PAY NO ATTENTION TO THE MAN BEHIND THE KEYBOARD!

Trucker's hitch. It's the greatest knot of all. (obligatory Ylvis)

If only it were that easy, if you do that, the managers will be grateful certainly, but they will also endlessly demand more proof and validation that the system is now completely safe from certain doom until they feel comfortable, which is never. In a lot of cases it's simply easier to convince them that the system was never vulnerable to certain doom in the first place, because you were of course already 5 steps ahead of this even in the planning stages, and for some reason they have an easier time accepting that, as long as they still have every reason to believe you are a brilliant tech god who would never personally fall victim to such a common vulnerability. I suppose it's really less about the reality of the situation and more about what kind of corporate image you are cultivating and maintaining for yourself.

I want the power to break governments with collective action. I fully expect the government to defy our collective action, but I think we can win. Fuck authoritarians.

This is what they're designed for. Everything else is just lipstick on the pig. ACAB

while staff were transporting a replica of the Eisenhower globe

So like, is it a replica of an Eisenhower globe or is it an Eisenhower globe? I feel like that is a pretty significant asterisk here, and kind of significantly changes the narrative. Someone's lying, and as a matter of principle I'm inclined to believe it's Hegseth, but I'd like to know what's actually broken. I don't give a shit if Hegseth breaks his own toys, and if he broke a replica that can be replaced. But he seems to be the only one claiming this is a "replica", as far as anyone else seems to know, including plaques installed at the globe's original location this appears to be an actual globe used by Eisenhower, not a replica.

Authoritarian bullshit is the same whether it comes from the left or the right. They just want to protect their own positions of power by maintaining a big enough crowd to protect them and carry them wherever they want to go. When the crowd gets even a little bit unruly, they all act the same way.

Like Gandhi whoever the fuck originally said: "First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win."

Correct, we are absolutely being played like a fiddle by billionaires and corporate oligarchs. It's essentially irrelevant whether Carney himself is doing the playing or being played himself, he's just the elected messenger for the billionaire capitalist class.

because if it’s voluntary, no one would confess.

You're technically correct, but practically wrong. See, a reasonable and logical person would not do that, but people using AI to slop things together aren't reasonable people, they have very little critical thinking skills and their brains are mostly cooked, they are often happy to openly admit they used AI, if not downright preemptively defensive about it. It is all us stupid people who don't like their slop that are wrong, not them, and they want to make sure we know it and know what we're missing out on for being such stupid backwards luddites.

The title is misleading. They didn't cap it, they just declared that if you are spending more than that, you have to be able to explain what you're spending it on and why, giving it a business reason and a project to associate the costs to, which I expect almost all Claude users at Accenture probably can. This is simply an accounting change, not a company-wide shutdown of Claude.

Heavy use remains possible, but it now needs a budget owner.

Yes that's important. I would also be happy to support more connectivity via Greenland and Iceland.

As it stands, that's true, but the theory is that as empires fall and the edges of civilization fray, you will increasingly find there are places where that kind of petty bureaucracy can no longer effectively or reliably reach, and exactly those places beyond the reach of the failing grasp of the collapsing regimes will be places that you and like-minded individuals will begin to seek and be inevitably drawn towards. It is then that you will suddenly find your ability to build a home (or any other skill related to creating a functional and self-sufficient society) to be quite a valuable and important skill.

The fall of civilization does not necessarily have to be bloody and violent, but even in the most idealized scenario it will almost certainly be quite disruptive to the kind of lives we have been promised and continue to picture for ourselves. Change is necessary. If you do not voluntarily choose change, it will eventually be forced upon you.

I mean, that's literally Accenture's default business model (same as almost any consulting/professional services company), so it shouldn't be surprising. My point is that it's not an indictment of AI, and their AI usage isn't actually going to go down; it's just Accenture doing Accenture things. They're not a charity, they're not using AI for fun, they're using it to make profit, and they make profit by charging their customers for every cent of AI they use on their behalf, usually with a hefty markup, in addition to everything and anything else they can justify charging against their customer's accounts. It's a very profitable business model, and I'm sure they love using AI for it and will continue using AI just as heavily if not even more in the future.

Yes, OP has edited their post to correct it.

Fair point, but not any less fulfilling than my day job already was, arguably maybe a little more fun to be spending the company's money on nonsense. My job pays my bills very adequately, that's normally the only fulfilling thing about it.

The Streisand Effect sends its regards.

The GPL explicitly grants anyone the right to share, distribute, and even modify the source code. So yes, that is exactly what it means. They cannot claim they wrote it, but they can absolutely both share and distribute the source code, and are in fact required to if they do make modifications to it. It's literally the main thing the license is even about.

It is always okay to punch Nazis. You don't need a reason. (serious answer though: I have no idea what kicked it off, my comment still stands though, it's always okay to punch Nazis.)

Hey Sam, just so you know, if I do get laid off, I am going to charge at LEAST double when some of these assholes need to hire me back to fix the AI generated disaster they're struggling to keep running while bleeding money. So thank you in advance, I guess.

Man he's really got this civil war speedrun record locked in.