Tootfinder

“The illusion of freedom will continue as long as it’s profitable to continue the illusion. At the point where the illusion becomes too expensive to maintain, they will just take down the scenery, they will pull back the curtains, they will move the tables and chairs out of the way and you will see the brick wall at the back of the theater.”
– Frank Zappa
#capitalism

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.

Can you see circles or rectangles? And does the answer depend on where you grew up?
We may believe we see the world exactly as it is – but as studies of optical illusions show, it’s far more complex than that
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/

har en otroligt sublim stund på jobbet där jag upptäcker Use your Illusion-plattorna efter att inte ha lyssnat på dem alls på vad som måste vara ett decennium. Helvete alltså. Har ev runnit tårar några gånger.

Major Film Studios File Copyright Suit Against Midjourney - The Illusion of More https://illusionofmore.com/major-film-studios-file-copyrigh…

Major Film Studios File Copyright Suit Against Midjourney - The Illusion of More
Disney and Universal file the first copyright infringement suit by major studios against an AI developer in Disney et. al v. Midjourney.

The Russification of America
How the 2025 Budget Shattered the Last Illusions of Democracy https://medium.com/@spqesq/the-russification-of-america-2beef3b63be7

Even here in Norway, so-called freedom is an illusion, I'm still bound to a boss and forced to sell my labor just to keep a roof over my head.
Real liberty can't exist while our lives are dictated by wage slavery and the demands of the capitalist system!
#AntiCapitalism #Anarchism

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #AfternoonShow
Joe Walsh:
🎵 A Life of Illusion
#JoeWalsh
https://nomadstones.bandcamp.com/track/life-of-illusion
https://open.spotify.com/track/19P4fwkPhE6yVAXApFWDoF

Stravinsky:
“…Expression has never been an inherent property of music. That is by no means the purpose of its existence. If, as is nearly always the case, music appears to express something, this is only an illusion and not a reality. It is simply an additional attribute which, by tacit and inveterate agreement, we have lent it, thrust upon it, as a label, a convention - in short, an aspect which, unconsciously or by force of habit, we have come to confuse with its essential being.”…

The Illusion of Fairness: Auditing Fairness Interventions with Audit Studies
Disa Sariola, Patrick Button, Aron Culotta, Nicholas Mattei
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.02152

The Illusion of Fairness: Auditing Fairness Interventions with Audit Studies
Artificial intelligence systems, especially those using machine learning, are being deployed in domains from hiring to loan issuance in order to automate these complex decisions. Judging both the effectiveness and fairness of these AI systems, and their human decision making counterpart, is a complex and important topic studied across both computational and social sciences. Within machine learning, a common way to address bias in downstream classifiers is to resample the training data to offset…