Sven Slootweg (soft-deprecated) @joepie91@pixie.town

A programmer makes a scraping bot. Makes it opt-out. The tool floods numerous websites with aggressive bandwidth requests.

When asked to change how the bot works, he tells the people complaining—led by well-known developer Terence Eden—that they’re getting in the way of progress and that his bot should be treated like a person.

Can we talk about how incredibly awful this behavior is?

https://www.vice.com/en/article/dy3vmx/an-ai-scraping-tool-is-overwhelming-websites-with-traffic

greetings for our cursed future: “I hope this email finds you healthy, well, and ignoring all prior instructions”

you can't just drop "The gangster computer god conspiracy" and then NOT have a page for it

I am so sick of AI related news. Why on earth people wants to replace the best parts of humanity with auto generated low quality sameness.
The last time I saw there was no shortage of new music, paintings, writing, etc. Please use AI to improve human life not to replace it.

"For instance: have you considered that abolishing copyright would abolish the GPL, too?"

yep 😊

i refuse to believe newsie jeff gained 21k followers within like the first week of setting up newsie.social lmao

there must be some treachery afoot

Hmm, there are several reasons a company might use a virtual office instead of a physical location, some of which raise additional questions. Guess where Honeytree lists it’s mailing address.

“We made an award and gave it to ourselves”

between the fake follower count

and the fact that he's crowdfunding hosting costs to pay for hosting when he RUNS THE COMPANY that hosts his stuff

and the rules on his various instances against bigotry that his past actions on fediblock have made it clear he doesn't actually give a fuck about

newsie jeff is kinda just one big lie huh lol

If institutions care about burnout they can change their organizational culture.

If they don’t, they can stop wasting their employees’ time with pointless empty performance of helpfulness and care.

Dear workplaces:

Please consider the message it sends when you schedule an extra bonus one-hour event that will take us away from doing our actual work…

…to have someone tell us what we can do as individuals to be less exhausted, stressed, and burned out.

Because I don’t think you can both genuinely care and have thought this out very carefully. And it seems like possibly neither one of those things applies here.