Flutterby™! (short)

Flutterby™! (short)

Wednesday December 10th, 2025

the real monsters Dan Lyke / comment 0

geekysteven @geekysteven@beige.party

A monsterfucker, but they're just into normal humans cause we're the real monsters

AI is intellectual Viagra Dan Lyke / comment 0

Anthony @abucci@buc.ci

The other day I had the intrusive thought

AI is intellectual Viagra

and it hasn't left me so I am exorcising it here. I'm sorry in advance for any pain this might cause.

Jak2k Dan Lyke / comment 0

If anyone knows the proprietor of https://jak2k.eu, I just got an abuse report from Hetzner regarding what should be a once a day request to two URLs on their site, and I'd love to figure out what's going wrong with that...

push for LLM adoption Dan Lyke / comment 0

💯: Glen Malley @glen_malley@mstdn.ca

"we're seeing an insane push for LLM adoption in all lines of work, however inappropriate, because they directly exploit a cognitive bias to which senior management is vulnerable."

Edit: This is a quote from the last line of Charlie Stross: Barnum's law of CEOs

Tuesday December 9th, 2025

Apple's slow AI pace becomes strength Dan Lyke / comment 0

Was just reading Ed Zitron asking "NVidia isn't Enron, so what is it?", which dives into the fact that they're claiming to be selling chips that don't seem to be getting deployed (which is also interesting in light of that claim not too long ago that OpenAI was locking up silicon otherwise destined for RAM that they weren't necessarily even planning on turning into chips in order to choke out competitors), when this comes across my feed:

Bloomberg (on Yahoo): Apple’s Slow AI Pace Becomes a Strength as Market Grows Weary of Spending

Via Jared White.


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