"Death by Data Centers"

dissentmagazine.org/online_articles/data-center-energy-pollution-cancer-alley/

> The data centers haven’t infiltrated the cancer statistics yet, but state politicians, including those at the Louisiana Department of Environmental Quality, already deny that residents of Cancer Alley face a higher cancer risk.

Or at least what we have observed, that people are using LLMs to replace search is a very real thing.

And I can point out that it was LLM spam that broke search in the first place, and I can be correct about that but it doesn't matter.

The power and control of information flows that is represented by running search engines may be changing hands and changing shape. Search engines have gotten worse, and LLMs do their job more effectively and people are changing their workflows accordingly.

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US pol - report from the field - hopeful(?) 

🚨🇪🇺 The #ChatControl trilogue starts on Tuesday & the EU Council is trying to pressure Parliament into giving up its opposition. We must stop them once again! 💪🏼

And the proposed compromise isn't targeted policing, it is mass surveillance!

Because no matter the framing, the truth remains the same: There's no backdoor for the good guys only!

We at Tuta will continue to fight for your right to #privacy. Make your voice heard as well, today is the day!

➡️ fightchatcontrol.eu/

Parasocial media: why influencers really aren't your friend

baldurbjarnason.com/2026/04-pa

How the very design of social media supercharges misinformation and harm.

incidentally, I am still open to finding a job I enjoy more

1) I work from home in Amsterdam. If you are also in Amsterdam, I can physically appear before you on a regular basis.

2) I am not at this exact second a Dutch citizen but I'm working on getting that sorted and finally getting my US passport shredded. I came into the country on a skilled worker visa. I can read Dutch easily and speak it okay

3) I am an infosec expert with a lot of experience reviewing C/C++ source code but I am open to tangentially related roles like malware analysis or optimization analysis, I'd like something fresh

4) I am an intermediate reader of Chinese who is constantly studying, improving, and interested in a role where being able to read Chinese is helpful.

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It seems both OpenAI and Microsoft have been hiring human contractors to manuall review (read and judge) verbatim prompts from users to "improve" the services.

YOU HAVE NO REASONABLE EXPECTATION OF PRIVACY WITH A HOSTED LLM!

These companies are reading chat logs, "improving" their models, and they will eventually try to mine them for additional products that they would like to sell while displacing their customers in the marketplace.

These thieves be thievin', y'all.

AI agents stole 600,000 credit cards for about $25 a target, Gambit says - thenextweb.com/news/ai-agents- "used three open-source AI agents to breach 27 companies and steal more than 600,000 credit card records. A scan cost about $25."

RE: mastodon.social/@lobsters/1173

"There is no worthwhile career in AI-anything.

Simple as that. The AI industry is designed to dehumanise and commoditise labour. Everyone who has dedicated their life to token servitude has become a dull fungible meat proxy."

Regarding Samsung bricking their smart fridges...

I once told a contractor that I explicitly did NOT want a smart appliance. His response was “you must be a software developer, they’re usually the ones who don’t want them.”

"...we can’t have a set-up that is “technically decentralized” but “socially centralized”. The #CoopCloud recipes are a lot easier to maintain, which makes it easier to share the moderation among ourselves.".

New post: opentech-auc.org/posts/2026-09

With a shoutout to @AberdeenLocal1312 and @coopcloud

The article linked in the linked post has yet another explanation for why we need software metrics usage to become normalized in development (without ever explicitly mentioning metrics). toot.cafe/@baldur/117348094422

Until we normalize metrics usage in software development, we are .

“Software Drives People Insane – The Gospel According to Graybeard”

graybeard.ing/software-drives-

> And yet somehow the process of producing this stuff can turn perfectly ordinary adults into b-tier Bond villains.

AI has truly convinced every mediocre C-suite person that they are a genius and can replace everyone with AI. I never seen such AI psychosis. This is not going to end well for anyone.

When They say that the death of AI will "kill the Internet," they're wrong. It'll cut off the flow of algorithmic sewage. It'll cripple Meta, X, Google, and so on.

Those of us who have our own web sites, who communicate independently? We'll be fine.

Welcome to 1995. Here's your modem.

Can't wait!

Another day, a Monday. Another day when the investors keeping generative machine learning companies on life support aren't getting one cent in returns from me. Go fuck yourselves!

#llm #ai #aibubble

@SaraSoueidan people using the theft machine for their work, surprised the theft machine steals their work too... #llm #ai

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