Notes
I updated my Now page to try to keep track of things I do over the months. I’m sure that’s not the main purpose of a Now page, but as I keep each version, it’ll act as a record over time.
It serves as a reminder and a motivator to keep plugging away, too.
When people finally organise and take over the repugnant regimes of the right in the future, Social Media will try to take credit for it, despite being the main enablers of the fall into fascism.
Don’t let them get away with it.
Their schizophrenic allegiances to you, the user, are actually an unwavering deference to money.
Don’t be fooled.
2025, Good fsck-ing riddance!
Hello 2026. A lot of work to be done.
If you give over agency to intermediaries and automated arbitration systems, you effectively abdicate agency and control.
You are then ripe for exploitation, and exploitation will happen eventually. The temptation for those intermediaries are too strong to ignore, and number must go up.
The incentives change the second you no longer have control over what you search, see, check, purchase, and experience in life. You have become a digital slave.
You can take back control (mostly), and it is easier than you think. Start by blocking ads like they are cancerous cells invading your body. A good proportion of them are fraudulent anyway. If that makes you feel a little guilty, then pay the people whose stuff you consume directly. Most of them have a method.
“you should not rely on …”
Services like ChatGPT generate responses by reading a user’s request and, in response, predicting the words most likely to appear next. In some cases, the words most likely to appear next may not be the most factually accurate. For this reason, you should not rely on the factual accuracy of output from our models.
Source: https://openai.com/policies/eu-privacy-policy
It’s right there in the policy documents.
Let’s just call this what it is …
From RestOfWorld, The hidden labor that makes AI work:
This industry has been called by many names: “crowdwork,” “data labor,” or “ghost work” (as the labor often goes unattended and unseen by consumers in the West). But this work is very visible for those who perform it. Jobs in which low-paid workers filter out, correct, or label text, images, videos, and sounds have been around for nearly as long as AI and the current era of deep learning methods has been. It’s not an exaggeration to say that we wouldn’t have the current wave of “AI” if it weren’t for the availability of on-demand laborers.
… Modern slavery.
You too can read the sycophantic babbling of a rotten politician (nor a good one), as he brown-noses Zuckerberg the Immoral.
Why live in reality when you can convince yourself the world out there (the one you don’t live in) is not real?
Makes me sick.
You can tell a lie a thousand times, but that does not mean it is true.
You can tell it a million times, with the same result.
You may convince all the people around you that the lie is a truth, but still, it is only a lie.
You can dress it up in half-truths, cherry-picked evidence, anything. But still. It. Is. A. Lie.
This immutability will be revealed.
The truth will out.
Let’s see what the Empire announces tomorrow.
8 June 2025 — French West Indies
The datacenters are the Achilles’ Heel
You’ve probably heard about Vibe Coding by now. The method by which a person creates an application through the use of AI, in a most Dunning-Kruger manner.
It leads to poor code, poor maintainability, poor security, and misaligned outcomes that create more problems than it solves.
The next big thing coming is Vibe Hacking. And like its sibling, it will enable those with a hacking bent to mount cyberattacks at a frightening scale. However, unlike Vibe-Coding, the fact that the code is poor is a feature, not a bug.
If there is one thing that is becoming clearer to me when thinking about big tech, it is that the datacenters are the next target.
They will be attacked both digitally and physically, and I fear that physically will bring the most disruption to the services that we all rely on for our daily lives.
The datacenters are the Achilles’ Heel.
4 June 2025 — French West Indies