AVOID AI The capable human being, with heightened skills and intelligence, typically integrates, and practices, many forms of unnecessary skills, including artistic ones, even if their main pursuit is eg science. Nobel Laureate Richard Feynman drew dancers Img: www.amusingplanet.com/2009/12/sket...

Financial Times Sunday front page, on top: Who cleans up after the vibe coding party? [Guess who: people. My comment: happy about the headline except they wrote it wrong: "Who cleans up after the slop coding party?" is the correct formulation.]

Companies rein in AI usage, because they don't want an 'AI monster'. Financial times ft dot om:

Give some love to the people who love "AI". They don't have an easy time right now.

BBC is running this ad on top of their page right now. I _could not_ resist the temptation of remaking it--in Gimp--in the tradition of Adbusters

As a currency trader, this EUR:USD decade chart, from Metatrader4 via Swissquote just seconds ago, with no new pandemic or such, shows that USA has entered into a phase of transformation. It has become something different. The USD has become something different. Euro, the sleeper, has awakened.

75000 votes, > 90 percent against AI. [Comment: Life is beautiful. Humans are wise.] Page courtesy noai.duckduckgo.com

This is how to get NOAI version of Duckduckgo as default search engine in Edge browser on Windows without Bing's compulsory AI slop #noai #neveruseai #searchengines #browsers #neverai #donotusai #antigenai #nogenai

After much experimentation, this is how to avoid burning out USB pendisks when writing gigabytes to them eg from Raspberry PI in a hot room: in Linux, use RSYNC with the BWLIMIT to slow down transmission eg to 0.5 MB pr second, and a fan, and cable between the hot Pi and the pendisk. #usb

Uncanny X-Men #143 with Kitty Pryde 1981 by John Byrne: this is an example of human skill in drawing that must not be forgotten in this era of over-hyped machines. While we should also forgive teens for hyping AI-frankenstein porn, we must cultivate high art like this. www.amazon.com/Uncanny-X-Me...

Awesome post. BUT: I just tried this on Whatsapp. I have the newest version. It allows to _silence_ unknown callers (ie, audio signal is silenced), but only _concrete_ numbers can be blocked.

Don't often watch Fox News but I make a point of hearing all perspectives. Today's surprise: Fox News says 'Amen' to calls for regulations against "AI": www.foxnews.com/video/637791... #aiisdumb#neveruseai#aihasnothinghumanaboutit#aiisstupid#ditchai#livelifewithoutai#regulateagainstai

The hundreds of billions of dollars promised to be poured into the software project "AI" increasingly looks like the failed "5th Generation" project by Japan. MAIN REASON: software isn't developed by committees or states, but by geniuses who aren't cash-oberdient. www.sjsu.edu/faculty/watk...

Merriam Webster dictionary uses a phrase which should be used by the big tech companies instead of their misnomer "AI". They say, under each look-up term [please read this, bosses of Google, Bing, etc😁]: "Examples are _automatically compiled_ from online sources to show current usage." EXACTLY!!!

What Marvel did in Uncanny X-men is the human hand at work, creating more fascinating girls and women than anything every created by socalled "Artificial Intelligence". And so it will always be--the human hand will express an intelligence that is real _because_ it is natural. AI is for copypastists.

Maybe a slogan for the new era we're in Prescient work by Diesel here. Image creditss: harlotofthearts dot org

Don't use AI. Don't Invest in AI. Actually the original ad for eToro said: Don't just use AI. Invest in AI. But opinions differ. Edited via Gimp in Linux. 😉

Vogue, Italy, December 2024 by Rafael Pavarotti says: NO SOCIAL MEDIA, THE FUN IS BACK. Why? Because, as more and more social media become artificialized by algorithms (called "AI"), social media becomes less social and more digital [& might give surge to classical net). models.com/work/vogue-i...

October 2024 Fashion cover: fashion magazine is Vogue, Japan, cover fashion model is Lisa/Blackpink, fashion photographer is Go Wontae. MUA: Woosun Maeng, hair styling by Jang Hyeyeon, stylist is Hathairat Nan Nist Permpoon. Manicure by Park Eunkyung #kpop #fashion #model #vogue #beauty #trends #luv

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