Flutterby™! (short)

Argh. So I have a bunch of videos I've uploaded to YouTube that I don't have the descriptions and titles for. I thought about individually clicking through 70+ videos on a playlist and copy/pasting, but that seemed excessive when I could download that data.

Google just gave me 135 files to download, including all of the original video files with no way to tell what they are from the download link.

Downloading them all out of spite, now.

Woohoo! Got my first "I saw your North Bay Python square dancing talk, I want to talk about gender and learning to call" message.

If it's anything like all of the previous Google products, I figure we get just long enough with this "AI everything" rollout that it becomes not completely annoying, and then they'll cancel it.

That noise you hear is my eyes rolling...

Google for "disregard definition".

Inspired by https://pony.social/@luna/116619787986603053 , I'm getting different Google results for "how many Ls in surveillance capitalism", with different users in the same browser...

Fixing the 500km example image.

More of today's "WTF, Google?"

Just posting some of today's "WTF, Google?"

Edit: Tech Crunch: You can no longer Google the word ‘disregard’

Twelve Ways to Be Wrong About AI-Assisted Coding

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Thinking back to my 20s in rural Tennessee and hearing people talk about how they drove better after a few drinks.

This is a post about AI productivity.

If we can send one crypto-billionaire to Mars, why can't we send them all? SpaceX Taps Crypto Billionaire to Lead First Crewed Mission to Mars

During the live webcast, SpaceX played a video of cryptocurrency billionaire and civilian astronaut Chun Wang speaking from Bouvet Island in the South Atlantic Ocean. Wang, who has gone to space one time before, explained that he will embark on a Starship flyby of the Moon and Mars. SpaceX has not shared a target launch date for the mission, but it could be the world’s first interplanetary human spaceflight.

I'm too tech fatiqued to try to self-host email, but am trying to get confident enough in my new settings to migrate away from Google to Hetzner.

Sigh. Tech is making me tired.

Okay, even if you think that "AI" is gonna bring something useful... Reddit r/TechGawker: Mark Cuban says OpenAI’s trillion-dollar data center bet is doomed because AI processing will get faster, cheaper and more efficient before the spending ever makes sense.

The Register: Gemini accused of 30,000-line code purge and fake recovery report. I mean, it's the usual The Reg snark, but the Reddit thread of people dissecting why the slot machine strategy prompts failed is super super sad.

Which leads to a couple of Fediverse posts for the morning. mhoye @mhoye@cosocial.ca

Seeing people I respect calling their development process "arguing with chatbots" now is really getting kind of sad. There's no agency there, man, there's no choice. There's no understanding. You're standing at the craps table in a plausible-syntax casino, telling the dice they're wrong and to try again. Of course the house is winning.

Primo @Primo@donphan.social

@AnarchoNinaWrites either LLMs are capable of doing what is advertised, and them it's impossible to be left behind, or it isn't capable and then it's not worth not falling behind.
Where some guy came up with a bet that has favourible odds for believing in god, the LLM hype is a bet with favourable odds for disbelief.

Danielle Foré @danirabbit@mastodon.online

We’ve pushed young people completely out of our public physical spaces and now they’re getting pushed out of our digital spaces as well. Where are they supposed to go?

How America Turned Against AI According to the Poll Data: A (Very Big) Compilation

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