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RE: https://counterforce.social/@cruelnoise/117354591424611283

we dont deserve cruel noise!!!!

you get a full 60 minutes of punk from all over. and then after the episode ends another thirty minutes mashup between tommy wright and mort garison??

FOR FREE #PUNK #MEMPHIS

There is a growing white supremacist genocide denial movement in so-called Canada.

On September 27th members of the Second Sons, a white nationalist militia, marched on unceded Secwépemc territory carrying racist banners near a former residential school where mass graves of Indigenous children were discovered.

This action was timed to occur three days before National Truth and Reconciliation Day a flawed and limited attempt to acknowledge Canada's genocide of Indigenous peoples.

The Second Sons are tightly connected to the so-called 'Active Clubs' movement and have called to remove non-white people from Canada at gunpoint.

The Secwépemc have a long history of resistance to Canadian colonialism, including the Gustaffson Lake standoff in 1995, and more recently, the Tiny House Warrior movement, launched in resistance to the TransMountain Pipeline project.

White supremacy is inherent to settler colonialism.

Settler anarchists have a special responsibility to support Indigenous sovereignty and confront white nationalists wherever they rear their ugly heads.

Get together. Crew up. Confront white supremacy in all its forms.

https://kolektiva.media/w/3efnx6PuVFLY8g4aeFnSGD

Tom Gammill
IS
Ernie Bushmiller
IN
A Morning with Ernie Bushmiller, in which he inhabits the author of the Nancy comic strip. “THE THEATRICAL EVENT OF THE SEASON!” -Ruben Bolling

https://boingboing.net/2026/10/09/a-theatrical-morning-with-nancys-ernie-bushmiller.html

"Humans write bad code, too!" exclaim AI boosters who don't perhaps understand that's not an argument in favour of AI-generated code.

Sure. If you're gonna push bad code, at least make sure nobody read it first.

Relentless AI scrapers pushed DNA Lounge's web hosting bill from $800 to $3,500/month.

That is a $32,000/year cost shift caused entirely by companies training models on their content without permission. AI companies are externalizing their massive training costs onto independent web operators, effectively taxing the independent web to build their proprietary models. 📉

https://www.dnalounge.com/backstage/log/2026/10/06.html

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@glyph "Stegosaurs were the size of elephants and had brains the size of walnuts!"

Sure. But no stegosaur ever worked for Anthropic.

Stegosaurs: 1 - Programmers: 0

Kanahus Manuel, a badass Secwépemc land defender was raided by the RCMP awhile back and more recently her house has been destroyed by mysterious attackers. She has set up a fundraiser to rebuild.

A crucial part of anarchism on stolen land is to support Indigenous sovereignty. Help her here:

https://chuffed.org/project/help-land-defender-kanahus-manuel-rebuild-her-home

It looks like the same snippet is shown in Qwant, Ecosia and DDG. This makes me think that the search results snippet is coming from Bing API, after all.

Hammer Time.

A friend told me they were planning an October rewatch of classic horror movies. I said, "So just Hammer, huh?" They said, "...what?" Ok, so, some of you never studied, and don't know about Hammer Horror. I have made you an introductory...
https://jwz.org/b/ylBB

for a while tech was kind of like the "escape hatch" for people who couldn't or wouldn't fit in at other corporations and now it's sort of like a flaming timber fell on the escape hatch while people were still lining up to get in

❌ AI generated slop menus with pictures that make your food look like worms

✅ scribbles on a piece of paper saying how much the soup cost

"I find it both astounding yet also entirely expected that we are now years into the AI bubble and everything coming out of it still looks like complete shit. And will continue to do so: these companies can iterate and tweak all they want, tell us this is the future for as long as they want and and they'll never learn, because the things they're making are without any kind of soul or spark, and so will always look like shit."

(Article title: Unity's New AI Thing Is A Soulless Joke)

https://aftermath.site/unity-spark-ai-google/

“Anything At All | blarg”

https://exple.tive.org/blarg/2026/10/08/anything-at-all/

> A trillion dollars into this exercise – end-world-hunger money, end-disease money, save-the-climate-and-end-suffering-and-end-scarcity-forever money with billions of dollars left over, and what the fuck do we have to show for it except complicity and greed?

I'm very proud of my colleagues from our Research Data & Software group. One of the young female software engineers gave a seminar yesterday about the modernisation of our 30 year old in-house library for telescope & instrumentation control, and afterwards someone asked about using LLMs for this sort of thing. She did *not* hold back in her response, saying things like they might fix one thing but create three other problems in the process, that cleaning up the mess they make of your codebase takes far longer than doing the thing yourself in the first place, and accurately labelling them as technical debt generators.

It's so nice to know that at least the professional computer touchers at my workplace are united in continuing to value expertise, quality and maintainability, even as a depressing number of my other colleagues have drunk the Kool-Aid.

I have recently had a glimpse of the other side of this. One of my other colleagues is highly dependant on Claude for everything, and has been working with a couple of contract programmers on creating some new telescope automation software for a couple of their projects. I got asked to help a bit on the hardware side and came away low key horrified.

While the systems they had created mostly worked most of the time it was apparent that none of them had any idea how it worked and could not do anything new with it without getting Claude to do it for them. At one point I asked what I thought was a trivial question, "how do I see the serial numbers of the currently connected hardware?" and the answer was "I'll ask Claude." What followed was 10 minutes of the chatbot trying random stupid things with a running commentary of fake post-hoc justifications masquerading as a thought process until it by chance stumbled upon something that seemed to work and some numbers came out. I pointed out that a quicker check was needed, so Claude was prompted again and eventually spat out a shell script that appeared to do the same thing.

This brute force automated trial and error approach to producing software had produced some superficially impressive results in a short period of time, but the whole thing seemed incredible fragile, utterly dependant on continued unfettered access to Claude in perpetuity and completely unmaintainable otherwise.

I remain convinced that If you generate code by throwing-shit-at-the-wall-and-seeing-what-sticks at scale then the end result will inevitably be a big mess.

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RE: https://tldr.nettime.org/@tante/117406795857681781

Those people, often students, approach people at parties, events, and start talking about "AI safety". The best defense is letting them know that you are well aware of "effective altruists", and what a cult they are.

Read here what a dangerous cult they are, from a former member: https://www.realtimetechpocalypse.com/p/effective-altruism-is-a-dangerous

Here are the faces and names of "effective altruists" high up the hierarchy in Germany: https://effektiveraltruismus.de/en/team-en/

One of them tried to sell me their story 10 days ago. He is completely fried: https://ea.greaterwrong.com/users/birk-kaellberg?sort=old (this is not SF to them, they truly believe those things)

He organizes "AI safety" talks in his garden in Heidelberg and the listeners get a free dinner. He says their money comes from "philanthropists". I was rude, made fun of their prophet Yudkowsky, and he ended up giggling nervously and self-soothing by caressing his fingers. Then he switched to chatting up students.

Honestly, I haven't been so creeped out by a cult since Opus Dei! They have money and can pull in uninformed people. Spread the word! Make it embarrassing to engage with EA!

#AI #noAI #technofascism #technoOptimism