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The HAIKU community has taken the interesting approach of not only banning AI, code from the project. But segregating discussion of LLM-tainted software alongside proprietary software to it's own separate forum category. #haiku #haikuos #beos https://discuss.haiku-os.org/t/changes-to-forum-rules-categories-for-llm-generated-content/19103

Apparently Peter Thiel / Palantir posted a "95 Thesis" of sorts on twitter. I got linked to it here: https://twitter-thread.com/t/2045574398573453312

It's fascist clap-trap of course. All of it.

I did find article one interesting because I initially agreed with the very first bit of it.

Silicon Valley owes a moral debt to the country that made its rise possible.

It is interesting though, that they don't conclude however, that they therefore must pay more taxes, or embrace regulation, or give back to the intellectual commons.

Instead they cash it out as "we must kill people, patriotically."

Like I said fascist clap-trap. #uspol #PeterThiel #Palantir

RE: @cwebber@social.coop

Christine Lemmer-Webber as per usual really articulated well, something ive been trying to say much less elegantly. (Conclusion quoted here beginning of the sub-thread here: @cwebber@social.coop )

My fear is with these few possible realistic outcomes:

• The output of AI is a derivative work of the training data. LLM generated code containing near-verbatim copies of others code is legally unusable.
• The output of AI code is effectively public-domain; and FLOSS and proprietary software face copyright mexican standoff. With LLMs able to scrub the copyright off code.

We are in fact hurtling towards a third:

• The output of AI code is effectively public-domain, but courts consistently side with big tech in protecting their products in a "let them have their cake and eat it too" style hypocrisy which eventually becomes normalized.

I wish there was a bounty or something I could contribute to getting #FreeBSD up and running w/ hardware support on some of the SOCs used by #MNT. I don't have the skills to contribute to such an effort myself, but desperately want to see it happen. #BSD #MNTReform #MNTPocketReform

So seriously.... when has the entirety of a linux distro's human labor ever gone on strike before? Or is this a first? #linux #floss #manjaro https://forum.manjaro.org/t/manjaro-2-0-manifesto/186171

Anybody know if any of the modern dreamcast emulators, actually can be used for online play? #dreamcast #emulation https://www.timeextension.com/news/2026/05/23-years-after-it-shut-down-bomberman-on-dreamcast-is-online-once-more

Pivot to AI : This spell will affect any single person or mammal it is cast upon who is either a member of the investor class, or works in a bank. The creature then will regard the caster of the spell as a trusted friend and ally to be heeded and protected, and will occasionally hand them small sacks of gold and jewls. The spell does not enable the caster to control the charmed creature as if it were an automaton, but any word or action of the caster will be viewed in its most favorable way. Thus, a charmed creature would not obey a suicide command, but might believe the caster if assured that the only chance to save the caster's life is if the creature holds back an onrushing red dragon for "just a round or two". The duration of the spell is a function of the charmed creature's intelligence, and it is tied to the saving throw. The spell may be broken if a saving throw is made, and this saving throw is checked on a periodic basis according to the creature's intelligence... #DungeonsAndDragons #TTRPG

@AverageDog@mastodon.social Just finished reading Hyper-7 and I really enjoyed it. It took a bit for the story to really grip me; but the big ideas and world building consistently intrigued, and by the time I got to the last half of the story, I had trouble putting it down. Hoping to read more fiction from you.