Poleth
@poleth.bsky.social
An alien sent to observe humans 🌺🦋🤍
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Poleth
@poleth.bsky.social
· Sep 3
The desktop computer keeps you humble, it reminds you that the cloud is another fragile computer somewhere else... 🌱
Curious to read this book 🌱
Personally, I don't fear AI; I fear the people who want to control it and commercialize it and who are enforcing it on all of us, on top of that, without caring or targeting any of the main social problems we have at present. 🌎🔥
Personally, I don't fear AI; I fear the people who want to control it and commercialize it and who are enforcing it on all of us, on top of that, without caring or targeting any of the main social problems we have at present. 🌎🔥
The ebook version of Why We Fear AI is currently on sale for just $5 directly at the publisher! @commonnotions.bsky.social
Why We Fear AI — Common Notions Press
Fears about AI tell us more about capitalism today than the technology of the future.
www.commonnotions.org
December 4, 2025 at 8:26 PM
Curious to read this book 🌱
Personally, I don't fear AI; I fear the people who want to control it and commercialize it and who are enforcing it on all of us, on top of that, without caring or targeting any of the main social problems we have at present. 🌎🔥
Personally, I don't fear AI; I fear the people who want to control it and commercialize it and who are enforcing it on all of us, on top of that, without caring or targeting any of the main social problems we have at present. 🌎🔥
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Misinformation is one of the world's biggest threats to public health. And governments are not doing enough to protect us.
Social media companies should be held accountable for spreading harmful misinformation in that same way we hold manufacturers responsible for spreading harmful chemicals.
Social media companies should be held accountable for spreading harmful misinformation in that same way we hold manufacturers responsible for spreading harmful chemicals.
November 24, 2025 at 10:28 AM
Misinformation is one of the world's biggest threats to public health. And governments are not doing enough to protect us.
Social media companies should be held accountable for spreading harmful misinformation in that same way we hold manufacturers responsible for spreading harmful chemicals.
Social media companies should be held accountable for spreading harmful misinformation in that same way we hold manufacturers responsible for spreading harmful chemicals.
A company that set itself sales targets on products that (now clearly) nobody needs or wants.
I do hope keep reading that people stopped buying the trash that most companies want to force on us… “Viva la résistance!” 🙌
I do hope keep reading that people stopped buying the trash that most companies want to force on us… “Viva la résistance!” 🙌
December 3, 2025 at 4:09 PM
A company that set itself sales targets on products that (now clearly) nobody needs or wants.
I do hope keep reading that people stopped buying the trash that most companies want to force on us… “Viva la résistance!” 🙌
I do hope keep reading that people stopped buying the trash that most companies want to force on us… “Viva la résistance!” 🙌
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This is wild to me. “Customers resist products” - in what universe have we made companies so powerful that they can unilaterally force their products on us like we’re some kind of lower type animal?
$MSFT - Microsoft Lowers Ai Software Sales Quotas as Customers Resist Newer Products
December 3, 2025 at 2:09 PM
This is wild to me. “Customers resist products” - in what universe have we made companies so powerful that they can unilaterally force their products on us like we’re some kind of lower type animal?
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I think this also has to do with how executives are "big picture" people, who don't fuss over details. So maybe they care less about the issues with AI making up shit, because it doesn't have as much impact for them? While the lower ranks are expected to get the details right?
November 28, 2025 at 11:21 AM
I think this also has to do with how executives are "big picture" people, who don't fuss over details. So maybe they care less about the issues with AI making up shit, because it doesn't have as much impact for them? While the lower ranks are expected to get the details right?
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There is a direct correlation between how fake your job is and how much value you see in AI
A study by Dayforce shows 87% of executives use AI for work, compared to 57% of managers and just 27% of employees.
I think this explains the massive disconnect we see in how CEOs talk about AI versus everyone else. It also raises the question of how useful it truly is for frontline work?
I think this explains the massive disconnect we see in how CEOs talk about AI versus everyone else. It also raises the question of how useful it truly is for frontline work?
Execs are embracing AI more than their employees are, new research suggests
Research from HR software company Dayforce suggests that executives are leaning into AI far more than their employees.
www.businessinsider.com
November 29, 2025 at 4:28 PM
There is a direct correlation between how fake your job is and how much value you see in AI
I don’t have prime and I don’t buy at Amazon since 7 years ago. I also rarely buy online.
2 years inside Amazon were enough to me to understand how evil that place is.
There’s also a great recent deutsche-welle documentary about its exploitative practices with vendors youtu.be/6r3x2t872Pc?...
2 years inside Amazon were enough to me to understand how evil that place is.
There’s also a great recent deutsche-welle documentary about its exploitative practices with vendors youtu.be/6r3x2t872Pc?...
November 28, 2025 at 3:53 PM
I don’t have prime and I don’t buy at Amazon since 7 years ago. I also rarely buy online.
2 years inside Amazon were enough to me to understand how evil that place is.
There’s also a great recent deutsche-welle documentary about its exploitative practices with vendors youtu.be/6r3x2t872Pc?...
2 years inside Amazon were enough to me to understand how evil that place is.
There’s also a great recent deutsche-welle documentary about its exploitative practices with vendors youtu.be/6r3x2t872Pc?...
Same
I don’t know if anyone else notices or cares, but when I see a presentation in which the speaker uses obviously generated-AI images to illustrate their slides, it makes me immediately less confident in whatever other content they’re presenting.
November 28, 2025 at 3:35 PM
Same
Sometimes, being a woman in tech means patiently waiting after having proposed the correct solution to a problem from the beginning, but being ignored for about five hours, even if you keep repeating the same, until everyone else discovers the solution you mentioned earlier in the conversation ☺️🌸💕💅🏼
a woman is laying on a bed with a pillow and a ring on her finger and the words `` just waiting '' .
ALT: a woman is laying on a bed with a pillow and a ring on her finger and the words `` just waiting '' .
media.tenor.com
November 26, 2025 at 9:53 PM
Sometimes, being a woman in tech means patiently waiting after having proposed the correct solution to a problem from the beginning, but being ignored for about five hours, even if you keep repeating the same, until everyone else discovers the solution you mentioned earlier in the conversation ☺️🌸💕💅🏼
Sunrise at King Street Station, Seattle WA
November 25, 2025 at 11:35 PM
Sunrise at King Street Station, Seattle WA
I think it’s sad when I see people getting anxious during Christmas 🎄 season for the pressure it puts on them.
Buying all the presents. Cooking things they don’t like for people they don’t like. Having the perfect holiday trip. Don't miss the offers. Start thinking on New Year’s resolutions…
🧵
Buying all the presents. Cooking things they don’t like for people they don’t like. Having the perfect holiday trip. Don't miss the offers. Start thinking on New Year’s resolutions…
🧵
November 25, 2025 at 11:26 PM
I think it’s sad when I see people getting anxious during Christmas 🎄 season for the pressure it puts on them.
Buying all the presents. Cooking things they don’t like for people they don’t like. Having the perfect holiday trip. Don't miss the offers. Start thinking on New Year’s resolutions…
🧵
Buying all the presents. Cooking things they don’t like for people they don’t like. Having the perfect holiday trip. Don't miss the offers. Start thinking on New Year’s resolutions…
🧵
En un futuro, si logramos eliminar la mentalidad de esclavos y/o “ponerse la camiseta”, nos aterrará recordar que gente en la oficina veía mal que alguien tomara 1 hora durante el trabajo para salir a correr o ir al gym pero veía bien quedarse hasta tarde en la oficina en largas jornadas de trabajo.
November 24, 2025 at 7:55 PM
En un futuro, si logramos eliminar la mentalidad de esclavos y/o “ponerse la camiseta”, nos aterrará recordar que gente en la oficina veía mal que alguien tomara 1 hora durante el trabajo para salir a correr o ir al gym pero veía bien quedarse hasta tarde en la oficina en largas jornadas de trabajo.
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One of my ongoing frustrations with software engineering as a professional practice is that LLMs were in no way the thing that caused this (though they do exacerbate it). Every company I’ve seen in my career fetishized producing solution-shaped objects for problems they didn’t (care to) understand.
"writing code to solve a problem" used to have "understanding the problem" as a prerequisite. but vibecoding allows solution-shaped objects to be produced without any of the hard-won understanding. beware of solution-shaped objects.
November 24, 2025 at 3:28 PM
One of my ongoing frustrations with software engineering as a professional practice is that LLMs were in no way the thing that caused this (though they do exacerbate it). Every company I’ve seen in my career fetishized producing solution-shaped objects for problems they didn’t (care to) understand.
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"At Oran, as elsewhere, for lack of time and thinking, people have to love one another without knowing much about it."
The Plague, Albert Camus
The Plague, Albert Camus
November 23, 2025 at 11:26 PM
"At Oran, as elsewhere, for lack of time and thinking, people have to love one another without knowing much about it."
The Plague, Albert Camus
The Plague, Albert Camus
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DOGE did not fail in any way to accomplish its goals.
Its goals were never efficiency or saving money.
Its goals were to destroy as much of government as possible forever, and to steal data for the Space Nazi.
DOGE is fading away like bank robbery gangs fade away after the robberies are done.
Its goals were never efficiency or saving money.
Its goals were to destroy as much of government as possible forever, and to steal data for the Space Nazi.
DOGE is fading away like bank robbery gangs fade away after the robberies are done.
Exclusive: DOGE 'doesn't exist' with eight months left on its charter reut.rs/4abeTdx
Exclusive: DOGE 'doesn't exist' with eight months left on its charter
The Department of Government Efficiency claimed to have slashed tens of billions of dollars in expenditures, but it was impossible for outside financial experts to verify that because the unit did not provide detailed public accounting of its work.
reut.rs
November 23, 2025 at 12:26 PM
DOGE did not fail in any way to accomplish its goals.
Its goals were never efficiency or saving money.
Its goals were to destroy as much of government as possible forever, and to steal data for the Space Nazi.
DOGE is fading away like bank robbery gangs fade away after the robberies are done.
Its goals were never efficiency or saving money.
Its goals were to destroy as much of government as possible forever, and to steal data for the Space Nazi.
DOGE is fading away like bank robbery gangs fade away after the robberies are done.
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moments of positive morale and communal enjoyment are worth it for their own sake
November 21, 2025 at 10:59 PM
moments of positive morale and communal enjoyment are worth it for their own sake
Hoy recordé la importancia de respirar y recordar mantener la calma y la mente fría cuándo tenemos la, usualmente desgracia, de estar frente a un bully, especialmente uno obsesionado con destruir. 😌
Cosa nada fácil y que requiere trabajo constante en uno mismo para aprender a estar en paz. 💚🌱
Cosa nada fácil y que requiere trabajo constante en uno mismo para aprender a estar en paz. 💚🌱
November 21, 2025 at 11:26 PM
Hoy recordé la importancia de respirar y recordar mantener la calma y la mente fría cuándo tenemos la, usualmente desgracia, de estar frente a un bully, especialmente uno obsesionado con destruir. 😌
Cosa nada fácil y que requiere trabajo constante en uno mismo para aprender a estar en paz. 💚🌱
Cosa nada fácil y que requiere trabajo constante en uno mismo para aprender a estar en paz. 💚🌱
hahaha.... ❤️
November 21, 2025 at 10:45 PM
hahaha.... ❤️
Mientras no tengamos robots autónomos que vengan a limpiar mi casa o a lavar y acomodar mi ropa, yo creo que trabajar en redes, dispositivos e infraestructura suena seguro.
Podrán "crear" apps con un prompt, pero si un cable se desconecta o una máquina se sobrecalienta, el prompt no va a ayudar... 🌼
Podrán "crear" apps con un prompt, pero si un cable se desconecta o una máquina se sobrecalienta, el prompt no va a ayudar... 🌼
a black and white photo of a woman wearing a turtleneck sweater and a dress .
ALT: a black and white photo of a woman wearing a turtleneck sweater and a dress .
media.tenor.com
November 21, 2025 at 10:35 PM
Mientras no tengamos robots autónomos que vengan a limpiar mi casa o a lavar y acomodar mi ropa, yo creo que trabajar en redes, dispositivos e infraestructura suena seguro.
Podrán "crear" apps con un prompt, pero si un cable se desconecta o una máquina se sobrecalienta, el prompt no va a ayudar... 🌼
Podrán "crear" apps con un prompt, pero si un cable se desconecta o una máquina se sobrecalienta, el prompt no va a ayudar... 🌼
Me learning about diVine, “and other stuff”, Nostr
jack dorsey but it’s not profit.
The head of engineering at truth social is part of the nonprofit but projects are about open source.
They promote AI to create software with a single prompt but also promote decentralization and collaboration 😮💨
jack dorsey but it’s not profit.
The head of engineering at truth social is part of the nonprofit but projects are about open source.
They promote AI to create software with a single prompt but also promote decentralization and collaboration 😮💨
November 20, 2025 at 8:35 PM
Me learning about diVine, “and other stuff”, Nostr
jack dorsey but it’s not profit.
The head of engineering at truth social is part of the nonprofit but projects are about open source.
They promote AI to create software with a single prompt but also promote decentralization and collaboration 😮💨
jack dorsey but it’s not profit.
The head of engineering at truth social is part of the nonprofit but projects are about open source.
They promote AI to create software with a single prompt but also promote decentralization and collaboration 😮💨
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Jack Dorsey is real close to Musk.
DiVine is made by RabbleLabs, on their site you will find a widget called "And Other Things" that takes you to another domain and explains a lot of stuff about their/Nostr's Ai.
Most likely they just want a free dataset of tons of actual videos to train on.
DiVine is made by RabbleLabs, on their site you will find a widget called "And Other Things" that takes you to another domain and explains a lot of stuff about their/Nostr's Ai.
Most likely they just want a free dataset of tons of actual videos to train on.
Oh yeah btw the reason why Vine is being relaunched with great fanfare and no Al is because it's jointly operated with an Al company and they probably don;t want to pollute their scrap pile with stuff they've already shat out.
November 17, 2025 at 9:47 PM
Jack Dorsey is real close to Musk.
DiVine is made by RabbleLabs, on their site you will find a widget called "And Other Things" that takes you to another domain and explains a lot of stuff about their/Nostr's Ai.
Most likely they just want a free dataset of tons of actual videos to train on.
DiVine is made by RabbleLabs, on their site you will find a widget called "And Other Things" that takes you to another domain and explains a lot of stuff about their/Nostr's Ai.
Most likely they just want a free dataset of tons of actual videos to train on.
Haha… es confuso, muy confuso…
November 20, 2025 at 3:39 PM
Haha… es confuso, muy confuso…
El único programa drag que veo acaba de eliminar a quien opino era la participante más fuerte con increíble talento artístico, creatividad y carisma, su nombre Nayla Downs 💚 lo anterior además a través de odio y envidia.
Una pena. Ojalá ya se deje de dar foco a todo lo que promueva odio y bullying.
Una pena. Ojalá ya se deje de dar foco a todo lo que promueva odio y bullying.
November 20, 2025 at 2:17 AM
El único programa drag que veo acaba de eliminar a quien opino era la participante más fuerte con increíble talento artístico, creatividad y carisma, su nombre Nayla Downs 💚 lo anterior además a través de odio y envidia.
Una pena. Ojalá ya se deje de dar foco a todo lo que promueva odio y bullying.
Una pena. Ojalá ya se deje de dar foco a todo lo que promueva odio y bullying.