Competent devs get to enjoy conducting free labour while in poverty.

AI clanker cultists who break key infrastructure like RSYNC get to enjoy a wealthy retirement.

There should be rioting.

While @davidgerard is moving thousands of kilometres, pitch into his Ko-fi, because he's one of us: the people capitalism punishes. #NoAI

https://youtu.be/V0EAo9jo-U4?si=tBJrcOpA0LH1iDDu

Ko-fi: https://ko-fi.com/A1529D5

Considering that AI data centres are:👇

🤐 Being constructed across Canada with high secrecy and low community involvement;

Causing noise and water pollution, and strain water reservoirs and energy grids;

Contributing to eliminate significant numbers of jobs across society;

Contributing to undermining Canada's digital sovereignty, with public services and local AI infrastructure committed to foreign AI products.

This is a petition created by @GarrickWinter to ask the Canadian government to 🇨🇦✍️👇

1: Cease all incentives, subsidies, and permit accelerations for AI data centres;

2: Revoke permits and supports for AI data centre projects that have not been rigorously and transparently vetted by the local community;

3: Commission a detailed study for public release on negative externalities associated with existing AI data centres in Canada and elsewhere;

4: Require that all AI infrastructure projects be initiated and sought out by local communities, and be put through a transparent and democratic approval process; and

5: Subject AI products to genuine taxes as well as enforceable regulations around safety, transparency, and power and water use effectiveness.

Please sign it and spread the word! 👇

https://www.ourcommons.ca/petitions/en/Petition/Details?Petition=e-7550

#NoAI #Canada #CanPoli #CndPol #DataCentres

CMYK Halftone Roses. Drawing halftones with a plotter is brutal on the pen up/down mechanism (so many dots!) but the results are very pleasing.

CMYK on 24”x36” watercolor paper using a vintage HP DraftPro DXL pen plotter generated and controlled with Python.

Available in my shop: https://shop.paulrickards.com/large-plots/

#PenPlotter #GenerativeArt #CreativeCoding #MastoArt #Art #ArtForSale #Artist #ArtForSaleByArtist #PenPlotterArt #PenPlot #NoAI

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A portrait pen plot on white paper of a bouquet of roses in yellow, pink, and red. The yellow and pink roses are almost fully open while the red and several others are still tightly closed. The drawing is made from thousands and thousands of tiny dots of various sizes in rotated halftone screen all drawn in cyan, yellow, magenta, or black pens. It’s based on the horticultural work “Varietes de Rose jaune et de Rose du Bengale. Rosa lutea & Rosa Indica (Var.)” by P. J. Redoute and Langlois from around 1830. https://collections.rhs.org.uk/view/64393/varietes-de-rose-jaune-et-de-rose-du-bengale-rosa-lutea-rosa-indica-var

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Detail of roses and a blue butterfly drawn with tiny CMYK dots of various sizes.

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Detail of roses drawn with tiny CMYK dots of various sizes.

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Detail of a butterfly drawn with tiny CMYK dots of various sizes.

Some #PenPlotter ASMR drawing tiny halftone dots with a cyan pen on top of a completed yellow layer.

(See previous post in thread for completed plot.)

#GenerativeArt #CreativeCoding #MastoArt #Art #ArtForSale #Artist #ArtForSaleByArtist #PenPlotterArt #PenPlot #NoAI

is libretranslate ethical?

#noAI #Askfedi #Libretranslate

3 days until the Canada-wide protest against AI data centres on June 27th! At least 13 cities will be participating!

#canada #cdnpoli #NoAI #BigTech #DataCentres #vancouver #victoria #edmonton #calgary #GrandPrairie #RedDeer #regina #MooseJaw #hamilton #toronto #halifax #lorneville

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Text graphic reading: Protest against data centres is in 3 days. Saturday, June 27th. Find your local event below. Here's what you need to bring > > >

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Text graphic reading: Remember to bring! Good walking shoes, water bottle, [sun] hat, cool shades and sunscreen, [rain] umbrella, raincoat or ponco, quick snack, a friend

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Screenshot of text reading: Vancouver, 1pm - Art Gallery (Robson St. side) Victoria, 1pm - Victoria City Hall Kamloops, 1pm - Kamloops Courthouse Edmonton, 2pm - Alberta Legislature Steps Grande Prairie, 2pm - Grande Prairie City Hall Red Deer, 2pm - Red Deer City Hall Calgary, 2pm - Calgary City Hall Regina, 1pm - Victoria Park Moose Jaw, 2pm - Moose Jaw City Hall Hamilton, 1pm - Hamilton City Hall Toronto, 1pm - Toronto City Hall Halifax, 1pm - Halifax Pier Lorneville, 1pm - King’s Square

I got the boot this month and am looking for a new software developer job. Rust and Python would be fun, but I can do a lot of stuff in JS/TS, Kotlin, Java, even C/C++ with a bit of a brush up... Bit of a jack of all trades full stack dev.

Working with open source would be awesome if it paid just enough to survive the mortgage and get something to eat. Climate positive job or EU digital independence development is interesting too.

Hybrid work within reasonable distance from Klaukkala is a-OK. Remote probably whole of EU <3. Can't travel.

Having put this https://jago.kapsi.fi/cv.pdf up on the public interwebs, I'm probably unfit to work in any US company...

Not a techbro. Sane person and a long-time ally.

#GetFediHired #FediHire #NoAI

The planet is baking and fucks are out there posting about how much they use AI and think it's such a useful tool.

#noai #fuckai

Your otherwise agreeable coworker's personality has now been replaced by a mention of Claude at every point of interaction 😐
#ai #noai #fuckai

✊️ Vim Classic 8.3 Debuts as an AI-Free Vim Fork https://linuxiac.com/vim-classic-8-3-debuts-as-an-ai-free-vim-fork/

#vim #noai #opensource #vimclassic

It's funny that I've often complained about #Debian being long in the tooth, but now I'm kinda considering sticking with #Trixie until 2030-06-30 (end of #LTS).

...becase it's relatively #slop-free, at least in "base."

#NoAI #AInt

RE: https://flipboard.social/@newsguyusa/116810536261122047

Open Source developers, take note.

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

Peperlito boosted

Steve Herman » 🌐 2026-06-25
@newsguyusa@flipboard.social

Owners and operators of ~400 newspapers are suing OpenAI and Microsoft for scraping their content to build products like ChatGPT and Copilot without permission or compensation. https://news.bloomberglaw.com/litigation/publishers-sue-microsoft-openai-over-unauthorized-content-use

I am preparing a keynote speech for a conference. On the first slide where I introduce myself and my lab, I would like to put a small image "resist AI" or "this presentation is 100% human brain juice" or something similar. Do you think that it's a good idea ? Any recommendations as to where I can find this kind of image ?
#academicchatter #ResistIAGen #noai #ESR

Why a stylist and her crew built a magazine instead of just moaning about AI 👀

"In response to AI's rapid takeover of editorial imagery, Anna May and the team behind MISC magazine made something physical and human. Here's why."

https://www.creativeboom.com/inspiration/why-a-stylist-and-her-crew-built-a-magazine-instead-of-just-moaning-about-ai/

#noai #art #design #photography #blog

Journal de canicule, jour 7

Alors que les nuits compliquées s'enchainent et que la fatigue s'accumule, je suis positivement surpris de voir la transparence dont font preuve les géants de la tech : entre ce lobby qui explique qu'il faut choisir entre l'IA et les objectifs climatiques [1], ou encore Jeff Bezos qui reconnait qu'il faut choisir entre utiliser l'eau pour l'IA ou pour la consommation humaine [2] ; il s'agit d'une honnêteté intellectuelle très appréciable. 🙏

Bon, ceci étant posé, s'il faut choisir entre l'IA ou la préservation d'un environnement propice à la vie sur Terre, ok, c'est pas moi qui fait les règles... 🤷

#canicule #ai #noai

I wrote a short blog today on my return to simple tooling when writing code, in an attempt to regain the ability to truly learn things and the joys of learning about one thing snowballing into learning about many.

A small personal act of resistance in an era of agentic engineering, deskilling, and surface-level understanding: https://hgrsd.nl/blog/simplicity-agency-and-mastery/

#noAI #programming #blog #coding #tech #software

No one ever learns from history.

"AI" is just a reiteration of the "South Sea Bubble".

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

#noAI

I'm planning to try and come back to this project.

https://codeberg.org/xv7/xv7

xv7 attempts to continue maintaining x86 xv6 after MIT dropped it for the RISC-V version.

I haven't worked on it since February and was working on it with a friend but they stopped helping with it and I no longer have contact with them.

I want to bring attention to it and have me and others help improve it to make a proper system from it, without AI of course.

#Tech #Technology #OSDev #UNIX #NoAI #FuckAI #AI #AntiAI

I hope they all opt out. Seriously, fuuuuuck Google's "AI overview."

I still recommend using No AI DuckDuckGo, Mojeek, and SearXNG instead.

#NoAI @davidgerard

https://youtu.be/fku2tzBTNnI?si=3D_RjlRQmjmulB6L

non-vibe coded terminal recommendations?

what are folks using these days?

preferably something which supports the kitty graphics protocol

#CLI #Terminal #noAI #Linux

A big rainbow phyllotaxis spiral, beaming with positive pride vibes.

CMYK on 24”x36” watercolor paper using a vintage HP DraftPro DXL pen plotter generated and controlled with Python.

Available in my shop: https://shop.paulrickards.com/large-plots/

#PenPlotter #GenerativeArt #CreativeCoding #MastoArt #Art #ArtForSale #Artist #ArtForSaleByArtist #PenPlotterArt #PenPlot #PlotterTwitter #NoAI

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Oblique view detail from an abstract pen plot on white paper in portrait orientation of a series of small droplet shapes spiraling out from the center in a phyllotaxis pattern each hatch shaded with the colors of the rainbow. The detail shows the individual pen strokes of cyan, yellow, and magenta inks that comprise the hatching.

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An abstract pen plot on white paper in portrait orientation of a series of slightly overlapping droplet shapes spiraling out from the center in a phyllotaxis pattern each hatch shaded with the colors of the rainbow with lavender in the middle transitioning to violet, blue, green, yellow, organ, and red. Each shape is outlined in black and has a small drop shadow in black.

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Detail from an abstract pen plot on white paper in portrait orientation of a series of slightly overlapping droplet shapes spiraling out from the center in a phyllotaxis pattern each hatch shaded with the colors of the rainbow. The detail shows the individual pen strokes of cyan, yellow, and magenta inks that comprise the hatching.

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Detail from an abstract pen plot on white paper in portrait orientation of a series of slightly overlapping droplet shapes spiraling out from the center in a phyllotaxis pattern each hatch shaded with the colors of the rainbow. The detail shows the individual pen strokes of cyan, yellow, and magenta inks that comprise the hatching.

LOOKING FOR A JOB

https://nemo.earth/#barto

SKILLS
Frontend mostly, JS mostly, Svelte React Vue Ionic mostly. But often after work day I was developing fullstack apps, with NodeJS as backend. Coding also in raw PHP. And maybe will return to Python. Besides of course GIT, HTTP, Rest, SOLID, Keep It Simple, etc.

COOPERATION
Contract B2B with my one-person company.

SALARY
Fair enough for Mid+ / Senior.

IMPORTANT
I don't use AI while coding. And don't want to!

#job #cooperation #frontend #backend #fullstack #noai #javascript #nodejs #svelte #ionic #php #react #vue

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

@wwahammy

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

#AI #slop #codeIsArt #NoAI

So I did some print tests ✨

Je dis ça je dis rien, mais j'ai fait des tests d'impression grand format 👀

~ Feat my Dryade and my Lady Knight ~

#art #MastoArt #illustration #prints #fantasy #NoAI

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Photo montrant en partie deux de mes dessins imprimés en grand format : la dryade et la chevaleresse.

It's UN Open Source Week.

Will the human race be able to overcome the struggles of power and leverage technology to promote and advance human rights? Working together is the only way.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QmrIDK03Hlg

#UN #OpenSource #SoftwareFreedom #DigitalRights #DigitalAutonomy #FreeSoftware #FOSS #FLOSS #UnitedNations #NoAI #HumanRights

In the late 1990s I was an inexperienced 3D creator who had just shifted from pixel art creation. Here's a Dutch computer magazine cover illustration I made at the time, using 3D Studio MAX, as it was still called back then. 🙂

#linux #windows #design #artwork #sculpture #3DArt #3DModeling #illustration #art #artist #arts #arte #designer #CharacterDesign #GraphicDesign #NoAI #3D #3DRendering #DigitalArt #OriginalArt #ArtLovers #MastoArt #FediArt #MastodonArt #CreativeToots #ArtistsOnMastodon

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Cover of the Dutch PC-Active magazine, April 1999 issue, featuring a 3D illustration of Tux the Linux penguin smashing through a Windows logo.

Unsplash Fails - 1 of 5 🖤

Five of my favourite images that failed to ever gain any traction on Unsplash 📉

1. The Civic Centre Estate in Birmingham, UK 📍

https://unsplash.com/photos/a-tall-concrete-apartment-building-with-many-windows-qde_UxHEExE

📷 Sony a7C II & 50mm F2.5
💻 Edits: Affinity

#blackandwhite #monochrome #photography #noai

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A black and white photo of an old block of flats in a Brutalist style.

Back when I was still teaching, I would sometimes have a student (or the parent of a student, yikes) tell me "... how can this grade be anything but an A? I spent so much time, I worked so hard on this homework, and I learned so much ... it simply CANNOT be a C, can it?"

I received a lot of very bad reviews on ratemyprofessor.com for telling them the truth: If it took you THAT much effort to produce something THIS horrible, then I should probably have given you a D instead.

These days it would take them a bunch of tokens to get a solution that would probably fool me. And the "should have been a D" kids are getting paid "developing software" for the plane you're sitting on. Better hope it's just the "entertainment center" as it were.

Sure, let's call that progress. 🤷

#effort #result #mean #honest #academia #noai

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

This was absolutely fantastic!
I highly recommend everyone to watch this interview when you have the time. If you're on the Fediverse, I think you're gonna love it.

Thank you Gowanus,
I love you too ❤️

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rxpV97A5I90

#Luddite #NoAI #BigTech #Privacy #SummerOfLudd

CMYK Circle Galaxies, a nod to space telescope photography. Probably one of the more complex plots I’ve done. The black background alone took 4 passes.

CMYK ink on 24"x36” watercolor paper using a vintage HP DraftPro DXL pen plotter generated and controlled with Python.

Available in my shop: https://shop.paulrickards.com/large-plots/

#PenPlotter #GenerativeArt #CreativeCoding #MastoArt #Art #ArtForSale #Artist #ArtForSaleByArtist #PenPlotterArt #PenPlot #NoAI

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An abstract pen plot on white paper in portrait orientation of a field of densely packed variable sized circles of a variety of colors on a black background. The colors of the circles are loosely related to one another and slow change color across the composition.

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Detail from an abstract pen plot on white paper in portrait orientation of a field of densely packed variable sized circles of a variety of colors on a black background. The detail shows the individual pen strokes that comprise the shading of the circles in cyan, yellow, and magenta.

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Detail from an abstract pen plot on white paper in portrait orientation shown at an oblique shallow depth of field of a field of densely packed variable sized circles of a variety of colors on a black background. The detail shows the individual pen strokes that comprise the shading of the circles in cyan, yellow, and magenta.

RE: https://infosec.exchange/@lcamtuf/116785283147249092

Show this to your kids. Show them this and explain why its wrong. Compare with known sources. Show them known sources. Teach them how to avoid all this crap. Let's hope for the best :(((

#parenting #kids #AISlop #NoAI

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

Pretty dark in here.
#digitalart #mastoart #artistsonmastodon #humanartist #noAI #slopfree #conceptart #illustration #fantasy

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Waha the Witch explores dark ruins, holding a glowing orb. Red eyes peer out from every which way.

I was struck (not in a good way) by this post.
https://mastodon.social/@JoBlakely/116776799630752498

During a layoff, years ago, I helped folks update their resumés. I was appalled: the men's were like "I invented the laser" (not true) & the women's were tentative & self-effacing.

Now, for our stressed, unemployed colleagues, LLMs elevate this "average behaviour" to best practice?

Misogyny is *embedded* in the tool. It's been trained (by humans) on all the evidence of our societal dysfunctions & inequalities. #noAI

🤬🤬🤬

"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

"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

Investigation from @thetyee and Greenpeace Canada shows the Liberal government likes the potential for AI data centres to inflate the market for fossil fuels.

Join Canada's nationwide data centre protests on June 27 to speak out against this!

#canada #cdnpoli #vanpoli #vancouver #noai #climate #DataCentres #DataCenters

#noAI #art #GemmaCorrell

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A picture of a cat by Gemma Correll. "A.I. Art – sucks" Ein Bild einer Katze von Gemma Correll. "A.I. Art - sucks"

Had another "check out my new site" post come across my timeline. Site is legacy-IP only. Dug in a bit to see what hosting they're using. "AI" this and "agentic" that. No particular desire to try and evangelize that rabbit hole. And no I'm not naming them. Don't want to give them any notoriety.

#IPv6 #NoAI

Okay, that's a nice touch: vim-classic is in the OpenBSD 7.9 repos and just a pkg_add away.

#openbsd #vimclassic #noai

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

🇺🇳 If you are joining us for UN Open Source Week in New York starting Monday, and you are a human, and think that humans matter more than technology, find me for a lapel pin.

Or join us online: https://unopensource.org

#UN #OpenSource #FreeSoftware #NotAI #NoAI

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A white container holding many round lapel pins that are white, round, with black text reading "NOT AI".

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/

AliExpress has just started including "AI Overview" sections on product pages, then have the gall to include a disclaimer that their bullshit machine produces bullshit "and does not represent the merchants opinion." And then go on to say that they "assume no related legal liability," which doesn't mean that they aren't legally liable, because, of course, they are.

What's the point of a product description that can't be relied on? I'd prefer no description at all.

#NoAI

Fuck. I got a reply from 1password support regarding my question if they use AI/LLM for developing the password manager. The answer was affirmative, they use it for writing code, documentation och code reviews.

They claim that it's not AI-driven in the sense that it's replacing the humans but supporting them.

While they did not specify what models they use in the e-mail, a blog post they wrote quotes a guy talking about frontier models through cursor so I'll just assume they are using them rather than local models... fuck.

#NoAI #NoLLM

From Global News:
"A large cohort of Stanford University students walked out of their graduation ceremony on Monday during Google CEO Sundar Pichai’s keynote address."

"'Shout out to all the graduates who walked out today. To all the graduates who chose conscience rather than comfort, we thank you,' the statement reads.

The group wrote that it walked out in protest of Google’s hand in the rapid expansion of artificial intelligence, saying it would not be lured by 'talk of the dollar' and condemning what it says are 'crimes of Google in collaborating with Israel, ICE and companies like Palantir.'"

https://globalnews.ca/news/11907485/stanford-students-walk-out-google-ceo-ai-protest-graduation/

#NoAI #Google

L'article https://danslesalgorithmes.net/stream/ia-la-revanche-des-imbeciles/ se termine par une phrase impeccable :

> « […] une industrie qui exige tout de nous — notre terre, notre énergie, notre eau, nos emplois, notre art, notre écriture, notre attention et chaque dollar que nous possédons — ne devrait susciter que du dégoût. »

#ia #noAI

A website I frequent sends a server string of "Cloudflare (WP Engine)", so I head over to the WP Engine website to see if I can ask why they don't have #IPv6 on any of their hosts. I am immediately accosted by their AI chat bot popup causing me to reflexively close the tab. I hate this reality.

#NoAI

"There is no AI, it's just someone else's work."

#noAI #noAIArt

Message de Pen Of Chaos (le créateur du Dongeon de Naheulbeuk) à propos de l'IA

http://www.penofchaos.com/warham/donjon.htm

#noAI #naheulbeuk #ficson

SpaceX has agreed to buy AI coding start-up Cursor for $60bn (£45bn) just days after its bumper initial public offering (IPO).

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cvgd5g7d7gyo

If Twitter taught us anything, they will not care about money loss, as long as they can use it to spread mis/disinformation.

#NoAI

Given these days you can't even expect #Gentoo contributors to be respectable, I'm working on adding a git hook that rejects commits with #LLM attribution. Could you help me find all the common patterns used to mark LLM-assisted #git commits?

So far I'm checking for author and Co-authored-by using the following e-mail patterns:

• copilot@github.com
• *@anthropic.com
• claude@users.noreply.github.com
• *+claude[bot]@users.noreply.github.com
• *@openai.com
• *+chatgpt-codex-connector[bot]@users.noreply.github.com
• *@cursor.com
• *@x.ai
• *@google.com

I think some people came up with some other tags to mark LLM commits but can't find that right now.

#NoAI #NoLLM #AI

"There is no AI, it's just someone else's art."

#noAI #noAIArt

"There is no AI, it's just someone else's data."

#noai #noAIArt

Some tinkering inspired by @bitartbot ; first art thing in a long while. Feels nice to be a bit creative again.

#generative #generativeart #proceduralart #noai #processing #ps5

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An abstract image generated using a similar approach to @bitartbot; this one is blocky and green/blue with a nice zoomed in pixel look.

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An abstract image generated using a similar approach to @bitartbot; this one has some high level structure with some strong diagonal lines with some nice "glitches" in it.

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An abstract image generated using a similar approach to @bitartbot; this one looks like a TV test pattern; curvy analog black and white distortions with RGB horizontal lines.

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An abstract image generated using a similar approach to @bitartbot; this one looks like a Sierpiński triangle crossed with an edge-detect filter in yellows and greens.

RE: https://infosec.exchange/@patrickcmiller/116749455911829582

Once again, "it's useful for programming" is being used as cover, to justify the continued existence of this company and industry.

The money that we pay toward coding assistants extends the runway this industry has, to continue positioning itself as "indispensable" and "inevitable", while destroying labour rights, open knowledge, and the environment in the meantime. That money is actually critical for that runway, because coding assistants are one of the only high-margin products these companies have.

Programmers don't like to think about this, and like to pretend that this technology is neutral and that we can use it regardless of the underlying ideology. This is completely burying our heads in the sand.

I'm just not interested in participating in any of this.

#noAI

If you want to hire someone with a guarantee that they will not be using any AI in their work, let me know, I'm still available (and semi-looking).

More information on the types of work I'm looking for on my profile page pinned post

#GetFediHired #NoAI

"There is no AI, it's just someone else's work."

#noAI #noAIArt

Fuck Oracle!

https://urbanmilwaukee.com/2026/06/13/we-energies-oracle-want-looser-financial-protections-for-data-centers/

#wisconsin #ai #NoAI #fuckAI

Anubis is slop

...

Up is down, left is right, good is bad, cats are dogs, what the flip are we even doing anymore?????

🤦‍♂️

#slop #NoAI #AInt

RE: https://jasette.facil.services/@cltr/116739252751465561

« Si aujourd’hui nous sommes diplômés de Polytechnique, nos sentiments sont ambivalents, car notre formation nous prépare trop souvent à servir des intérêts économiques et industriels qui participent aux ravages sociaux, écologiques et militaires en cours »

Go les jeunes... respectez vos valeurs! C'est très important !

#futur #jeunes #ecolo #nowar #noai

Flibustien boosted

Claude Trudel » 🌐 2026-06-12 / 2026-06-12
@cltr@jasette.facil.services

À Polytechnique, des étudiants perturbent la remise de diplômes et dénoncent l’emprise de certaines entreprises « qui participent aux ravages sociaux, écologiques et militaires en cours »
https://www.lemonde.fr/campus/article/2026/06/12/a-polytechnique-des-etudiants-perturbent-la-remise-de-diplomes-et-denoncent-l-emprise-de-certaines-entreprises-privees_6701153_4401467.html
#étudiants #manifestation #Polytechnique #entreprise #environnement #armée #militaire #science #Paris #France #université #études #éducation #sosiété #écologie

• #etudiants
• #armee
• #universite
• #etudes
• #education
• #sosiete
• #ecologie

So when #Anthropic can't buy #GNU Toolchain project wholesome, it can always buy its developers.

Oh wait, this mail that starts with Anthropic marketing bullshit is not "an endorsement of Anthropic". And you're not permitted to criticize him.

https://sourceware.org/pipermail/libc-alpha/2026-June/178028.html

#NoAI #NoLLM #AI #LLM

#photography #blackandwhitephotography #streetphotography #streetphoto #blackandwhite #bnw #noai #n1k0bw

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le reflet d’un lampadaire dans une flaque d’eau sur la chaussée

@moses_izumi @hikari @AnachronistJohn

#NetBSD definitely deserves some love for being one of the very few, and perhaps the most featureful Operating Systems that has a strong #NOAi stance.❤️‍🔥

I definitely want to start supporting them. I need to get on that.

Share! 🎉🎉

You don't like it when people delegate their thinking to the technofascist torment nexus slop bots?

When they burn down a forest, drain a lake, and poison poor people in datacentre neighborhoods to be told that there are three Rs in apple?

Well then, Trump, Starmer, and Carney think you're a terrorist.

Technofascism Survival Guide exists to prepare you and your family to survive.

Last week for late pledges! $12 USD. Late pledges pay my rent and buy groceries!

Share! 🎉🎉🎉 #NoAI

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/kimcrawley/technofascism-survival-guide/

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POLITICS The Feds and Law Enforcement Are Worried Al Backlash Could Turn Into ‘Anti-Tech Violent Extremism’ The threat of domestic terrorism could give Trump's Al-friendly administration a convenient reason to keep tabs on anti-Al movements and data center protests. BY BRUCE GIL PUBLISHED MAY 26, 2026, 1:15 PM ET READING TIME 3 MINUTES

Good news, fellow slop disdainers! 🤖

I finally managed to get my pro human art stickers printed, so go get them while they're hot: ❤️‍🔥😺

https://shop.jfml.eu/product/support-real-artists-sticker/

#noAI #JfmlArt #art #illustration #creative #DigitalArt FediArt #CreativeToots #MastoArt #ArtistsOnMastodon #ArtWithOpenSource #inkscape #cat #marker #computer #retro #vectorArt #CatsOfMastodon #robot #sticker #ArtMadeByHuman #AI #AISlop #HumanArt #FuckAI #BoycottAI #anticapitalism #MakeTheRichPay #SmallBusiness #FediGiftShop #GiftIdeas

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Photo of a hand holding a square paper sticker with a round illustration. It shows a tv-like robot's head that has dollar signs for the eyes and two bullet holes in it's display, making a :P emoji. Laying at it's side is a yellow cat, looking angry that is grabbing a marker with her tail. She's just written „Built from stolen art“ on the side of the robot . Above the illustration it says „Ew, AI Slop!“ and beneath it „Support Real Artists!“, with a little speech bubble pointing at the cat, saying „like her“

Free printable sticker templates
by Johanna Polle
and Urban Mystic Art:

https://www.patreon.com/johannapolle/posts/free-printable-160697384

There are two variations in the wording, you can see them in the Patreon post.

feel free to #boost

#mastoArt #NoAI #NoGenAI #AIartIsNotArt #freesticker #sticker

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A black and white sticker with an illustrations showing two crows and a moon crescent. Text: Crows against tech bros - No AI - Support Human Connection.

From Global News:
Grok AI broke Canada’s laws, created 6K sexual deepfakes per hour

"The investigation has found that X Corp and xAI violated Canada’s federal private sector privacy law by launching the Grok AI-powered image generation tool without implementing appropriate safeguards at the outset," privacy commissioner Philippe Dufresne said in a press conference in Ottawa Thursday.

https://globalnews.ca/news/11899687/grok-sexual-deepfake-report/

#NoAI #Grok #Privacy #Consent #CanPoli

If people install AI software onto their computer I want it to delete absolutely everything they ever did so they have to start over from scratch without AI.

#NoAI #FuckAI #AI

Make sure to cancel apps that use Gen AI, and be vocal that that's why you're canceling.

I thought Qlango was an ethical alternative to Duolingo. But not only do they engage in Duolingo's shitty naggy notifications, they also give an "ask AI!" option, even when you answer a question correctly.

If you want to learn Japanese without supporting technofascism and destroying our dying planet, these are apps that are completely without "Gen AI" and will never nag you with notifications. I have months and years of experience to back that up:

Renshuu
MaruMori
WaniKani

Those are good apps. 👆🏻

These are bad apps. 👇🏻

Duolingo
Qlango
Bushuu

Share! #NoAI

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Screenshot of Qlango, showing "Ask AI!' as an option.

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6:51 ol = @ New message to the support team | am canceling my paid subscription because there's a "Ask All' @ option in your app. Plus your nagging notifications are like Duolingo. Yuck. I'm the founder of Stop Gen Al, and the fact that you would make consulting a technofascist technology that burns down forests and drains lakes on our dying planet is absolutelv horrifvina.

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& Cancel subscription Qlango: Learn 80+ Languages : Monthly subscription Your subscription will be canceled at the end of your billing period on Jul 6, 2026, and you won't be charged anymore. You can change your mind any time before this date. Select a reason for canceling Other v Qlango uses Gen Al and also engages in other unethical practices that are typical of Duolingo. 94/300

Want to show visitors to your site that your content is human made and doesn't use AI? Grab my badge pack for FREE (or pay as much as you want)

The pack contains 64 88x31px PNG and SVG badges in 8 colors and phrases “made by a human, drawn by a human, human content, written by a human, I am not a robot, never by ai, human content, there's no ai here!”

#free #badges #NoAI #humanmade #smallweb #indie

https://ko-fi.com/s/4662b19f61

I was reading https://prosody.im/doc/turn and thought about trying to set up coturn but discovered it is slopware.

#xmpp #NoAI

Share! #NoAI

This is how to search now that Google Search is gone: a guide for family and friends from Stop Gen AI.

https://stopgenai.com/this-is-how-to-search-now-that-google-search-is-gone-a-guide-for-family-and-friends/

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Screenshot from noai.duckduckgo.com.

RE: https://eldritch.cafe/@SallyStrange/116697564016722271

#noAI
Always the same refrain. Who is still fooled?

Lucie Inthesky boosted

Sally Strange [she/hers] » 🔓 2026-06-05
@SallyStrange@eldritch.cafe

Been a while since I shared any memes. We need more better memes especially anti-AI memes.

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Post by Banksy & Friends: "Can't raise the minimum wage because it will 'kill jobs' Can't tax the billionaire class because it will 'kill jobs' Can't move away from oil because it will 'kill jobs' But when companies replace half their workforce with AI suddenly it's 'Sorry, that's just business.'"

Currently compiling vim-classic-v8.3.0... #NoSlop #NoAI #AInt — #microblogging #MicroToot: 61 characters

- AI is here to stay.
- Yeah, so did bitcoin, leaded gas, CFCs and polio.

#NoAI

Avez vous envie de dragons ?

Des badges dragons ? Des miroirs dragons ? Des tapis de souris dragon ? Des prints dragon ?

👉 Il y a 10 % sur tous mes dragons en stock chez l'Atelier de Moino, avec le code ✨ MINIMOINO ✨

Dépêchez vous, car la boutique fermera le 21 juin, et ne rouvrira pas avant l'automne prochain !

https://atelierdemoino.com/collections/svan-dendragon-fantasy

#art #MastoArt #artistsOnMastodon #fantasy #dragon #artisan #NoAI

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Capture d'écran de mes articles disponibles chez l'Atelier de Moino : print de dragon, tote-bag avec dragon, miroirs, badges, tapis de souris avec dragons !

En achetant sur cette boutique, vous soutenez deux personnes, moi l'artiste, qui fournit les dragons, et Moino, l'artisane qui fabrique chaque objet dans son atelier, localement en Bretagne 🙌

https://atelierdemoino.com/collections/svan-dendragon-fantasy

Je touche une part sur chaque vente de Dramanite, Dragopomme ou du Dragon Chevelure 🐉 ✨

#artistsOnMastodon #supportArtists #MastoArt #art #dragon #fantasy #NoAI

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Photo de mes goodies dragons : badges et prints du Dragopomme, du Dramanite et de "Chevelure", l'illustration du dragon et l'enchanteresse.

I am transitioning my laptop from Kubuntu to a Gentoo fork. Gentoo has a strong anti-Gen AI stance.

Hey, this is a good opportunity to plug this!

Free Events: Learn how to avoid Gen AI workshops, June 2026 #NoAI

https://stopgenai.com/free-events-learn-how-to-avoid-gen-ai-workshops-june-2026/

*sigh*

A new app came up in F-Droid that looked really interesting. I clicked through to the repo and it is entirely vibe-coded. Nope!

#NoAI

Ah, Ubuntu and AI use. They announced at the Ubuntu Summit that you'll be seeing it on the desktop. 🤭 So, so happy that there are more options in the Linux world than Ubuntu and Red Hat. Sadly, so many people who are new to Linux have no idea that there are options other than Ubuntu and Red Hat.

#noai #fuckai

Is there a tech conference that only presents software and topics that do not use any AI?

#Tech #NoAI

I'm so tired of the AI hype.
Can we start solving real problems please?

#NoAI

We present: AI in Schools Bingo.
Next time there's an announcement, play along at home!
#noai #ai #education #edtech #school #bcpoli #canada

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Five-by-five bingo card. Squares from top-left to bottom-right, row by row are: - "Learn to fact-check" - "Don't want kids to fall behind" - Guest speaker works for AI - Conflates research AI and chatbots - "Thought partner" - "We all use AI" - "But the calculator!" - Mentions safety, guardrails - "Critical thinking skills" - "But {country} is doing it!" - "Training for the workplace" - Doesnt mention mental health - "AI is inevitable" - "Excited to see what students do with it" - "Efficiency" - "AI is the future" - "Coding" - "Keeps students engaged" - "Democratizing creativity" - "Kids use it at home anyway" - "Cognitive offloading" but recommends AI anyway - "Helps with ideas" - "Teach them to use it ethically" - Calls tech from 10 years ago "AI" - Doesn't mention environmental impact

"Ouin ouin ouin ma facture #copilot a explosé, c'est affreux. Mais comment vais-je faire ? Ouhlalalala. Mais quelles sont mes alternatives ?"

Des humains, purée.

#NoAI

#photography #urbex #blackandwhitephotography #blackandwhite #bnw #noai #n1k0bw

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le premier étage effondré d’une vielle maison abandonnée, une chaise éclairée par une fenêtre reste au bord du plancher essentiellement effondré par ailleurs

I found this in the notes to myself section of the Mattermost instance I just shut down:

https://blog.edwardloveall.com/cost-of-a-tool

I've been steeped in this sludge daily for over two years now.

I. Am. So. Tired.

#NoAI

DuckDuckGo launched Chrome and Firefox extensions that set its AI-free search page as the default, removing AI answers and chat prompts. 🔎
Traffic to DuckDuckGo’s no-AI search page surged after Google’s AI-focused search overhaul, reflecting demand for more user-controlled search. 🦆

🔗 https://techcrunch.com/2026/06/01/duckduckgo-makes-its-no-ai-search-engine-easier-to-access-as-its-traffic-booms/

#TechNews #DuckDuckGo #Search #SearchEngine #SEO #ArtificialIntelligence #NoAI #Chrome #Firefox #Browser #Privacy #AI #Google #WebSearch #OpenWeb #Transparency #Browsing #Tech #Internet

@ezrine @GreenWitch @eliserodarde tutafé, la même ici. Je trouve ça cool qu'ils aient fait une instance dédiée :

https://noai.duck.com

#NoIA #NoAI

#photography #blackandwhitephotography #streetphotography #streetphoto #blackandwhite #bnw #noai #n1k0bw

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un jeune garçon fait un wheeling en vélo sur un parterre de pavés quadrillés ert don ombre projetée le rend plus grand, comme mis en italique, créant un effet graphique accentué par le noir et blanc du cliché

It's satire but it's exactly what Google and OpenAI wants.

New cathartic satire from Pivot to AI, check it out!
@davidgerard

#NoAI

https://youtu.be/oLsMZ_Ii6JU?si=-0zG2RaxC8ystvLR

so, let's imagine an operating system fully based on AI.
all you have to do is type a prompt to make the OS do stuff.
like:
for i in *.mp3; do mv -v $i ~/Music; done
or:
find -name "*.pdf" -exec du -h {} \;

then I woke up sweating with a loud buzz in my ears.

(commands not fact checked, I sometimes tend to hallucinate unix commands)
#subToot #noAI #noSlop

#Report by the United Nations University quantifies, for the first time, the carbon, #water and land footprint of #AI. The figures are staggering : 945 TWh of electricity projected for 2030, 9.3 trillion litres of water, 14,500 km² of land.

Spoiler : It will take the water and electricity consumption of 1.3 billion people to meet your prompts by 2030

« ENVIRONMENTAL COST OF AI'S ENERGY USE - Carbon, Water & Land Footprints »

› https://collections.unu.edu/eserv/UNU:10647/UNU-INWEH-Report-The_Env_Cost_of_AI-2026.pdf (.pdf)

#UN #Energy #NoAI #Enslopification

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The environmental footprint of a single data centre varies considerably depending on the country in which it is located. At the top, carbon intensity per kWh. In the middle, water footprint. At the bottom, land footprint. © UNU-INWEH 2026

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From text classification (0.002 Wh) to video generation (415 Wh), the energy consumed per query varies by a factor of 200,000.© UNU-INWEH 2026

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Nearly half of the world’s data centres are located in the United States. More than 150 countries have no data centres dedicated to AI.© UNU-INWEH 2026 / Cloudscene

Ha ha! Fuck you, Sam Altman!

#NoAI

@davidgerard

https://youtu.be/1UseKYcluMk?si=taEgSSw8904Y_6IM

I don't want a Canada AI Strategy,
I want a Canada UBI Strategy,
I want a Canada Affordable Rent Strategy,
I want a Canada Pharmacare Strategy,
I want a Canada Food-For-All Strategy,
I want a Canada Student Dept Elimination Strategy, I want a Canada BigTech-Free Strategy, I want a Canada Strengthening Privacy Rights Strategy, I want a Canada International Humanitarian Aid Strategy, I want a Canada Welcoming Refugees Strategy, I want a Canada ...

#Canada #NoAI #CanPoli

I created an issue on the plugin's GitHub about removing the MCP functionality into a separate plugin, and the maintainer immediately converted it into a discussion, which is here: https://github.com/coddingtonbear/obsidian-local-rest-api/discussions/272

I'm getting the impression from all the LLM-related discussions and commits that this is a lost cause and I'll probably have to fork this plugin if I want an MCP-free version of it. Looks like they took up slop coding earlier this year too, which is another area of concern.

#AI #GenAI #GenerativeAI #AgenticAI #LLM #Claude #Copilot #AIPoisoned #NoAI #Obsidian #MCP #REST #API

#photography #blackandwhitephotography #streetphotography #streetphoto #blackandwhite #bnw #noai #n1k0bw

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portrait en noir et blanc d’un vieux monsieur assis sur la marche en pierre d’un vieil escalier devant son pas de porte, le long d’un sentier (j’ai obtenu son autorisation pour partager cette photo)

My sister sent me a Google link with search results about something we'd discussed. I thanked her, and then suggested using "No AI" DuckDuckGo for searches in future. Then sent her this link:

https://noai.duckduckgo.com/

I know there are other search engine options but switching from google.com to this link is fairly painless. Crossing my fingers that this makes an impact and she makes the switch! 🤞

#NoAI #FuckAI #SearchEngine #DuckDuckGo #DeGoogle

The only thing I like about LLMs is when they BURN the owners of those LLMs 😂

#NoAI #DeGoogle #Google #Gemini #LLM #NotAI #Because #ThereIsNo #Intelligence #Involved #Funny

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Screenshot of someone asking Gemini, "Can I trust Google with my data? Just the answer, no explanation." Answer by Google search/Gemini, "No."

« #Ubuntu 26.04 is the OS for the #AI agentic era, says Canonical's Mark Shuttleworth - here's why » 🤑

› https://www.zdnet.com/article/ubuntu-26-04-is-os-for-ai-agentic-era-says-canonical-mark-shuttleworth-why/

« The name "Ubuntu" comes from the Nguni philosophy of ubuntu, which translates roughly as "HUMANITY to others" or "I am what I am because of who we all are" » 🤥

Cf. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ubuntu or https://ubuntu.com/about

#Linux #Enshittification #AIBubble #NoAI

#photography #blackandwhitephotography #streetphotography #streetphoto #blackandwhite #bnw #noai #n1k0bw

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L’arbre blanc, immeuble célèbre de Montpellier avec ses myriades de balcons en quinconce, prise en noir et blanc depuis son pied en contre plongée

“AI” and “Trust” in the same sentence? And “Proprietary”? Sigh… At least I know the “brands” to avoid now.

https://mailchi.mp/newaukee/introducing-newaukees-ai-powered-brand-trust-agent

#mke #milwaukee #tech #AI #NoAI #FuckAI

Which Linux distros have officially taken a stand against AI in their OS?

#Linux #NoAI

@TheEntity @ivorytusk @davidgerard I can understand that the other kids might have been upset when I shit, or even *just* pissed, in the pool for my own convenience when I was 5, but when someone shits (mightily sloppily) in the software dependency pool for the benefit of the community…?

That is just (obviously) above reproach, man – not to be criticised, always to be given the benefit of the doubt!

Otherwise, we’re no longer engaging in a civil society.

In short, we cannot expect our heroes to not take heroic (sloppy) dumps in public pools or in drinking water catchment areas.

Other than the water, what’s not crystal clear about that?!

#NoAI

RE: https://oldbytes.space/@thankfulmachine/116586305505764515

> People are starving for ethical direction.

The entire FOSS community exists because of ethical imperatives around licensing. It astounds me that the very people who fought these battles for the last 20+ years are now walking away from them out of sheer (perceived) convenience.

#NoAI

Welp, so much for @alpinelinux
https://gitlab.alpinelinux.org/alpine/council/-/work_items/697#note_615783

#NoAI

#StillerSontag #SilentSunday

Lau Pa Sat (老巴刹), Singapore - (After Hours)

(Details In The AltText)

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

#AltText #NoAI #No2AI #Photography #Photo #POTD #PhotoOfTheDay #Travel #TravelPhotography #BNW #BlackAndWhite #Monochrome #BlackAndWhitePhotography #CamelCase #Singapore #StreetPhotography #Street #City #Urban #UrbanPhotography #Asia #Asian #FarEast #LaPauSat #Architecture #ArchitecturalPhotography #History #Historic #Historical #HistoricBuilding

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This is a black and white night time and deserted street / architectural / historic photo in portrait format of Lau Pa Sat, also know as the Telok Ayer Market, a historic Victorian building dating from the colonial period, built as a fish market in 1894 and now repurposed as a food court. At the base of the image and rising away from the camera is a dark stone tiled floor, very wet and covered with a foam of soap suds. Either side of the floor are two parallel rows of food stalls separated by about 4m, some brightly lit, some dark. The soapy floor in between and the lines converge with increasing distance. On the floor are, 2 rows of multiple, round, white marble topped tables, each with 4 stools neatly upturned on top. Spaced at regular intervals, say 4m, are tall, cast iron columns supporting inverted 'V' shaped metalwork that the pitched (hipped) roof rests on, the metalwork delicately decorated below the casting with swirls, loops and the occasional flower in the centre of the loop. Between the columns are similar lengths of ornate metalwork supporting the roof's eves. Hanging down from the roof are numerous long poles with ceiling fans, all stationary. Between each column are strong spot lights illuminating the food court below.

Amnesty International say generative AI should be banned as it violates human rights.

#noai #AmnestyInternational

https://www.amnesty.org/en/documents/pol40/0996/2026/en/

So the last day of MerMay it seemed like everyone at Swancon 50 wanted to talk, for me to get them things, and to bump the table. But me and the Kakimori and the bottle of Rainbow Scarab got through it all.

It's been a great MerMay, and thank you for traveling along with me.

#MerMay #DrawingWithoutANet #MerMay2026 #NoAI #Swancon50 #Swancon #PerthWesternAustralia #ScienceFictionConvention #FountainPenInk #DipPen

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Close up detail of ink sheen, red violet on green.

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Two mer swans surround the number 50, facing each other, a mermaid with a banner saying copyright Alicia Smith 2026 MerMay 31st 2nd last day of Swancon 50.

We resist #AI where ever we can, no AI features, no AI agents allowed, no AI feeds. Even our translation is using non-AI

Unfortunately we are now also paying the price for the AI hype.. Our monthly server costs has increased by almost €200 because of this

https://www.hetzner.com/pressroom/statement-price-adjustment/

We keep standing up against AI but we do need your help..

https://paypal.me/stuxOS
https://patreon.com/mstdn
https://ko-fi.com/mstdn
https://bunq.me/stuxhost
https://stux.me/donate
https://liberapay.com/mstdn

#NoAI

#photography #blackandwhitephotography #landscape #blackandwhite #bnw #noai #n1k0bw

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Vue en noir et blanc sur la vallée de l’Orb sous un brouillard épais depuis les hauteurs de l’Espinouse

RE: https://wandering.shop/@xgranade/116624786776060523

La "complexité" des arguments contre l'usage des LLM tient en un pouet de 500 signes.
Ça n'est donc pas si compliqué à comprendre même pour votre beau-frère ou votre voisin de bureau.
Vous pouvez l'apprendre par cœur et commencer à expliquer pourquoi il ne faut pas utiliser, ni accepter le fait accompli.

#ia #ai
#noAi
#NightmareOnLLMstreet
#Tech
#TechnoFascism
#Capitalism

Un Bourguignon boosted

Cassandra is not doing great right now [she/they] » 🌐 2026-05-23
@xgranade@wandering.shop

To wit, AI products such as LLMs:

• Are primarily developed under eugenicist philosophies, and primarily financially benefit fascists.
• Are trained on uncompensated and nonconsentual labor.
• Require unconscionable and unsustainable levels of energy and water waste.
• Are used to undermine labor rights, such as the power of artists to say "no" to unconscionable demands.
• Necessarily consolidate and centralize power.
• Present unacceptable risks due to disinformation and other errors.

Listen, I get it. Open Source projects are using AI because they have a shortage of developers and folks committing to the project. But I would rather have a great project putting out new releases whenever they get around to having time to do it than using AI or fucking vibecoding to get releases out quicker.

#fuckai #noai

#photography #blackandwhitephotography #streetphotography #streetphoto #blackandwhite #bnw #noai #n1k0bw

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un pigeon lit un panneau “attention tir à l’arc soyez prudents”

Lazyweb, I'm looking over my modern tools list: https://github.com/mhoye/moderntools/

It's been a few months, anyone seen anything cool recently?

#noai

Every job post I see involves AI 🙃
Let me know if you see one that doesn't.
I'm looking.

#NoAI #GetFediHired

this is how you all fucking sound

by stillvreni : https://bsky.app/profile/vreni.bsky.social/post/3mms5baylac2p

#ai #noAI

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comic in 4 images, titled THIS iS HOW YOU ALL FUCKING SOUND An white AI bro with a t-shirt and baseballcap says “Al is already here, there's no going back.”, a data center and a polluting power plant in the background. A white dude from the fifties with a fedora hat says “Smoking indoors is already here. There's no going back.” A woman coughing in the background. A bearded white guy with a top hat from the 1850 says “Child labor is already here, there's no going back.”, with children on a sailboat in the background. A white man in a tricorn hat says “The Atlantic Slave Trade is already here, there's no going back.”, with a couple of enslaved people in a field in the background.

this is how you all fucking sound

by stillvreni : https://bsky.app/profile/vreni.bsky.social/post/3mms5baylac2p

#ai #noAI

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comic in 4 images, titled THIS iS HOW YOU ALL FUCKING SOUND An white AI bro with a t-shirt and baseballcap says “Al is already here, there's no going back.”, a data center and a polluting power plant in the background. A white dude from the fifties with a fedora hat says “Smoking indoors is already here. There's no going back.” A woman coughing in the background. A bearded white guy with a top hat from the 1850 says “Child labor is already here, there's no going back.”, with children on a sailboat in the background. A white man in a tricorn hat says “The Atlantic Slave Trade is already here, there's no going back.”, with a couple of enslaved people in a field in the background.

MerMay 29th of 2026.

I am booked in to the hotel of Swancon50 which opens officially tomorrow, so it's going to be very busy for me for the rest of MerMay, but I will get some sort of drawing in for the remaining days hopefully. This is the last one that is going to be of any quality I think, but who knows?

This dolphin like mer guy is on his way somewhere fast!

Drawn with the Kakimori and Rainbow Scarab Ink.

#MerMay #MerMay2026 #DrawingWithoutANet #Merfolk #FantasyArt #DipPen #FountainPenInk #NoAI

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Very dolphin like merman. Lots of spots!Drawn in green sheening violet ink, leaping over the waves like ancient Greek art in some ways.

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Front half of dolphin like mer, showing some violet sheen.

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Showing the tail leaving the water , lots of violet sheen.

Rejoignez-nous, on est sympa !

https://mastodon.libre-entreprise.com/@entrouvert/116651361333143503

#jeChercheDesCollegues #jeProposeUnJob #noAI #noIA #pythonFR #djangoFR

Found this on Instagram, it's from Threads.

kyamawebb wrote,
"Teenagers have started calling AI art "boomer art" and consider it cringe, and YouTubers have stopped using AI-generated thumbnails because teenagers find them cringe and won't click on them. I honestly couldn't be happier."

#NoAI #AIArtisNotArt

Rejoignez-nous, on est sympa !

https://mastodon.libre-entreprise.com/@entrouvert/116651361333143503

#jeChercheDesCollegues #jeProposeUnJob #noAI #noIA #pythonFR #djangoFR #jeRecrute

MerMay 29th of 2026.

This mischievous merperson is about to splash someone out of view.

Drawn with the Kakimori nib and who doesn't love Rainbow Scarab from Van Diemen's Ink?

#MerMay #MerMay2026 #MerMan #Merfolk #DrawingWithoutANet #NoAI #DipPen #FountainPenInk #FantasyArt

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An imp like merperson raises their arm to splash someone out of view. They are drawn boldly in an ink that shimmers from dark green to violet, but it mostly looks black in this image.

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Angled in sunlight this detail of the tailfin shows off the green and violet sheen.

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Angled to the sunlight the ink shines in green and violet.

So, the article was behind a paywall, but damn! More of this, please...!

From the #ChronicleOfHigherEd - St. John’s College Is Weird. Maybe Yours Should Be More Like It.

Its #GreatBooks approach is #anachronistic, and spreading

By Beth McMurtrie

"Seeking to understand the unique culture of learning that distinguishes St. John’s College, The Chronicle of Higher Education's Beth McMurtrie traveled to the Annapolis campus in January, where she watched 13 sophomores and two tutors gather around a table in McDowell Hall to discuss Dante's Purgatorio.

"Tutor Emily Langston opened that evening's seminar by reading a passage about Dante seeking freedom, and then asked the room a deceptively simple question: In what sense is he free? And has his understanding of freedom changed?

" 'The students opened their marked-up paperbacks, flipping pages as they considered the questions. There was not a laptop or a cell phone in sight. Then they began an increasingly rare activity on college campuses today. They discussed, for more than two hours, a complicated work and the deeper questions it presents.'

"McMurtrie also spoke with multiple Johnnies and tutors, weaving their reflections throughout the resulting profile while exploring how the college's Great Books-based pedagogy has become a model for other institutions—and how a time-tested classical education can be revolutionary in modern times."

More about #SaintJohns #GreatBooks #Curriculum

St. John’s Reading List: A Great Books Curriculum

"St. John’s College is best known for its reading list and the Great Books curriculum that was adopted in 1937. While the list of books has evolved over the last century, the tradition of all students reading foundational texts of Western civilization remains. The reading list at St. John’s includes classic works in #philosophy, #literature, political science, psychology, #history, religion, economics, math, chemistry, physics, biology, #astronomy, #music, #language, and more.

To see the reading list organized by class year and subject matter, scroll down. Or view a simple list organized alphabetically by author. Learn more about classes at St. John’s and the subjects students study."

https://www.sjc.edu/academic-programs/undergraduate/great-books-reading-list

#ReadABook #NoSmartphones #Education #FoundationalTexts #ClassicalEducation #NoAI #AnapolisMD

Ed Zitron's new mega piece "Revenge of The Business Idiot":
https://www.wheresyoured.at/the-revenge-of-the-business-idiot/

Some choice nuggets & quotes:

"LLMs impress the writers who do not want to write, the coders who don’t want to code, the researchers who don’t want to research, and the lawyers that don’t want to actually understand case law. Those that desperately tell you how powerful AI is and that you simply must use it are looking for you to validate their own laziness or distaste for effort, and those who are impressed with LLMs’ outputs tend to be people with low standards."

"The aggression with which AI boosters and executives act toward those who aren’t impressed suggests a genuine intellectual and moral weakness. Nobody who’s this insistent, aggressive and violative with their language of “it’s here and if you don’t adopt it you’re stupid and dead” has ever been right about anything. Nobody this desperate, insistent and forceful has ever had good intentions, good vibes or brought good omens — they are always bearers of some kind of con."

"Only an economy oriented around coveting and coddling losers would have let AI get this far. Every single story about AI has to either directly gloss over the obvious financial and technological issues or start speaking in the kinds of vague theoreticals reserved for cults and multi-level marketing scams."

"CEOs are uniquely prone to AI psychosis because they’re sufficiently distant from the last mile of work that still has to happen to generate most value with AI." — Aaron Levie, CEO of Box

#NoAI

So something a little different for you this 27th of MerMay 2026 - I drew this today in a spirit of sharing and invite you, if you've a mind to, to print it out and colour it in. Use any colours you like!

If you do, I'd love to see it in a reply here!

May be reproduced for private, non-profit use. Copyright information must remain legible please.

It was drawn as B6 see how you go, dunno how well it'll scale.

It's drawn with my favourite Rotring Art Pen.

#MerMay2026 #MerMay #DrawingwithoutANet #FreeColouringPage #FantasyArt #NoAI #TraditionalArt #FountainPen #FountainPenInk #PenAndInk #Merperson #Merman #MerFolk

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An eel like merperson coils above a weed bank, about to bite the tip of a seagrass blade. On the sandy floor below are sea snails, starfish and a hermit crab, and three angelfish swim past, as well as a school of smaller, sleeker fish. bubbles rise. The merperson sports a magnificent mane. It's a black and white illustration, and at the bottom it reads Mermay 27th 2026 (c) Alicia 'leece' Smith and coloured by ________________

#photography #blackandwhitephotography #streetphotography #streetphoto #blackandwhite #bnw #noai #n1k0bw

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a black and white picture of a “color bear” shop selling bear dolls in montpellier, france

We have to use LLM for code stuff, to "produce faster" and "produce cheaper"; so I tried using Claude for debugging assistance
(because colleagues would not be helpful for this problem, and also to avoid getting fired when management asks me about "token usage")

But one instance of the bot is contradiction another instance of the bot ......
Yeah, this is how coding is now a days: juggling autocomplete bots.

I think I found a workaround myself, although I still haven't cracked the underlying issue (some third part stuff). That was totally worth my ethical collapse. sigh.

#programming #developer #noai

Middle school punk band with an anti-AI song.

"I won't be a slave to AI
It's time for us all to step out of line
Free your mind and look to the sky
End the code and blind the cyber eye

There's a crisis in the nation
Gotta break free from the simulation
The truth is music comes from the soul
Unplug, join in, take back control

Artificial Intelligence
Can't know the human experience..."

https://knightsofmolino.bandcamp.com/track/take-back-control

#music #punk #FuckAI #NoAI #AI

MerMay 26th 2026

The merfolk here are bolder than those at home. But their colouration is decidedly more cryptic than I am used to, so they can be closer than one might think. I've quite often been observing groups at a distance only to become aware of individuals only metres away, observing me in turn. In this strange country, it is not lawful to harm or trap merfolk, or indeed any creature of language, so it is refreshing to see the merpeople sporting about the vessel I have chartered. No one I have spoken to yet speaks the language of the local mer, but a couple of villages west of here apparently do - and it is to these we will set sail tomorrow. Dated this 26th Day of MerMay in Good Tidings ink.

#MerMay #MerMay2026 #Tootfic #Flashfic #DipPen #FountainPenInk #DrawingWithoutANet #NoAI

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Half the page is taken up with a bold drawing in black and shining gold of a mermaid from above, with dark water rippling around her. Underneath, hand printed text reads "The merfolk here are bolder than those at home. But their colouration is decidedly more cryptic than I am used to, so they can be closer than one might think. I've quite often been observing groups at a distance only to become aware of individuals only metres away, observing me in turn. In this strange country, it is not lawful to harm or trap merfolk, or indee any creature of language, so it is refreshing to see the merpeople sporting about the vessel I have chartered. No one I have spoken to yet speaks the language of the local mer, but a couple of villages west of here apparently do - and it is to these we will set sail tomorrow. Dated this 26th Day of MerMay in Good Tidings ink." Above the sketch is a line reading "Mer by the Ship.Following for 3 hrs!"

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Close up showing the green sheen of the ink.

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Close up showing the green sheen of the ink.

Please share! 🎉🎉🎉

This campaign is for Technofascism Survival Guide, the book that I'm publishing in a couple of weeks or so.

It's timely because of shit like this: Palantir, OpenAI, and the entire "AI industry" collaborating with the US government for technofascism.

My book is full of advice for good, ordinary people. There are lawful ways that you can protect yourself.

I know it looks like my campaign raised a lot, but that's a cumulative total since January.

I need your late pledges to pay my rent.
My Kickstarter: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/kimcrawley/technofascism-survival-guide/

Please share! #palantir #NoAI

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I hope everyone is having a lovely and Geekly Proud Glorious 25th of May and knows where their towel is. This mermaid does!

This is really a case of fandoms colliding, what with #MerMay and #TowelDay and #GeekPride and the #glorious25th

With love to #DouglasAdams and #TerryPratchett both sadly missed.

I never met Douglas but I did meet Sir Terry a few times, and he was a lovely, lovely fellow.

Anyway, appropriatedly enough, this beautiful ink from Diamine and it's called Icy Lavender, and is strong in its chameleon shimmer.

I used the Kakimori nib. I am so tired.

#MerMay #MerMay2026 #DrawingWithoutANet #FantasyArt #FountainPenInk #DipPen #NoAI #Mermaid #TraditionArt

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A mermaid, drawn in sparkly lilac, is sitting on a towel on a pier. The towel has math and chemical symbols on it. She is reading aloud from a large book she is holding in both hands. On the front of the book is THGT Ankh Morpork Pratchett Adams and on the back is a picture of a UFO and the Discworld. Four silver gulls are listening intently. Written at the bottom of the drawing is "The Glorious 25th of Geeky MerMay Towel Day. Alicia 'leece Smith

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Close up of the Icy Lavender ink, showing the chameleonic properties of the shimmer, blue, purple, red and white against the lilac ink.

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Detail showing mainly blue shimmer here.

Acrobatic Mer for the 24th of MerMay, posting late but never mind.

I was flat out yesterday but I did this energetic fellow yesterday before sleeping, with the other Platinum Plaisir Aura Fountain Pen I got as a cheapy. The ink is some random cartridge.

For today, the glorious 25th, I'll have to think of something...

#FountainPen #FountainPens #NoAI #ink #MerMay #MerMay2026 #DrawingWithoutANet #TraditionalArt #FantasyArt

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Silhouette of a blue shark like mer youth, who is executing a very neat turn.

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Blue shark like mer youth and a fountain pen that's white with a green barrel and a green sheen under the white.

RE: https://zeroes.ca/@kimcrawley/116630050564668014

"Well, what the fuck am I supposed to do, Kim?!"

Web browsers:

LibreWolf, Tor Browser, Vivaldi

Search:

Mojeek, SearXNG, and... noai.duckduckgo. com. 😖

VPN or equivalent:

Tor Network, your own OpenVPN, maybe Mullvad.

Operating systems:

Gentoo Linux and forks
(Absolutely no Red Hat, Fedora, Ubuntu, due to IBM and Canonical loving Gen AI)
NetBSD
On Android phones: GrapheneOS, LineageOS

Overall Gen AI and other technofascism avoidance:

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/kimcrawley/technofascism-survival-guide/
Upcoming workshops: https://stopgenai.com/free-events-learn-how-to-avoid-gen-ai-workshops-june-2026/
And...
https://stopgenai.com/how-to-avoid-gen-ai/

#NoAI

You may say, these tech representatives are tone deaf fools or the students that booed them are "cool", "alright", whatever, but that is not the point. It must be SUCH a slap in the face to be graduating and getting YOUR day ruined by your university allowing that. What kind of asshole do you have to be to not make that about them and their achievements but to belittle them and act as if they just don't know that they really want that?

#AI #noAI #artificialIntelligence #AIHype

Okay, so apparently there's been some "scuffle" between a cyclist and an old lady. The police's looking for the cyclist now, and shared a camera footage looking for help in finding them. Except that the footage is such a low resolution it's practically useless.

So helpful people from the internets used "#AI" to enhance it. So now we're looking at an angry mob looking for a person whose face was generated by an #LLM. Or well, multiple independently generated different faces apparently, but would that stop a mob from lynching a random person?

This fucking crap needs to be outlawed immediately. And whoever's selling it should end up behind bars.

#NoAI #NoLLM

Unlike syntax highlighting or a better chair, this "generative AI" BS is literally theft on every single level. Theft of other people's creativity, theft of resources like electricity and water, and theft of a future from people yet to be born. Those "people who don't take advantage of it" are not too dumb to do it, they're consciously deciding against it: They are not going to drive an SUV with chainsaws attached through a crowd of toddlers saying "What was that? I hope the car is okay..." #noai

(Proudly self-plagiarized from an October 2024 post on one of my old accounts. I added the hashtag. 🤷)

#photography #blackandwhitephotography #naturephotography #blackandwhite #bnw #noai #n1k0bw

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une futaie de bambous dense, prise en noir et blanc

The Shell Game. MerMay the 23rd of 2026. Nothing like so ambitious as the last one, a simple sketch with the Platinum Plaisir Aura Fountain Pen which I got as a cheapy. It's nice and and light! I hadn't used it for months but it drew first time.

#MerMay #MerMay2026 #DrawingWithoutANet #FountainPen #FountainPens #FountainPenInk #NoAI #TraditionalArt #FantasyArt

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A simple sketch in crimson pink ink of a sprite like mermaid diving to find a scallop.

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Fountain pen propped against the mermaid sketch. It's a white pen, but has a pink undersheen.

So yesterday was pretty busy for me, from digging in some tubestock on the verge, taking some chairs to the skip for mum, having my sister-in-law visit. Then in the evening setting up a schedule for my smart telescope and putting it on the roof, also GMing my, coincidentally, GURPS merfolk player characters through the adventure with the giant shark, the sunken ship, and the mysterious deaths. (But not at Styles)

Before all of this I espied a nice photo of a poet acquaintance on Dreamwidth looking particularly like a sprite of the sea, so I asked her if it was okay to MerMay her. She agreed, I found out what colours she likes, and before my GURPS game started got her fin sorted.

GMing duties over for the evening, I returned to finish the drawing. It was finished before midnight, so I sent the model a preview, and went to bed before I got a reply. Which is why you will hopefully get two drawings today, as this is a catch up post. It was drawn on the 22nd though.

I used the Kakimori nib again, as I used multiple inks in keeping with the lovely poet's likes. She's said she likes the colours, so score there!

You can check out her website if you like, appropriately, her poems are immersive and will wrap around you like the songs of beautiful prescient birds from forests of spirit memories.

https://sonyataaffe.com

#MerMay #DipPen #FountainPenInk #NoAI #DrawingWithoutANet #TraditionalArt #GURPS #Poetry #FantasyArt

Thank you to her and photographer Rob for letting me play!

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A mermaid with a tail of greens, blue and caramel, with a gold and caramel upper half, and long hair with a decided gold shimmer. Her arms are outstretched

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Detail of the mermaid's flank, showing the shimmer against the green and the copper red sheen of the Best Wishes ink.

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Close up of the shimmer of the mermaid's hair, and the shimmer of the gold in the Nutmeg and Salted Caramel inks.

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A Kakimori conical style nib in the foreground, attached to an attractive holder in green and teal sparkly PetG and behind it are Diamine ink bottles, 4 small, one large and one mid size. The colours are Early Dusk, Tropical Green, Salted Caramel, Nutmeg, Best Wishes, Merry & Bright - blue, greens and browns, some with a golden shimmer.

I am increasingly finding myself in the awkward position of having to prove to callers that I am not a robot.

Sometimes they don't believe me.

#fuckai #noai

« Is #AI Profitable Yet ? Tracking the debts and profits of frontier AI companies »

Spoiler alert : only for NVidia 🤑

› https://isaiprofitable.com

#AIBubble #GenAI #IA #IAGen #NoAI

#photography #blackandwhitephotography #streetphotography #streetphoto #blackandwhite #bnw #noai #n1k0bw

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Des mannequins de présentation vestimentaire semblent observer une passante dans une rue commerçante de Montpellier

We've lost Drupal and WordPress to AI (no surprise), just like many big Linux distributions. I wonder if Joomla is all in on AI, too?

It's a great time to learn HTML and CSS and build websites like we used to do way back when the Internet was fun (and, arguably, way better).

#noai #ai #smallinternet

Gross. I think we've lost all the big Linux players.

Canonical announces fully Managed Kubeflow AI operations platform on the Microsoft Azure Marketplace

https://ubuntu.com//blog/managed-kubeflow-microsoft-azure-canonical-release

#noai #ai

During an activist event, we will have a child care corner. As one of the benevolent caregiver, I would like to bring some coloring pages. Is there any under public domain or creative commons I could print at home? Cheers

Boosting add colors to life

#solarpunk #parenting #foss #opensource #noAI

File under: AI Resistance

I'm reading – and enjoying immensely – @emilymbender and @alex's book #TheAICon.

I've been learning a lot of things and something that really stood out recently is the need to be careful about the language we use to describe these systems. Bender and Hanna helpfully explain:

"It matters what words we use when we talk about these technologies. For instance, in our writing, we don’t use the term “hallucination” to discuss the errors of LLMs, for two reasons. First, if it’s used tongue-in-cheek, it is making light of what can be symptoms of serious mental illness. Second,
“hallucination” refers to the experience of perceiving things that aren’t there. But LLMs actually don’t have perceptions, and suggesting that they do is yet more unhelpful anthropomorphization. That means we also avoid assigning thought processes to these systems, or saying that they can
“think”. Metaphors have power, they structure the frames of discourse, and they can subtly and insidiously encourage certain ways of understanding technology and the social systems it is embedded in."

Antropomorphizing AI contributes to AI hype. Thanks Emily and Alex for helping me see things this way!

#AIcritique #AIhype #NoAI #AIresistance #AI #books

MerMay The Twentieth

Title: Melusine's bubblebath

Portrayed in the happy days before her husband broke his promise, Melusine enjoys her 'me' time.
Melusine is an elusive creature, being variously described as one of the Fay, or a devil, or a serpent or dragon, or water spirit. She's occasionally been described as having two tails, which sounded interesting, so I went with that.

She has some association with water Fay so she certainly has a place in MerMay, so here she is.
Drawn with a Rotring Art Pen, and, as usual, freehand, no pencil, drawing without a net as I call it.

#MerMay #MerMay2026 #FantasyArt #FountainPen #FountainPens #PenAndInk #NoAI #TraditionalArt #Ink #Mermaid #Mythology #DrawingWithoutANet

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A plump claw footed bath is overflowing with bubbles. Enjoying the bubbles is a rather unusual lady, she has a tail that separates into two mermaid like tails, and dragon wings. She is gripping a large sudsy sponge and is enjoying her 'me' time.

#photography #blackandwhitephotography #naturephotography #blackandwhite #bnw #noai #n1k0bw

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photo noir et blanc d’un champ d’épillets brassés par les vents, des collines arborées en arrière plan

But at the end of day I am hypocrite because I need Fish Linux for y*-dlp and gov websites.
#noAI

It's the 19th day of Mermay 2026 and I've used my favourite fountain pen of all time, the Rotring Art Pen, sadly no longer being made.

This was a quick one as I've been out most of the day, and not in a situation where I could draw. Well I could have, but then I wouldn't have gotten in any excercise.

This guy is an ichthyocentaur - but apparently that's a fairly recent term. According to Wikipedia. The ancient greeks just called them sea centaurs, however that translated into Greek.

#MerMay #MerMay2026 #DrawingWithoutANet #NoAI #TraditionalArt #FountainPen #FountainPens #ink #FountainPenInk #MerFolk #FantasyArt

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A black and white pen illustration of an ichthyocentaur - this is a composite monster consisting of a human head, arms and torso, then the front legs and chest of a horse, tapering off to the tail of a fish. I've scaled the human and horse sections like the fishtail, and he has ventral scales right the way along except where they're hidden by his curling tail. His arms are stretched wide, and he seems to have been startled by some close swimming fish.

#photography #blackandwhitephotography #streetphotography #streetphoto #blackandwhite #bnw #noai #n1k0bw

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vue noir et blanc contrastée d’un ciel fortement chargé sur le terrain vague attenant à une zone industrielle

Let's all pitch in a few bucks, because @davidgerard 's laptop needs to be replaced.

He does a lot of the best anti Gen AI journalism out there with Pivot to AI.

Share! #NoAI

Ko-fi:

https://ko-fi.com/A1529D5

https://youtu.be/-A9FjHGcFWg?si=p-M2V6kl7eSnRdzi

Every full moon, when the tide is right, all the Sandsea Sealings of a certain demeanor go to the display sands and wave their beautiful tails enticingly in the current, while trying to blow bubbles at precise intervals.

Sandsea Sealings are quite difficult to communicate with if you have not been properly introduced to the pod elders so while it's unclear to the layman as to why this group does this activity, those in the know just smile and encourage those who don't just to enjoy it. Several of the non-displaying Sealings certainly form an apparently engrossed audience.

Sandsea Sealings are not considered 'true' merfolk by the uneducated because of their lack of 'true hands' but scientists tell us that they are definitely in the merfolk family and they certainly interact freely and in a friendly way to any merfolk of other species crossing their paths.

Recorded this 18th Day of MerMay using a Pelikan Dragon fountain pe
#MerMay #MerMay2026 #DrawingWithoutANet #NoAI #TraditionalArt #FountainPen #FountainPens #ink #FountainPenInk #MerFolk #FantasyArt

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A very long bodied mermperson is curving their elaborately patterned tail in a writhing display, while resting their almost hand like fins on the sea floor. Whilst blowing bubbles. There's seagrass, a starfish and a cowrie on the sand. In the distance two other similar creatures are watching.

#photography #blackandwhitephotography #urbanphotography #architecturephotography #blackandwhite #bnw #noai #n1k0bw

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vue architecturale prise au grand angle en noir et blanc au pied d’un bâtiment aux murs en métal blanc perforé de trous épars laissant penser à un gruyère géant

#photography #blackandwhitephotography #blackandwhite #bnw #noai #n1k0bw

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le reflet d'un vieil immeuble dans une flaque d'une rue pavée de montpellier

The ink I used for today's Mermay, the 16th of 2026, is Diamine's Cosmic Sky, a sheen and shimmer.

I have a new lighting set up so I've got good sheen for you today, just as well, there's no sunshine to speak of this afternoon. Well, evening now.

All with the Kakimori again. Such a great nib!

#MerMay #MerMay2026 #DrawingWithOutANet #NoAI #FantasyArt #TraditionalArt #DipPen #Kakimori

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A vertical column, of dark turquoise ink with three merfolk playing around in it, mostly just the creamy paper colour. Bubbles and fish surround the merfolk. There's a faint hint of violet sheen.

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Tilted to catch the light, we can see a lot of shining violet sheen around the edges of the thicker layers, and a close up detail of a merdude reaching out.

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A vertical column, of dark turquoise ink with three merfolk playing around in it, mostly just the creamy paper colour. Bubbles and fish surround the merfolk. Different lighting from the first image, violet sheen and some sparkle is evident in the top right.

Anyone of you have a recommendation for a configuration crate for #rust ?
Two requirements:
- must have a #noAI policy
- must work platform independent

Looks like it's time for this to make the rounds again. The antithesis of "the agentic era": https://www.eng.auburn.edu/~kchang/comp6710/readings/They%20Write%20the%20Right%20Stuff.pdf

#NoAI

#photography #blackandwhitephotography #streetphotography #streetphoto #blackandwhite #bnw #noai #n1k0bw

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un pigeon vole devant la façade défraîchie et texturée d’un vieil immeuble

#photography #blackandwhitephotography #blackandwhite #bnw #noai #n1k0bw

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les restes d’une barrière de bois et de fils de fer aux trois quarts ensevelie au sommet d’une dune de sable

Well, this is drawn with the Kakimori nib - as a lot of my new inks are, for convenience, because the fountain pens have all been filled up or will need cleaning before reloading. But we'll get there in the end I'm sure. This is the last of the inks from @rdm 's naughty and unsanctioned raiding of Van Diemen's Ink's moving sale.

It's Red Lightning and it brings a lot to the drawing, and presumably writing table, because you know, I understand that these inks can be written with too, who would've guessed?

Aaaany way, I sketched out the outline of this merperson, and then filled in the back with broad strokes. Sketched in lightly with the scales and hair, and then realized it looked better upside down. So there you go.

#MerMay #MerMay2026 #DrawingWithoutANet #NoAI #TraditionalArt #FountainPenInk #DipPen #FantasyArt #MerFolk #Mermaid

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Dramatic ink drawing with a lightly sketched mermaid, back to the view, her hair, arms and and tail raised against a red/brown background.

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Close up detail showing the many hues of red/brown with shimmer and Sheen.

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Gold sheen showing up in a detail against the red/brown.

My manager is going to open a team discussion about #AI / #LLM use for software development. Much of the company uses #GitHubCopilot or #Claude and #ClaudeCode, while AFAIK I am the only one refusing to use these tools.

What are some recent studies I can reference about the harms of LLM use? I know there's stuff about deskilling, environmental harms, and code quality, but I won't have a chance to research specific studies until the end of my work day.

#askFedi #NoAI #pleaseBoost

Just so you know, using an AI notetaker during a meeting without priorly asking for consent from all participants before starting it breaches many if not most privacy laws around the world.

In certain cases, it can even breach two-party consent laws, and be a criminal act.

Ideally, never use these privacy-invasive tools ever. But if you do use them, you must ask for everyone's consent first, and respect their choice fully if they refuse to be recorded.

#Privacy #AInotetakers #NoAI

It's MerMay the 14th of 2026 and here we have a spirit of the maelstrom, drawing down ships to their doom. Or perhaps just to have tea and crumpets with the crew and then send them on their way, who am I to say what spirits of the maelstrom want to do?

I'm using the Van Diemen's Ink Azure Kingfisher Ink, a firmly fond favourite.

#MerMay #MerMay2026 #NoAI #TraditionalArt #DrawingWithoutANet #FountainPen #FountainPenInk #Mermaid #FantasyArt #PenAndInk

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A vaguely Japanese looking mermaid looks over her shoulder and tailfin at the viewer. She is drawn in an intense blue ink with a purple sheen and golden shimmer. A tall ship is sinking into her whirlpool like hair.

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Close up on mermaid's face and hair, showing off the purple sheen and golden shimmer at this angle.

Just found out Waybar has gone Claude. Gettin' real tired of having to replace half my stack. #NoAI

A pretty odd one for today's MerMay. I was thinking about molluscs and some of those odd nudibranch species - colourful sea slugs and the like, and this guy developed. Drawn with the Kakimori steel nib, and one of the Van Diemen's ink moving day specials, Persian Princess. It is very sparkly.

#MerMay #MerMay2026 #DrawingWithoutANet #DipPen #FountainPenInk #NoAI #FantasyArt #PenAndInk

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Wriggling across the the page we have a sort of merman like person, except instead of a fish tail he has a sea slug like tail, which branches out into fronds. His arms and fingers seem more tentacle like, and he has a cheerful expression. I guess he likes being flexible. And beautiful. He is drawn in a red-violet ink.

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A close up of the texture of the sea slug like entity's skin reveals copper, gold and silver shining speckles against the red violet ink.

« On the acceptance of #GenAI » by @joeposaurus

A short and effective list of everything we accept by using #AIslop 🤓

› https://smallsheds.garden/blog/2026/on-the-acceptance-of-genai/

#AI #IA #NoAI #LLM

This MerMay - number 12, was drawn in the cardiologist's waiting room while @rdm had his tests. It's drawn with the beautiful Azure Kingfisher ink I've used before this MerMay, it's in a Lamy Demonstrator.

#MerMay #MerMay2026 #DrawingWithoutANet #NoAI #TraditionalArt #FountainPen #FountainPenInk

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Pen and ink drawing of a rather non-human looking merperson. Hairless, spotted or scaled on the back with a pale belly, and their arms are rather fin like, and their tail a triangular delta shape. Blueish greenish ink. Signed and dated by me.

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Angled to show the flank and the gold shimmer and the violet sheen.

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Close up on the tail, the ink is shining gold, and sheening violet against the standard blue ink.

#photography #blackandwhitephotography #blackandwhite #bnw #noai #n1k0bw

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un vieux bateau échoué sur le bord de l’étang de Thau, le mat et la baume formant une croix graphique en noir et blanc

If anyone wants to recruit a senior R&D code monkey with multiple degrees for a job that will involve neither "AI" bullshit nor "blockchain" bullshit nor "HFT" bullshit nor killing people nor destroying the planet just for the heck of it...

I get cheaper and cheaper by the minute as things descend deeper and deeper into nutty "More cloud and more AI will fix it!!" chaos around me.

Located in Germany. Will only work remote as we're tied to this place due to aging parental units. Strong preference for something related to actual green technology such as solar.

#FediHire #FediHired #Systems #Storage #ProgrammingLanguages #Compilers #GreenTech #Solar #Linux #BSD #Academia #Teaching #noAI #BoostsWelcome

When given two identical datasets, Copilot will invent fake differences.

It's important to remember, if you ask "AI" to analyse data, that data is just part of its input when it generates output text.

The rest comes from existing human analysis of completely unrelated data, ripped from the web.

https://kucharski.substack.com/p/real-signals-or-artificial-stereotypes

#noai #ai #education #science #bcpoli

I enjoyed getting the Akkerman bottle out again and using it with the Kakimori nib. Something has profoundly upset this mermaid. Poor thing. She was fun to draw though. She'll pull through, don't worry, the ocean is on her side.

#MerMay #MerMay2026 #DrawingWithoutANet #Mermaid #NoAI #PenandInk #DipPen #FountainPenInk #TraditionalArt

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MerMay 11 Long tailed, broad scaled mermaid in blue, burying her face in her hands.

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In the foreground, a simple drawing of a broad scaled mermaid in blue, burying her face in her hands. In the background is the oddly shaped bottle and box of P W Akkerman Den Haag ink. It's shaped a bit like a genie bottle and has a marble in it.

Mermay the Tenth - Yesterday in Australia it was Mother's Day, so I'm catching up after a lovely day out with my Mum.

So there'll be another drawing later today so I can catch up.

This mermum and merbaby were drawn with Van Diemen's Ink Rainbow Scarab. I am not sure if the shimmer has come up in these photos but the sheen certainly has!

Gotta say this Life Noble Note book has really come to the sheen party.

#NoAI #MerMay #MerMay2026 #DrawingWithoutANet #FountainPen #FountainPenInk #Mermaid #MerFolk #FantasyArt #MothersDayAustralia

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MerMay 10 Happy Merther's Day Copyright Alicia Leece Smith 2026 A smiling young mermaid mother, drawn in dark green ink holds up a chubby baby, who was their hands firmly entwined in Mermum's floating hair. The baby is laughing. Mum's scales are small, and her tail is curved sharply up.

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Angled and taken in sunlight to show off the sheen which is a coppery pink. MerMay 10 Happy Merther's Day Copyright Alicia Leece Smith 2026 A smiling young mermaid mother, drawn in dark green ink holds up a chubby baby, who was their hands firmly entwined in Mermum's floating hair. The baby is laughing. Mum's scales are small, and her tail is curved sharply up.

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Sketchbook with previous image described as "MerMay 10 Happy Merther's Day Copyright Alicia Leece Smith 2026 A smiling young mermaid mother, drawn in dark green ink holds up a chubby baby, who was their hands firmly entwined in Mermum's floating hair. The baby is laughing. Mum's scales are small, and her tail is curved sharply up." A rainbow anodized pen also sits on the sketchbook, and in the background we can see the bottle of Rainbow Scarab ink and its box.

Nearly six weeks later, and the question of whether "AI" generated code in tmux -- not tool-assisted bug finding, not refactoring, actual LLM-generated slop with questionable license(1) -- that was consequently merged into OpenBSD base is considered acceptable by the lead devs. Despite Theo de Raadt's concrete stance against any code of questionable license origin polluting the project -- and the tmux merge was indeed questionable -- it seems this is being swept under the rug. This makes me extremely uncomfortable; it's like seeing a fox in the henhouse but the farmers are all looking the other way and no one can convince them to admit they can see it and root it out.

I really don't know what to do being just a user; I feel like even if I tried to chime in on the mailing list I would just be ignored like the others trying to raise the alarm. I hope, as they do, that this is being discussed internally, away from the public list, and that a positive outcome is near. Maybe they are waiting for the 7.9 release before setting anything in stone.

Or maybe the "AI" disease has infected one of the last pure operating system projects we have left and there's no going back.

https://marc.info/?l=openbsd-misc&m=177513420401322&w=2

(1) As in, it could have been lifted from any GPL'd or otherwise encumbered code and there's no way to know for sure since LLMs are plagiarism machines

#OpenBSD #vibecoding #NOAI #stoptheslop