Friday, January 3, 2025

Gimmie Gimmie Gimmie

by M. Bouffant     at 20:25
Continuing the theme of the item below, which is STOP CONSUMING, SHEEP!!
Mike Allen / Axios: 
Scoop: Apple CEO Tim Cook donates $1 million to Trump inauguration … The company is not expected to give.  — Cook, with a consistent presence in Washington, has made it clear over the years that he believes in participation, not sitting on the sidelines, and engaging with policymakers from both sides of the aisle. 
Gotta love the son-of-a-bitch admitting that "participation" & "engaging" require payments. And once again, none dare call it BRIBERY. Or CORRUPTION. Because it prospers, sure, but mostly because no one notices or cares any longer.

So keep giving all your money to Apple & Amazon. They & Trump need it much more than you do, peasants.
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J'en Ai Marre!

by M. Bouffant     at 19:09
(Former) WaPo cartoonist Ann Telnaes has had it up to here.
The cartoon that was killed criticizes the billionaire tech and media chief executives who have been doing their best to curry favor with incoming President-elect Trump. There have been multiple articles recently about these men with lucrative government contracts and an interest in eliminating regulations making their way to Mar-a-lago. The group in the cartoon included Mark Zuckerberg/Facebook & Meta founder and CEO, Sam Altman/AI CEO, Patrick Soon-Shiong/LA Times publisher, the Walt Disney Company/ABC News, and Jeff Bezos/Washington Post owner.
Adding to the body count:
Juanita Jean’s, The World’s Most Dangerous Beauty Salon, will be closing around January 23rd.
Not censorship, but burn out. This reporter knows the feeling all too well. Web-logging went for almost 30 yrs., huh?
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Wake Up Call?

by M. Bouffant     at 17:03
Here's some actual inspiration to wake up, not bullshit from some divorced & dead loser.
"Wake Up" & variations is a very popular song title. And sometimes the wake up call is long distance.Technically, it's not a receiver but the handset, unless it's a candlestick 'phone.
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New Year, New Landlord, Same Parasitical Shit

by M. Bouffant     at 13:31
The more things change, the shittier everything becomes. How much am I expected to take before I explode in fit of killing rage? Now I am aware of yet another set of fucking leeches to be burned from the body of the people. I will see every one of them dead before me. And then piss on their graves.
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Thursday, January 2, 2025

My World, & Welcome To It

by M. Bouffant     at 17:43
Dead arachnid.
Live insect.
Dying (now dead) insect.
Have now spent 48+ hrs. w/o leaving the bunker, & why would I go anywhere when I have such companions?
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Winners Of The Lt. William Calley Memorial Award For Bringing The War Back Home

by M. Bouffant     at 15:13
Anyone else willing to make the obvious connection between serving in the Army & being a fucked-up piece of shit who is a danger to himself & others? This reporter certainly is, & yesterday's events aren't likely to change his mind.

Patriotism is bullshit. If people loved their country they'd try to make it a better place, not let it use them to commit imperialistic murder in its name, or to lose their minds & continue the killing when they get home. Takes a sick fuck to "love" a country like that.

Title explained, for the young & the ignorant:

‘I sent them a good boy and they made him a murderer’

Now, one must wonder: How could a "good boy" be made a murderer? Has to be something not good there to work w/. Or, the banality of evil. Every last one of you could probably be made a murderer.
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Wednesday, January 1, 2025

Everything's Made Of Shit
(& Getting Much Worse)

by M. Bouffant     at 20:25
 John Herrman / New York Magazine:
Meta saying it expects AI characters to populate its apps is its friendly rebrand of an effective but alienating effort to automate social interactions  —  Why AI friends are coming to Facebook and Instagram.  —  Among Meta's many resolutions for the new year — making augmented reality …
Discussion:
Andrew Hutchinson / Social Media Today:   Meta's Plan to Unleash AI Bot Profiles in its Apps Could Actually Work
Tim Pool / @timcast:   Dead internet theory is just fact now
Fox Business:   Meta will invest in AI-generated characters and profiles to drive up engagement
Charlie Angus / @charlieangus104.bsky.social:   My fb feed is increasingly filled with AI-generate rage content.  I have even had AI-generated death threats.  —  Apparently Meta thinks that flooding your feed with fake will enhance the experience.  —  It's a reason I am spending more time on bluesky these days.  —  www.rollingstone.com/culture/ cult...
Noor Al-Sibai / Futurism:   People Are Disgusted by Facebook's Plan to Deploy AI-Powered “Users”
Pekka Kallioniemi / @p_kallioniemi:   Meta won't resist an AI takeover. Instead, it will create a large number of highly engaging (and probably highly attractive) AI profiles to interact with real users. Eventually, neither people nor these AI profiles will be able to tell whether they are interacting with real
Justine Bateman / @justinebateman:   - Be very slow to believe anything you see online. - Foster a spiritual life so you are in touch with your instincts. - Don't use generative #AI. Whatever the task is, do it for yourself. You're more than capable. - The tech bros just want to separate you from your money and
Whitney Webb / @_whitneywebb:   The Kissinger/Eric Schmidt book on AI basically states that the real promise of AI, from their perspective, is as a tool of perception manipulation - that eventually people will not be able to interpret or perceive reality without the help of an AI via cognitive diminishment and
Meristation:   Goodbye to human users on Facebook and Instagram: Meta wants to add thousands of artificial intelligence users
Ed Zitron / @edzitron.com:   Alright maybe I need a newsletter on this because people seem to believe this is an actual strategy.  Okay?  An artificial audience looks at ads how?  Meta is completely washed.  They already have a massive “artificial audience” - the hundred+ million (though I hear much much larger) fake/bot accounts. …
Viv / @battleangelviv:   imagine being so bad at fighting bots that you declare them a feature lol
Ryan Whalen / The Debrief:   ‘Dead Internet Theory’ Looms as Meta Unveils Plans to Flood Facebook and Instagram with AI ‘Users’
Doug / @goodkid-saadcity.bsky.social:   this framing is misleading.  it's quoting a facebook VP saying what he hopes will happen. this is the same company that swore and up and down we'd be spending all day in their legless cartoon VR land by now [embedded post]
Kev / @awestruckvox:   so it's no longer a dead internet “theory” just a dead internet reality 🙂
@milesklee.bsky.social:   Meta's great new idea, now that Facebook and Instagram are infected with AI slop, is to also let AI-generated characters made by users appear as actual accounts on the platforms.  The last stage of “social” media is millions of bots giving each other thumbs-up reacts.
@nnewsteevie:   They're actually adding NPCs to social media this sucks
Mark Pincus / @markpinc:   Has anyone actually tried Meta's AI search in its products? Ive tried it in WhatsApp and its absolutely awful. Its worse than GPT3. What am i missing? They claim to have 600m users? This product is so bad those people cant believe theyre using an AI.
Colin Kirkland / MediaPost:   Meta Adding Millions Of AI-Generated ‘Users’ To IG, Facebook
Charlotte Colombo / Passionfruit:   AI Bots Are Descending On Meta's Apps
Samuel O'Brient / Yahoo Finance:   Meta has a new vision that could change both AI and social media
The Post Millennial:   Meta plans to bring more AI-generated users to Facebook, Instagram to drive engagement
Miles Klee / Rolling Stone:   Facebook and Instagram to Unleash AI-Generated ‘Users’ No One Asked For
Grateful Calvin / Twitchy:   What Could POSSIBLY Go Wrong? Meta to Add A.I.-Generated Users to Facebook and Instagram
Sean Burch / The Wrap:   Facebook Thinks AI Bots Will Be Your New Social Media Friends
r/interesting:   Meta plans to add AI-generated users to Instagram and Facebook
r/technology:   Meta envisages social media filled with AI-generated users
more at Techmeme »
This reporter will note that in the last, say, wk. (or two) images of young women w/ no mutual friends (or any other description) have appeared in the could-be-your-friend box that interrupts my looking at model railroading items on Zuckerberg's Big Book of Lies, Liars & Cheats. We're going straight down to hell.Plus which:
Things Fall Apart
Enshittification Comes to Washington
Jason Linkins
How long until the sewers back up or collapse & we're literally swimming in shit? Après nous, le déluge de merde!

[TNR]
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Happy New Yr. All Over The World ...

by M. Bouffant     at 18:01
If you arm them, they will kill.
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Washington, 6 January:
"Be There, Will Be Wild!"

by M. Bouffant     at 14:21

In Trump's America, No One Is Safe!

 Katie Daviscourt / The Post Millennial:
BREAKING: Cybertruck blows up outside Trump International Hotel Las Vegas  —  Witnesses reported a “massive explosion” near the 64-story luxury building owned by President-elect Donald Trump. … Minute Read  —  Authorities are investigating a vehicle explosion that occurred Wednesday outside
RELATED:
 ABC News:
Police treating vehicle explosion at Trump Las Vegas hotel as possible act of terror: Official  —  Police are also probing the Cybertruck incident as a possible criminal act.  —  General views of the Trump International Hotel Las Vegas on April 15, 2024 in Las Vegas, Nevada.
Course, it's hard to tell w/ a Tesla, but it might have been the spontaneous combustion Musk's shitmobiles are subject to. Or it's an extra-ironic attack. Or, it's the fake news getting a martyrdom boner. Either way, fuck everybody & everything to the hell whence they came. Twice, w/ a rusty chainsaw.
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