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• Post #4378163

  RE: https://climatejustice.social/@ketan/117037187808173536 The reaction has been sharp because the ad appears inside a product customers have already bought [...] the car's cabin is supposed to feel personal, not like a billboard." Yes, this is utterly horrific, of course, but in writing this, didn't anyone notice that this applies to EVERY SINGLE FUCKING TECH PRODUCT WITH A SCREEN & MOST ESPECIALLY PHONES & LAPTOPS!? If buying isn't ownership, piracy isn't ste...

• Post #4348954

  RE: https://privacysafe.social/@whistlepost/117030031401351950 This 👇️ #ai @pluralistic@mamot.fr

• Post #4279449

  RE: https://flipboard.social/@newsguyusa/117014705180956763 While using a machine to flag AI is decidedly iffy, I'm still a little tired of the but-it-works-for-me arguers behind that "witch hunt" whining. Dude, this isn't about you - it's about a technology literally destroying human creative output, in part by simply destroying & in part by destroying our ability to trust what we see & read. If your minor convenience is a casualty in the war (!) against this,...

• Post #4185369

  RE: https://mastodon.me.uk/@ChrisMayLA6/116999623654301110 Yes, burying reports like this is bullshit, but you know what is also bullshit? About a third of ALL food goes to waste. According to @EUCommission@ec.social-network.europa.eu almost 60 million tons of food is thrown out every year in Europe alone. - so when we say that food scarcity will be a security problem, it's laden with a massive helping of colonialism, i.e. We The Rich™️ have plenty of food, but the people who can't aff...

• Post #4183417

  RE: https://mastodon.world/@oldguycrusty/117000120331234100 For Americans who still throw up their hands & ask what they're supposed to do: "The rapid response mechanisms, Schrantz writes, need to be political, legal, media, operational, and above all, organized, with massive grassroots deployment of large numbers of well-prepared citizens..." Get fucking organized, that's what you do. #uspol #midterms

• Post #4156252

  RE: https://helvede.net/@jwcph/116992771103406177 Re. tech being fucking exhausting, my POS work iPhone apparently tried to update overnight (despite being set not to), failed & then screwed itself up so hard nothing works, including button shutdown & internal search. You try starting your day seeing this on your commute, realizing it also took down your train card app & digging around the stupidly convoluted settings for software shutdown, not knowing if any of the load spinners...

• Post #4143469

  RE: https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic/116991564459295969 "If the EU kills off Article 6 of the Copyright Directive, they can use European companies to bring Google and Apple's defective tech exports into compliance with European law. Unlike Trump's companies, those companies can be forced to pay their taxes and respect their users' privacy, labor and consumer rights. That's the Serenity Prayer's "wisdom to know the difference."" - @pluralistic@mamot.fr #Bi...

• Post #4141426

  RE: https://helvede.net/@jwcph/116992771103406177 Also, I have no doubt that the reply they sent to my request is AI generated. Not a single one. #AI

• Post #4134664

  RE: https://uddannelse.social/@jeppe/116990298677274526 Ja, rigtig god artikel om @maiathecyberwitch@helvede.net 👍 Blot en enkelt bemærkning: Det er ikke kun Musk & TikTok m.m., der går højrefløjens ærinde - også legacy-medierne er LANGT mere tilbøjelige til at give spalteplads til højreekstremister, racister & kældermennesker. Dét er formentlig den største enkelt-årsag til slagsiden, i hvert fald i DK, fordi det er stadig i udstrakt grad de "klassiske" mediers indhold, der...

• Post #4129497

  The boiz debunk another batch of AI bullshit 🦬💩 proving again that the one thing AI is useful for is supercharging the same kind of fraud we've always been fighting. - and no, Big Tech is not resisting this; they're promoting it. Yes, it will kill their platforms & businesses dead, but they're expecting to get full-on technofascism in return & then they won't need businesses or platforms that work. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EgfzPsHIKQw #AI #slop #tech #Youtube...

• Post #4109678

  Another note to Americans: Just because he won the election - twice, to your lasting & indelible shame - that doesn't mean that what's happening right now isn't a coup d'état. Your current regime is literally on the list. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Self-coup #uspol #fascism

• Post #4082922

  @anderslund@expressional.social @bettina@mastodon.nu Jeg bruger også CoMaps på telefonen, men dén findes ikke til browser & Mapy er det mest brugbare alternativ til Google Maps jeg har fundet (indtil videre, i hvert fald)... Det skal siges at jeg ikke bruger alle mulige profil-funktioner m.m. - det er til at slå en adresse og/eller en rute op, og ikke andet.

• Post #4054426

  Even emblazoned with a huge Pepsi ad, hot air balloons are still pretty cool 😁

• Post #4021341

  RE: https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic/116962881683745520 "Trump is the escrow agent who keeps the money and the deed, then announces he did it because the seller was a fentanyl dealer and the buyer was a lizard-person; and then publishes a long screed on Truth Social calling everyone who criticises him a terrorist, promising to do it again next time. Even if you need to sell your house, and even if Trump is the only escrow agent you can find, you're just not going to trust him with your d...

• Post #3932751

  RE: https://mastodon.social/@jmcrookston/116944007732074986 Fun fact: When I was a child, my stupid little kiddie account paid something like 3-4% interest. This was normal - banks actually paid you for lending them your money, because that's how the system is supposed to work. Then they discovered they could get away with not doing that & never looked back. Also, you could go to the bank & withdraw for free. Basically they hadn't invented trickling your money out of your po...

• Post #3911501

  RE: https://mastodon.social/@RonSupportsYou/116940960305296929 Well, he can create any power for himself that he feels like, if he just does it & nobody stops him. I struggle to comprehend how the US - currently a smoldering crater due to the results of him repeatedly doing exactly that - hasn't figured this out yet. #uspol #elections

• Post #3800966

  RE: https://helvede.net/@jwcph/116914586419979565 " - most men are good, but when one in ten men are shit & the other nine to nothing, they might as well not fucking be there. Being good on the inside counts for absolutely fuck-all." - Daniel Schloss https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0uZFHpEh5So #gender #masculinity #equality #responsibility

• Post #3735398

  RE: https://social.data.coop/@cryptohagen/116899772774645777 Det er edderhyl'me ikke kun nye / unge politikere, der hellere vil se ud som om de gør arbejdet end rent faktisk gøre arbejdet! Jeg er lidt træt af det her med at teknologisk skabte / øgede problemer skubbes over på de generationer, der er vokset op med teknologien, som om alle, der er opvokset før, har fået Ordentlige Værdier™️. Måske - men hvad siger det så om de ældre generationer, at de begejstret smider de værdier fra sig...

• Post #3696198

  RE: https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic/116888646077038176 Exactly, @pluralistic@mamot.fr - bothsidesism can go fuck itself. One important note, before the "well ackshully"'s start: Left & right wing *dictators* are the same. Politics & ideology is wholly irrelevant to what a dictator wants, which is to be a fucking dictator, i.e. not just "be in charge", but to specifically wield the power to do things to people that they would rather he didn't. That's w...

• Post #3649123

  I've been known to be lax about my stuff & expect it to stand up to casual user habits - but stacking guitars like flapjacks may be too much even for me 😂

• Post #3633412

  RE: https://mstdn.social/@TechCrunch/116874131473946928 No, here's how to opt out: Enforce regular laws, even when broken digitally. Almost everything Big Tech does against us is illegal (and the rest should be) - stop making it everyone's individual problem to desperately try & yet still ultimately fail to not be victimized. #BigTech

• Post #3534395

  RE: https://sfba.social/@markmetz/116850223076964583 It's almost as if being American isn't the only problem with Big Tech... #tech #BigTech #WSocial

• Post #3471850

  RE: https://infosec.exchange/@mttaggart/116830015225440372 "Attack memorization is inherently brittle; it only works against attacks the LLM already knows [...] In contrast, role perception is the robust alternative. All the LLM needs to do is recognize that the command is in a role like tool that inherently lacks authority to give orders. But we'll show that LLMs cannot perceive roles accurately." TL;DR: they CANNOT be made secure. This is not a technology that should be take...

• Post #3445457

  RE: https://mastodon.social/@benroyce/116824076897344879 This is unaccountably hilarious to me - like a wolf pack being bullied by a huge flock of ducks 😂

• Post #3430628

  RE: https://chaos.social/@slothrop/116822787176624044 I'm starting to seriously wonder if fucking ANYONE cant point to ANY part of the digital age that isn't either a raging dumpster fire or a raging dumpster fire that hasn't happened yet... I programmed in grade school. I drew a logo for my "data company" before I knew what a company was. I wasn't just on board with the internet - I'd been waiting for it for half a decade when it happened. I'm a huge tech...

• Post #3341772

  RE: https://cosocial.ca/@PaulBusch/116767080700603700 "We could do "AI cancer research" by producing tools that automate gnarly multivariant analysis problems for cancer researchers. But what we're actually doing is defunding cancer research (especially any research into "systemic" cancer because studying systemic things is "woke") to free up fiscal space so we can build data-centers and make Musk into a trillionaire. That's not just a dead economy –...

• Post #2517184

  @markhurst is bringing back the Gel Conference, 10 years after the last one & 20 years after I had the pleasure of volunteering at Eurogel in Copenhagen (I still have the bag & the T-shirt 😁). I totally agree with Mark - we need Good Experiences Live™️ now more than ever. If you can go, go 🤩 https://buttondown.com/creativegood/archive/big-announcement-gel-2026-conference/ #gel2026 #experience #community

• Post #2400309

  RE: https://mastodon.social/@tillybridges/116483292817801647 The unfathomable hell trans people have to survive, even as they do a thing many of us never find the strength or courage to do, namely find out who they really are & be true to it. Why do men have to be such fucking swine? Wait - we don't. It's a choice, my dudes. You are choosing, deliberately, of your own volition, to be these vaguely person-shaped piles of rancid donkey feces. May you get everything...

• Post #2369557

  RE: https://mastodon.world/@knowmadd/116072773118828295 This is perhaps the best illustration I've ever seen that LLM chatbots don't actually understand the input. Most people think these bots have *some* understanding of meaning, perhaps rudimentary for now, but with potential for improvement. This shows that there's nothing to "improve". The prompt is so short & specific - it's not complex or subtle & yet despite the confid...

• Post #2189481

  @pluralistic is exactly right - the opposite of fascism is solidarity. There's an incredibly important detail here, which you might spot if I say that the expression of solidarity is community, or even that the market alternative to capitalism is commerce. These answers to the two-pronged problem of fascism/capitalism are not -isms. Things like solidarity, community & commerce aren't belief systems, they're something we DO, WITH each other, not TO each other....