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ophiocephalic 🐍

@ophiocephalic@kolektiva.social
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Do you like my selfie? Let's build the commune!

Towards a Free Fediverse beyond capitalist enclosure and the growth-at-all-costs pathology #FreeFediverse #FediPact #DefederateMeta

Selfie alt-text: A friendly tree frog hangs out on a rock, while sporting a lovely hairdo comprised of two snails, one on each side of his head

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Joined November 19, 2022
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ophiocephalic 🐍 @ophiocephalic@kolektiva.social
· 5mo ago
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The fact that the instance admin(s?) responsible for sending the post history of a fedi user to OpenAI for "political ideology analysis" call themselves anarchists is simply tragic. How could anyone with this outlook trust and feed surveillance systems that reify hierarchy and make our worst enemies stronger. This is cop-think. The only conversation anarchists should be having about "AI" is how to most effectively sabotage and destroy this fascist technology Updated info from @piefedadmin : https://join.piefed.social/2026/05/04/ai-assisted-moderation-in-the-fediverse-is-happening-now-what/
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ophiocephalic 🐍 @ophiocephalic@kolektiva.social
· 4mo ago
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@db0@hachyderm.io I know little about the childish scene drama on the threadiverse, but I can tell you that the response to this on microblog-fedi has nothing to do with "discrediting anarchist instances", not least since I am an anarchist tooting to you from another anarchist instance. On the contrary, it's *because* I'm an anarchist that I saw a need to take responsibility and denounce the slop-based moderation tactics you're implementing over there in the name of anarchism. As I will repeat from another post in this thread, the only conversation anarchists should be having about "AI" is how to most effectively sabotage and destroy it. Your logs reference a currently active GPT model. This was dismissed in your lemmy comments as "funny". Why is that funny? It's not. It's not remotely funny that your logs indicate you're sending user post histories to OpenAI. Whether it's true or just "funny", it's utterly negligent moderation practice. The fig leaf your clique hides behind for justifying your use of "AI" in moderation is that your models are "local" and "open". Open what? Source? Weight? Neither really? Whatever, but let's unpack the "local" excuse. The notion of "local models" among the soft-AI apologists is that an individual is downloading a model and running it on their own machine at home. You guys calling your serverside "ideology analyzer" local will be cold comfort to the users whose post history you've extracted and fed into it. In fact, from their perspective, there's little difference at all - their accounts were hosted on different instances than yours. Why is it less violating to them if dbzer0 is doing it as opposed to OpenAI? You're becoming the extractive techbros that all of this was supposed to provide an alternative to. As I noted above, this is copthink. You're doing exactly what cops do - sourcing this exact kind of tech and weaponizing it against "the enemy" on ideological patrol. Anarchism doesn't need its own version of Palantir. Finally, I'm aware the user account behind all of this is a zionist troll. I know that because I spend 30 seconds examining the user posts, exactly what every fedi mod does when confronted with a report. Why do you even need all of this computationally expensive "ideology analysis" anarcho-solutionism when it's clearly obvious from a quick glance the account is reactionary? Block them from your instance and move on, no "horde" of energy-sucking LLMs required @cyno@novo-atlantis.null.media @violetmadder@kolektiva.social
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ophiocephalic 🐍 @ophiocephalic@kolektiva.social
· 2mo ago
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@Rycochet@furs.social Yes, it's no sweat off their brow now. But really dim on George's part, because he seems to not realize that what enthralled people about the Star Wars films was the human accomplishment of its cast and crew. The art design and cinematography, miniatures and mattes, creature and droid getups, and the charisma of the actors. If he really thinks it's fine to crank out new product with genAI, he's clueless to the fact that it will quickly devalue the franchise down to nothing
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ophiocephalic 🐍 @ophiocephalic@kolektiva.social
· 2mo ago
George Lucas on "AI": “There’s nothing you can do about it. That’s progress, it’s the future.” Slopdaddy (noun) - A cognitively captured male who has long held power in their field and uses AI-advocacy to punch down by signaling that power will always prevail over consent and agency h/t @bms48@mastodon.social https://www.theguardian.com/film/2026/jul/15/george-lucas-likens-ai-sceptics-to-luddites-clinging-to-horses-and-carts
theguardian.com
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ophiocephalic 🐍 @ophiocephalic@kolektiva.social
· 2mo ago
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@aral@mastodon.ar.al @amministratore@mastodon.uno That is a truly cursed image
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ophiocephalic 🐍 @ophiocephalic@kolektiva.social
· 4mo ago
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@db0@hachyderm.io From your linked post:

As an experiment, the admin pass the user’s comment history through a locally-run open-weights LLM (Qwen) to see the summarized output. It happens to match their own decision.

In fact, your mod did use an LLM for moderation. The user's posts were ingested by an LLM. No sympathy for zionist trolls, but your own post confirms this

@cyno@novo-atlantis.null.media @violetmadder@kolektiva.social

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ophiocephalic 🐍 @ophiocephalic@kolektiva.social
· 6mo ago

The TACO meme is liberal accelerationism

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ophiocephalic 🐍 @ophiocephalic@kolektiva.social
· 5mo ago
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@cyno My understanding of the situation is a little different. The dbzer0 crew don't characterize themselves as ancaps, but as real anarchists. They're interested in other anarcho-adjacent tech subjects like file-sharing "piracy". The last time I looked, they were taking the sort of contrarian view of AI that champions local models and open source - a figleaf if you ask me, and one they can't hide behind if they're now embracing shit like ChatGPT. The Nivenly connection is all about a grant the admin took, to build... an AI-based moderation tool for the threadiverse @violetmadder
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ophiocephalic 🐍 @ophiocephalic@kolektiva.social
· 5mo ago
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@OldSquida2@kolektiva.social

You have to live as if its going to be tomorrow, knowing it’s not. That’s the dilemma. You have to live as if it is going to be, but you have to realize it is not. And most people can’t do that. That’s a tough one. I learned to live this, but it’s not easy. Because most people want to think it’s going to be, that it’s there. And this can prevent people from acting, because it’s not there. But you cannot allow it to prevent you from acting. You have to act as if it’s there. And that’ll make it there. It’s not going to announce itself. It’s just going to be there. Or you’re going to wake up some day and it’s going to be there. And it will be because people lived as if it’s there. And they’re going to all wake up, and say ‘it is here!’, but you can’t think it’s going to be there. This is the ultimate dilemma. And we have to learn to live with it.

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ophiocephalic 🐍 @ophiocephalic@kolektiva.social
· 5mo ago
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@vantablack The memetic magick of @dirtwizard666 has hit the enemy's radar. MAKE SAND HILL ROAD SAND AGAIN
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ophiocephalic 🐍 @ophiocephalic@kolektiva.social
· 4mo ago
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@db0@hachyderm.io I don't find these to be unreasonable questions. In fact, many of these "local" models are quite chatty if you actually take a look at what they're doing. They can and do connect. They're not being built by people who give a shit about anyone's privacy. LLMs, "local" or otherwise, are surveillance technology. They exist entirely as an outgrowth and extension of surveillance capitalism. It's good praxis to interrogate their possible introduction into fedi moderation tooling (spoiler: it shouldn't happen at all).

FWIW, I still think FediSeer was the best approach to horizontal blocklist compilation, by far. Far superior to all the centralized IFTAS-type shit we've endured since then. But the beauty of that approach is that it distributes the agency of human judgement in moderation decisions. We don't need solutionism to solve our moderation problems on the fediverse

@cyno@novo-atlantis.null.media @violetmadder@kolektiva.social

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ophiocephalic 🐍 @ophiocephalic@kolektiva.social
· 4mo ago
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@db0@hachyderm.io That's hair-splitting. But question for you. Since you're feeding user post histories into it, have you audited Qwen's network activity? And is the server it sits on itself defended from *other* AI scrapers? @cyno@novo-atlantis.null.media @violetmadder@kolektiva.social
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ophiocephalic 🐍 @ophiocephalic@kolektiva.social
· 4mo ago
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@db0@hachyderm.io You(r mod) fed a user's post history to an LLM in the course of a moderation action. That happened, and it's not disinfo to say so. Your new statement indicates that you're against LLM use in moderation. That's good, and I certainly hope that this incident has not created a permission structure for other instances to follow suit. If it does happen again, it won't be anarchists scrutinizing zionist trolls. We'll be the ones getting fed to the surveillance machine. The concern has been justified @cyno@novo-atlantis.null.media @violetmadder@kolektiva.social
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ophiocephalic 🐍 @ophiocephalic@kolektiva.social
· 6mo ago

> Only incoming messages were captured (no outgoing).

Which means the messages exposed were those of whoever the target was communicating with.

No-content notifications:

Signal app > Settings > Notifications > Notification Content > Show - No Name or Content

https://www.404media.co/fbi-extracts-suspects-deleted-signal-messages-saved-in-iphone-notification-database-2/

FBI Extracts Suspect’s Deleted Signal Messages Saved in iPhone Notification Database
404 Media

FBI Extracts Suspect’s Deleted Signal Messages Saved in iPhone Notification Database

The case was the first time authorities charged people for alleged “Antifa” activities after President Trump designated the umbrella term a terrorist organization.

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ophiocephalic 🐍 @ophiocephalic@kolektiva.social
· 5mo ago
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@sharpcheddargoblin I agree; and this is not just a problem for users on those instances, but every user on every instance that federates with them. It's a blatant violation of the certain degree of trust the fediverse depends on to exist. The instances need to be identified as soon as possible @piefedadmin
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ophiocephalic 🐍 @ophiocephalic@kolektiva.social
· 6mo ago
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@dansup@mastodon.social There's nothing "privileged" about pushing back against technofascist creep. It's as important a thing to do as anything in the world right now @liaizon@social.wake.st @aral@mastodon.ar.al @Gargron@mastodon.social @stux@mstdn.social @Gina@fosstodon.org
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ophiocephalic 🐍 @ophiocephalic@kolektiva.social
· 7mo ago

Social Web Working Group membership discussion

> Tantek: I also want to propose we reach out to Meta. They contributed to the CG, they implemented Threads, they contributed to tests.

https://github.com/w3c/socialwg/blob/main/meetings/2026/2026-03-06-WG-kickoff.md

#FediPact

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ophiocephalic 🐍 @ophiocephalic@kolektiva.social
· 4mo ago
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@db0@hachyderm.io Please take this shitstorm to heart. It is critical that the fediverse does not succumb to the solutionist trends overtaking the rest of the internet. As far as online communication goes at least, we are smuggling the treasure of a fully human and humanized discourse through a dark age of surveillance and automation @cyno@novo-atlantis.null.media @violetmadder@kolektiva.social
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ophiocephalic 🐍 @ophiocephalic@kolektiva.social
· 5mo ago
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@yama@tech.lgbt I would argue that we don't need to assume or accept that from fediverse admins specifically. We're free to create our own conventions here, and that should definitely include an expectation of the rejection of extractivism from admins @piefedadmin
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ophiocephalic 🐍 @ophiocephalic@kolektiva.social
· 5mo ago
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@jdp23 Couple thoughts. One, zero reason to accept without scrutiny the claim that an actual ChatGPT model is referenced in the logs as a joke. What's funny about that? Two, your mention of judgement is pertinent, very little of it seems to be in exercise at that instance. Looking at the log, I could see that the modded user in question is a zionist. I was able to make that determination with a quick glance at a handful of the user's posts; the same thing every mod on every instance does when they receive every report. No statistical fabrication of an "ideology analysis" simulation by an LLM was required, just a few seconds of reasoning by the good old wetware in my own head. What is happening to people that they suddenly believe they are incapable of this and require a dependency on a slop machine to achieve basic thinking? Whatever the answer, anyone incapable of exercising this kind of judgement should not be a moderator on the fediverse. If a user is trolling and has shit politics block them and move on with life @laurenshof @smallpatatas @onepict
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ophiocephalic 🐍 @ophiocephalic@kolektiva.social
· 5mo ago
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@Mastodon Automated content detection baked into Mastodon is the end of the fediverse as a privacy-respecting network @sovtechfund
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ophiocephalic 🐍 @ophiocephalic@kolektiva.social
· 5mo ago
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@cthon1c a fuckin disgrace @piefedadmin
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ophiocephalic 🐍 @ophiocephalic@kolektiva.social
· 5mo ago
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@cthon1c Agree, and @piefedadmin has just updated the post with instance identification
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ophiocephalic 🐍 @ophiocephalic@kolektiva.social
· 5mo ago
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@patatas Strong agree @piefedadmin
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ophiocephalic 🐍 @ophiocephalic@kolektiva.social
· 5mo ago
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@Blender In a sense, this wishy-washy "damage control template" half-measure is almost worse than nothing coming from the Blender project. We are facing an extremely well-resourced fascist element that intends to annihilate human culture as it currently exists, and that includes both 3D art and FOSS. At the moment, they appear to be winning. Suggestion to stop with the triangulation and pick a side
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ophiocephalic 🐍 @ophiocephalic@kolektiva.social
· 5mo ago
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@IllWill@kolektiva.social Alt-text: A photo of Ben sitting and talking intently. He wears a handlebar mustache, long hair and a white cowboy hat #Alt4You
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ophiocephalic 🐍 @ophiocephalic@kolektiva.social
· 5mo ago
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@sb@metroholografix.ca This sounds similar to a bot campaign which has recently unfolded on a number of instances including ours. They can talk their way through a manual signup review, leading some to think humans initiate the accounts. The Kolektiva bots initially boosted a few toots from local accounts. They post squalls of stochastic automated text, first in English, and then switching to Greek (!). They also post slop graphics. A thematic that emerges through the nonsense is clear, a focus on the Ukraine war which is derogatory to Ukrainians. IOW, actual Russian bots
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ophiocephalic 🐍 @ophiocephalic@kolektiva.social
· 6mo ago
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@jalefkowit Imagining how much happier I'd be if Zuckerberg, Andreessen and Altman had never turned theirs back on
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ophiocephalic 🐍 @ophiocephalic@kolektiva.social
· 5mo ago
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@patatas Selection of direct quotes from this video: There are folks who use AI to write grand -- write stories for their grandkids We gotta invest in that because… [very long pause] AI can fill the bucket with facts If it takes putting on a dress and going to the Oscars to support sovereign AI I will do that [said by a man] current AI is not reliable This is not ethical
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ophiocephalic 🐍 @ophiocephalic@kolektiva.social
· 4mo ago
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@db0@hachyderm.io That's not an excuse for instance mods to be doing it. That's the same argument zuckerbros were making against FediPact @cyno@novo-atlantis.null.media @violetmadder@kolektiva.social
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ophiocephalic 🐍 @ophiocephalic@kolektiva.social
· 5mo ago
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@riotmuffin Always enjoy reading a new work by distinguished author Some Haters
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ophiocephalic 🐍 @ophiocephalic@kolektiva.social
· 6mo ago
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@CrimethInc Yes, but why just the Republican Party? The entire "US" political class is culpable for getting us here. Popular rage should be directed at both of the criminal gangs usually referred to as political parties
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ophiocephalic 🐍 @ophiocephalic@kolektiva.social
· 6mo ago
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@coop@denton.social IOW, the institutional "left" are too busy cowering to support antifascists targeted by the regime
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ophiocephalic 🐍 @ophiocephalic@kolektiva.social
· 6mo ago
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@404mediaco@mastodon.social

Astronauts are trained for decades in some of the most physically and mentally grueling environments of any career. They’re some of the smartest people on the planet, and they have to be, before we strap them to 3.2 million pounds of jet fuel and make them do complex experiments and high-stakes decisions for days on end. And yet, once they get up there, fucking Outlook is borked.

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ophiocephalic 🐍 @ophiocephalic@kolektiva.social
· 8mo ago
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@Yehuda Wondering if we can get @haubles and/or @andypiper to give a read to this thread ⬆️ and address this
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ophiocephalic 🐍 @ophiocephalic@kolektiva.social
· 4mo ago
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@jdp23@neuromatch.social Thanks for this. The 2nd and 3rd of these links are broken for me, but the third works for me this way: https://piefed.social/c/fediverse/p/2052565/piefed-flagship-instance-shadowbanning-instances-from-discoverability-other-questionabl Generally, these posts confirm my suspicion that the average age of a threadiverse user is approximately 14 @db0@hachyderm.io @laurenshof@indieweb.social @smallpatatas@gotosocial.patatas.ca @onepict@chaos.social
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ophiocephalic 🐍 @ophiocephalic@kolektiva.social
· 4mo ago
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@GNUmatic@mastodon.trueten.de Yeah you're right, that's the irony. It's a huge pain in the ass compared to just using your own wetware! @piefedadmin
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ophiocephalic 🐍 @ophiocephalic@kolektiva.social
· 4mo ago
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@GNUmatic@mastodon.trueten.de Some good points, I've made a couple of similar ones here: https://kolektiva.social/@ophiocephalic/116568079762910266 "Convenience" has no proper place in revolutionary thought @piefedadmin
kolektiva.social

ophiocephalic 🐍: "@db0@hachyderm.io I know little about the childi…" - kolektiva.social

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ophiocephalic 🐍 @ophiocephalic@kolektiva.social
· 5mo ago
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@cyno Yes, the Nivenly grant was in 2023 @violetmadder
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ophiocephalic 🐍 @ophiocephalic@kolektiva.social
· 8mo ago
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@haubles Thank you for responding! @Yehuda @andypiper
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ophiocephalic 🐍 @ophiocephalic@kolektiva.social
· 5mo ago
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@thenexusofprivacy@infosec.exchange Just handing authoritarian gifts to Trump on a silver platter
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ophiocephalic 🐍 @ophiocephalic@kolektiva.social
· 6mo ago
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@AnarchoNeighbor@kolektiva.social Not exactly what you're asking for, but are you familiar with the Phanpy web client? It offers a different take on how you browse your feed https://phanpy.social/
Phanpy
phanpy.social

Phanpy

Minimalistic opinionated Mastodon web client

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ophiocephalic 🐍 @ophiocephalic@kolektiva.social
· 6mo ago
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@rose Already old enough to leer at their first victims @jalefkowit
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ophiocephalic 🐍 @ophiocephalic@kolektiva.social
· 2mo ago
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@bridgeenjoyer@gamepad.club The slop crisis has made me more appreciative of all the flawed creativity born of actual humanity. E.g., reassessing weird old movies that no one else likes, because they didn't successfully conform to genre conventions. Failures maybe, but interesting human failures
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ophiocephalic 🐍 @ophiocephalic@kolektiva.social
· 2mo ago
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@womble@infosec.exchange Interesting; but yes, unsurprising. IMO his embrace of AI is ultimately a rugpull on a lot of talented people who did the heavy lifting to get him to where he is now @Rycochet@furs.social
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ophiocephalic 🐍 @ophiocephalic@kolektiva.social
· 3mo ago
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@zzt@mas.to Remember the Jobsian "profundity" of "obsolete your own product or your competitors will"? So the rumor in the long years of Apple's face computer development was that they intended this device to obsolete the iPhone. The future they foresee is one in which the smartphone as we know it no longer exists, and instead everyone walks around with a face computer permanently affixed to their head, mediating everything they perceive in life through the blandishments of a proprietary squircle-festooned Apple GUI. Very happy to see this device fail abjectly, except that the rumor now is that they're working on a Meta-glasses type super-light version. They still intend to have us all zombie around wearing their face computer. Fire to the data centers
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ophiocephalic 🐍 @ophiocephalic@kolektiva.social
· 5mo ago
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@thenexusofprivacy@infosec.exchange

Trump hosted Freedom Caucus holdouts at the White House on Tuesday, trying to close the deal. Democrats, meanwhile, were briefed Monday by two former senior Biden officials urging them to back the extension, according to a person familiar with both events.

Biden being still shitty and mediocre "from beyond the grave"

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ophiocephalic 🐍 @ophiocephalic@kolektiva.social
· 3mo ago
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@anarchistquotes@todon.eu stop projecting Bob
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ophiocephalic 🐍 @ophiocephalic@kolektiva.social
· 4mo ago
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@arichtman@eigenmagic.net

“Help me build a plan to be ready to buy a house in my area in the next 5 years.”

Yes, turn over control of the most consequential financial decision of your life to ChatGPT. This is fine

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