@strypey@mastodon.nzoss.nz

· 2w ago

“If you love classic movies, if you really are interested in the history of film, then streaming's useless for you because Netflix has almost nothing before 1980." #DanSlevin, #RNZ film critic, 2027 https://www.rnz.co.nz/life/screens/movies/the-viewers-ditching-streaming-rot-in-favour-of-dvds #Netflix #streaming

RNZ

The viewers ditching streaming 'rot' in favour of DVDs

A survey suggests streaming subscription numbers are down, and film critic Dan Slevin reckons “we’re starting to realise the rot of it”.

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Strypey @strypey@mastodon.nzoss.nz

· 1w ago

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"Investigative journalist Nicky Hager has launched a new election-season book alleging the Taxpayers’ Union and an interconnected group of right-wing campaigners have helped shift New Zealand politics to the right." #GlennMcConnell, #EmmaRicketts, 2026 https://www.stuff.co.nz/politics/361036953/dirty-work-what-nicky-hager-says-and-how-his-latest-book-captivated-capital That's not what he's alleging. To anyone who's been paying attention, that's self-evident. What's he is alleging, is that they've done it on utterly scurrilous ways, lying through their teeth to the public throughout.

stuff.co.nz

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Strypey @strypey@mastodon.nzoss.nz

· 1w ago

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Video of the Dirty Work book launch, published by the NZ Herald; https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k4m_-zwPV9k Nicky Hager looks only slightly less exhausted when he comes to the mic. It seems this book was a bit of an own goal for the Taxpayers Onion. Hager said he had no plans to write about them. But then in 2023 they issued some preemptive reputation laundering claiming that he was, and within days sources started coming out of the woodwork 😂 #TaxpayersUnion #DirtyWork #NickyHager #NZHerald

NZ Herald Live: Nicky Hager book launch

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Strypey @strypey@mastodon.nzoss.nz

· 1w ago

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"...he released his accusations at a carefully choreographed media event, in the middle of an election campaign, knowing that the headlines would be written before we could even obtain a copy of the book - let alone check its claims." #JordanWilliams, 2026 https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/politics/1523329/nicky-hager-s-new-book-dirty-work-expose-of-taxpayers-union Williams is kind of outing the Taxpayers Onion here. This is the kind of thing the leader of an electoral party would say. If TPU really was just a nonpartisan watchdog, why would the timing matter? #TPU #DirtyWork

RNZ

Nicky Hager's new book Dirty Work 'exposé' of Taxpayers' Union

Investigative journalist and author Nicky Hager has released a new book called Dirty Work, an "exposé"of the Taxpayers' Union (TU), "the latest front for New Zealand's radical right," he says.

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Strypey @strypey@mastodon.nzoss.nz

· 1w ago

Here's #SimonWilson defending his "AI" criti-hype column, which amplifies the claim that there's a 10% chance of it destroying humanity; "Even if that's ridiculously wrong, the way to measure risk is not to say; is the 10% right, the way to measure it is what you do when you insure your house." https://thedailyblog.co.nz/the-bradbury-group-8pm-live-tonight-minister-mark-mitchell-greens-co-leader-marama-davidson-political-panel-fran-osullivan-simon-wilson-and-shane-te-pou/ Sure, but what you don't do is insure your house against turning into gingerbread. Because that's not *possible*. (1/?) #CritiHype #AI #BradburyGroup #Waatea #Rova #podcasts

The Bradbury Group – Minister Mark Mitchell, Green’s Co-Leader Marama Davidson + Political Panel: Fran O’Sullivan, Simon Wilson and Shane Te Pou

The Daily Blog

The Bradbury Group – Minister Mark Mitchell, Green’s Co-Leader Marama Davidson + Political Panel: Fran O’Sullivan, Simon Wilson and Shane Te Pou

A marxist, the Police Minister, the co-leader of the Greens, a political commentator, the Doyenne of the NZ Herald and...

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Strypey @strypey@mastodon.nzoss.nz

· 1w ago

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As former AI researcher #DavidChapman puts it in Better Without #AI; "What we should fear is not intelligence as such, but sudden massive shifts of power to agents who may be hostile or callously indifferent. Technological acceleration can do that; but a new sort of AI is neither necessary nor sufficient to cause acceleration. Powerful new technologies are dangerous whether they are wielded by humans or AIs, and whether they were developed with or without AI." https://betterwithout.ai/fear-AI-power (3/3)

Better without AI

Fear power, not intelligence | Better without AI

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Strypey @strypey@mastodon.nzoss.nz

· 2w ago

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#TIL that BackDrop CMS (a fork of Durupal 7) is working on an ActivityPub plugin; https://backdropcms.org/project/backdrop_federation The latest version is in alpha, released in March this year. If you can help the developers to test or improve it, please do! #BackDrop #ActivityPub #FediDevs @blogdiva@mastodon.social @johnnythan

backdropcms.org

Backdrop Federation | Backdrop CMS

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Strypey @strypey@mastodon.nzoss.nz

· 1w ago

A lot of kiwi writers are keen to leave SS, for the same reasons David Farrier did with @webworm, and I did with @disintermedia.net.nz, inspired by his pieces about it. I suspect others could be convinced too. But some I've talked to find the pricing model of Ghost.org intimidating. I think there's an opportunity there for @magnificent@social.magnificent.nz to fill the gap. I wonder if @lightweight@mastodon.nzoss.nz and @isaacfreeman@cloudisland.nz have decided on a pricing model for hosting Ghost newsletters here in Aotearoa?

Webworm with David Farrier

David Farrier's weird investigations, quirks & oddities delivered direct to your inbox!

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Strypey @strypey@mastodon.nzoss.nz

· 1mo ago

The great Enshittocene is now spreading into in-person UX. A few hours ago I went to the local multiplex to see The Odyssey, and walked out with a refund. But I have no idea what the movie is like, I left within minutes of the start. I left because it was painfully loud for the tiny cinema, and the staff told me the volume was controlled by the distributor in the US. They have no projectionist who can customise the UX to the needs of the room. (1/?) #MovieIndustry #movies #enshittification

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Strypey @strypey@mastodon.nzoss.nz

· 1w ago

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"And one of the reasons it has so much effect is because it operates in private. It operates secretly, and many of us, including me on most issues at any given time, don’t know who’s pulling the strings and what’s going on." #NickyHager, 2026 https://thespinoff.co.nz/politics/23-09-2026/nicky-hager-and-dirty-work-24-hours-on This is key. If you don't know *who* is telling you things, you don't know nearly as much about *why*. Maybe people who are paid to deliver political messaging need to be obliged to disclose that? (1/?) #PolicyNZ

The Spinoff

Nicky Hager and Dirty Work, 24 hours on

We asked the author of the book about the Taxpayers’ Union to respond to the responses.

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Strypey @strypey@mastodon.nzoss.nz

· 1w ago

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"Some may have wondered if the political landscape today is different to the one Dirty Politics exploded onto in back in 2014. What, in the year 2026 – the year of a foreign affairs minister telling a Chinese MP to go back to where they came from – really passes for dirty work? What’s bad enough these days to actually make heads roll?" #LyricWaiwiriSmith, 2026 https://thespinoff.co.nz/politics/23-09-2026/a-dispatch-from-the-sweaty-feverish-launch-of-nicky-hagers-new-book-dirty-work Sad that this level of political scumbaggery has gotten so normalised. #DirtyWork #DirtyPolitics #NickyHager

The Spinoff

A dispatch from the sweaty, feverish launch of Nicky Hager’s new book, Dirty Work

Hundreds of 'sad political tragics' crammed into a Wellington bookstore to see if the election campaign was about to be set alight.

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Strypey @strypey@mastodon.nzoss.nz

· 1w ago

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What Hager is saying - and I wholeheartedly agree - is stop platforming reputation launderers! Unless their organisation is directly relevant to the story, and even then, present them as what they are. Otherwise, make them pay for advertising space. Like anyone else marketing a product for a living. Corporate media people are always wailing about how they can't sell enough advertising. Why would political influencers pay for the cow when they regularly get the milk free of charge?! (3/3)

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Strypey @strypey@mastodon.nzoss.nz

· 1w ago

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Midweek MediaWatch this week covered the chorus of journalists opining on Nicky Hager's methods; https://www.rnz.co.nz/podcast/mediawatch/2026/midweek-hagerpalooza-preppers-delight-seymour-on-report If your goal as an investigate journalist is to expose the corrupt practices of powerful and totally unprincipled people, you have to work defensively. Lazy hacks working in comfortable corporate media jobs have never been in that situation. Because they see their role as both-sides-ing everything. Which works very nicely for people running influence operations. #NewsMedia

RNZ

Midweek - Hagerpalooza, preppers' delight, Seymour on Report episode of Mediawatch

What mark has Nicky Hager's 'Dirty Work' made 24 hours after a rock gig-like launch? Also - TVNZ doco spotlights Kiwi preppers, & Deputy PM buries his boycott of Morning Report

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Strypey @strypey@mastodon.nzoss.nz

· 1w ago

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@GossiTheDog@cyberplace.social

Mastodon is memory hungry, RAM is really expensive now

AFAIK the Elixir back-end of Pleroma/ Akkoma can be uses with the Mastodon web client. Bonfire's Elixir back-end, forked from a Pleroma fork, could be another option.

(1/2)

#fediverse

@sheogorath@microblog.shivering-isles.com

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Strypey @strypey@mastodon.nzoss.nz

· 2mo ago

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"When an economy creates more costs than benefits, [Herman Daly] called it 'uneconomic growth'. But you won’t find that conclusion in economics textbooks. Even suggesting that economic growth could cost more than it’s worth can be seen as economic heresy." Accepting avoidable global temperature rises as a "trade-off" for the benefit of "the economy" is uneconomic growth. (2/2) #UneconomicGrowth

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Strypey @strypey@mastodon.nzoss.nz

· 2mo ago

What, you mean that not only does banning under-16s do nothing substantial to address any of the serious societal issues caused by overgrown social media platforms, it doesn't even keep people under 16 off them? https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/8/3/australias-under-16-social-media-ban-failing-study-shows-what-it-means Who'da thunk it?!? 😱 But seriously, did anyone involved in the social web seriously expect this performative nonsense to work? #B416

aljazeera.com

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Strypey @strypey@mastodon.nzoss.nz

· 2mo ago

"Being a software engineer, he got to spend a little bit of time backstage with the developers, whereupon they revealed that most of the demos were faked ... Didn't stop them spouting absolute gibberish to a breathless audience for an hour though! I blame not the engineers, who probably tried to actually get the damn thing to work, but the lying blowhards who insisted that they must make the presentation or presumably be terminated." #NikhilSuresh, 2024 https://ludic.mataroa.blog/blog/i-will-fucking-piledrive-you-if-you-mention-ai-again/ (1/2) #unions

ludic.mataroa.blog

I Will Fucking Piledrive You If You Mention AI Again — Ludicity

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Strypey @strypey@mastodon.nzoss.nz

· 2mo ago

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Schismogenesis explains so much about why the social media era has produced such antidemocratic results. If Bateson's theory is correct, then encouraging people to get into heated debates (as DataFarming algorithms do) inevitably pushes us all towards extreme positions, which don't even reflect what we truly believe. (1/2) #SocialMedia #PublicDeliberation #democracy

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Strypey @strypey@mastodon.nzoss.nz

· 2mo ago

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"I don't want to end up in a world in which a few tech oligarchs own all of the capital and all of the compute and public opinion is just being ruled over and democracy is hollowed out." #MaximilianNegele, 2026 https://www.techpolicy.press/is-europe-getting-ai-wrong/ Then why make only the assumptions and sketch out only scenarios most likely to bring about that dystopia? I'm happy to believe Negele is genuinely concerned about this as a *citizen*. But as a consultant, his incentives nevertheless nudge him that way. (1/2)

Tech Policy Press

Is Europe Getting AI Wrong?

Tech Policy Press deputy editor Ramsha Jahangir is joined by Europe 2031 co-author Maximilian Negele and AI Now Institute advisor Frederike Kaltheuner.

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Strypey @strypey@mastodon.nzoss.nz

· 2mo ago

I don't mean to take a crack at musicians for making strategic decisions within the constraints of the world as it is. But I do think it's ironic to search for subversive, localist bands, and find them only on one corporate hosting platform; https://traumaparty.bandcamp.com/album/ ... and not on any of the, non-corporate hosting services searched by Unstream https://unstream.stream/?q=trauma%2Bparty How can we make discovering and using these independent services easier for our musical friends? #SocialMusic

traumaparty.bandcamp.com

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Strypey @strypey@mastodon.nzoss.nz

· 2mo ago

I'm reading a 2023 piece about a visit to the country by a professional troll. To avoid getting derailed into a discussion about the particular issue this troll uses as bait, I won't give details. But the piece argues - as did many at the time - that those who staged an aggressive counter-protest did a Good Thing(™️). My argument is that they were morally right - I think the underlying position they were protesting for is unassailable - but strategically wrong. Why? Let's unpack this. (1/?)

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Strypey @strypey@mastodon.nzoss.nz

· 2mo ago

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"Back in the 1930s, the anthropologist "Gregory Bateson coined the term 'schismogenesis' to describe people's tendency to define themselves against one another." #DavidGraeber, #DavidWengrow, The Dawn of Everything, 2021 https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/david-graeber-and-david-wengrow-the-dawn-of-everything (1/3) #schismogenesis

theanarchistlibrary.org

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Strypey @strypey@mastodon.nzoss.nz

· 1mo ago

Today I was reminded that there are grouplets in Aotearoa who think that supporting Ukraine's self-defence, against an imperial invader, is morally equivalent to supporting Israel's genocide in Gaza, or the US bombardment of Iran; https://community.scoop.co.nz/2026/03/new-zealand-government-backs-criminal-war-against-iran/ This kind of Vulgar Marxist apologetics was already decades out of date when it was defending the USSR's imperial conquests. It makes absolutely no sense now that Russia is an openly capitalist state with a crypto-fascist dictator. (1/?)

community.scoop.co.nz

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Strypey @strypey@mastodon.nzoss.nz

· 2mo ago

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"After multiple delays, the European Commission on Wednesday unveiled what it calls its first comprehensive strategy to curb Europe’s reliance on foreign cloud services, semiconductors and software — a sweeping package spanning the full technology stack from chips to cloud to AI." #RamshaJahangir, 2026 https://www.techpolicy.press/eu-unveils-sweeping-tech-sovereignty-push-balancing-autonomy-with-openness/ This is the way. The EU, like China, has the advantage that it's large enough to run an effective industrial strategy in a globalized economy. (1/2)

EU Unveils Sweeping Tech Sovereignty Push, Balancing Autonomy with Openness

Tech Policy Press

EU Unveils Sweeping Tech Sovereignty Push, Balancing Autonomy with Openness

The “tech sovereignty” package marks the bloc’s most ambitious attempt yet to reduce dependence on non-European providers, reports Ramsha Jahangir.

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Strypey @strypey@mastodon.nzoss.nz

· 2mo ago

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@aurynn@cloudisland.nz

Can you recommend a simple tracker or something for doing some simple musical things?

For which OS? At one time I'd enthusiastically recommend Audacity, which is cross-platform, but;

https://fosspost.org/audacity-is-now-a-spyware/

Fortunately, the GPL license on the code enabled the community to release spyware-free forks. Here's one, called Tenacity;

https://codeberg.org/tenacityteam/tenacity

Also #TIL that LMMS is now cross-platform too;

https://lmms.io/

#Tenacity #Audacity #LMMS #MusicProduction

Audacity Is Now A Possible Spyware, Remove It ASAP

FOSS Post

Audacity Is Now A Possible Spyware, Remove It ASAP

The famous open source audio manipulation program was acquired by a company named Muse Group two months ago. The same company owns other projects in its

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Strypey @strypey@mastodon.nzoss.nz

· 2mo ago

#TIL about #Harmony, a bleeding-edge project to build a decentralised replacement for Miscord using ActivityPub, E2EE using Vodozemac, a cryptography library used in Matrix software; https://joinharmony.app/ Source code is on GritHub, under AGPL; https://github.com/zcharef/harmony Anyone know anything about this? So far I haven't been able to find fediverse accounts for the project itself, or the creator. #fediverse #ActivityPub #Vodozemac #Matrix

joinharmony.app

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Strypey @strypey@mastodon.nzoss.nz

· 2mo ago

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"... we need more of the pension fund money across Europe that we have to be invested in innovative companies and scaling capital and venture capital just like the US does, which is I think one of the main reasons why the US economy is pushing ahead, especially in this tech sector." #MaximilianNegele, 2026 https://www.techpolicy.press/is-europe-getting-ai-wrong/ This is perhaps the most horrifying of all the laughable things Negele has said so far. (1/2) #PensionFunds

Tech Policy Press

Is Europe Getting AI Wrong?

Tech Policy Press deputy editor Ramsha Jahangir is joined by Europe 2031 co-author Maximilian Negele and AI Now Institute advisor Frederike Kaltheuner.

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Strypey @strypey@mastodon.nzoss.nz

· 2mo ago

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"AI is not an inevitable force that we need to react to, but these are highly political decisions that need to be made." #FrederikeKaltheuner, 2026 https://www.techpolicy.press/is-europe-getting-ai-wrong/ I want this on a t-shirt! It's a timely rebuttal to the almost religious mania gripping the political class, with deeply distributing consequences on the ground, as described by Nikhil Suresh; https://ludic.mataroa.blog/blog/ai-mania-is-eviscerating-global-decision-making/ #EU #TechPolicy #AI

Tech Policy Press

Is Europe Getting AI Wrong?

Tech Policy Press deputy editor Ramsha Jahangir is joined by Europe 2031 co-author Maximilian Negele and AI Now Institute advisor Frederike Kaltheuner.

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Strypey @strypey@mastodon.nzoss.nz

· 2mo ago

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"... we think that AI will be similar to the Industrial Revolution." #MaximilianNegele, 2026 https://www.techpolicy.press/is-europe-getting-ai-wrong/ This is 100% wrong. It's similar to the crypto bubble, and the metaverse bubble. Although there is one way in which it is similar. Industrialisation involved trading the self-determination of workers for promises of increased productivity that turned out to be either illusory, or unnecessary. What industrialisation mainly did to production was change who controlled it.

Tech Policy Press

Is Europe Getting AI Wrong?

Tech Policy Press deputy editor Ramsha Jahangir is joined by Europe 2031 co-author Maximilian Negele and AI Now Institute advisor Frederike Kaltheuner.

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Strypey @strypey@mastodon.nzoss.nz

· 2mo ago

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@leanderlindahl@social.folkdata.se

Volla / VollaOS

First I've heard of this. Apparently it's a deGoggled Android/Linux. Anyone know how good they are on respecting their customers' Software Freedoms and Right to Repair?

#Volla #VollaOS #Degoogled #Android #Android #MobileOS

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Strypey @strypey@mastodon.nzoss.nz

· 2mo ago

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"... policymakers should make focus on things that are useful regardless of how the trajectory continues and how the market continues. And I think this is where the massive compute build out is a speculative bet. This isn't the same as investing European pensions in startups and companies. This is essentially using European pensions as high-risk venture capital." #FrederikeKaltheuner, 2026 https://www.techpolicy.press/is-europe-getting-ai-wrong/ Exactly.

Tech Policy Press

Is Europe Getting AI Wrong?

Tech Policy Press deputy editor Ramsha Jahangir is joined by Europe 2031 co-author Maximilian Negele and AI Now Institute advisor Frederike Kaltheuner.

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Strypey @strypey@mastodon.nzoss.nz

· 2mo ago

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"I think one mistake in European AI policy in the past has been that we've been claiming, oh, we can just save the climate and do everything and save the economy and just kind of everything bagel idea that I think has been very damaging. And I think there has been a reluctance to actually explain hard trade-offs to the voters." #MaximilianNegele, 2026 https://www.techpolicy.press/is-europe-getting-ai-wrong/ WTF?! The idea that a livable climate is something we can trade off for short-term economic benefits is bananas. (1/2)

Tech Policy Press

Is Europe Getting AI Wrong?

Tech Policy Press deputy editor Ramsha Jahangir is joined by Europe 2031 co-author Maximilian Negele and AI Now Institute advisor Frederike Kaltheuner.

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Strypey @strypey@mastodon.nzoss.nz

· 2mo ago

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"I agree that it could be the case that models commoditize increasingly. I think even in that case, it will remain the case that compute capacity will remain important because it'll still determine the degree and the intensity to which you can actually run models even if these models are commoditized." #MaximilianNegele, 2026 https://www.techpolicy.press/is-europe-getting-ai-wrong/ Negele is still making the assumption that "compute" = energy-intensive and capital-intensive datacentres. (1/2)

Tech Policy Press

Is Europe Getting AI Wrong?

Tech Policy Press deputy editor Ramsha Jahangir is joined by Europe 2031 co-author Maximilian Negele and AI Now Institute advisor Frederike Kaltheuner.

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Strypey @strypey@mastodon.nzoss.nz

· 2mo ago

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"But I think there are two questions here. One is obviously to build scale in compute because Europe is behind. And then the other question is who controls the infrastructure and the distribution and the ecosystem?" #RamshaJahangir, 2026 https://www.techpolicy.press/is-europe-getting-ai-wrong/ The second one is an important question. The other one totally ignores the point Kaltheuner just made (see previous post), and makes some highly questionable assumptions. Does the EU actually *need* more hyperscale "compute"? (1/?)

Tech Policy Press

Is Europe Getting AI Wrong?

Tech Policy Press deputy editor Ramsha Jahangir is joined by Europe 2031 co-author Maximilian Negele and AI Now Institute advisor Frederike Kaltheuner.

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Strypey @strypey@mastodon.nzoss.nz

· 2mo ago

"... China now restricting access to certain open source models." #MaximilianNegele, 2026 If all the points in the OSD (Open Source Definition) are being followed, access can't be restricted. So if it can be restricted, it's not Open Source, by definition. At least, that was the case, until Stefano Maffulli, as director of OSI, led the charge on drafting a new definition for "Open Source AI", by watering down the OSD until some MOLE training fit into it. *sigh* #OpenSourceAI #AI #OpenSource

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Strypey @strypey@mastodon.nzoss.nz

· 2mo ago

"Direct action, what is it? Does it work? Yes." #RobbieNicol, Citizen's Handbook, s02ep5, 2022 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A1GW52tsgZg Although scholars from Te Ao o Rongomaraeroa at Otago University have collected copious evidence that it's *nonviolent* direct action that leads to the most lasting positive change. It's the combination of willful violation of unjust rules, and a commitment to protect living things - including people - that gives it potency. #DirectAction #CitizensHandbook #satire #video

Direct Action in New Zealand History | Episode Five

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Strypey @strypey@mastodon.nzoss.nz

· 2mo ago

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"However, some projects simply do not have an easy way to tack on the AI label, or the person advocating for them either does not want to lie or has not understood that lying has become necessary. In all cases, this either kills the request for funding outright, or adds a pervasive and intractable drag on all communications, as every request must be worked and re-worked until it is 'AI enough'." #NikhilSuresh, 2026 https://ludic.mataroa.blog/blog/ai-mania-is-eviscerating-global-decision-making/ (5/5) #TechFunding #funding

ludic.mataroa.blog

AI Mania Is Eviscerating Global Decision-Making — Ludicity

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Strypey @strypey@mastodon.nzoss.nz

· 2mo ago

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@smallcircles@social.coop

There's a spectrum between hand-crafted and vibe-coded

I'm open to this idea, but I'll take some convincing. Nuanced contributions to this discussion would be greatly appreciated.

https://codeberg.org/fediverse/fediparty/issues/305

I read somewhere recently that the core skill of a software dev is not just producing code, but easily maintainable code. In a Free Code context I would add easily reviewable and reusable code. In which case, tool that write lots of shitty code are anti-tools.

@rl_dane@polymaths.social

codeberg.org

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Strypey @strypey@mastodon.nzoss.nz

· 2mo ago

Replying to

To be clear, I wasn't arguing for a repeal of Section 230 and similar laws. They're still suitable for regulating small-to-media online services. Like fediverse hosts, for example. I was just pointing out that trying to apply laws appropriate to small services to mega-platforms is a bound to fail, as it has. #Section230

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Strypey @strypey@mastodon.nzoss.nz

· 2mo ago

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(2/2) My point is, unless a server project provides a repeatable methods for generating a reliably useful model, running it locally isn't substantially better to running it remotely via an API. The main difference is that the person running the server pays for the compute it uses, instead of the supplier of the model. That seems worse to me, not better. #AI #MOLE

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Strypey @strypey@mastodon.nzoss.nz

· 2mo ago

Fukkit. I think I have the 'rona. I've been in bed sick all week, coughing and sneezing up slimy liquids, and this morning I can't taste my cup of tea. Not much I can do except stay in bed, avoid my flatmates, and wait for it to burn out.

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Strypey @strypey@mastodon.nzoss.nz

· 2mo ago

“You can dislike his politics, you can envy his money, you can be appalled at some of his misjudgments as a broadcaster, but he is so damned likeable.” #AudreyYoung, Senior Political Correspondent, NZ Herald, 2026 https://thespinoff.co.nz/media/17-07-2026/new-zealands-media-has-been-gripped-by-paul-henry-mania More evidence of the news media's manifest left-wing bias. If a journalist heaped praise on a new Green or TPM candidate like this - let alone a *senior* political correspondent - we'd never hear the end of it. Also, on what planet is Paul Henry *likeable*?

thespinoff.co.nz

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Strypey @strypey@mastodon.nzoss.nz

· 1w ago

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Colin Peacock also comments on Nicky Hager calling out news media, for routinely platforming spokespeople for hard right influencers as if they're expert commentators or unaligned pundits. Effectively doing their reputation laundering for them. https://www.rnz.co.nz/podcast/mediawatch/2026/midweek-hagerpalooza-preppers-delight-seymour-on-report (1/?) #ColinPeacock #MediaWatch #RNZ #podcasts

RNZ

Midweek - Hagerpalooza, preppers' delight, Seymour on Report episode of Mediawatch

What mark has Nicky Hager's 'Dirty Work' made 24 hours after a rock gig-like launch? Also - TVNZ doco spotlights Kiwi preppers, & Deputy PM buries his boycott of Morning Report

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Strypey @strypey@mastodon.nzoss.nz

· 1w ago

RE: https://hachyderm.io/@YvanDaSilva/115563876034073326 Anyone still arguing that the bursting of the "AI" bubble will leave us with useful computing infrastructure, now disused, needs to read and think about this. #AI #AIBubble #EWaste

hachyderm.io

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Strypey @strypey@mastodon.nzoss.nz

· 2mo ago

Anyone tried this Matrix<>ActivityPub bridge? "Turns your Matrix server into a fully functioning ActivityPub server. Matrix users can post, follow, reply, react, and DM across the fediverse using ordinary Matrix rooms and clients. No separate account or server needed." https://github.com/Haven-Organization/matrix-appservice-activitypub @evan@cosocial.ca #Matrix #ActivityPub

github.com

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Strypey @strypey@mastodon.nzoss.nz

· 2mo ago

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@bastardsheep@aus.social

BMW put a FULL SCREEN ad on all their cars at startup time

This has been normal on digital TVs for years, it was only a matter of time.

If the vendor has root access to your computer and you don't, guess who really owns your computer. Free candy for everyone who answered "the vendor". If they have network access to the thousands of computers they own, they can make them show people ads. If someone will pay them to do that, it's inevitable.

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@bwana@discordian.social

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Strypey @strypey@mastodon.nzoss.nz

· 2mo ago

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To be fair, the Opportunity party policy on this is even worse. They're totally drinking the kool-aid, and planning to give free public money to the #MOLE Training and DataFarming industries; "... we will introduce a new tax credit scheme. It will allow claiming back as a tax/credit up to 25% of the cost of rolling/out high-tech solutions such as AI and digital platforms." https://cdn.opportunity.org.nz/documents/policy/breakthrough-economy-policy-overview.pdf This is the kind of corporate welfare Labour regularly disappoints me with. #Opportunity (2/?)

cdn.opportunity.org.nz

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Strypey @strypey@mastodon.nzoss.nz

· 2mo ago

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This is bit worrying though; "The Cloud and AI Development Act sets out a series of 'Cloud and AI Leadership Initiatives" aimed at scaling European capabilities, from research funding to large-scale industrial deployment. It proposes fast-track 'data center acceleration zones', where permits would be granted within 12 months, and introduces procurement criteria designed to give preference to providers that demonstrate added value within the EU." #RamshaJahangir, 2026 https://www.techpolicy.press/eu-unveils-sweeping-tech-sovereignty-push-balancing-autonomy-with-openness/

Tech Policy Press

EU Unveils Sweeping Tech Sovereignty Push, Balancing Autonomy with Openness

The “tech sovereignty” package marks the bloc’s most ambitious attempt yet to reduce dependence on non-European providers, reports Ramsha Jahangir.

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