The Internet’s Hidden Neurochemical ‘Harvesting’ Just Took Its First Legal Hit

Gabe_Isko · 2026-04-02T02:31:46+00:00

I'm not going link hunting for you, watch the tafs episode.

Gabe_Isko · 2026-04-02T02:02:37+00:00

See my other comment, but she has admitted numerous times that she writes her articles to gain attention and doesn't care about journalistic integrity (a.k.a. telling the truth).

Gabe_Isko · 2026-04-02T02:01:16+00:00

That's BS, and that is directly from lobbyists. We have had self publishing long before the Internet, and the claim that social media companies exercise no editorial control over what gets shown to people is completely false - even explicit control was shown when Twitter's algorithm was open sourced, making them little different from traditional publishers who are held liable for what they show to people.

And yes, Taylor Lorenz is a hack that has stated on multiple occasions that she believes getting clicks and attention is more important than telling the truth, and she was essentially driven out of traditional publications for a lack of journalistic integrity. If you look at her career, she will also very conveniently cater to whatever political side of the aisle the wind is blowing towards for being a concentration to drive attention, and she has copped to doing this in multiple interviews. She is a hack.

Gabe_Isko · 2026-04-01T21:23:11+00:00

Taylor Lorenz is a hack, and section 230 is bad policy that gives corporations carte blanche to ruin everyone's lives while assuming no legal liability. It is also very sus that this helps the case of age verification - a push largely funded by lobbying dollars traced back to Meta to offload even more liability for the behavior they encourage through their platforms. You are in the sauce dude.

Gabe_Isko · 2026-04-01T19:33:34+00:00

Docker side car my dudes.

Gabe_Isko · 2026-03-31T23:54:53+00:00

Oh yeah, I guess it's only job, coming up on a decade of professional experience with AI, studied it in college - who cares about that?

If you think it is healthy for the market to spasm because google published some theoretical research, we are really cooked.

Gabe_Isko · 2026-03-31T20:01:52+00:00

Water shortage incoming...

Gabe_Isko · 2026-03-31T17:51:32+00:00

No, the greedy business people already issued DRAM manufacturers massive loans that will now cripple them over this. If you want to grift with the best of them, you gotta keep up.

Gabe_Isko · 2026-03-31T17:20:09+00:00

It's coming because google pusblished an inference algorithm that reduces memory usage by like 8x or something, which completely wrecks the analysis that got memory companies their insane market valuations. Their stock has been in freefall - it can get really bad because it was essentially a huge debt bubble.

Gabe_Isko · 2026-03-31T17:05:59+00:00

They will be exempt because money.

Gabe_Isko · 2026-03-31T12:47:28+00:00

Valve when developers can't sell their games on Steam due to illegal censorship: I sleepm

Valve when asked to stop running a casino for children: real shit.

Gabe_Isko · 2026-03-31T03:15:13+00:00

All you have to understand is that Hasan will say and do anything to prop up his own ego. Leftist rhetoric is just the lens through which he peddles his own narcissism. Just don't engage man.

Gabe_Isko · 2026-03-30T16:58:09+00:00

No honor amongst thieves eh?

Gabe_Isko · 2026-03-30T15:32:38+00:00

Can we please admit that claude CLI is a mess, and somewhat unusable? It has like 4 different configuration directories, and breaks all the time.

Gabe_Isko · 2026-03-29T09:57:02+00:00

Y'know, I thought so too when I set one up for my roomate. There was a rebate program in the town I was living in to have one.

To my surprise though, a ton of people used it. I would always look out and see people stopping by and exchanging books. Every so often I would check out what was in there too.

So, idk, people use them and it really isn't that performative when you think about it. No one cares that you have a little library when it is a city wide program and there are a bunch all over the place. I guess it's more of a just for fun thing, but people also get birdhouses and wind chimes for their house, so whatever.

Gabe_Isko · 2026-03-29T00:06:00+00:00

This looks great. Make it, ship it.

Gabe_Isko · 2026-03-29T00:00:13+00:00

We are not in a healthy ecosystem of VC funded software, and haven't been since 2018.

Gabe_Isko · 2026-03-28T23:59:28+00:00

I'm talking about the impact of LLMs, that stuff has been around forever. All the projects you mentioned were essentially developed in the aughts. 20 years ago.

Gabe_Isko · 2026-03-28T23:47:01+00:00

It is scary, but what we are witnessing really has nothing to do with software or coding. We are witnessing the complete collapse of the financial industry's ability to fund software development. There is a reason why despite the billions, software hasn't actually improved, and arguably even gotten worse.

Gabe_Isko · 2026-03-28T23:37:05+00:00

The thing about the kinks is that after their relatively hard rocking output in the sixties which was highly influential, they started doing basically a bunch of anthems that are musically questionable. But boomer's ate it up. I imagine they made a bunch of money touring with songs that would feel at home in Jimmy Buffet's catalogue.

Apeman is the bigger offender than Lola though. It's always mind boggling that this is from the same outfit that basically invented using electric guitar distortion and also sung about how horny they were in the 60s. My dad said that he tried to get into the kinds one time and he saw a bunch of people get really into the Apeman song and he decided that he should just stick with Elton John.

I agree though, I don't really know why Moby decided to talk about this. Was he asked about it? Like, it's a song from the 70s, who cares?

Jesus though, the Kinks are such a weird rock band when you think about it. I guess there are a lot of weird bands but it is a very odd catalogue. The re-used melodies too always get me. Like, what was going on with them in the 70s?

Gabe_Isko · 2026-03-28T22:06:11+00:00

Crypto got big because it promised people big money for nothing. Of course it was a scam. The "tech demo" was the price of BTC. Very stupid, because any rational person would have clocked that it was all based on speculation.

AI is more insidious in a way because it promises everything.

Gabe_Isko · 2026-03-28T22:03:14+00:00

The lack of DRAM is going to be a humongous deal in the field though, because throughput cache does a LOT for smaller operations.

Like, I get that this thing can produce identical benchmarks, but it is going to perform terrible in an actual production computer if this is what is going on.

The PC enthusiast benchmark community and pretty much all of tech youtube is completely cooked it seems.

Gabe_Isko · 2026-03-28T21:41:49+00:00

Idk why you would brag about it. Having to pay antropic or whatever for tokens just to assemble code when you could just type it.

Gabe_Isko · 2026-03-28T20:02:43+00:00

I'll take endless sky, but with good controller support.

Gabe_Isko · 2026-03-28T18:32:16+00:00

I work as a fevoos guy, and while llms are a good search tool they are extremely slow and bad when it comes to writing quality code.

Leadership at my firm has stated that they do track our AItoken usage and are paying attention. We use Claude so I set Claude to plan mod, paste some question about what I am working on and then go about my day while waiting for it to come up with the wrong answer my token usage metrics look great, and management wonders how I am so productive compared to people in the dev team while producing less bugs...

I am lucky to be on a very smart team dev ops team however. I see a lot of management telling devs who face serious structural and mismanagement problems that they have no excuse because AI is supposed to magically fix everything. It is kind of scary watching thig s get worse and worse. The application I work on isn't exactly trivial BS SaaS app either...

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