Habermas: »Wenn das so einfach wäre, dann hätten wir ja nicht die Scheiße, in der wir sitzen.«

It’s incredible that this keeps happening. This has literally gotten at least one high ranking military officer killed (SBU merc’d a Russian Navy officer, then gave his run Kudos). You’d think there would be screaming lectures from higher ups on how to set all your shit to private by now.

okay so sam altman publically saying he wants people to rent "intelligence" from him like a power or water utility dropping the same day as a bunch of exploited african ai day laborers speaking out about their mistreatment by tech firms really tells us a LOT about what altman really means

Why Do Some People Still Wear Masks In 2026 And On A Completely Unrelated Note Why Is Everyone In The Office Sick Right Now Apart From The Guy In The Mask?

«Staatsminister Weimer strebt an, die Pflichtablieferung an die Deutsche Nationalbibliothek zukünftig weitestgehend digital abzubilden. [...] Das sei ein Beitrag zum Bürokratieabbau.» Kulturvernichtung als «Bürokratieabbau». DOGE ist das Vorbild www.faz.net/aktuell/feui...

Pokemon Go to the factories, hospitals, and schools which all look like prisons

We're about to release @cyd.social for iPhone and Android, making it easy to backup and delete your Bluesky data, except for what you want to keep! Want to beta test? Read this and fill out the form before March 16 if you're interested nextcloud.lockdown.systems/apps/forms/s...

Behind the scenes, “Meta was divided on whether protecting kids should take precedence over user growth and engagement. For years, the company only incrementally rolled out restrictive safety features, even as its own staff detailed the risks its platforms posed to children.”

Social media bans of kids and teens are NOT a solution. We need real, enforced governance and regulation of AI tech including recommenders, to protect people at every stage of life. We do NOT need to alienate a generation from (among other things) governance and regulations. 2/2

Embedding unreliable AI deep into the source code of the military without human oversight is the single stupidest thing we could do as a species. And that is *exactly* what the United States is about to do.

when people talk about AI used in moderation of social media posts, you must remember there is always the human-in-the-loop, often a woman, often in the Global South, always dehumanised and forgotten 1/n www.theguardian.com/global-devel...

Update on ACM #genai: looks like they do act on requests to remove the dreadful ✨AI summary for individual papers: ours now says "AI generated summary not available". FWIW, I objected to "basic factual problems" & said it "makes our work (...) look mediocre, bland, and unprofessional"

Many are appropriately outraged by Altman’s comments here implying that raising a human child is akin to “training” an AI model. This is part of a broader pattern where AI industry leaders use language that collapses the boundary between human and machine. 🧵/

congratulations rümeysa If you haven’t, please read this beautiful, horrible op ed by her on the conditions in which she finished her phd www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...

Towns that question the value of an unsafe, costly, environmentally unsound, poorly governed monorail could be ‘left behind’, says Monorail Salesman

"In 1999, I interviewed Prince for TIME and he told me to leave my tape recorder off because he didn’t trust what future technology might do with unauthorized recordings of his voice. At the time, I thought Prince was being paranoid..." time.com/7338205/rage...

Beat me to it, felt very far off

I'm not changing the way I write for the sake of weak thinkers. I don't care

Lange nichts gehört

The purpose of a system is what it does. The machine is never broken. www.anildash.com/2024/05/29/s...

Every academic article has a corresponding author whose email address is listed on the first page. If an article is paywalled, just send a short, polite email requesting a PDF from the author. 95% of the time you’ll receive it within a day. People like knowing their work is being read!

When a single billionaire can accumulate more money in 10 seconds than their employees make in one year, while workers struggle to meet the basic cost of rent and medicine, then yes, every billionaire really is a policy failure. Read our op-ed here ⤵️

Eastern Bluebird. This was taken 5.5 years ago, I'm not sure I'll ever take a better bird photo. #birdoftheday

I think it's best for everyone to understand that the unified class project of billionaires right now is to do to white collar workers what globalization and neoliberalism did to blue collar workers.

I watched a bunch of AI sessions at the WEF so you wouldn’t have to. But you should read this.

it's ok if you want to mock them. the wider implication is that there are more researchers just like them, and they shouldn't feel embarrassed coming back from their delusional excursions.

Since this is making the rounds. Acknowledging one’s one stupidity in public is brave and should be credited and not mocked. What really gets me is that editors at Nature think it is a cautionary tale worth publishing.

the eating artist made international news and the police was involved, sounds like a fabulous master project

@acm.org, are you seriously requesting authors to fact-check the unasked-for AI-slop summaries of their work and then email individual revision requests? Apart from more free labour in your service, I fail to see benefits for authors. Surely, there must be some kind of misunderstanding.

@acm.org, are you seriously requesting authors to fact-check the unasked-for AI-slop summaries of their work and then email individual revision requests? Apart from more free labour in your service, I fail to see benefits for authors. Surely, there must be some kind of misunderstanding.

They've lost the 9yos

most of my friends are freelance artists/designers. not one of them made much money or ever expected to do so, because they LOVE their job. ai companies despise humanity, instead of making shitty jobs less shitty, they are killing the jobs people love, and also make shitty art

Showing children of the future the unacceptable hair rendering on the left to explain why we had to get rid of the rainforest.

Reminder of how extreme Zuboffs’s »Surveillance Capitalism« felt upon its initial publication, yet it proved to be the most accurate prediction.

saying »invisible aliens are using your brain as a universal translator« but not as an insult

A sort of chicken lounge that automatically dims the lights once a lot of chickens start showing up. US Patent 12382931 (issued today)

This is what the audience for a Long COVID conference looked like today. Notice anything? 😷

Hervorragendes Interview mit Constanze Kurz vom #CCC zur #Rasterfahndung und nicht(!) vorhandenen Konformität von #Palantir zur #Verfassung 🔥🔥🔥 CCC zu Palantir-Einsatz: Deutschland bräuchte Hoheit über die eingesetzte Software www.deutschlandfunk.de/streit-um-ei...

An eloquent image: Setting aside the content under the tarp for a moment, teens were asked to make art expressing what it is like to be a teen, and the end result was a mural wrapped in a tarp by adults. I bet a lot of teens would find this expressive of their experience.

New on the blog: The arcane alphabets of Black Sabbath To commemorate Ozzy Osbourne, we took a deep dive into the obscure typefaces used on Black Sabbath’s first four album covers. fontsinuse.com/uses/35835/t... (Buckle up, it’s a long one.)

appreciating the #DIS2025 keynote speaker's enthusiasm, yet enslaving deceased loved ones as AI bots to »participate in the economy« would still only be the second choice after #TaxTheRich

The #DIS2025 Zine Library has been made full of joy, thought, provocation, and, of course, all of your zines. Don't miss your last chance to check it out, today until 5:30PM 📖 If you would like to take your zine home or grab one from our fair please do so during the afternoon coffee break!

»We should have awards and whenever someone achieves $100 million, which is already obscene, we give them a bronze statue of a dick, and when you get $1 billion, we could give them an even bigger dick. That’s what it’s all about. Give the rest of the money back.«

Want to use European alternatives to US-tech? Good starting point: european-alternatives.eu

"Before that people drove to the library" This is the most unserious man in the history of men

»OpenAI has a perverse incentive to keep users hooked on the product even if it's actively destroying their lives«

the internet was not always an enshittified, data harvesting, surveillance machine, yet here we are: