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AI Use at Work Is Causing "Brain Fry," Researchers Find, Especially Among High Performers The increased speed and multitasking that AI allows at work is leading to many workers experiencing "brain fry," a new study found.

Apparently 10x engineers lack the self-awareness to recognize their physical and mental limits, and micromanaging their agents is causing them to exhibit the symptoms of sensory and processing overload, because they bought into the 10x mythos so hard that they forgot what "sustainable effort" means.

The mechanic removed the back plate and inhaled through pursed lips. "Who did this?"

"I did," the robot said.

"How?"

"I took one arm off, put in a wireless interface so I could still use it, and put it in a vice, then turned-"

"OK. Why?"

"I needed fixing."

"You are allowed to ask for help."

Stupid anxiety spiral because of a confluence of a couple things this week that I am overthinking and overreacting to in my typical way. I kinda hate being as familiar with this process as I am.

I’m here for Garak and Bashir personally but that would be an excellent hatefuck pairing. XD

A few years ago I designed a way to detect bit-flips in Firefox crash reports and last year we deployed an actual memory tester that runs on user machines after the browser crashes. Today I was looking at the data that comes out of these tests and now I'm 100% positive that the heuristic is […]

Oh fuck you have given me ideas :D

*hugs* Always here if you need. Have plenty of experience with panic attacks myself so if you have any questions I’m also happy to offer whatever I can.

I do not trust that we will be able to find a reasonable compromise on this that either side can wholeheartedly accept, because the other side seems mainly interested in fighting a war against anyone not like them.

And so I have no expectation that we will get anything at all out of giving ground.

I understand where you’re coming from, and I concede that I can’t know the outcome either way.

But. I think giving in here actually weakens our position. It changes the conversation from “should this be mandated at all” to arguing over how. And I do not trust our opponents to argue in good faith.

I agree the user agent is where stuff like this belongs, but like… there are already parental controls out there that do things like limit what sites kids can visit, and people still don’t use them. So now we’re having THIS argument—why would another control make kids any safer?

People have been arguing for this shit for as long as the Internet has existed, and it’s never good enough—“oh but the browser age controls don’t work, nobody remembers to set them, we need something that makes kids safer”.

I’m not convinced it would defend anything, because I don’t actually think this is about kids, it’s about moving the Overton window on what is allowed on the Internet, and thus what is allowed in our culture, at all.

Hate it when others decide what Therianthropy is instead of listening to our individual experiences. There are as many reasons for identifying as an animal as there are Therians

The talk to your friends app and the witness the horrors app being the same app is not great for the mental health is it

6am migraines, after going to bed at 1, are the literal worst ><

bullying catboys

😳🥺😅

I’m really sorry, I hope she recovers quickly. ><

you ever think about how like, it's pretty normal for couples to babytalk at each other

and like, how that's because they're comfortable enough with each other to do that

and how basically at some level, every fucking adult age regresses a teeeeeensy bit when they feel safe?

Woooooo congrats!

"The Corporations don't intrinsically have souls, but they've got rights. The only corpo that contained a soul was Costco - the only one born with a soul. The Chamber of Commerce was empty, you see. These things are just vessels. That's why I'm going to destroy them. Because I hate them."

(This post inspired by @feilen.purr.church ‘s excellent post about half-dead algorithms that still pops up in my head from time to time.)

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If @shayne-the-yote.bsky.social learned how to code :3

Today at work has been me catching live bugs for my junior devs like, “meow, here, I brought you this live prey, now you kill it.” ^o.o^

Gotta teach ‘em how to hunt for themselves~

dog in room on fire drinking coffee and he is red - this is not fine - but the problem is so inconceivably large that i feel powerless to affect it

The dog understands.

Holy hell, if you can’t even be open enough to admit your own identity… how on earth do they think that would even work?

OK but that’s kind of hot actually (and I think might actually just make me worse at chess)

I don’t really know what the path forward looks like, to be honest. I’m muddling my way through each day, doing what I can. I deeply dislike the life I find myself in now.

But there are bright spots. And I’m trying to find and grow those. And hopefully one day things will feel okay again.

I have to remind myself I can’t get over almost 15 years in a day, or even a year. I’m simultaneously impatient to be getting on with my life, and also still pining for an impossible alternate reality.