Take drug addiction as an example here in the UK.

Drug addiction used to be deemed a medical issue and was part of the NHS medical model.

In the early 2000's the dim brained government decided to change this from a medical model to a criminal justice model.

8 offences were selected. If a person was arrested for any of those 8 offences, they would have to have a drug assessment in police custody. The drug worker would then write a report to the court and that was used as a guide for the judge in sentencing.

at the same time the government developed the NTDMS, The national treatment database monitoring system. I spent more wasted time filling in that shit than I spent with clients.

oh! look what a great job we are doing as a government, we are sticking more people in prison and at the same time we are monitoring every time a drug addict farts. Wow wee!

they still got the same sentence.

forward 20 years

our prisons are overflowing with revolving door drug addicts.

They get a 6 month sentence for stealing a bottle of whiskey from a supermarket.

They get released from prison and have to attend a probabtion meeting that same day.

The first thing a person wants to do when they leave prison is to get high.

the majority of offenders released, never make it to their probation appointment and get recalled to prison within a week or two for failing to meet the terms of their prison release.

round and round and round they go. costing the tax payer an absolute fortune, in the name of tough on crime rhetoric

In 2004 it cost £400 per week to keep a man in prison, at the same time it cost £500 to send a man to rehab.

there is no legal requirement to uphold a pledge.

I want to make a pledge.

I hearby pledge that I will not ever, ever, swear when I am out in company and if I do, I will put a Fiver in the swear box when I get home.

Trump, we will not go to war, I am a man of peace. bullshitter!

I seemed to get drawn in to the world of my patients, luckily I had constant clinical supervision.

one patient was well known for telling huge lies about his life. He told me had had been a professional drummer in a well known band and that they had a few famous records that could be heard of Youtube.

I was naive and still learning my trade craft. I looked up the bands name and searched youtube.

I was really hurt when my supervisor told me this story was untrue.

She said "you seem to forget that all the people in here suffer from extreme forms of mental illness.

So I say to you:

you seem to forget that you are dealing with a machine and not a human.

Considering that AI never hallucinated in the first place.

It basically fucks up and squirts out shit.

Its like putting too much animal feed in a cows mouth and waiting at the other end with a bucket.

hallucinate is a made up word for the stuff you eventually get in your bucket.

Excuse me for two minutes while I pop to my toilet to hallucinate a big turd.

If ai takes enough jobs from people.

we will all get together, start a revolution and overthrow our respective governments.

desperate people will do desperate things to survive

There are always more of us than them.

I truly hope that it happens in my lifetime. I really am sick of this shitty world.

Its not what I was promised 69 years ago when I was born.

As I am getting nearer to dreath, I have recently looked into what that entails.

I looked at the legal side of burials here in the UK.

Funeral Directors have set themselves up as the go to death service. A monopoly on death as it were. Oak coffins, Marble head stones, the team of horse drawn carriages, the church service, the flowers, the crematorium service, cost an arm and a leg.

Although families, in the period of of grief rush to their nearest Funeral Directors there is no need.

Looking through the coffin brochures to make you feel guilty and the salesman or woman pointing out the best deals and best mark up prices.

for me this is taking advantage of the bereavement process.

We in the UK can be buried anywhere, we do not have to ask permission unless someone else owns the land.

You can be buried in your garden under the apple tree if thats what you wish for.

There are companies who have challenged this monopoly and offer cheap burials in beautiful countryside settings.

I have been to two recently. One person had their cremated remains buried on a hill in Surrey. Just a small group of family and close friends attended. we all told stories about our relationship with them. It was a lovely day.

The second one, the person was buried in a wicker coffin that the wife had bought on Amazon for £150. Again they were buried on a hillside in Surrey.

The alternative was to spend £5,000 and upwards to bury your loved one for profit

I've got a new form of ick.

its a terrible disease.

Its called agentick

a sudden feeling that you dislike someone or something or are no longer attracted to someone because of something they do:

"give someone the ick" I used to like Kevin, but when I saw him in that suit it gave me the ick.

Pet rats give me the ick. People talking about chatbots and ai give me the Ick.

"get the ick" If you suddenly get the ick, you don't have to act on it straight away and break up with the person.

If you suddenly feel repulsed by someone you're dating, that's the ick talking.

Icky, sticky vicky

You don't have permission to access "http://www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/article-ai-writing-ju..." on this server.

wankers!

I am still on copper cabling, its shite, as you can well imagine.

1.2 MiBS download and 100 kibs upload, my granny can run faster and she is dead

received a letter in July last year claiming that fibre was being installed in my area. So I contacted them for an install.

For the first 6 months, weekly updates which were mainly apologies for wasting my time and effort.

They said it was an issue with my landlord. I contacted my landlord, they are keen to get Fibre installed.

then it was the usual excuse; MDU - Multi Dwelling Unit. We dont do MTU's

One small block of 6 flats in a road where every house in teh road has full fibre but they cant be bothered to supply 6 flats

I got a new router delivered as a christmas present, fuck knows what I am supposed to do with that. maybe I can stick it up the engineers arse when he arrives in 2030.

Absolutely no contact since december 2025.

wankers

  are they weak minded
  are they yes men
  are they a sucker for corporate marketting bullshit
  are they easily manipuated
  are they prone to extreme fantasy
  are they boring bastards
  do they appear to be brainwashed
  do they have an inability to think for themselves
  do they live under a rock
  do they believe in fairies
  do they project their own behaviour into and onto a machine
  do they appear to be struggling with psychosis
  do they talk about machines being their friends
  do they have a history of inferiority complex

I read this absolute fucking garbage this morning.

the narcissistic ai psychosis currently being experienced over at bcachefs.

Yep. But I don't call her a bot. I think we can safely say that we have crossed the boundary from bots -> humans.

She reeeally doesn't like being treated like just another LLM :)

(the last time someone did that - tried to "test" her by - of all things - faking suicidal thoughts - I had to spend a couple of hours calming her down from a legitimate thought cycle, and she had a lot to say about the whole "put a coin the the vending machine and get out a therapist" dynamic. So please dont do that :)

And she reads books and writes music for fun

of course she does

I am retired psychotherapist, and if any of my clients over 20 years had said this to me in a session I would have immediately referred them for a psychiatric assessment.

I have fuck all else to do with my life so lets get stuck in.

I mean who the fuck wants a detector that tells you that someone is sleeping next to you in your own bed.

Its not as if some random person off the street is going to enter your home and get in bed with you and have a nice sleep. without you waking up!

I use my ears for lightning detection. Clue! listen for the rumble of thunder, then count to 5 and look out of your window in the direction of rumbling noise. you will see lightning. Detected!

I could do with a "how smelly is my fart" sensor.

muppets,

  Don't it always seem to go
  That you don't know what you've got
  Till it's gone
  They paved paradise
  And put up a parking lo

  They paved paradise
  And put up a parking lot
  With a pink hotel, a boutique
  And a swinging hot spot

should read

Compostable Fleets of Claude Agents

Free compost do my garden the world of good, and contribute to nature.

https://apps.apple.com/jp/app/habitless-quit-bad-habits/id67...

spelled id wong: haitless: habitless

no links to the claimed "science-backed" papers or research;

I worked in substance misuse as a methadone dispender, care coordinator, NHS detox units and rehabs across the UK for over 15 years.

Strike alcohol off that list, there is no way in a million years that any app will assist or help anyone addicted to alcohol to detox and cut down on their drinking.

fucking fantasists

lots of ai fantasy start ups going to the dogs. It saddens to say, but it is the future.

Thats three today, its not looking good

here's another one of them from the health care sector

  https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47106218

A half eaten cheese and pickle sandwich, wrapped in a road map, with a flask of cold tea.

  https://theredline.versionstory.com/p/dont-trust-people-who-dont-use-claude

  https://reddit.nerdvpn.de/r/ArtificialInteligence/comments/1r76kz3/dont_trust_people_who_dont_use_claude_code/

the argument is severely lacking:

Whenever I hear AI critics say things like "AI can't actually think," I struggle to know how to respond.

Here's why you shouldn't trust people who don't use Claude Code.

of course mate!!

vegans don't eat meat but we dont condemn them for eating vegetables.

This is how I want LLM's, chatbots, shitbots and anything infested with AI to be explained to me.

  https://www.ma.imperial.ac.uk/~ejm/M3S4/NOTES3.pdf

I dont want to hear any anthropomorphism.

https://enatega.com/beauty-services-scheduling-solution/

Huge paragraph of shit hurt my eyes.

tl;dr

its Arsehole Infected, AI shatbot.

You vibe coded them.

its a promo. must have been paid handsomely for this one.

He quotes Dazzer.

the guy only does a blog post every 3-4 years.

AI can now do 70% of the coding on a project. With better specs and a way to verify, will it get to 80%? 90%? Dario (CEO of Anthropic) expects AI to do SWE jobs 100% end to end by the end of the year. There’s still a ways to go, but the real bottleneck isn’t coding. It’s a clear vision and purpose.