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  @eff@mastodon.social You know your take is good and you are on the right side of history when you are siding with corporate interests in a puff piece from the Koch funded Reason outlet, and in great company, with their long history of defending and platforming apartheid defenders, big tobacco, climate change deniers, big oil, holocaust deniers, covid deniers...

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  @zzt@mas.to Have you tried tricking them by quoting important sections and adding 'Claude says' beforehand?

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  The only responsible AI use I support is techbros being held responsible for the damage they cause.

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  Dolly Parton was someone who used their talent and work ethic to do genuine good in the world rather than retreating to a castle to try and ruin things for everyone else in this life. I went to my local library in the UK last year and was surprised and delighted to see signs for her books for children program extending even here, well away from her home country. Her drive to do good, to spread the joy of reading and literacy knew no borders. Compare her life to her peers in music and celebrity...

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  https://www.geekwire.com/2026/microsoft-announces-2-5b-frontier-company-to-embed-ai-engineers-inside-customers/ you know when a dying, virus infected cell starts to bulge before the membrane splits, releasing more virii to go infect other cells? We're at that stage with AI now, first with anthropic sending out kids to act like Mormon missionaries, now this.

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  The next time anyone says 'you can't tax the rich, they will leave!' just point at JK Rowling's ongoing attacks on vulnerable communities and weaponisation of the courts against charities and then ask them if they think any one person having that level of influence in a nation is really a good thing. If someone attended a birthday party and started eating everything, unwrapping and stealing gifts, bullying other people and making threats to anyone who said no, yo...

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  Most of northern Europe is in a state that could best be described as arid, but climate change isn't real, folks.

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  Seems people are 'porting' games to the Atari Jaguar, using AI now. By porting, of course, they mean taking reverse engineered source code projects they didn't contribute to creating, feeding it to Claude until they get something they can screenshot or take a video of to get kudos online, then abandoning the projects because they ran out of tokens and have no goddamned clue how it works, nevermind how to optimise it into anything more than a slideshow without any enemies...

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  People who like AI talk about the noise pollution from datacenters in the abstract without actually experiencing what that noise is. It's just a noise, how bad could it really be to live with 24/7? https://www.youtube.com/shorts/AAQsnrAHy5Y

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  https://arstechnica.com/ai/2026/08/reddit-ceo-on-ai-overviews-were-still-looking-for-that-win-win/ 'Why is the AI company that we sold all our users down the river to actually harming our business?' says CEO who was told repeatedly by his users that this would be the outcome. Also Huffman is a fascist who protects far right subs and ha been open about the fact he believes so very is going to collapse and he will be a slaver afterward, not a slave.

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  https://www.404media.co/ai-companies-are-buying-tons-of-old-books-because-theyre-free-of-ai-slop/ 'We need these books as we hadn't ruined literature when they were written!' Don't forget the stripmining of all human knowledge and culture from the 'ethical' AI people didn't stop because they got sued. They're just using third parties to source things, in much the same way their scrapers keep on returning to websites in a wide array of glasses and moustaches when...

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  If you have younger folks in your lives, take the opportunity, while the weather is warm to go out and look at the night sky so they can remember how it used to be, because with the likes of SpaceX, Amazon and others littering low orbit with constellations and cartoon supervillains like Reflect Orbital planning of mirrors, pretty soon all we will see is profit driven noise.

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  https://www.transiticsnews.com/p/after-pushing-anti-trans-laws-to Good news, TERFS. To further protect women's sports, now the handful of trans athletes have been banned, the men you put in charge of the world are now planning to protect women's sports even more by *checks notes* banning cis women too. Who would have thought getting into bed with fascists would backfire like this? Well,other than everyone who told them over and over and over.

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  https://github.com/BryanLunduke/LCOS Good news everyone, the anti woke operating system is here. No weird politics here, folks, you know that's true as it's run by a man who calls himself the king, wants people to obey biblical rules, maintains a list of software deemed 'woke', and has Brandon Eich's Brave installed by default.

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  PC gaming and gaming in general discovering that the allergy to optimization and obsession with slightly prettier graphics at all costs weren't sustainable is an interesting side effect of AI. Nothing was learned from the graphic processor shortages of the Crypto era.

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  I wonder how long it'll be for AI slopbros to go full Crypto cultist and have the logo of their favorite prompt generator branded on them for life.

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  When someone on the right parrots a blatant, provable falsehood that is doing the rounds in their media ecosystem, never assume they genuinely believe it. The vast majority are not that stupid, what they are doing is hoping that it will become accepted as true by people dumber than they are if it's signal booster enough, and that the world will be so polluted by small lies, the big ones will be harder to spot, as will the real agenda. Look at how the right embraced the litter boxes in s...

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  The sooner Meta's Ai spy glasses are universally referred to as perv goggles, the better.

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  While the AI bubble is terrible for everyone in creative fields, I like to think there are at least a few thousand folks called Alex, Alice, Alfred and such who have really cashed in due to clerical errors. The age of Sans Serif fonts is potentially a boom time to be an Al.

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  @tante@tldr.nettime.org Anyone in tech who tosses around the term 'Democratising' means they want to remove the need for consent, the ability for creative people to refuse to allow their art be used to put a glossy sheen on the indefensible. It's the same language we hear from incels when it comes to sex, what their involuntary partner may want isn't even a consideration.

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  @Dany@hsnl.social Half Marc Andreesen, half cum. It's the Captain Planet of current VC\Techbro madness.

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  RE: https://mastodon.social/@greenpeace/116578426947180612 Ever notice how the thumbnails for these sort of articles on mainstream news sites always feature a stock image of a worker, doing worker things, and never the images of the CEOs who are directly responsible for the decisions and political donations the companies have made? It ain't guy in a hi-vis best you need to be mad at.

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  https://www.rte.ie/entertainment/2026/0515/1573555-eurovision-chief-hopes-for-pathway-back-for-rte/ #Eurovision didn't eliminate Ireland, Ireland left because Eurovision refused to even consider ejecting a nation currently engaged in genocide, has triggered wars with multiple neighbours and has spent years breaking rules at the contest and actively undermining the voting process in the contest itself. The only pathway to rebuilding trust is not one they are prepared to consider. How th...

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  Once again, fuck the EBU.

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  So the exact same crap pulled as last year then? Does this mean the EBU finally act? Not a chance. They're more likely to bring back Russia.

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  And now here's the EBU with their reaction to yet another close call with Israel, mid wars and mid genocide, coming close to winning the #eurovision through the same means as the past few years.

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  Fun to be accused of being sanctimonious for pointing out when people use sh*t sources funded by shady industry think-tanks. Life would be a lot easier for me if my sense of ethics and right and wrong came with an off switch, but they don't, and I'm happy to say if you don't like that you can sod off because I am done being quiet. I spent decades not snapping back at people who are pushing bad opinions as fact just to fit in, I'm surely not alone in that, and loo...

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  If people think electricity and water bill hikes due to AI data centers are bad, wait until the chips to build desktop computers become unobtainable and everything, from work to gaming, has to be done through the cloud, with additional subscription required. 'Sorry guys, raytracing and DLSS 6 can't run locally on your Dell Cloudbox, better subscribe to nVidia to run games, but watch out for surge pricing if you plan to play with your friends after work!'

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  'AI is here to stay!' say companies with trillions to lose if it doesn't.

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  Given the concerns about the rise in antisemitism splashed across the pages of the UK press, let's see how the Times and the Telegraph are depicting Zack Polanski. The leader of the left wing Green Party... https://bleedingcool.com/comics/uk-local-elections-held-today-party-games-cartoons-and-anti-semitism/ Bloody hell. I won't even repost the images their political cartoonists came up with, even with content warnings as it is some WWII far right propaganda level stuff... But of...