@aardrian@toot.cafe2026-02-25 17:11:47
#AudioEye claims it can find more issues than other #overlay vendors:
https://adrianroselli.com/2023/02/au…
@marcel@waldvogel.family2026-02-26 06:38:49
“Big Tech’s AI hype is distracting users from the rapid and dangerous expansion of giant, energy and water-intensive data centres […].
There is simply no evidence that AI will help the climate more than it will harm it.
Rather than relying on credible and substantiated data, Big Tech companies are writing themselves a blank cheque to pollute on the empty promise of future salvation. We cannot bet the climate on these baseless claims.”
@Techmeme@techhub.social2025-12-26 07:01:01
The top 10 US tech billionaires collectively added $550B to their combined net worth in 2025, reaching $2.5T by December 24, up from $1.9T at the year's start (Rafe Rosner-Uddin/Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/9dcd770a-1ca7-4533-980c-08c5704c9670
@andres4ny@social.ridetrans.it2026-01-25 05:30:28
Okay, I missed earlier that the guy who took Pretti's gun *accidentally shot it*. Fucking murder clowns.
https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:5o6k7jvowuyaquloafzn3cfw/post/3md7wmr2pyk22
@hex@kolektiva.social2026-01-25 19:39:35
I explained something for a friend in a simple way, and I think it's worth paraphrasing again here.
You cannot create a system that constrains itself. Any constraint on a system must be external to the system, or that constraint can be ignored or removed. That's just how systems work. Every constitution for every country claims to do this impossible thing, a thing proven is impossible almost 100 years ago now. Gödel's loophole has been known to exist since 1947.
Every constitution in the world, every "separation of powers" and set of "checks and balances," attempts to do something which is categorically impossible. Every government is always, at best, a few steps away from authoritarianism. From this, we would then expect that governments trand towards authoritarianism. Which, of course, is what we see historically.
Constraints on power are a formality, because no real controls can possibly exist. So then democratic processes become sort of collective classifiers that try to select only people who won't plunge the country into a dictatorship. Again, because this claim of restrictions on powers is a lie (willful or ignorant, a lie reguardless) that classifier has to be correct 100% of the time (even assuming a best case scenario). That's statistically unlikely.
So as long as you have a system of concentrated power, you will have the worst people attracted to it, and you will inevitably have that power fall into the hands of one of the worst possible person.
Fortunately, there is an alternative. The alternative is to not centralize power. In the security world we try to design systems that assume compromise and minimize impact, rather than just assuming that we will be right 100% of the time. If you build systems that maximially distribute power, then you minimize the impact of one horrible person.
Now, I didn't mention this because we're both already under enough stress, but...
Almost 90% of the nuclear weapons deployed around the world are in the hands of ghoulish dictators. Only two of the countries with nuclear weapons not straight up authoritarian, but they're not far off. We're one crashout away from steralizing the surface of the Earth with nuclear hellfire. Maybe countries shouldn't exist, and *definitely* multiple thousands of nuclear weapons shouldn't exist and shouldn't all be wired together to launch as soon as one of these assholes goes a bit too far sideways.
@NFL@darktundra.xyz2026-01-26 14:11:01
Patriots, Seahawks reach Super Bowl; Steelers hire Mike McCarthy; Justin Gaethje claims belt at UFC 324
https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/2026-super-bowl-seahawks-patriots-…
@Techmeme@techhub.social2026-02-26 07:01:46
A look at VW's robotaxi unit MOIA, which has 100 test vehicles across Germany, Norway, and the US, and plans to launch its robotaxis this year in LA with Uber (Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/8ee5c17c-1eb2-41d6-9a7f-288ea9e66a45
@Techmeme@techhub.social2026-02-26 07:36:08
Analysis: super PACs for and against AI regulation have raised $265M ahead of the midterms, with pro-AI groups significantly outraising pro-regulation groups (Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/c1823595-d0f6-49a4-8a10-3d91c92da8f6
@Techmeme@techhub.social2026-01-25 21:05:38
A profile of Mercor, which pays about $2M daily to ~30K experts training AI models at $95/hour on average, with roles like radiologists earning up to $375/hour (Bethan Staton/Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/0cab0fcd-e355-40e8-83a3-2ad5066d7b48
@Techmeme@techhub.social2026-02-26 12:25:41
UK online supermarket Ocado plans to cut ~1,000 jobs and restructure its automated warehouse tech business; Kroger and Sobeys exited their Ocado deals early (Philip Stafford/Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/794fd9ce-d657-4ad1-abc8-6a50a221887f