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Everyday Freethought @EFreethought@universeodon.com

· 7mo ago

Replying to on infosec.exchange

@realn2s@infosec.exchange @coolcalmcollected@mastodon.social @davidgerard@circumstances.run My former employer would have us do phishing training every year; and they are pushing AI hard as well. In the phishing training they say that a sign of a scam is trying to create a false sense of urgency. Then when they talk about AI, they say you might get "left behind."

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Everyday Freethought @EFreethought@universeodon.com

· 6mo ago

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@AmyZenunim If gen AI is so awesome, why are companies mandating it? Shouldn't its value just become obvious? I am reminded of something Tim Bray wrote about blockchain years ago: " I’m an old guy: I’ve seen wave after wave of landscape-shifting technology sweep through the IT space: Personal computers, Unix, C, the Internet and Web, Java, REST, mobile, public cloud. And without exception, I observed that they were initially loaded in the back door by geeks, without asking permission, because they got shit done and helped people with their jobs. That’s not happening with blockchain. Not in the slightest. Which is why I don’t believe in it." Quote from https://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/201x/2017/05/13/Not-Believing-in-Blockchain

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Everyday Freethought @EFreethought@universeodon.com

· 7mo ago

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@mathew@universeodon.com "In a year from now it's going to be a Michelin-starred chef." You have been saying that for about three years now.

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Everyday Freethought @EFreethought@universeodon.com

· 7mo ago

Replying to on infosec.exchange

@Em0nM4stodon@infosec.exchange In addition to all of that: It really doesn't work. As a society we are spending more and more money for software that is less predictable and reliable. A lot of people are okay with destroying the planet for something that doesn't work reliably and most people do not want. Anyone with at least two working brain cells should have become anti-LLM and anti-chatbot the instant they understood the concept of hallucinations. #NoAi

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Everyday Freethought @EFreethought@universeodon.com

· 8mo ago

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@Crell@phpc.social WRT copyright: My employer (a large multi-national) requires all employees to take ethics training annually, and it makes a big deal about how ethics are so so important to the company. Yet they are also going all-in on GenAI, which as you stated cannot exist without violating copyright. So ethics are important, but we are betting our future on a technology made by doing things that would get an employee fired.

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Everyday Freethought @EFreethought@universeodon.com

· 7mo ago

Replying to on m.phase.org

@parsingphase@m.phase.org I think there is a typo: "Anyone who thinks they will solve cold fusion or climate change is fundamentally understanding every aspect of the technology." Shouldn't that be "...is fundamentally misunderstanding every aspect of the technology"? Other than that, great essay so far.

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Everyday Freethought @EFreethought@universeodon.com

· 7mo ago

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@GrimmReality@beige.party Also: GPT stole its data from humans, so couldn't all that human energy that he dismisses can be considered as part of GPT's costs as well?

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Everyday Freethought @EFreethought@universeodon.com

· 6mo ago

@davidgerard@circumstances.run
@crowgirl@hachyderm.io

Today here in Austin, TX I saw a license plate: "STOP AI".

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Everyday Freethought @EFreethought@universeodon.com

· 4mo ago

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@davidgerard@circumstances.run The short version: Starlink is profitable, and he is using that to bail out every bad decision he has made since Cybertruck (like Grok and running Twitter into the ground).

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Everyday Freethought @EFreethought@universeodon.com

· 4mo ago

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@Grouchybeast@mastodon.social @davidgerard@circumstances.run So Anthropic is going to use infrastructure owned by a competitor with a capricious, unreliable CEO. Pass the popcorn.

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Everyday Freethought @EFreethought@universeodon.com

· 5mo ago

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@eigen@mattstodon.panar.ooo @davidgerard@circumstances.run What happens if OpenAI goes under? Doesn't MS get the models? I think MS has the money to keep this going for a long time.

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Everyday Freethought @EFreethought@universeodon.com

· 5mo ago

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@davidgerard@circumstances.run Model collapse: It's not disaster; it's progress.

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Everyday Freethought @EFreethought@universeodon.com

· 7mo ago

Replying to on floss.social

@ahoyboyhoy@floss.social @davidgerard@circumstances.run I think people are referring to this: https://pluralistic.net/2026/02/19/now-we-are-six/#stock-buyback Somewhere in the middle he says that he uses LLMs for spell checking. Then he goes on to blame the victim.

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Pluralistic: Six Years of Pluralistic (19 Feb 2026) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow

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Everyday Freethought @EFreethought@universeodon.com

· 7mo ago

Replying to on circumstances.run

@davidgerard@circumstances.run If the future is multi-agent, then I want to live in the past.

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Everyday Freethought @EFreethought@universeodon.com

· 7mo ago

Replying to on circumstances.run

@davidgerard@circumstances.run Do you know if this will work for future versions of Claude?

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Everyday Freethought @EFreethought@universeodon.com

· 8mo ago

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@jonmsterling At my current employer, the More Bad Advice pinhead types all love it. The tech crowd is mixed. I think it will blow up either due to debt collapse or huge price increases that companies will be unwilling/unable to pay. (That is before pointing out that anybody with at least two brain cells talking to each other should have rejected it the instant they understood what a hallucination is.) Amongst the few non-tech people I know, most of them hate AI and wish it would go away.

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Everyday Freethought @EFreethought@universeodon.com

· 5mo ago

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@h0gh@mastodon.social @ChrisMayLA6@zirk.us @jonpsp@mstdn.social @david_chisnall@infosec.exchange The "VP of ensuring he gets his bonus" might as well be an actual title at a lot of companies.

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Everyday Freethought @EFreethought@universeodon.com

· 8mo ago

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@cryptadamist I wonder if all the people who said Epstein was a genius were blackmailed into saying so. It is amazing how many spelling, grammar and capitalization errors there are in just about everything he wrote.

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Everyday Freethought @EFreethought@universeodon.com

· 8mo ago

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@GossiTheDog@cyberplace.social Back in October I went to the dentist and needed extra cleaning. The hygienist (whom I believe was not worried about AI taking her job) said she was sick of hearing about AI.

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Everyday Freethought @EFreethought@universeodon.com

· 5mo ago

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@timbray@cosocial.ca Not all software devs are on board w/gen AI. A lot are using it because their employers are making them. The community of true believers might be smaller than you think.

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Everyday Freethought @EFreethought@universeodon.com

· 6mo ago

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@jaykuo@universeodon.com Her call for hearings might not be about accountability or transparency. Congress is controlled by GOP, and they will do anything for DJT. Hearings now would do nothing.

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Everyday Freethought @EFreethought@universeodon.com

· 6mo ago

@ppb1701@ppb.social I am reading "Do Not Blow Your Cover". I have a question about something: "Every file Claude Code looks at gets saved locally as plaintext JSONL and uploaded to Anthropic. " Just do I understand: Claude is sending a lot of a user's files to the mothership, presumably without telling them. Am I correct about that?

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Everyday Freethought @EFreethought@universeodon.com

· 6mo ago

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@davidgerard@circumstances.run The "undercover" mode is interesting. If Anthropic doesn't want people to know they themselves are using Claude to contribute to repos, why should the rest of us use it?

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Everyday Freethought @EFreethought@universeodon.com

· 7mo ago

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@davidgerard@circumstances.run I went to the Microsoft website to see if I could send them a message with the word #MicroSlop in it a few times. It turns out you need a MS account just to contact them. I don't know what you are supposed to do if you have issues with your account.

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Everyday Freethought @EFreethought@universeodon.com

· 7mo ago

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@pikesley@mastodon.me.uk "It must be my fault, I must have been holding it wrong" Remember comrade: GenAI cannot fail. It can only be failed.

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Everyday Freethought @EFreethought@universeodon.com

· 7mo ago

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@gudenau@hachyderm.io "Language comes from intelligence and not vice versa" is the best summary of the limitations of LLMs that I have read.

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Everyday Freethought @EFreethought@universeodon.com

· 7mo ago

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@Taco_lad @Em0nM4stodon I think things for OpenAI and Anthropic will end one of two ways: They collapse under all their debt, or they raise their prices through the roof. Either way, anyone who has made themselves or their processes dependent upon them will be in a serious bind.

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Everyday Freethought @EFreethought@universeodon.com

· 7mo ago

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@GrimmReality To paraphrase the Bible: Is the AI here for man, or is man here for the AI?

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Everyday Freethought @EFreethought@universeodon.com

· 8mo ago

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@cryptadamist@universeodon.com @donaldball@triangletoot.party @davidgerard@circumstances.run I am getting the impression that Epstein was into playing games with money (using the skills he got a Bear Stearns) before trafficking.

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Everyday Freethought @EFreethought@universeodon.com

· 8mo ago

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@Palleas@mastodon.social wrt racism: I am a straight white guy, and I am afraid to get back in touch with a lot of old friends because I might not like what I hear. Arguing with some of my own relatives is bad enough.

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Everyday Freethought @EFreethought@universeodon.com

· 5mo ago

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@nomenloony @ChrisMayLA6 Would you be willing to explain how you poison AI?

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Everyday Freethought @EFreethought@universeodon.com

· 7mo ago

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@molly0xfff WRT Saylor: When someone connected to Epstein thinks you are too much of a creep, that is saying something.

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Everyday Freethought @EFreethought@universeodon.com

· 6mo ago

Looking at moving to #Canada/ https://www.everydayfreethought.info/2026/04/08/looking-at-moving-to-canada/

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Everyday Freethought @EFreethought@universeodon.com

· 7mo ago

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@jwz@mastodon.social If we wait long enough, that one might turn out to be an actual headline.

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Everyday Freethought @EFreethought@universeodon.com

· 8mo ago

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@jmcunx@mastodon.sdf.org @GossiTheDog@cyberplace.social If the Fairphone 6 is available in the US, I just might get one. I would rather get a phone with the OS pre-installed than install it myself.

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Everyday Freethought @EFreethought@universeodon.com

· 5mo ago

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@benjaminrancourt@zirk.us @zzt@mas.to To paraphrase the Bible: Does the AI exist for man, or does man exist for the AI?

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Everyday Freethought @EFreethought@universeodon.com

· 6mo ago

A month ago gas was $2.49/gal. Today it was $3.69/gal.

#GasPrices #TiredOfWinningYet

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Everyday Freethought @EFreethought@universeodon.com

· 7mo ago

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@jaykuo@universeodon.com How does the "equal time" rule apply to Fox, NewsMax and OAN?

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Everyday Freethought @EFreethought@universeodon.com

· 6mo ago

I am seeing a lot of signs at gas stations for $3.99/gallon. It is pretty rare for this many stations to have the same price.

I think a lot of stations are letting higher costs eat into their profits hoping something will resolve the Iran crisis, and none of them want to be the first one to have a sign starting with "4".

#GasPrices #UnderTrumpGasPricesStink

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Everyday Freethought @EFreethought@universeodon.com

· 5mo ago

Blue States Need To Stop Disarming Their Citizens https://www.everydayfreethought.info/2026/04/16/blue-states-need-to-stop-disarming-their-citizens/ #Guns #liberalgunowners

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Everyday Freethought @EFreethought@universeodon.com

· 7mo ago

Replying to on hachyderm.io

@molly0xfff@hachyderm.io Given that disagreements about money is a leading cause of divorce, I cannot understand why anyone would want to give an AI agent control of their money.

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Everyday Freethought @EFreethought@universeodon.com

· 6mo ago

Mnemonic for the chakra beej mantras: Lazy veterinarians ruined your horse autopsy again.

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Everyday Freethought @EFreethought@universeodon.com

· 6mo ago

STEM majors: Can tell you what's in your drink.
Humanities majors: Can tell you the history of your drink.
Business majors: Trying to put a roofie in your drink.

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Everyday Freethought @EFreethought@universeodon.com

· 8mo ago

Post for new #LiberalGunOwners on whether or not they can avoid crazy conservatives as they start their #Guns journey https://www.everydayfreethought.info/2026/01/28/preliminary-gun-question-from-liberals-on-avoiding-bs/

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Everyday Freethought @EFreethought@universeodon.com

· 7mo ago

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@dancingtreefrog@mastodon.social @Daojoan@mastodon.social I should point out I don't think I came up with "more bad advice", but I have no idea where I could have picked it up.

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