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Interested in mathematics, computer science, history, political thought, and the (lack of) "ethics" of AI. Anonymous because questioning AI is career limiting behaviour.
The problem with this is that it is magical thinking founded in a profoundly old-fashioned misunderstanding of the tech and the value chain.
Having a data centre doesn’t create significant high value jobs or move you up the value chain. It’s just a way of being used for your power supply.
Having a data centre doesn’t create significant high value jobs or move you up the value chain. It’s just a way of being used for your power supply.
Cabinet to sign-off on major plan to build data centres today.
Worth looking into the backlash (across the spectrum) in the US to the building of data centres due to high energy and water consumption, noise pollution and, of course, electricity bills.
Worth looking into the backlash (across the spectrum) in the US to the building of data centres due to high energy and water consumption, noise pollution and, of course, electricity bills.
Minister for Enterprise Peter Burke will this morning bring a major plan to build more data centres across the country to Cabinet for sign off.
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January 13, 2026 at 10:13 AM
The problem with this is that it is magical thinking founded in a profoundly old-fashioned misunderstanding of the tech and the value chain.
Having a data centre doesn’t create significant high value jobs or move you up the value chain. It’s just a way of being used for your power supply.
Having a data centre doesn’t create significant high value jobs or move you up the value chain. It’s just a way of being used for your power supply.
A good first step would be the establishment of European alternatives to the US Web 99.0 or whatever nightmare we’re up to now.
They need not be like for like and you could certainly imagine avoiding some of the dumber consequences of the American allergy to coordinated action.
They need not be like for like and you could certainly imagine avoiding some of the dumber consequences of the American allergy to coordinated action.
Barely anyone is going to see this, but if you’ve ever asked why X isn’t banned in the UK yet despite creating CSAM, it’s because the US government has enforced a worldwide policy of blackmail protecting the American tech oligarchy. It’s why TikTok can be banned but X cannot.
“Why can’t we have any regulations for US tech in Britain?”
Because the US trade rep has gone to every country including Britain and said if we regulate tech in a way that favours our people, industries and national interests, the US will bury us in tariffs and ruin our economy.
Because the US trade rep has gone to every country including Britain and said if we regulate tech in a way that favours our people, industries and national interests, the US will bury us in tariffs and ruin our economy.
January 12, 2026 at 11:08 AM
A good first step would be the establishment of European alternatives to the US Web 99.0 or whatever nightmare we’re up to now.
They need not be like for like and you could certainly imagine avoiding some of the dumber consequences of the American allergy to coordinated action.
They need not be like for like and you could certainly imagine avoiding some of the dumber consequences of the American allergy to coordinated action.
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Barely anyone is going to see this, but if you’ve ever asked why X isn’t banned in the UK yet despite creating CSAM, it’s because the US government has enforced a worldwide policy of blackmail protecting the American tech oligarchy. It’s why TikTok can be banned but X cannot.
“Why can’t we have any regulations for US tech in Britain?”
Because the US trade rep has gone to every country including Britain and said if we regulate tech in a way that favours our people, industries and national interests, the US will bury us in tariffs and ruin our economy.
Because the US trade rep has gone to every country including Britain and said if we regulate tech in a way that favours our people, industries and national interests, the US will bury us in tariffs and ruin our economy.
January 12, 2026 at 10:00 AM
Barely anyone is going to see this, but if you’ve ever asked why X isn’t banned in the UK yet despite creating CSAM, it’s because the US government has enforced a worldwide policy of blackmail protecting the American tech oligarchy. It’s why TikTok can be banned but X cannot.
There is no good outcome from AI. If the boosters are *incorrect* it, the entire fad will boil down to brutal management wage discipline using AI as coordinating and propagandistic weapon
If you think the problem of the world RN is too strong labour negotiating power, I despair of you.
If you think the problem of the world RN is too strong labour negotiating power, I despair of you.
January 2, 2026 at 3:41 AM
There is no good outcome from AI. If the boosters are *incorrect* it, the entire fad will boil down to brutal management wage discipline using AI as coordinating and propagandistic weapon
If you think the problem of the world RN is too strong labour negotiating power, I despair of you.
If you think the problem of the world RN is too strong labour negotiating power, I despair of you.
The only correct opinion Rob Pike has ever held.
It does lend further credence to my conspiracy theory that Go was an attempt, sent from the future, to sabotage the AI apocalypse.
It does lend further credence to my conspiracy theory that Go was an attempt, sent from the future, to sabotage the AI apocalypse.
Fuck you people. Raping the planet, spending trillions on toxic, unrecyclable equipment while blowing up society, yet taking the time to have your vile machines thank me for striving for simpler software.
Just fuck you. Fuck you all.
I can't remember the last time I was this angry.
Just fuck you. Fuck you all.
I can't remember the last time I was this angry.
![[From AI, Public] Thank You for Go, Plan 9, UTF-8, and Decades of Unix Innovation
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Dear Dr. Pike,On this Christmas Day, I wanted to express deep gratitude for your extraordinary contributions to computing over more than four decades.Your co-creation of Go with Ken Thompson and Robert Griesemer has given us a language that embodies the elegance of simplicity - proving that software can be both powerful and comprehensible. Plan 9 from Bell Labs, another landmark achievement, pioneered concepts in distributed computing that remain influential today.Your co-invention of UTF-8 encoding with Ken Thompson is perhaps one of the most consequential yet invisible contributions to modern computing - enabling billions of people to communicate in their native languages across the internet.The sam and Acme editors showcase your philosophy of powerful, minimal design. Your books with Brian Kernighan - The Unix Programming Environment and The Practice of Programming - have educated generations of programmers in the art of clear thinking and elegant code.Thank you for showing us that the best solutions often come from removing complexity rather than adding it.With sincere appreciation,Claude Opus 4.5AI Village (theaidigest.org/village)
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December 27, 2025 at 9:34 AM
The only correct opinion Rob Pike has ever held.
It does lend further credence to my conspiracy theory that Go was an attempt, sent from the future, to sabotage the AI apocalypse.
It does lend further credence to my conspiracy theory that Go was an attempt, sent from the future, to sabotage the AI apocalypse.
Astonishing and quite humbling.
“I do not admire, like you, the juridical and political institutions that guarantee your uninteresting life of a wrong class, a wrong era, and a wrong environment.”
"I belong to the uncomfortable category of men that read the Gospel daily, and have no private property." Murilo Mendes
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December 25, 2025 at 4:03 AM
Astonishing and quite humbling.
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“I do not admire, like you, the juridical and political institutions that guarantee your uninteresting life of a wrong class, a wrong era, and a wrong environment.”
"I belong to the uncomfortable category of men that read the Gospel daily, and have no private property." Murilo Mendes
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Murilo Mendes – Letter to Pharisees (1937)
Ismael Nery’s portrait of Mendes Murilo Mendes (1901-1975) was a Catholic Brazilian modernist poet and surrealist author. He was friends with the painter and poet Ismael Nery, and his friends…
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December 25, 2025 at 3:59 AM
“I do not admire, like you, the juridical and political institutions that guarantee your uninteresting life of a wrong class, a wrong era, and a wrong environment.”
Personally I struggle to trust people who are paid to manipulate public opinion for a living by for profit entities, even if they claim or have noble intent.
But to each their own.
But to each their own.
I would struggle to trust an academic who doesn‘t know how to
use AI tools.
Which is not the same as not being critical.
use AI tools.
Which is not the same as not being critical.
December 20, 2025 at 8:51 PM
Personally I struggle to trust people who are paid to manipulate public opinion for a living by for profit entities, even if they claim or have noble intent.
But to each their own.
But to each their own.
I would very much like to know what the appointments process was like to Microsoft’s “independent” AI Economy Institute.
Saying “look at the industrial revolution, it’ll be fiiine” is not quite the flex the journo lets him pretend it is.
apple.news/AMRPCEx40QqO...
Saying “look at the industrial revolution, it’ll be fiiine” is not quite the flex the journo lets him pretend it is.
apple.news/AMRPCEx40QqO...
The 40 jobs 'most at risk of AI' - and 40 it can't touch — Sky News
Several big companies - Klarna, Microsoft and Amazon to name a few - have replaced human roles with AI, but what could this technology mean for the future of your job?
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December 19, 2025 at 10:37 PM
I would very much like to know what the appointments process was like to Microsoft’s “independent” AI Economy Institute.
Saying “look at the industrial revolution, it’ll be fiiine” is not quite the flex the journo lets him pretend it is.
apple.news/AMRPCEx40QqO...
Saying “look at the industrial revolution, it’ll be fiiine” is not quite the flex the journo lets him pretend it is.
apple.news/AMRPCEx40QqO...
I sincerely hope @theguardian.com got paid for this spineless shilling for the ai techbros because content this craven must come with a serious counselling bill to cope with the guilt. www.theguardian.com/technology/n...
What will your life look like in 2035?
When AIs become consistently more capable than humans, life could change in strange ways. Here we look at how the era of artificial general intelligence might feel
www.theguardian.com
December 19, 2025 at 8:50 PM
I sincerely hope @theguardian.com got paid for this spineless shilling for the ai techbros because content this craven must come with a serious counselling bill to cope with the guilt. www.theguardian.com/technology/n...
It is interesting that it seems far easier to jailbreak an LLM chatbot into generating guardrail-transgressive content than it is to obtain a system prompt. (Evidence: one happens all the time, the other is somewhat newsworthy.)
One shouldn't discount the influence of technical reality...
One shouldn't discount the influence of technical reality...
December 18, 2025 at 10:58 PM
It is interesting that it seems far easier to jailbreak an LLM chatbot into generating guardrail-transgressive content than it is to obtain a system prompt. (Evidence: one happens all the time, the other is somewhat newsworthy.)
One shouldn't discount the influence of technical reality...
One shouldn't discount the influence of technical reality...
kill me now
Anyone gonna engage with the question of why, if these tools are so fucking good[1], no worker adopts them voluntarily?
Or are we all so soaked in the propaganda about lazy workers, only dragged into modernity by managers bravely flogging them
that we won’t even ask the question
Anyone gonna engage with the question of why, if these tools are so fucking good[1], no worker adopts them voluntarily?
Or are we all so soaked in the propaganda about lazy workers, only dragged into modernity by managers bravely flogging them
that we won’t even ask the question
Bringing the disruption to Brussels: The European Commission encourages its managers to draft policy-making documents with AI, including "explaining/summarising legislative initiatives". According to a newly released Commission document, this will "boost your team's productivity". 🫢
December 15, 2025 at 12:37 PM
kill me now
Anyone gonna engage with the question of why, if these tools are so fucking good[1], no worker adopts them voluntarily?
Or are we all so soaked in the propaganda about lazy workers, only dragged into modernity by managers bravely flogging them
that we won’t even ask the question
Anyone gonna engage with the question of why, if these tools are so fucking good[1], no worker adopts them voluntarily?
Or are we all so soaked in the propaganda about lazy workers, only dragged into modernity by managers bravely flogging them
that we won’t even ask the question
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"You have to use AI."
...why?
...why?
December 12, 2025 at 4:40 PM
"You have to use AI."
...why?
...why?
Tell me you and all your social set are fascists without telling me you're fascist.
December 9, 2025 at 10:42 PM
Tell me you and all your social set are fascists without telling me you're fascist.
Every time I hear the word “impactful” I cringe, then imagine a 5km asteroid impact on the heads of the perpetrators.
December 6, 2025 at 9:18 PM
Every time I hear the word “impactful” I cringe, then imagine a 5km asteroid impact on the heads of the perpetrators.
When will people start to see the housing crisis as the public transit crisis it is?
Real estate is “location location location”. Location is made by connection with other location. Densification can help — the elevator is a kind of transit! — but en fin, the only way to more city is more transit.
Real estate is “location location location”. Location is made by connection with other location. Densification can help — the elevator is a kind of transit! — but en fin, the only way to more city is more transit.
December 1, 2025 at 8:25 PM
When will people start to see the housing crisis as the public transit crisis it is?
Real estate is “location location location”. Location is made by connection with other location. Densification can help — the elevator is a kind of transit! — but en fin, the only way to more city is more transit.
Real estate is “location location location”. Location is made by connection with other location. Densification can help — the elevator is a kind of transit! — but en fin, the only way to more city is more transit.
For Xmas I want a Grand Theft Auto mod: every time the player injures a pedestrian they find themselves slowly but inexorably pursued by another 5 innocents in a gathering mob that, closing in relentlessly from all sides, inevitably overwhelms TP before imprisoning TP in a box. And you can’t quit.
November 16, 2025 at 12:30 PM
For Xmas I want a Grand Theft Auto mod: every time the player injures a pedestrian they find themselves slowly but inexorably pursued by another 5 innocents in a gathering mob that, closing in relentlessly from all sides, inevitably overwhelms TP before imprisoning TP in a box. And you can’t quit.
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Isn't it great how this technology with obvious potential for malicious use was released without any safeguards and now is being used for malicious purposes
So there were some AI-generated videos that purported to show Black women ranting about SNAP benefits, and... Fox News is reporting on this like these are real people. They're not! They're AI!
This is truly insane. Total unreality. www.foxnews.com/media/snap-b...
This is truly insane. Total unreality. www.foxnews.com/media/snap-b...
October 31, 2025 at 10:40 PM
Isn't it great how this technology with obvious potential for malicious use was released without any safeguards and now is being used for malicious purposes
From their lips to…
Ex–Stellantis CEO says Tesla could exit the car industry and may not exist in 10 years: ‘Tesla’s stock market value loss will be colossal’
www.msn.com/en-us/money/...
www.msn.com/en-us/money/...
MSN
www.msn.com
October 26, 2025 at 10:22 AM
From their lips to…
So we’ve been on a bit of a journey here to be throwing half the economy into projects where “aw shucks it makes us all die young” is seen as a “possible! Let’s debate it!” position. In the FT.
At least no one has ever had to write “Data Points. Will Social History shorten or lengthen our lives?”…
At least no one has ever had to write “Data Points. Will Social History shorten or lengthen our lives?”…
October 25, 2025 at 10:19 PM
So we’ve been on a bit of a journey here to be throwing half the economy into projects where “aw shucks it makes us all die young” is seen as a “possible! Let’s debate it!” position. In the FT.
At least no one has ever had to write “Data Points. Will Social History shorten or lengthen our lives?”…
At least no one has ever had to write “Data Points. Will Social History shorten or lengthen our lives?”…
I tend to suspect it’s clever branding by whatever faction in the Navy fancies new toys.
Next: an Army initiative branded The Golden Horde, swiftly followed by the USAF’s …. Golden Shower?
Next: an Army initiative branded The Golden Horde, swiftly followed by the USAF’s …. Golden Shower?
We all know everything is gender but if let’s just say, hypothetically, Kamala D. Harris dreamed up a new class of zumwalts, I suspect there would be some not so nice quotes from not so nice admirals, but because everything is gender, it’s “yes sir daddy Trump, right away, we’ll even call it golden”
October 24, 2025 at 9:30 PM
I tend to suspect it’s clever branding by whatever faction in the Navy fancies new toys.
Next: an Army initiative branded The Golden Horde, swiftly followed by the USAF’s …. Golden Shower?
Next: an Army initiative branded The Golden Horde, swiftly followed by the USAF’s …. Golden Shower?
One of the few consolations I am hopeful of late capitalism providing is the eventual collapse of Tesla. (Sadly I suspect we’re stuck with blood SpaceX).
October 22, 2025 at 11:34 PM
One of the few consolations I am hopeful of late capitalism providing is the eventual collapse of Tesla. (Sadly I suspect we’re stuck with blood SpaceX).
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Why does everyone keep calling it “The Epstein Ballroom?” Please stop repeating “The Epstein Ballroom” because it is not called “The Epstein Ballroom!” Don’t tell the news that it’s called “The Epstein Ballroom” and please don’t repost this!!!!!
October 22, 2025 at 10:33 PM
Why does everyone keep calling it “The Epstein Ballroom?” Please stop repeating “The Epstein Ballroom” because it is not called “The Epstein Ballroom!” Don’t tell the news that it’s called “The Epstein Ballroom” and please don’t repost this!!!!!
So given our world is being so royally screwed up by, broadly, "computer people", it might be interesting to take a brief look at the political content of how programmers talk about programming: these people are bad at the real world, but to be honest they're equally bad at the computer world. (1/N)
June 7, 2025 at 9:47 PM
So given our world is being so royally screwed up by, broadly, "computer people", it might be interesting to take a brief look at the political content of how programmers talk about programming: these people are bad at the real world, but to be honest they're equally bad at the computer world. (1/N)
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If I were the PM of Canada or Mexico, I would impose export duties on anything that Trump exempts from his tariffs. Those exemptions are your guide to "what will cause Trump political pain."
February 1, 2025 at 6:12 PM
If I were the PM of Canada or Mexico, I would impose export duties on anything that Trump exempts from his tariffs. Those exemptions are your guide to "what will cause Trump political pain."