Miguel Smidge

I must not fear. Fear is the mind-killer. Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration.

[Miguel Smidge @SubHeadHitter]

Lambs enjoying a ray of sun in the old barn, 2024

[christina 死神 @chhopsky]

It's pretty simple.

AI has destroyed the internet and all trust in the people and contents of it. You can no longer trust anything that has been submitted to you on it nor that you find on your own. There is a pre-nuclear steel cutoff point at which the age of a post has become an element in its trustworthiness. That destruction has taken out the work of creating those things and removed humans from the process because greed told business owners they could do it cheaper this way but it just made everything way worse.

And because it kind of sucks but does a passable job if you squint, it's replaced a tonne of juniors while still requiring seniors to oversee it, thus interrupting the flow of juniors who could become seniors and choking off the natural lifecycle of human progression required to have continued service. When the seniors retire we will not have new ones to replace them and their capabilities will be lost forever.

The ability to make kinda shitty versions of stuff and carry on conversations has automated theft, fraud, harassment, and political manipulation on a scale previously unimaginable. Computers that were once deterministic will now lie to you with the confidence of a con-man. The greed and manipulative accounting of shifting revenue around has destroyed consumer computer markets and people can no longer afford what they need to work, or play, once again driving people back into the arms of business owners who can't wait to rent it to you for a subscription. And because investor eyes light up at the new Flavor Of The Month (like they did with blockchain before it) it's being jammed in everywhere it doesn't belong and now every product you liked is worse.

Search doesn't even work anymore and attempting to use any of the AI chatbots for this removes the element of context from your ability to determine trustworthiness of a source, because there isn't one. It's a remix of a remix of a remix, reconstituted from parts, and the average it makes from the slop could be true or it could be full of shit, which is way worse than having to evaluate multiple real human points of view to construct your own. We are taking the averages of averages away from the contexts within which the data points were made in the first place then wondering why everything is slightly wrong now.

And to achieve all this, unaccountable tech billionaires have stolen generations of work from creatives, technicals, and anyone else with a "who will stop us" attitude, making it clear to everyone that the rule of law is over because there's so much profit available it's in their best interests to just ignore it. They know this now, and they will keep doing it forever. We have rewarded the very worst behavior from the very worst people and what little power the individuals had has been transferred back to more corporations.

AI is a race to make everything worse for everyone while a handful get rich, and if you have to stick your fingers in your ears to pretend you just 'dont get why people dont like it' I have more respect for the people doing that evil on purpose than I do for you.

[Beef & Dairy Network @beefanddairy]

TEN YEARS OF BEEF

Today's new episode marks ten years since the first episode of Beef and Dairy Network was released.

[The Wildlife Trusts @WildlifeTrusts]

Did you know that England's chalk streams are one of the rarest habitats on Earth? Despite this many are now highly threatened due to pollution and must be protected. Learn more about this special habitat 👇
https://t.co/sYelP8V0n8

[capitolhunters @capitolhunters]

Exactly as predicted, now that DOGE has scraped all your personal data from government agencies, it is being given to Peter Thiel's Palantir. It was always going to be Peter, who dreamed of dictatorship for decades, patiently built up his "political project" to seize power. 1/

[cat frampton @cat_frampton]

So this week in the world of farm/environment/land management/ mapping has been “interesting”

And by “interesting” I mean “verging on the utterly bonkers”

Why? Well this week started with Natural England, the government body that looks after the environment launching a new map.

[Jules 🪐 @schumisnoopy]

"hey look what ai made-" SHUT UP look at david byrne dancing with a lamp

[Tim Boxall ♿🇪🇺 Et Daemonium In Rotae @timboxall]

Hello, @Keir_Starmer, you won't remember me, but this is you & I campaigning some time back. I was the guy in the wheelchair who asked whether you'd protect we #disabled after 14 years of Tory persecution.

You told me yes. You've betrayed me.

@leicesterliz @RachelReevesMP

[. @GregTSargent]

Awful news --> Delivery of therapeutic food assistance to nearly 400,000 severely malnourished kids is suddenly in doubt due to Trump-Musk firings at USAID, two manufacturers of the product tell me.

"Starving children are waiting," one says.

New from me:
https://t.co/IJgzarf8FT

[Bren Dan @_Brendan01_]

It’s such a fine sunny day.

Today is the anniversary of the execution of Sophie Scholl, who died on 22 February 1943. She is a hero of mine, and I want to tell those that don’t know about her; what happened, and who she is. For she should be remembered. She was 21 years old.

[Rollipollipotamus @RolliPPotamus]

🔥🚨🔥 LITNESS ALERT! 🔥🚨🔥

THIS IS THE BEST SHOT I'VE EVER HIT IN PUBG!!!!

[Andrew Connelly @connellyandrew]

The Telegraph is reporting 'analysis' by a 'think tank' called the 'Centre for Migration Control'. How exciting! Can't wait to hear more about this innovative, transparent and independent organisation focusing on such an important issue for the country. Let's have a look...

[Dr Dan Goyal @danielgoyal]

Prof Dame Harries testimony was the most illuminating of the week so far

Bear in mind, Johnson only needed a handful of scientists to agree with his callous “take it on the chin” response

The Inquiry seems to ask whether Harries was one of them

1/n

[Robert Irwin @RobertIrwin]

Today, November 15 is Steve Irwin Day. A day to remember our dad, the greatest Wildlife Warrior on the planet. He was one man who changed the world forever and continues to inspire the next generations.

[Cat in the Hat 🐈‍⬛ 🎩 🇬🇧 @_CatintheHat]

I took my son for his Covid booster recently.

The entire experience was very stressful, from start to finish.

It shouldn’t be like this.

Maybe I’ve just been unlucky, but I’m going to share my experience below & am interested to hear if others have experienced similar…

[Robert Irwin @RobertIrwin]

Wow. This was a special moment. I think Dad would be pretty proud that we’ve become the first to successfully breed the turtle that he discovered. A rare, and unique species under threat in the wild has just been given a second chance.

[Benjamin Partridge @benpartridge]

Today I released the 100th episode of @beefanddairy. That's an episode a month, every month, for over EIGHT YEARS. Mad. I still love making it. Thanks to everyone who listens and to everyone who has been on it.

[Robert Popper @robertpopper]

LOOK AROUND YOU is finally on iplayer. Thanks iplayer. Thiplayer https://t.co/VaFTsFJvmz

[Jimmy Wales @jimmy_wales]

The government are ramming through this Online Safety Bill even though it is a travesty of justice which will make the UK Internet obviously less safe. 1/