@alice this feels like “Newspeak” from 1984, but instead of reducing thought directly is by means of destroying real meaning
“Hey do you have Word?, the Office thingy” now becomes “do you have a subscription to the Microsoft 360 copilot app Word with copilot? The agentic text editor with AI”
I truly believe no one truly think this is good, they just awestruck

@alice ah, wondered why copilot reappeared on my phone.
Guess I have to do sicko shit (download libre office for Android)

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Wait... is that... CLIPPY hiding there in plain sight? Is Microsoft finally admitting that copilot is just another useless, annoying, pushy distraction getting in the way?

"You look like you're trying to write something meaningful! Would you like me to replace that with the average of a million strangers shitposting on the Internet?"

#Microsoft #AI #LLM #Copilot #Clippy

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Не, ну, если Копайлот сможет заниматься анализом и поиском по локальным дискам, то я только за, ибо всё чаще возникает нужда прогнать все файлы на конкретном диске и найти в них 1 строчку, но, при этом, очень важную сейчас
Другое дело, что куда М$ денут все метаданные от найденных файлов?.. И будет ли Копай работать без платной подписки?..

@alice I had a bit of hope that it could create excel formulas for me. But this shit isn't even agentic as it seems. It's even more useless than I expected.

@alice Noo don't delete my "memories"

@alice Microsoft Sloppice 365

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Boggles my mind why my employer is deep in Microsoft products. I have to take a few days off work to enjoy my desktop Linux at home.

@alice feckin garbage

@alice I guess MS got tired of half-a$$ing the MS Office updates and decided to just fully a$$ it.

@alice Based on a true story. 😿

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don't be silly, alice

microsoft don't have balls

@alice Oh my god, is that abstract graphic representing AI tying the office suite together a paperclip??!

Microsoft 365 Copilot app (formerly Office): RETURN OF CLIPPY

@alice if they blow up excel it's over for Microsoft. They're def gonna go bankrupt

@alice No more MS Office for me- now Libre Office. It works really well.

@alice More like AI is balls-deep in it.

@alice Smacks of desperation.

@alice So it's, like, a word processor, but it uses millions of gallons of water and more electricity than Belgium and is also wrong half the time. Cool.

@alice office was they biggest brand besides windows. Killing that brand for a AI so not many people are interested in probably won't work out well.

But it's a bold move... Just not a smart one imo

@alice My company had to disable Teams video recording and transcription services bc of the copilot stuff, due to security concerns. It's been more than a year and we haven't gotten it back.

This stuff is being shoved down our throats and major organizations are unable to use it bc it's so unsafe. It's making these applications pure bloatware/malware.

Honestly, it's a good time for new developers to enter the space with non-enshittified products.

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Before: spreadsheet.
Now; spreads shit.

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(Playing Taps)

@alice ... also, dark blue on a dark background? (especially the image/icon on the second screenshot, but the heading on the first is also not really standing out much from the background)

Or is my display or GPU somehow mangling these colors?

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Love the hashtag #microslop

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I saw today some local tv news Directors lost their jobs bc the parent company is utilizing AI to Direct the news.

We don't even have humans running the local television news program anymore.

So maddening.

@alice Please tell me this is made up. I'm starting to read posts on Microslop, so I'm guessing it is real, but I do have a tiny bit of hope that MICROS~1 didn't do something this stupid...

Ah, who am I kidding, this is Microsoft. In fact the same Microsoft of the free webmail service "Outlook", of the mail client "Outlook" and of the webmail for Exchange "Outlook", and I'm probably forgetting something else they've named "Outlook" too. So naming choices certainly aren't their strong suit.

#Microslop

@alice It's REAL!??!??!?!?

@alice I moved to linux a little while ago just because I liked tinkering and because my laptop kept having issues with Windows updates. But the more Microsoft does, the better I feel about it

@alice we're doomed

@alice Clippy with a new hat

@alice Option #3 - Install Linux (use LibreOffice instead)

I should state for the record that I think LLMs and other forms of AI have some valid and worthwhile uses, and that *none* of them should be tied to big tech or capitalism.

See things like:
- accessibility
- some types of research
- spell-check and predictive keyboards
- spam/scam filtering

@alice 🤮🤮🤮🤮

@alice but someone can still "Buy Microsoft 365"? Was "Microsoft 365 Copilot" to big for the button? Slopilot designed the button like it wrote the last 2025 Slopya Nadella post? Microslop at its best!
[Today I got to start on liberating a Surface device from Microslop's grasp, today was a good day, tomorrow will be even better when everything is working]

@alice oh that's gonna piss me off when I get back to work and have to make some lecture presentations

@alice Time to switch to Libre Copilot