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#AI #Claude

Software is inert without a human user, even though modern-day "agentic" apps are doing their best to squeeze human agency out of the loop. The focus on the tech and not how it is used has intensified an old phenomenon: interpassivity.

The vision tech has been pushing (software that "uses itself") has created a synthetic replacement for human agency. It is harder and harder to care, and that is by design.

productpicnic.beehiiv.com/p/th…

#AI #LLM #tech #software #UX #UXdesign

The newest term in the AI lexicon is "interpassivity"

The industry is reorienting around software that uses itself. But giving ourselves permission to lean back and relax merely indulges an old and toxic tendency.

^{Pavel Samsonov (The Product Picnic)}

Welcome to the post-truth society. Cartoon for Dutch newspaper Trouw.

#AI #ArtificialIntelligence #AIslop #truth

Another day, another @pluralistic #book, this time pulling together ideas from his various trenchant essays on the subject of #AI: kickstarter.com/projects/docto…

I suspect I'll disagree with some of the nuances (he's strongly opinionated, and I don't always agree with every detail), but he has a lot of good perspective and clue -- it should be fascinating and useful.

And as usual, he's one of the few authors who is not just vocally anti-DRM but puts his money where his mouth is: since Amazon insists on DRM he won't work with them, and instead focuses on independent Kickstarters and the always-wonderful Libro.fm platform.

Looks to be a good read and timely food for thought -- check it out!

Thanks to AI, hackers quickly discovered new vulnerabilities such as CopyFail, DirtyFrag, and Fragnesia. They use LLMs to analyse Linux, finding and exploiting the security flaws faster than ever. The expertise required to hack is at an all-time low.

The Fedora Project decided to explain which precautions are being put in place to protect your system:

🌍 fedoramagazine.org/how-fedora-…

#security #opensource #foss #linux #kernel #fedora #redhat #hacking #ai #llm #coding #copyfail #dirtyflag #fragnesia

How Fedora is responding to recent Kernel vulnerabilities - Fedora Magazine

Learn about the Fedora Project's process for managing package security vulnerabilities, in the context of recent Linux Kernel disclosures.

^{Daniel Milnes (Fedora Project)}

🤖 Molière Ex Machina: AI used to create ‘new work’ by beloved French playwright

Comedy debuts at Versailles featuring dialogue, music, costumes and scenery created with help of AI tool Le ChatEurope live – latest updatesMolière is to the French, what Shakespeare is to the Engl...

📰 Source: AI (artificial intelligence) | The Guardian
🔗 Archive: web.archive.org/web/theguardia…

#AI #ArtificialIntelligence

#AI is #clankers 🤖 all the way down, and that’s also why #wankers love 💕 it *so much!*

#Resist #AIslop.

Data Poisoning: The Fatal Flaw in Mass Surveillance

How to use data poisoning to trick the algorithm that’s profiling you (and why “personalization” is more fragile than you think)

youtu.be/AJf4SNuDnoI?si=lUk9FD…

Note: For education and defensive awareness only. I’m explaining the concept of data poisoning so teams can recognize risks and build safer systems. I’m not encouraging or providing guidance for misuse. :)

#DataPoisoning #AI #Algorithms #DataMining #DataPrivacy #Security

Xbox is now XBOX

Xbox just allcapsmaxxed: meet XBOX. This isn't a joke, Microsoft appears to be actually rebranding Xbox to XBOX. Asha Sharma, Xbox CEO, ran a poll on X earlier this week, asking fans whether Microsoft should use Xbox or…

theverge.com/news/931918/micro…

#Tech #Technology #TechNews #AI #Gadgets #Software #Cybersecurity #Apple #Google #Microsoft #Startup #OpenSource #TheVerge [The Verge]

Xbox is now XBOX

Believe it or not, Microsoft appears to be rebranding Xbox.

^{Tom Warren (The Verge)}

💸 Microsoft, Google say their data centers create thousands of jobs. Their permit filings say otherwise

｢ The facilities on average offer about 90 positions, and some have as few as 20. Former workers and local campaigners told Rest of World that most of the positions are in security and cleaning ｣

restofworld.org/2025/data-cent…

#ai #datacenters #bubble

Microsoft and Google overstate job creation at Chile data centers - Rest of World

Microsoft and Google claimed their Chile data centers would create thousands of jobs, but government filings show only a few hundred permanent roles.

^{Jane Seidel (Rest of World)}

theverge.com/ai-artificial-int…

No fucking way, no how, not ever, just no!!!

Anyone who does this, deserves what they get.

#AI #OpenAI #ChatGPT #Finances #Money #DumbIdeas #ReallyStupidIdeas

OpenAI now wants ChatGPT to access your bank accounts

Your trust in AI is about to be put to the test: OpenAI will soon let you give the chatbot direct access to your financial accounts.

^{Jess Weatherbed (The Verge)}

“AI is the asbestos we are shovelling into the walls of our society, and our descendants will be digging it out for generations.”
- Cory Doctorow @pluralistic

#AI #Tech #Technology #CoryDoctorow #Quote #Quotes #Meme #Memes

Internet of #Shit: #AI #Poop Analysis App Offered to Sell Me Database of Its Users' Poops
#privacy #security

404media.co/ai-poop-analysis-a…

Internet of Shit: AI Poop Analysis App Offered to Sell Me Database of Its Users' Poops

"I hoarded a large database of something valuable, just not what you expect… 150k stools images."

^{Jason Koebler (404 Media)}

Det är inte lönsamt att träna nya modeller och vi är redan i ett läge då folk kan köra öppna kraftfulla modeller lokalt. Kan detta vansinne vänligen sluta omgående?

#AI #LLM

omni.se/a/wrRLMo

49 000 blir utan ström runt Lake Tahoe – bolaget prioriterar datacenter

49 000 invånare i närheten av Lake Tahoe i Kalifornien håller på att bli utan ström efter att deras tidigare energibolag NV Energy beslutat sig för att i stället prioritera elförsörjningen till nya datacenter, skriver Ars Technica.

^Omni

I pre-ordered The Reverse Centaur's Guide to Life After AI from my local bookstore. I *love* having a vibrant local bookstore: Morgenstern's Books in Bloomington, IN.

#books #bookstore #ai #indiana #bloomington

#techgrumps 3.40 is now available for your listening pleasure...

With the voices and grumpiness of @rnalexander @wendyg @eastmad and myself @cubicgarden

With everything from Zuckerberg's AI twin to plugin solar with a large scoop of #AI.

Its all in techgrumps 3.40 - Teletubbies vision of judge dredd

rss.com/podcasts/techgrumps/28…

techgrumps 3.40 - Teletubbies vision of judge dredd | Podcast Episode on RSS.com

Techgrumps 3.40AI round upAll BirdsSam Altman vs Elon Musk over OpenAIMocking Richard Dawkins:https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/may/05/richard-dawkins-ai-consciousness-anthropic-claude-openai-chatgptApple pays $250m finehttps://www.

^{techgrumps 3.40 - Teletubbies vision of judge dredd}

Interesting new book out by @pluralistic on Reverse Centaurs and life after the #AI bubble. He’s doing a #Kickstarter and his announcement post provides a great summary on the key points of the book:

pluralistic.net/2026/05/14/who…

Another reason why you don't want ads or sponsored results in #AI tools.

"We find that a majority of #LLMs forsake user welfare for company incentives in a multitude of conflict of interest situations, including recommending a sponsored product almost twice as expensive (Grok 4.1 Fast, 83%), surfacing sponsored options to disrupt the purchasing process (GPT 5.1, 94%), and concealing prices in unfavorable comparisons (Qwen 3 Next, 24%)."
arxiv.org/abs/2604.08525

#Ads #Advertising #Bias #COI #Deception

Ads in AI Chatbots? An Analysis of How Large Language Models Navigate Conflicts of Interest

Today's large language models (LLMs) are trained to align with user preferences through methods such as reinforcement learning.

^arXiv.org

As #AI threatens creative livelihoods, researchers who study cultural work and public policy studied what happened when 2,400 artists got $1,000 a month for 18 months.

Artists spent nearly 4 more hours weekly on artistic work and 2.4 fewer hours on non-arts jobs.
theconversation.com/we-studied…

Nearly 50,000 Lake Tahoe residents have to find a new power source after their energy source looks to redirect lines to data centers

'Power to the people' gets a new meaning 🤔

fortune.com/2026/05/12/lake-ta…

#AI #datacenters #dydtopia #power #energy #technology #environment

Nearly 50,000 Lake Tahoe residents have to find a new power source after their energy source looks to redirect lines to data centers

Roughly 49,000 Lake Tahoe residents could lose 75% of their power after their energy provider said it's directing energy to neighboring data centers.

^{Catherina Gioino (Fortune)}

Power company says "fuck you" to people to serve AI..

"Lake Tahoe’s main energy source is being diverted to power #AI data centers"

"Nevada-based #NVEnergy will stop providing 75 percent of Liberty Utilities’ electricity for the #California side of Lake Tahoe by May 2027, affecting about 49,000 customers to meet growing demand from AI-driven data centers in #Nevada, Fortune reports."

independent.co.uk/news/world/a…

Lake Tahoe’s major energy source is being diverted to power AI data centers

The planned cutoff has sparked ‘a great deal of concern’ among residents and businesses worried about possible disruptions, says South Lake Tahoe Mayor Cody Bass

^{Erin Keller (The Independent)}

The above article makes me think of the quote from Cory Doctorow @pluralistic :

“AI is the asbestos we are shovelling into the walls of our society and our descendants will be digging it out for generations.”

#AI #ArtificialIntelligence #Quote #CoryDoctorow #Meme #Memes #Quotes #Tech #Technology

"Developers talk not just about how the #AI output is often flawed, but that using AI to get the #job done is often a more time consuming, harder, and more frustrating experience because they have to go through the output and fix its mistakes. More concerning, developers who use AI at work report that they feel like they are de-skilling themselves and losing their ability to do their #jobs as well as they used to."
- @404mediaco

404media.co/software-developer…

#Tech #Technology #News #Press #US #USA

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mormons have seeded all the bad shit from Silicon Valley. i call the LDS church a #techbros investment bank with a christofascist cult side hustle. there is no Ancestry.com without LDS money and "christogenetics".

do this: peruse any illustrated Book of Mormon printed before 2010. then look at any #aislopped image. you cannot unsee it. it’s the same with the jehova’s witness Watchtower magazine. the Midjourney aesthetics is christofascist.

the mormon rapture will be #AI generated.

Gerry McGovern

2026-05-13 12:00:18

This AI data center will be bigger than 2,000 Walmarts and dump '23 atom bombs worth of energy' into the environment every day — and locals are terrified

The scale sounds almost unreal. The proposed campus reportedly spans around 40,000 acres in Box Elder County, Utah, an area larger than many major cities.

yahoo.com/news/articles/ai-dat…

Jouw privacykeuzes

^{www.yahoo.com}

RE: mamot.fr/@pluralistic/11656805…

"The idea that you can simply feed every fact about a society into a chatbot and order it to "solve" the nation reveals a profound ignorance about the nature of political contests." - @pluralistic

- and the same holds true for the individual human being, of course; that's why societies are like that.

The prevailing ideas about AI / AGI are based on this fundamental misapprehension, that a sapient subject such as a human being can be solved in the manner of an equation.

#AI #tech

Cory Doctorow (@pluralistic@mamot.fr)

Attached: 1 image With great power comes great solipsism: the more power you wield over other people, the less real they become to you. To rule is to see people as aggregates, statistical artifacts, as a means to an end.

^{Cory Doctorow (Mamot - Le Mastodon de La Quadrature du Net)}

"Nearly 50K people🚨in the Lake Tahoe area have been told that their utility will stop providing power to them, bc🚨it's redirecting that power to #DataCenters.

NV Energy *NV utility that's supplied most of Lake Tahoe’s electricity for decades,🚨says that next year it'll stop servicing homes in the area, & instead direct that #electricity to the growing demand from NV DCs.

No NV is one of the fastest-growing data-center corridors in the C.
-More Perfect Union

#AI #USPol
fortune.com/2026/05/12/lake-ta…

Nearly 50,000 Lake Tahoe residents have to find a new power source after their energy source looks to redirect lines to data centers

Roughly 49,000 Lake Tahoe residents could lose 75% of their power after their energy provider said it's directing energy to neighboring data centers.

^{Catherina Gioino (Fortune)}

That would be great, I do wonder however if they will ever get there.

Somebody sent me this recently, I didn't entirely get it, but it seems like there are structural issues: nature.com/articles/s41586-024…

I sincerely hope #AI will empower humanity to do other, more useful things (especially as it reduces digital work), and even reach the next stage of advancement, don't trust those corporations with it though, fingers crossed eh :)

AI models collapse when trained on recursively generated data - Nature

 Analysis shows that indiscriminately training generative artificial intelligence on real and generated content, usually done by scraping data from the Internet, can lead to a collapse in the ability of the models to generate diverse high-quality out…

^Nature

It’s time to build affordable homes, a national network of public grocery stores, electric buses and an east-west clean energy grid. Not massive corporate AI data centres unleashed without any democratic debate.

There's also no real data sovereignty in an AI ecosystem dominated by U.S. tech giants. Telus may be Canadian-owned, but it has already transferred 14 petabytes of Canadian data onto Google Cloud as part of its AI strategy.

This is a technology that will bring sweeping changes at a scale and speed never seen before. Canadians deserve real oversight and a robust regulatory framework before we rush ahead.


That’s why we’re calling for an immediate pause on the construction of any new AI data centres until strong federal guardrails are in place.

We can’t sit back and let Big Tech billionaires decide our future for us.

cbc.ca/news/canada/british-col…

#cdnpoli #BCpoli #AI

#AI is #clankers 🤖 all the way down, and that’s why #wankers love 💕 it *so much!*

#Resist #AIslop.

Welp. I've been using GitLab for over a decade and have been pretty happy with it. Deployed and maintained several instances, some personal, some for small hobby orgs, some for work.

But it looks like it is time to ditch GitLab for good:

> Software will be built by machines, directed by people. AI is the substrate on which future software gets built. Agents will plan, code, review, deploy, and repair.
about.gitlab.com/blog/gitlab-a…

#GitLab #AI #FuckAI #SoftwareDevelopment

GitLab Act 2

A letter to our customers and our investors.

^{Bill Staples (GitLab)}