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@troed@swecyb.com @zeenix@toot.cat There's also a lot of hostility from the pro-AI zealots (which is not the same as "people who think LLMs are useful tools", which in turn is a group that includes me) -- I'm increasingly getting the feeling that somewhere, there are interests which are somehow deliberately sowing anger and resentment all around this topic. I can only speculate about the motivations, though there is at least one maybe-obvious candidate.

@alice@lgbtqia.space ...one can post to Nebula? I thought one needed special privileges for that... tell me more? (I do have a membership.)

@alice@lgbtqia.space Just don't use YouTube "Shorts", I beg of you.(Or TikTok or Instagram.) 🥺 (Hopefully you're doing PeerTube, but I wouldn't throw shade if you posted to YT. ...as long as it's not Shorts.)

@Lana@beige.party ...and also, moving them to a location where definitely nobody outside of ICE can find them is a totally great way to protect them. omfg these people 🔥

@Lana@beige.party (...though on 2nd read, I have to think this is a satirical reference to Epstein...?)

@VeroniqueB99@mastodon.social The question in my mind: is this a problem with our educational system1, or our culture2? Footnotesi.e. too many people don't know this well-known facti.e. too many people have been brought up to want a dictator

@tshirtman@mas.to @Legit_Spaghetti@mastodo.neoliber.al @Lana@beige.party Yeah, I've been saying "satire is dead" for awhile now -- it kinda depends on exaggerating bad actions in order to reveal their terribleness, but that no longer works when any exaggeration you can think of is at least highly plausible and possibly something they're already literally doing. 🔥

@Artists_Ali@sunny.garden If I let them have some of my thoughts, will they do something with them? I never have enough time...

@Lazarou@mastodon.social @momo@social.linux.pizza Here in the US, we used to have an "Office of Technology Assesment" which could produce explainers like that for Congress. It apparently had a tiny budget and yet was very useful. It was dismantled in 1995 by the newly-dominant GOP who, according to Science magazine, saw it as "duplicative, wasteful, and biased against their party." The final part of that, to my mind, has always been the tell.

@inthehands@hachyderm.io This explains much of the frustration that has led to me no longer bothering to apply for tech jobs. Maybe the companies that use these broken processes will soon start to collapse under the deadweight of accumulated techbros? A girl can dream...

@Ilka4You@mastodon.social I guess the only question is whether or not the "undisclosed island" part is true -- but it would hardly make them less villainous even if so. The cruelty is the point.™ @Lana@beige.party

@cwebber@social.coop ye gods Can we pulp the billionaires now?

@malcircuit@thingy.social My word-brain says: is the opposite of a "problem-solver" a "problem-condenser"?

@tuban_muzuru@beige.party @inthehands@hachyderm.io At the org we're slowly assembling, the plan is to build the work around the people. Find good people you can trust to be diligent, give them a choice of problems to solve and resources to work with, and then let them figure out how to proceed.

@krzyzanowskim@mastodon.social @slava@mathstodon.xyz May I put in a good word here for Turbo/Borland Pascal...

@HeavenlyPossum@kolektiva.social I think they (core supporters of "tough on crime" policing) consider incidents like this to be vindication. They kinda like violence, especially when they feel (rightly or wrongly) in control of it.

@blogdiva@mastodon.social I still remember Biden defending Jesse Helms 😡, so... 🔥

@Frank_Engelhard@mastodon.social @DoomsdaysCW@kolektiva.social Indeed. The symbolism -- it burns.

@netkitty@meow.social It's a feature, not a bug. WAI WONTFIX

@venite@mastodon.nl @tess@mastodon.social It was a very good video, I must say; I watched it a few days ago. It clarifies a lot of stuff.

@kkarhan@mastodon.social @VeroniqueB99@mastodon.social Someone apparently did a little research via LLM, and posted it on X-Twitter for some reason (I can't remember the name of that site which lets you not link directly to X-Twit or else I'd use it) -- it does include source-links.

@kkarhan@mastodon.social @VeroniqueB99@mastodon.social All I can find quickly is this -- https://news.un.org/en/story/2026/02/1166980 -- from which I gather that experts have testified to the UN along the lines described in the meme, but as far as I can tell the UN has not ruled on the matter. ...but that article is from February.

@krzyzanowskim@mastodon.social @slava@mathstodon.xyz I almost mentioned Delphi -- but for some reason I never could get into it, and then VB6 basically adopted the paradigm... which I guess means that Delphi literally was the future of programming. VBA (especially in MS Access) probably deserves a footnote, too.

@carnage4life@mas.to You'd think that nearly-a-trillion dollars could buy him a life... but apparently not.

@Hex@kolektiva.social Agreed! ...and I'm reading an article now which may help shed some light on the defensiveness you're encountering: https://hermit-tech.com/blog/ai-mania-is-eviscerating-global-decisionmaking (via @eryn@toot.cat)

@xyla@shitpost.trade Aha, now supersonic travel is within the grasp of everyone! Thanks, Germany! :D

@the_etrain@beige.party May the shores be with you.

@quinn@social.circl.lu I strongly suspect that a lot of it has to do with having been raised with authoritarian ideas, especially: beliefs about reality should be accepted from one's authorities, not from examination of evidence.power and social standing (artificial consequences) matter more than natural consequences TLDR: they think differently about the world than we do. Once you understand that, their actions make a lot more sense (even if they're no less awful). @whvholst@eupolicy.social

@jwildeboer@social.wildeboer.net @alan@lighthouse.co.im I have a proposal: BotID

@avirr@sfba.social Yup! They believe that police (and government in general) are here to serve the "good guys" aka the powerful. Laws are for the strong to use in protecting themselves against the weak (as if that made any dang sense, but here we are). @HeavenlyPossum@kolektiva.social

@AlanSill@mast.hpc.social @SeanCasten@mastodon.social The DoE is of course now entirely political, at least in its public-facing parts. Nobody should be taking any federal agency seriously until there's regime change.

@Hex@kolektiva.social Yeah, this stuff is all extremely well-documented by now, for anyone who is not intentionally trying to avoid learning about it. :queer100: ...and I think your analogy is especially helpful in that it doesn't take the extremist "AI is all automatically crap and bad" POV but rather "AI is a tool to be used only with great care, because it can really wreck things when misused and it costs a lot of resources but there is nonetheless a lot of value in it when used appropriately". ...or something along those lines. [/opinion]

@evacide@hachyderm.io I wonder if this is also true for any of the Chrome-derivatives like Opera and @Vivaldi@social.vivaldi.net. -.-

@koen_hufkens@mastodon.social Wanting it both ways: "You must be physically present!" "I will replace you with a simulated worker that lives in the cloud!" I mean, geez, pick a team... :blobcatthinkingportal:

@libramoon@mastodon.social @carstenfranke@mastodon.social @ai6yr@m.ai6yr.org who has the authority to fire or fine them? I don't see this question discussed nearly enough (much less answered).

@DavidM_yeg@beige.party @inthehands@hachyderm.io When they say "more efficient", they're measuring efficiency entirely in terms of the profit-to-value ratio.

@HeavenlyPossum@kolektiva.social We went through a milder form of this, once; details on request (I should probably write it up somewhere). TLDR: we won, but only because of privilege.

@mrrmot@oldbytes.space I've been saying for many years now that any company over a certain size should be co-operatized. @Doug_Bostrom@scicomm.xyz @QasimRashid@mastodon.social

@karlieeuh@mastodon.social I hadn't heard of him! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gabriel_Zucman#Wealth_tax_on_billionaires @Doug_Bostrom@scicomm.xyz @QasimRashid@mastodon.social

@Siff@mstdn.social @SteveClough@metalhead.club Regulation would help with this; requiring all muni infrastructure software-services to be cooperatively-owned would probably help more.... [/opinion]

@fancysandwiches@neuromatch.social @QasimRashid@mastodon.social#WhatTheRightWants

I did a fediblock (limit only -- I want the conversation to remain for reference purposes) entirely on my own initiative -- but as always this decision is reversible, so please feel free to chime in if you think I should (TC users especially). Does anyone know of a good tool for archiving discussions in text format? (...and... dang it, I really need to bookmark that graphical-archiving bot on Mathstodon, because I keep forgetting its name.) #TootCat

@quinn@social.circl.lu So many problems that are popularly blamed on individuals or even easily-identifiable groups are really systemic problems at the core. I've kinda gotten in the habit of always looking for the systemic issue, whenever I find myself blaming a group or individual: How did that group or individual gain enough power to be the problem's epicenter in the first place?

@RnDanger@infosec.exchange @the_etrain@beige.party ...second only to the US southeastern peninsula, because of all the minifloridians. (Or is it minichlorination, because of all the backyard pools? I get my force-physics terminology mixed up...)

@theintercept@journa.host Link, plz? 🥺 edit: some nice people found it for us -- Google Is Censoring Reviews of ICE Detention Centers

@xaetacore@neondystopia.world @alex@neondystopia.world @saatja@neondystopia.world @Saorsa@neondystopia.world As a token of good faith i would also appreciate if you'd take down your post here It seems to have been taken down; I would have liked to see it, as asking for speech to be suppressed without any justification seems very sus to me. @hoshianna@toot.cat

@mrrmot@oldbytes.space I presume "ESOP" is Employee stock ownership plan ...and yeah, there are a lot of things the bigcorps need to do which they aren't going to allow unless we compel them to. @Doug_Bostrom@scicomm.xyz @QasimRashid@mastodon.social