Florian Scholz

YouTube video by New Practice In Art and Technology LOOPS Fascist AI with Malte Engeler and Tante

I really enjoyed yesterday's colab with @tante.cc about" Fascist AI".

If you want to know how we got, why we have technologies like "AI" and how both are a very fertile soil for fascism: We got you covered.

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The AI Slop Fight Between Iran and Israel There’s a lack of footage from the conflict and AI-generated content is filling the void.

The AI Slop Fight Between Iran and Israel

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Patrick - How to convince your boss to sponsor Open Web Docs A blog post by Patrick Brosset: How to convince your boss to sponsor Open Web Docs

Does your organization rely on MDN for reference docs?
Do you often check browser compat on MDN or caniuse.com?
Do you use tools like browser DevTools or VSCode in your work?

If so, you rely directly on the work that Open Web Docs does and should consider sponsoring.

To convince your boss.

Builder.ai Collapses: $1.5bn 'AI' Startup Exposed as 'Actually Indians' Pretending to Be Bots Builder.ai, once a $1.5 billion 'AI' startup backed by Microsoft and QIA, is filing for bankruptcy. A lender seized $37M, crippling operations.

What a headline 😂

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> our implementation was not developed by Mozilla employees, but was contributed entirely by a single volunteer, André Bargull.

Temporal is an absolutely massive spec and complicated implementation - it's been YEARS in the making.

André out here just beating out billion dollar corps

YouTube video by re:publica re:publica 25: Roland Meyer - Generative KI und die Ästhetik des digitalen Faschismus

Generative KI und die Ästhetik des digitalen Faschismus -- re:publika Vortrag von @bildoperationen.bsky.social

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a chart showing power consumption of big tech companies

hey lovelies, I finally got around to publicly sharing my compilation of big tech energy and emissions data. I'll be using it in articles, posts etc but it's yours too, free to use (w/ attribution is nice)

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Error 417 Expectation Failed | Home Supporting Internet Art with an Attitude 🌐💄

The new Expectation Fail foundation is offering 10 grants (1500-7000 EUR) for artists to work on strategies against the growing tech fascism.
https://error417.expectation.fail/

The UN Open Source Principles are comprised of eight guidelines and provide a framework to guide the use, development and sharing of Open Source software across the organization. The UN Open Source Principles Open by default: Making Open Source the standard approach for projects Contribute back: Encouraging active participation in the Open Source ecosystem Secure by design: Making security a priority in all software projects Foster inclusive participation and community building: Enabling and facilitating diverse and inclusive contributions Design for reusability: Designing projects to be interoperable across various platforms and ecosystems Provide documentation: Providing thorough documentation for end-users, integrators and developers RISE (recognize, incentivize, support and empower): Empowering individuals and communities to actively participate Sustain and scale: Supporting the development of solutions that meet the evolving needs of the UN system and beyond.

the United Nations Open Source Principles

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Are "AI" system really tools? I was on a panel on “AI” yesterday (was in German so I don’t link it i this post, specifics don’t matter too much) and a phrase came up that stuck with me on my way home (riding a bike is just the best thing for thinking). That phrase was AI systems are just tools […]

I wondered if "AI" systems are "tools" and realized that structurally they are not. They are makeshifts.

https://tante.cc/2025/04/27/are-ai-system-really-tools/

"For generative AI this purpose is quite clear: It’s about putting pressure on human labour. […] The actual problem generative AI is trying to solve is having to pay people for their work."

Wie Europas Open-Source-Versagen in die US-Abhängigkeit geführt hat Wer die Dominanz von Microsoft, Google und Co beklagt, muss auch sagen, wie es dazu gekommen ist. Und dass es immer Alternativen gab. Was fehlte, war immer nur der politische Wille

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Went home to my parents for Easter to fix their computers AND to tell them what happens to the photos they've uploaded to ChatGPT.

🕶 OpenAI's Viral Privacy Trick AI's Legal and Ethical Challenges | Edition #184

Ghibli, miniature dolls, or whatever trend is on right now: it is a giant viral privacy trick to get fresh personal images into OpenAI's models. People are giving their data away for free carelessly.

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AI Policy Update Proposal · servo servo · Discussion #36379 Servo’s Technical Steering Committee is looking for feedback regarding our policy for contributions made with generative AI. The current policy, adopted in June 2024, is documented in the Servo boo...

After the community feedback Servo TSC would like to share that we have decided to not modify the AI policy and keep it as is.

Future discussions on this topic (if any) will happen on public channels.

More details: github.com/servo/servo/...

Bluesky, censorship and country-based moderation This week, Bluesky hid accounts in for users in Turkey after a government order. I take a closer look at government censorship and ATProto, how geographic moderation labelers work, and the impact on t...

After a court order by the Turkish government, Bluesky made accounts unavailable for Bluesky users in Turkey this week.

I take a closer look at geographic-based moderation works on Bluesky and atproto, how it can be sidestepped, and much more

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ich bin schon länger dazu übergegangen, die vielen datacenter, die die ki-bros in die welt bauen, als waffen zu sehen. ihre anschlussnutzung nach dem crash werden mit großer sicherheit überwachungs- und militär-ki bereitstellen. also alles, was ein zunehmend autoritärer staat halt so braucht.

Digitale Souveränität und EuroStack: Wie kann Europa digital unabhängiger werden? Cloud-Dienste und Plattformen kommen aus den USA, Mikrochips aus Taiwan, Seltene Erden aus China. Die Digitalisierung hat zu massiven Abhängigkeiten geführt, von denen Europa sich spätestens seit Dona...

Cloud-Dienste und Plattformen kommen aus den USA, Mikrochips aus Taiwan, Seltene Erden aus China. Die Digitalisierung hat zu massiven Abhängigkeiten geführt, von denen Europa sich spätestens seit Donald Trumps Amtsantritt lösen will. Welche Konzepte gibt es dafür?

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YouTube video by TED This Is What a Digital Coup Looks Like | Carole Cadwalladr | TED

Carole Cadwalladr: "We now have to start acting as if we live in East Germany and Instagram is the Stasi"

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Kalte Nächte in Athen - Ein Kurztrip in die griechische Musikszene Hi, ich bin Flo, ein Grufti aus Bremen, und das hier ist mein erster Artikel bei Spontis, um euch von meiner Reise nach Athen und musikalischen Fundstücken zu

Ich habe einen Artikel über meine Reise nach Athen und zur griechischen synth/wave Szene geschrieben www.spontis.de/schwarze-sze...

Vielen Dank an @wizardofgoth.bsky.social fürs Veröffentlichen!

The Anti-Capitalist Case for Standards In a capitalist world, the often-overlooked systems of technical standards offer a rare example of economic collaboration that prioritizes the public good over profit.

"We therefore suggest that one of the most pragmatic anti-capitalist things that one can do is to push for any organizations that you might be involved with to participate in the standards development process"

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The Brewing Transatlantic Tech War How Silicon Valley got entangled in geopolitics—and lost.

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How crawlers impact the operations of the Wikimedia projects Since the beginning of 2024, the demand for the content created by the Wikimedia volunteer community – especially for the 144 million images, videos, and other files on Wikimedia Commons – has grow…

"We have seen the bandwidth used for downloading multimedia content grow by 50%.This increase is not coming from human readers,but largely from automated programs that scrape the Wikimedia Commons image catalog of openly licensed images to feed images to AI models"
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AI: The New Aesthetics of Fascism It's embarrassing, destructive, and looks like shit: AI-generated art is the perfect aesthetic form for the far right.

It's embarrassing, destructive, and looks like shit: AI-generated art is the perfect aesthetic form for the far right argues @garethwatkins.bsky.social newsocialist.org.uk/transmission...

Sehr treffend, dass die taz "Souveränität" in ihrer Liste rechter Chiffren aufführt.
#digitaleSouveränität und so

Rechte Codes und Chiffren: So erkennst du rechte Sprache

Vulgar Display of Power Hayao Miyasaki is the co-founder of Studio Ghibli, a Japanese animation studio known worldwide for their stunning, emotional, beautiful stories and movies. At the core of Studio Ghibli’s work is a deep engagement with questions of humanity. About what it means to be a human, about how to care for one another and the world […]

OpenAI's move to allow generating "Ghibly stlye" images isn't just a cute PR stunt. It is an expression of dominance and the will to reject and refuse democratic values. It is a vulgar display of power.

https://tante.cc/2025/03/28/vulgar-display-of-power/

YouTube video by SRF Kultur Sternstunden Douglas Rushkoff – the mindset of tech billionaires | Sternstunde Philosophie | SRF Kultur

Douglas Rushkoff (@rushkoff.com) – the mindset of tech billionaires
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Palantir: Wer jetzt bei Peter Thiel Software kauft, hat wirklich nichts verstanden Der Bundesrat will, dass die Polizei bundesweit Palantir als Software einsetzt. Das Unternehmen gehört dem rechten Milliardär und Strippenzieher Peter Thiel. Diesem Feind der Demokratie Geld und Daten...

In Sonntagsreden von "digitaler Souveränität" schwafeln und unter der Woche beim rechten Milliardär und autoritären Strippenzieher Peter Thiel Software kaufen wollen. Also manchmal kommt man aus dem Kopfschütteln nicht mehr raus. #Palantir

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Urheberrechte: Universal Music erweitert Klage gegen Internet Archive Die Musikindustrie geht mit horrenden Schadensersatzforderungen gegen das Internet Archive vor, weil dieses Schellackplatten digitalisiert hat. Musiker:innen und das Archiv wehren sich gegen die Klage...

Die Musikindustrie geht mit horrenden Schadensersatzforderungen gegen @archive.org vor, weil dieses Schellackplatten digitalisiert und veröffentlicht hat. Musiker:innen und das Archiv wehren sich gegen die Klage. netzpolitik.org/2025/urheber...

Reclaiming Digital Sovereignty
A roadmap to build a digital stack for people and the planet.

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by @ceciliarikap.bsky.social @parismarx.com and many more