Ed F Types
@edfinnerty.bsky.social
I'm a Byliner. No clearly identified human author/artist, no sale, no read, no view, no click. Pretty sure my meager follower count is inflated by bots and scammers. I do not maintain my posting history.
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Ed F Types
@edfinnerty.bsky.social
· Oct 4
I feel like this is somehow risky to say, but it shouldn't be: I cannot possibly care deeply about every issue. I cannot possibly be informed about every issue. Nobody can. I'd rather be honest than performative. I'd rather read what those who do care have to say and keep my mouth shut.
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This is a excellent data point for the Wins Are Not a QB Stat community
Last year Sam Darnold was 14-3 with the Vikings. This year he's 13-3 with the Seahawks. He's the first QB in NFL history to have back-to-back 13-win seasons while playing for two different teams.
www.nbcsports.com/nfl/profootb...
www.nbcsports.com/nfl/profootb...
Sam Darnold is the first QB with back-to-back 13-win seasons on two different teams
Sam Darnold just keeps winning.
www.nbcsports.com
January 4, 2026 at 3:49 PM
This is a excellent data point for the Wins Are Not a QB Stat community
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SFWA is trying to manufacture consent for chatbots again
you know what to do
www.sfwa.org/sfwa-survey-...
you know what to do
www.sfwa.org/sfwa-survey-...
SFWA Survey on LLM Use in Industry - SFWA - The Science Fiction & Fantasy Writers Association
Thank you for participating in this survey. The data collected here is preliminary, not definitive, but it will help to […]
www.sfwa.org
January 4, 2026 at 3:57 PM
SFWA is trying to manufacture consent for chatbots again
you know what to do
www.sfwa.org/sfwa-survey-...
you know what to do
www.sfwa.org/sfwa-survey-...
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A recurring “AI” evangelist tactic is using it for tasks that were already solved by tech that is more deterministic, faster, and uses less energy, but has been downgraded or de-emphasised in recent years by software companies
Like, we genuinely used to have better search and spellcheck.
Like, we genuinely used to have better search and spellcheck.
January 4, 2026 at 10:53 AM
A recurring “AI” evangelist tactic is using it for tasks that were already solved by tech that is more deterministic, faster, and uses less energy, but has been downgraded or de-emphasised in recent years by software companies
Like, we genuinely used to have better search and spellcheck.
Like, we genuinely used to have better search and spellcheck.
Google had a video exposing Epstein's long past in financial fraud demonetized. Because of course they did.
Google and Googlers doing what they do best, supporting and enabling the American right wing. That's who they are, top to bottom.
January 4, 2026 at 1:48 PM
Google had a video exposing Epstein's long past in financial fraud demonetized. Because of course they did.
@laurarutledge.bsky.social absolutely crushing it in the pinstripe suit. A professional, sharp look.
December 30, 2025 at 2:39 AM
@laurarutledge.bsky.social absolutely crushing it in the pinstripe suit. A professional, sharp look.
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We have already decided as a society that ChatGPT is allowed to tell people’s kids to kill people. Now we’re just debating who.
December 28, 2025 at 6:27 PM
We have already decided as a society that ChatGPT is allowed to tell people’s kids to kill people. Now we’re just debating who.
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I'd say a bigger trend than LLMs is that Big Tech ran out of ideas years ago and everyone sees it now.
The hyper growth era in US Big Tech is over. They aren't changing the world anymore. They are selling us dumb gadgets with surveillance built in.
Look for growth to come from other countries
The hyper growth era in US Big Tech is over. They aren't changing the world anymore. They are selling us dumb gadgets with surveillance built in.
Look for growth to come from other countries
December 15, 2025 at 3:17 PM
I'd say a bigger trend than LLMs is that Big Tech ran out of ideas years ago and everyone sees it now.
The hyper growth era in US Big Tech is over. They aren't changing the world anymore. They are selling us dumb gadgets with surveillance built in.
Look for growth to come from other countries
The hyper growth era in US Big Tech is over. They aren't changing the world anymore. They are selling us dumb gadgets with surveillance built in.
Look for growth to come from other countries
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And by the way, training your monster on data produced in part by my own hands, without attribution or compensation.
To the others: I apologize to the world at large for my inadvertent, naive if minor role in enabling this assault.
To the others: I apologize to the world at large for my inadvertent, naive if minor role in enabling this assault.
December 25, 2025 at 11:29 PM
And by the way, training your monster on data produced in part by my own hands, without attribution or compensation.
To the others: I apologize to the world at large for my inadvertent, naive if minor role in enabling this assault.
To the others: I apologize to the world at large for my inadvertent, naive if minor role in enabling this assault.
We need a lot more of this from informed technologists.
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)
IMPORTANT NOTICE: You are interacting with an AI system. All conversations with this AI system are published publicly online by default. Do not share information you would prefer to keep private.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:vsgr3rwyckhiavgqzdcuzm6i/bafkreifg5kvowgazg6uwqulfbdvxurqafbcescazwvgcl2catgvlrsc2fi@jpeg)
December 27, 2025 at 1:43 PM
We need a lot more of this from informed technologists.
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I know these assholes are not dumb. They’re making these decisions because they genuinely don’t care. You can’t reason somebody into caring for others.
December 27, 2025 at 10:22 AM
I know these assholes are not dumb. They’re making these decisions because they genuinely don’t care. You can’t reason somebody into caring for others.
Wait. Manti Te'o is a studio analyst now? The guy most famous for being catfished? Who *lost* that audition?
December 25, 2025 at 5:26 PM
Wait. Manti Te'o is a studio analyst now? The guy most famous for being catfished? Who *lost* that audition?
The primary function of the Internet in this moment is to provide a heat sink. People get mad, and instead of doing something, they vent online and go back to normal life. All this shit should be producing something on the spectrum of millions marching monthly, general strikes, or France in 1789.
December 24, 2025 at 4:41 PM
The primary function of the Internet in this moment is to provide a heat sink. People get mad, and instead of doing something, they vent online and go back to normal life. All this shit should be producing something on the spectrum of millions marching monthly, general strikes, or France in 1789.
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So like, yeah, I'm gonna shitpost about how laughably bad the pro-AI position is on the technical merits, but the inhumanity of the pro-AI position on a moral basis is no laughing matter.
December 24, 2025 at 9:45 AM
So like, yeah, I'm gonna shitpost about how laughably bad the pro-AI position is on the technical merits, but the inhumanity of the pro-AI position on a moral basis is no laughing matter.
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I offer Cassandra's Complete Class Theorem¹.
All "good use cases for AI" break down into one of four categories:
I. Bad use case.
II. Good use case, but not something AI can do.
III Good use case, but it's already been done without AI.
IV. Not AI in the LLMs and GANs sense, but in the machine […]
All "good use cases for AI" break down into one of four categories:
I. Bad use case.
II. Good use case, but not something AI can do.
III Good use case, but it's already been done without AI.
IV. Not AI in the LLMs and GANs sense, but in the machine […]
Original post on wandering.shop
wandering.shop
December 24, 2025 at 5:23 AM
I offer Cassandra's Complete Class Theorem¹.
All "good use cases for AI" break down into one of four categories:
I. Bad use case.
II. Good use case, but not something AI can do.
III Good use case, but it's already been done without AI.
IV. Not AI in the LLMs and GANs sense, but in the machine […]
All "good use cases for AI" break down into one of four categories:
I. Bad use case.
II. Good use case, but not something AI can do.
III Good use case, but it's already been done without AI.
IV. Not AI in the LLMs and GANs sense, but in the machine […]
The top of a very, very long list. And that bro-oligarchy is the one Newton and Roose functionally do PR for, lobbing softballs and cheering them on, pretty achy no matter what they do. Metaverse, crypto, water-wasting 'AI' - they never saw a hype cycle they wouldn't uncritically pimp.
What I got most wrong in my 2025 predictions, plus 11 new predictions for 2026 www.platformer.news/2026-tech-pr...
December 23, 2025 at 10:56 PM
The top of a very, very long list. And that bro-oligarchy is the one Newton and Roose functionally do PR for, lobbing softballs and cheering them on, pretty achy no matter what they do. Metaverse, crypto, water-wasting 'AI' - they never saw a hype cycle they wouldn't uncritically pimp.
And Casey's pals cheer it on. This is the world the 'AI' and metaverse and crypto bros want. They're getting it. And he still cheerleads for them.
The US just banned a guy from the country (Imran Ahmed) for pointing out that X is full of hate speech
The US is imposing visa restrictions on five Europeans, including Thierry Breton, accusing them of pressuring US tech companies to censor certain US viewpoints (Fatima Hussein/Associated Press)
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Main Link | Techmeme Permalink
December 23, 2025 at 10:55 PM
And Casey's pals cheer it on. This is the world the 'AI' and metaverse and crypto bros want. They're getting it. And he still cheerleads for them.
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Google is hosting a CBP app that uses facial recognition to identify immigrants, while simultaneously removing apps that report the location of ICE officials because Google sees ICE as a vulnerable group.
Google Has Chosen a Side in Trump's Mass Deportation Effort
Google is hosting a CBP app that uses facial recognition to identify immigrants, while simultaneously removing apps that report the location of ICE officials because Google sees ICE as a vulnerable gr...
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December 23, 2025 at 5:32 PM
Google is hosting a CBP app that uses facial recognition to identify immigrants, while simultaneously removing apps that report the location of ICE officials because Google sees ICE as a vulnerable group.
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You have got to be a straight up ghoul to know what harms you are inflicting and continue working there.
December 23, 2025 at 6:53 PM
You have got to be a straight up ghoul to know what harms you are inflicting and continue working there.
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Exactly this. There are different forms of “AI” many of which do not use LLMs and are just dolled up machine learning with a GUI. The overused cancer cell example is computer vision image analysis predicated on machine learning pattern matching and highly curated data. Not web scraped prompt slop.
December 21, 2025 at 3:39 PM
Exactly this. There are different forms of “AI” many of which do not use LLMs and are just dolled up machine learning with a GUI. The overused cancer cell example is computer vision image analysis predicated on machine learning pattern matching and highly curated data. Not web scraped prompt slop.
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it's so simple to just do the right thing on generative AI, e.g.:
chaos.social/@librewolf/1...
it's not a "grey area" you fucking ghouls
chaos.social/@librewolf/1...
it's not a "grey area" you fucking ghouls
December 21, 2025 at 12:05 AM
it's so simple to just do the right thing on generative AI, e.g.:
chaos.social/@librewolf/1...
it's not a "grey area" you fucking ghouls
chaos.social/@librewolf/1...
it's not a "grey area" you fucking ghouls
Remember when @mozilla.org was even a tiny bit credible and trustworthy? Those were good times.
December 21, 2025 at 12:07 AM
Remember when @mozilla.org was even a tiny bit credible and trustworthy? Those were good times.
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Plus, it does mean they put in development effort, focus and time into all the ai stuff instead of other Browser features. Slows down improvements needlessly. Oh well.
December 19, 2025 at 6:36 AM
Plus, it does mean they put in development effort, focus and time into all the ai stuff instead of other Browser features. Slows down improvements needlessly. Oh well.
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Is there an economic theory as to why seemingly 75% of companies have no idea how to market their products? "You need new insurance for your car and home? To convince you we're the right choice, here is an ostrich wearing sunglasses doing a comedy sketch with Eli Manning."
December 12, 2025 at 7:10 PM
Is there an economic theory as to why seemingly 75% of companies have no idea how to market their products? "You need new insurance for your car and home? To convince you we're the right choice, here is an ostrich wearing sunglasses doing a comedy sketch with Eli Manning."
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Our collective task is not to save tech but to save us, our world.
The resonant computing manifesto is too focused on means and not on ends. And that's basically the core issue. The belief in technological determinism.
The resonant computing manifesto is too focused on means and not on ends. And that's basically the core issue. The belief in technological determinism.
December 6, 2025 at 8:48 PM
Our collective task is not to save tech but to save us, our world.
The resonant computing manifesto is too focused on means and not on ends. And that's basically the core issue. The belief in technological determinism.
The resonant computing manifesto is too focused on means and not on ends. And that's basically the core issue. The belief in technological determinism.