Post #4393375

2026-08-05 17:48 UTC

there’s a lot of money and influence being poured into making the linux kernel utterly reliant on a bit of software that’s clearly unfit for purpose. that’s why all this shit is happening so quick: anthropic, OpenAI, and palantair pouring money into the Linux foundation, linus doing his little AI booster interviews, the Linux foundation pivoting even further into AI, linus using an alt-right meme to justify the kernel’s pro-LLM policy, the systemic exposure of maintainers to these tools this is an attack, and all the people who assigned themselves the job of protecting open source against attacks are welcoming the attackers in it doesn’t matter how obvious it gets that LLMs are a negative, because we are currently being betrayed by people with a financial and political incentive to betray us

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@zzt@mas.to 2026-08-05 19:42

hey neoliberal shitheads: the press release announcing the alliance with all the biggest most corrupt companies in the space as founding members, *is* the announcement that they intend to share money, resources, and influence press releases don’t usually include phrasing like “we invited Palantir because they’re really good at hiding money and doing evil shit” all of the noise about sharing code is noise. open secure AI doesn’t exist and the companies in the alliance are the fucking worst at doing anything open or secure. the point is to share money and resources in a way that looks like non-profit work. this is standard corruption. please grow the fuck up if you need a signed confession from Palantir of all companies or the Linux Foundation that they’re doing the obvious

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@zzt@mas.to 2026-08-05 17:52

you don’t just accidentally receive money from Palantir and then confidently say something remarkably fascist in public you don’t just get many thousands of dollars in “free” tokens from the corporation that’s sponsoring your foundation and not realize the conflict of interest when you make interacting with their “tools” mandatory linus sure as fuck isn’t that naive

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