Linkdump That Very Nearly Was a Pointless Rant About Pointless AI

I started writing my nth arterial leak of a rant about how I was both tired of the rampant AI boosterism that composes most of the alleged technology journalism these days, my own impatience with it, and the oft ignore consequences of unqualified trust in our vaporware hallucinatory future . So, being sick of it and myself, I decided to just do a link dump instead and take out my rage in other…