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is there already a database somewhere of job offers in "IT" (broadly speaking) that have refusing "AI" explicitly as part of the core premises? (and I mean it in the sense of @danmcquillan 's book, I am not "against math" as some fool tried to argue) asking for a friend 🙃

What's going to cause a Mass Diarrhea Event at the White House Correspondents' Dinner? https://www.gocomics.com/brian-mcfadden/2026/04/20

similarly, i've heard a few times that "we might cure cancer", and sure enough some brute force computation can fold proteins fast

but in practice it is more likely these tools will be used to fabricate experimental results, push dietary supplements and other snakeoil cures

and more coarsely, ai isn't pouring funding into the CDC, ai isn't reversing the destruction of the FDA, and is more than likely going to be used to justify those things

@urlyman

Sodium batteries are already in production & salt is ubiquitous.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sodium-ion_battery

The "green energy dependence on lithium alone" is a fossil shakedown narrative that profits Trump donors.
https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-features/trump-minerals-zelensky-putin-ukraine-russia-fossil-fuels-1235292274/

https://globalwitness.org/en/press-releases/trump-deal-353-billion-ukraine-oil-and-gas-money/

Ron Lauder
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/08/world/europe/trump-lauder-ukraine-lithium.html

@Niall I also have recommendations if anyone is interested!

This is only for anyone looking for recommendations. Anyone else can safely ignore the rest of this message.

• Drilled podcast (about oil companies & their vastly disproportionate impact on climate).
• Climate Town - a series of videos on climate by a comedian with a climate science & policy degree.
• at the moment I’m reading A Climate of Truth, the most recent book by Mike Berners-Lee. I recommend his earlier books too.
• the This is How it Ends series on The Press YouTube channel (I’m currently in the middle of watching these eps: https://youtube.com/watch?v=0KKuXwuIs8k).

I have other books about climate in “to read” pile, but some are a bit more than I can manage.

Can I ask for recommendations from other folks too? Some I’ll have already read/watched/listened to, but there’s bound to be good stuff I haven’t found yet.

@lightweight @davemosk @phil_stevens

I have been warning about the term "digital sovereignty" and how it is right-wing coded and probably can't be salvaged for non-right-wing politics.

The German fascist party AfD now created a European foundation to push their fascist politics further. The name: "Sovereignty Foundation".

Even thought tactically it might feel like it makes sense to use the term to get funding, you are integration right wing politics into your thinking and speaking.

Up to about 24 different orgs now, overnight had some emails containing PII of 'deleted' users from a:

UAE based Gym Chain
South African HR Platform
EU based Hotel Reservations Platform
India based Delivery Service

and best of all

US based Antivirus Manufacturer and Cybersecurity Provider

@bagder
All of this points to the underlying challenge with this approach.

In the end we are talking about stochastic machines trying to find needles in a haystack. Essentially throwing spaghetti at the wall to see what sticks. They are just throwing the spaghetti really fast and at a cost that is dirt cheap for a nation state threat actor.

However, at the same time, this cost would be prohibitively expensive for an open source project target. Especially since you do not know how many attempts you would need to make before you can be confident that there's nothing (see the statement about no issues found in curl).

So it will always be easy to hand pick successful attempts - and it will always be impossible to (at a reasonable price, or maybe at any price) prove the negative, that there is no attack.

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Fascists will tell you that women shouldn't do science, that they're less good at it, and that they don't even like it. They should be at home tradwifing it up for some dude.🤡

Reality tells you that women are out here curing cancer.

Dr. Doudna, Dr. Kariko & Dr. Türeci (a co-author on this paper👍🏿👩🏻‍🔬)

https://www.nbcnews.com/health/cancer/pancreatic-cancer-mrna-vaccine-shows-lasting-results-early-trial-rcna331969

We've seen this coalition Government taking funding away from social services so that they lose viability & therefore public support, which *makes them easy to sell off* to private interests. We've done exactly the same with our natural environment. Especially our rivers. It's all part of the same human neoliberal disease. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5qZ8uo4heaU This is our legacy.

@cmccullough Agreed.

It's awful for good creators too. I've seen a few photographers in the Fediverse get angry with people who asked if an unusually good photo was AI. I can see that this feels frustrating or insulting from the photographer's point of view. It's frustrating for others too though, that we have to check. It feels insulting to belatedly discover something we praised was not real, but AI. The AI ruins everything, including social relations between the humans caught in the middle.

@mnl@hachyderm.io @mjg59@nondeterministic.computer @david_chisnall@infosec.exchange @newhinton@troet.cafe through repeated checks and knowledge that humans are consistent.


And like, really, you don't trust your code at all? I, for example, know that the code I wrote is not going to cheat by unit tests, not going to re-implement half of the things from scratch when I'm working on a small feature, nor will it randomly delete files. After working with people for a while, I can be fairly sure that the code they've written can be trusted to the same standards. LLMs can't be trusted with these things, and in fact have been documented to do all of these things.

It is not a blind, absolute trust, but trust within reason. The fact that I have to explain this to you is honestly embarrassing.

I fucking hate AI.

I just watched a video of a dog doing something that I thought was cool, and then someone pointed out to me that it was generated with AI. I hate that we have to research every new video, every new image, every new song, every new everything, to make sure it's not AI generated.

AI is ruining everything.

#noai #fuckai

@neilk @david_chisnall LLMs are displacing the open source movement itself.
By flooding FLOSS projects with slop requests on one side, and copyright-washing their code on the other side.

Molly Crabapple on the tech industry's appropriation of art, and profiting by regurgitating it. https://www.theguardian.com/books/2026/apr/12/is-ai-the-greatest-art-heist-in-history

When you read about Bans of Social Media for Teens and Age Verification, you must remember what it truly means:

• Official identification of every adult using social media.

• Deanonymization of every account, endangering groups that often rely on pseudonymity for safety, such as victims of domestic violence, victims of stalkers, people of color, and LGBTQ+ people.

• Putting every adult at great danger of exploitation, fraud, and identity theft by forcing them to share their official ID with a for-profit third-party company with no incentive to protect it. Breaches have already happened.

• Constructing a system of mass surveillance to attach every comment on social media to a legal identity. Effectively allowing authoritarian governments to silence their critics and opposition.

• Potential for dystopian censorship and cutting off means of organization for groups of resistance to oppressive regime and organizations.

• Endangering children online by putting a clear identification beacon over every child or family with children online.

• Endangering the data of children who will inevitably try to pass as adults, and have their information collected by the third-party for-profit company.

• Diminishing the value of official identification due to the inevitable data breaches, eventually pushing the system to require even more intrusive identification techniques, such as iris scans and fingerprints.

• Installing a system of mass surveillance capable of attaching even more information to everyone's legal identity. With a potential to built list of people in certain groups, and scale-up state censorship and discrimination in unprecedented ways.

• The list goes on and on.

This isn't about protecting the children.
It never was.

Do not be duped by this excuse used to convince you to let go of your human rights. They are only trying to manipulate people lacking information.

Stay informed on the issues related to Age Verification, and push back for your rights to privacy and democracy.

The future depends on us.

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