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• Post #4515194

  “Anthropic watermarks AI output — and the AI bros yell – Pivot to AI” https://pivot-to-ai.com/2026/08/17/anthropic-watermarks-ai-output-and-the-ai-bros-yell/ Watching all of this unfold has been kind of funny.

• Post #4509333

  Your semi-regular reminder that given the size and extent of the “AI” bubble it’s an absolute certainty that fraud is involved in it somewhere. We don’t know the scale or location of the fraud but you simply do not get a trillion-dollar bubble without fraud, both financial and in information/discourse And all that fraud is going to be lined up supporting “AI”. Calibrate your scepticism accordingly.

• Post #4500456

  “The only reason you’ll ever need not to write with AI — The Carlson Lab” https://www.carlsonlab.bio/thoughts/the-only-reason-youll-ever-need-not-to-write-with-ai > Using generative AI inherently exposes you to the risk of career-ending accusations of plagiarism. This should have been the final word on using these tools for writing, but some people think being accidentally labelled as an "AI" sceptic is a bigger risk to their reputation

• Post #4445925

  RE: https://mastodon.social/@freakonometrics/117054108271195109 “The Gargantuan Lie That is Collapsing The World’s Climate” https://www.currentaffairs.org/news/the-massive-climate-lie-that-will-destroy-human-civilization > This massive lie can best be summed up as “when it comes to climate change... we have more time.” This is actually the main reason I'm so angry about the "AI" bubble. All this enormous effort could have been spent combatting the climate crisis and the oppo...

• Post #4435961

  That feeling when you see people get away with only criticising the perceived overreach of those against "AI" but never those promoting it; somehow managing to look "impartial" while making money advising companies on "AI" You just know they'll come out of the other end of this bubble squeaky clean One of the downsides of having known a lot of consultants is an intimate familiarity with polished and accomplished dishonesty.

• Post #4347419

  That EU nations are aggressively turning on and threatening each other at every opportunity and refuse to come to each others aid during crises, right as Icelanders are preparing to vote on a referendum on whether to reopen EU application negotiations, sure is great timing /s

• Post #4313854

  People love RSS for the same reasons hikers love a good path. It isn't the packed dirt or gravel they're fond of, but the view it takes them through.

• Post #4241875

  Starting to see posts and videos from dev/UX people along the lines of "AI works really well but for completely unrelated reasons I now hate my job, am feeling lost and burned out, and am planning to leave the industry" Too bad nobody tried to warn them and got repeatedly ignored or dismissed /s 🤷‍♂️

• Post #4202571

  “I Hate Adobe” https://aftermath.site/i-hate-adobe/ Yeah. Same.

• Post #4194474

  “Support Pivot to AI — video previews, patron name reads, T-shirts! – Pivot to AI” https://pivot-to-ai.com/2026/07/28/support-pivot-to-ai-video-previews-patron-name-reads-t-shirts/

• Post #4159631

  People keep using the "can't put a genie back in the bottle" metaphor for "AI", even though in the stories they always get back in and current "AI" is more of a "we're spending trillions of dollars and the energy output of a continent trying to keep this bastard out of the bottle" situation

• Post #4136003

  I see English-language media is covering the upcoming referendum in Iceland—“do you want to reopen talks to join the EU"—without much context. This is understandable as Icelanders generally deliberately withhold that context to manage Iceland's image So...

• Post #4118956

  So this is a very short quick and dirty, if a bit silly, video where I talk about the place I'm in with the photos I just took, laid out over the audio.

• Post #4118778

  Ceci n'est pas une pipe

• Post #4109718

  I find the defensive panic of US ‘AI’ enthusiasts in response to the use of Chinese models kind of comforting “Look, if you actually do the numbers, the Chinese models aren’t cheaper!” You don’t say. Really? Do you mean to say that they aren’t going to make this whole house of cards sustainable after the bubble pops?

• Post #4085193

  Weekend confession time: One of the reasons why I’m extra sceptical of the various enthusiastic “AI” critics who manage somehow to sound vociferously critical of “AI” without actually criticising the tech itself and somehow remain eternally ignorant of the many contributions women (and specifically women) have made to the field of “AI” and “AI” criticism, is I keep asking myself: Which these verbiage lovers will turn out to be the Matt Taibbi of “AI” critics?

• Post #4081178

  In my humble opinion, many instances of ‘writer’s block’ are in fact ADHD or autistic burnout. Writing as a job is more forgiving of neurodivergence than most, so many writers are basically subsisting on caffeine and anxiety until they hit a brick wall and their executive function collapses Which would mean that reading up on neurodivergent burnout is more likely to help get over a writer’s block than the fluff you find in books or blogs on creativity

• Post #4060485

  “AI vendors are destroying rare books to feed the chatbot – Pivot to AI” https://pivot-to-ai.com/2026/07/23/ai-vendors-are-destroying-rare-books-to-feed-the-chatbot/

• Post #4033004

  “Whose freedom is it anyway?” https://collectivefutures.blog/whose-freedom-is-it-anyway/ > A thing that delivers what it promises does not usually need this much law bent in its favor. These are not the manoeuvres of a technology that wins arguments. They are the manoeuvres of a project that has to remove the public's capacity to refuse it before it can proceed.

• Post #4008900

  One disconcerting thing I encounter when working on projects with LLM users: their models do find some bugs (though also a tonne of stuff in the ‘that’s not a bug, that’s just software” category) but the explanations are often bullshit. As in, they misrepresent how the code works. The bug, though it exists, isn’t as described and the proposed fix would just make things worse The understanding of anybody relying on these tools, AFAICT, could slowly drift away from factual reality of the code

• Post #3993891

  Watched “The Day the Earth Caught Fire” and somehow a 1960s disaster movie on the world getting destroyed by a global climate crisis created by human arrogance manages to feel relevant and impactful today I hope for his sake that Val Guest never imagined that his anti-bomb parable based on a ridiculous premise would continue to be relevant 60 years later

• Post #3936054

  Experiments with media (or, iterating towards a podcast, maybe?): https://www.baldurbjarnason.com/2026/experiments-with-media/

• Post #3924339

  Foggy pasture #nature #iceland

• Post #3919889

  RE: https://mastodon.functional.computer/@samir/116911468297484877 “LLMs can't program ❤︎ samir : coffee → nonsense” https://functional.computer/blog/llms-cant-program > And the code? The code is trash. Not even slightly trash; it’s beyond repair. I am no longer shocked that I hear a new story every week about catastrophic bugs being introduced by LLMs, at a rate far greater than humans ever could.

• Post #3805946

  So, photographers not getting paid for their photos used via the stock image feature of Canva is apparently a thing https://www.ruv.is/frettir/menning-og-daegurmal/2026-07-14-myndin-farid-vida-an-thess-ad-ljosmyndarinn-fai-kronu-481286 In Icelandic, but honestly you’ve already got the gist of it

• Post #3783161

  Load a website. Click "sign in". "Continue with Email Address. You can sign in if you already have an account, or we will help you create one." I enter the email address "This email address is not available. You may already have an Apple Account associated with this address." The fucking state of software today

• Post #3741322

  Why is Apple so bad at anything that syncs data? I don’t think there’s a single device of theirs that doesn’t regularly just give up on syncing for a while. Why are they so bad at this?

• Post #3714738

  “Brown Professor Suspects Most of His Class Used AI to Cheat” https://www.insidehighered.com/news/faculty/learning-assessment/2026/07/08/brown-professor-suspects-most-his-class-used-ai-cheat Slight caveat: this is an economics course, so I'm guessing many if not most of the students were economics majors, where you're pretty much indoctrinated to always take shortcuts and disdain fields where you don't (hence my animosity to what's effectively the post-truth propaganda arm of a...

• Post #3693086

  “Write – And the sea, Dent” https://anticdent.org/and-the-sea-dent.html > We built the tools that have now enabled extraordinary systems of mediation, centralisation, mediocrity, and mendacity. It sucks.

• Post #3672345

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