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  RE: https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic/117377497454605968 AI’s major, sustainable, long-term use case is spam generation using locally-run crappy models.

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  “For four minutes, heritage conservationist Udaya Kumar P L watched an AI agent wreak havoc on his computer. The agent was testing software it was developing and clearing the cache when “a quoting error in an AI-generated command turned the instruction into ‘delete everything’”. “When it understood and tried to kill the process, its safety system blocked the kill. Twice… The safety layer permitted the destruction,” Udaya wrote on X. A former IT professional, he eventually shut down the computer...

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  RE: https://sfba.social/@drahardja/115823112545139908 This seems to be ever more relevant because it seems like “Oops, I didn’t intend to do a felony, my script did it, whoopsie doopsie poopsie it’s so dangerous, please give me a government subsidy” is becoming a common alibi.

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  RE: https://flipboard.com/@gizmodo/artificial-intelligence-7bv07f1uz/-/a-7rpi4ADFQamHkjTPFfEB7A%3Aa%3A1876139665-%2F0 “Listen, Donald. One Epstein guest to another…”

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  It’s galling that tech billionaires tell us that letting them destroy the climate to develop AI will allow AI to tell us (somehow? maybe? probably?) how to fix climate change. And even more frustrating that news outlets report this blather without so much as a wrinkled eyebrow. MY DUDES WE ALREADY KNOW HOW TO FIX CLIMATE CHANGE. We stop spewing carbon into the air; install solar, wind, hydro, geothermal, and other renewable energy generation; build mass amounts of efficient public transit; and...

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  PSA: “Embrace the future” is gaslighting by tech entrepreneurs eager to become fabulously rich. You do not, under any circumstances, gotta “embrace” anything.

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  RE: https://mastodon.social/@Roelmaalderink/117327040550433696 The video is here: https://www.bitsoffreedom.nl/campagnes/gluurbril/ Edit: I learned that “gluurbril” means “peeping glasses” in Dutch

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  Can we please charge these horrible people with a crime already? It really is getting unbearably dumb when they blame “AI” for their negligence. #ai #cybercrime #felony “Australia launches urgent review after OpenAI programme hacks government health portal” https://www.bbc.com/news/live/cvgl73pxgndwt

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  Do not, under any circumstances, connect your appliances to the Internet. “Owners mourn spoiled food after firmware update bricks Samsung smart fridges” https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2026/09/owners-mourn-spoiled-food-after-firmware-update-bricks-samsung-smart-fridges/

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  How are you folks securing your furniture to the walls in case of #earthquake? I haven’t found any product that I like, and I think I’m way behind schedule. #sfba #california

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  “The tech leaders who once hailed AI use as the key to unlocking every employee’s full potential are now changing their tune. This includes Shopify cofounder and CEO Tobias Lütke. He told employees last year that using AI is “a baseline expectation,” and they should first prove they “cannot get what they want done using AI” before asking for more resources. He’s now saying Shopify employees are producing unexamined emails and code with AI and not taking responsibility for the sloppy output.””...

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  Getting my family to agree on dinner plans is like herding cats. With ADHD. Herding cats with ADHD. We all have ADHD. Sorry, what’s the plan for dinner?

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  Bob James’ “Angela” made a huge impression on me when I was a kid because I heard it regularly on “Taxi” when it came on TV. I didn’t care as much about the show as I wanted to hear the theme song every time it came on. It’s still one of songs I most strongly associate with the Fender Rhodes. #music #video #jazz https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kqw3UNXUdbU

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  There’s an AI “meeting transcription and summary tool” for video meetings at my workplace that comes with a disclaimer that it should not be used if anyone does not consent. I never consent. Last time I said I didn’t want to use the tool in a meeting with a group of people I’m new to meeting, the meeting organizer asked “may I know why?” and I responded “Because I don’t consent,” and gave a blank stare. The organizer was visibly annoyed. This is a pattern with all these AI tools. Non-consent...

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  I learned that the Great Depression’s first decisive symptom of systemic failure was the stock market crash of 1929, but the bank failures that would affect the normal investor didn’t happen until 1933, a full four years later. The recent subprime crisis started in early 2007 but didn’t cause Lehman Bros to collapse and TARP to be signed until late 2008. There have been some who theorize that the #AI bubble burst will be similarly slow-rolling. But I think it’ll be more rapid than that, becaus...

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  Someone mentioned Victor Papanek on Fedi today, and I’m reminded of his story about the 5 MPH bumper regulation that was proposed in Washington DC in 1972: the regulation said that a 5 MPH collision should not damage lights and other safety equipment. Car manufacturers predictably complained about the rule, claiming that it would add $300–$500 to the cost of each car. Papanek claimed that he could make a compliant bumper in 10 minutes for under $5. Papanek’s solution was called “the hoagie”: tw...

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  “Actually, it IS perfectly reasonable for the computer tool we sell to randomly delete everything you own without explanation” — statements dreamed up by the utterly deranged.

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  I made a list of websites that offer royalty-free, human-made images for your blogs and social media posts. I’ll keep the list updated over time. Use these images instead of #AISlop! No more excuses! Please reply with additional sites and I’ll add them to the list. #AI #NoAI #art #images #publicDomain #royaltyFree https://humancode.us/2026/08/28/royalty-free-images

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  Jacob Grégoire makes incredible juggling videos. This one is…pretty incredible. #juggling #stunts #humor

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  #TodayILearned that the Japanese verb “to torment” or “to tease” is 嬲る (naburu). The main Kanji is written as a woman 女 surrounded by two men 男. BUT! There is an alternative rendition: 嫐る (also pronounced naburu), whose Kanji is written as a man 男 surrounded by two women 女. How’s that for equal opportunity? #language #Japanese What’s your favorite rendition for “torment”?

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  Hi blog writers: You don’t have to attach a unique image to every blog post, and you *certainly* don’t need to use #AI to generate an image for every blog post. You may think AI-generated images make your posts more attractive, but you are mistaken; they are doing the opposite: they make your posts more *repulsive* to a good number of potential readers. If I see an AI-generated image in the preview, I won’t click through to read your post, I won’t boost the post that mentions your post, and I ce...

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  Trump’s name is toxic now. #cope #cope #cope #california #CAGovernor “Republican Steve Hilton to California voters: It’s OK to vote for me even if you don’t like President Trump” https://www.mercurynews.com/2026/08/21/republican-steve-hilton-to-california-voters-its-ok-to-vote-for-me-even-if-you-dont-like-president-trump/ https://archive.ph/Y0RaY

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  Fuck “innovation”. These days, “innovation” is one of the following: ⁃ Fucking over workers ⁃ Fucking over customers ⁃ Fucking over suppliers ⁃ Fucking over the environment ⁃ Fucking over public service and infrastructure ⁃ Fucking over everyone’s dignity and privacy Every new “innovation” is indistinguishable from #enshittification. Every new tech is deployed to put more money into the pockets of capital, and to do so by inflicting abuse and suffering on everyone else who is not a capitalist...

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  A local small-business pizza restaurant that I frequent is now heavily using #AI for all their marketing. Their logo is replaced with AI slop. Their promotions use AI slop images. They haven’t replaced their menu images yet (it was the same ones they used from before), but I wonder if any new items will have an actual photo. I will not be going there again. I wasn’t going to tell the staff that I won’t be returning because of the AI imagery because I really need to talk to the store owner about...

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  Hey #Fediverse can I ask you a favor? Please don’t post URLs that have been shortened. Link-shortening services can not only potentially *track* your interactions and add telemetry to track your behaviors, they can also *break* and make your links unusable. You can use services like https://urlexpander.net or install an app (I like Link Unshortener (https://apps.apple.com/us/app/link-unshortener/id1506953658)) to find the ultimate destination of a shortened link, and then post that instead. R...

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  We all know that Hakeem Jeffries is an establishment/corporate Democrat, but it looks like the lines are now being drawn for the midterms. Jeffries must go. Establishment dems must go. They are tacit accomplices of the Republicans as far as I’m concerned. I just checked: Although Jeffries’ term ends this year, he has no primary challengers. Vance Bostic was disqualified, and Chi Ossé withdrew after failing to get the support of the DSA. “Hakeem Jeffries Rejects Medicare for All, DSA Agenda”...

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  This is so cool #aviation #nes #retroComputing #vintageComputing https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oe8KoSeiIBw

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  Today I learned Scott Wiener, candidate for US House rep for #SanFrancisco #sfba, had his campaign put up a “parody” chatbot website of his opponent, Connie Chan, called ConnieChan dot AI, in which the people can “talk to Connie”. The chatbot “responds” as a caricature of Wiener’s opponent. His campaign also put up billboards advertising the website. Condemnation of the chatbot rightfully came swiftly from women leaders, including Nancy Pelosi. Wiener is now taking the site and the billboards d...

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  Discussion and debate can only work if all parties agree to talk in GOOD FAITH. To me, good faith generally means that each party commits to: 1. The presumption of a shared, objective reality 2. Stating one’s position (and motivation) honestly and clearly; and sincerely trying to appreciate the other’s position 3. Not deliberately deploying lies, fallacies, or gish-gallop tactics to manipulate the other In other words, good faith discussion is a *cooperative* activity, not an *adversarial* on...

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  RE: https://caneandable.social/@WeirdWriter/117041121493297601 “Silicon Valley will spend millions developing a glove that translates sign language into speech (badly), but they won't spend ten minutes adding Alt-Text to their images. They will build a headset that describes the room to me (poorly), but they won't use semantic HTML headings so I can actually navigate a webpage.” YES. THIS. A million times this. “Disability” is just another eugenics-centered, capitalist, ableist scam,...