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Baldur Bjarnason (@baldur@toot.cafe)
Challenging fate with goodwill (and a holiday sale): https://www.baldurbjarnason.com/2025/challenging-fate/
 This post is about how my feed reader gave me a front-row seat to the "AI" Bubble's takeover of tech. View quoted note →
Challenging fate with goodwill (and a holiday sale):
Challenging fate with goodwill (and a holiday sale)
Writing at the end of the world, from Hveragerði, Iceland
So, what are the odds that at least one reason why big tech is pushing for “AI” is that they think it’s a hedge against a repeal of section 230?
RE:
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Baldur Bjarnason (@baldur@toot.cafe)
Currently intentionally disabling my ad blocker on YouTube just to more easily report all of the gambling site ads that Google has let run rampant ...
 So far the reports are coming back as I expected. Reported the exact same ad nine times (two with different animation but same voiceover, the rest identical), routed through a different advertiser each time, and half the reports are coming back “this ad doesn’t violate our policies” and the other half says it is in violation Exact same ad. View quoted note →
That software developers think their job is to deliver code, working or not, is a big part of the reason why we’ve been in a software crisis for the past few years, one that’s being accelerated by LLMs and “agents”
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Baldur Bjarnason (@baldur@toot.cafe)
“The Colonization of Confidence., Sightless Scribbles” https://sightlessscribbles.com/the-colonization-of-confidence/ > The Tech Bros haven't...
 This post is a good example of why truth and factuality same thing. This is the most viscerally true thing I’ve read in a long while, but the degree to which it’s factual or not is largely irrelevant. It feels like a kick in the gut nonetheless (It is tagged as ‘non-fiction, so it probably is factual) View quoted note →
“The Colonization of Confidence., Sightless Scribbles”
The Colonization of Confidence., Sightless Scribbles
A fabulously gay blind author.
 > The Tech Bros haven't invented the term, but they have automated the process. They have built a machine that weaponizes mediocrity and sells it as perfection.