Home automation system from the 1980s (via Avboden on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0BHIknNa6Eg).
January 16, 2025 at 11:26 PM
Home automation system from the 1980s (via Avboden on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0BHIknNa6Eg).
I remember when we were 12-18 months out from AI white collar job automation, 12-18 months ago.
Mustafa Suleyman, Microsoft's AI chief, says AI can automate white-collar jobs within 12-18 months, as tech reaches human-level performance in tasks.
Microsoft AI CEO predicts 'most, if not all' white-collar tasks will be automated by AI within 18 months
Mustafa Suleyman, Microsoft's AI chief, says AI can automate white-collar jobs within 12-18 months, as tech reaches human-level performance in tasks.
www.businessinsider.com
February 14, 2026 at 11:21 AM
I remember when we were 12-18 months out from AI white collar job automation, 12-18 months ago.
Everything I've learned from aircraft automation leads me to believe that Tesla's driver automation is the worst possible way to do things.
September 30, 2024 at 2:34 PM
Everything I've learned from aircraft automation leads me to believe that Tesla's driver automation is the worst possible way to do things.
Home automation system on a CRT touchscreen from the 1980s (via u/avboden on reddit)
April 11, 2024 at 10:36 PM
Home automation system on a CRT touchscreen from the 1980s (via u/avboden on reddit)
Two points here.
1. Automation can be great, but this administration is making it harder for states to use automation to expand coverage.
2. Automation to detect fraud has a really bad track record in practice.
donmoynihan.substack.com/p/robodebt-w...
1. Automation can be great, but this administration is making it harder for states to use automation to expand coverage.
2. Automation to detect fraud has a really bad track record in practice.
donmoynihan.substack.com/p/robodebt-w...
Robodebt: When automation fails
Lessons from Australia's use of algorithms to detect welfare fraud become more relevant in the age of AI
donmoynihan.substack.com
September 22, 2026 at 7:35 PM
Two points here.
1. Automation can be great, but this administration is making it harder for states to use automation to expand coverage.
2. Automation to detect fraud has a really bad track record in practice.
donmoynihan.substack.com/p/robodebt-w...
1. Automation can be great, but this administration is making it harder for states to use automation to expand coverage.
2. Automation to detect fraud has a really bad track record in practice.
donmoynihan.substack.com/p/robodebt-w...
“Move towards automation” should raise eyebrows
Also: they want you to think “34 Million able-bodied on Medicaid” means people are LAZY, when what it really means is people are UNDERPAID.
The oligarchy thinks we are all idiots. They are stealing from you and laughing at you.
Also: they want you to think “34 Million able-bodied on Medicaid” means people are LAZY, when what it really means is people are UNDERPAID.
The oligarchy thinks we are all idiots. They are stealing from you and laughing at you.
July 8, 2025 at 2:18 PM
“Move towards automation” should raise eyebrows
Also: they want you to think “34 Million able-bodied on Medicaid” means people are LAZY, when what it really means is people are UNDERPAID.
The oligarchy thinks we are all idiots. They are stealing from you and laughing at you.
Also: they want you to think “34 Million able-bodied on Medicaid” means people are LAZY, when what it really means is people are UNDERPAID.
The oligarchy thinks we are all idiots. They are stealing from you and laughing at you.
Automation and AI are freeing us from mundane, tiresome tasks like making sure you’re not advertising your products with quotes from David Irving
My sister does calligraphy so is big into fountain pens, and she sent me this.
Looks like this company used an agency that lazily automated quotes from British authors — one of whom happened to be a Holocaust denier.
Looks like this company used an agency that lazily automated quotes from British authors — one of whom happened to be a Holocaust denier.
July 19, 2024 at 11:04 PM
Automation and AI are freeing us from mundane, tiresome tasks like making sure you’re not advertising your products with quotes from David Irving
Keep this in mind as we start seeing more and more large scale outages from AWS, Cloudflare, Github, etc. These are the companies hoping to increasingly automate their systems with AI
![https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Automation
Paradox of automation
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The paradox of automation says that the more efficient the automated system, the more crucial the human contribution of the operators. Humans are less involved, but their involvement becomes more critical. Lisanne Bainbridge, a cognitive psychologist, identified these issues notably in her widely cited paper "Ironies of Automation."[49] If an automated system has an error, it will multiply that error until it is fixed or shut down. This is where human operators come in.[50] A fatal example of this was Air France Flight 447, where a failure of automation put the pilots into a manual situation they were not prepared for.[51]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:byjjq67p7iau6qufzjmizpbn/bafkreie4ootzzyowpylsxjg7gxsp63iujxh4qceuuxxhwm63yrm2qffa4e)
November 18, 2025 at 9:37 PM
Keep this in mind as we start seeing more and more large scale outages from AWS, Cloudflare, Github, etc. These are the companies hoping to increasingly automate their systems with AI
Researcher: In my paper I discuss the ways in which automation may expand rather than eliminate problems with the human operator
Tech Company: At long last, we have created the Automation from classic research paper Ironies of Automation
Tech Company: At long last, we have created the Automation from classic research paper Ironies of Automation
September 26, 2026 at 12:29 PM
Researcher: In my paper I discuss the ways in which automation may expand rather than eliminate problems with the human operator
Tech Company: At long last, we have created the Automation from classic research paper Ironies of Automation
Tech Company: At long last, we have created the Automation from classic research paper Ironies of Automation
Infuriating Washington Post article on the long term proposal to remove train operators from the DC subway, as is best practice in Europe. If you didn't understand transit, you'd wonder what the point of automation is.
The point of automation is frequency!
The point of automation is frequency!
DC, Maryland and Virginia agree to funding to fully automate @wmata.com — new signals, trains, and platform doors — over next two decades.
Local leaders say they’ll pay $5.6 billion to automate Metro
A regional task force is working on how to fund a modern Metro system.
www.washingtonpost.com
May 19, 2025 at 1:54 AM
Infuriating Washington Post article on the long term proposal to remove train operators from the DC subway, as is best practice in Europe. If you didn't understand transit, you'd wonder what the point of automation is.
The point of automation is frequency!
The point of automation is frequency!
“When the AI provided an incorrect result, researchers found inexperienced and moderately experienced radiologists dropped their cancer-detecting accuracy from around 80% to about 22%. Very experienced radiologists’ accuracy dropped from nearly 80% to 45%.”
pubs.rsna.org/doi/10.1148/...
pubs.rsna.org/doi/10.1148/...
Automation Bias in Mammography: The Impact of Artificial Intelligence BI-RADS Suggestions on Reader Performance | Radiology
Background Automation bias (the propensity for humans to favor suggestions from automated decision-making systems) is a known source of error in human-machine interactions, but its implications regard...
pubs.rsna.org
September 8, 2024 at 11:48 PM
“When the AI provided an incorrect result, researchers found inexperienced and moderately experienced radiologists dropped their cancer-detecting accuracy from around 80% to about 22%. Very experienced radiologists’ accuracy dropped from nearly 80% to 45%.”
pubs.rsna.org/doi/10.1148/...
pubs.rsna.org/doi/10.1148/...
They demonstrate the adage that worker-driven automation improves quality, while capital-driven automation improves *throughput*:
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pluralistic.net/2026/07/28/h...
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Pluralistic: Discernment (28 Jul 2026) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow
pluralistic.net
August 1, 2026 at 12:57 PM
They demonstrate the adage that worker-driven automation improves quality, while capital-driven automation improves *throughput*:
pluralistic.net/2026/07/28/h...
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pluralistic.net/2026/07/28/h...
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Guess investing in baristas IS important... if only SOMEONE had ideas that could, say, be put into a union contract......... oh wait
May 2, 2025 at 6:33 PM
Guess investing in baristas IS important... if only SOMEONE had ideas that could, say, be put into a union contract......... oh wait
we built the Gematria Automation Machine, from the famous movie Don't Build The Gematria Automation Machine
May 22, 2025 at 2:21 AM
we built the Gematria Automation Machine, from the famous movie Don't Build The Gematria Automation Machine
Automation Cyborg from helldivers II. Art by me as always.
#helldivers2 #videogamefanart #cyborgs #illustration #robotart #automations
#helldivers2 #videogamefanart #cyborgs #illustration #robotart #automations
March 2, 2026 at 10:04 PM
Automation Cyborg from helldivers II. Art by me as always.
#helldivers2 #videogamefanart #cyborgs #illustration #robotart #automations
#helldivers2 #videogamefanart #cyborgs #illustration #robotart #automations
With more people over here, I have now added automation of posts from steelers.com to this feed so you will know when things post from there. Happy Thursday. #Steelers #NFL
November 14, 2024 at 12:52 PM
With more people over here, I have now added automation of posts from steelers.com to this feed so you will know when things post from there. Happy Thursday. #Steelers #NFL
Python for Everything
📊 Projects & Practice
100 Python Projects — From Beginner to Expert — Hands-on project book covering Flask, databases, data science with Pandas/Matplotlib, automation & more.
pythonclcoding.gumroad.com/l/100PythonP...
📊 Projects & Practice
100 Python Projects — From Beginner to Expert — Hands-on project book covering Flask, databases, data science with Pandas/Matplotlib, automation & more.
pythonclcoding.gumroad.com/l/100PythonP...
December 24, 2025 at 9:21 AM
Python for Everything
📊 Projects & Practice
100 Python Projects — From Beginner to Expert — Hands-on project book covering Flask, databases, data science with Pandas/Matplotlib, automation & more.
pythonclcoding.gumroad.com/l/100PythonP...
📊 Projects & Practice
100 Python Projects — From Beginner to Expert — Hands-on project book covering Flask, databases, data science with Pandas/Matplotlib, automation & more.
pythonclcoding.gumroad.com/l/100PythonP...
California farmers say Medicaid recipients, automation can't replace their immigrant workers
www.latimes.com/california/s...
www.latimes.com/california/s...
Trump official suggests Medicaid recipients, automation can replace immigrant workers. California farmers disagree
As the Trump administration has carried out mass deportations, leaders have flip-flopped on whether to exempt some industries, including agriculture, from raids.
www.latimes.com
July 10, 2025 at 3:52 PM
California farmers say Medicaid recipients, automation can't replace their immigrant workers
www.latimes.com/california/s...
www.latimes.com/california/s...
The International Longshoremen’s Association— the 47,000-member union that represents cargo handlers at every major Eastern US and Gulf Coast port — is threatening to walk off the job on Jan. 15 as its leaders seek new protections from automation
Why US Port Workers Are Threatening to Strike, Again
There's a new deadline over automation: Jan. 15.
www.bloomberg.com
January 2, 2025 at 12:00 AM
The International Longshoremen’s Association— the 47,000-member union that represents cargo handlers at every major Eastern US and Gulf Coast port — is threatening to walk off the job on Jan. 15 as its leaders seek new protections from automation
In the purest sense, we are.
Ludd's ideology was about being worried about automation taking away work from people. Not about "technology bad" in itself.
Ludd's ideology was about being worried about automation taking away work from people. Not about "technology bad" in itself.
September 9, 2025 at 9:14 PM
In the purest sense, we are.
Ludd's ideology was about being worried about automation taking away work from people. Not about "technology bad" in itself.
Ludd's ideology was about being worried about automation taking away work from people. Not about "technology bad" in itself.
LLMs were created with no sense of ethics and thrown out with no sense of ethics, and HUGE SHOCKER, probably the most lucrative way to use it is literal automation of scams to get money from people by scaring and/or lying to them.
May 7, 2025 at 10:03 PM
LLMs were created with no sense of ethics and thrown out with no sense of ethics, and HUGE SHOCKER, probably the most lucrative way to use it is literal automation of scams to get money from people by scaring and/or lying to them.
"THE PEOPLE DO NOT YEARN FOR AUTOMATION" is probably a very easy thing to say when you live divorced from the reality of how automation in farming, manufacturing, and a multitude of other things have made your entire lifestyle possible
Factorio has sold over 8 million copies.
The people yearn for automation so hard they do it recreationally.
The people yearn for automation so hard they do it recreationally.
THE PEOPLE DO NOT YEARN FOR AUTOMATION
April 25, 2026 at 4:18 PM
"THE PEOPLE DO NOT YEARN FOR AUTOMATION" is probably a very easy thing to say when you live divorced from the reality of how automation in farming, manufacturing, and a multitude of other things have made your entire lifestyle possible
New, from me: how might automation fail in public services?
The Australian Robodebt case provides a compelling set of insights that governments lurching toward AI or algorithms need to pay attention to. 🧵
substack.com/home/post/p-...
The Australian Robodebt case provides a compelling set of insights that governments lurching toward AI or algorithms need to pay attention to. 🧵
substack.com/home/post/p-...
Robodebt: When automation fails
Lessons from Australia's use of algorithms to detect welfare fraud become more relevant in the age of AI
substack.com
June 23, 2025 at 12:11 PM
New, from me: how might automation fail in public services?
The Australian Robodebt case provides a compelling set of insights that governments lurching toward AI or algorithms need to pay attention to. 🧵
substack.com/home/post/p-...
The Australian Robodebt case provides a compelling set of insights that governments lurching toward AI or algorithms need to pay attention to. 🧵
substack.com/home/post/p-...
Why are solar panels and batteries from China so cheap?
High levels of automation, cheap energy, and state-of-the-art manufacturing processes.
It's less about low salaries than many people think.
My latest Substack:
www.sustainabilitybynumbers.com/p/china-chea...
High levels of automation, cheap energy, and state-of-the-art manufacturing processes.
It's less about low salaries than many people think.
My latest Substack:
www.sustainabilitybynumbers.com/p/china-chea...
Why are solar panels and batteries from China so cheap?
It's more to do with automation and state-of-the art manufacturing processes than cheap labour.
www.sustainabilitybynumbers.com
May 15, 2025 at 8:25 AM
Why are solar panels and batteries from China so cheap?
High levels of automation, cheap energy, and state-of-the-art manufacturing processes.
It's less about low salaries than many people think.
My latest Substack:
www.sustainabilitybynumbers.com/p/china-chea...
High levels of automation, cheap energy, and state-of-the-art manufacturing processes.
It's less about low salaries than many people think.
My latest Substack:
www.sustainabilitybynumbers.com/p/china-chea...