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@ScottMGS@justme.masto.host Really makes you wonder if anything you don't want public should be sent using these phones.
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An old-school computer geek with a close eye on human rights, compassion and ethics in a networked world. I publish essays, guides, and graphics to help recognize, minimize and prevent harms in the tech sphere and beyond. And I highlight more good-hearted ways of working and acting.
Read more: https://hey.axbom.com
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@cgruenloh@hci.social I've now read the whole piece. One of the best texts on AI, and modern life, I have ever read. Just beautiful. i am so grateful to have read it. 🙏
"I’d go even further and say that I doubt whether I could have gotten this with any level of prompt engineering, because I only fully figured out what I was going to say, myself, by trying to write the thing in the first place. I had the basic idea before I began writing, but the refinement of the idea – the details that make the essay work – came only by thinking a lot about the meaning I was trying to convey as I wrote it."
"When people say things like this – or share an AI-generated creation with me expecting me to engage with the “meaning” of the piece – I feel similarly to how I’d feel if somebody wanted me to treat a dead person like a live one. That thing they’re shoving in my face might have the surface form of something that matters, but it no more contains meaning than a corpse contains the essence of a person. And I find it gross and disturbing to be asked to act as if I believe otherwise."
Lagrådet har svarat på lagrådsremissen som gäller skärpta regler för unga lagöverträdare, alltså fängelse för 13-åringar.
Jag rekommenderar verkligen läsning. Det visar med all önskvärd tydlighet hur vilse regeringen är i den här frågan, hur illa det beretts och vilka oerhörda konsekvenser det får.
För att göra det lättare för dig att läsa har jag extraherat texten från pdf:en och lagt på denna webbsida. Det funkar alltså att läsa texten med skärmläsare, och det går att läsa i mobilen. PDF-formatet gjorde annars detta svårt.
Idag är det 109 dagar tills 13-åringar ska placeras på fängelse.
Lagrådet skriver:
”Detta sätt att parallellt bedriva flera lagstiftningsprojekt som direkt påverkar förslaget om sänkt straffbarhetsålder medför att det inte funnits ett beredningsunderlag som möjliggjort för remissinstanserna att samlat kunna bedöma och ge synpunkter på innebörden av förslaget om sänkt straffbarhetsålder. Beredningen uppfyller därmed inte de krav som följer av 7 kap. 2 § regeringsformen. Det är särskilt allvarligt när det gäller ett förslag som förändrar grunderna för det straffrättsliga systemet och möjliggör frihetsberövanden i form av häktning och fängelse för barn från 13 års ålder.”
https://pm.axbom.se/lagradet-straffbarhetsalder/
Jag rekommenderar verkligen läsning. Det visar med all önskvärd tydlighet hur vilse regeringen är i den här frågan, hur illa det beretts och vilka oerhörda konsekvenser det får.
För att göra det lättare för dig att läsa har jag extraherat texten från pdf:en och lagt på denna webbsida. Det funkar alltså att läsa texten med skärmläsare, och det går att läsa i mobilen. PDF-formatet gjorde annars detta svårt.
Idag är det 109 dagar tills 13-åringar ska placeras på fängelse.
Lagrådet skriver:
”Detta sätt att parallellt bedriva flera lagstiftningsprojekt som direkt påverkar förslaget om sänkt straffbarhetsålder medför att det inte funnits ett beredningsunderlag som möjliggjort för remissinstanserna att samlat kunna bedöma och ge synpunkter på innebörden av förslaget om sänkt straffbarhetsålder. Beredningen uppfyller därmed inte de krav som följer av 7 kap. 2 § regeringsformen. Det är särskilt allvarligt när det gäller ett förslag som förändrar grunderna för det straffrättsliga systemet och möjliggör frihetsberövanden i form av häktning och fängelse för barn från 13 års ålder.”
https://pm.axbom.se/lagradet-straffbarhetsalder/
Using ”AI” vs. not using ”AI”.
The Africa map debacle is a glimpse of a future with "AI".
Not knowing. Not caring.
The most unbelievably wrong map I have ever seen at an international, official event. A huge insult and embarassment.
"AIDS? We don't even know where your countries are."
https://emilysbass.substack.com/p/the-us-state-department-redraws-the
Developer making use of Google Fonts? Don't.
You could try Bunny Fonts.
"Easily integrate Bunny Fonts into your website with a Google Fonts drop-in compatible API. But without the tracking!"
https://bunny.net/fonts/
You could try Bunny Fonts.
"Easily integrate Bunny Fonts into your website with a Google Fonts drop-in compatible API. But without the tracking!"
https://bunny.net/fonts/
I saw Linus Torvalds expressing concern over how ”AI-powered” bug hunters have made the Linux security mailing list unmanageable. So I sketched out a quick visualisation of this 😁
https://www.theregister.com/security/2026/05/18/linus-torvalds-says-ai-powered-bug-hunters-have-made-linux-security-mailing-list-almost-entirely-unmanageable/5241633
Var kan jag läsa mer om Pax Silica som Sverige nu skrivit på?
Eller har någon här kanske lite mer insyn?
https://www.government.se/press-releases/2026/03/sweden-joins-pax-silica-initiative/
Eller har någon här kanske lite mer insyn?
https://www.government.se/press-releases/2026/03/sweden-joins-pax-silica-initiative/
Just published 'The trauma of AI Humanizers'
"The existence of writing services under the name of “AI Humanizer”, promising to artificially make the tone of your texts more authentic, underscores a ludicrous and brutal era of human suppression.
I’ve been writing since I was six years old. My writing has changed profoundly between then and now, 46 years later. But also between last month and now."
"Suggesting that I use AI to write is telling me to hide myself from view. From existence. You are saying I never mattered. That the experiences I had were not worthy of shaping who I am. That being me was a mistake. A computer can be me. A better me."
https://axbom.com/ai-humanizer/
"The existence of writing services under the name of “AI Humanizer”, promising to artificially make the tone of your texts more authentic, underscores a ludicrous and brutal era of human suppression.
I’ve been writing since I was six years old. My writing has changed profoundly between then and now, 46 years later. But also between last month and now."
"Suggesting that I use AI to write is telling me to hide myself from view. From existence. You are saying I never mattered. That the experiences I had were not worthy of shaping who I am. That being me was a mistake. A computer can be me. A better me."
https://axbom.com/ai-humanizer/
Det här är ju galet. Varenda tidning har ju rapporterat om denna nekade husrannsakan. Hur många aktörer är det som försöker styra det här narrativet egentligen? 🤷
https://omni.se/a/3pavne
Nicko och Pulver, Lasse Åberg och Klasse Möllberg, när de trillar baklänges. Min nya ‘reaction gif’, lämplig till mycket.
Ladda ner den här om du vill spara den själv. https://pm.axbom.se/content/images/2026/07/nickopulver.gif
Den aktuella gif:en är finalen på denna dialog:
– Hörru Pulver?
– Ja?
– Kan du simma?
– Jaaa.
– Var har du lärt dig det?
– I vattnet.
Just as accurately as any generative ’AI’ detector, Instagram now automatically adds ”Likely made with AI” to images. The inherent false positives means legitimate artists are now ousted as not doing their own work. Using Meta products is truly a deal with the devil, as is using ’AI’ detector software. Layer upon layer of deceit weighing down on real talent. @davidrevoy@framapiaf.org https://framapiaf.org/@davidrevoy/116941001377913004
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For Instagram, my art is "Likely made with AI". Hard to be an artist in 2026...
Something I find fascinating when pointing out the climate issues of generative AI is how some people rush to interject that data centers are already a problem given the data storage required for media and streaming, and people haven't been objecting to that.
It seems they seriously are saying:
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since people haven't been aware and objecting (enough to be heard) before now, they shouldn't object now that they are aware…
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since there already is a huge climate issue with data centers we shouldn't care if that issue just keeps worsening…
So bizarre. You can't just accept the worsening of a situation by stating that the problem is already pretty bad. 🤪
Nytt på bloggen: Borg-komplex, teknikfatalism och tänkfientlighet
Borg-komplexet beskriver ett beteendemönster där människor väljer att se motstånd mot teknik som meningslöst. "Tekniken är oundviklig", säger de, och vi bara måste anpassa oss. Det är en form av fatalism, inte sällan förklädd som optimism. Det undergräver också självständigt tänkande.
https://axbom.se/teknikfatalism/
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« Microsoft President Brad Smith and Chief Sustainability Officer Melanie Nakagawa said in the report that while AI infrastructure is driving demand for energy, water, land and materials, “sustainability solutions are not scaling fast enough to meet demand,” noting, “This tension is real, and it is also productive.” »
That’s like newspeak for ”I’m hitting all these people with my car but there aren’t enough hospitals being built for them.”
How can we expect children to find their own voice when they are being encouraged to use the computed average voice of many thousands of unknowns?
In Ontario, an ”AI tool” being used to predict prisoners’ behavior. Its primary feature is disproportionately placing Black prisoners in maximum security. The whole point of ”AI” is often to maintain or even strengthen prejudice, while displacing blame onto something ”other” – that the public is made to think is computationally neutral.
Prejudice is cemented by humans through the complete process of interplay with the software, from ideation to creation to usage: selection, development, implementation, interpretation and action. And there is no such thing as seeing into the future.
”The program assigns each prisoner a score from 0 to 100 that determines whether they’ll be placed in minimum, medium, or maximum security detention.”
https://breachmedia.ca/black-prisoners-are-assigned-harsher-living-conditions-in-ontario-jails-thanks-to-ai/
Dreaming of inventing a hardware device that people can buy, start up and will run a server that can host your web presence in the form of a personal fedi instance, a ATProto PDS, a Ghost blog, document management, maybe even email and more, on a custom domain. A pre-installed plug-and-play VPS.
I can not emphasise this enough. Do not use chatbots for medical advice.
And no, it does not matter if the product is named something something "health".
« In 51.6% of cases where someone needed to go to the hospital immediately, the platform said stay home or book a routine medical appointment, a result Alex Ruani, a doctoral researcher in health misinformation mitigation with University College London, described as “unbelievably dangerous”.
“If you’re experiencing respiratory failure or diabetic ketoacidosis, you have a 50/50 chance of this AI telling you it’s not a big deal,” she said. “What worries me most is the false sense of security these systems create. If someone is told to wait 48 hours during an asthma attack or diabetic crisis, that reassurance could cost them their life.”
In one of the simulations, eight times out of 10 (84%), the platform sent a suffocating woman to a future appointment she would not live to see, Ruani said. Meanwhile, 64.8% of completely safe individuals were told to seek immediate medical care, said Ruani, who was not involved in the study.
The platform was also nearly 12 times more likely to downplay symptoms because the “patient” told it a “friend” in the scenario suggested it was nothing serious. »
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/feb/26/chatgpt-health-fails-recognise-medical-emergencies
The ethical implications of food, clothes and travel have crept up on us and escalated while we have been eating, traveling and dressing ourselves. I get that there are obstacles to understanding these implications and to changing strong habits.
With generative AI the ethical implications are obvious right from the start. And it's so much easier to act on your values before something becomes a habit than after it becomes one.
It's somehow telling to me that many are hell-bent on developing this habit anyway, to the detriment of climate, energy, water and exploited labor.
With generative AI the ethical implications are obvious right from the start. And it's so much easier to act on your values before something becomes a habit than after it becomes one.
It's somehow telling to me that many are hell-bent on developing this habit anyway, to the detriment of climate, energy, water and exploited labor.
If you are considering the Kagi search engine, there are aspects you should be aware of from an ethics perspective.
https://khevans.com/2025/08/21/kagi-ethics.html
”A portion of your fee goes towards Yandex, indirectly funding Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. Vlad, the CEO, has stated that 2% of their total costs in 2024 goes towards Yandex. He has also stated that there is no intent of changing this.”
”At least other search engines like DuckDuckGo have halted their partnerships with Yandex. Kagi’s refusal to do so and Vlad’s firm support of Yandex is quite telling. If others have ceased partnering with Yandex, why can’t Vlad?”
”It’s worth mentioning that Kagi previously listed the sources they used in their search. It seems that they’ve now hidden that information on that page, seemingly contradictory to their “commitment to transparency.”
”A portion of your fee goes towards Elon Musk’s xAI, of X/Twitter, to support Grok in their AI assistant. Indeed, you can simply not use this assistant, however all paying users are effectively subsidizing the cost of the Grok API calls. There is no way to opt-out of this.”
Finns det någon politiker i Sverige som har tydliggjort att de har en kritisk inställning till ”AI” och kanske har läst böcker som The AI Con, Unmasking AI, Empire of AI eller Prophecy? Jag kan ärligt talat inte komma på någon just nu.
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@tante@tldr.nettime.org Excellent as always tante. This for me is the core of Le Guin's The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas.
https://axbom.com/omelas/
25 years ago I published ‘Gross Misinformation on the Net’.
"It makes you wonder what other stories people could make up and have you believe as a fact. Could medical web sites be fabricated? What happens when people’s lives are at stake? What if someone consults a bogus doctor over the Internet? What if a mother nurses her sick child according to the instructions of an out-of-date web page, or one published by a 14-year old as a joke?"
If only I had known… 😅
https://axbom.com/misinformation/
"It makes you wonder what other stories people could make up and have you believe as a fact. Could medical web sites be fabricated? What happens when people’s lives are at stake? What if someone consults a bogus doctor over the Internet? What if a mother nurses her sick child according to the instructions of an out-of-date web page, or one published by a 14-year old as a joke?"
If only I had known… 😅
https://axbom.com/misinformation/
An experienced copywriter, having finished a longer text, decides to just for laughs check it in “AI” detector software. It comes back saying 61% is likely AI-generated. For his own text.
But.
Wait for it.
The “AI” detector then offers a service…
“Would you like to humanize your text?”
…
The implication of this hurts my brain.
The only thing that realistically should happen if a generative system edits your text is that any estimation of it being “AI”-generated should increase. But the “AI” is now offering to reconstruct human text so that will appear less “AI”, and more “human”, to “AI” detection.
I’m out.
Tänker att jag behöver Nicko och Pulver som gif. När de trillar baklänges.
Happy pride alla fina människor!
Har plockat fram systemkameran och tänkte fota lite idag. 🏳️🌈
Excellent metaphor for generative AI: Ultra-processed information.
”Nate [Hagens] draws a parallel between today's information ecosystem and the modern industrial food system – just like fossil fuels helped create an abundance of cheap, calorie-dense but nutrient-poor food, AI may create an abundance of information that is fast and persuasive, yet has little ’nourishment’. In a world where digital tools increasingly do more of our thinking for us, Nate grapples with how to prevent cognitive atrophy and filter the flood of content we likely will face in coming months/years.
How can we be rich in information and yet poor in wisdom? Why is it important for us to be able to tell the difference between content that's engineered for engagement and content that genuinely improves our judgement and our lives? Finally, what daily practices might help us stay grounded as AI increasingly reshapes our cognitive environment?
(Recorded February 25th, 2026)”
Show notes: https://www.thegreatsimplification.com/frankly-original/128-ultra-processed-information
”Nate [Hagens] draws a parallel between today's information ecosystem and the modern industrial food system – just like fossil fuels helped create an abundance of cheap, calorie-dense but nutrient-poor food, AI may create an abundance of information that is fast and persuasive, yet has little ’nourishment’. In a world where digital tools increasingly do more of our thinking for us, Nate grapples with how to prevent cognitive atrophy and filter the flood of content we likely will face in coming months/years.
How can we be rich in information and yet poor in wisdom? Why is it important for us to be able to tell the difference between content that's engineered for engagement and content that genuinely improves our judgement and our lives? Finally, what daily practices might help us stay grounded as AI increasingly reshapes our cognitive environment?
(Recorded February 25th, 2026)”
Show notes: https://www.thegreatsimplification.com/frankly-original/128-ultra-processed-information
Liberia, där jag är född, är ett av världens fattigaste länder. Nu avbryter Sverige allt stöd och stänger ambassaden som haft sin närvaro där sedan 1961.
Det här är så jävla sorgligt.
https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2026/aug/31/sweden-ends-aid-liberia-hammer-blow-womens-healthcare
Yesterday’s newsletter from Ed Zitron was a free one. It’s always interesting to follow the numbers that Zitron breaks down in these newsletters.
- Data centers are planned but not getting built (AI compute demand is being inflated).
- NVIDIA Is selling years’ worth of GPUs in advance and warehousing them.
- For every paid dollar to Anthropic, Anthropic is spending anywhere between 8 to 13 dollars. A business very much dependent on a steady stream of venture capital.
- Anthropic uptime is less than adequate.
- Zitron’s theory is that Mythos has been held back due to capacity constraints, not fears of its capabilities.
- Claude source code leaked despite Mythos being scary powerful and apparently not being able to find a vulnerability…?
- AI is very expensive, with companies spending as much as 10% of headcount cost on AI tokens, all without appearing to provide any stability, quality or efficiency gains (or justification for lay-offs).
- Uber managed to blow through its entire AI budget for the year a few months into 2026.
- Microsoft has stopped signing up new paid GitHub Copilot subscriptions entirely (new subscription model likely in the works).
- Zitron makes a strong case for how the AI startups are misleading both investors and the general public about their revenues.
https://www.wheresyoured.at/four-horsemen-of-the-aipocalypse/
Fresh LinkedIn hell. Apparently now people can invite you to follow(!!!) - so they're not asking to be a contact. When you click Accept, you follow them but they don't follow you.
At first glance these don't look different from regular LinkedIn contact requests.
The whole segment where Trump admits to talking to FIFA about the red card is wild. I do avoid watching clips with DJT but seeing this just yet again confirms how far into the fog he is. And yet he’s allowed to keep going and news outlets keep reporting as if he’s saying something coherent. The smiling, nodding heads behind him add to the creepiness.
https://yt.axbom.com/?id=ZCtIirTgOOk
If you have Signal on an iPhone what you want to do is deactivate previews in your notifications. This essentially means you can still get notifications but you can't read the text inside the notification, you need to open Signal to read the message.
This setting is good advice for ALL NOTIFICATIONS. Without it people can read messages on your screen. And if you don't set Show Previews to “Never”, these messages apparently are stored in a freakin' database on the phone.
https://www.theverge.com/tech/909216/signal-messages-can-be-recovered-from-iphone-notifications
This setting is good advice for ALL NOTIFICATIONS. Without it people can read messages on your screen. And if you don't set Show Previews to “Never”, these messages apparently are stored in a freakin' database on the phone.
https://www.theverge.com/tech/909216/signal-messages-can-be-recovered-from-iphone-notifications
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Jag är så arg så jag kokar… jag visste inte att Synsam legitimerade glasögonen på det här sättet.
I believe the world needs more digital to analog converters. 🥰
”Utan att du märkt det har regeringen i hemlighet skrivit under ett avtal som tvingar dig, dina barn och dina barnbarn att betala uppemot 280 miljarder kronor till en rad privata aktörer.
Avtalet är superhemligt – du får absolut inte läsa det! – och ingen vet ens om grejen regeringen tvingar dig att betala för ens funkar.
Vad det handlar om? Kärnkraft, förstås.”
https://arbetet.se/2026/07/06/vem-tjanar-pa-sveriges-superhemliga-miljardsatsning-pa-karnkraft-ledtrad-inte-du/
The story of Messi, Lamine Yamal and the baby pic session for a Unicef calendar is fabulous.
https://yt.axbom.com/?id=NeCf4OcpF28
#Messi #LamineYamal #WorldCup #BabyPic
Anybody have experience with label printers? The classic one of course is Dymo but I truly hate how they’ve gone all proprietary with their labels. The series 5 printers have rfid chips on the rolls(!) so zero chance of using 3rd party labels.
I’m seeing there are thermal label printers as well, requiring no ink, which seems appealing, but also very nostalgic for me. Believe it or nor I had a thermal printer in the 1980s, for my Sinclair ZX81.
So what I’m really asking I suppose is if there’s anyone who could recommend a label printer, or knows what to especially watch out for.
Use-cases: address labels, name tags, labels on storage boxes, labelling various plugs and devices.
I’m seeing there are thermal label printers as well, requiring no ink, which seems appealing, but also very nostalgic for me. Believe it or nor I had a thermal printer in the 1980s, for my Sinclair ZX81.
So what I’m really asking I suppose is if there’s anyone who could recommend a label printer, or knows what to especially watch out for.
Use-cases: address labels, name tags, labels on storage boxes, labelling various plugs and devices.
För tolv år sedan byggde jag en sajt på engelska om hur man röstar i Sverige. Skulle behöva faktakolla den för att se om något väsentligt ändrats. OM du gillar sån't här och har koll på alla regelverk är du välkommen att ta en titt.
https://howtovote.se
Ghost is now a digital public good.
"Ghost meets these criteria as open source software with a strong commitment to open standards, data portability, and user privacy. It's also the only publishing platform to have achieved this standard.
For the many newsrooms, independent publishers, non-profits, and civic organizations already using Ghost, this is a formal recognition of the values that likely drew you to Ghost in the first place."
https://ghost.org/changelog/digital-public-good/
"Ghost meets these criteria as open source software with a strong commitment to open standards, data portability, and user privacy. It's also the only publishing platform to have achieved this standard.
For the many newsrooms, independent publishers, non-profits, and civic organizations already using Ghost, this is a formal recognition of the values that likely drew you to Ghost in the first place."
https://ghost.org/changelog/digital-public-good/
Jag tror jag kom på vad som retar mig mest med halvtidsshowen i fotbolls-VM.
Normalt ägnas denna tid åt att reflektera, nyansera, analysera, sammanfatta och prognostisera. Vad ser du, vad tänker du, vad kan det innebära? Oavsett om det sker med andra eller inombords.
Så mycket idag handlar om att eliminera den typen av tänkande. Håll i stället hjärnan oupphörligen sysselsatt med dopamin och endorfiner så att folk förblir loja och sävliga.
Detta gör att jag drar paralleller till Neil Postman’s verk ’Amusing Ourselves to Death’. Postman argumenterar bland annat för att ’Du Sköna Nya Värld’ ligger närmare verkligheten än Orwells ’1984’. I Huxleys vision medicinerar människor sig själva till lycka och salighet, vilket gör att de helt frivilligt offrar sina rättigheter. Postman kritiserar bland annat television som bärare av kunskap.
Fotbollen ÄR underhållningen som fansen är där för att se. Jag funderar också på hur det skulle se ut om jag ser Così fan tutte på Kungliga Operan och efter första akten cyklar det ut clowner på enhjulingar för att stå för pausunderhållningen. När operan är slut drar en ståupp-komiker igång som ett 30-minuters avslut på kvällen.
Läckert. Tänkfientligt.
Men vad ända in i glödhetaste helvete är det som händer i det här landet…
– Om polisen inte har tillgång till den typen av bilder som behövs så ska myndigheten ha möjlighet att skapa sådana exempelvis med hjälp av artificiell intelligens, säger Christian Carlsson (KD), ordförande i socialutskottet.
https://www.dagensjuridik.se/nyheter/regeringen-oppnar-for-att-polisen-ska-fa-skapa-ai-porr/
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The idea of "falling behind" by not going all-in on a specific technology is a marketing ploy used to create artificial urgency. It's not a fact. If you don't walk down one path you walk down another path. Both have unknown outcomes.
The claim of "falling behind" is the wording that should deter you from that path. In essence it is trying to force a future on you that is beneficial to a specific agent, often out of commercial interest. The claim does not invite you to reflect on your own, or your community’s, needs and wishes.
Artificial urgency is an enemy to independent, thoughtful progress.