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Greg Fish @cyberpunksurvivalguide.com · 5h

Yes, the skill sets are changing so much that the same exact skills that were outdated and insufficient in the U.S. are in high demand in India and Eastern Europe, in offices ran by the same exact companies...

Paul McCartne, Elton John and others signed an open letter.

Greg Fish @cyberpunksurvivalguide.com · 5h

All the data says that's not true, but trust me bro?

Automation can definitely take jobs away, but that automation is specific to each company and process, not a generic tool that's supposed to be everything to everyone.

Greg Fish @cyberpunksurvivalguide.com · 8h

By Clegg's logic, the federal laws against meth should be repealed because they harm the profits of gangs and cartels.

The Verge @theverge.com · May 26

Nick Clegg says asking artists for use permission would ‘kill’ the AI industry

buff.ly

Greg Fish @cyberpunksurvivalguide.com · 11h

No, ChatGPT isn't going to steal your job anytime soon. But a lot of AI startups and companies busy laying off millions desperately need you to believe that you're becoming obsolete because of some amazing AI breakthrough...

actually, no, chatbots aren't taking your job

A new study from Yale exposes the lie at the heart of the AI bubble.

how chatbots' lies can get you killed in the middle of nowhere

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Greg Fish @cyberpunksurvivalguide.com · 2d

Chatbots that can supposedly plan a vacation of a lifetime are leaving people stranded, leading them to non-existent locations, and giving them impossible itineraries. And this seems to be a feature, not a bug of this bullshit-as-a-service industry...

And it's not a bug but a feature.

Greg Fish @cyberpunksurvivalguide.com · 2d

Well, the main newspaper in the Soviet Union was called Правда, which means “truth” and North Korea insists on calling itself a democratic republic. So, the more you loudly proclaim to be fair and truthful and free without anyone asking, the more red flags I see…

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Greg Fish @cyberpunksurvivalguide.com · 4d

People just send posts and updates to very common community and security apps that start with 🧊🧊🧊 and if any platform tried to ban any of these apps, Amazon and ADT would be livid.

Betting on the Creator Economy, Syracuse University Opens Academic Center for Podcasters and Influencers

Greg Fish @cyberpunksurvivalguide.com · 4d

Ah, yes, the immensely profitable and stable career of “being a famous person online for a few years” really needed proper credentialing so you can get your foot in the door of… umm… opening a social media account?

"spooky sukkot" daniel s. @self.agency · 4d

Syracuse University, which costs $100,000 per year, has opened a school to give degrees in podcasting and social media influencing 🫥

The shift in course offerings follows a recent decision to pause admission for 20 undergraduate majors, including fine arts and digital humanities.

www.artnews.com

Greg Fish @cyberpunksurvivalguide.com · 5d

The internet was supposed to break the hold of media monopolies and set us free. Instead, it’s trapping us in increasingly toxic cesspools. So, what the hell happened? A conversation with @ahmedbaba.bsky.social…

the broken promise of the early internet

Tech oligarchs tamed the Wild West of the web, but at what cost? From a live chat with friend and colleagues Ahmed Baba.

why peter thiel embraced roko's basilisk

Greg Fish @cyberpunksurvivalguide.com · 7d

Since the mid-1990s, a certain subset of tech people in Silicon Valley have been looking for a god. So, they've decided to build one.

Silicon Valley embraced a new religion. And it borrows quite heavily from an old one.

Greg Fish @cyberpunksurvivalguide.com · 8d

I wish they were used car salesmen. These morons are barely qualified to sell KutCo knives as part of an MLM ran out of a dying strip mall in the Rust Belt.

Greg Fish @cyberpunksurvivalguide.com · 8d

Okay, so pretty much all of America’s generals were summoned so they could be called fat and stupid, and told that they should really be invading cities in the country they’re sworn to protect and killing Americans the president doesn’t like?

Greg Fish @cyberpunksurvivalguide.com · 8d

“I wonder what Creed is up to these days?” is a question no one asked since 2003.

K. Thor Jensen @kthorjensen.bsky.social · 9d

sure would be a shame

how to automate phoning it in with a.i.

Greg Fish @cyberpunksurvivalguide.com · 9d

A lot of people are just phoning it in at work because they have little to no incentive or reward to really apply themselves, just threats. Now, AI is making them even more efficient at mediocrity...

Business are lamenting that workers use generative AI to turn in subpar work, despite giving them every incentive to do so.

Frequent AI chatbot use associated with lower grades among computer science students

Greg Fish @cyberpunksurvivalguide.com · 10d

Not only does mandating AI coding tools actually slow experienced programmers who do intensive work requiring reliable, high performance code, comp sci students who rely on LLMs do worse in their classes and they know it…

While many students find AI chatbots helpful for programming tasks, a recent study suggests a potential downside. The investigation discovered that students who used AI assistants more often in an obj...

www.psypost.org

Greg Fish @cyberpunksurvivalguide.com · 10d

When the president of your country is just an angry old man with Fox News poisoning and can’t tell his own party’s propaganda from reality despite having the resources of a goddamn superpower at his disposal…

obsolete future // chapter 02

Greg Fish @cyberpunksurvivalguide.com · 11d

Things go from weird, to weirder, to scary, to bad, to worse for our curious interstellar explorers… #scifi #fiction

When things go from weird, to weirder, to dangerous, to terrifying all in the span of just a few hours...

Greg Fish @cyberpunksurvivalguide.com · 12d

Yes! I did a whole thing about it on Canadian radio a few years ago and now JWST comes in clutch with a black hole sun!

Glen @vaguebiscuit.bsky.social · 12d

Well don't I feel stupid

A headline about the James Webb Telescope potentially finding a new stellar object dubbed a black hole star

why we really are creatures of habit about two thirds of the time

Greg Fish @cyberpunksurvivalguide.com · 12d

I had a rock bottom opinion of Kirk, but watching the highlights of his memorial service and the week after, I kinda feel bad for the guy. He was murdered and his “friends” acted like hyenas cannibalizing the body of their fallen pack member in a drought. He was a useful NPC to them, that is all.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 13d

REPORTER: Do you think this deal honors Charlie Kirk?

TRUMP: We're doing very well as you know with the trade deals. We're doing very well with China.

Greg Fish @cyberpunksurvivalguide.com · 12d

Yes, we run mostly on auto-pilot day to day. No, that doesn't mean we have no free will or are just meat machines. We just evolved to be more efficient with our mental bandwidth.

Yes, we run mostly on autopilot. We more or less have to.