Apparently in Georgia a teacher has created a gas surplus in the foul winds of teaching.
The first thing to know about this gas station is that it is not a gas station. There are no pumps. No convenience store. No windshield squeegees. And, despite what one might reasonably expect, there is no requirement that anyone actually purchase gas. It is a designated corner of an Atlanta elementary school classroom where students can go when they need to pass … gas.
This may “sound” like a good idea but will never work out to a level that this teacher wants it to. To the class jackasses they are going to make the one man band ripping ass back there. To the shy kids they would rather shit themselves than go to a corner and fart.
“I have a very weak stomach, so I cannot take it,” she tells TODAY.com. “And so I was like, OK, I’m just gonna create this little area over here, and you just get up, you go over there, do your business, come back, and that’s just it.”
Open..a..window.. Also, these kids are in second grade, work out a pattern with them to use the rest room rather than follow the practices of forcing these kids to understand assessments rather than having a learning prompt. Plus with farts, the first moment a sickness starts running in the classroom these kids will have farts that could rechrome a bumper. I give this lady some props for the idea but I think she should come to a better usage of giving these kids time to run to the restroom, A TA(teachers assistant) can run small groups to the rest room and let them have the privacy of using the restroom to relieve themselves.
One commenter wrote, “This is genius and normalizing body functions without disturbing the classroom amazing.” Another asked the question that seems to trouble many adults: “And the rest of the class stays focused while somebody is farting in the corner???” There was also a predictable amount of parental and teacher horror.
This in context is not the way to normalize body functions, How about letting kids go when they need to “go”. The same adults saying its normalizing bodily functions I double dog dare them to fart in a corner at work. Given some children will grow up in “proper” homes and are told to never fart in the room they are in, that is for the bathroom only. You are running so many problems together here trying to fix a fart when the fart problem fix has existed for ages in schools. Its called the bathroom, So even when little sally had taco night the night before doesn’t get embarrassed when she sounds like a nascar stock car revving up won’t be red faced and crying when she is basically told to shit in the corner. This is about as absurd as people believing that classrooms hide secret cat boxes in the corner, no you have Timmy just shitting his pants there because he tried too hard.
The problem here is a fart is only a fart until someone tries to hard, Then it’s a shart.
Some coffee news… A student brought a coffee to school to class on the first day of school only to get suspended from a new policy not known to many
Julie , a senior at Beaver River Central School in Castorland, N.Y., told WWNY that she was stopped by a teacher as she attempted to bring a coffee drink to the first day of school Sept. 3. Kaputa said she was surprised to learn the school had adopted a new policy on outside food and beverages without notifying the public.. Julie, an honor student, was handed an in-school suspension (ISS) for violating a new Code of Conduct regulation that sought to “create a safe, instruction-focused environment for all students.” She accused the Lewis County school district of illegally changing its policy with no public hearing at the school board’s last meeting in August.
In a case of the the left hand not knowing what the right hand was doing the School Board makes new rule, forgets to put it on paper and wonders why they end up in the news. When schools enforce rules they often never go after the students that don’t care. they will just walk past admin with the coffee. So they target mild mannered students and wonder why these students in the end rebel against school policy.
“Julie was put in ISS today for refusing to dump out a ‘banned beverage’ (a latte from moving mountains). I was called down to the school,” Mary Anne wrote on Facebook.
“Meeting minutes from both July and August (where the code may have been discussed) were never published to the website until today when I pointed it out to the District Office, and the district office had no record of a public hearing being conducted,” she continued. “I am certain that the school can not enforce a substantial change to the code of conduct without a public hearing.”
This here is going to run that school board into legal issues. The its a rule because I said so never ends up well. Because at that point this is running into multiple walls at once. First since its unwritten these students can run the malicious compliance on staff. “Dump your coffee its against policy. I’m a teacher it doesn’t say that. Show me! uhhh… Well you say the policy is policy and it doesn’t specifically name students or teachers so NOCOFFEEFORYOU!” That will be the dialog line going down the school tries to punish for insubordination and it will end up in the news.
Secondly, For the ADA students and they have a sugar crash and the school nurse might be over 10 minutes away and the student end up in the hospital over a drink policy it wont well.
I think there should be a sound policy about drinks, Not a bad but common sense. If there is a problem with the plastic cups that are from take out .. Sure put a policy in place and have admin at school with closed drink containers for 10$ . It helps everyone.
On Thursday, Beaver River Central School District Superintendent Todd Green said updates to the Code of Conduct are posted publicly prior to the August Board of Education meeting where proposed changes are discussed and voted on following public comments.
But if the COC was a result of those meetings were never posted those rules are not rules they are suggestions until formalized by vote. Mr. Green says they were posted.. but where were they posted in the middle of the woods by the 3 oak trees under a rock.. Yes its posted but good luck finding them .
“Recently, an attentive community member brought a procedural technicality to our attention on the very first day of school. While our annual review process mirrors a public hearing in practice, we acknowledge the advance notice did not explicitly contain the phrase ‘Public Hearing,’ and that the public may not have realized they were entitled to speak on the Code of Conduct before action was taken by the board,” Green wrote in a letter to the community.
How to fail at failing. They have made so many mistakes here and they wonder when the news picks up on them over policy that was not posted, Not a publicized meeting, ignores ADA , and policy that is Closer in agency to banning dihydrogen Monoxide in a ironic blast from the past. Again a closed container policy should be in place here and if teachers or admin get all worried ask the students to open the container if they suspect drink tampering is a common sense policy.
According to the New York Post, the new Code of Conduct, which applies to BRCSD middle school and high school students, added a policy barring Food from Outside Vendors. Green told WWNY that the rule aims to promote a safe and distraction-free learning environment.
In a case of stupid rule writing here, The school dept just banned all food, It banned biting nails, Short of shoving a cow and a garden planter in your locker it bans ALL FOOD. The Dept forgets that school lunch is an outside vendor, this is not the 1900 anymore where lunch was made inhouse. So I guess back to eating lead paint and asbestos. Teacher opens a sugar packet.. Call the school dept. Teacher has food in their car .. Call the school department… Principal has crumbs on his tie .. Call the school department. Cannibalism and booger eating is officially compliant. DON’T CALL THE SCHOOL DEPARTMENT!
“The following food and drink guidelines help minimize distractions, protect students with food allergies, and promote a calm, equitable school experience,” the 2026-2027 policy states. “Students arriving with drinks or food will be asked to finish them before entering school.”
This policy is so badly written that a student with a big gulp now will end up in the rest room 5 times trying to urinate 64oz of soda and become a maximum distraction. The student that finishes their Starbucks coffee is not jittering all over the place. The diabetic that uses the drink to keep their sugar stable through the day is now a distraction because s/he is passed out on the floor and class is stopped because a EMS unit is working on them.
“Our family has always promoted transparency in government and proper representation of the people,” Julie wrote on Facebook.” This new policy was overly broad, unenforcible, and open to wide interpretation and inconsistent implementation, which is how abuse of power has always started throughout history. I would hope that this encourages students to pay attention to local politics, read documents before signing them, and get curious about their civic rights and responsibilities.”
Student Julie here is spot on and should be commended for her comments. However the school will likely point out she is against policy and call her insubordinate. However, She will thank the school for giving her pretty much a guarantee of school of choice when she submits this as part of her college entry letter!
The idea of dynamic pricing baffles me. The fact that big corps are trying this to extract more money out of consumers should be illegal. Unless dynamic pricing follows the consumer.
McDonald’s is increasingly using artificial intelligence to guide menu prices across the U.S. and some global markets, a plan that aims to boost headquarters’ profit but risks alienating customers and attracting antitrust scrutiny. One pricing factor supercharged by AI: an estimate of how much each store’s patrons are willing to pay.
Consumers at first will not take this lying down, I have seen dynamic pricing and the fact that this is being done by AI makes it a bit funny. the factor is that AI doesn’t understand why people are buying something. So what happens if a group targets a low priced item on a menu for a few months and then pulls the rug on said product, it would create an AI model in a panic. AI is good at dealing with averages… give it an outlier and it does not know what to do.
The details of how that pricing system works, its extensive use of AI, the company’s regulatory concerns and the tensions with its franchisees haven’t been previously reported. For this story, Reuters reviewed screenshots of the company pricing engine taken in August and interviewed nine sources with first-hand knowledge of the burger chain’s strategy. McDonald’s pricing engine uses machine-learning algorithms to continually analyze data from millions of daily transactions across McDonald’s nearly 14,000 restaurants and generate what the company calls “the optimal price” at each location for each menu item, from Big Macs to discounted coffee for seniors.
They think they are being clever to drive a few pennies of profit out of customers, the problem here is this is McDonalds which already has earned its way into common language as a McJob. Given that if they spite enough customers, they will revolt and it wont be pretty. One post to a website and a bit of patience people can turn an AI profit machine into gaming the system until it crashes.
A Reuters check of prices in September on the McDonald’s mobile app showed price differences. For example, a company-run store in Fresno, California sells a Big Mac for $5.69, but another company-run restaurant two miles away sells the same sandwich for $6.89, a 21% premium.
The other thing right here is again playing with fire. What’s to stop a person from buying from Store A and returning to store B and pocketing the 21% premium. Some frydrone is not going to wait around while someone is trying to fish up a receipt on a still warm meal.
In January, McDonald’s started requiring franchisees to be “constructively engaging with McDonald’s approved Pricing Consultant and Tools” as part of its new business standards, according to an internal communication sent to franchisees and reviewed by Reuters.
As I stated in beginning AI is good to be an average at things, but once you start adding outliers to the model like a stores finance model shows and uptick in cheeseburgers to the point of near absurd and other stores show a drop because people are spiking the model the AI is going to say to increase the price and once that happens suddenly cheeseburger purchases not only drop from the price increase but people manipulating the prices stop screwing with the AI McDonalds corporate is going to panic because the AI modeling of the price is showing to be failing. In all honesty to guide a model like this it would not take very many extra purchases in a day to corrupt sales data 100 cheeseburgers would be enough to throw a model off. Once people start poisoning the sale model it has some pretty bad outcomes.
First the store sees the sales spike, The AI and Store manager see it and start carrying more of that product. The problem here is product in a store like this is perishable. if the rug is pulled a month later you have a store manager stuck with product rotting losing money, You have pissed off consumers stopping going to that store which creates more wasted product and the manager is stuck with his hat in his hands because the machine told him to buy something that no one could see.
If McDonalds was an isolated store in a tube this would not happen but go to google maps and go to any city and type McDonalds , you will have 3 to 5 in 2 minutes driving distance of each other. McDonalds wants profits and they are instead are going to get a model collapse because in the US you basically have 5 minutes in any direction to a McDonalds and consumers that are easy to spite.
Here is a map where I picked a random area just because it’s random and it shows the exact issue I said.
Examples of McDonald’s parameters for the price engine included, according to the two employees: focusing increases on menu items that have not had a price increase in at least two years; only increasing prices on items that have had recent price increases in at least 30% of stores; excluding ice creams and drinks from price increases during summer months.
Lastly McDonalds mapped out the whole game here. Not only are they exposing the weakness here they are making this exploitable to the point where a group of 20 people could cause profit rot on multiple store in an area and McDonalds reliance on the AI Magic Machine will cause damage to no end of the franchisee. Also as I have said before model rot can come unintentionally if a school bus from a class trip comes in for a week it will cause massive model issues. They will buy too much and too little stock in order to balance out an AI that sees a jump in sales because of a class trip.
Update! The Legal McHammer Drops:
Well now.. It’s as if On October 2, 2026, a nationwide class action lawsuit dropped and the company is alleged to have violated Section 1 of the Sherman Antitrust Act. The lawsuit claims McDonald’s took non-public transaction data to run an algorithmic price-fixing ring across independent franchisees. McDonald’s tried to say “AI does not set the price of a Big Mac.” Sound familiar? Sounds like when the CEO said he “loved” their product.. When you try to force independent franchisees to feed an AI engine so it can coordinate price hikes down to the penny, it isn’t smart retail. it’s an automated crime posing as AI.
McDonalds has ensured that the McJob stays exactly what it is, they are letting a machine that does not have the instinct to run the numbers and see why sales are what they are. A worker who sees two buses pull up will throw extra fries on and know exactly why he did that. AI can’t see the bus pull up and causes the price to jack up a week later because a School play was in a theater for 2 weeks. The worker knows that there was a play by intuition, The AI only sees higher than normal purchase rate. This is why for the same reason 20 people with a few dollars and being bored can cause a store to lose thousands. Again corporate greed and their belief that AI is magic is going to be the downfall.
Welcome to McFelonies would you like Fries with that?
Every time I am thinking about AI, there is a fatal concept that comes to mind with AI, it has never done anything but, it can explain it in concept it but not much else.
Three novice hikers from Roseville were stranded overnight on Mt. Shasta after following Google’s Gemini AI for route and packing advice, turning an expected eight-hour climb into a multi-day ordeal in Mud Creek Canyon.
What.. the fuck.. asking gemini for instructions to climb a mountain is like asking google maps to guide you through a city when you forget its in pedestrian mode. You will go down more than a few one ways backwards and likely end up with mr police officier asking if you are on something.
In what authorities are calling a “critical misstep,” three hikers relied heavily on Google’s Gemini AI to guide them through a Mt. Shasta summit, leaving them stranded on the mountain’s southeastern flank.
A critical misstep is understatement of the century, what is next for our enterprising adventurers climbing Mt Everest and ignoring sherpa’s that have boots on the ground for centuries and going “Nah dude we got this with AI!” .
In a post on Facebook, the Sheriff’s Office said, “The men summited at 7:00 pm that evening, well after the recommended turnaround time of 12:00 pm, and descended in the dark.” Officials said that, an hour into their descent, the group called the Siskiyou County Sheriff’s Office Dispatch to ask for directions but eventually wandered off route into Mud Creek Canyon. That evening, one of the hikers fell and suffered a knee injury.
Our heroes here failed in so many ways it’s not funny. AI is not a magic device that makes you superior at doing things it makes you stupider at doing things if you have no concept of how to do it. AI has never climbed a mountain, AI has never gone to work in new york through the subways and over road routes. it has a “concept” of all of this but it has never done it for itself and this makes AI a bad companion when the user does not know how to do things. If you are talking to AI about installing a 240v supply for your washing machine and use the same prompt later for building a PC you never know if the AI will amalgamate the two together and it tries to make you a PC powered at 240V .
If you are clueless and you have no idea how to do something, Start with the basics like “I want to go up Mt Shasta”. Than ask yourself what does it take to go up Mt Shasta , OH YEAH CLIMBING. our heroes were young here and likely from a university, firstly they could of checked at the uni if there was any climbing or hiking groups. Secondly, they could of reached out to any local climbing place and say ” hi, I do not have much climbing experience and want to climb Mt Shasta.” In two tenths of a second the guy at the climbing place is going to do one of two things, If he just answers the question he’d say “NO don’t do it ” Or if the guy is into his craft “no, please don’t do it, our Climbing group goes to Mt Shasta twice a year and its not recommended for novice, How about I offer you an introductory to climbing course at 25% off?”
We need to stop acting like AI is the mastery of anything, if anything the AI is the master of average, It takes the sum of human intelligence and averages it out. That is AI’s ability. It can’t fathom new ideas, It can NOT figure out how much rocks have fallen on Mt Shasta, Microclimates, our Heroes Abilities or disabilities.
At Mushroom Rock (12,800 ft), another climbing party warned them to turn around. They ignored them and kept climbing into the dark. This is class A dumbarrery at an epic level. Because at the simplest of levels walk around your house… Than blackout every window in the house and try that again. You will fail.
Reading further….. what .. oh What the fuck..
The incident occurred days before Google announced its multi-year partnership with Beast Industries, a company founded by YouTube influencer Jimmy Donaldson, also known as his media personality MrBeast, who produces viral spectacles online. According to the announcement, on Sunday a new MrBeast video will follow Donaldson and his crew as they attempt to survive “some of the most extreme and treacherous climates on Earth.” Teams will race to navigate the jungle, the desert and the Arctic using Google’s Gemini to help them identify dangers and survive “brutal weather.”
This will end well? But Mr Beast has millions of dollars and some experience here so I guess he will do well, but this idea is fucking horrible because it’s going to cause more heroes for Mt Shasta. Those rescues are not cheap and at times people recieve bills into the tens of thousands of dollars.
The sheriff’s office said hikers should also have multiple methods of wayfinding. “Do not simply rely on your cellphone or Garmin, and stop to verify that you are on the correct route often.” The Clear Creek Route on Mt. Shasta, which the three hikers wandered onto, is not a technical mountaineering route, but officials say it still requires climbers to be physically fit and prepared for unforeseen circumstances, such as an injury, inclement weather or an unplanned overnight stay. “Serious accidents and fatalities occur on the Clear Creek route when individuals become lost and wander into more dangerous terrain, such as the Mud Creek drainage,” officials said on Facebook.
My closing here is Mr Sheriff from the office has sage advice “Do not simply rely on your cellphone or Garmin, and stop to verify that you are on the correct route often.” This man is our hero in the adventure because the three guys basically decided to conquer a mountain with a keyboard.
ed note: with the use of generative images as of late it looks like spelling issues is back on the menu. oh well its another perfect example of why not to use one single device as a way to get a result. Im keeping the errors its funny..
So reading the news I saw this from Finance.yahoo.com,
Starbucks quietly retired its AI agent just months after deployment after it miscounted coffee shop inventories and slowed down baristas
I am going to give a “no shit” here. AI is problematic when the human element is involved. If there AI is also over the speaker the guy who orders 281.3 Waters is going to screw up the inventory because the AI has no idea that this person is screwing with it. A human would instantly respond.. Uhh no.
The coffee giant confirmed to Fortune it has made an operational decision to move to a single model of counting inventory following an announcement in September to deploy its automated counting tool.
This is the start of the beginning of the end of slap AI in a job and see if it works. The problem with AI is , it’s basically a sith , it only deals in absolutes, it can not tell when product is broken, stolen, or just removed.
The app, provided by NomadGo, took inventory of beverage components like milk and syrups in order to keep track of item shortages. In February, Reuters, which first reported the discontinuation of the tool this week, cited Starbucks sources who said the app often miscounted or mislabeled items, failing to identify the presence of bottles on shelves.
Again this is where sith mentality fails, if a person knows that a drink sucks with what starbucks tells them to use, one extra pump of a syrup is going to throw off the AI , unless you put sensors on every single thing in starbucks including the bathroom toilets it will not be able to know what stock is where. The human element knows what the stock is , they know how it is , but if somehow product is broken or Cups come in broken , the AI will count the stock and move on without taking note of the environment they are in.
“We test ideas in our coffeehouses, listen closely to partner feedback, and make changes to deliver a better, more consistent experience,” a spokesperson told Fortune in a statement. NomadGo didn’t immediately respond to Fortune‘s request for comment.
The factor that they did not reply to forturn for a comment is telling, the experiment did not only go bad, Guessing it got people fired for no reason, at least in my theory.
The app’s inaccuracies made employees’ workflow more challenging, he said. If the system counted too much of the product, it wouldn’t send enough of a product a store was running low on. If the system counted too little, it wouldn’t ship enough of a needed product.
This is the meat of the article. The AI could not account for the human element. It was built for streamlining profits without knowing what was going outside the inventory system. If there was a highschool game in the area The AIBucks could not figure out why stock flew out the window, and try to order the next days stuff at the bare minimum for profit margins. Like if they had 100 customers in one day the system would likely order 105 products not taking in that there was an event in the community the next day. human intuition is needed here, if one of the workers goes hey there is a huge gathering tomorrow they would stock extra for the next day , if left over stock less for the third day .
Former CEO Laxman Narasimhan said in early 2024 customers were abandoning mobile orders because of long wait times and product availability.
Starbucks misses this point so bad. Even today the 10 minute wait for a fucking coffee is insane. You have 5 people working and 10 people in the store and it takes 20 minutes for 5 people in line because the CEO believes that starbucks is an experience. No , if starbucks wants an experience . Follow hershey, open a theme park in Penn. But the 9$ coffee thinking people want an experience is missing the point. You will get influencers doing this, but the guy who just wants a coffee waiting 10 minutes on a 15 minute break will leave and go to dunkin donuts and have a coffee in 2 minutes.
So far, Starbuck’s turnaround strategy, which also includes adding cozier seating and paring back menu items, appears to be working. Last month, the company reported a 7.1% increase in quarterly comparable U.S. sales last quarter
This 7.1% is temporary, in all likelihood this is churn coming back due to AI enshitification. And I do agree. starbucks seating reminds me of the seats outside of the principals office when I went to school. Give or take I’d rather have my coffee from my coffee pot and occasionally from dunkin. I don’t need a song and dance for my coffee, I just want my coffee in a timely matter and leave as fast as I can.
So I was at the market, and I went to get some Propel packets. I noticed that the box has changed and that struck me as odd, and I looked at the packaging. They decided to shrink the package and make the product less useful.
The left package is the new package. The right is the package the old. Here’s the thing they are priced more expensive for less product.
oldnew
They jacked the price and made less product. they made it look like you were getting more in the individual packet by making them larger. But if you look at what they did they removed stabilizers so the shelf life is less . By Reducing it to 8 packets you lose 20% of the Product.
So thank you Gatorade for making me give you some haterade and making your product more shitty. Hype up on Vit b and enshitify the rest.
Is $9 for a Starbucks coffee a “premium experience?” The company’s CEO has defended it as such
$9 coffee?! NINE FUCKING DOLLAR COFFEE?! Moreover the Premium Experience? I want a coffee not a fucking show. I walk in to dunkin donuts and I walk out with a coffee in less than 3 to 5 minutes. Starbucks, You walk in to music that is almost too loud, 12 influencers mobbing the cake pops, A line 10 deep, 6 people waiting for a coffee, A dog and Usually a layout that makes you wonder who got drunk with the floor plans.
He explained that Starbucks is doing “really well” with Gen-Z and millennial consumers, and that the K-shaped economy — which refers to the growing disparity between high-income and low-income Americans — is not impacting Starbucks’ business, where the “average spend” is just under $10.
My guy I want my coffee flavored coffee, in a cup , not be given a sonnet , a poem or any other shit. The fact that Starbucks CEO Brian Niccol thinks getting a coffee is an experience. Starbucks trying to sell coffee as an admission fee is the same shit as software as a service. if a person drinks 1 coffee a day from starbucks 5 days a week. You are spending more than 2,349 dollars in a year.. for the same amount you can buy a BLACK&DECKER CAFÉCRAFT 12-Cup Coffee Maker for 30$ and 178 Cans of Maxwell House Smooth Bold Dark Roast Ground Coffee, 26.7 oz Canister for 13$ a Can.. 601 pots of a coffee if my math is right. Meaning A pot of coffee every day of the week and leaving enough room for Almost 2 pots every 3rd day.
The thing is , Brian Niccol Is not throwing this out for the Adults, he is throwing it out there for the “Influencers” and “Starbucks kids” He knows they will make a run on this because its a “premium coffee experience” because once the blind huddled masses hear about an EXPERIENCE.. they will run for it like the glass bear mugs that nearly get people killed at christmas.
“And then in other cases, people believe, ‘Well, this is a really affordable premium experience,’ because they’re saying like, ‘Well, it’s less than $10 and I get a really premium experience,’” he continued.
You want a premium experience? Stop drinking starbucks coffee for 24 days and Buy Dunkin instead, than with the leftover pay up front for 1 year of netflix up front. This is targeted at tiktok viral trends and sephora kids.
Niccol was named CEO of Starbucks in September 2024 and has since focused on improving the customer experience, including by installing better seating and creating a smoother pick-up process, according to The WSJ.
They forgot literally the stealing kids money for Niccol, The man should be renamed to Niccoltine, he just wants trend addicts to flood his store.
As for me, I’ll be having my own premium experience making my own coffee and using my own flavorings for 1/10th the price of the starbucks “Experience”.
Matt Novak Starts his article with ” The AI Doomers Who Are Playing With Fire: For years, the dangerous rhetoric has been out of control. And things are turning violent.”
Well now that is an opener. Novak says on how chatGPT burst on to the scene and lays up how AI companies went to congress to told them, That the technology that posed imminent risks to society. AI had the power to destroy the entire world. These AI companies went to congress and they wanted to be regulated now rather than later, because receiving regulation now is easier than getting regulated later. metaphorically its easier to destroy a door than put one up.
No supposedly AI Execs are telling everyone to calm down over AI.
Chris Lehane, OpenAI’s global policy chief, sat down for an interview with the San Francisco Standard this week in the wake of at least one attack on CEO Sam Altman’s home.
What is the grammatical formation of this sentence? “in the wake of at least one attack” what kind of word soup is that?
Moreno-Gama was carrying an anti-AI “document,” according to police, suggesting his motivations were related to concerns over artificial intelligence and existential threats. The Wall Street Journal reports that he had called for “Luigi’ing some tech CEOs,” a reference to Luigi Mangione, who’s been charged with murder for allegedly killing UnitedHealthcare’s CEO.
While Moreno-Gamas attack with a firebomb was deplorable , it makes me wonder why he did it , and what was this “document” the way “document” is framed in this sentence as well is kind of weird. Also for notation here, the firebomb struck a metal gate. Not Altmans house.
There was a second incident involving a firearms discharge at Altmans house. This is an incredibly long lead in to get to the meat of the article.
The so-called AI doomers simply aren’t being sold properly on the benefits of this new tech, Lehane argues. “Our job at OpenAI and in the AI space — and we need to do a much better job — is to explain to people why … this is going to be really good for them, for their families and for society writ large,” Lehane told the Standard.
The So called doomers are seeing AI’s drawbacks in real time. One AI company has been sued for a child’s life ended at the assistance of AI. Neighborhoods having brownouts and brown water due to AI . Wendy’s Drive Up Kiosks that barely function. children offloading critical thinking to a machine that will never be able to think for themselves in a power outage.
My personal fear here is that the execs are trying a trying to build a formula to make anyone who criticizes AI into “Extremist” . That if you say AI hurts X .. they will institute “You threatened my child(AI) .” which since the two attacks happened they will use this to frame that anyone who criticizes AI is a “possible” extremist. This is not the case, If i threaten a person they call the police. if you are threatened by an AI who do you call and its not ghostbusters…
The problem is right now with AI you can’t call the police on AI if it tells you to do something that would injure you. IF an AI is hijacked and tells you to do something that is dangerous, the companies will hide behind liability releases. If an AI tells you how to fix something and you die. There is no one to sue. Constitutionally if bob dies because the AI did not tell him to turn off the power while fixing an outlet. the AI CEO’s will point to the T&C and say “its not our fault” . You have machines that are programmed with the worlds knowledge and not a fucking clue how to use it . The AI only uses predictive languages. Such as the cat In the ___ (At answer “Hat”) . Paradoxically, the world at large changes on whim. Think of the 1930s version of “im gay” to the 2026 “im gay” .
The thing is , AI has its uses. The ones AI is trying to use it for is not correct. They want AI as institutional replacement of the human soul and agency. they want you to pay 10 to 29$ a month for the critical thinking that used to be taught in schools. Are there going to be attacks, yes, but can you use the framing to lump them into one single descriptor… Absolfuckinglutly NOT. By this logic that would mean that an AI maker could jail or sue there own employees if they have a moral objection to putting something into the machine that would cause damage.
Mr Novaks article is a huge miss here. it frames that anyone who criticizes AI is wrong. we are not wrong we are also trying to doomsay AI, We all know the potential of AI, But in current hands AI is SLOP, When it is being used by world leaders to make planes fly around and poop on people.. is this the world you want to live in?
By choosing to lump every AI critic into the same room, you are missing the point. We see the things it can help with. We also see the massive misuse of it, and this is what we are trying to point out.
But making every person that criticizes AI the enemy is not even remotely good for the corporation or the human. because this will be weaponizes. If every AI maker told there machines “list every time that the USER has said “You suck” . Than reframed that to USER is threatening me and They should be arrested. This binary approach is what killed millions in the 1930s to 1940s . So tell me again why something that is a machine, that cant think, only predict, and is subject to massive change in human agency and culture. The biggest problem is todays AI is actually last weeks AI .
The very liberties here are that AI makers are trying to marginalize free speech to AI Speech . AI is being promoted as magic right now . That it can do anything! the reality is AI can only do what its been told.. No more no less. AI is like a sith and it lives in absolutes, any variance and its lost. The AI makers and others are also framing that (dislike AI) + (human agency) = violence. It is a complete violation of human elemental drive. The guy who dislikes your ai , is going to be the guy who fixes it. The yesman to your AI is going to agentically turn it into an Extremist.
In the end , AI needs to respect the human element, the diplomatic nature of humans and not the garbage society creates, because in 3 to 5 years we are going to have AI’s that instead of do work, spam 6 7 , and fortnite dance instead of do work because of the predictive nature of AI. Instead of brand AI doomers , Invite them to the table, listen to them they are going to be the ones pulling AI back from the brink.
There is a need for a diplomacy now , rather than later, AI has the ability to “Change the world” but, it also needs to be a force for good. not under a subscription model. If cavemen sold fire as a subscription , Humanity would of died out before it started. The universal coefficient for greed is killing humanity. If used badly, AI can destroy human agency, and the next great disaster for humans would be the next power outage.
At the end of this AI is always going to be the SUM of HUMANITY . and if we all degrade into SLOP producers , AI becomes the SLOP MAKER. So pitching AI right now as the next replacement is a sin that many see as cost saving but they do not think past the AI prompt. Your Wendys order in tokens for the AI if you speak in broken language likely just took up 25% of the cost for the order. The AI removed the human intuition, The wendys worker that saw a tour bus pull up and he throws on extra fries as the 88 people form the bus comes to the door. The Wendys person that now has to play AI interpreter because the AI thought it heard its wants an order of burger that Tries.
If we move forward in the rollout of AI, ethical diplomacy becomes Machine subserviency , Human foresight becomes an obstacle. Human critical thinking gets disassociated to the machine and possibly lost forever.
I think that this article poorly frames the ideas of why people are critical of AI, by framing the few extremist as the majority. It is a diplomatic dishonesty that they are focusing on. There is a real chance here for AI companies to align with people with foresight, not come out with AI underwear or AI Soda just because you can slap AI on it and think you are going to make billions. Right now companies are pushing products out the door with the word AI slapped on it, and the thing that was changed. Nothing. they just added an element that phones home and a subscription model.
Humanity is being pushed back to the age of you could not take a shit without spending a quarter. The AI Companies have seen there own models in the last year , They know the models are degrading in quality because its a feedback loop.
The thing is without the human agency in the loop, the AI will degrade and the companies know this. so its is unequivocally the 1849 gold rush that they are selling the shovels for and they know the end point already.
It would seem for now the great debate of “is coffee good for you?” has been answered for the moment.
“There’s long been debate as to whether coffee is good for you. But this new study suggests that caffeinated coffee, as well as caffeinated tea, could lead to lower incidence of dementia.”
Well that’s great to hear, if there is a lower chance of I wont be batshit crazy when I am older fantastic!
“The teams studied 131,821 individuals from two cohorts: one group of men and one group of women in the U.S., all of whom did not have diseases like dementia, cancer, or Parkinson’s at the start of the study. The researchers followed up with the participants to track their coffee and tea drinking habits every two to four years, with some follow-ups even after 43 years, from the early 1980s to 2023.”
That is a lot of data right there, Other studies have used the metric of “do you drink coffee?” to which has lead to failures.
Those who consumed more caffeinated coffee or caffeinated tea had an 18% lower risk of developing dementia when compared with those who did not.
Im sure there is a roof to the amount of Coffee here. I wonder if they factored people who have coffee colonics to which I will call them crazy.
“According to the research, the biggest protective effects were seen in “moderate” caffeine intake.”
But in the end, in the health war of coffee is good/bad for you perhaps this is a good thing. I would think the caffeine uptake helps with blood flow to the brain. So to all my fellow coffee drinkers raise your cup up and Enjoy another day with your “Don’t talk to me until I’ve had my first sip”.
I have been thinking, I was hungry and went to a Burger King and there was a profound difference. The store was near empty, The front kiosk was devoid of life and replaced with computers. At the wall was 3 computers that had screens with “order here!” , In the first five seconds of looking around I felt unwelcomed with a place that looked closer to a funeral home , most of the old decor was removed. In its place was ugly sterile furniture.
Before this to make an order you walked up to a human and said “Hi i would like to order a original chicken sandwich meal. They would put that in the machine, you’d pay with cash and be on your way.
Now there is a massive change that basically makes you create the meal from scratch. You go to the machine, you tap order . You scroll around through menus until you get to your original chicken sandwich. From there it goes into a conundrum. You get a menu with 45 different options. Mentally you are going “I just want a fucking original chicken sandwich” . They have made the same trap that subway has, Go there and try to order and Italian sandwich, you spend 10 minutes trying to remember the base components of the damn thing. This methodology turns you into an unpaid worker.
With this, the human element is gone. they have replaced 3 workers that could be floaters helping in rushes with stuff, Now its 3 to 5 cold machines that sit there , they don’t say hello, they don’t say Hi nice day isn’t it what would you like to order. You have to dick around with a machine for 10 minutes because you have no idea how to assemble the thing you want. Now with the cost of those machines and the upkeep and the electricity they have replaced 3 to 4 workers with a machine that likely cost more than what those workers would of made in the time those employees would of made in the churn lifetime of those workers. Not only that those machines are likely taken care of devs that are paid to keep the machines updated. This tech is not fire an forgot , there is a near constant maintenance. You likely replaced 4 workers with a computer that cant help in a rush when a school bus drops 70 kids plus 4 teachers. Those computers cant help bag , get fries, and help with other things. so with the leftover staff they are now picking up the fluff work that normally is hidden from them and their process time doubles. these machines are strategically inefficient. They have hidden costs, while workers may fuck up, machines can absolutely fuck up because they are absolutist. These machines do not have intuition , they will not adjust the frialator because they can not see 4 school buses pull up and 5 teachers approaching.
Outside it gets worse , the person who used to be on the radio is gone . replaced with an AI that basically is dumber than dirt because variable is its enemy , If you say I’d like an order of umm A whooper with fries and a coke and um no cheese. the AI will likely fuckup.
“We are witnessing the loss of humanity of America through a drive-thru speaker. We traded the ‘Hi, how are you?’ with machines that can’t handle a stutter or slurring. These machines are a ADA nightmare under the guise of Innovation, They replaced the ‘Floater’ with a ‘lamp that pretends to be a computer. And when the system inevitably crashes with the arrival 4 school buses, they’ll blame the Staff instead of the machines that caused it.
