal the real story behind the raid: targeting alleged squatters with the landlord’s blessing. 👂 Listen to the full episode:podcasts.apple.comThe True Story of Why Immigration Agents Raided a Chicago Apartment BuildingPodcast Episode · Paper Trail · August 20 · 42m 15857002671
Reposted by Jackbooted ThotJake Gold @jacob.gold · 26/08/2026The answer to "why now" for Linux on the desktop is that coding agents could make Linux's flexibility a major advantage and its complexity mostly a non-issue. But I don't really think it matters all *that* much which operating system you use to run your web browser. 3303
Jackbooted Thot @socialism.tools · 27/08/2026convincing students something both they and faculty know is false is gonna be a tough sell. MIT is $66,720 a year for tuition alone. 110
Jackbooted Thot @socialism.tools · 25/08/2026user: it's ridiculous basic extensions are blocked. i need this for my job the extension: Bob's cool extension that changes, and has host permissions to, the most sensitive possible systems a user can have access to you might as well just downloading a gambling .exe atp it might be safer 000
Jackbooted Thot @socialism.tools · 25/08/2026you know the film is gonna be good when there’s three dozen logos that flash by before it begins 000
Jackbooted Thot @socialism.tools · 24/08/2026it’s impressive cable television is so evil it gets within two points of a website run by an open white supremacist 000
Jackbooted Thot @socialism.tools · 21/08/2026reading about people who resuse to use X is really obvious that a lot of them don’t understand X, and twitter, show you stuff you engage with. hate-QTing is engagement. liking a tweet about someone talking about the topic is engagement. 100
Jackbooted Thot @socialism.tools · 19/08/2026after weeks of experimentation on my homelab I have discovered the most difficult challenge in computer science is local file sharing. "edit the file on the smb share reliably" is, somehow, not a solved problem for anyone, even paid software, in the big 2026 100
Reposted by Jackbooted Thotdrewtoothpaste @drewtoothpaste.bsky.social · 18/08/2026mozart's advice 0566117
Jackbooted Thot @socialism.tools · 16/08/2026absolutely do NOT believe the hype. Anne Hathaway is perfect as always but everything else… 000
Jackbooted Thot @socialism.tools · 04/08/2026for people outside the tech industry: raising multiple rounds of billions of dollars and then selling to this company is like rich patrons thinking you're Michelangelo and then later realizing you only paint lips biting into oranges or dog portraits 000
Reposted by Jackbooted ThotJason Koebler @jasonkoebler.bsky.social · 04/08/2026New: Police are being told to hide the fact that they're using Flock to pull people over and arrest them in both encounters with citizens but ALSO in their official police reports: www.404media.co/do-not-menti...404media.co‘DO NOT MENTION ALPR USAGE’: How Cops Are Trying to Hide Their Use of Flock“DO NOT MENTION ALPR USAGE TO THE OCCUPANTS OF THE VEHICLE. DO NOT MENTION ALPR USAGE IN YOUR REPORT OR COMPLAINT." 161177571
Jackbooted Thot @socialism.tools · 01/08/2026in shocking news, matrix is still barely functional piegames.de/dumps/a-week...piegames.deA week in MatrixAn experience report (read: rant) from an administrator and moderator perspective on how trying to foster an online community in the Matrix ecosystem feels like 000
Jackbooted Thot @socialism.tools · 31/07/2026everyone is asking "why" and my bet is that Google is pushing Gemini usage across the org and someone on the google earth team wanted a promotion 010
Jackbooted Thot @socialism.tools · 29/07/2026me, stupid and ignorant: how hard could it be to purchase and view a single digital file from a japanese creator? I'll translate the page and figure it out. might have to crack open my bitcoin wallet, no problems there 100
Jackbooted Thot @socialism.tools · 29/07/2026i'm sure a representative sample of the city will be able to make it to thursday at 3pm meeting 000
Jackbooted Thot @socialism.tools · 27/07/2026I'm trying to replace my server rack with a shelf and why does nobody, not even ikea, make square shelving that isn't designed for your garage 110
Jackbooted Thot @socialism.tools · 26/07/2026I've always wondered what the government would do if someone used this and I guess we'll find out soon www.theverge.com/policy/97109...theverge.comThe US is charging an American citizen for wiping his phone at the borderWhoops, was that the duress password? 000
![Feb 2024: "I believe we're reaching the upper limits about what generative AI can do and how accurate its outputs can be."
Wrong4
March 2024: "Have We Reached Peak AI?"; another prediction that hallucinations mean that AI progress is limited to then-current levels
Wrong
April 2024: "As I previously warned, artificial intelligence companies are running out of data ..."; another prediction that models can't improve because there's no more data
Wrong
June 2024: OpenAI growth is stalling (with the implication it will continue to stall), which will lead to some kind of collapse of OpenAI
Wrong (it could be the case that OpenAI will collapse but, if so, it won't be due to any kind of growth stall from 2024)
July 2024: "Generative AI, as I said back in March, is peaking, if it hasn't already peaked. It cannot do much more than it is currently doing, other than doing more of it faster with some new inputs"
Wrong
July 2024: "Generative AI models aren’t getting more energy-efficient, nor are they getting more “powerful” in a way that would increase their functionality, nor are they even capable of automating things on their own [July 2024]"
Wrong5
August 2024: "generative AI is a dead-end technology that has peaked”
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August 2024: re-iteration that the AI bubble has 3 quarters to prove itself (from March 2024) or there will be a collapse
Wrong6
September 2024: "o1 shows that OpenAI is both desperate and out of ideas", with a re-iteration of the idea that models can't improve due to lack of data
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Oct 2024: OpenAI's forecast of $3.7B revenue in 2024 and $11.6B in 2025 and $100B in 2029 are absurd, "a statement so egregious that I am surprised it's not some kind of financial crime to say it out loud"
Wrong (2025 goal exceeded, 2029 TBD but not an egregious financial crime level of implausible)
Oct 2024: "[OpenAI revenue] growth is already slowing…](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:2mrgzk6xlemfv6yugn644xxy/bafkreigvfeplyc2h64aigu3v7bryiwedhemivwghrxyqyji4nuqs347tde)
