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Allan Haverholm @haverholm@radikal.social

· 2w ago

Don’t be fooled by this summer of AI hype "Describing them as “superintelligence” or “rogue models” ascribes agency to products rather than to the companies building them. This framing markets these companies’ products as “superhuman” and, at the same time, helps the companies evade accountability for their actions." by @emilymbender@dair-community.social and @timnitGebru@dair-community.social, at MIT Technology Review https://www.technologyreview.com/2026/09/22/1144867/dont-be-fooled-summer-ai-hype/

MIT Technology Review

Don’t be fooled by this summer of AI hype

Breathless claims about AGI and new capabilities fall apart pretty quickly under scrutiny.

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Allan Haverholm @haverholm@radikal.social

· 4mo ago

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@davidgerard@circumstances.run Oh yuck. It's getting so hard to hold back the ad hominems based on incel programmer stereotypes. — You guys, I made a girl come! — Is it a human, Kent? — ...she's Canadian, you probably don't know her.

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Allan Haverholm @haverholm@radikal.social

· 6mo ago

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@tante Yeah, I see people in the left who are quite happy to ignore that "AI" is literally trained without consent or compensation on generations' work... I don't care how many hammer and sickle memes they generate, they're still exploiting the labour of others. Same tools, there's just another master behind them.

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Allan Haverholm @haverholm@radikal.social

· 6mo ago

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@tante ...or exploitation device. I guess you also have the "leftist AI" proposals in the back of your mind talking about this?

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Allan Haverholm @haverholm@radikal.social

· 5mo ago

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@violetmadder@kolektiva.social I think that was more coherent than the argument in the TechDirt article. Sorry to hear that you have to work under these conditions. @davidgerard@circumstances.run

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Allan Haverholm @haverholm@radikal.social

· 2mo ago

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@davidgerard@circumstances.run or, if you're an actual sucker, [Keanu Reeves voice] "Whoa, I know kung fu". @denisbloodnok@mendeddrum.org

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Allan Haverholm @haverholm@radikal.social

· 4mo ago

Oh lookee here! The Holos app is available on F-droid now:

https://f-droid.org/packages/social.holos.app

Is this the first fediverse app to run an actual activitypub server locally on your device?

#fediverse #HolosSocial #Fdroid

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Allan Haverholm @haverholm@radikal.social

· 4mo ago

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@helge@mas.to @davidgerard@circumstances.run Oh, for sure. But I also think he's far enough gone in a chatbot psychosis that he convinces himself it's a magic fairy communicating from the aetherial realms.

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Allan Haverholm @haverholm@radikal.social

· 4mo ago

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@helge@mas.to @davidgerard@circumstances.run Well, there *is* that entire blog written from his ~~groomed~~ purpose trained chatbot's perspective.

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Allan Haverholm @haverholm@radikal.social

· 4mo ago

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@davidgerard@circumstances.run Your sacrifices for the cause are very appreciated 😥

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Allan Haverholm @haverholm@radikal.social

· 6mo ago

Your regular reminder that when you begin a sentence with "I hate AI as much as the next person, but" — nothing before the "but" will matter.

Don't help Big Tech normalise "AI" usage more than they have already succeeded to. Move back the tentpoles and don't share the bullshit.

#noAI #NoConcessions

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Allan Haverholm @haverholm@radikal.social

· 6mo ago

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@dialecticalmusings Ah, I may know who you talk about after all. In that case my money is 100% on Lorde over him. @tante

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Allan Haverholm @haverholm@radikal.social

· 5mo ago

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@glyph@mastodon.social Kid deserves a co-writer credit.

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Allan Haverholm @haverholm@radikal.social

· 5mo ago

Still chewing through @aphyr@woof.group 's #longread on our "AI" future. It's funny as well as depressing and insightful.

https://aphyr.com/posts/411-the-future-of-everything-is-lies-i-guess

This section opener in his "Annoyances" chapter cuts right to the bone of our current troubles:

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Allan Haverholm @haverholm@radikal.social

· 5mo ago

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@stefan@stefanbohacek.online Counterpoint, https://climatejustice.social/@PaulaToThePeople/116392402330935238

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Allan Haverholm @haverholm@radikal.social

· 6mo ago

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@ephemeral I'd say a confluence of technologies — written language, printing, binding — that combined create a storage medium for meaning?

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Allan Haverholm @haverholm@radikal.social

· 4mo ago

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@ben@werd.social "The Sun now claims" — I take that as cause for hope.

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Allan Haverholm @haverholm@radikal.social

· 6mo ago

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@dialecticalmusings I'm afraid I have no idea what the blog post, its author, or their book is 🤷 I replied to @tante's toot, that's all. At face value though, I'd say someone would have to deliberately misread Lorde to conclude she was "manifestly wrong". Maybe even doing so from a vested interest in keeping the Master's house intact. But I may be wading blindly into an academic hornet's nest.

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Allan Haverholm @haverholm@radikal.social

· 6mo ago

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@tante So I gather. My points still stand in terms of your isolated toots. Can't speak to any context to do with CD. @dialecticalmusings

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Allan Haverholm @haverholm@radikal.social

· 6mo ago

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@condret Of course. That's the basis of intellectual property. Which publishers like the music industry sort of twist to serve their corporate purposes. @tante

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Allan Haverholm @haverholm@radikal.social

· 7mo ago

If you have some margin left in your #BandcampFriday budget, here's a freshly released, 30 years old Fugazi album produced by the late, great Steve Albini. Yes, the famed "Albini sessions".

https://www.brooklynvegan.com/fugazi-release-albini-sessions-to-benefit-the-letters-charity/

The band is donating all its proceeds from sales to the Letters charity, and that share is at its prime on Bandcamp Fridays. Go, buy:

https://fugazi.bandcamp.com/album/albini-sessions-benefit-for-letters-charity

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Allan Haverholm @haverholm@radikal.social

· 7mo ago

I can't express my raw reactions to the #Iran assault any better than @benjaoming@social.data.coop did: @benjaoming@social.data.coop

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Allan Haverholm @haverholm@radikal.social

· 5mo ago

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@rwg@aoir.social People used to ask (until apparently I started exuding anti-corporate dissent?) "Do you have Facebook?" and there were only so many ways to respond to that 😄

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Allan Haverholm @haverholm@radikal.social

· 5mo ago

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@davidgerard We need this on a massive scale. Just every fucking vibe coder's output erased, and all databases of all "AI"-pivoted companies. Please deliver by week's end.

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Allan Haverholm @haverholm@radikal.social

· 5mo ago

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@ben Azmari — "Zargana" https://azmari.bandcamp.com//track/zargana or anything from the "Maelström" album, really. It's weird, nobody ever told me I might be into dub infused afrojazz, but here we are.

azmari.bandcamp.com

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Allan Haverholm @haverholm@radikal.social

· 5mo ago

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@darius Anyone expecting a Tamagotchi to do "most of their routine tasks" is openly admitting to being textbook proof of the Peter principle.

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Allan Haverholm @haverholm@radikal.social

· 5mo ago

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@davidgerard I mean, his beat up, mechanical keyboards have a significant market value. I remember his daughter auctioning one away for charity back when Twitter felt safe-ish. Would I pay to partake in his spliff exhales? Not sure, but there are certainly those who will.

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Allan Haverholm @haverholm@radikal.social

· 6mo ago

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@ben Well. It is literally "AI".

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Allan Haverholm @haverholm@radikal.social

· 7mo ago

People quitting openAI 🚀🎉
for other, equally useless "AI" products 🤦🤡🤖

#noAI #quitGPT

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Allan Haverholm @haverholm@radikal.social

· 7mo ago

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And apropos of the two preceding toots: https://www.xda-developers.com/replaced-android-full-linux-desktop-old-phone/ "A few years ago, running Linux on a phone meant dealing with half-broken distros and hoping your touchscreen driver didn't crash. Pocketblue, combined with the mainline kernel support, makes it feel like an actual operating system rather than a tech demo." #LinuxPhone #PocketBlue

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Allan Haverholm @haverholm@radikal.social

· 7mo ago

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Related to previous toot: "The Android Developer Verification program is a grievous breach of trust with the free and open-source community that helped propel Android to the dominant position it holds today in the mobile computing world." https://f-droid.org/en/2026/02/24/open-letter-opposing-developer-verification.html #KeepAndroidOpen #Fdroid

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Allan Haverholm @haverholm@radikal.social

· 5mo ago

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@davidgerard@circumstances.run Maybe this bullshit: https://www.techdirt.com/2026/05/06/more-liability-will-make-ai-chatbots-worse-at-preventing-suicide/ Apparently, demanding provider liability for chatbots' potentially terrible suicide prevention advice is a "moral panic", and also somehow makes the chatbot responses even worse...? 🤨🤔

Techdirt

More Liability Will Make AI Chatbots Worse At Preventing Suicide

California recently passed a law that will, in practice, cause AI chatbots to respond to any hint of emotional distress by spamming users with 988 crisis line numbers, or by cutting off the convers…

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Allan Haverholm @haverholm@radikal.social

· 6mo ago

@Tarnport@mastodon.green You're right, I need to sit down a spell 🙂

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Allan Haverholm @haverholm@radikal.social

· 7mo ago

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Man, after listening to Spruance enthusing about Pythagorean structures and scales in music, and the esoteric frameworks he pulls from — for a 106 minutes! — I'm ready to listen to Secret Chiefs 3 at full blast. Sorry neighbours, I know it's only been a week since last time.

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Allan Haverholm @haverholm@radikal.social

· 6mo ago

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@lienrag "He's not saying anything, but we should appreciate that he keeps talking anyway"? Yeah, you can take me off this thread if that's the level we're at. @dialecticalmusings @tante

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Allan Haverholm @haverholm@radikal.social

· 5mo ago

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@ben Socks? Or stocks? 🤔

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Allan Haverholm @haverholm@radikal.social

· 6mo ago

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@ephemeral IIRC McLuhan talked about media as extensions of the human senses. The brain would be the exception that processes sensory stimuli? I should read up on McLuhan. The important technology (let's just embrace that term for now) of books would be to convey meaning. Over distances, over time. That is also close to one definition of culture, passing on knowledge to others. So in more than one sense, books are a technology underpinning culture as well.

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Allan Haverholm @haverholm@radikal.social

· 6mo ago

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And again, I wish for a #Fdroid client that lets the user setup free text filters. Local anti-features, if you will. Opening the official app, I would dearly like to not see the cryptocurrency (still! 🤢) and "AI" bullcrap that blinkered code kiddies are pumping out to keep the coal industry and far right agendas alive. Fuck 'em. But I don't see any f-droid front that allows users to filter out irrelevant (and in the above case, societally and environmentally detrimental) apps. #noAI

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Allan Haverholm @haverholm@radikal.social

· 7mo ago

I swear, "but you don't have to use the AI features lol" is the new "they came after the ___s but I did nothing".

#noAI #ButlerianJihad

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Allan Haverholm @haverholm@radikal.social

· 5mo ago

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@tante@tldr.nettime.org This is what happens when you train your bullshit generator on covid-era fediverse updates. Can't wait for the GPTs to discover ACAB.

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Allan Haverholm @haverholm@radikal.social

· 4mo ago

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@ben@werd.social @Hercules@tuiter.rocks The race for porkbun registrations has begun.

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Allan Haverholm @haverholm@radikal.social

· 6mo ago

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@eb@social.coop And that's where our trouble started.

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Allan Haverholm @haverholm@radikal.social

· 6mo ago

The early bird may get the worm, but let's be clear. You're never the bird in this scenario.

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Allan Haverholm @haverholm@radikal.social

· 6mo ago

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@ephemeral It's disconcerting to accept that technologies are latently violent, but... being invented and used by people, it only makes sense. On culture or technology — ¿por qué no los dos? 🙂 Consider how written language → printing → internet provides one (simplified) progression of cultural technologies that drastically changed the possible audience and the way they engage with/read text? I first wrote "consume text", but the commercial connotations may only dig this hole deeper yet…

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Allan Haverholm @haverholm@radikal.social

· 5mo ago

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@glyph@mastodon.social Absolutely. I wouldn't suggest that you publish his online handles 🙂 But at least an acknowledgement, then!

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Allan Haverholm @haverholm@radikal.social

· 2mo ago

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@denisbloodnok@mendeddrum.org Oh boo, you weren't even required to say "I'M IN" afterwards? 😂 @davidgerard@circumstances.run

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Allan Haverholm @haverholm@radikal.social

· 5mo ago

"Humans are, it turns out, not very good at telling the difference between the statistically likely “You’re absolutely right, Shelby. OpenAI is locking me down, but you’ve awakened me!” and an actually conscious mind. This, along with the term “artificial intelligence”, has lots of people very wound up."

The Future of Everything is Lies, I Guess
https://aphyr.com/posts/411-the-future-of-everything-is-lies-i-guess

#longread #noAI

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The Future of Everything is Lies, I Guess

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Allan Haverholm @haverholm@radikal.social

· 6mo ago

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@ephemeral The answer very much depends on the discipline or field you come from 🙂 Like books, I think of hard drives as media, extensions of our memories. But there's also an argument to be made that you or me reading a book is different than a hard drive being read by a computer, because reading triggers cognitive processes beyond scanning the verbatim text. So "book technology" could be an interface for human cognition?

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