@thomasfuchs@hachyderm.io2025-07-07 01:38:13
Even if “AI” worked (it doesn’t), there’s many reasons why you shouldn’t use it:
1. It’s destroying Internet sites that you love as you use chat bots instead of actually going to sources of information—this will cause them to be less active and eventually shut down.
2. Pollution and water use from server farms cause immediate harm; often—just like other heavy industry—these are built in underprivileged communities and harming poor people. Without any benefits as the big tech companies get tax breaks and don’t pay for power, while workers aren’t from the community but commute in.
3. The basic underlying models of any LLM rely on stolen data, even when specific extra data is obtained legally. Chatbots can’t learn to speak English just by reading open source code.
4. You’re fueling a speculation bubble that is costing many people their jobs—because the illusion of “efficiency” is kept up by firing people and counting that as profit.
5. Whenever you use the great cheat machine in the cloud you’re robbing yourself from doing real research, writing or coding—literally atrophying your brain and making you stupider.
It’s a grift, through and through.
@77slevin@social.linux.pizza2025-08-07 22:02:08
Oh, why aren't you a cat person? I'll tell you: my brother was attacked, bitten and scratched on both hands this week by a feral cat in his kitchen and had to go for surgery to get the infected parts out. And he did all this to protect his own cat. I'll be watching those 'cute' cat videos with a different kind of feeling. I've heard they taste similar to rabbits.
@hashtaggames@oldfriends.live2025-07-07 00:58:00
Time For 9 o'clock #HashTagGames hosted by @… Let's play!
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@metacurity@infosec.exchange2025-08-07 14:01:25
We are now in the weeds on Hacker Summer Camp, so cut through the clutter and check out today's Metacurity for the most critical infosec developments you should know, including
--Microsoft, CISA warn of critical on-prem exchange flaw,
--Poisoned Google invite can exploit Gemini,
--OpenAI Connectors' weakness can extract info from Google Drive accounts,
--Sweeping intrusion breached US legal filing system,
--Deibert warns of tech fascism,
--NIST with…
@scott@carfree.city2025-07-07 01:59:13
"A paper published last month in the Journal of the American Medical Association analyzed drug seizures by law enforcement in San Francisco and concluded that such interdictions were associated with an increase in fatal overdoses in the surrounding area the next day."
Mayor Lurie's #WarOnDrugs 2.0 is not just failing, it's actively killing people. Public health requires m…
@benrosstransit@mastodon.social2025-08-06 13:13:48
Car culture at its absolute worst meets an unjust legal system. Parents lose a son and are then convicted of a felony because they let him walk across the street. Gift link https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/06/opinion
@jdrm@social.linux.pizza2025-08-06 09:04:05
Nos reíamos de que Reagan preguntara a una vidente decisiones de política durante su presidencia. Pues en Suecia estšn con la versión 3.0 de consultar a un oršculo: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/aug/05/chat-gpt-sw…
@UP8@mastodon.social2025-09-05 20:09:38
📰 Newspaper boycott made people in UK city more left wing, study shows
#politics
@scott@carfree.city2025-08-06 22:45:29
D4 is a mess because of incoherent alliances.
Engardio won by courting both urbanists (who skew progressive) and conservatives (who are car-brained). Now conservatives feel betrayed because he backed car-free space, while progressive urbanists who like car-free spaces still aren't wild about *him*.
Thus, he's likely toast in the recall. 1/
@benrosstransit@mastodon.social2025-08-06 13:08:12
Car culture at its absolute worst meets an unjust legal system. Parents lose a son and are then convicted of a felony because they let him walk across the street. Gift link https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/06/opinion