"The street finds its own uses" doesn't presuppose that the thing in question is useful, or even tool-shaped. AI isn't a screwdriver in the wrong hands, it's not even tool-shaped. It's product-shaped, it's subscription-shaped, but not tool-shaped.

For the street to find its own uses, we need to dismantle the not-tool, melt it to scraps, and make tools out of the remains. Like, what parts of infrastructure, *if any* can be repurposed to not-AI things?

#notesArt #mastoArt #art #illustration #fediArt

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A signpost standing at a crossroads in a barren place, under a pink and purple sky. It has two signs: "Accept", pointing right, and "Decline", pointing left. In the distance is a treeline. The painting is signed "Chris Silverman".

Secret Panel HERE 💀 https://tinyview.com/mrlovenstein/2026/04/08/ruinternet

i thought this exchange could contain some funny HTTP headers so i tcpdump'ed it

they.. they use TLS. for a conversation between two chips on the same fucking PCB

The main thing I learned from the Claude Code leak is that they plan to go out of business before anyone has to maintain it

@0xabad1dea They’re coming for men’s pockets now as well.

I recently replaced my coat, which was ten years old and falling to pieces. When I bought it, every coat had two inside pockets, a few fancy ones had three (not ones I could afford). Now, most of them including ones from places like Moss Bros had one. The two side pockets are still there, but the fashion is now for the stupid diagonal ones that can hold half as much as proper ones.

I remain of the 19th century opinion that the skill of a tailor is measured by the number of pockets that they can insert without distorting the lines of a garment.

[groans]

you ever write code so inefficient they have to update the whole power grid

INTERCAL: We have keywords like PLEASE and IGNORE because we think it's funny

Anthropic: We have PLEASE and IGNORE *baked into our source-code* because we have no fucking idea how this thing works

this isn't engineering this is a religious cult

Newcomen built the first commercially successful steam engine in 1712. It was awful. 1% thermal efficiency. James Watt showed up 57 years later and built one that worked. Newcomen got a Wikipedia footnote. Watt got a unit of measurement.

"The World's First" is not the trophy you think it is.

https://www.joanwestenberg.com/the-worlds-first-bullshit/

oh no what have you done

This might be one of the greatest error messages of all time.

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ImagEdit error dialog box that says "The limits of the system have been exceeded."

@NanoRaptor This is basically a fretless electric guitar, right?

@lzg No one should swim in sewage or eat raw chicken, but I guess I can't wish that away with moral condemnation.