th1rtyf0ur @th1rtyf0ur.bsky.social · 14hdude, i’ve been in IT since the 90s, WAY before genAI. if a deadline was approaching, you had crunch time. working all night in the office (there was no remote work). 100-hr weeks. and at the end of all that, you didn’t magically get paid more, you got a pizza party & the same expectation next time. 120
th1rtyf0ur @th1rtyf0ur.bsky.social · 21hperiodic reminder that SLAVERY NEVER WENT AWAY IN THE UNITED STATES 010
Reposted by th1rtyf0urTom Gauld @tomgauld.bsky.social · 10/10/2026My latest @newscientist.com cartoon 3045291652
th1rtyf0ur @th1rtyf0ur.bsky.social · 21hpeople don’t generally get paid more for getting more work done, either, though (at least not in salaried jobs), they just get higher expectations (and MAYBE if they’re lucky, a slightly bigger bonus) 120
th1rtyf0ur @th1rtyf0ur.bsky.social · 21htake a minute to think about the relationship between quality & quantity. you can’t have high levels of both with the same resources. if you’re pumping out quantity at a far higher pace than any human brain can reasonably keep up with, quality WILL suffer, & i don’t care how “good” the model is. 120
th1rtyf0ur @th1rtyf0ur.bsky.social · 22hdamn, that sounds familiar. wasn’t that supposed to be a national thing? i wonder which administration made sure it wasn’t? 😑 000
th1rtyf0ur @th1rtyf0ur.bsky.social · 12/10/2026go back & re-read that. it’s: (vision and other) issues, not (vision) and (other issues). 000
th1rtyf0ur @th1rtyf0ur.bsky.social · 11/10/2026this also means it would be far cheaper for me to use A PAY PHONE than my own cell phone to set my redelivery time. if i even knew where to find one these days. 😓 000
th1rtyf0ur @th1rtyf0ur.bsky.social · 11/10/2026sagawa’s redelivery web system has been down for maintenance all day, so i was about to call & use their automated phone system instead until i read the charges for it. ¥8.5/180s, except for cell phones which are ¥20 per 30s. jfc 0570 is the 1-900 of japan isn’t it. 😑 100
th1rtyf0ur @th1rtyf0ur.bsky.social · 11/10/2026GOOD. Cuz fuck AI & every single “creative” industry that uses it instead of paying people to do work (not that I’m AT ALL surpassed that amazon doesn’t want to pay people) 110
th1rtyf0ur @th1rtyf0ur.bsky.social · 11/10/2026maybe it’s like “4 & 20 blackbirds”? i know french & some scandinavian languages do numbers weird, so maybe that’s how you say 16? 😂 000
th1rtyf0ur @th1rtyf0ur.bsky.social · 10/10/2026is “washed the dishes” next? nah, prolly too long 😂 000
th1rtyf0ur @th1rtyf0ur.bsky.social · 10/10/2026wait have we gone from COOKED to ATE to CLEARED now? there some kind of restaurant/service theme going on with modern slang or something? 😂 110
th1rtyf0ur @th1rtyf0ur.bsky.social · 10/10/2026no. cuz take a look at who’s in charge of the AIs. 000
th1rtyf0ur @th1rtyf0ur.bsky.social · 10/10/2026両面テープ？ faaaancy. mine just makes tape loops (or tapes directly to the wall with entirely unnecessarily long pieces of masking tape (we go through a LOOOT of tape) 😓) 010
th1rtyf0ur @th1rtyf0ur.bsky.social · 10/10/2026when my kid was younger, he’d run out of the room for Mario stages with lava or poison lakes, cuz he didn’t like seeing & hearing Mario “dying” in them, even after I explained how he doesn’t actually die, you just try again. now we have grown-ass men saying their chatbot has feelings 🙄 111
th1rtyf0ur @th1rtyf0ur.bsky.social · 10/10/2026more importantly, as a human, your NATURAL IMPULSE is to read meaning/will/emotion/conscioussness/whatever into that. same reason people “see” faces in clouds, tree bark, burnt toast patterns, etc. 110
th1rtyf0ur @th1rtyf0ur.bsky.social · 10/10/2026“but NPCs are explicitly programmed that way! nobody TOLD Claude to-“ I’ma stop you right there. LLMs are designed to respond to text inputs with plausible text outputs. considering they were trained on the stolen sum of the entire written creative output of all humanity, DUH. of COURSE they will. 100
th1rtyf0ur @th1rtyf0ur.bsky.social · 10/10/2026if an NPC in a video game screams when I kill it, does it feel pain? if a particular kill “terrifies” other nearby enemies, does that mean they feel distress? this is the same level of ridiculous. 100
Reposted by th1rtyf0urEmily M. Bender @emilymbender.bsky.social · 09/10/2026Anthropic is out with new nonsense about Claude (or the collection of models called Claude) deserving moral consideration and/or be able to feel distress, so my inbox is filling up with journos asking me to comment. I've also got a day job, so here is a brief set of public comments on this: >> 471787598
th1rtyf0ur @th1rtyf0ur.bsky.social · 10/10/2026the number of times i had to re-read that stupidly obtuse sentence… 😑 000
th1rtyf0ur @th1rtyf0ur.bsky.social · 10/10/2026is that that ridiculously priced box of swag that doesn’t actually include the game in it? 🤣 (had a suspicion it was mostly for promotional use) 000
th1rtyf0ur @th1rtyf0ur.bsky.social · 08/10/2026tbh a lot of places nowadays have moved to QR-code ordering systems anyway, which will mostly auto-translate for you, but then every once in a while you’ll get a place whose menu translates 生 (draught (beer)) into “insufficiently” 030
th1rtyf0ur @th1rtyf0ur.bsky.social · 07/10/2026like how excel enabled non-tech people to do “database” work, but way worse. at LEAST 1x/week our team gets a bulk request where half of the numeric IDs are garbled because excel converted them to scientific notation & ALSO lost precision on the original numbers so they can’t even be restored 😑 000
Reposted by th1rtyf0urJohn Scalzi @scalzi.com · 05/10/2026This is your occasional reminder that generative "AI" in particular could have been developed on public domain materials and/or licensed and compensated works but the major players intentionally, methodically and systemically chose to steal labor from working creative folks instead 10895112984
th1rtyf0ur @th1rtyf0ur.bsky.social · 07/10/2026“Claude, can you solve this crossword puzzle for me? …damn, I’m so smart 🤪” 000
th1rtyf0ur @th1rtyf0ur.bsky.social · 07/10/2026played the demo at TGS & it was pretty cool (esp. since the last SW racer game I played was the N64 one 😂) 000
th1rtyf0ur @th1rtyf0ur.bsky.social · 04/10/2026betting these are the same moms who found the cheapest wedding photographer they could find after budgeting for everything else, & then didn’t let them sit down or eat at the reception. 😑 170
Reposted by th1rtyf0urEmily M. Bender @emilymbender.bsky.social · 01/10/2026New from @timnitgebru.blacksky.app and me: "It is high time for us to regulate usage of systems sold as “AI”, not because they are magical machines, but because they are error-prone products that shouldn’t be used in high stakes scenarios." www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...theguardian.comForget ‘superintelligence’: error-prone AI nearly sparked world war three this month | Timnit Gebru and Emily M BenderThe risks of AI aren’t what we think they are, as a recent security incident between China and the United States reveals 13972416
Reposted by th1rtyf0urM Meerkat @kackbro.bsky.social · 02/10/2026Naomi Klein Is Spot On....... 15788063412
th1rtyf0ur @th1rtyf0ur.bsky.social · 03/10/2026other “biggest ideas” from past centuries including eugenics & chattel slavery, I take it? wtaf. 😑 030
th1rtyf0ur @th1rtyf0ur.bsky.social · 02/10/2026static.klipy.comPaul Reubens & Kristy Swanson: Buffy SceneAlt: Paul Reubens & Kristy Swanson from the Buffy the Vampire Slayer movie. Paul is grasping the wooden stake in his chest & making very obviously over-dramatic fake “ooh ahh ouch” faces, pausing to check that she’s looking, then resuming 010
Reposted by th1rtyf0urIan Carrillo @iansociologo.bsky.social · 01/10/2026This tech is based on stolen labor, then I reject it. This tech intensifies racism, sexism, and class exploitation, then I reject it. This tech exploits workers in the Global South, then I reject it. This tech exacerbates env & climate problems, then I reject it. All these rationales are valid! 222664
th1rtyf0ur @th1rtyf0ur.bsky.social · 01/10/2026because they want everyone to pay THEM for “music”, not some poor schmuck who actually cared enough to learn how to play 000
Reposted by th1rtyf0urTyler, from the Internet (Haunted) @tylerfromtheinternet.com · 30/09/2026abolish fraternities permanently everywhere, they are one of the worst aspects of our society furthermore ICE must be destroyed 113415
Reposted by th1rtyf0urAnne Helen Petersen @annehelen.bsky.social · 30/09/2026This is *the* piece. Kate Manne, professor of philosophy at Cornell, speaks truth to the totality of failures at the university — and why students protesting the war in Gaza have faced far harsher consequences than any of the Cornell 7: www.thecut.com/article/what...thecut.comWhat It Feels Like at Cornell Right NowAs a professor at the Ivy League school, Kate Manne has known many, many victims. There’s a palpable feeling on campus, she writes, that this is big. 5030971089
Reposted by th1rtyf0urAndrew Lawrence @ndrew.bsky.social · 28/09/2026the two big ai stories to kick off the week are - meta ai giving your address to strangers on fb marketplace - stole a scientific breakthrough and presented it as its own work this is what we get instead of healthcare or third spaces or public transportation or pick literally anything else 232480613
Reposted by th1rtyf0urEmily M. Bender @emilymbender.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Guys, no one doubts that Tesla is responsible if its cars roll down hills and crash into people (or anything else). The problem is that until VERY recently, it was not accepted that it was possible for something on wheels that we forgot to put breaks on to travel downhill at high speed. 414124
Reposted by th1rtyf0urAlejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 27/09/2026Google finally updated some of its satellite images of Gaza and my god, it's horrific. The entirety of Rafah has been demolished. The majority of Khan Younis is in ruins. Entire towns completely leveled and erased of the map. 9653143278
th1rtyf0ur @th1rtyf0ur.bsky.social · 29/09/2026my favorite autotranslation wtf moment was when a restaurant w/ aQR code ordering system showed everyone’s 生s (draught (beer)) on my phone as “insufficiently” 🤣 010
th1rtyf0ur @th1rtyf0ur.bsky.social · 29/09/2026lol Johnny Carson, how many people online today are gonna get that ref? 🤣 000
th1rtyf0ur @th1rtyf0ur.bsky.social · 29/09/2026idk, it seems more like for every Miyazaki who calls a crude machine-learning rig animation “an insult to life itself” there are dozens of people who have no problem using bots & agents to “help” them with their code, presentations, emails, slack/meeting summaries, even piano practicing 😑 010
