The $2.7 Trillion Tech Pullback: Big Tech faces massive market value wipeout as investors demand proof of AI profitability

https://finance.yahoo.com/markets/article/big-techs-27-trillion-ai-bill-comes-due-chart-of-the-day-100000100.html

#news #tech #technology #AI #finance #business #aislop #stocks

“You're going to get left behind if you
don't use Al.”

Leave me then. Leave me with my critical thinking skills, my ability to read and write long-form, and books without
needing Al summaries.

via, https://liberalsarecool.com/post/818082394090405888/cosign

#AI #Reading #Writing #Thinking

🙄Seriously, all retail stores!?! I am sitting in a parking lot on a mobile computer looking for an urgently needed item that was not available in the store I stopped at.

I don't need a Clippy-style popups screaming at me that your LLM-gen-AI partner can answer any question I might have.

I lived through times when this situation meant “go home, get out the paper phone book, & 📞'em”. Inventory on your website & a mobile computer running LineageOS is *all* that's needed here.😡

#AI #LLM #LLMGenAI

(Le fédiverse cette semaine)
#ia #ai

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La célèbre pochette de Rage Against The Machine avec un moine assis en feu (qui s'immole), mais avec le texte changé en Rage Against The Machine Learning.

The Tokenpocalypse Is Here: Companies Are Scrambling To Stop Spending So Much on AI

https://www.404media.co/the-tokenpocalypse-is-here-companies-are-scrambling-to-stop-spending-so-much-on-ai/

#news #tech #technology #AI #aislop #tokens #tokenpocalypse

This regards: https://mastodon.social/users/404mediaco/statuses/116805236234236215

#AI #GenAI #GenerativeAI #LLMs #PowerPoint #PDF #Accenture

#AI #GenAI #GenerativeAI

FFS Google, that is exactly what i did, provably, by your sloppy response.

#ai #slop

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Google ai response, detailing what adding &udm=14 does. Google.com&udm=14 in the address line

Oh no.
I'm going to search Netscape and AltaVista for ways to help. I'll set up funding pages on MySpace and Friends Reunited. And I'll video a charity appeal on Betamax, convert it to Laserdisc, then send out copies that can only be watched on 3D-Ready TVs. I'll page you with more details ASAP.

#AI

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JUST IN: Anthropic CEO says AI companies need hundreds of billions in revenue, or they'll go bankrupt

Durch #KI gibt es mehr neu entdeckte Sicherheitslücken. Zwar auch viel Müll, aber eine zeitkritische Lage für die #ITSecurity.

Moderne Systeme können Schwachstellen in Software innerhalb kurzer Zeit erkennen,analysieren u teilweise selbstständig in nutzbare Angriffsszenarien umwandeln. Dadurch steigt die Zahl neu entdeckter Sicherheitslücken, Angrifftools u notwendiger Updates.

Die Hacks werden schneller, automatisierter u skalierter

#ITSicherheit #hacker #Linux #AI
https://www.linux-magazin.de/news/bsi-kuenstliche-intelligenz-verschaerft-dynamik-bei-cyberangriffen/

Newsflash: bug in FreeBSD observed through human analysis of an AI-generated song about Marshall Kirk McKusick.

Not a parallel universe, also some people might have thunk it.

Should I alert Phoronix?

#AI #FreeBSD #documentation #trivia

@hvdsomp

Source:
https://www.newyorker.com/cartoons/daily-cartoon/friday-may-22nd-alien-commencement-address

#Ai #Art #Capitalism #Cartoons #DataCenters #JoeDator #educationworkers #KevinMaher #students

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Text: “And, as you head out into the world, your fresh, meaty torsos will be ripped apart and roasted to feed your new alien overlords - wait, why are you all booing ?” Art: Joe Dator & Kevin Maher Image graduation students boo the speaker.

"During a conversation lasting about 20 minutes, OpenAI's chatbot gave me extensive advice on weapons and tactics as I simulated planning a mass shooting."

Chilling article by Mark Follman for Mother Jones:

https://www.motherjones.com/media/2026/05/openai-chatgpt-mass-shooting-guardrails-fail/

#AI

RE: https://beige.party/@fuzzy/116803644495788173

3/…

The 1970s. Early childhood. I remember occasional home visits from a blind piano tuner.

We also had a Farfisa electric organ. Then, in my early teens, I occasionally played a Hammond organ (badly) at a pub on Canvey Island. Tremolo involved some colossal thing rotating, I guess that it was a Leslie speaker <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leslie_speaker>.

In my late teens, a Hohner Clavinet. Nice idea, but it was so heavy that when I sulkily quit a band, during rehearsal, I had to pay a passing schoolchild fifty pence to help me carry it to a bus stop.

Now: my sister and her husband adore their grandchildren, who enjoy playing piano. They also discarded a traditional upright piano, non-electric, years before the grandchildren were born.

I still have my grandparents' piano, which hasn't been tuned since the 1970s.

Fifty years later: in the absence of traditional pianos to tune, what profession might the same blind person choose? Would it involve AI? I wonder.

I'm nostalgic about the past, but future technologies have been making traditional stuff redundant for decades.

With regard to the piano tuning profession: I'm a number one offender, because I never bothered to pay someone.

#AI #piano #electronic #Hammond #Farfisa #tremolo #Leslie

From 1916 (April 10) in The Evansville Press, by A.D. Condo.

The human condition remains the same, it's only the technology that changes ...

#AI #LLM #Technology

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A cartoon in two panels Top Panel: A lean, well-dressed man named Mr. Geo Pushem introduces himself to the comic's protagonist, Everett True, as an "Efficiency Expert" and hands him a business card. Bottom Panel: Everett True violently ejects the man from his office, throwing his business card onto the floor and shouts: "I have no use for the sharp boys that go around showing employers how they can kill off their help quicker by shifting two men's work onto one!"

it's really interesting how datacenters have become the new nuclear waste sites, no community wants either of them anywhere near

and it's not just the obvious massive scale, with lack of any meaningful permanent employment, huge water and energy use, but also they are backed by the most odious corporations and techbros

people get all of this, and are saying LOUDLY - NO WAY!!

#AI #CDNpoli #BCpoli #VANpoli #ABpoli

A review of Cory Doctorow's (@pluralistic) "The Reverse Centaur's Guide to Life After AI" in The Guardian calls AI "a remarkable new technology rolled out in the most reckless, self-serving way one could imagine, by the worst people, for the worst reasons. It’s not the machines you should be angry with."

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2026/jun/22/the-reverse-centaurs-guide-to-life-after-ai-by-cory-doctorow-review-the-real-price-of-artificial-intelligence

#AI #capitalism #tech #bubble

Leaked Russian documents reveal plans to build a network of Wikipedia-style sites, media outlets and phony think tanks to shape how people and AI chatbots understand political issues. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2026/06/24/world/politics/russia-wiki-warfare/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #worldnews #politics #russia #wikipedia #disinformation #chatbots #ai

The Reverse Centaur’s Guide to Life After AI by Cory Doctorow review – the real price of artificial intelligence: https://www.theguardian.com/books/2026/jun/22/the-reverse-centaurs-guide-to-life-after-ai-by-cory-doctorow-review-the-real-price-of-artificial-intelligence

'A centaur, in automation theory, is someone assisted by a machine, whether using a hearing aid or driving a car. A reverse centaur is someone whose freedom is diminished by the demands of a machine, like an Amazon warehouse worker. The technology of AI theoretically allows every worker to be a centaur, but the business model demands the reverse. Take radiology. In the centaur scenario, a human radiologist works with an AI radiologist to produce more accurate analysis, but that costs the hospital money. In the reverse centaur version, the AI radiologist demotes the surviving humans to the level of results-checking drones who are more likely to make mistakes. Much cheaper, but you see the problem.'

#AI #ArtificialIntelligence @pluralistic #CoryDoctorow

Someone created a beautiful tool to poison data, which is fed to large language model (crawlers) which execute a relentless assault on 100% of the websites on the internet, draining the bandwidth of countless of people kicking them off the internet in the process

LLMs are like a cancer and I'm not talking about the crustacean

Instead of me interpreting what the tool does, if it's interesting enough to you, browse to the site, read and if it's something you like, download

./configure; make; make install and then enjoy

https://iocaine.madhouse-project.org/

#Programming #OpenSource #LLM #slop #AI #poison #iocane

👿 FreeBSD Receives Funding To Launch AI-Assisted Vulnerability Discovery // Phoronix

｢ The FreeBSD Project announced today the launch of an AI-Assisted Vulnerability Discovery Project with grant funding provided by the Linux Foundation backed Alpha-Omega project. Alpha-Mega has sponsors including Microsoft, AWS, Google, Anthrophic, OpenAI, and others who will now be helping with FreeBSD uncovering new vulnerabilities by leveraging AI ｣

https://www.phoronix.com/news/FreeBSD-AI-Bug-Discovery

#freebsd #bsd #ai #cybersecurity

Ars Technica did a long-form interview with @pluralistic.

> How to burst the AI bubble: Strike at its roots. Sci-fi author/tech journalist Cory Doctorow on his new book, The Reverse Centaur’s Guide to Life After AI. https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2026/06/how-to-burst-the-ai-bubble-strike-at-its-roots/

> Doctorow doesn’t actually enjoy talking about AI, but he’s constantly being asked to comment on it. “I made the tactical error of being sick of talking about #AI …”

Un pote m'a passé ce lien d'une vidéo de Monsieur Phi sur les résultats de l'IA en maths.
La vidéo est pas mal je trouve, j'aime bien ce fait Monsieur Phi en général et je trouve qu'il a fait un bon boulot de résumé et de vulgarisation.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AYPQIntoJeE

Mais elle m'a laissé un goût amer et j'ai écrit une réponse pour clarifier mon malaise.
Pour ceux que ça intéresse, voir le fil 👇

#IA #AI #resistIAgen

3 steps to success:

1) Resist #AI and learn your favorite profession instead. Don't listen to those who laugh at you.

2) Be patient and wait until AI companies increase their fees. They will, as soon as most people forgot how to learn.

3) Make huge fortune by consulting everyone about all the nice things you've learned in step 1.

this talk from Ryo Lu, one of the #cursor designers at their recent conference about #AI and #coding interfaces is a 10/10 – highly recommend watching https://youtu.be/az6OEZV8iHw?is=lP4Sz6fd8FY0aZks

Everyday, I become even more convinced than I thought I could be that so-called "AI" is just well-funded hammers in search of nails in the best case, and vaporware in the worst case.

#UN #OpenSource #NoAI #AI #ArtificialIntelligence #FreeSoftware #FOSS #FLOSS

🗣FINALLY!

in 2016 the king of Saudi Arabia BRAGGED to the Obama administration about how they had become The Whale that moved Wall Street. it’s no coincidence Qatar, long before that quarrel, decided #quantum computing and #AI were at the heart of their 2030 economic development plans.

THERE IS NO #TECHBROS INEVITABILITY WITHOUT #OPEC #OIL MONEY

#SiliconValley are the #petromafia’s Trojan Horse against the #ParisAccords and an existential threat to Humanity.
http://www.euronews.com/2026/06/23/no-more-hidden-costs-un-chief-demands-ai-firms-come-clean-over-environmental-footprint

Pensée pour celleux qui ont bataillés ces 20 dernières années contre Hadopi et co, tout ça parce que en 2006 les ayants droits ont refusés la création d'une Licence Globale.

20 ans plus tard, ces mêmes multinationales du disque accordent une licence globale aux techbro de l'ia.

#MusicBusiness
#ia #ai
#NightmareOnLLMstreet
#Capitalism
#DIYorDIE

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Musique et accords avec les sociétés d’IA : 31 organisations pointent l’« opacité préoccupante » Des majors comme Universal et Warner ont conclu des accords de licence permettant à des fournisseurs d’IA d’utiliser, moyennant une rémunération globale, des œuvres musicales protégées par le droit d’auteur.

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Gif : le célèbre gag de South Park sur les enfants qui piratent un CD et le flic qui leur montre Lars Urlish qui pleure devant sa piscine .

The #OSI needs to continue its work on #AI, even when it's difficult. I'm confident Gabriel is the right person to lead that work and we really look forward to working with him!

https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/open-source-initiative-launches-open-source-ai-fellowship-at-un-open-source-week-302807362.html

#OpenSource #OpenSourceAI

"AI is still completely insufficient to handle the real world."

– Yann LeCun, keynoting at UN Open Source Week

https://webtv.un.org/en/asset/k14/k14ej1ucqu

#UN #OpenSource #UnitedNations #FreeSoftware #AI #ArtificialIntelligence #FOSS #FLOSS

@wwahammy

cf. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Attempted_restoration_of_Ecce_Homo.jpg

#AI #slop #codeIsArt #NoAI

Yesterday's post about #AI, made me think about #Gmail, and how much I hate using it for work. A frightful #UI and user experience.

I ❤ #Mutt

#email #fediverse #blogging #blog

https://lazybea.rs/gmail-ui-is-awful/

" le code est la loi. Et le code n'est pas écrit par nos représentants politiques. Il est écrit par des hommes blancs de la Silicon Valley".

#tech
#Politique
#TechBro
#TechnoFascism
#ia #ai
#NightmareOnLLMstreet

Now that Google is testing websites for their use of llms.txt (and WebMCP, BTW), does anyone have ideas to create one, where the semantics is correct, but the content pure "useful garbage"?
[It seems external links are allowed...]

@davidgerard ???

#AI #Google #GoogleAI

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Agentic Browsing These checks ensure high-quality, browsable websites for Al agents and validate the correctness of WebMCP integrations. This category is still under development and subject to change.

Betriebssysteme, KI und digitale Souveränität. Ein kritisches Bild der aktuellen Technologielandschaft.
https://www.orellfuessli.ch/shop/home/artikeldetails/A1078586412
#windows #linux #ki #ai #technology #datenschutz #cybersecurity #BigTech #techtrends #ebook #buch #blog

honestly i welcome the data center lobby just openly saying climate goals needed to be trashed so the tech industry can build ai — intense heat waves, record forest fires, worsening natural disasters be damned

https://www.politico.eu/article/europe-choose-ai-climate-goals-data-center-chief-warns/

#tech #ai #datacenters #climate #heatwave

RE: https://piaille.fr/@mart1oeil/116797953639003601

« D’après le président du principal lobby européen des centres de données, qui représente aussi des acteurs numériques venus des États-Unis, l’Union européenne doit renoncer à ses objectifs climatiques si elle veut rester dans la course à l’IA. »

Socialisme (climatique)
ou barbarie (capitaliste)
il va, effectivement, falloir choisir.

#ia #ai
#NightmareOnLLMstreet
#Capitalisme
#Climat
#Ecologie
#LecologieSansLutteDesClassesCestDuJardinage
🌍 💲 💀

Alain Portay ⏚ boosted

Martin Clavey » 🌐 2026-06-23
@mart1oeil@piaille.fr

Objectifs climatiques ou IA ? Pour le lobby des data centers, l’Europe doit choisir

https://next.ink/243573/objectifs-climatiques-ou-ia-pour-le-lobby-des-data-centers-leurope-doit-choisir/

Part 6 in my series of demystifying and de-mythifying AI & LLMs. This is the last post in the series

BMAD is SDLC for AI-assisted engineering—turning context, constraints, and feedback loops into repeatable processes that enable reliable software delivery.

https://blog.sanvira.net/posts/llms-agents-and-mcp-part-6-bmad-the-agile-harness.html

Next up will be some opinion posts about AI and LLMs.

#llm #ai #turingsparrot

The #VA (US #Veterans Administration) is using #AI now. Had a video call with a provider today and he asked my permission to use it to take down notes during the call. I told him I was fine with is as long as he personally verified that what got written down was accurate.

🇺🇳 United Nations Open Source Week 2026 has officially kickstarted today at the United Nations Headquarters in New York! The Drupal Association is honored to be part of this premier global forum.

As world leaders, UN agencies, and tech pioneers gather to discuss the critical roles of Digital Public Infrastructure (DPI) and responsible AI, Drupal is proud to have a seat at the table.

Stay tuned for more updates! 🌐✨

#Drupal #OpenSource #AI #UNOpenSourceWeek

＂#freebsd subreddit … ("here's a song I made for the new release with Suno" …＂

Please, can anyone find the promotion of the song (in "The FreeBSD Music Collection" blog post) in Reddit?

I see it promoted only here in the Fediverse <https://mastodon.social/@alex_deplov/116777617250640657> ― not in Reddit <https://www.reddit.com/r/freebsd/search/?q="FreeBSD+Music+Collection"&type=posts>.

Thanks

Cc people who liked the post by @greg – @release_candidate @evgandr @valpackett @benjamineskola @ben @fellmoon @Tionisla @jaap @20000lbs_of_Cheese @Brett_E_Carlock @RetroHoosk @DianeBruce @antlers @sakurina @jimp

Cc @khorben

#AI #Suno

AodeRelay boosted

Alexander Deplov 🇩🇪 » 🌐 2026-06-19 / 2026-06-19
@alex_deplov@mastodon.social

Inspired by recent FreeBSD Foundation initiative the AI-assisted Vulnerability Discovery Project I made the new song today to celebrate it 😎

https://interfacecraft.online/blog/2026/freebsd-music-collection/

I have so much fun playing with Suno, to tweak the sound the way I want.

cc @khorben

#FreeBSD #Music #Suno

#Meta Pauses Employee-Tracking Program Following Internal Data #Leak

The move comes after the company left potentially sensitive data from the initiative exposed internally.
#privacy #security #surveillance #ai #training #tracking

https://www.wired.com/story/meta-pauses-employee-tracking-program-following-internal-security-breach/

The memory crisis is getting so bad that even retro RAM prices are going to the Moon

｢ Continued shortages of everyday DRAM components and rapidly rising contract prices have prompted some hardware makers to downgrade memory specifications to control system costs, TrendForce claims. In some cases, DDR4 designs are being replaced with DDR3 solutions, while certain DDR3-based products are being redesigned to use DDR2 ｣

https://www.theregister.com/personal-tech/2026/06/22/the-memory-crisis-is-getting-so-bad-that-even-retro-ram-prices-are-going-to-the-moon/5259627

#ramshortage #ai #retrocomputing

Re: No I don't want to summarise the page! This is reply to @kev's post about #AI summarising the web.

#Fediverse #blog and, a small 🖕 to the #BigTech companies and Tech Bros
https://lazybea.rs/re-no-i-dont-want-you-to-summarise-the-page

WTF. Samsung did an update and crammed my phone full of Google AI bullshit. Without my consent. I already had as much of that shit turned off as possible.

There needs to be a good universal Android alternative that id degoogled. Everything I have found doesn't work with my Samsung Galaxy A16 5G, SM-a166U phone. #Android #Samsung #AI #DeGoogle

RE: https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic/116771898432343046

Yes! Stop trying to copy the AI bubble and pay attention to real issues of digital sovereignty. #AI #digitalsovereignty

"rsync goes AI slop, breaks your backups" from @davidgerard

🔗 https://pivot-to-ai.com/2026/06/03/rsync-goes-ai-slop-breaks-your-backups/

#AI #rsync

Are You in The Weights?

Yesterday I found out about a site called intheweights.com , which reveals which people are “stored” in the weights of large language models. Those “weights” are billions of numerical values by which these AI models encode their knowledge. If you show up in them, the model considered you relevant enough during training to recall without tools such as web search.

The site queries several models to figure out who a specific person is, combines the results, and assigns a strength score.  According to the leaderboard, the current maximum strength score is 998, awarded too a person called Charlize Theron (of whom I have never heard); number Two is Rudyard Kipling, apparently. I’m surprised the top isn’t Taylor Swift. I guess these weights change with time too.

Being a vain person I typed in my name and found this:

The only reason I can think of that I score so highly is all that scraping of this blog site over the last year or so. The weights are obviously influenced by how much material there is available online by or about the person.

Anyway, give it a try. Are you In The Weights?

P.S. A number of other “Peter Coles” characters are also listed under my entry, some of them as far as I can see totally fictitious.

Interessantes #Interview:

https://www.tagesspiegel.de/kultur/rechtsextreme-und-ihre-vorliebe-fur-ki-memes-das-sind-faschistische-idealbilder-von-geschlecht-im-stile-von-ns-malerei-15723094.html

#Tagesspiegel #Kultur #AI #LLM #genAI #Kunst #RolandMeyer #LucaLang #Malerei

Iceland is tiny, so a company letting 40 employees go makes national news. The company in question, Rapyd Europe, of course claimed "AI" as the reason for the layoffs.

So, I called them out on their bullshit – in my first piece for the Reykjavík Grapevine:
https://grapevine.is/mag/feature/2026/06/20/rapyd-layoffs-attributed-to-ai-hint-at-something-else/

#Iceland #AI #Labor

LLM generated music

Interesting take on the progress of LLM generated music

According to SpectreSoundStudios LLMs can create better music than many people, do now, because people often try to do only super techniques for other musicians to adore, not for the listening public.

Modern (upcoming) musicians can't sing in proper tune, let alone great and can't harmonize if their life depended on it. Musicians often can't even play together and need to do seperate recording takes, meaning that they sound terrible to horrific when they do attempt to play like a real band did in the 20th century.
Those are the kind of musicians SpectreSoundStudios has had in his recording studios in the two thousands period of time.

There are many caveats, to LLM created music, because the generated music sounds sterile without a human touch; imperfections are important, the feeding of energy from a drummer going a bit harder, slower or faster, makes the rest of the band tune in on that energy and it makes the song feel alive and kicking;

• Black Sabbath
• Judas Priest
• Iron Maiden
• Def Leppard
• Queen
• Slayer

all make massive songs which made the masses remember them, in awe, even fifty years later

Watch the video, so you stay informed on what LLM's are doing and succeeding in, to take over your listening pleasure, while destroying the environment we live in.

It progressed from the following

• drum machines
• samples
• tempo
• metrum
• rhythm correctors
• harmonizers
• voice correctors

To result in the total replacement of musicians in the creation and execution phase, this is more prevalent in certain genres of music, than others

I don't need to tell you how disturbing it is to watch the video and realize this is already in effect

Go, watch and learn

video created by SpectreSoundStudios

sources:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=btTMfedD7jc

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Large_language_model

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Music

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sound

#LLM #hallucinated #AI #slop #datacenter #environment #destruction #obsolete #musicians #programming #automation #no #TV

GARFIELD DEAD!

#art #garfield #peterthiel #palantir #comic #news #tech #ai #mastoart #fediart #funhole #vpn #palantir

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FUNHOLE CONTENT REVIEW PALANTIR 'They can't really do this to me, can they?' 'I told you not to regulate anthropic.' Why is iran like this and 4 other stories. How to protect yourself against vampires. Kier Starmer's ultimate guide to VPNs COUPON SALE TESLA Peter Thiel keeps showing his friends my nudes even though I told him to stop I subscribed to MrBeast and he sent me an iphone How to play blackjack - revelation 13:18 TOP 5 SUPER PRIVATE AI AGENTS THAT LET YOU PLAN ASSASSINATIONS IN MINECRAFT p.12

The 50th Floor — Joe Maloney

https://pkgdemon.github.io/the-50th-floor.html

Porting launchd to FreeBSD — and why FreeNAS Corral is next.

#AI #FreeBSD #FreeNAS #Corral #launchd #NAS

RE: https://mastodon.social/@rustfoundation/116766374035508159

Most people are not happy:

#Rust #OpenAI #funding #opensource #AI

rustfoundation » 🌐 2026-06-17
@rustfoundation@mastodon.social

[NEWS] OpenAI has joined the Rust Foundation as a Platinum Member and committed additional funding to programs and goals across the Rust ecosystem. Sustaining and strengthening a language like Rust requires this kind of support, and we are grateful to OpenAI for stepping up! 🎉

https://rustfoundation.org/media/rust-foundation-welcomes-openai-as-platinum-member-announces-donation-to-rust-project/ #rustlang #openai

"The study, led by researchers at the University of Cambridge, suggests that these vast AI data centers can increase local land surface temperatures by an average of 3.6 degrees Fahrenheit (2C), with some extreme cases ... up to 16.4 degrees Fahrenheit (9.1C).

This localized warming effect is estimated to affect more than 340 million people worldwide."

This time with link to the original study for reasons 🙄

https://www.independent.co.uk/climate-change/ai-data-center-heat-islands-usage-climate-b2949418.html

#ai #heat #datacenter #climatechange

The AI warning for Steam browser plugin adds Steam search filtering https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/06/the-ai-warning-for-steam-browser-plugin-adds-steam-search-filtering/

#Steam #Gaming #AI #GenAI

@itsfoss

Headline says "Canonical's New AI Tool Wants You to Talk to Ubuntu Instead of Type"

I can just picture someone in a small office: "Hey, Alison, remind me of the command to format the drive on this computer I'm installing please".

"sudo mkfs.ext4 /dev/sda1"

*seconds later* ...

Everyone in the office: "Wait no stop, Myna don't listen ... oh no."

#myna #ubuntu #AI

Using LLMs is like driving a big-ass gas truck.

No one *should* do it, but it can be useful, and you—as an individual—shouldn't *really* feel that bad for doing it under limited circumstances.

But please remember, using it feeds some of the worst companies in history, and *they* (and especially their decision-makers) need to be held responsible for their destructive practices. Every dollar in their pockets helps promote more late-stage capitalism and fascism.

Lastly, If you *do* use it, don't drive like an asshole.

---

Credentials: years spent working both for and against various AI companies.

*braces for backlash*

#AI #LLMs

#Signal’s Meredith Whittaker wants you to remember that #AI chatbots ‘are not your friends’

https://techcrunch.com/2026/06/20/signals-meredith-whittaker-wants-you-to-remember-that-ai-chatbots-are-not-your-friends/

#privacy #cybersecurity #AgenticAI #AIAgent

Ya'know, @purpleidea & I have had our differences. We disagree on a lot of FOSS policy stuff. But in the last 96 hours, he's one of very few who has said something really insightful: people are just afraid and scared about LLM-gen-AI, & the weirdness in all the rhetoric and consternation and nastiness is really about that.
🤬 bull-💩 that ppl are being fired by Big Tech & told #LLM-based generative #AI is the reason. This all is bad. But why do so many wanna neg #SFC to take out their frustration?

#AI #datacenters #artificialintelligence

This is the thing I find so frustrating about #MarkCarney. He talks like he's a hard-nosed realist positioning Canada to revolutionize the world order, but what he actually does is just status quo neoliberal nonsense.

He's going to protect our #DigitalSovereignty by replacing the civil service with AI chatbots, while leaving all the tools we actually use (email, word processing, file sharing) in Microsoft's control.

@pluralistic : #AI digital sovereignty risk doesn't exist (18 Jun 2026)
https://pluralistic.net/2026/06/18/their-trillions-our-billions/

@kbm0

I used the #AI tag at the outset partly so that people who don't want to read about #AI might know that there's #AI aspect :-)

@grahamperrin #AI hashtag here means the project was revived with a dose of vibe coding? Fwiw, ravynOS also are using AI in the process of reverse-engineering Darwin....

RE: https://mastodon.social/@rustaceans/116755672316463652

yserver

― a modern X11 server written from scratch in Rust.

<https://github.com/joske/yserver>

"… there are multiple projects on GitHub with this name (but none for X11 servers), the name is subject to change. …"

<https://lobste.rs/s/yy8je0/yserver_modern_x11_server_written_from>

<https://www.phoronix.com/news/YSERVER-Rust-X11-Server>

"… can currently run a full MATE, Xfce, or Cinnamon X11 desktop. The prominent X11 extensions from RandR to DRI3, GLX, MIT-SHM, Composite, and others are supported. And, yes, with working Compiz goodness too:

… open-source under an MIT license. …"

<https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48531394>

<https://www.reddit.com/r/linux/comments/1u31shc/comment/or1re0p/>

#AI #FreeBSD #Linux #X11 #yserver #Rust

Ugh, my employer seems to be focused on going the AI route in the foreseeable future.
I wasn't happy with my employer, but wasn't unhappy either. Now, I think I need a new job.

#AI #noAI

NextBSD in Oracle VirtualBox on Kubuntu 26.04.

1501000 kernel.

1501000 userland, 15.1-RELEASE.

NextBSD-amd64-20260621-043806.iso

― booted from the ISO, without installing to a virtual disk.

<https://nextbsd.org/>

Firefox 150.0,2 and TWM installed from FreeBSD's latest repo for 15 on AMD64.

#AI #NextBSD #FreeBSD #Firefox

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Screenshot: NextBSD in VirtualBox on Kubuntu 26.04.

"Bosses are infinitely horny for firing workers and replacing them with machines" - @pluralistic

#AI #IT #work

AI Was Never About Helping You | Cory Doctorow

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SPQNPJ0CEPo

"Thanks humans"

Poster from the Thomas House bar in Dublin 🇮🇪. All AI posters and flyers are not accepted. Love it!

#AI #Ireland #IE

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A! PASSION NOT FASHION THOMAS HOUSE DUBLIN CITY SO FOR THE FUTURE (LITERALLY) WE'RE NOT ACCEPTING AI POSTERS OR FLYERS FOR THE PUB. We're right next to Ireland's biggest Art College, lads. It's not a good look. WE UNDERSTAND BANDS CAN BE SKINT BUT RELYING ON SOME EARTH KILLING APP FROM SOME PAEDO ISLAND BILLIONAIRE IS NOT THE WAY. WE GOT BY WITHOUT IT AND WE'LL GET BY AGAIN. IF YOU'RE STUCK WE'LL HELP. YES IT HAS BEEN USED HERE BEFORE BUT CONSIDER THIS THE START OF THE END OF IT. THANKS, HUMANS.

#Anthropic updated their policy this week: "Being responsible with powerful technology starts with knowing who is using it. We are rolling out identity verification for a few use cases as part of our routine platform integrity checks."
I guess this is their way of limiting Fable access for non-US citizens based on the US government request?
#LLM #AI
https://support.claude.com/en/articles/14328960-identity-verification-on-claude

Do you see local AI (like Ollama, which I personally use) as the only acceptable way to use AI, or do you still reject AI in all forms? 🔐

💬 Reply with your reasoning (copyright, creativity, content quality, etc).
🔁 Boosts appreciated to broaden the discussion.

#AI #ArtificialIntelligence #Privacy #FOSS #OpenSource #LocalAI #Ollama #Tech #TechNews #BigTech #MachineLearning #ChatGPT

I realized I'm finding typos and "careless errors" in copy much more forgivable and a hint that it was actually created by a human. This doesn't fully sit well with me, and my editing/proofing tendencies cause these mistakes to drown out whatever point the author was attempting to make.

Cynical take: there will be an inevitable shift where AI slop makers will start peppering in these kinds of mistakes to differentiate it from other AI slop, if they're not already doing so.

#AI

Build self-hosted AI systems with OpenClaw, Hermes, RAG, and local LLM infrastructure. Learn to orchestrate assistants with memory, retrieval, routing, and observability.

#AI #LLM #SelfHosting #OpenClaw #Hermes #RAG #Observability

https://www.glukhov.org/ai-systems/

US feds (DHS, FBI, fusion centers) are now treating "anti-tech extremism" as a domestic threat, per 1000+ leaked docs Wired got via FOIA. The label is so broad it lumps actual violent cults in with peaceful data-center protesters, AI skeptics, and people just speaking up at town halls or on social media. Legal experts warn it's a pipeline to surveil ordinary dissent, same playbook used on BLM, Occupy, and environmental movements.

Wired: US Law Enforcement Warns of 'Anti-Tech Extremism' as AI Hatred Grows
https://www.wired.com/story/us-law-enforcement-warns-of-anti-tech-extremism/

#AI #USA #USPol

#servicetoot #ai #datacenter #datacenters #bamboo

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Public Service Announcement Do not plant Bamboo near datacentres Bamboo can spread rapidly through underground rhizomes and can be extremly difficult to remove. Please choose responsible landscaping alternatives. Thank you for your cooperation. This message was reviewed by absolutely nobody.

Norway imposes near ban on AI in elementary school | Reuters

https://www.reuters.com/technology/norway-imposes-near-ban-ai-elementary-school-2026-06-19/

> Norway is imposing a near ban on the use of generative AI tools by elementary school pupils while also restricting their ​use in the education of older children to prevent a ‌negative impact on learning, the country's prime minister said on Friday.

#norway #Europe #parenting #ai #llm #slop #technology

Just a reminder that Vancouver School Board have still given no pedagogical reason for making Copilot available in schools.

They have so far said:

"AI is inevitable."
That's a belief, not a reason.

"Students need to learn how to use AI."
It takes 10 minutes of on-the-job training.

#noai #ai #education #vanpoli #vancouver #canada

KI-Detektoren wie Pangram sind unseriös und gefährlich.
Freebie
https://www.zeit.de/digital/2026-06/ki-detektoren-pangram-nachweis-texte?freebie=93e2fb68
#pangram #ai #chatGPT

Atlantic reporter Alex Reisner recently uncovered four #datasets of #music being used to train #AI models and made them fully searchable for the public. Two of the sets are absolutely enormous at 12 million and 9 million tracks. 
https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/953183/the-atlantic-searchable-database-music-ai-training-data

#AI #GenAI #GenerativeAI #HumanRights #Amnesty #AmnestyInternational #CloudFlare #web #tech

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CloudFlare challenge blocking access to Amnesty International report "Unlawful by design: Exposing the human rights costs of generative AI".

RE: https://mediapart.social/@mediapart/116783907575725128

Parce que, comme on ne cesse de le répéter, l'ia n'est pas une technologie.
C'est un programme politique.

#ia #ai
#NightmareOnLLMstreet
#Capitalisme

Cdrik ⏚🌻 boosted

Mediapart » 🌐 2026-06-20
@mediapart@mediapart.social

Pourquoi les appels à la régulation de l’IA sont une illusion dangereuse

Les appels et les textes se multiplient pour réclamer une « bonne » intelligence artificielle. Mais le problème est plus profond : c’est dans son principe même, dans sa fonction sociale, que cette technologie est néfaste.

Par @RGodin › https://l.mediapart.fr/miI

Vivaldi's Leader Has a Bold Pledge: No AI in Your Web Browser
https://www.pcmag.com/news/vivaldis-leader-has-a-bold-pledge-no-ai-in-your-web-browser

#news #tech #technology #AI #aislop #Vivaldi #browser

[lien] The Atlantic created a searchable database of the music used to train AI | The Verge #gik #zik #net #ai #db

@tim Amazon just came to my very small town in #AppalachianOhio where they are building what is claimed to be one of the most powerful data centers in Ohio on the Ohio River at the shuttered JM Stuart Station coal power plant . The amount of generators they say the are going to operate is ridiculous. They did admit it will only result in 30 perm jobs.

Lots of resistance. They are messing with hillbillies that don't want it. Good luck with that. #Amazon #datacenters #AI

AI puts up a glass ceiling for women. AI is actively holding you back as a woman. (And possibly as a Black person too.)

https://youtu.be/PhJxbbhSU-Y
#AI #sexism #misogyny #work #jobsearch #resume

#TuxOfTheDay - Neues Wallpaper für mein KI-Projekt auf Red Hat Enterprise Linux.

Minimalistisch, professionell und mit einem kleinen Tux im roten Hut – bereit für die nächste Generation KI Administratoren 😎

#RHEL #RedHat #Linux #AI #opensource

— "Life is long enough"
Un sticker parmi une trentaine disponibles au téléchargement sur cesep.be/ia-stickers
— One of about thirty stickers available for download (in French, non-French-speakers like them too).
Ces stickers sont inclus dans la publication *Aïe : Ms. Authenticity est malade*, un zine par Lucy Perineau et Pierre Huyghebaert. Cette publication bilingue de 48 pages à 2000 ex. aborde la manière dont les algorithmes génératifs malmènent les travailleur·euses et les organisations culturelles, et propose quelques pistes pour se sentir mieux.
— These stickers are included in *Aïe: Ms. Authenticity is Sick*, a zine by Lucy Perineau and Pierre Huyghebaert. This 48-page bilingual publication with a 2,000-copy print run explores how generative algorithms are affecting cultural workers and organizations, and offers some suggestions for feeling better.
→ PDF https://encc.eu/aie
20/6/26 - Kaaistudio (Rue Notre-Dame-du-Sommeil 81, Brussels)
Exemplaires gratuits à distribuer autour de vous.
— Pick up free copies to distribute to friends.
→ https://kaaitheater.be/en/agenda/25-26/so-called-ai-making-us-sick-zine-launch
A joint publication by ENCC, Constant, TITiPI, and Kaaitheater.
With @ms_authenticity @crickxson @Femke
And @encc @titipi @constant @Kaaitheater
#IA #AI

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Sticker "La vie est suffisamment longue pour ça" "Une autre fin de l'IA est possible"

"The most important thing about a gadget isn't what it does; it's who it does it for and what it does it to."

— @pluralistic on the power dynamics behind the "AI" craze for The Atlantic

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SPQNPJ0CEPo

#TESCREAL #AI #ArtificialIntelligence #NoAI

Starting to make sense why I got a copyright strike for one of my tracks from Circumscribed now. The claim was made by a GenAI track from 2025 (I won it but good to know it is probably because of this)

#music #ai #genai

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A list of my tracks used to train GenAI

#AI opposition isn’t the product of a lack of “ #literacy ”

https://disconnect.blog/ai-opposition-isnt-the-product-of-a-lack-of-literacy/

> The many problems with Mark Carney’s AI strategy for Canadians

Even my mother clearly understands that there is no intelligence in #AI.

To be fair, her first master degree is in computer science.

Norway is banning generative AI in elementary schools starting this autumn
https://thenextweb.com/news/norway-bans-generative-ai-elementary-school-children
– 'Norway is banning generative AI for ages 6-13 in schools from late August. Teens 14-16 need teacher supervision. The country already banned smartphones in 2024.

Norway will ban the use of generative AI tools by elementary school children starting from the new school year in late August, Prime Minister Jonas Gahr Støre announced on Friday. The ban applies to students in first through seventh grade, covering ages six to 13, according to Reuters.

Støre said at a press conference that AI increases the risk of children skipping important steps in their education. “The most important thing in school is that our children learn to read, write and do mathematics,” he said...'

#AI #Education #Norway

This #WorldRefugeeDay we’re calling for a ban on the use of AI in the UK asylum system.

The hostile environment is being automated with little transparency and limited rights of appeal.

People seeking safety shouldn’t be reduced to a case number, a data point in opaque systems.

Read our blog ➡️ https://www.openrightsgroup.org/blog/this-refugee-week-take-courage/

Sign the petition ➡️ https://action.openrightsgroup.org/ban-ai-tools-asylum-decision-making

#RefugeeWeek #ai #asylum #immigration #ukpolitics #ukpol

@nixCraft must... have... nano... bots...

To counter the deleterious effects of #AI, of course.

;-)

"A study of physicians in Poland who specialize in endoscopy — the use of flexible probes to examine the inside of the human body — shows how quickly AI tools can erode human abilities. The physicians, who had all performed at least 2,000 colonoscopies during their careers, were given access to an AI system that analyses colonoscopy images in real time and flags a type of precancerous intestinal lesion called an adenoma. The tool was available to the specialists on some days but not on others.

Once physicians began using it, their performance dropped significantly whenever the system was unavailable. During the three-month period before the AI tool was introduced, the specialists found at least one adenoma during 28.4% of colonoscopies. During the three-month period after the tool was introduced, the adenoma detection rate for colonoscopies performed without AI assistance decreased to 22.4%.

Gastroenterology and Hepatology, suggest that even highly skilled professionals might get worse at tasks that their job requires as they become more dependent on AI tools, says Robert Wachter, a physician at the University of California, San Francisco, who is the author of a book on how AI tools are transforming health care. The study authors say that continuous exposure to such tools can cause clinicians to become “less motivated, less focused, and less responsible when making cognitive decisions without AI assistance”.

Co-author Yuichi Mori, a physician-researcher at the University of Oslo, says that more studies are needed to confirm the phenomenon. But people who use AI tools should be aware that they risk losing some of their skills, he adds. “There is no established solution against deskilling right now. It should be a very hot research topic in the next decade.”"

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-026-01947-1

#AI #Deskilling #Science #Medicine

"Make sure your offline world is better than your online one."

– Ronny Chieng

https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/psych-unseen/202606/pushing-back-against-technology-the-rise-of-neo-luddism

#quotes #AI #ArtificialIntelligence #NoAI

RE: https://infosec.exchange/@darkuncle/116778528340746246

“When writing is hard, it’s often not just because we are tired, underfed, or inefficient but because our mind is trying to tell us crucial things. How many draft texts to colleagues or family members have we all stared at in frustration, wondering why they don’t feel quite right—until we finally realize that they need to be rethought completely, or not sent at all? When a book I was writing became an almost hopeless grind, I tore up 90 percent of the manuscript; it became a far more honest work for having been halted at a conceptual dead end, forcing me to turn back.

AI can’t make that kind of judgment.”

Holds equally for code.

#AI #writing #code #LLMs

AodeRelay boosted

Scott Francis » 🌐 2026-06-19
@darkuncle@infosec.exchange

“When we use AI to flesh out ideas, we lose the most important part of the writing process: thinking.”
https://apple.news/AypIapoO2QoGBYQYQ8NutTw?highlight=When%20we%20use%20AI%20to%20flesh%20out%20ideas,%20we%20lose%20the%20most%20important%20part%20of%20the%20writing%20process:%20thinking.

Calling all #designers! The #openSUSE.Asia Summit 2026 in Yogyakarta needs a #logo. Submit your original SVG design by July 21. No #AI, just creativity. Use #Inkscape and let your imagination fly! #Linux #OpenSource https://news.opensuse.org/2026/06/04/opensuse-asia-summit-2026-logo-competition/

@arthurdent @AlienJay Habe mir die Seite angeschaut - das alte Problem mit der chronischen Neugier. Die Seite, der Text kam mir zu glatt vor. Also etwas weiter gebuddelt, Bildersuche zeigt X ähnliche Bilder, kein wirklich treffendes.

Also habe ich dann Kagi Quick gefragt was es von der Seite hält.
Ich habe nicht mal explizit nach der Person gefragt, einfach nur "Can you please analyze the webpage https://traditionswelt.eu/ if it is generated by an AI?"

Fazit:

• fiktive akademische Identität
• KI-typischer Schreibstil
• KI-Generierte Bilder
• präsentiert sich mit ungeprüften Beiträgen aus Datenbanken als wissenschaftliches ethnologisches Projekt.
• verm. eigentlicher Zweck: SEO-Content-Farm für den lukrativen deutschsprachigen Suchmarkt "Glückwünsche". Dabei wird der "akademische" Rahmen als Differenzierungsstrategie gegenüber vorlagenbasierenden Konkurrenten in Suchmaschinen-Indices verwendet.

Werde nachher mal das komplette Ergebnis auf meinem Blog posten.

#ai #fake #seo

We've reached the point where actual news is indistinguishable from satire…

Amazon founder Jeff Bezos says human water consumption is limiting AI’s potential

https://theprint.in/feature/jeff-bezos-water-consumption-amazon-ai-potential/2964266/

#amazon #tech #technology #BigTech #IT #AI #ArtificialIntelligence #LLM #LLMs #ML #MachineLearning #GenAI #generativeAI #AIAgent #AISlop #FuckAI #Fuck_AI #enshittification

Firefox noooo

#firefox #ai

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Screenshot of Firefox on Android, showing a hint above the navbar reading "Shake your device to summarise this page in seconds."

In an essay about how ludicrous the idea that LLMs are conscious, science fiction writer Ted Chiang asked us to consider Microsoft Word:

“Being open to the possibility that LLMs are conscious is the same as being open to the possibility that Microsoft Word is conscious, or, more precisely, that multiple distinct consciousnesses are dormant in every Word document containing a conversational transcript, and that they are awakened every time the document is loaded,” Chiang wrote. “Should you consider the possibility that every time you open a Word document, you are bringing multiple conscious interlocutors into existence, and every time you close one, you snuff their existence out? No. Contemplating that scenario is not a good use of your time.”

The essay link: https://www.theatlantic.com/philosophy/2026/06/no-artificial-intelligence-is-not-conscious/687378/

#essay #llm #ai #tech #microsoftword

@joachim

And thats after "turning off" AI - the jerks.

And we lose translate if we turn off AI, because translate, that we've had for decades, is now AI

Firefox is " treating us", manipulating.

Enshittifying

#ai #mozilla #Firefox

> DeepSeek has completed a landmark Series A financing round totaling approximately $7.4 billion, propelling its post-investment valuation to nearly $55-59 billion.

> Notably, founder Liang Wenfeng personally invested approximately 20 billion yuan, reinforcing his absolute decision-making authority.

DeepSeek Raises $7.4 Billion in Historic Series A: Tencent Leads, CATL Crosses Over, Alibaba and ByteDance Sit Out - Pandaily
https://pandaily.com/deepseek-51-billion-series-a-funding-jun2026

#Deepseek #Tencent #ByteDance #Alibaba #AI

NeXTSpace

A wonderful project

NeXTSpace UI based on OpenStep GNUStep has been ported from Linux to BSD

NeXTSpace is modeled on NeXTSTEP a gorgeous UI on the NeXT Computing Workstation

This article has a lot of information so I would advise you to read it if you're interested

https://stevengharms.com/posts/2026-02-04-a-2025-obsession-nextstep-openstep-and-nextspace/

#Retro #RetroComputing #NeXT #NeXTSpace #GNUStep #OpenStep #UI #programming #XOrg #XWindows #LLM #AI

This is a interesting programming path with lots curves of interest

#Retro #RetroComputing #NeXT #NeXTSpace #GNUStep #OpenStep #UI #programming #XOrg #XWindows #LLM #AI

Watching YT videos explaining how AI companies and chip manufacturers are funding shell companies with $10m, to buy their products for $40m, so they gain $30m on thier books with zero money.

Absolutely crazy how we're watching this car crash in slow motion.

#ai #stockmarket

Tesco UK supermarket chain removes 40,000 servers from VMware infrastructure — mass exodus continues due to Broadcom's aggressive subscription model

Tesco UK supermarket chain moves 40,000 servers off of VMWare infrastructure — mass exodus continues thanks to Broadcom's pricing shenanigans

https://www.tomshardware.com/desktops/servers/tesco-uk-supermarket-chain-removes-40-000-servers-from-vmware-infrastructure-mass-exodus-continues-due-to-broadcoms-aggressive-subscription-model

#Tech #Technology #TechNews #AI #Gadgets #Software #Cybersecurity #Apple #Google #Microsoft #Startup #OpenSource #TomsHardware [Tom's Hardware]

I have a friend who is an artist and runs @xubuntu on her hardware. Now that Ubuntu has decided to shove AI into the desktop, she is concerned that this might be passed along to distributions based on Ubuntu. Does anyone with knowledge of this subject know the answer to this? She's ready to make the move to Debian but likes the simplicity of Xubuntu. Thanks!   

#noai #ai

Yes, genAI is going the fuck away!

They stopped putting lead into (road vehicle) fuel! They stopped putting CFCs into sprays and refrigerators! They stopped putting asbestos into buildings! They are going to stop shoving genAI into fucking everything!

They are paying influencers and celebrities to try to convince you that you have to accept it, but if they weren't losing already, they wouldn't need to pay anybody!

Hang in there, 6 more months or so!

#noAI #AI #LLM #LLMs #technofascism

haven't seen this story posted here yet, so...what it is is: edinburgh council call for a nationwide data centre moratorium. it calls on the scottish government to enact a moratorium at least until there is a definition of what a 'green data centre' is.
#scotland #edinburgh #ai #noAI #fuckAI
https://aprs.scot/press-release/edinburgh-council-vote-on-moratorium/

Governments are chasing AI investment, even as their publics turn against the technology and the data centers that power it.

Canada’s Mark Carney has chosen an shameless approach: to cast the opposition as a lack of “literacy” as he sets out to (re)educate Canadians about the benefits of AI.

https://disconnect.blog/ai-opposition-isnt-the-product-of-a-lack-of-literacy/

#tech #ai #markcarney #artificialintelligence #canada #cdnpoli #cdntech #datacenters

@jzb @jorge

So @emilymbender had some thoughts about this same question and the inevitability fallacy in the education space that she shared at a UNESCO event last year. (At 1h10m in the video.)

https://www.youtube.com/live/l-OWi6VoMng?t=4250s

#AI #ArtificialIntelligence #education #training

RE: https://social.wildeboer.net/@jwildeboer/116775461671762518

I've known about this back in early 2024 and it was pretty awesome first time I tried it, albeit with a really small model since I only had a 1050 Ti, Ryzen 3 1300X and 16 gigs of ram back then. I was getting like < 5 tk/s.

I mean it's to be expected but it's better than nothing when we don't have internet which happens sometimes.

This stuff's been out there for a while that I'm a little surprised people are only catching up with local stuffs

#ai #localllm #llm

Jan Wildeboer 😷 » 🌐 2026-06-19 / 2026-06-19
@jwildeboer@social.wildeboer.net

Gut feeling confirmed. I hear from more developers that are experimenting/working with LLMs (Large Language Models) that they are moving towards the direction I expected.

Locally running "dumb" (as in: small) models that are often combined with RAG (Retrieval-Augmented Generation) pointing at local code or doc collections. This approach is lightweight and delivers acceptable results. This domain specific approach results in far less "hallucinations" and respects privacy.

1/3

At #Microslop, they even manage to make the Recycle Bin crash

› https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/microsoft/microsoft-confirms-recycle-bin-bug-on-all-supported-windows-releases/

#Microsoft #Enshittification #AI #Enslopification

t'façon l'IA c'est pas compliqué... Gabriel Attal en a fait l'éloge.

Donc, c'est de la merde.

#IA #AI

"Will People Miss the Open Web?

Some will. Most probably will not. That is the brutal part. People did not abandon BBSs because they hated them. They abandoned them because the Web was easier. People did not abandon Flash because they stopped liking animation. They abandoned it because better technologies and devices made it unnecessary. People did not stop using websites because websites were evil. They moved to apps because apps were more convenient. The same will happen with AI.

People will not say, "Today I reject the open Web." They will simply ask the assistant because it is faster. Convenience wins. Convenience replaces nostalgy, all the time. It almost always wins. The Web's biggest enemy is not ideology. It is not regulation (well, a bit yes). It is not even AI itself. It is convenience."

The Web We Know Is Going to Disappear
https://www.minid.net/2026/6/15/the-web-is-going-to-dissapear

#AI #OpenWeb #Internet

"It's possible to come up with entirely fictitious solutions to entirely real problems." #digitalsovereign
No way.... #AI #blockchain #crypto #ponzi

If: digital sovereignty + AI = digital sovereignty – AI
Then: AI = 0

"If you want a good "national AI strategy," try this: save your money until the bubble bursts, and then buy your GPUs and hire your talent at 10 cents on the dollar and put them to work refining open source models:"
Thank you so much, @pluralistic !

https://pluralistic.net/2026/06/18/their-trillions-our-billions/

[Veille] "IA : le travail caché mais bien réel des ouvriers de la donnée", dans la lettre Polytech-insights.
(Les ingé français vont sans doute enfin découvrir les travaux #SHS de Casilli sur l'horreur de l' #IA ; il était juste temps...🙄)
https://www.polytechnique-insights.com/tribunes/digital/ia-le-travail-cache-mais-bien-reel-des-ouvriers-de-la-donnee/
#GenAI #IAgen #work #AI #workingdead #deeplearning #training #algorithms

The AI hardware grab is gutting IT supply chains.

Prices explode, everyone stretches replacement cycles. Looks eco-friendly, but the hardware just ends up powering slop factories. It's not even a net zero.

Consumer hardware vendors are dying from collapsed demand. Even if prices normalize in 12-24 months, the damage is done: suppliers gone, habits shifted, trust broken.

Customers won't forget manufacturers prioritized slop-generators over them.

Environmental damage: energy, water, land around data centers.

It's all a bet. Nobody has a monetization path. Just torching investor cash at scale.

Loose-loose. For the economy, for the consumers and for humanity at a scale.

#ai #slop #datacenter #hardware

Ok gang, we could all use a laugh, even if it is a deeply dark, we’re all going to die, kinda laugh.

#Google’s #AI thinks the #SCP is real, and is telling people that it is.

The SCP is a collaborative fictional project. Thousands of people have written entries in the SCP. Some have made it to novelization and movies. It’s an incredibly cool project with a lot of amazing writers.

It is fiction, written by people, for people. But the #LLMs have devoured everything, and have no way to discern truth from fiction, ergo…SCP’s Ed’s Head (SCP-565) is presented as a real autonomous underwater brain, and SCP-426, a toaster that can force someone to eat bread until they die.

#Futurism found lots, we’ll find more. It’s very funny to think that some of my monsters may live well beyond the boundaries I created to contain them. Of the millions of my words LLMs have stolen, this is the funniest.

https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/google-ai-overview-scp-horror-fiction-real

The SCP Foundation: https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com

#AIisTheft

@mechanical0815 @ReginaMuehlich

Gemini als Alternative zu Copilot anzupreisen, kann gute Gründe haben, aber inwieweit es den besseren #Datenschutz bietet, sei dahingestellt. Die Kriterien des Autors sind andere. Vor allem welche #AI die besten Zeiten für's #Schwimmbad kennt.

Wenn das Befragen eines #LLM schon als #Recherche und sogar als #Forschung bezeichnet wird, dann kann man den verlinkten Artikel auch #Journalismus nennen 😞

Well, that didn't take long. There was never a good reason for #Mozilla to force unwanted #AI into #Firefox. Zero.

Firefox pipes the page title into the user prompt, creating a prompt injection vector that lets attackers trick the AI into accessing and exfiltrating personal information like email verification codes.

https://insinuator.net/2026/06/vulnerability-disclosure-stealing-emails-via-firefoxs-ai-features/

@jens said:
> “The aim of gen #AI is to move…means of production from devs to model owners”
…same idea as “The aim of copyright, work-for-hire,& proprietary software is to move the means of production from devs to for-profit company owners.”

Yet, we used the tools of theses oppressors & yielded a strong stalemate against them.

& *of course* they wanna undermine #FOSS! #Microsoft, #GitHub, #Apple, etc. have worked to undermine #FOSS for *decades*.

Pragmatic idealism FTW then & (we hope) again!

hate to say i told ya so, but...

(when I first mentioned this to my lecturers they all said they couldn't see it happening because of the privacy concerns and data speed issues...lolok)

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WA police surveillance cameras: AI technology to monitor public spaces

WA police launch real-time AI camera surveillance to catch criminals

WA Police will become the first force in the country to use real-time AI-generated facial recognition in public spaces.

The state government on Friday launched the Overt Live Facial Recognition program with a trial of the cameras at the police academy in Joondalup

The technology monitors groups of people from police vans and compares faces against a database of targets in real-time.

https://www.nine.com.au/australia-news/wa/wa-police-launch-ai-camera-surveillance-to-catch-criminals-20260619-p608c7.html

#AusPol #Australia #WAPol #policing #Criminology #CriminalJustice #tech #technology #surveillance #surveillanceTech #AI #RightToPrivacy

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A 2018 Facebook post from me: tbh, i can see police body cameras being linked to facial recognition databases in the future, and becoming a tool of state surveillance used against the populace instead of tools surveilling the state and protecting the populace.

I don't do a lot of AI-agent work but it struck me recently that Bastille nested VNET jails could make fantastic agent harnesses to limit access, resources and blast radius.

We already support resource limitations on memory, cpu and storage. Limiting outbound network is simple enough to enforce. It wouldn't take much to put some tooling around this.

Seems to me Bastille is a great candidate. What do you think? If you HAD to run an agent.

#FreeBSD #BastilleBSD #AI #agentHarness #agentsecurity

Using LLMs is like driving a big-ass gas truck.

No one *should* do it, but it can be useful, and you—as an individual—shouldn't *really* feel that bad for doing it under limited circumstances.

But please remember, using it feeds some of the worst companies in history, and *they* (and especially their decision-makers) need to be held responsible for their destructive practices. Every dollar in their pockets helps promote more late-stage capitalism and fascism.

Lastly, If you *do* use it, don't drive like an asshole.

---

Credentials: years spent working both for and against various AI companies.

*braces for backlash*

#AI #LLMs

@nemeski

Jfc, it probably doesn't matter whether you "enabled" the AI SHYTE.

Firefox AI allows email theft.

"We're firefox we know what we're doing. You're just a user. Oh, dont worry we will.let you " disable it" --- we are smart tech people, that's why google gave us so much money."

AI is asbestos we will be tearing it out of everything for generations.

#ai #Mozilla #firefox #user #users #rights #shyte #corrupted

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Al is Asbestos. We'll be digging it out of everything, for generations. Cory Doctorow

"Musk’s [Initial Public Offer] was a cowardly transfer of investment risk on to millions of retail investors and ultimately, unwitting savers in pension funds"

Ann Pettifor on the cynical manipulation of the rules by the tech billionnaires in advance of the AI bubble bursting.

#AI #SpaceX #ElonMusk #NASDAQ

https://annpettifor.substack.com/p/musk-and-the-ai-oligarchs-dump-risk

I'm testing a new version of the note-taking program #Logseq. The developers use #AI to generate most of the code now.

It's a outstanding example of poor quality and weird bugs.

Today i found a bug where my text is deleted when i type "1. ".

https://youtu.be/ioeEbt84gI0
https://github.com/logseq/db-test/issues/938

I think no human developer would produce such a bug or notice before commit. What do you think?

Sadly there is no alternative that is also open source with the same features.

#SoftwareDevelopment

C'est fait...

Mon employeur vient d'annoncer qu'ils vont gaspiller 15 million d'euros...

Pour faire quoi ? Un institut de recherche #IA avec des professeurs de IA et tout...

#AI #education

@bkuhn @dalias

So-called "AI" is just another front alongside battles in the middle east and elsewhere ... the war of the powerful to increase the power through plundering the resources and lives of those below them.

Different battles, same war.

#AI #ArtificialIntelligence #war

@bkuhn @conservancy @dalias

> While it was surely unintentional, your reply is quite similar to the cruelty of traditional #FreeSoftware rhetoric — wherein we shunned people for using #Apple & #Microsoft. Such users deserve sympathy and help toward more software freedom.
>
> Same goes for #LLM-backed generative #AI users.

Sorry, I usually really value your opinions on stuff, as you tend to run contrary to the so-pragmatic-they'd-pimp-their-own-mothers attitude that is far too prevalent in (F)OSS, but hard disagree.

There's a big difference between knocking someone for using a MacBook and knocking someone for using an LLM.

Using a MacBook harms the user in ways that are somewhat debatable. Its harm outside of the user is very negligible and even more debatable.

Using LLMs harms us all. I don't doubt that there are valid and ethical applications for LLMs in many sectors, but you don't build a giant baby shredder on top of an indigenous burial ground and then suddenly pivot to saying, "But wait, it can process potatoes, too!"

If we're not talking about the theft of human creativity, the theft of potable water, the theft of human labor and wages, the promotion of über-fascist plutocrats, and all of the other horrendous harms associated with LLMs, then we're not talking about LLMs. We're engaging in some kind of fantasy roleplay.

Respectfully,

—Some dingbat named Dane, or something, who loves humanity and freedom.

Thx to AI Linux will soon stop being a platform for retrocomputing hardware. Old hw support is getting deprecated to reduce the attack surface.

Meanwhile the Linux Foundation is creating its nth AI/crypto related group.

#opensource #linux #ai #cybersecurity #retrocomputing #retrogaming

In a policy statement¹, @conservancy said:
> “#FOSS projects should not shun contributors who choose to use LLM-gen-AI systems.”

@dalias' reply:
>> “LOL WTF NOPE. 🤡”

While it was surely unintentional, your reply is quite similar to the cruelty of traditional #FreeSoftware rhetoric — wherein we shunned people for *using* #Apple & #Microsoft. Such users deserve sympathy and help toward more software freedom.

Same goes for #LLM-backed generative #AI users.

¹ https://sfconservancy.org/llm-gen-ai/llm-backed-generative-ai-recommendations.html

#OpenSource

#Linux 7.1 mit neuem #NTFS und #FRED erschienen | heise online https://www.heise.de/news/Linux-7-1-mit-neuem-NTFS-und-FRED-erschienen-11333467.html #OpenSource #ArtificialIntelligence #AI

Once again, @pluralistic nails it ...

If:
digital sovereignty + AI
=
digital sovereignty - AI

Then: AI = 0

https://pluralistic.net/2026/06/18/their-trillions-our-billions

#DigitalSovereignty #AI #ArtificialIntelligence #UN #UnitedNations

RE: https://flipboard.com/@cbcnews/canada-1akomc2pz/-/a-EzuiGWmyTOKvWDkc---EIg%3Aa%3A107108217-%2F0

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We don’t have to put up with this bullshit.

#AI #AIDataCentres #TechnoFascism

controlc boosted

CBC News » 🌐 2026-06-18
@cbcnews@flipboard.com

Developer withdraws plans to build northern Ontario AI data centre over public opposition
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/sudbury/ai-data-centre-withdrawn-armour-township-9.7239102?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub

Posted into Canada @canada-cbcnews

« When a measure becomes a target, it ceases to be a good measure » (Goodhart's law) #ai

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A black and white cartoon!of a museum exhibit. On the wall: « Museum of Meaningless Metrics ». 4 items on display, representing lines of code, story points, pull requests. The curator points to the fourth, token spent, saying « our newest exhibit »

AI's #environmental #impact is no joke.

"By 2030, #AI infrastructure could generate up to 2.5 million metric tons of e-waste each year, roughly equivalent to discarding 250 Eiffel Towers annually" (page 13).

Roughly 50 pages on this very important matter by a team of reasearchers at the United Nations University:

👇
https://unu.edu/inweh/collection/environmental-cost-of-AIs-Enrgy-Use-Carbon-water-and-land-footprints

Anthropic’s export restrictions are a wake-up call: if your business depends on AI you don’t control, you’re also exposed to policy you can’t predict. Digital sovereignty is now a business necessity.
Read the post:
https://www.korte.co/2026/06/18/digital-sovereignty-when-ai-access-disappears-in-politics/
#AI #DigitalSovereignty #EnterpriseIT

From Pew Research:

Americans largely think AI will make their personal information less secure

Can’t say I’m surprised…

#AI #infosec #data #PII #survey #research

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Americans largely think AI will make their personal information less secure

L'ia c'est la revanche des imbéciles . Vous pouvez apprendre chaque ligne de ce billet par cœur

« L’IA est un concentré de concepts d’organisations ratés, et l’apogée de l’ère des incompétents, une époque où nous sommes dirigés par des gens tellement déconnectés de la réalité du terrain qu’il était inévitable qu’une technologie soit créée spécifiquement pour exploiter leur incompétence »
⤵️
https://danslesalgorithmes.net/stream/ia-la-revanche-des-imbeciles/

#ia #ai
#NightmareOnLLMstreet
#BullshitJobDeChefDeRienDuTout
#Capitalisme

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extrait « Les LLM impressionnent les écrivains qui rechignent à écrire, les développeurs qui rechignent à coder, les chercheurs qui rechignent à faire de la recherche et les juristes qui se désintéressent de la jurisprudence. Ceux qui vous vantent les mérites de l’IA et vous persuadent qu’il est indispensable de l’utiliser cherchent en réalité à justifier leur propre paresse ou leur aversion pour l’effort. Quant à ceux qui sont impressionnés par les travaux des LLM, ils ont généralement des exigences crasses ». « L’agressivité dont font preuve les promoteurs et les dirigeants de l’IA envers ceux qui ne sont pas convaincus révèle une véritable faiblesse intellectuelle et morale. Personne n’a jamais eu raison, avec une telle insistance, une telle agressivité et un tel discours péremptoire du type « c’est là, et si vous ne l’adoptez pas, vous êtes stupide et condamné ». Personne d’aussi désespéré, insistant et autoritaire n’a jamais eu de bonnes intentions ». Les zélotes de l’IA « ne défendent pas tant les LLM que la forme la plus aboutie du capitalisme », celle d’un capitalisme de corruption, de prédation, mafieux. « L’industrie de l’IA est fondamentalement une machine à escroquer »,

🚀 forgejo-mcp v0.1.7 is out!

It's an MCP server that lets Claude (and any MCP client) drive your Forgejo/Gitea instance — 100+ tools for repos, issues, PRs, orgs & users.

This release squashes a sneaky bug class: merging PRs, updating branches & rendering markdown all *worked* but reported errors. Plus create_team fixes & runtime version reporting.

📦 npm: @ric_/forgejo-mcp

💻 Source: https://code.squarecows.com/SquareCows/forgejo-mcp/

#Forgejo #Gitea #Codeberg #MCP #AI #OpenSource #Claude

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conceptual image showing AI and human brain working together on a coding and git workflow

Well, at least they‘re honest: Screw the planet, screw your children‘s future, our loss-making, billions-burning business model is more important. Quick! More gas! Like a con man creating time pressure. Meanwhile the heat is escalating like never before.
#AI #Climateemergency

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West Antarctica Is Missing Way Too Much Ice Temperatures have climbed up to 45 degrees Fahrenheit above normal, stopping ice from forming in the dead of Antarctic winter.

Google Pixel: "phone call enhanced by AI"

Thanks for letting me know why we couldn't understand each other, the audio quality was worse than I can remember in cell phone history, even though strong 5G.

#AI

Hey #Guix contributor who explains at length how #GenAI is “good” because using GenAI eases some tasks as packaging, maintaining, etc.

I got it!

Please consider you’re consequentialist: because the consequences (packaging, maintaining) are “good”, then using GenAI is “good”.

You’ll not convinced me or others because our ethical system isn’t consequentialist.

On my side, the system I try to hold is deontology rooted in principles.

Therefore, if you want to convince me that GenAI is “good”, it’s more fruitful to argue with me on my ethical framework and not stay on your consequentialism.

Thanks. 😘

https://simon.tournier.info/posts/2026-05-29-guix-genai-letter.html
#AI

This #RefugeeWeek, we're calling on UK politicians to show courage and stand up for people seeking safety!

That means fighting back against the Home Office's potentially unlawful use of AI in asylum decision-making.

Tell your MP to back an immediate ban ➡️ https://action.openrightsgroup.org/ban-ai-tools-asylum-decision-making

#asylum #ai #immigration #homeoffice #migrants #ukpolitics #ukpol

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Text: Courage to Reject AI in Asylum – Refugee Week 2026. Image: Woman wearing a beanie looking to the left with a lined halftone effect on a flared background in light green and blue.

A legal opinion for ORG raises issues over the legality of the use of AI tools in the UK asylum system.

Applicants aren't being informed of its use by decision-makers, nor being given the opportunity to correct errors in AI-generated summaries.

Read more ➡️ https://www.openrightsgroup.org/press-releases/home-office-use-of-ai-in-asylum-cases-likely-to-be-unlawful-legal-opinion-finds/

#RefugeeWeek #asylum #ai #immigration #homeoffice #migrants #ukpolitics #ukpol

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The use of Al tools in asylum decisions. A legal opinion commissioned by ORG shows that the Home Office's use of Al in asylum decision-making is likely to be unlawful. Image: Screenshot of an article from The Independent with the headline: 'Home Office use of AI in asylum cases could be unlawful, legal experts warn – Exclusive: Caseworkers use AI to summarise asylum interviews and to search for information about country of origin.'

AI tools are being rolled out without meaningful transparency or governance.

This is alarming given that they are rewriting what people say in interviews and key information that'll determine the outcome of a UK asylum application.

Find out more ➡️ https://www.openrightsgroup.org/blog/saving-time-risking-lives-government-uses-ai-tools-to-inform-asylum-decisions/

#RefugeeWeek #asylum #ai #immigration #homeoffice #migrants #ukpolitics #ukpol

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The use of Al tools in asylum decisions. Al tools create a new text of interviews and materials. They choose what to include and exclude, rather than simply indexing or organising the existing source information. • Asylum Case Summarisation (ACS) uses ChatGPT-4 to summarise asylum interview transcripts into concise summary documents. • Asylum Policy Search (APS) summarises country Policy and Information Notes, guidance documents, and Country of Origin Information reports.

The use of AI tools to clear the asylum backlog prioritises speed over accuracy.

23% of caseworkers lacked full confidence in the output of these tools.

The UK Home Office has pressed ahead anyway and rolled out its use across the asylum system.

Read more ➡️ https://www.openrightsgroup.org/publications/automating-the-hostile-environment-ai-in-the-asylum-decision-making-process/

#RefugeeWeek #asylum #ai #immigration #homeoffice #migrants #ukpolitics #ukpol

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The problem with Al in the asylum process. There's a potential breach of data protection law if the ACS tool produces inaccurate summaries of applicants' personal data that they do not have the opportunity to correct. The Home Office's own evaluation of the Al tools found: • 9% of Al-generated summaries of the ACS were so flawed they had to be removed from the pilot. • 5% of users of the APS were "not confident in tool accuracy".

AI tools in UK asylum decision-making are being deployed first, while safeguards, oversight and transparency are treated as secondary.

This carries serious risks to fairness, accountability and the protection of rights.

That's why its use could be UNLAWFUL.

➡️ https://www.openrightsgroup.org/publications/legal-opinion-the-use-of-artificial-intelligence-tools-in-asylum-cases/

#RefugeeWeek #asylum #ai #immigration #homeoffice #migrants #ukpolitics #ukpol

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The lawfulness of the Al in aslyum cases. The Home Office is likely to be failing to ensure that decisions affecting fundamental rights are lawful and fair. • Lack of transparency Asylum applicants are not being told that Al is being used in assessments of their applications, so they cannot correct errors. • Al Playbook standards The Home Office is failing in its duty to be open and collaborative when deploying Al. • No Equality Impact Assessment The tools may not meet the Public Sector Equality Duty.

The hostile environment is being automated.

Immigration enforcement is being embedded into daily life, but most MPs are staying silent.

That silence gives the government cover to push through unlawful, discriminatory policies unchallenged.

UK MPs must show courage to demand change this #RefugeeWeek!

#asylum #ai #immigration #homeoffice #migrants #ukpolitics #ukpol

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The need to show political courage. The theme of this year's Refugee Week is courage. But despite questions about the legality of using Al tools, the Home Office has pressed ahead anyway and rolled out their use across the asylum system. So, we're calling on MPs to show courage, to set aside the political noise, and demand that everyone in the UK is treated fairly and lawfully.

Que ce soit en version analyse sérieuse et scientifique (à lire absolument https://mamot.fr/@matiu_bidule/116719996961251125 ) ou du côté humoristique ( https://theonion.com/guy-who-sucks-at-being-a-person-sees-huge-potential-in-1850488022/ )
un consensus se dégage pour dire que l'ia est l'incarnation du late stage capitalisme confit de certitudes molles et approximatives, l'empire du jetable, du good enough , de la médiocrité-mais-ça-ira-comme-ça-de-toute-façon-personne-ne-l-a-ecrit-personne-ne-le-lira

#ia #ai
#NightmareOnLLMstreet
#LateStageCapitalism
#MedioCore

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extrait blague de The Onion […] that he saw huge potential in AI […] said Parker, who, by all accounts, has never stretched himself to do something he found difficult; has never created anything truly original; and, deep down, has absolutely zero understanding of what makes things good, enjoyable, or rewarding. […]

Gene Sperling (Economic Dignity Lab/GeorgetownU) suggests that if the AI promoting Tech Bros really believed their claim that AI will provide more jobs than it destroys then they should put their money where their mouths are!

Will they? Will they hell as like.... and that's because they don't really believe it or even care whether its true or not; they're too focussed on their ability to capture as much as any posited surplus AI & associated technologies deliver.

#AI #politics #workers

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If the optimistic crowd is so confident that AI will spark new jobs, they should start by demonstrating that at their own companies. Why not make corporate pledges and support public policies that promote retraining of workers and redeployment when AI adoption does lead to displacement? 

RE: https://framapiaf.org/@davidrevoy/116766385997186720

#coolthing
Les historiettes en quatre vignettes de @davidrevoy sont accompagnées sur son site d’un #timelapse qui dévoile le travail de création. C’est à la fois beau, instructif, et peut-être la meilleure façon de démontrer pourquoi le vol des œuvres humaines par les #ai (et leur usage) est amoral.

#art #humour #creation #resistance #fantasy #dessin #illustration #noAI

Luc, prolétaire boosted

David Revoy » 🌐 2026-06-17
@davidrevoy@framapiaf.org

The Nest and Travel Souvenir

Sources and bonus timelapse: https://www.peppercarrot.com/en/miniFantasyTheater/057.html

#webcomic #krita #miniFantasyTheater

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Panel 1. The Pink-Fairy and Adventurer are bored, looking through the window of their new house. This one, with giant chicken legs, is incubating a big egg, on a nest made of branches. > Adventurer: "I actually liked it when she took us everywhere."

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Panel 2. Close up on them bored at the window. > Pink-Fairy: "Yeah… because now… we’ve been stuck here for three weeks already."

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Panel 3. Suddenly, a crack sound from bellow, and both Adventurer and Pink fairy are joyful and look at each other. > SoundFX: "Crack!"

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Panel 4. Wide shot: the house is bending at the baby with affection, a mini Japanese pagoda with chicken legs that freshly got out of its shell. The Adventurer and Pink Fairy are laughing. > Pink-Fairy: "I think I have a pretty good idea where our house wandered before we bought it."

A surprisingly good and objective video about why AI isn't sustainable, with a really bad clickbait title

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gGnci_0l-M0

https://redirect.invidious.io/watch?v=gGnci_0l-M0

#ai

🟣 The (real) dead economy theory
By Cory Doctorow
@doctorow.pluralistic.net @pluralistic

#DeadEconomyTheory #Bubblenomics #AI

https://pluralistic.net/2026/06/17/its-the-stupid-economy-stupid/

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Dark violet text "The (real) dead economy theory" on light violet text with illustration of Vanity Fair - Bankers and Financiers. 'Colonial'. Mr. Charles Cox (1881) chromolithograph art by Leslie Matthew 'Spy' Ward. Man with top hat and smoking walking with the hands in the back holding a walking stick.

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 – it's one that'll kill everyone you love and everything that matters." - @pluralistic

#ai

Chainguard Agent Skills matures: https://thenewstack.io/chainguard-agent-skills-matures/ via @TheNewStack & @sjvn

Chainguard is expanding its push to secure the fast‑growing world of #AI agents with a new public registry of more than 1,000 hardened skills, a private registry, & a hardening service.

I wonder if @briankrebs has seen this post from TechDirt:

https://www.techdirt.com/2026/06/16/apparently-the-real-reason-anthropics-models-are-offline-a-six-year-old-trump-grudge/

#AI #ArtificialIntelligence #Security #Anthropic #Fable #Mythos #StupidestTimeline

@anneroth
Whaaat? Did I miss that in your posts? Can you make it public, if you did not already did??

Do the #wSocial people think that other people do neither think nor do research?! Especially you...

Well, they strongly depend on " #ai " #slop so maybe the machine that wrote to you was fed with bad training data 😆

#slopmachines

Imagine wearing a phone on your forehead all day to record you doing chores like cutting fruit and folding towels. Imagine that it barks "Hands not detected!" when you accidentally look up. Imagine that the videos are used to train robots to do the same jobs. Imagine that your employer "denies that robots will steal jobs, believing that networks of humans and robots 'will work together' one day."
https://www.youngpostclub.com/yp/news/asia/article/3357379/indias-ai-trainers-shape-future-robots-everyday-tasks

#AI #Robots

If you're looking to better understand observability, #OpenTelemetry, and #AI agents, this episode is for you.
👉 Watch now:
https://bit.ly/4oyn4G7
#TelemetryTalks

Telemetry Talks episode 5 is here 🎙️
In this episode, @dianatodea joins Alexander Marshalov to explore vibe coding, #AI agents, and the growing need for #observability in #GenAI systems, from prompts and token usage to reasoning chains and distributed #traces
Using the VictoriaMetrics stack as the foundation for understanding the next generation of autonomous software.

Millions of Copyrighted Songs Were Fed to AI Music Generators – Now There's Proof

https://www.gadgetreview.com/millions-of-copyrighted-songs-were-fed-to-ai-music-generators-now-theres-proof

#news #tech #technology #AI #sona #music #aimusic #grok #aislop

When I try to engage in rational discussion about AI, some people assume that I am a proponent of AI.

It's a false assumption.

I'm a proponent of rational discussion.

<https://stevengharms.com/posts/2026-02-06-the-positive-case-for-ai-assisted-development/#massively-negative-externalities> – "Massively Negative Externalities" – part of a three-part series of blog posts by Steven G. Harms @sgharms – succinctly captures some of how I feel.

#AI

@mwl Thanks and done!

#AI #Firefox #KillSwitch

🎯 Yesterday, the Swiss Internet Governance Forum, took place in Bern, bringing together experts to discuss challenges facing the digital world, including #AI, #cybersecurity, and #digitalsovereignty.

💯 Professor Emmanuel Benoist from our partner, Bern University of Applied Sciences , represented NGI TALER at the event!

💡 Emmanuel positioned GNU Taler @Taler as a building block for digital sovereignty in payments, sharing insights from the practical deployment in #switzerland

#goTALER

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Promotional graphic for NGI Taler's participation in the Swiss Internet Governance Forum (IGF Switzerland). The NGI Taler logo appears at the top left, while a photograph on the right shows Prof. Emmanuel Benoist presenting with a microphone in front of an IGF Switzerland backdrop. The image is framed within a blue speech-bubble-shaped border. Large text reads "igf+ Swiss Internet Governance Forum," with the UN IGF (Internet Governance Forum) logo displayed at the bottom. The design features a light geometric background with blue curved accents in the upper-right corner.

freeBSD goes LLM AI vulnerability hunting?

I haven't read the article yet so I will not say anything now

It would be nice to see feedback from you after you've read it

https://freebsdfoundation.org/blog/freebsd-ai-assisted-vulnerability-discovery-project-launch/

#freeBSD #goes #LLM #AI #vulnerability #hunting #slop #hallucinated #results

Dozens walk out as Google boss addresses Stanford graduates

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cqx10gg2r2vo

#news #politics #uspol #uspolitics #ethics #corruption #ai #aislop #google

More Than 16,000 Sign SAG-AFTRA Letter Demanding Congress Pass NO FAKES Act, Which Would Ban Unauthorized AI Images and Videos

https://variety.com/2026/biz/news/sag-aftra-letter-congress-pass-no-fakes-act-1236783056/

#news #tech #technology #AI #politics #uspol #SAGAFTRA #congress #aislop

Pentagon boasts of using AI to write reports mandated by Congress

https://arstechnica.com/ai/2026/06/pentagon-boasts-of-using-ai-to-write-reports-mandated-by-congress/

#news #tech #technology #AI #aislop #politics #uspol #maga #gopcult

Hi all I've released a skill for #AI that improve #accessibility on your websites and applications. My hope is you can all share this and together we can make the the web a little more #inclusive by using the #WCAG

https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/even-big-sites-have-accessibility-bugs-heres-ai-skill-richard-harvey-4oaie

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A mock up of a IDE highlighting fixes on a web page to make it more inclusive.

6) #AI is too important to be controlled by autocrats or oligarchs

#RutgerBregman lays out the danger of #AIDenialism and the threat posed to global stability by unregulated AI

The machines cannot be be smashed, the clock cannot be rolled back as autocrats and oligarchs in other geographies will seize a sinister advantage which will destabilize the economies of rival countries

https://youtu.be/KpTZbq-eV38?si=jRH3D0zXAtgLGAfG

#billionaire #oligarchs #UltraWealthy #democracy #fascism #Politics #oligarchy #USPol

At BIML we have not changed our mind about the Anthropic fable/mythos export control disaster. We talk about the whole ironic thing in some detail here. Neither anthropic nor the US government are right.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Jsy7UBQv0c

#MLsec #ML #AI #anthropic #llm #mythos

RE: https://mastodon.social/@fsfe/116754296070322005

We submitted our position to the @EUCommission's public consultation on #DMA #AI #interoperability in #Android.

Among other points, we highlighted that access to interoperability should not be tied to *any kind* of verification scheme.

No registration, nor authorisation, nor any contractual relationships with #Google must be a prerequisite to access features in Android. @keepandroidopen

You can read more in our news item or in the submission itself 👇