Sunday, October 26
Daily News Stuff 26 October 2025
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- Clippy in the server room with a portable blender: Microsoft hopes Mico succeeds where Clippy failed as tech companies warily imbue AI with personality. (AP News)
Mico is the new horrifying AI-driven mascot of Microsoft's inescapable AI-driven offense to reason, Copilot.
Mico is... A grape? A purple raspberry? I don't know exactly, but kill it with fire."When you talk about something sad, you can see Mico's face change. You can see it dance around and move as it gets excited with you," said Jacob Andreou, corporate vice president of product and growth for Microsoft AI, in an interview with The Associated Press. It’s in this effort of really landing this AI companion that you can really feel."
I say we take off and nuke the entire site from orbit.Tech-savvy adopters of advanced AI coding tools may want it to "act much more like a machine because at the back end they know it’s a machine," Reimer said. "But individuals who are not as trustful in a machine are going to be best supported - not replaced - by technology that feels a little more like a human."
"We glued artificial fur to our woodchipper so that you will feel comfortable as we feed you into it."
Tech News
- The ones who walk away from AImelas. (MSN)
Could you live in a perfect utopia if it depended on one AI developer somewhere not getting his acai smoothie in the morning?
Wait, I don't think that analogy quite works. The original story didn't hold up well to second thoughts either, so maybe it metaworks.
- A Baltimore high school student was handcuffed and searched by police after an AI-equipped camera mistook a bag of Doritos for a firearm. (The Guardian)
Everything dumb is still dumb when you add AI, just faster.
- The Great SassS Gaslighting. (Unworkable Ideas)
There's a reason IBM rented its software from the early days, and it was not to save you money.
- Why these companies insist on a 72 hour work week. (MSN)
Because you are expendable. You're barely even a consideration.
- Electronic Arts is partnering with the company behind Stable Diffusion to make games with AI and not in the good way. (Engadget)
Computer games have been using AI for about as long as there have been computer games. Well, not the original Pong which also technically wasn't a computer game since it ran directly on TTL logic and didn't use any sort of processor. While I was looking into that I ran into this cool tidbit on the original Pong prototype:A few days later, the prototype began exhibiting technical issues and Gaddis contacted Alcorn to fix it. Upon inspecting the machine, Alcorn discovered that the problem was due to the coin mechanism overflowing with quarters.
Nice problem to have.
Oh, anyway, AI has had a role in computer games for about 50 years, but EA aren't planning to use AI in the game. They're planning to use AI to create the game.
- The glaring security risks with AI browser agents. (Tech Crunch)
So, AI browsers are the big new thing. You hand over your ID and your credit cards and they can find the best deal for you online, which is much the same idea as giving your wallet, car keys, and a bottle of Everclear to a nine-year-old with severe ADHD.
Or to put it differently, an 88 year old politician in the early stages of dementia.
Musical Interlude
Song is Habba Habba Zoot Zoot by Caramba. Anime is the classic El Hazard - the original OVA series, not the multifarious messes that followed after it.
Disclaimer: Habba habba mori mori.
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Doritos - those food nazis are really getting serious now.
Posted by: Frank at Sunday, October 26 2025 06:32 PM (amxkj)
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My friends, the thing about the unsophisticated 'rubes' is that they do not share all of our customs, and if they are many and we are a few, and we happy few have screwed them over, they are better equipped to realize that we have screwed them than we are to realize that they have realized. The university trained self-proclaimed elites have screwed the public over.
There is a chunk of the public that realizes that the AI push is a proxy for other bad things that university people do, or wish to do. Some of them have ways to label this that offend me. (I much prefer the GIGO, etc. ways, and deplore the ways the younger cohorts have been raised to think of technology. (My own childhood was none too good by my current level of desire to accurately understand what a software is doing. ))
Anyway, Mineta from MHA with the uncanny 'kill it now' of fairyland is probably not a more desirable alternative.
Programmers and retail users may have different interface needs. This does not mean that replacing an incomprehensible situation with something that feels like a dishonest person is an improvement.
One of the key items of the Biden regime, the trans push, was literally based in research inflicted on psychology about 'what about this hypothetical prehistoric society where trans did not feel bad', which explicitly suggested as healthier those historic societies whose customs resulted in the behaviors that early Christians labeled demonic possession. Modern Christians were already understanding some mentally ill as evidence of such phenomena. That awareness or understanding has seemingly become stronger in recent years.
Microsoftians are not helping their roll outs by talking to journalists in ways which suggest that those executives are Harris voters or are being ridden by something. The two most default models for 'what sort of crazy is driving this random AI booster' are 'hates Christians for not participating in secular government as a religion' and 'thinks it makes economic sense to murder the "uneducated" and have a "more efficient" and smaller group of "elite" humans "that would have a lower environmental impact" '. Yudkowsky is obviously more the first, but pretty much everyone whining about Trump and the carbon magic could also be pushing for the second.
The covid lockdown was not subtle.
It is a good thing for the public to reduce their trust of computers down to what is actually supportable by evidence and test.
It is a good thing for the public to reduce their trust of academic 'elites' or academic trained 'elites' down to what is actually supportable by evidence and test.
But I am not a fan of Microsoft ruining their business and their market share this way.
There is a chunk of the public that realizes that the AI push is a proxy for other bad things that university people do, or wish to do. Some of them have ways to label this that offend me. (I much prefer the GIGO, etc. ways, and deplore the ways the younger cohorts have been raised to think of technology. (My own childhood was none too good by my current level of desire to accurately understand what a software is doing. ))
Anyway, Mineta from MHA with the uncanny 'kill it now' of fairyland is probably not a more desirable alternative.
Programmers and retail users may have different interface needs. This does not mean that replacing an incomprehensible situation with something that feels like a dishonest person is an improvement.
One of the key items of the Biden regime, the trans push, was literally based in research inflicted on psychology about 'what about this hypothetical prehistoric society where trans did not feel bad', which explicitly suggested as healthier those historic societies whose customs resulted in the behaviors that early Christians labeled demonic possession. Modern Christians were already understanding some mentally ill as evidence of such phenomena. That awareness or understanding has seemingly become stronger in recent years.
Microsoftians are not helping their roll outs by talking to journalists in ways which suggest that those executives are Harris voters or are being ridden by something. The two most default models for 'what sort of crazy is driving this random AI booster' are 'hates Christians for not participating in secular government as a religion' and 'thinks it makes economic sense to murder the "uneducated" and have a "more efficient" and smaller group of "elite" humans "that would have a lower environmental impact" '. Yudkowsky is obviously more the first, but pretty much everyone whining about Trump and the carbon magic could also be pushing for the second.
The covid lockdown was not subtle.
It is a good thing for the public to reduce their trust of computers down to what is actually supportable by evidence and test.
It is a good thing for the public to reduce their trust of academic 'elites' or academic trained 'elites' down to what is actually supportable by evidence and test.
But I am not a fan of Microsoft ruining their business and their market share this way.
Posted by: PatBuckman at Monday, October 27 2025 12:19 AM (rcPLc)
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We all owe a ton of gratitude to that Baltimore school AI which caught the student bringing a bag of military-style, automatic Doritos into the building, probably to use in a gang munching during lunch period.
Posted by: Joe Redfield at Monday, October 27 2025 03:16 AM (KOtXO)
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