RE: https://tldr.nettime.org/@tante/117269357701498157 But in short: "FLOSS without Antifascism is not even doing the job it was set out to do because having fascists around will ensure that many marginalized groups do not gain any of the potential benefits." (and the bar FLOSS sets itself is […]

tante@tante.tldr.nettime.org.ap.brid.gy · 6d ago

Omarchy is part of new fascism. But it's also a good case study about how little political resilience is built into FLOSS: The libertarian roots have not only made the whole movement ready for the taking by corporations but also by fascists. And sadly many influential organizations in that […]

@jaystephens it's fascinating how the llm pushers _always_ redirect, when they're pointed at actual, measurable ill effect of their use of confabulation machines.

the ai pushers are always so fucking disappointed that they are not immediatelly patted on the head because they admit they're using the confabulation machinery “reluctantly” and “out of convenience”.

(you don't become an ai pusher just because you meet a few people who dislike ai; you were an ai pusher already.)

we got both kinds of tech bros here. cultist assholes and normal assholes

so what distros, if any, actually package CDE?

I love saying things that are not binding in any way https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=kfJ1gdMm17E

walked 3 miles to get the loved one the *good* drugs (turns out lotta chemists don't keep schedule 2 drugs in good stock), took my glasses off in the rain, and they fell out somewhere fuck thankfully zenni can send the same glasses i got in janury again in 2 weeks in theory? which is actually […]

crypto zillionaire ben delo, who is rationalist/EA org MIRI's second biggest backer after vitalik buterin, backed nina power's defamation suit over being called a neo-Nazi, in which she established she called herself a neo-Nazi and you can too […]

when you lick your fingers after sprinkling on some MSG and realize you’re delicious

Scottish Parliament passes AI data centre pause No to a full moratorium https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nlqRKNkXVrg&list=UU9rJrMVgcXTfa8xuMnbhAEA - video https://pivottoai.libsyn.com/20260918-scottish-parliament-passes-ai-data-centre-pause - podcast time: 3 min 50 sec

i was not previously aware of this year's rationalist solstice service, but this is the correct venue for coverage https://www.interfaithamerica.org/article/at-bay-areas-secular-solstice-rationalists-grapple-with-ai-doomsday/

interfaithamerica.org

"it's a fanfic with not one but two mary sues" "the plot is they fight each other"

oh no, how sad https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Articles_for_deletion/Jacob_Coxon

https://bsky.app/profile/misterfungi.bsky.social/post/3mvltsjq3os2

Hermione, Texas Granger@misterfungi.bsky.social · 4d ago

what the hell???

this is a UK anti-AI petition that is sensible and about actual harms https://supporters.openrightsgroup.org/civicrm/?civiwp=CiviCRM&q=civicrm%2Fmailing%2Fview&reset=1&id=649&cid=7549&cs=6321d9c77b3e5e82d91f685e068c4979_1789749311_168 by @openrightsgroup

omarchy really missed its trick by not including urbit

Scottish Parliament passes AI data centre pause No to a full moratorium https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nlqRKNkXVrg&list=UU9rJrMVgcXTfa8xuMnbhAEA - video https://pivottoai.libsyn.com/20260918-scottish-parliament-passes-ai-data-centre-pause - podcast time: 3 min 50 sec

“the conquest of bred” is a much different book than I’d been led to believe

Existential risk from AI: Department of WAAAAGH dickheads believing a hallucination telling them a ship is carrying nuclear components https://edition.cnn.com/2026/09/18/politics/us-military-ai-false-intelligence-china-ship

speaking of deranged code, does anyone have a preferred native code generation toolchain if I’m doing a language frontend in emacs lisp? emacs lisp uses GIMPLE via LIMPLE but the entire thing is almost undocumented and highly specialized for elisp native comp. I feel like I’m putting more […]

Me: This video is about why you shouldn't burn down data centres. YouTube commenters: did you say "burn down data centres"? on it!

That "ChatGPT is reinventing the bronze age bicameral mind" meme sent me on a long journey to learn about the bicameral mind hypothesis, and while I think that Julian Jaynes way overstated an idea and its implications to untenable extremes, there's a fundamentally true idea in there (that […]

you know, I’m not convinced apple gives a shit about your privacy just because they said no to the fbi one time years ago and because your fantasy version of them isn’t shoving AI and surveillance into every product they make

like, what are we doing here? a tiny benefit to journalists (I don’t see it, they have existing tools and processes for this) to maybe catch generative or doctored images unless someone does the obvious (take a picture of a screen) is worth violating the rights of everyone being photographed? […]

like shit I know I’m putting way more thought into this than they did, but I seriously don’t know how you get to “I don’t think apple could do anything with a small corpus of unlabelled images” in a world where AI companies go to vast expense to destructively scan rare books just to feed their […]

AI data centre fires overwhelm emergency responders Keep the home fires from burning https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g0ZzwvnNi2U&list=UU9rJrMVgcXTfa8xuMnbhAEA - video https://pivottoai.libsyn.com/20260917-ai-data-centre-fires-overwhelm-emergency-responders - podcast time: 3 min 44 sec

here, shithead, even though you ignored all my points (especially the ones about consent), let me reply directly to a point you made: apple wants a small number of genuine, high quality photos from people like journalists because exfiltrating high-quality privileged information from specialists […]

some fucking coward decided to reply to a reply to this thread to do this exact thing, except they untagged me so I wouldn’t see it????? and they of course decided to talk over my points instead of replying to them in any way apple fans… are you ok? why are you like this? you understand that […]

As @davidgerard.circumstances.run.ap.brid.gy often writes, you should always read "could one day" as "doesn't".