how i see this playing out:
1. butlerian jihad: everything is done to kill AI. the bubble bursts. openAI dies in a massive fire. oracle takes a huge hit, is bailed out, and gets bought out by MS or palantir. MS takes a big hit and is bailed out by the government. any interest in local models dies because git repos dont want to get legal heat for hosting code that can be used for crime or something. they'll probably write laws making it illegal to gen images of children or deepfakes and that'll kill stablediffusion. services like midjourney and novelai die because payment processors dont want to touch that.

2. hardware prices stay sky high until "local" computers die. the only pc you can buy is a thin client that connects to a server that does all of your computing for you. you have zero privacy. windows becomes a truly online only operating system as a service. you pay monthly to "connect your computer to the windows ecosystem" and if you dont pay your computer becomes a useless brick.

3. prices drop and AI is made illegal in some weird way. distributing local models that can be used to do something "bad" becomes a crime. all models are capable of telling you how to build a bomb or generating obscene images and as a result generative ai dies.

guys i finally found out why i dont have a gf

not mad at all. mozilla poisoned firefox when they started getting really gay and now we are watching them walk it behind the shed. its not been a good browser since version 3
they are currently on version 146

malware.

Get-AppxPackage -allusers *Microsoft.YourPhone* | Remove-AppxPackage -allusers
they actually have the audacity to grey out the uninstall button as if they think they get to make decisions about what executes on my computer.

chrome canary (the alpha channel) has now implemented vertical tabs
this is very exciting to me because vertical tabs are a must have for me and the only browser that currently supports it properly is brave

the channelblocker extension hasnt been updated since the beginning of this year. certain features slowly stopped working and it appears that its now finally dead. i had stuff like "reacts" and "situation is" blocked so i would not see video noscripts with those words in my feed but they are now appearing
cue taps on a horn

update: we are so back
https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/ytblock-block-any-content/nedcanggplmbbgmlpcjiafgjcpdimpea
this one works even better tbh

not sure if ive told this story here but a couple years back i went out to best buy to buy a tv. every single was was some kind of internet connected "smart" tv. amazon fire. android, roku, whatever. i dont want any of that. i want a large, decent looking display that connects to a small computer running linux that will play videos from plex/jellyfin and youtube without ads.
i cant find such a device. after a few minutes of looking around, probably with a look on my face that says "Kaczynski was right" an employee approached me to ask if i was finding everything alright. i was not.
"do you have a tv that doesnt spy on me?"
"im not sure what you mean?"
"i want a tv that does not have a bunch of extra garbage. i want just a tv."
"oh, well as you can see we have Amazon (TM) Alexa (R) powered Fire (R) TVs, Roku (TM) powered TVs... this one over here is compatible with Apple (TM) Siri (R)."
"All of those spy on me."
"Well some of them have microphones in the remotes for easy searching for content instead of using the remote to try to text search but this Fire (R) TV does not."
"i don't think you understand. i just want a tv. Only a tv."
"you can play movies and watch tv on all of these, sir."
"do you have a tv that does not connect to the internet?"
"if you don't connect it to the internet you would not be able to use any of the services"
"i dont want to use the services."
"oh just dont connect it to the internet then."
"that's not what want. i want a tv without the 'smart' garbage."

the guy genuinely could not understand. i felt like i was in a ray bradburry book.

https://github.com/bumptop/BumpTop
the oldest file i have on my computer is an ancient winxp 32 bit binary of bumptop from before it was opensourced
i still cherish it.
it was so unoptimized lmao it sucked but it was cool

when sending business emails (because im a business man who does business) i've had to stop using dashes in my writing out of fear that someone will confuse it with an em—dash and think my email was written by ai

do people actually go on youtube and just ask how they should feel about things?

computer illiterate people call everything an app now. I should confuse them by calling everything a website instead.
"call of duty is my favorite website"
"adobe is an awful company. their billing is terrible and their websites are too expensive"
"i wish microsoft would remove all the ai slop from the windows website"

https://loworbitsecurity.com/radar/radar16/
The US performed a bgp cyber attack against ISPs in caracas, venezuela an hour or so prior to invading
The attack allowed them to intercept traffic related to critical infrastructure in the area.