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Hey we the living: @dopegirlfresh.blacksky.app has a fundraiser for some badly needed disability and getting out of hell needs. www.gofundme.com/f/support-my... check it out and support if you can.

If someone needs a book on this, that links it to the nature of capitalism, class, the role that knowledge and technology play in history, and what power has to do with that... we've got you covered, of course

hagenblix.github.io/wwfai/

YouTube video by Internet of Bugs The Biggest Lie in AI

I've come to pretty much the same conclusion. @internetofbugs.com articulates it expertly here.

We hear it repeated over & over, but it's become very clear scaling isn't the answer.

But it's the only answer Big Tech has right now. So scale they must!

www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Plo...

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I told you guys

The maintenance cost of AI implementations is exponentially greater than standard implementations.

This has ALWAYS been the case with generated code. Very fast implementations, but impossible to maintain.

I made an anti-AI post on LinkedIn and the people angry or defensive all have Visionary or Founder as their listed role, and everyone agreeing with me has a real job. Amazing how that is.

perfectly captures the tech bro mindset

Good thread about how ChatGPT is *not* a useful disability aid, which dovetails nicely with the reporting about how AI lowers productivity when it's forced into people's workflows

Organizers, PLEASE get your info off of Google right now. The safety of your communities may be at risk v soon. You can call it fear mongering if you want, but we're well past "wait and see" with this admin. Do not fafo with the safety of your folks. Cryptpad is right there.

Israel’s starvation campaign ravages Gaza The cries of hungry children echo through tent camps in Gaza City, with over 50 Palestinians in the enclave starving to death in the past five days alone.

"He was everything to me and my wife."

"I hope no child on this earth dies the way my son did."

"In Gaza today, the cries of hungry children have become an ordinary part of daily life."
#Gaza #Palestine #Israel #Genocide

Thank you to @monachalabi.bsky.social for this powerful graphic, which starkly pictures the severity of the Israeli government’s policy of mass death through forced starvation.

It’s always such a pleasure to have @danmcquillan.bsky.social on the show! I was particularly excited to chat about decomputing, the possibilities it offers, and how it can focus our critique of the exploitative tech systems we depend on.

How big tech is force-feeding us AI Plus, OpenAI's absurd listening tour, top AI scientists say AI is evolving beyond our control, Facebook is putting data centers in tents, and the AI bubble question — answered?

Big tech promotes the story that since ChatGPT burst onto the scene, AI has been so popular it's rushed to meet the demand. The reality is different. A study by design scholars shows tech co's have had to push AI on its users with a variety of intrusive tactics.

How big tech is force-feeding us AI:

Google’s AI Is Destroying Search, the Internet, and Your Brain Google’s AI Overview, which is easy to fool into stating nonsense as fact, is stopping people from finding and supporting small businesses and credible sources.

AI overviews are destroying search, destroying websites, and are easy to game. Really bleak stuff here: www.404media.co/googles-ai-i...

aaand cancelling my proton subscription

Fuck AI

God fucking dammit, Proton, you still have SO much work to do on email and docs, and this is what you're wasting money on??

For the love of god read the room, majority of people DO NOT WANT THIS

Vinay Prasad & Marty Makary frequently attacked studies proving COVID-19's harms as "Covidian" and the researchers as "brain damaged." Now in charge at the Food & Drug Administration, their new favorite spambot is imagining studies out of whole cloth. This is because genAI is sycophantic by design.

Also, don't use AI even if you're joking around. The amount of energy and water used to feed the BSing plagiarism machine is astronomical.

Life lately is has truly been a gauntlet of stress and fresh trauma and bc of that I am failing to push this like i really *really* need to. It’s at 56% now. Any little bit of support, even just boosts of my post, is really deeply appreciated rn.

Using ridicule as praxis - @emilymbender.bsky.social @alexhanna.bsky.social

This image shows gauges with the May 10-23, 2025 COVID Forecast scores for Canada, the provinces, & territories. From left to right: Canada: 10.0 - HIGH Alberta: 10.8 - VERY HIGH British Columbia: 12.2 - VERY HIGH Manitoba: 9.9 - HIGH New Brunswick: 13.5 - VERY HIGH Newfoundland and Labrador: 7.9 - HIGH North: 10.4 - VERY HIGH Nova Scotia: 8.9 - HIGH Ontario: 11.1 - VERY HIGH Prince Edward Island: 14.6 - VERY HIGH Quebec: 9.9 - HIGH Saskatchewan: 9.1 - HIGH A text box reads: "The COVID Forecast is calculated from 3 equally weighted categories: 1) Current infections and spread; 2) Healthcare system impact; 3) Mortality. Within each category there is one sub-category for trends over the most recent week (Trends) and one sub-category for current parameter values relative to a specified baseline (Current values). Trends and current values are weighted equally when determining the final score for a category. All Forecast input data and sources are available here (https://datastudio.google.com/embed/u/0/reporting/42b886cf-d661-488e-b7d8-5c5836b55ab6/page/p_2yqs028mwc). Past Forecast scores are available in the table below. Forecast scores are grouped into 4 ranges: MODERATE (1 to <5, white), HIGH (6 to <10, yellow), VERY HIGH (10 to <15, orange), SEVERE (>15 red)."

Canadian COVID Forecast: May 10-23, 2025

SEVERE: none
VERY HIGH: AB, BC, NB, North, ON, PEI
HIGH: CAN, MB, NL, NS, QC, SK
MODERATE: none

About 1 in 134 people in Canada are CURRENTLY infected.

This image describes the Canadian COVID Forecast for the fourteen-day period between May 10-23, 2025, which is produced by COVID-19 Resources Canada. Canada’s COVID Forecast outlook is HIGH (no change) with a COVID INDEX SCORE of 10.0 About 1 of every 134 people is infected. Estimated infections this week: 207,450-323,400 What these numbers mean: MODERATE 1-5, HIGH 5-10, VERY HIGH 10-15, SEVERE >15 COMPARED TO THE LOWEST POINT IN THE COVID PANDEMIC IN CANADA How much higher are key indicators compared to the lowest point in the COVID pandemic in Canada? Waste water, infections: HIGH; 8.1X higher Long COVID estimate: HIGH; 5.9X higher Hospitalizations, ICU: VERY HIGH; 11.1X higher Deaths: VERY HIGH; 11.2X higher HOW TO HELP: EVERYONE: UPDATE vaccines every 6 months WEAR N95-type masks Who is HIGH RISK? People 60 and older, babies < 1 year, pregnant ALL AGES: immunocompromised OR medically at-risk OR no vaccine or infection in the last 6 months Recommendations are based on the COVID-19 Risk Index from the Peterborough ON Public Health Unit COVID-19 Resources Canada is a grassroots organization of volunteer scientists supporting Canadian COVID responses. Sources, data and methods for the COVID Index are available at www.Covid19Resources.ca

Canadian COVID Forecast May 10-23, 2025

CANADA

HIGH (no change)

About 1 in every 134 people infected

Compared to lowest point of pandemic in Canada:

-Infections ~8X higher
-Long COVID ~6X higher
-Hospitalizations ~11X higher
-Deaths ~11X higher

Backers are asked to believe that OpenAI is the most responsible guardian of The Dangerous Majick, while also understanding that the urgency of Al's arms race frees it from all obligation to act responsibly. Burning cash is foundational to its business. There's no time to sandbox new products or abide by laws when liquidity is only ever measured in months. The looming threat of insolvency is what propels OpenAI forward. Does value-for-money get a look in? We know very little about OpenAI's day-to-day operating costs, but we've learned a little more about the day-to-day operating costs of the CEO.

Maybe it's useful to know that Altman uses a knife that's showy but incohesive and wrong for the job; he wastes huge amounts of money on olive oil that he uses recklessly; and he has an automated coffee machine that claims to save labour while doing the exact opposite because it can't be trusted. His kitchen is a catalogue of inefficiency, incomprehension, and waste. If that's any indication of how he runs the company, insolvency cannot be considered too unrealistic a threat.

This may genuinely be one of the most devastating things I've seen about a tech CEO in the mainstream media. Amazing.

The cost of Grok: "I can't breathe at home, it smells like gas outside. How come I can't breathe at home and y'all get to breathe at home?"

This is infuriating to read

That's the thing: Dems were never going to try to stop it. They helped to usher it in. Everything Trump is doing is only possible because of the tools they provided to him. By supporting Harris, all you did was co-sign a genocide and show them that you have no red lines.

It's amazing that privileged people who constantly invoke the trolley problem to rationalize their electoral decisions are shocked to learn that the people they've continually sacrificed to the trolley for more than half a century would rather burn down the entire system than let this continue.