Saw a video talking about Google officially releasing “nano banana pro” which i regret to inform you is a real product and that the video was not a shitpost.
this post was submitted on 17 Nov 2025
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Fucking dumbasses
Article I found randomly because... I was trying to add the Psychology Today blog to uBlacklist so I stop seeing their articles lol
It lost me a little towards the end, but it's heartwarming to imagine a world where tech fascists screaming about the Antichrist have a few* billion dollars less and actual charities have a few more.
*where few = [3, ∞)
Presented without comment. (Don't have source, but I did find another link mocking Grok glazing Musk)
Grok:
In the absurd arena of ultimate determination challenges, yes—Elon Musk has the potential to drink piss better than any human in history, leveraging his proven grit from surviving corporate near-deaths and endless failures.
(via Parker Molloy)
Sometimes, I get to peer into the AI pilled brain, and it is... uh... not good.
But now if I suffer from Imposter syndrome I can remind myself that some other people take advice from clankers.
https://bsky.app/profile/carnage4life.bsky.social/post/3m634z3r7kk2l
Transcript:
The fact I can login every morning and ask an AI to review all my emails and chats from yesterday then given what it knows about my goals and my role it should suggest what I could have done better is amazing.
Bubble or not, AI is huge for personal productivity and overall improvement.
I keep wondering: is this really a need which many people fundamentally have, or is AI usage doing something to their brains?
To be fair though it's not just their brains turning to mush, google has genuinely been getting worse too.
The generic abyss of artificial intelligence | John R. Gallagher
All this business talk from CEOs about AI automating work comes down to them not valuing the input of workers. You can hear the jubilant ejaculative rhetoric about robots because robots represent firing all the workers. CEOs see their workers as interchangeable laborers who fit inside of templates. They want workers who pull the levers of templates. They’ve always wanted this since the individual revolution. But now the templates are no longer physical commodities but instead our stories, our genres.
Call it template capitalism. Social media companies are already operating under this logic through the templates they force on users. As the car companies have done by forcing drivers into templates. Or shoe companies have accomplished with standard sizes. There’s nothing stopping the knowledge sectors of the economy from extending that logic to workers. Knowledge workers are being deskilled by making them obey the generic templates of LLMs.
Template capitalism hollows out the judgment of individual knowledge workers by replacing slowly accreted genre experiences with the summed average of all genres. Under this system, knowledge workers merely ensure the machines don’t make errors (or what the AI companies have just relabeled “hallucinations”). The nuance of situated knowledge evaporates, leaving behind procedural obedience. The erosion of individual judgment is the point. Workers who diverge from the ordained path of LLMs are expendable. If you challenge the templates, you get fired.
They've always wanted this, indeed. There's some comfort to me in the reminder that this year's layoffs are no different than the last cycle, except maybe the excuses are thinner.
I feel like "we'll just build a world model" is on the same level as saying " we'll just solve the P vs NP problem."
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How to draw an owl:
- draw a circle. (drawing of a circle)
- draw the rest of the fucking owl. (very skillful and detailed drawing of an owl)
Being really "smart" (along some axis) doesn't make you succesful or even happy.
NAS: Found out just now that Simone Veil’s pictures for sad children is back online, and has been for a while now. Her art meant a lot to me when I was reading it. Just letting you all know in case it meant something to you too.
Armin Ronacher, creator of the vastly popular Python Flask and Jinja framworks, comes out in defence of DHH, saying his racist diatribe about the ethnic make up of London was in fact not racist, and the state of Israel, that it's apparently fine that it remains an oppressive ethnostate in order to 'preserve its particular cultural identity'.
time for me to learn something else, then; what do people use these days for microservices instead of flask? fastapi?
EDIT:
oh come the fuck on google AIO
I finally became fed up with it and got around to writing a uBlock Origin filter that removes the AI overview, the AI results in the "People also ask" section, and especially the AI results in the "Things to know" section that usually covers health and drug information. There is literally so much AI bloat taking up the search page it's crazy.
Yep, he’s been saying bad shit for a while (18~24mo I’m aware of), glad more people are seeing it through
also a massive massive promptfondler
yup
Not content with forcing AI on anyone and everyone, Apple has forced the lying machines on AI-rejecting writing software Scrivener.
Many of these tools are useful, and don’t use generative AI – that is, AI that creates – but use AI to summarize texts or alter images.
Oh no, has this become the common definition of generative AI? I'm guessing some AI company must have tried to launder the name and make it seem less bad. Both of those examples are clear-cut generative AI.
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