Tough to be a performing monkey in a cage

Tim Cook Captured, Trapped, and Caged
#Apple #Tech
warnercrocker.com/2026/01/28/t…

This is an essential read from @pluralistic – well worth your time to understand the points he’s making fully as he’s spot on and the excellent analogies will make it easier for you to discuss the topic with others.

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#AI #capitalism #neoliberalism #tech #reverseCentaur

AI companies will fail. We can salvage something from the wreckage

AI is asbestos in the walls of our tech society, stuffed there by monopolists run amok. A serious fight against it must strike at its roots

^{Cory Doctorow (The Guardian)}

I despise how security updates are
bundled with feature updates.

Now we have to choose between risking getting malware from random criminal gangs when refusing to update, or getting embedded malware from the tech company itself that comes with their update.

And honestly at this point, I'm not sure which is worse.

#Tech #Enshitification #NoAI

🖥️ Hallucination Stations: On Some Basic Limitations of Transformer-Based Language Models

"We show that LLMs are incapable of carrying out computational and agentic tasks beyond a certain complexity, and further that LLMs are incapable of verifying the accuracy of tasks beyond a certain complexity."

Sikka, Varin and Sikka, Vishal (2025) 'Hallucination Stations: on some basic limitations of Transformer-Based Language models,' arXiv (Cornell University) [Preprint]. doi.org/10.48550/arxiv.2507.07….

#AI #ArtificialIntelligence #LLM #Technology #Tech #ComputerScience #Research #Preprint #Academia

"“There is no alternative” is a cheap rhetorical sleight. It’s a demand dressed up as an observation. “There is no alternative” means: “Stop trying to think of an alternative.”

I’m a science-fiction writer – my job is to think of a dozen alternatives before breakfast."
- @pluralistic

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#Tech #Technology #AI #ArtificialIntelligence #StockMarket #Business #News #World #SciFi