Chris Ellis @intrbiz@bergamot.social

The idea that the US & UK militaries are lobby that same technology that tells me “I’m absolutely right” on an almost daily basis as I point out its inability to follow instructions should be allowed to kill people’s without human oversight is nuts to me.

This is biggest technological ethical crisis of our lives.

Everyone talks about not having senior devs in the future because we’re replacing the juniors with LLMs, but nobody’s talking about losing senior devs now because people who are competent and care about the quality of their work are leaving this LLM-infested hellscape of a career path to go into carpentry, hostelry, or subsistence farming

If all the #Mamdani news seems too good to be true, it’s because politicians haven’t worked for the average person for decades and we’ve gotten so use to it a politician doing their job correctly seems completely foreign.

Now you can keep track of how many billions companies are losing on GenAI.

Red is spending, green is revenue.

https://isaiprofitable.com

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Ed Zitron:

"LLMs impress the writers who do not want to write, the coders who don’t want to code, the researchers who don’t want to research, and the lawyers that don’t want to actually understand case law. Those that desperately tell you how powerful AI is and that you simply must use it are looking for you to validate their own laziness or distaste for effort, and those who are impressed with LLMs’ outputs tend to be people with low standards."

https://www.wheresyoured.at/the-revenge-of-the-business-idiot/
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In 1990, the high school dropout rate for Dolly Parton's hometown of Sevierville Tennessee was at 34% (Research shows that most kids make up their minds in fifth/sixth grade not to graduate). That year, all fifth and sixth graders from Sevierville were invited by Parton to attend an assembly at Dollywood. They were asked to pick a buddy, and if both students completed high school, Dolly Parton would personally hand them each a $500 check on their graduation day. As a result, the dropout rate for those classes fell to 6%, and has generally retained that average to this day. Shortly after the success of The Buddy Program, Parton learned in dealing with teachers from the school district that problems in education often begin during first grade when kids are at different developmental levels. That year The Dollywood Foundation paid the salaries for additional teachers assistants in every first grade class for the next 2 years,

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Person switches from moderate right to far left by doing absolutely NOTHING

#politics #uspol #socialist #communist #marxist #ubi #universalbasicincome #meme #memes #funny

PostgreSQL people, I hope you're planning to tune into @posetteconf (free & virtual) on 16-18 June & this new "ultimate guide" blog post should help you figure out which of the 44 #Postgres talks & 4 livestreams are for you

Lots of work happening behind the scenes by the speakers & the organizers to bring all this learning to you in this year's #PosetteConf (hard to believe this is the 5th year!)

#PostgreSQL #databases #OpenSource #conference

https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/blog/adforpostgresql/ultimate-guide-to-posette-an-event-for-postgres-2026-edition/4520246

RE: https://infosec.exchange/@SPAM/116603250749392292

You gotta love this guy.

The Burnham/Brexit thing is terrarium of Labour's failure: by not confronting lies in the past, and not being willing to call them out now, they both deprive themselves of real arguments about inequality and come off as triangulating, rather than honest.

This isn't hard; e.g.: "Farage lies about who is making us poorer because dividing people that work is how those who don't escape paying their fair share. He lied then, and it's hurt us for a decade. And he's lying now to cover his tracks."

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The Badger Badger Badger video is in the British Film Institute's archive of significant British films. 😳 https://replay.bfi.org.uk/video/fe55f1ff-bd71-5f02-8f89-6d6829c75d0d

still not quite over the fact that i watched 15 year olds get sued for millions of dollars for downloading twelve songs and now we all have to accept AI slop because every tech company in the known universe decided that IP laws don't exist now that they're inconvenient for them

why did they call them "ai datacenters" when they could have called them "slopping malls"

the developments at gitlab feel unsettling. we have all our sources in a self hosted gitlab since a long time, and migrating to i.e. forgejo would be a big undertaking, with the tons of deeplinks from our docs into the repositories, a bunch of tricked-out CI yamls etc. and we're under a lot of pressure to ship hardware atm, so i can't pick that battle right now :/