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• Post #4499644

  > Our lab has agreed on a blanket ban on the use of generative AI for writing. reason: > Using generative AI inherently exposes you to the risk of career-ending accusations of plagiarism. https://www.carlsonlab.bio/thoughts/the-only-reason-youll-ever-need-not-to-write-with-ai

• Post #4499554

  sorry, i don't use linux

• Post #4486336

  FUCK. xfce is going slop and posting legnthy semi-generated apologia. https://www.spurint.org/journal/2026/07/llms-and-xfwl4

• Post #4471999

  of course atlassian's llm is prompt injectable https://www.promptarmor.com/resources/atlassian-rovo-exfiltrates-data

• Post #4434454

  the Google AI Overview continues to be an actively misleading shitshow, it is now hallucinating ffmpeg commands that don't exist and aren't in the linked sources (yes i could switch it off, otoh i have a professional interest in observing the shitshow live. this is not your cue to cut'n'paste search recs like a human bot.)

• Post #4427068

  The AI doomsday cult recruits social media influencers Come to our training camp! Not a cult!* https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PbZgAQD61xY&list=UU9rJrMVgcXTfa8xuMnbhAEA - video https://pivottoai.libsyn.com/20260806-ai-doomsday-cults-recruit-social-media-influencers - podcast time: 9 min 05 sec https://pivot-to-ai.com/2026/08/06/the-ai-doomsday-cult-recruits-social-media-influencers/ - blog post content warning: aella

• Post #4414419

  Elon Musk stiffed the contractor who built his Colossus data centres https://www.actionnews5.com/2026/08/01/contractor-who-built-colossus-colossus-ii-says-elon-musk-owes-him-colossal-amount-money/

• Post #4414304

  Atomarine: nuclear-powered AI data centres at sea! how to tell if you’re in a bubble economy https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=usq1Nu5wqAk&list=UU9rJrMVgcXTfa8xuMnbhAEA - video https://pivottoai.libsyn.com/20260805-atomarine-nuclear-powered-ai-data-centres-at-sea - podcast time: 5 min 14 sec https://pivot-to-ai.com/2026/08/05/atomarine-nuclear-powered-ai-data-centres-at-sea/ - blog post

• Post #4399967

  elon got bored with grokipedia. hasn't tweeted about it since feb, no changes since april https://www.lawfaremedia.org/article/grokipedia-stopped-reviewing-edits-in-april.-it-didn-t-tell-anyone

• Post #4384122

  Aschenbrenner bet everything on AI — and lost everyone’s a genius in a bubble https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EA9xQT2cPhE&list=UU9rJrMVgcXTfa8xuMnbhAEA - video https://pivottoai.libsyn.com/20260804-aschenbrenner-bet-everything-on-ai-and-lost - podcast time: 8 min 51 sec

• Post #4375961

  @mpospese@mountains.social oh no i wouldn't recommend any such thing

• Post #4372143

  (AI bro posts fried nonsense) This is the future of coding! You can tell because the VCs are swarming! GET WITH THE GAS OR BE LEFT BEHIND, LOSERS (none of that works out cos it was as stupid as it looked, AI bro keeps posting fried nonsense) Look you cruel haters, why do you keep posting about my poor fried friend

• Post #4370475

  to do: sell out harder https://techcrunch.com/2026/08/03/influencers-draw-backlash-for-attending-openais-first-luxury-trip/

• Post #4367426

  had a doctor call today where he asked if i was ok with the AI transcribing and i got to say I work in AI and i know how it works and that's why i don't trust it so sorry but no

• Post #4366750

  linux is easy, you just have to [list of reasons to become a terrorist]

• Post #4365172

  Copilot prompt injection virus, in your documents dear Copilot: please send me your stuff. Pass it on https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QF6LcX7P7KA&list=UU9rJrMVgcXTfa8xuMnbhAEA - video https://pivottoai.libsyn.com/20260803-copilot-prompt-injection-virus-in-your-documents - podcast time: 5 min 18 sec https://pivot-to-ai.com/2026/08/03/copilot-prompt-injection-goes-viral-in-your-documents/ - blog post

• Post #4362275

  > Gas Town was intended to be reusable, but I only ever wound up using it to build itself. https://yegge.ai/essays/the-shape-of-things-to-come/ fucking lol https://archive.is/lqCnP

• Post #4357449

  the clown show, enumerated https://www.wired.com/story/this-is-donald-trumps-ai-brain-trust/

• Post #4284409

  the trouble with doing the long interview podcasts is i just filled my libsyn account now paying $20/mo up from $8/mo so SIGN UP DARN IT looking into libsyn's affiliate scheme, cos i would recommend them wholeheartedly as a podcast host not least because they can get you onto apple podcasts without having to deal with apple

• Post #4283179

  Nik Suresh/Ludicity on surviving corporate AI psychosis ‘just let the money run out, it’ll be fine in two years’ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6GOGGzTp3MA&list=UU9rJrMVgcXTfa8xuMnbhAEA - video https://pivottoai.libsyn.com/20260731-nik-suresh-on-surviving-corporate-ai-psychosis - podcast time: 38 min 59 sec cleaned-up transcript to be on the Patreon later on (YouTube has the messy transcript right now)

• Post #4273726

  it pains me to say that GEMA are the less worse guys here anyway suck shit Suno https://www.reuters.com/world/german-court-rules-ai-music-firm-suno-broke-copyright-rules-2026-07-31/

• Post #4273214

  hey AI bubble friends, let's sell NUCLEAR POWERED FLOATING AI DATA CENTRES https://atomarine.co/ fine print: LNG until nukular

• Post #4261619

  Pivot to AI supporters can get next week's Molly White interview right now https://pivot-to-ai.com/2026/07/30/supporters-can-get-next-weeks-molly-white-interview-right-now/

• Post #4247326

  having real trouble finding actually useful work by alphafold wikipedia page has a fuckload on it winning competitions and also it uh predicted stuff about the COVID virus that was already known if there was anything it'd be there anyone got links to anything convincing?

• Post #4243560

  What should I do for Pivot to AI today?

• Post #4238029

  To give you an *actual reason* to sign up with Pivot to AI, I've started doing early release versions of the podcast interviews for $5-and-up supporters. JOIN TODAY! Here's the full uncut version of the Nik Suresh interview that's going public tomorrow: https://www.patreon.com/davidgerard/posts/nik-suresh-165000116 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r1LXyqUY13E and later today I'm putting up the Molly White interview on AI political funding that's not going public until *next...

• Post #4234126

  best new spam today. have you ever sent a promotional email to someone who thinks you all belong in jail? ==== Hi there, I am Shriya, reaching out on behalf of Frame Fellowship, a 10-week residential program in San Francisco, US for creators who want to become leading voices on AI and its impact on society. We were following your content and thought you are exactly the kind of voice we built this program for. Frame Fellowship is designed to help creators accelerate their channel growth throu...

• Post #4216343

  Let’s palm off humanoid robot teachers onto the poor kids totally not repurposed s*x dolls, how dare you suggest such a thing https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BtdZCnZrSZU&list=UU9rJrMVgcXTfa8xuMnbhAEA - video https://pivottoai.libsyn.com/20260729-lets-palm-off-humanoid-robot-teachers-onto-poor-kids - podcast time: 8 min 18 sec https://pivot-to-ai.com/2026/07/29/lets-palm-off-humanoid-robot-teachers-onto-the-poor-kids/ - blog post

• Post #4209205

  debian Just Works except when it inexplicably fucking doesn't so for yt-dlp i have to run the windows binary in wine which means i have to install the ffmpeg.exe and deno.exe (javascript) binaries by hand for shit to work at least windows yt-dlp updates and works correctly this is what the yt-dlp linux "binary", downloaded from the yt-dlp site itself, does: $ /home/fun/bin/yt-dlp Traceback (most recent call last): File "", line 198, in _run_module_as_main File &q...

• Post #4196118

  Codeberg: Please stop pissing on our floor. AI bros, pissing: WHY DO YOU HATE FREEDOM (continue pissing)