BlueMonday1984

Oh, boy, Rapist Glasses

There’s a UK Parliament petition to “Introduce an immediate ban on the sale and promotion of smart glasses”. If you’re in the UK, you might want to sign it. [UK Parliament]

Given Parliament's track record, they'll probably respond by banning glasses that don't have cameras, but I still endorse this

Another "AI fucked compsci grads" post has hit my eyeballs - this time, it got recommended to me by LinkedIn's algorithm) (because I'm still on that site for some fucking reason):

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study philosophy, not computer science

data from the Federal Reserve Bank of New York shows that philosophy students have a lower unemployment rate (about 5.1%) than computer science students (7%)

why?

unique human judgment, logic, and ethical reasoning are becoming premium assets, and better tech means companies increasingly DON'T need to ask "can we build this?", and increasingly DO need to ask "should we build this, and what are the consequences?"

If there has ever been a time to build those soft, truly human, skills, it is now.

p.s. what do you think is the BEST skill to have right now - my thoughts are in the comments

This one's attributing the decline to "unique human judgment, logic, and ethical reasoning becoming premium assets", and her graph comes from The Economist's Instagram page AFAICT. That one of the Economist's sources is Anthropic is giving me some hope this is bullshit, but its not much.

The main thing I knew him for is his failed attempt to hijack the Hugo Awards back in 2015.

(There's a r/HobbyDrama post about the whole debacle, which I recommend checking out)

"Okay, so it starts with a doomsday cult which formed around GameStop..."

Your qualifications predate the LLM rot by fucking ages, and your position against them is crystal clear. Given both of those, bypassing that filter should be easy enough.

new hires who were seen as “AI natives” are turning out to have alarmingly shallow ideas. So much so, the anonymous finance worker admitted, that his firm now actively avoids seeking out AI-literate STEM graduates, and opts to comb through humanities students instead.

So not only are STEM graduates (mainly compsci grads) struggling to get jobs as it is, employers are explicitly passing them over for """useless""" humanities degrees instead. I'm not sure whether to laugh at the irony of the situation, or crash out at the fact my own compsci/cybersec degrees may have become a liability.

Wednesday’s presentation for 2026 mostly hammers on Son’s love of AI. Son said: [Reuters]
I think it’s blasphemy against AI if ‌you say it’s a bubble.

[THIS IS WHAT AI CULTISTS ACTUALLY BELIEVE]

Also, “The Goose that Laid the Golden Eggs” is a cautionary fable about greed being bad.

Knowing that would require techbros to actually read, so I'm not shocked

Honestly, a black comedy about the rats and/or the AI bubble would probably make bank. The years of sneers people have cooked up on them would provide plenty of material for the writers, and there'd be plenty of catharsis in seeing those responsible get ripped into for 2-ish hours straight.

We got a major engine slopifying itself before GTA VI

I’m pretty sure 2027 will be hilarious for Unreal Engine with AI. And expensive.

With how much market share Unreal also has, it'll probably cause some major shockwaves in the video game industry as well.

In the meantime, start learning the Godot engine. Which doesn’t accept AI code. [Godot]

Godot also released a new version yesterday, so there's another reason to check it out

I checked Wikipedia's history, its been fucked since last year

J-R Conlin has left Mozilla after 15 years, and has some choice words for the company.

They've gone bankrupt once in '24 , I'd bet good money they're gonna go bankrupt again.

Remember Crazy Taxi? Its back, infected with AI slop!

(I saw the massive wave of hype that game's announcement unleashed, and its almost impressive how Sega wiped out every last bit of it with AI.)

Found a fun sneer at AI anthromoporphisation in the arXiv: If LLMs Have Human-Like Attributes, Then So Does Age of Empires II

Before, the human was the weakest part of any cybersecurity system. AI changes this.

Martin Scorsese's jumped on the AI train, seemingly believing the plagiarism machine can help with storyboarding.

Obligatory meme (yoinked off Discord's GIF search, AI extruded itself, ironically enough):