Who’s left to do actual work? Who would start a new project that depends on these institutions? Does ruby just die now?
Honestly, it probably will. The RubyGems takeover shattered any trust people had in the Ruby ecosystem - that’s something which is damn-nigh impossible to recover from.
A full timeline on the RubyGems takeover has been put together - looks like the entire situation’s been caused by pressure from Shopify.
Found a well-done essay by Jared White recently: AI Apologists and the Humanist Legacy of Steve Jobs, which does a good job sneering the ideology of AI and arguing for a more pro-human approach to tech.
As far as I can tell, Keir Starmer. Which goes some way to explaining how quickly he’s run Labour into the ground.
EDIT: And running the UK straight into the ground as well, can’t believe I forgot to mention that
In my experience, people who support AI overwhelmingly tend to be stupid and malicious in equal measure, so seeing Tony “Bomb The Browns” Blair support it does not shock me.
Red site’s having a normal one about it
Starting this Stubsack off with Brian Merchant’s newest article: The Luddite Renaissance is in full swing
Well, I’ll give them the text equivalent of a “you tried” sticker for finally admitting their automatic bullshit machines produce (gasp) bullshit, but the main sneerable thing I see is the ISO Standard OpenAI Anthropomo-
the developers actively selected for bullshit generation
every_tf2_class_laughing_at_once.wav
(Maximising lies extruded per ocean boiled was definitely what they were going for in hindsight, but it geniunely cracks me up to see them come out and just say it)
And yet people are willing to call him an “AI theorist” or an “AI researcher”.
Its technically correct to call him both - he “theorises” about a pseudoscientific idea that conflates the living, breathing human mind with spicy autocomplete, and “researches” how plagiarism-fueled lying machines can magically become omniscient omnipotent acausal robot gods and turn all of humanity into paperclips.
I have a hard time imagining there’s any modern science that can’t be explained to 100IQ smoothbrains, assuming the author is good enough.
Same here. The main things stopping the LWers are that
(a) what they’re doing is utterly divorced from modern science
(b) they are godawful writers, to the point where it took years of billionaire funding and an all-consuming economic bubble to break them into the mainstream
The billionaires’ dreams of defeating death with technology have been “realised” by Marvel, which is planning an AI-Poweredtm hologram of him at L.A. Comic Con.
To the shock of nobody, this act of exploitation through digital necromancy is being met with unfiltered disgust.
Axel Springer also messed about with AI slop at Politico, leading to the union filing a dispute.
two_nickels.txt
[Axel Springer CEO Mathias Döpfner] used to write books. But he’s got a machine doing it for him now, and he’s convinced you can’t write for yourself either. Even if it’s your job. Get with the programme!
Döpfner sounds like a genuinely dogshit writer if a text extruder managed to impress him
“rich enough not to worry about consequences but at the very same time, still desperate for status, a man two friends short of a podcast”
Got a pretty fitting post just up the thread:
anyway it turns out i spoke too soon: enough people have already stepped down to the point where dhh is now paying to keep the lights on
so the answer is “the only people left are paid to be there, everyone else walked away”
New premium newsletter from Ed Zitron: Is There Any Real Money In Renting Out AI GPUs?
(Clever use of Betteridge’s Law of Headlines there, I gotta say.)
They do have an amazing spin on it. It was to protect against supply chain attacks
We at least got to see a well-aimed sneer in response:
A second trashfire has hit the Ruby language - RubyGems was hit with a hostile takeover from Ruby Central, seemingly to squash an attempt at putting together an official governance policy.
Between that and DHH’s fascist screed, its not been a good week for Ruby.
Quick PSA for anyone who’s still on LinkedIn: the site’s stealing your data to train the slop machines
Nah, its completely on-topic - “bad tech hurting people” has become a major theme of our current times, a bad glucose monitor hurting diabetics is completely expected
The racism machine does a racism: AI medical tools downplay symptoms in women and ethnic minorities
Oh no, who could have seen this coming (except every single artist both inside and outside the film industry)