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“On artificial intelligence • Buttondown”

https://buttondown.com/practicaltips/archive/on-artificial-intelligence/

> Why would they give us compute money, but not salary money? It turns out to be pretty straightforward. It’s messy, employing us meat bags.

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Something good for US Labor Day.

https://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2026/09/on-labor-day-mamdani-debuts-worker-power-office-to-support-union-organizing.html

Two batches of new reviews up on the site, thanks to @punkterrorist + a new contributor from Aotearoa

https://the-counterforce.org/tag/reviews/
https://the-counterforce.org/gunner-reality-soldier/
https://the-counterforce.org/barren-hellscape-anti-holocaust/
https://the-counterforce.org/robber-bad-eggs/
https://the-counterforce.org/forced-starvation-s-t/
https://the-counterforce.org/kissland-girls-mignon/
https://the-counterforce.org/no-sector-mercury-poisoning/
https://the-counterforce.org/maquinaria-incendiaria-maqueta/
https://the-counterforce.org/suicidas-canciones-malditas/
https://the-counterforce.org/intrusa-demo/

(also reminder there is an RSS feed for reviews! https://the-counterforce.org/tag/reviews/feed.xml)

RE: https://tldr.nettime.org/@tante/117235476116975345

The most surprising realization I had in the last years was how important it is to be public about your refusal to participate in harmful acts therefore giving others "permission" to do so as well. It really matters.

“we’re only using LLMs for security reviews” oh thank god, you’re only using them for the sole reason why I’m bothering with your shitty OS at all

between DHH, brodie, that fucking ex-googler Linux is Best guy doing an anti-Palestine disinformation campaign on fedi, lunduke, liam of gamingonlinux, linus torvalds himself… it really feels like a lot of the loudest influencers and personalities in this space are mask-off assholes up to no good, doesn’t it? it really feels like they’re doing that thing fascists do where they normalize casually doing horrid shit in a space.

There's a concept called active ignorance where you choose to not accept or read evidence of a problematic person or community norm as you don't want to have to think about the harms and perhaps have to give it up.

It's why I'm irritated by the folks who are all no politics please, just the tech. Or that "Bob and Van" piece.

Who you accept in your community, who you choose to work with, especially if you excuse abusive behaviour damages a community more. We see you.

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/343952142_Ignorance_arrogance_and_privilege

Surveillance state of affairs. https://www.gocomics.com/brian-mcfadden/2026/09/08

AI data centre finance: building a bigger and bigger bomb https://awful.systems/post/9642127

Big Tech does everything it can to hide its true water impact

Because of Big Tech super-secrecy, "the most honest answer to how much water AI consumes will remain a range of source-specific figures. Their differences are useful evidence. They show that the environmental risk is real where infrastructure places new demand on a constrained water system, while a universal bottle-per-prompt statistic cannot identify where that pressure occurs."

https://memeburn.com/ai-water-consumption-statistics-2026-and-key-findings/

@GrapheneOS
@aphedges @paulshryock

fascists love this one simple trick to destroy confidence in your security project.

way to go guys. what an embarrassing fucking nightmare.

"Oh my god, my AI agents are talking to one another!"

This seems incredibly impressive to anyone who hasn't, at any point in their lifetime, been in an IRC channel that had two misconfigured bots that started talking to each other until someone kickbanned one or both of them and then told the operators of said bots to sort their shit out before letting them back in the channel.

The deaths of 25,000 asylum seekers and the abuse of 150,000 survivors in Libyan detention are now at the center of a push for the ICC to investigate European leaders and Libyan suspects, Cathy Otten reports, for crimes against humanity.

https://inthesetimes.com/article/migrant-deaths-mediterranean-sea-europe

Listen to me and Raleigh chop it up about the fundamental problem with politics in the US (imnsho).

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yV_b8F9aVl4

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Happy fake mayday, but also Happy worker day!

Fuck AI, it doesn't work for us. It's a technology of cognitive and cultural control.

Workers make the world. Workers make culture

@glyph This is why I tend to see the AI boosters like I do pick-up artists.

They won't take no for an answer, or leave us alone. They instead try every method of persuasion to get us to just give in.

it's very weird having a new kind of software described to me the same way a pandemic was. "repeated exposure may give you brain damage and it even kills a few people, but it's here to stay so you'll just have to get used to it"