Most politicians don't particularly care about the downward spiral that digital life and slowly all of society has taken in the hands of #bigtech and its #surveillancecapitalism (If they did, it wouldn't have happened 😟 ) But being attuned to, and prime manipulators of public opinion, they do […]

More than 100 UK datacentres plan to burn gas to generate electricity https://www.theguardian.com/business/2026/may/18/uk-datacentres-plan-to-burn-gas-to-generate-electricity - Slop til you cough, bitches!

Indeed! Is anyone in Europe working on protocols for digital grids like energy.becknprotocol.io? (So we don't get captured infrastructure the same way we have for the rest of the internet?)

A slide from my talk this Thursday. How we view our role in the curl project. https://www.meetup.com/openinfra-user-group-sweden/events/313615139/

"The old world of tech is dying and the new cannot be born" A hard-hitting overview of the current state of tech by @baldur "The tech industry is shaping up to be one of the most hated industries in our modern era. It was built on the foundation of empire. They’ve been taking enormous risks […]

"The tech industry is shaping up to be one of the most hated industries in our modern era. It was built on the foundation of empire. They’ve been taking enormous risks believing they were empires in their own right. I suspect we’re about to find out whether that’s true or not."

RE: https://scholar.social/@olivia/115157822712377866 Published with some minor changes! Please share widely. 😊 Guest, O., Suarez, M., ... & van Rooij, I. (2026). Against the Uncritical Adoption of 'AI' Technologies in Academia. Digital Culture & Education, 16(2), 85–118 […]

RE: https://interledger.social/@fintech_news/116580881036068451 I think this actually is a great use case for local ML AI. There is no reason to use motherEarthFucking cloud AI for this.

Complaining about how the world is collapsing is as old as humanity. The perceived misery of what was then modern urban life is palpable already in the epic of Gilgamesh, the first recorded story circa 2100 BCE 🤣 But at least folks used to enjoy a nice game […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

Revolving doors as the pinnacle of regulatory excellence 🤦

Shades of #greenwashing www.ft.com/content/2ed9...

Great job @protonprivacy ! This video is really nicely done and very informative. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WJ8clVdaRKA

Preprinted! Been working on this for ~1 year w wonderful coauthors Nancy & Mark: > Understanding Artificial Neural Networks: Mysterianism about Known Mechanism is Mysticism https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.20071869 Have you noticed many experts say they don't […] [Original post on scholar.social]

The techbros implemented the first step of the famous "The network is the computer" slogan: They helped themselves to any online machine, as free (read access) distributed storage. But they might not like the logical next step, distributing computation 🤓 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Net...

The "AI" phenomenon and craze has been discussed endlessly, including the vast computational and energy requirements of dedicated #datacenters There is an important split betwen model building and inference of statistical models (and hence also #llm ) which means there is not one but two […]

"The scale of Europe’s dependence on US tech companies and digital services is only just beginning to dawn on citizens and policymakers" 🤦 Reminds me of that hapless US Senator, years ago, asking Zuck how Meta is making money. It is a charade really. Incompetence of course but also, at this […]

"The scale of Europe’s dependence on US tech companies and digital services is only just beginning to dawn on citizens and policymakers" 🤦 Reminds me of that hapless US Senator, years ago, asking Zuck how Meta is making money. It is a charade really. Incompetence of course but also, at this […]

The debate about #localai is kinda amusing. On the one hand prudent people that want private, local inference of #opensource #llm be the norm, on the other, "AI" psychos that can no longer imagine life without access to "SOTA" Running these gargantuan models locally is currently barely possible […]

The debate about #localai is kinda amusing. On the one hand prudent people that want private, local inference of #opensource #llm be the norm, on the other, "AI" psychos that can no longer imagine life without access to "SOTA" Running these gargantuan models locally is currently barely possible […]

Now that scientific papers are drowning in fake citations, do #llms also generate the "conflicts of interest" section or is that declaration still the responsibility of authors? #sarcasm #aislop

Is there a realistic path forward for a #digitaleurope that is different from the hostile dystopia engineered by US #bigtech ? It is unclear, but on this #europeday some thoughts and speculations on whether European #digitalsovereignty is a pie in the sky or something that might actually happen […]

Is there a realistic path forward for a #digitaleurope that is different from the hostile dystopia engineered by US #bigtech ? It is unclear, but on this #europeday some thoughts and speculations on whether European #digitalsovereignty is a pie in the sky or something that might actually happen […]

A new study in The Lancet shows that the rate of fake citations increased more than 12x between Feb 2023 and Feb 2026. https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(26)00603-3/fulltext #ai #citations #hallucinations

RE: https://eupolicy.social/@hpod16/116538344713848285 The day the Universe changed (a tiny bit)🖖 Europe could usher a fantastically better digital society if it could only stop fawning at whatever the "move fast and break things" techbros have inflicted on us. 🇪🇺

Somehow digital tech turning unapologetically evil in the hands of a tiny minority will force society to re-examine the whole thing. Not sure exactly how it will happen, but it will. I mean yes, deeply flawed species, deserves an asteroid extinction etc, but let's not undersell ourselves. There […]

hey @protonprivacy On the occasion of launching your Proton Meet campaign (godspeed 🚀), a friendly suggestion that the fairly extensive social media strip you include in your emails manages not to include *any* non-adtech social media option. This is kinda […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

Zuckerberg must be livid. How can he push his own gargantuan "AI" investment to the victims (sorry, meant users 😅) when he doesn't control any user device? Somehow #meta, maybe with the complicity of #apple and #google will have to get limited opt-out access to deeply sensitive data, so that […]

Have been thinking for some time that the proliferation of #aislop has something in common with the #debasement of the currency that was practiced in old times when coins contained silver or gold. The objective of the "coiner" was to get the face value from others, but give them something […]

I'm trying to rage-write an article about all the completely awful, useless, polluting, dangerous shit that companies are proposing to launch into orbit and I can't even tell what's fake and what's real on these fucking techbro websites anymore. It's all so fucking ludicrous.

The impossible, insane, inhuman things we have to believe before breakfast are piling up. We don't live in normal times. Society (with the US foremost but dependent Europe not doing much better) has entered a rapid self-destruct mode. Its probably how all past social disasters have […]

An interesting video by Rick Beato (yeah, the nerdy music theory youtuber 😍 ) where he compares the future of "AI" to the failure of the music industry in the early 2000's. He doesn't quite connect all dots, these #llm's he downloads from #huggingface on his #localcomputing gear, they are only […]

RE: https://mastodon.social/@vicgrinberg/115864657382704760 I'm considering giving away a set of similar postcards-sized watercolor & fineliner paintings I expect to make at Lake Garda in exchange for donations to Ukraine-related charities. Trying to gauge interest: would anyone like something […]

Looking at the state of press freedom around the world is overall quite depressing but there is something interesting: While Asia is uniformly horrendous, Africa is markedly better. It has more satisfactory yellows than the Americas. Maybe something to understand more here, something hopeful?

The joke is that we walk with supercomputers in our pockets and do nothing but doomscroll 🤦, and it is true: an average mobile phone at ~10 GFLOP (FP64) is like a 90's Cray. But consider this: A top end Blackwell GPU workstation today is like ~50 TFLOP, or 5000 mobiles 🥶. Its currently kinda […]

#meta's revenue grew another 20% in the past year, reporting further user expansion (how is that even possible at this stage? 😱) and higher ad prices. In the meantime the #fediverse is successfully fighting the menace of VC funded #bluesky (which is not even really decentralized 🙈) and will […]

is this too much to ask for?

Out of control wildfires... in the Netherlands... in late April / early May... ponder that #sustainability #climatechange https://www.dutchnews.nl/2026/05/germany-france-and-belgium-send-help-to-put-out-wildfires-in-nl/

Its #mayday today, which is a European festival of ancient origins (Roman?) marking the beginning of North hemisphere summer 🌞 But it is also a day to celebrate and think about #economicdemocracy and how we could transition towards more future proof modes of socioeconomic organization 🤝 A […]

Saiga antelopes are recovering from near collapse due to large-scale rewilding. Ecosystems heal faster than expected when given space. Read more: https://thebrightside.news/global-rewilding-successes-saiga-antelope-recovery/ @goodnews #GoodNews #nature #rewilding #conservation #wildlife

In Tokyo's inspiring 'emerging science' museum (the Miraikan) they have an exhibit where they ask any visiting Nobel Laureate to provide some piece of advice for young researchers getting into #science. What to focus on etc. So all the wise scientists shared […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

In Tokyo's inspiring 'emerging science' museum (the Miraikan) they have an exhibit where they ask any visiting Nobel Laureate to provide some piece of advice for young researchers getting into #science. What to focus on etc. So all the wise scientists shared […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

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RE: https://mastodon.social/@eunews/116489028835999706 No source indicated so take it with a grain of salt, entertainment only, but some potentially interesting phenomena: The long term slopes have definitely opposite signs. News of Europe's "decline" exaggerated? Or decline is relatively less […]

Ben Ws blogpost about LMS and academic content assetisation is spot on but saying LMS "impose templates on how courses can be taught and what content can be used during classes" is *slightly* misleading. In fact dig-learning can be anything you want it to be - but by default is digital. A […]

Coding #llm's are receiving a lot of attention now, a marked change from the mass market #chatgpt era of "AI". This is poetic justice of sorts. The general public has limited #digitalliteracy and agency. Technical communities can better "dogfood" their own creations and now they are doing it […]

Some people talk about #digitalsovereignty and some people quietly earn it. It seems it won't be many years before China reaches some sort of parity with the US on a range of fundamental technologies. It's not clear if Europe has any aspirations on the hardware side. The big drive here seems […]

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The #fediverse has its own set of #influencers we just don't call them that, because they are "ours" 🤣 And it is all smooth sailing, unless they misread the "room" (as it sometimes happens even to the very best) in which case the cognitive dissonance meter goes 💥