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60 Minutes announces it will reduce itself to 20 Minutes to pacify pedophile in DC.

Oh wait. They're just switching to Axon or whatever:

@moira@mastodon.murkworks.net People need to realize that "if you aren't paying for a service, then you are the product" is very misleading Because when you ARE paying for something, you are still subject to invasive surveillance and abuse. The weird thing is about our economy today, is that the rich don't seem to have an option to opt out of these things, as it applies to expensive, luxury products as well.

@r_alb@mastodon.social Louder please, for all the Cories Doctorow sitting in the back.

@jakehamilton@hachyderm.io

1. An AI-free web browser & web browser engine

2. An AI-free search engine & search index

3. An AI-free operating system & kernel

@dnkboston@apobangpo.space @zzt@mas.to ohhh got it. Yeah Kagi's garbage :-(

@dnkboston@apobangpo.space @zzt@mas.to Wait what was newsblur's wtf moment?

@tchambers@indieweb.social @jakehamilton@hachyderm.io @Vivaldi@social.vivaldi.net For me, no. I'm glad Vivaldi's AI-free, but I don't trust any software built on Chromium. From a security and privacy standpoint, I think people should run for the hills there. DDG I used for years, but switched when I discovered how sketchy they are. Sure they don't have AI turned on by default, but they're still building their own AI, which is still ethically terrible. And they quietly censor adult-oriented results like for dildo sellers, even with safesearch off, and have never acknowledged it. So I can't trust DDG.

@beep@follow.ethanmarcotte.com No more donations to Wikipedia until they recognize the union.

@lorenzofb@infosec.exchange Is that an AI slop image at the top of the article? Then I shan't be reading. #sorrynotsorry

And like the spineless, republican candidates in these 2026 midterm elections who are trying to distance themselves from trump, anyone trying to distance themselves from Yudkowsky does so in very limited and gentle ways. They try to avoid naming him. Why? Because people fear Yudkowsky.

@stilgherrian@eigenmagic.net AI lab frontier model alignment superintelligence AGI ASI RSI Singularity prompt engineering agent/agentic

@dnkboston@apobangpo.space @zzt@mas.to I'm sure it was because he didn't consider the ethics of using Kagi, and obsessed over how he could benefit from it as an individual. I'm now realizing that, that's Doctorow's thing.

"This is a rape cult. Its central members prefer rape above all else and recruit rapists for leadership. By offering this as the reward for complicity, they can gather all these people together and make their loyalty nearly perfect. They are bound together in mutual guilt and they always have a hobby in common. They promote rape because it is the main thing they like and believe in."

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@gerrymcgovern@mastodon.green The people will not allow it.

@DGI@graeber.social Yes, but perhaps what people are responding to is the law of diminishing returns. Even for those who believe that the ravages of capitalism are worth it (which I would never argue, to be clear), capitalism seems to have provided some major benefits historically - vaccines, electricity, etc. But what's it giving us now? Fucking chatbots?

@juliank@mastodon.social You're using an ethically heinous system because it provided a small convenience in your personal life. Why would you admit this in public?

@redsad@ohai.social Gonna start calling this the Boston Principle of politics 😜

@mina@berlin.social @Pyrogenesis@mefi.social @aral@mastodon.ar.al You're a contrarian that's fueling genocide. What the actual fuck?

you are beautiful

@ophiocephalic@kolektiva.social @bms48@mastodon.social I'd call him a sellout, but that's nothing new.

@atax1a@infosec.exchange No no, you don't understand. The real problem, in Doctorow's telling, is online leftists being mean to him. XD

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The culture of San Fransisco is rotten to the fucking core. Yudkowsky is untouchable there.

So let's be fucking clear: Eliezer Yudkowsky is a psychopath and a predator. He doesn't value human life. And he is the head of a massive, fabulously wealthy and connected, apocalyptic rape cult. He probably ranks among the greatest villains of the 21st century so far, considering how much death and destruction his lies about so-called AI have caused.

@arstechnica@mastodon.social parroting the bullshit narratives of Big Tech companies:

AI is a fascist project. That wasn't a question.

There is a narrative that SF is progressive, and that CA state politics are much more mixed or reactionary, and the city of SF is always fighting with the CA state government over things. And while that's true in many ways, the death cult is openly celebrated in SF. The state capital in Sacramento doesn't require SF to treat Yudkowsky like the second coming of christ, does it?

@drwhax@infosec.exchange Fuck. Off. You're trying to justify the unjustifiable. Stop using LLMs.

Hey! Today is a great day to kill your substack. Give ghost or beehiiv a chance.

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@zzt@mas.to @davidgerard@circumstances.run It really is the Tristan Harris of it all :-(

ofc the reason for Boston to dump flock isn't to protect us, or uphold the constitution. That would be silly.

@techwire@social.gamefan.net Attempts to detect slop or make people label it are doomed to fail because AI is designed to manipulate us. What we really need is government action to completely dismantle the slopselling corpos, and a strong societal taboo against using LLMs.

We should be trying to avoid using any of the AI cult's terminology, helping people to understand that they are participating in death cult dynamics when they use terms like:

• AI safety
• AI risk / existential risk
• alignment

Make AI boosters feel unwelcome.

@dif@mathstodon.xyz @emilymbender@dair-community.social @alex@dair-community.social Have you ever tried thinking for yourself instead of engaging in cognitive surrender? It's pretty cool!

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AI punks fuck off

the only good AI is a dead AI