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Several of my papers are in that LibGen database Meta used.<br><br>I feel a bunch of ways about it, but one way I feel is that it adds insult to injury. In all but two cases I was required to sign an onerous agreement to get the paper published, handing over rights to a publisher that is continuing to abuse this arrangement (in my view). I did that begrudgingly because I was early in my career and didn&#x27;t think I had another option. Later I experimented with refusing to sign these agreements and publishers walked back the terms somewhat (I don&#x27;t know if that&#x27;s possible now).<br><br>I also feel that the Meta computer scientists responsible for this betrayed their own colleagues, which I find pretty scummy.<br><br>Anyway, I don&#x27;t consent to any of this. It&#x27;s been imposed on me and countless other authors.<br><br><a href="/tags/libgen/" rel="tag">#LibGen</a> <a href="/tags/meta/" rel="tag">#meta</a> <a href="/tags/llm/" rel="tag">#LLM</a> <a href="/tags/ai/" rel="tag">#AI</a> <a href="/tags/genai/" rel="tag">#GenAI</a> <a href="/tags/generativeai/" rel="tag">#GenerativeAI</a><br>

<p>&quot;The new feature would likely be an unwelcome one for users who would rather keep comments AI-free on Instagram, especially those who believe their friends deserve genuine comments as opposed to AI slop.&quot;</p><p><a href="https://techcrunch.com/2025/03/21/meta-spotted-testing-ai-generated-comments-on-instagram/" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="techcrunch.com/2025/03/21/meta-spotted-testing-ai-generated-comments-on-instagram/"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">techcrunch.com/2025/03/21/meta</span><span class="invisible">-spotted-testing-ai-generated-comments-on-instagram/</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/news/" rel="tag">#news</a> <a href="/tags/technology/" rel="tag">#technology</a> <a href="/tags/technews/" rel="tag">#TechNews</a> <a href="/tags/meta/" rel="tag">#meta</a> <a href="/tags/instagram/" rel="tag">#instagram</a> <a href="/tags/socialmedia/" rel="tag">#SocialMedia</a> <a href="/tags/ai/" rel="tag">#AI</a> <a href="/tags/slop/" rel="tag">#slop</a></p>

<p>𝐏𝐥𝐞𝐚𝐬𝐞 𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐝 &amp; 𝐬𝐡𝐚𝐫𝐞: 𝐌𝐲 𝐥𝐚𝐭𝐞𝐬𝐭 𝐨𝐧 𝐬𝐞𝐞𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐟𝐢𝐥𝐦 &quot;𝐍𝐮𝐫𝐞𝐦𝐛𝐞𝐫𝐠&quot; 𝐅𝐫𝐢𝐝𝐚𝐲 𝐧𝐢𝐠𝐡𝐭, 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐇𝐞𝐠𝐬𝐞𝐭𝐡 𝐧𝐞𝐰𝐬 𝐚𝐟𝐭𝐞𝐫:</p><p>&quot;Robert Jackson, Harry Truman, held men in custody who exterminated over 12 million civilians in camps, tens of millions more in a war of aggression.</p><p>They wished for a better world, so they tried the monsters in a court of law. <a href="/tags/hegseth/" rel="tag">#Hegseth</a> saw smugglers (?) and couldn’t bother to capture or try them. Then when he had the success using bombs he’s had using <a href="/tags/signal/" rel="tag">#Signal</a>, he returned to ensure the slaughter.</p><p>“ <a href="/tags/nuremberg/" rel="tag">#Nuremberg</a>” isn&#x27;t a historical footnote with men in gray suits. It&#x27;s a film about the moment we decided: civilization doesn’t survive if we let murder become policy. And if we don’t enforce it, there will always be more Pete Hegseths.&quot;</p><p><a href="https://www.blueamp.co/p/we-tried-nazis-hegseth-bombs-survivors" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.blueamp.co/p/we-tried-nazis-hegseth-bombs-survivors"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.blueamp.co/p/we-tried-nazi</span><span class="invisible">s-hegseth-bombs-survivors</span></a> <a href="/tags/usa/" rel="tag">#usa</a> <a href="/tags/news/" rel="tag">#news</a> <a href="/tags/venezuela/" rel="tag">#venezuela</a> <a href="/tags/boatbombings/" rel="tag">#boatbombings</a> <a href="/tags/warcrimes/" rel="tag">#warcrimes</a> <a href="/tags/war/" rel="tag">#war</a> <a href="/tags/unitedstates/" rel="tag">#unitedstates</a> <a href="/tags/us/" rel="tag">#us</a> <a href="/tags/crimesagainsthumanity/" rel="tag">#crimesagainsthumanity</a> <a href="/tags/america/" rel="tag">#america</a> <a href="/tags/eu/" rel="tag">#eu</a> <a href="/tags/russia/" rel="tag">#russia</a> <a href="/tags/ukraine/" rel="tag">#ukraine</a> <a href="/tags/europe/" rel="tag">#europe</a> <a href="/tags/nato/" rel="tag">#nato</a> <a href="/tags/tech/" rel="tag">#tech</a> <a href="/tags/tv/" rel="tag">#tv</a> <a href="/tags/ai/" rel="tag">#ai</a> <a href="/tags/donaldtrump/" rel="tag">#donaldtrump</a> <a href="/tags/trump/" rel="tag">#trump</a> <a href="/tags/law/" rel="tag">#law</a> <a href="/tags/economy/" rel="tag">#economy</a> <a href="/tags/culture/" rel="tag">#culture</a> <a href="/tags/media/" rel="tag">#media</a> <a href="/tags/press/" rel="tag">#press</a> <a href="/tags/movies/" rel="tag">#movies</a></p>

<p>We were given a prompt as an invitation to participate in this newsletter: “How are you using AI in the classroom?” While we have accepted this invitation, we are engaging in the most humanistic act we can imagine—refusing the prompt.<br></p>From How We are Not Using AI in the Classroom <a href="https://static1.squarespace.com/static/53a4b792e4b073bf214c0e66/t/67ddcdb4e1ee531df076cb82/1742589366973/ICMA_MarchNewsletter_v7+FINAL.pdf#page=25" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="static1.squarespace.com/static/53a4b792e4b073bf214c0e66/t/67ddcdb4e1ee531df076cb82/1742589366973/ICMA_MarchNewsletter_v7+FINAL.pdf#page=25"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">static1.squarespace.com/static</span><span class="invisible">/53a4b792e4b073bf214c0e66/t/67ddcdb4e1ee531df076cb82/1742589366973/ICMA_MarchNewsletter_v7+FINAL.pdf#page=25</span></a><br><br>A nice articulation of why &quot;incorporating AI&quot; in the classroom is detrimental to education and learning, inducing longterm costs that no perceived benefit of doing so could outweigh.<br><br><a href="/tags/ai/" rel="tag">#AI</a> <a href="/tags/genai/" rel="tag">#GenAI</a> <a href="/tags/generativeai/" rel="tag">#GenerativeAI</a> <a href="/tags/llm/" rel="tag">#LLM</a> <a href="/tags/chatgpt/" rel="tag">#ChatGPT</a> <a href="/tags/education/" rel="tag">#education</a> <a href="/tags/pedagogy/" rel="tag">#pedagogy</a><br>

<p>💰 Spain is done with AI slop and disinfo</p><p>｢ The Spanish bill, which needs to be approved by the lower house, classifies non-compliance with proper labelling of AI-generated content as a &quot;serious offence&quot; that can lead to fines of up to 35 million euros ($38.2 million) or 7% of their global annual turnover ｣</p><p><a href="https://www.reuters.com/technology/artificial-intelligence/spain-impose-massive-fines-not-labelling-ai-generated-content-2025-03-11/" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.reuters.com/technology/artificial-intelligence/spain-impose-massive-fines-not-labelling-ai-generated-content-2025-03-11/"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.reuters.com/technology/art</span><span class="invisible">ificial-intelligence/spain-impose-massive-fines-not-labelling-ai-generated-content-2025-03-11/</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/spain/" rel="tag">#spain</a> <a href="/tags/ai/" rel="tag">#ai</a> <a href="/tags/deepfakes/" rel="tag">#deepfakes</a> <a href="/tags/disinformation/" rel="tag">#disinformation</a></p>

It suddenly struck me the other day that generative AI used in government and media has a very Memoirs Found in a Bathtub quality about it. One of the premises of Lem&#x27;s (amazing) novel is that paper disintegrates for unknown reasons, leaving very few hard records of anything. The book is a mock diary of a person who lived through the disorienting chaos that ensued.<br><br><a href="/tags/ai/" rel="tag">#AI</a> <a href="/tags/genai/" rel="tag">#GenAI</a> <a href="/tags/generativeai/" rel="tag">#GenerativeAI</a> <a href="/tags/llm/" rel="tag">#LLM</a> <a href="/tags/tech/" rel="tag">#tech</a> <a href="/tags/dev/" rel="tag">#dev</a> <a href="/tags/stanislawlem/" rel="tag">#StanislawLem</a> <a href="/tags/fiction/" rel="tag">#fiction</a> <a href="/tags/scifi/" rel="tag">#SciFi</a> <a href="/tags/sciencefiction/" rel="tag">#ScienceFiction</a> <a href="/tags/cybernetics/" rel="tag">#cybernetics</a><br>

<p>Nothing is more valuable than a clear-headed understanding of which particular lies are most likely to succeed in the present environment, and which are just evanescent byproducts of the generally mendacious atmosphere. Dodge the decoys, save the right kind of energy to counter the real blows. Turning up the heat in lamenting the current crisis risks mistaking a mere mirage for a more substantial threat.<br></p>From “LYING IN POLITICS”: HANNAH ARENDT’S ANTIDOTE TO ANTICIPATORY DESPAIR <a href="https://www.publicbooks.org/lying-in-politics-hannah-arendts-antidote-to-anticipatory-despair/" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.publicbooks.org/lying-in-politics-hannah-arendts-antidote-to-anticipatory-despair/"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.publicbooks.org/lying-in-p</span><span class="invisible">olitics-hannah-arendts-antidote-to-anticipatory-despair/</span></a><br><br>I found this to be an excellent and orienting read for anyone concerned about the US right now.<br><br>While folks are understandably worried about this administration, which has already inflicted significant harms, it&#x27;s important to stay level headed and aligned with the actual facts and truths. That&#x27;s our primary defense against what&#x27;s happening which, as Arendt argued in the 1970s, hinges on a process of defactualization. Shouting &quot;fascism!&quot; and drawing analogies with the Nazis, as this essay argues, is going too far, turning up the heat about a mirage. Much as we wish they&#x27;d do better--and they could do better--in point of fact we do still have a functioning judicial system and media ecosystem, and there are significant numbers of people, including politicians and judges, fully willing to challenge every lie the administration emits. As dangerous as these times are we are nowhere near as far along the authoritarian trajectory as shouting &quot;fascism!&quot; makes it sound, and we should really stop doing that. Doing so grants bluffs and bluster more power than it actually has, which is ultimately a form of surrender. We should recognize our own strength and save it for real threats.<br><br>This is one of many reasons why I relentlessly call BS on generative AI and the claims about it coming out of the technology sector. There is a defactualization process at work there that plays into the broader political one; some of the individuals enacting this defactualization in tech are personally involved in doing the same in the federal government. If you&#x27;ve been watching you probably know some of their names and the companies they came from. Generative AI is itself a defactualization machine; that&#x27;s one of its primary appeals to this crew.<br><br>Dodge the decoys and save your energy for the real blows.<br><br><a href="/tags/uspol/" rel="tag">#USPol</a> <a href="/tags/hannaharendt/" rel="tag">#HannahArendt</a> <a href="/tags/authoritarianism/" rel="tag">#authoritarianism</a> <a href="/tags/despair/" rel="tag">#despair</a> <a href="/tags/tech/" rel="tag">#tech</a> <a href="/tags/dev/" rel="tag">#dev</a> <a href="/tags/ai/" rel="tag">#AI</a> <a href="/tags/genai/" rel="tag">#GenAI</a> <a href="/tags/generativeai/" rel="tag">#GenerativeAI</a> <a href="/tags/llm/" rel="tag">#LLM</a><br>

I was reminded today that Meta/Facebook&#x27;s data center project is called Hyperion. Here are some facts about that name that may or may not be of interest.<br><br>Hyperion&#x27;s name comes from two Greek words that together mean &quot;watcher from above&quot; or &quot;he who goes above&quot;.<br><br>Hyperion was a Titan, the ancient Greek gods that preceded the Olympian gods like Zeus, Athena, etc. Prometheus, Atlas, and the word Titan itself are frequently used to name tech projects. A fun web search is &quot;COMPANY_NAME Titan&quot;; try it. It seems lost on these folks that the Titans were deposed by the Olympian gods and condemned to an eternity in Tartarus, a kind of hell. In other words they&#x27;re the loser gods, if you want to be simplistic and vulgar about it.<br><br>It is believed that one of Hyperion&#x27;s offspring, Helios, as well as all of Helios&#x27;s offspring, were imagined as being black-skinned.<br><br>My wife, who is a classicist, and I regularly shake our heads about the names of tech projects like this. I always ask her for the dirt on the name, and she always delivers (as in the above, which I credit to her).<br><br><a href="/tags/datacenters/" rel="tag">#DataCenters</a> <a href="/tags/cloud/" rel="tag">#Cloud</a> <a href="/tags/ai/" rel="tag">#AI</a> <a href="/tags/facebook/" rel="tag">#Facebook</a> <a href="/tags/meta/" rel="tag">#Meta</a> <a href="/tags/hyperion/" rel="tag">#Hyperion</a> <a href="/tags/greekgods/" rel="tag">#GreekGods</a> <a href="/tags/ancientgreece/" rel="tag">#AncientGreece</a> <a href="/tags/titans/" rel="tag">#Titans</a> <a href="/tags/classics/" rel="tag">#Classics</a><br>

<p><a href="https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cyvm1dyp9v2o" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.bbc.com/news/articles/cyvm1dyp9v2o"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.bbc.com/news/articles/cyvm</span><span class="invisible">1dyp9v2o</span></a></p><p>Oof</p><p>A copywriter talks about how her employment is changing</p><p>Now her job is helping companies recover from <a href="/tags/ai/" rel="tag">#AI</a> drek they deployed on their websites. She frequently needs to rewrite the whole website</p><p>So our future is not employment to write copy/ code, but clean up AI disaster zones</p><p>It&#x27;s the standard &quot;broken window&quot; problem in economics (the notion that breaking things stimulates the economy, but you&#x27;re wasting your time treading water rather than making progress)</p>

<p>After Microsoft laid off 9000 employees, Xbox producer Matt Turnbull suggested affected workers use AI to “reduce the emotional and cognitive load that comes with job loss”</p><p><a href="https://www.videogamer.com/news/after-microsoft-laid-off-9000-employees-xbox-producer-matt-turnbull-use-ai-reduce-emotional-cognitive-load-that-comes-with-job-loss/" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.videogamer.com/news/after-microsoft-laid-off-9000-employees-xbox-producer-matt-turnbull-use-ai-reduce-emotional-cognitive-load-that-comes-with-job-loss/"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.videogamer.com/news/after-</span><span class="invisible">microsoft-laid-off-9000-employees-xbox-producer-matt-turnbull-use-ai-reduce-emotional-cognitive-load-that-comes-with-job-loss/</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/microsoft/" rel="tag">#microsoft</a> <a href="/tags/xbox/" rel="tag">#xbox</a> <a href="/tags/gaming/" rel="tag">#gaming</a> <a href="/tags/tech/" rel="tag">#tech</a> <a href="/tags/ai/" rel="tag">#ai</a> <a href="/tags/layoffs/" rel="tag">#layoffs</a> <a href="/tags/enshittification/" rel="tag">#enshittification</a> <a href="/tags/dystopia/" rel="tag">#dystopia</a></p>

<p>There&#x27;s no reason to follow anyone else on LinkedIn except this guy 😂 </p><p><a href="/tags/ai/" rel="tag">#AI</a></p>

<p>Okay, Ai did alright.</p><p>I&#x27;ve been thinking about when to use <a href="/tags/ai/" rel="tag">#Ai</a>, and how to use it as a tool to improve my work while not de-skilling me, or outputting crap.</p><p>I have a <a href="/tags/golang/" rel="tag">#Golang</a> web app, which has handler, sql, api logic, for some types. Ai works really well using the existing architecture setup as a template/model for adding similar functionality for a new type. </p><p>&quot;Add meta tag handlers to display a page of blog posts that have the specified tag&quot;</p><p>The actual prompt was more comprehensive.</p>

<p>Meine IT Datenschutz Liste für alle !! 🔒 </p><p>auch als PDF:</p><p><a href="https://cryptpad.digitalcourage.de/file/#/2/file/e6R++daR1qgbHuwptZnVmrB-/" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="cryptpad.digitalcourage.de/file/#/2/file/e6R++daR1qgbHuwptZnVmrB-/"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">cryptpad.digitalcourage.de/fil</span><span class="invisible">e/#/2/file/e6R++daR1qgbHuwptZnVmrB-/</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/datenschutz/" rel="tag">#Datenschutz</a><br><a href="/tags/privatsphäre/" rel="tag">#Privatsphäre</a> <br><a href="/tags/sicherheit/" rel="tag">#sicherheit</a><br><a href="/tags/chatkontrolle/" rel="tag">#Chatkontrolle</a><br><a href="/tags/linux/" rel="tag">#Linux</a><br><a href="/tags/endof10/" rel="tag">#Endof10</a><br><a href="/tags/unplugtrump/" rel="tag">#UnplugTrump</a><br><a href="/tags/windows/" rel="tag">#Windows</a> <br><a href="/tags/ai/" rel="tag">#AI</a><br><a href="/tags/fediverse/" rel="tag">#Fediverse</a><br><a href="/tags/mastodon/" rel="tag">#Mastodon</a><br><a href="/tags/transparenzgesetz/" rel="tag">#TransparenzGesetz</a><br><a href="/tags/informationssicherheit/" rel="tag">#Informationssicherheit</a><br><a href="/tags/informationsfreiheit/" rel="tag">#Informationsfreiheit</a></p>

<p>How Not to Go to Jail for Making Art </p><p>Published by the Pan-African Network for Artistic Freedom, the first issue of PANAF Voices is a testimony to persistence in the face of artistic repression across the continent.</p><p><a href="https://www.theelephant.info/analysis/2026/05/08/how-not-to-go-to-jail-for-making-art/" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.theelephant.info/analysis/2026/05/08/how-not-to-go-to-jail-for-making-art/"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.theelephant.info/analysis/</span><span class="invisible">2026/05/08/how-not-to-go-to-jail-for-making-art/</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/africa/" rel="tag">#Africa</a> <a href="/tags/art/" rel="tag">#Art</a> <a href="/tags/lgbtq/" rel="tag">#LGBTQ</a> <a href="/tags/ai/" rel="tag">#AI</a> <a href="/tags/aiart/" rel="tag">#AIArt</a> <a href="/tags/aiac/" rel="tag">#AIAC</a> <a href="/tags/eastafrica/" rel="tag">#EastAfrica</a> <a href="/tags/panaf/" rel="tag">#PANAF</a></p>

<p>Gentoo Linux&#x27;s AI policy forbids any content, including code, created with LLMs, for contributions to official Gentoo projects due to copyright, quality, and ethical concerns.</p><p><a href="https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Project:Council/AI_policy" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Project:Council/AI_policy"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Project:C</span><span class="invisible">ouncil/AI_policy</span></a></p><p>In the age of batshit AI companies like Google, Microsoft, OpenAI, and others, a few opensource projects are making the correct call. Can Linux foundation also ban LLM? </p><p><a href="/tags/ai/" rel="tag">#AI</a> <a href="/tags/llm/" rel="tag">#LLM</a></p>

<p><a href="/tags/ai/" rel="tag">#ai</a> <a href="/tags/meme/" rel="tag">#meme</a> <a href="/tags/tormentnexus/" rel="tag">#tormentnexus</a> <br><a href="/tags/chatgpt/" rel="tag">#ChatGPT</a> <a href="/tags/llm/" rel="tag">#llm</a> <a href="/tags/llms/" rel="tag">#LLMs</a></p>

<p>Want To Fight Back? Declare Independence From Corporate <a href="/tags/media/" rel="tag">#Media</a>? Start Here!</p><p>WATCH &amp; SUBSCRIBE! <a href="https://www.blueamp.co/p/want-to-fight-back-declare-independence?r=j0lyx&amp;triedRedirect=true" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.blueamp.co/p/want-to-fight-back-declare-independence?r=j0lyx&amp;triedRedirect=true"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.blueamp.co/p/want-to-fight</span><span class="invisible">-back-declare-independence?r=j0lyx&amp;triedRedirect=true</span></a> <a href="/tags/substack/" rel="tag">#substack</a> <a href="/tags/us/" rel="tag">#us</a> <a href="/tags/usa/" rel="tag">#usa</a> <a href="/tags/news/" rel="tag">#news</a> <a href="/tags/politics/" rel="tag">#politics</a> <a href="/tags/writing/" rel="tag">#writing</a> <a href="/tags/video/" rel="tag">#video</a> <a href="/tags/ai/" rel="tag">#ai</a> <a href="/tags/tv/" rel="tag">#tv</a> <a href="/tags/eu/" rel="tag">#eu</a> <a href="/tags/press/" rel="tag">#press</a> <a href="/tags/tech/" rel="tag">#tech</a> <a href="/tags/medicaid/" rel="tag">#medicaid</a> <a href="/tags/trump/" rel="tag">#trump</a> <a href="/tags/donaldtrump/" rel="tag">#donaldtrump</a> <a href="/tags/economy/" rel="tag">#economy</a> <a href="/tags/stockmarket/" rel="tag">#stockmarket</a> <a href="/tags/russia/" rel="tag">#russia</a> <a href="/tags/ukraine/" rel="tag">#ukraine</a> <a href="/tags/canada/" rel="tag">#canada</a> <a href="/tags/europe/" rel="tag">#europe</a> <a href="/tags/uk/" rel="tag">#uk</a> <a href="/tags/china/" rel="tag">#china</a></p>

<p>LIVESTREAM! </p><p>BREAKING: SECRET Pete <a href="/tags/hegseth/" rel="tag">#Hegseth</a> <a href="/tags/war/" rel="tag">#War</a> Plan <a href="/tags/texts/" rel="tag">#Texts</a> EXPOSED by <a href="/tags/press/" rel="tag">#Press</a>!</p><p><a href="https://youtube.com/live/w3NJEx7ONro" rel="nofollow"><span class="invisible">https://</span>youtube.com/live/w3NJEx7ONro</a> <a href="/tags/media/" rel="tag">#media</a> <a href="/tags/tech/" rel="tag">#tech</a> <a href="/tags/politics/" rel="tag">#politics</a> <a href="/tags/news/" rel="tag">#news</a> <a href="/tags/nato/" rel="tag">#nato</a> <a href="/tags/usa/" rel="tag">#usa</a> <a href="/tags/america/" rel="tag">#america</a> <a href="/tags/europe/" rel="tag">#europe</a> <a href="/tags/israel/" rel="tag">#israel</a> <a href="/tags/musk/" rel="tag">#musk</a> <a href="/tags/trump/" rel="tag">#trump</a> <a href="/tags/donaldtrump/" rel="tag">#donaldtrump</a> <a href="/tags/elonmusk/" rel="tag">#elonmusk</a> <a href="/tags/eu/" rel="tag">#eu</a> <a href="/tags/ai/" rel="tag">#ai</a> <a href="/tags/china/" rel="tag">#china</a> <a href="/tags/russia/" rel="tag">#russia</a> <a href="/tags/ukraine/" rel="tag">#ukraine</a> <a href="/tags/america/" rel="tag">#america</a> <a href="/tags/signal/" rel="tag">#signal</a> <a href="/tags/yemen/" rel="tag">#yemen</a></p>

<p>The <a href="/tags/ai/" rel="tag">#AI</a> race is a marathon. The finish line is product addiction. AI service providers need their models to become indispensable in corporate offices and for the average consumer. </p><p>The problem for venture capitalists is no one knows how long that will take. No one knows how much runway they need. </p><p>It&#x27;s less of an issue for big firms like <a href="/tags/openai/" rel="tag">#OpenAI</a> and <a href="/tags/meta/" rel="tag">#Meta</a>. But the smaller firms will soon drop like flies when the funding wells run dry. Another oligopoly in the making. </p><p><a href="https://futurism.com/openai-trouble-subprime" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="futurism.com/openai-trouble-subprime"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">futurism.com/openai-trouble-su</span><span class="invisible">bprime</span></a></p>

It&#x27;s odd to me that people talk about data centers in terms of megawatts, a measure of electric power. For one example among many, a Bloomberg article from March about Microsoft cancelling data center plans began:<br><p>Microsoft Corp. has walked away from new data center projects in the US and Europe that would have amounted to a capacity of about 2 gigawatts of electricity, according to TD Cowen analysts, who attributed the pullback to an oversupply of the clusters of computers that power artificial intelligence.<br></p>&quot;Data center projects that...amounted to a capacity of about 2 gigawatts of electricity&quot; is a nonsensical statement. The (technical) capacities of a data center have to do with storage, compute, transmission, and latency. I understand there&#x27;s probably some Fermi calculation along the lines of converting electric power to compute capacity using the TDP of NVIDIA&#x27;s latest GPUs or something like that. Nevertheless, it&#x27;s misleading to speak this way, not to mention lazy. It is oversimplifying in a bad way, treating data centers as utilities that supply a commodity when that is just not the case (at least not with AI, where prices for services still fluctuate fairly wildly).<br><br><a href="/tags/dev/" rel="tag">#dev</a> <a href="/tags/tech/" rel="tag">#tech</a> <a href="/tags/ai/" rel="tag">#AI</a> <a href="/tags/energy/" rel="tag">#energy</a> <a href="/tags/power/" rel="tag">#power</a> <a href="/tags/datacenters/" rel="tag">#DataCenters</a><br>

Once again a fully automated, non-human system is denying me access to a resource on the internet because it has determined I am not human enough.<br><br><a href="/tags/2025/" rel="tag">#2025</a> <a href="/tags/dystopia/" rel="tag">#dystopia</a> <a href="/tags/cloudflare/" rel="tag">#Cloudflare</a> <a href="/tags/ai/" rel="tag">#AI</a> <a href="/tags/human/" rel="tag">#human</a> <a href="/tags/web/" rel="tag">#web</a> <a href="/tags/tech/" rel="tag">#tech</a> <a href="/tags/dev/" rel="tag">#dev</a><br>

<p>Hi 😀​ durch die einführung von <a href="/tags/meta/" rel="tag">#meta</a> <a href="/tags/ai/" rel="tag">#ai</a> gibt es nun einen schlagenen grund mehr, meta und <a href="/tags/whatsapp/" rel="tag">#whatsapp</a> zu verlassen. und z.b. auf <a href="/tags/signal/" rel="tag">#signal</a> umzusteigen.<br>erzählt das auch euren technisch und <a href="/tags/datenschutz/" rel="tag">#datenschutz</a> nicht so affinen mitmenschen.<br>die <a href="/tags/mdedien/" rel="tag">#mdedien</a> pennen und plappern nur <a href="/tags/marketing/" rel="tag">#marketing</a> sprüche nach.</p>

So-called &quot;generative&quot; AI is the opposite of generative. The word &quot;generative&quot; in the name &quot;generative AI&quot; is a piece of jargon that is, even then, arguably misused in some applications. But as an anti-imagination, remix-only technology, it&#x27;s just not generative at all, and cannot be. On top of this it impedes creative expression in multiple ways: co-opting it, devaluing it, directing energy away from it, etc.<br><br><a href="/tags/ai/" rel="tag">#AI</a> <a href="/tags/genai/" rel="tag">#GenAI</a> <a href="/tags/generativeai/" rel="tag">#GenerativeAI</a> <a href="/tags/creativity/" rel="tag">#creativity</a><br>

<p>RE: <a href="https://flipboard.com/@thenewsdesk/technology-shjum1jiz/-/a-MNeuUpdOSJGPiDudbM2mQQ%3Aa%3A43591897-%2F0" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="flipboard.com/@thenewsdesk/technology-shjum1jiz/-/a-MNeuUpdOSJGPiDudbM2mQQ%3Aa%3A43591897-%2F0"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">flipboard.com/@thenewsdesk/tec</span><span class="invisible">hnology-shjum1jiz/-/a-MNeuUpdOSJGPiDudbM2mQQ%3Aa%3A43591897-%2F0</span></a></p><p>Well, there&#x27;s one silver lining, I guess.</p><p>&quot;It also cited a survey conducted by Recon Analytics, which asked more than 260,000 Americans about their AI usage. Just 0.174% of respondents said they are paying for Grok. By comparison, 6% say they are shelling out monthly for ChatGPT.&quot;</p><p><a href="/tags/news/" rel="tag">#news</a> <a href="/tags/technews/" rel="tag">#TechNews</a> <a href="/tags/technology/" rel="tag">#technology</a> <a href="/tags/ai/" rel="tag">#AI</a> <a href="/tags/llms/" rel="tag">#LLMs</a> <a href="/tags/grok/" rel="tag">#Grok</a></p>

<p>I watched someone &quot;vibe code&quot; for an hour and now I think &quot;slot machine coding&quot; is a more appropriate name. &quot;Let us pull the lever again and see if the code gets better with this prompt.&quot;</p><p><a href="/tags/ai/" rel="tag">#AI</a> <a href="/tags/genai/" rel="tag">#GenAI</a> <a href="/tags/vibecoding/" rel="tag">#VibeCoding</a> <a href="/tags/programming/" rel="tag">#Programming</a></p>