Wow. This is a doozy.

Poka yoke?

It’s also making people deskill.

https://www.thelancet.com/journals/langas/article/PIIS2468-1253(25)00133-5/abstract

Make sure you’re aware of any legal liability implications for content posted by your users.

Tah. Hadn’t seen that before.

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The problem is that people voted for them.

If you ever have a fair and free election again within your lifetime, how do you propose to overcome this demented voting behaviour?

While contemplating that, how do you propose rebuilding your country that has been damaged in the collateral and insidious manner by policy decrees made by an orange man in a red hat?

From where I’m sitting on the other side of the planet, you have your work cut out for you.

If only you could step away from the Nazi promotion platform you’re sharing from.

If only you could step away from the Nazi promotion platform you’re sharing from.

Tim Winton, Cloud Street

This discussion around what to tip hides an employment system that values employees to the point of underpayment and poor working conditions.

Perhaps you should instead frequent establishments where tipping is not expected because the employees are paid a proper wage.

That way, you don’t have to argue about tipping your bartender too much, or not enough, instead you can focus on drinking a superbly crafted concoction of your choice.

I’ll also note that tipping is not universal.

All it needs now is some fava beans and a nice chianti.

Thank you for the suggestion. I had a quick look.

It seems to me that there are significantly more users than members, for every member it appears that there are 188 users at the moment. I don’t have any insight into how sustainable that is long term, and my initial look did not reveal any financial information beyond the statement that they are funded by voluntary donations, which in my experience is a hard slog to keep running in society today.

Easy fix … vote for the other guy.

I think as a society we need to go through this, watching companies fail and shareholders losing their shit before the perpetrators of Assumed Intelligence end up in court.

I have mixed feelings about the employees who are caught up in this … let’s call it what it is … scam.

It’s easy to say … you lost your job because your boss is an arsehole, but how much influence did each individual really have in the overall process?

I’ve been looking for the next paid challenge for five years … well before this AI scam was perpetrated on the world. Despite having 40+ years industry experience and an aging population, my own age appears to be a barrier for the HR teams relying on the same tools that is causing them to lose their jobs.

As I said, I think this needs to blow up before it gets better, hopefully before I’m too old to do meaningful work.

I’m looking at moving my repositories to AWS S3. That doesn’t give me extra functionality beyond publishing my repositories, but the reality is that I’ve yet to see any pull requests or much beyond a couple of issues.

I’m loathe to jump into the next big thing, only for it to go broke, or get bought by some random company and get enshitified.

This is a video published 18 years ago.

It’s an insult with a poor attempt at pretending that it’s not.

Recommendation: Find a better friend.

Every time someone posts a wall of text as an image, or a meme with poor contrast text, or some random image that can only be interpreted on a 4k screen, rather than a mobile phone.

It’s happening in Australia too. The headline in this article needs some work.

I propose:

“Soon to be disbarred King’s Council used Assumed Intelligence instead of Actual Intelligence to argue a murder case”

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-08-15/victoria-lawyer-apologises-after-ai-generated-submissions/105661208