ThePowerOfGeek

Say what you will about Mike Johnson, but it’s impressive he’s able to say anything with Trump’s toad always in his mouth.

It was a feature specifically requested by Kristi Noem and Corey Lewandowski for their government airplane sexy times. And the developer forgot to remove it.

Well, cheese can be kind of addictive.

But seriously… for fuck’s sake!

Hegseth is gonna be even more angry than born normal when he can’t drive from point a to point b because of this.

Here’s another one based on the general conversation here:

Thou shalt not exploit or abuse a vulnerable person or creature.

Open to some interpretation, of course. But concise enough to cover the brush strokes if those who are obsessed with the Ten Commandments were to really follow through on implementing them.

Work from home

Ah yes, a decision that’s completely within the control of employees, especially in the current job market in most countries. /s

The cruelty is the point.

Interesting that their CTO was also laid off. Makes me wonder if he was deemed ‘AI-hostile’ by others in the C-suite because he was enforcing human employees. But purely conjecture on my part with that.

This is exactly why I just bought a laptop for one of my kids. He’s been asking for one for a while, his birthday is coming up, and sharing my computer is causing some tension. Trying to get ahead of the crazy price hikes that are inevitably coming down the tracks.

And with the indirect repercussions of this whole Iran/oil situation, transportation and freight costs will probably add to this whole pricing mess/exploitation a little.

Those are fair points. They don’t need to block all targeted traffic. They just have to be enough of a threat/pain in the ass for transportation and insurance rates to go up to an uncomfortable level. It’s all about threat and perception.

Sure, the US air force and navy could bomb the shit out of their artillery placements. But given how (relatively) cheap and effective drones are, that might not be as effective as it seems at first.

I’ve been wondering the same thing.

It’s a baller thing to say. But if they’ve lost air superiority (or even if it’s compromised) then it doesn’t mean much.

Does that mean stickers of Trump pointing upwards with a speech bubble saying “I did this!” are going to start appearing at gas pumps?

Interesting article.

I would share this with my colleagues on our ‘AI Discussions’ channel. But I know what the result will be. “Those people just aren’t using the agents correctly”, “they need to provide the agents with moar context!!1!”, “this article is bad because I don’t like what it says”, “those respondents are just lazy or stupid”.

Personally, I’ve noticed this kind of mental exhaustion myself. I’ve tried leaning more heavily into AI usage because my employer encourages it. But it’s usually so damn frustrating.

I’ve found even the better/cutting edge LLMs struggle with basic troubleshooting, even when you provide them with solid context and try to keep the scope limited. Half the time they do great, but the other half they fail pretty spectacularly, and I end up wasting time trying to police/hand-hold them.

And I can’t even rely on these LLMs to reliably perform more menial tasks like formatting CSV data into JSON. They usually just stop the conversion after some arbitrary point, or they fuck up the structure of the output. Again, no matter how much context it detail I provide them.

These are all things some of my colleagues have found as well. Meanwhile, I’m also seeing other people become overly reliant on LLMs/agents, and accept whatever slop they produce as gospel while claiming it as their own work.

And that’s not even covering the knowledge/skill atrophy that I’ve witnessed. A lot of people learn and hone skills through repetition. But overuse of AI kills that opportunity, while offering unreliable immediate results.

I thought 2025 was supposed to be “the moment” for AI PCs. Dell and other manufacturers were sure as hell spamming the shit out of that premise in their incessant online ads. But then it all fell through because of the sagging economy on Main Street, and the fact that many people didn’t like AI being forced down they’re proverbial throats. So yeah, 2026 won’t be any better for this ill-thought out marketing strategy.

And a fairly significant number of people (across the political spectrum) will lap this up and assume he’s telling the truth. Despite the fact that so many other promises have fallen through.

That must be why they are doing okay, haha.

The original creator of Twitter and now creator of Bluesky and whatever this thing that’s falling off the rails is.

Basically another billionaire living in his own little bubble and huffing his own farts too much.

“It’s a very empathetic place,” she says of Reddit. “For my wedding, I’ve found help emotionally, logistically and inspiration-wise.”

Empathetic? Really?! On reddit?!!

Don’t get me wrong, there are a lot of good people still using it. But there are a ton of assholes and trolls poisoning a lot of discussions, deliberately antagonizing people, or derailing conversations with pedantic bullshit.

If she thinks Reddit is empathetic she’d be blown away by most of the Fediverse.