pageflight

pageflight @piefed.social 17h ago

Good to know the caveat on AAs! Thanks for the info.

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pageflight @piefed.social 1d ago

On the upside, waiting for those cheap cheap secondhand GPUs?

pageflight @piefed.social 2d ago

A paid, non working, in-the-press employee body is more of a drain on business than an absent one, I bet.

pageflight @piefed.social 2d ago

We need a lot more of them to join https://www.alphabetworkersunion.org/ .

The biggest action I know of was the Women's walkout in 2018, about 20k employees. But, no persistent action and no escalation, so no real result.

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pageflight @piefed.social 2d ago

Reporting in Iraq, if others didn't know.

pageflight @piefed.social 3d ago

Companies often go to recruiting events / job fairs, where you can talk to a recruiter (or sometimes an engineer) for a couple minutes and make an impression.

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pageflight @piefed.social 3d ago

Whoops, misread that as "hard."

pageflight @piefed.social 3d ago

Maybe enough that corporate types will find it compelling?

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pageflight @piefed.social 3d ago

The core problem was not simply the technology itself. It was the organizational inability to integrate AI into real workflows, learn from deployment and distinguish between a demo that worked and a system that delivered.

Yeah, it has that phrasing sometimes.

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pageflight @piefed.social 3d ago

No one had the cultural standing to say this looks great, and we are not putting it into production.

Can someone in your organization look at a slick prototype and say “no” without career risk? If the answer is no, vibe coding becomes a one-way ratchet.

This is definitely the feeling at my company. "How fast is AI letting you ship" is the only question management & executive are asking.

the resulting ambiguity will be filled by whoever moves fastest, which is rarely whoever should be deciding.

There's capitalism!

pageflight @piefed.social 5d ago

Is "services" chargers? So if people stopped using Tesla chargers that would be a nontrivial dent in revenue.

pageflight @piefed.social 5d ago

What Republicans are now preparing to do is hand that deadly, violent, invasive culture a targeting algorithm and a fleet of autonomous death-drones.

To understand what’s coming unless Congress steps in to stop it now, you must first know about what’s already been built in Gaza that’s the template for the Trump regime. An Israeli intelligence whistleblower told the Israeli magazine +972 in April 2024 about an AI system called Lavender that ranked the entire population of Gaza by “probability of militant affiliation.”

Lavender then automatically generated a “kill list” of roughly thirty-seven thousand people living in Gaza, based on things like intercepted cell phone metadata and social media activity. It fed that list to human officers who spent an average of twenty seconds rubber-stamping each name before the Israeli Air Force bombed each target’s home, killing those “militants” and their families.

This certainly is the nightmare that follows logically from all the Israeli influence in police and military.

And the time to call your senators and your House member at 202-224-3121 is this week, to tell them you want hearings on the Defense Autonomous Warfare Group, a moratorium on armed drones for ICE and CBP to use inside the United States, an audit of ImmigrationOS, and an investigation into Stephen Miller’s financial interests in the contractor building the machine.

If you aren’t yet registered to vote in 2026, do that today. And if you want to help local and state officials push back against federal overreach, openstates.org will connect you to your legislators.

Certainly our democratic machinery is badly broken, but until we have something better working — and in order to at least keep that option open — I believe we need to keep using those tools.

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pageflight @piefed.social 5d ago

I didn't initially see the platform in the first one and thought the kitty was levitating.

A nice kind of day!

pageflight @piefed.social 6d ago

Thanks, fun community to follow!

pageflight @piefed.social 1w ago

Thanks! The HB9CV looks fun.

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pageflight @piefed.social 1w ago

And if it's like a lot of security scans, most of the results are technically correct, but, within the context of the project, not something anyone's going to take the time to fix.