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no, AI is definitely a tool dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/e...
no, AI is definitely a tool dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/e...
the previous one was blockchain-themed cos that's what i was doing, this one is what i'm doing now
a short run only to hand to promptfondlers
it's the ones i've used for years (this is an adaptation of my previous card) and I tried it non-italic and hated it
and he told me that the people in that booth submitted the pop art paintings for their application and were approved for those. He had no idea they were going to offer AI garbage and started working on the process for deleting them from the show as soon as he learned about it.
I suppose I could do a station identification: Iβm Dane. Iβm an artist and with my wife @ashliehammond.bsky.social run Monkey Minion and we go around the country selling art and arty accessories at comicons. I skeet/reskeet a lot of art related stuff & progressive politics. I block all AI/NFT/MAGA
Brave ist nicht unproblematisch, wie dieser Artikel ΓΌber Comet am Rande beschreibt. pivot-to-ai.com/2025/08/25/p...
promptfondlers
tried this, it goes with the image but i'm not convinced
making business card designs cos the blockchain one's a bit out of date. how's this?
Hey, Tech bros: NFTs called and asked you to buy their latest lame-ass monkey pics for **checks subskeet** $100bn.
management hates to see me coming with: -There are no design emergencies -it's just an app, calm down -this software isn't saving lives -our deadlines are just some guy's opinion
this makes me sound like a massive asshole, but i live by the mantra that there is no such thing as a user research emergency
100% true. Gen AI exists to eliminate paying people for labour. Every person who chooses to use it is a scab. They're taking our livelihoods from us no matter who shitty and incompetent Gen AI is. That's why stopgenai.com exists. Help us! @davidgerard.co.uk youtu.be/k7M8fI7JvXs?...
Ahahhahha I needed that schadenfreude. pivot-to-ai.com/2025/08/29/v...
hello hello into goth before it was called that, it pains me to admit your chart is complete cos i just slotted a pile of '70s postpunk and industrial in there
here's basically how it works:
yeah we canβt assume any of these people are rational. the evidence is stacked against it.
also just genuinely liking and being into things. people like that even if it's not the thing they're into.
I'm sharing again, because so far this video has garnered me -3 (minus three) subscribers on YouTube. Whom amongst ye will take their place?
they're moving their servers out of switzerland. pivot-to-ai.com/2025/08/02/p...
Thirty-one percent -that management can prove- π€«
i am not joking, this is what all the papers are running today to try to discredit him
get onto the Australian Greens about the importance of this policy stance
so little has changed in two years about how any of it works, but it *has* gotten stupider
apparently the opposition research on Zack Polanski says he will make your boobs bigger and this is what will surely take him down
Let's stop pretending that managers and executives care about productivity > Manifestly and demonstrably, businesses only care about control over labour and stock prices and they ignore anything resembling modern management theory or related fields. www.baldurbjarnason.com/2025/disinge...
text version: pivot-to-ai.com/2025/09/02/v...
The problem is, everyone on GitHub uses Runk 2.3 even though every single feature was deprecated in the now-default version of Runk 3.1 (released 2012)
ME: hey so what's this process consuming all my CPU WINDOWS: oh that's our Microsoft Search Indexer, it's building a search index of your files ME: neat, so if I do a search on my files, will I get prompt, useful resulβ WINDOWS: [punches me in the face]
all the best windows software in history is called something like "joe's thing doer". it does the thing and nothing else and is available on a html website in plain text and takes up under a megabyte of space and uses default windows ui elements and will work until the heat death of the universe
yeah this is basically a tissue of fraud trying to sell their "how to prompt" book pivot-to-ai.com/2025/07/27/s...
*may not relax
OpenAI needs to make a Sam Altman AI voice so (a) it might as well be a robot (b) you'll wanna punch the speakers
blow on the prompt before you roll it and be wearing your lucky prompting underwear
this will make us zillionaires!
we've invented a computerised asshole! (this explains far too much)
If privatisation and deregulation made things better by itself, it wouldn't need an industry of shills pushing for it. The problem is wasteful and inefficient solutions have a way larger budget than efficient solutions (just consider the delta between car propaganda and bike path advocacy)
Surprise, surprise. AV providers are disclosing personal information. "An age verification provider is potentially leaking information about people visiting porn sites... AgeGO receives requests disclosing the site being visited as well as a link to the exact video the person is trying to access"
βYeah yeah itβs validating,β Port continued. βBut who even am I? I need to go listen to the same 11 seconds of that one song to calm down andβ¦ damnit!!β Sometimes we turn your complaints into Patreon pieces, which you can then pay to read - muahahahahaha: www.patreon.com/posts/137079...
βCurrent AI feels like something out of a Philip K Dick story because it answers a question very few people were asking: What if a computer was stupid?β β Maple Cocaine davidgerard.co.uk/blockchain/2...
i think we do need to acknowledge the demo is *very* impressive. We can just have a conversation with a computer now, holy shit! except the computer is also a lying idiot, and being a lying idiot is intrinsic to how it works, so this can never be fixed
it's a chatgpt glitch, it's a placeholder it sometimes forgets to fill in
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oh this lol en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikiped... it's chatgpt hiccupping
nooo idea
like how i'd be asked "how *does* a blockchain work" and i wouldn't even give a tech answer, i'd detail why it exists, i.e. an excuse to evade regulation using the tech as an excuse
and a separate thing is the process of how this is sold to the public. i rapidly realised *this* is what Pivot to AI is about, and the tech is almost irrelevant
hard part is that a lot of it's too stupid (not as stupid as crypto but it's trying) the machine is conceptually simple, the demo is amazing, but this isn't a product in a box
Vibe coding is getting too rancid even for VCs where else they gonna go? quantum? www.youtube.com/watch?v=zrT2... - video pivottoai.libsyn.com/20250902-vib... - podcast time: 4:12 text coming shortly!
Not sure I have a single text that answers your question, but Amy and I did write this in 2023: davidgerard.co.uk/blockchain/2...
Like, they have heard a thousand times that privatising and deregulating things makes them go better, so it must be right, otherwise you wouldn't hear that so often, and socialism didn't work out, right? No need to sweat the details.
It is striking that the more somebody is in favour of making everything market-shaped, the less they understand what markets are, what the prerequisites are for making markets functional, and what the (perennially unmet) assumptions behind the efficient market hypothesis are.
i have unfortunate news on how common the latter are
btw the talk page is also a fun read en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikiped...
all stock images! which are surprisingly cheap today's and quite a lot of them are from studiostoks, who's on lots of sites
pivot-to-ai.com/2025/08/29/v... A build system vibed by AI bros introduces a gaping security hole that allows the hacker to ask the local AI of other vibing AI bros to give the hacker those AI bros' crypto wallets. It's like teaching your guard dog to fetch your jewelry to a burglar. Lovely.
I am really bad at effectively asking for tips in a way that helps me get money This is why Iβm broke and usually only get to eat 1 meal every 30 hours Can I please have money ? Can people that can afford to tip me a few bucks do that ? Can rich people tip me $10.00?
If only Democrats had 8 years to try and prevent something like this
Yes absolutely! There is something especially ignorant about tech bros in particular framing "the market" as an entity which exists somehow separately from state intervention. Like, my guy, do you know literally anything at all about the history of your own industry???
theyβre so close
every person of conscious needs to actively fight to destroy LLM AI completely
@elsawilliams.bsky.social just forwarded me this. Apparently I was in the Sunday Times culture section this weekend.
i checked google in an incognito window. googling "Pivot to A.I." (as rendered by the NYT) (without quotes), i'm first hit on google, third on DDG and google's "AI Search" is a chatbot ramble about how to pivot to AI with two links to me at the top, lol
the NYT mention got me an extra Β£30 in youtube ad money on sunday must go in the papers more
pivot-to-ai.com/2025/09/01/f... - text
lol this was referred to in one of the pitchbook articles today's vid/post was based on
that's not *possibility thinking*, see i have an entire draft in progress about how hard they're trying to magick lottery-level wins from quantum into existence
text version: pivot-to-ai.com/2025/09/02/v...
Vibe coding is getting too rancid even for VCs where else they gonna go? quantum? www.youtube.com/watch?v=zrT2... - video pivottoai.libsyn.com/20250902-vib... - podcast time: 4:12 text coming shortly!
The specific hacks cited are so funny to me that they might motivate me to actually go to Taco Bell.
No, your honor, I put a *smart* contract out on him.
I remember a study like 15 years ago which surveyed which methodology was most common in the real world, and concluded it was a previously-undescribed one of "set a deadline, add features until it's reached, then try to fix bugs and release".
if you can find it i'd be delighted* * well,
yeah, what i mean is they need lottery returns, not natural business returns i don't feel like retyping the whole thread nor the post linked at the end it's from, so i'd point you at that and imagine i answered retyping it
it should be, but i'm afraid it sounds like perfectly normal blithering incompetence to me
CHEQUE-KITING! That's what OpenAI keeps reminding me of!
Sure is weird that the stock market became an inscrutable tangle of Vibes literally the second it stopped being regulated and immediately unmoored itself from all reality. I wonder if the big brain economists who think regulation is bad have any response to this surely unrelated phenomenon
there can be legal issues in calling a fucking crook a fucking crook, but you can at least look into the actual clearly visible facts and mechanisms and not just make up a fairy story about interest rates and regulatory details affecting a pack of scammers
it's infuriating how the financial press keep talking about markets as if they're efficient and natural e.g. they keep postulating third-order effects on the price of bitcoin and not the actual answer, which is that we literally know the manipulation vectors (dodgy stablecoins) and venues
there can be legal issues in calling a fucking crook a fucking crook, but you can at least look into the actual clearly visible facts and mechanisms and not just make up a fairy story about interest rates and regulatory details affecting a pack of scammers
it's infuriating how the financial press keep talking about markets as if they're efficient and natural e.g. they keep postulating third-order effects on the price of bitcoin and not the actual answer, which is that we literally know the manipulation vectors (dodgy stablecoins) and venues
the fatal blow to so many wizard schemes: someone tries to cash out
but also, per the thread and post: it's much more than AI pulling this bullshit.
after 8 yrs of looking into crypto, I now flatly disbelieve in the efficient market hypothesis. Any efficient market is a carefully tended garden of regulation, e.g. the stock market. yes, that's the *good* case, and it's the special case. fools think it's the natural norm. they are incorrect.
i mean, they've had that as a goal since 2023 and it has literally always been the market for "AI". the current bubble is unusual in that the main customer is *not* defense.
we can go into detail though. Just drafting one on how the VCs have literally nowhere else to put money at present.
the answer is: they desperately need to pick your pocket because they're running out of their mates' pockets to pick it's a massive massive fucking scam
it doesn't unless they can evade particular regulations with it
I was wondering what those other %s were up to when 16% was pretending to use it. /j π
Fake freelance journalism with AI! Until youβre busted the fabulous career of βMargaux Blanchardβ www.youtube.com/watch?v=8yQp... - video pivottoai.libsyn.com/20250901-fak... - podcast text in a bit!
ps: the coming crash is going to be a *motherfucker*. anyway, vote harder.
i don't have *good* news to offer, but i can tell you it's as dumb and crooked as it looks and your impression is correct
putting gift cert $ in the middle makes it harder to pull back. i mean they do, but scammers keep pulling this one
usually (a) steal a credit card (b) buy something worthless (e.g. an overpriced physical book) at a high price from your confederate
amazon gift certificates are already the stablecoin nightmare for amazon
>> (I posted this at pivot-to-ai.com/2025/08/23/a... but people keep inexplicably not memorising my entire literary corpus, so here you go again since someone asked again) //
Holly Boson 