Old Fucking Punk @lwriemen@librem.one

“Drone as first responder” programs are branded as emergency response technology, but actually involve “building the infrastructure for a pervasive, aerial mass surveillance system,” EFF’s Sarah Hamid told The Santa Fe New Mexican. https://www.santafenewmexican.com/news/local_news/policing-from-the-sky-santa-fe-police-testing-drone-as-first-responder-future/article_f032d779-9e80-4e03-912a-954912f109d9.html

Venture capitalists, get in on the ground floor of me, an IDEA MACHINE: Underwear that you rent. Shoes that detect if you're walking too leisurely and shock your feet. An aerodynamic baby you throw like a football.

St Patrick's Day enjoyers
🤝
Raw milk cultists

🥰 My milk is green 🥰

Rising gas prices are going to create a terrible rise in people who don't know how to use a sidewalk.

if you're depressed about the state of the world right now

or you're too numb to be able to feel anything at all

it means you have a moral compass. hold on to that.

people who are cheerfully going about business as usual right now, terrify us

Could someone PM me a Riseup email invite code? 🥺

#email #privacy

@dysfun One consistent boundary would be non-determinism, another the risk of copyright infringement

watching the fucking brain decay amongst previously superlative programmers, i'm gonna be saying "AI krokodil" a lot

This week's comic: The Big Dumb War Cycle

#war #foreignpolicy #uspol #cartoon

@alanpaxton @akahn I genuinely think having an AI write tests is a category error so bad I'd almost call it malpractice

A.I. musicians are COOKED. I just recorded an ENTIRE SONG using nothing but my instruments and a few microphones. This would have cost upwards of hundreds of dollars in expensive A.I. subscription fees but for me it was completely FREE. Don't get left behind. This is the future!

Boy I was wrong about the Fediverse https://matduggan.com/boy-i-was-wrong-about-the-fediverse/

Mining copper is environmentally devastating

In 1920, mining 1 ton of copper caused 30 ton of toxic waste

In 2020, mining 1 ton of copper caused 180 ton of toxic waste

Since 1900, the energy required to produce a unit of copper is up 16 fold.
The water required has doubled.

We need to mine as much copper in the next 18 years than in all of previous history.

In 2020, a data center might have used 5,000 tons of copper.

An AI data center can require up to 50,000 tons of copper

'Green'?

🔵 This week's Tom the Dancing Bug
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Lucky Ducky meets his A.I. replacement, Digitial Ducky!
GOTCHA!
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Brought to you by the Inner Hive, including longtime member C3-PU and new member Scottbob.
patreon.com/rubenbolling/membership
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READ IT RIGHT HERE👇

Moar signal boosting from our network coming down the tubes!

This time from @f and friends with a sharp analysis of the disastrous race for "best AI model", positioning cyberspace as a field of struggle, outlining current strategic considerations for resistance and questioning the prospects for autonomous infrastructures (and more 😛).

AI, original accumulation, autonomous infrastructures

https://sutty.nl/en/ai-original-accumulation-autonomous-infrastructures/

This is a translation of the original post shared by @sutty

https://sutty.nl/inteligencia-artificial-acumulaci%C3%B3n-primigenia-infraestructuras-aut%C3%B3nomas/

With a shout-out to the 3 month old PR which landed in the traefik recipe config by the same author 😛

https://git.coopcloud.tech/coop-cloud/traefik/pulls/72

Please do share widely 🧨

-- d1

Daniel Schuman is right, “We should be able to clearly see and understand who is donating” to presidential libraries and foundations.

But we can't, and the secrecy is a breeding ground for "graft and propaganda."

https://www.notus.org/money/presidential-libraries-fundraising-donors

She's been complaining about the drastically reduced usability of the voice assistants on both of her screenless devices (that she relies heavily upon to maintain her independence) for the last couple of months. The things were always kind of stupid, but at some point they got real bad real fast.

It seems the bot responds to most of her commands now by doing a web search and reporting the results...that is, when it doesn't just do something totally random like call a Walmart in a different state...

I never had any use for voice assistants on smartphones until I started hanging out with a blind woman a year ago or so, who makes extensive use of them. "Ok," I thought, "an actual non-creepy use case, maybe there is some point to these things after all."

Fast forward to today, we're in my car on our way to the grocery store. She wants to call ahead to let them know I'm coming so she pulls out her phone, turns on the voice control and says, "Call Buck's." Normally, the phone would respond "Calling Buck's Grocery Store", and then it would dial. Easy peasy. This time it didn't work like that.

It took three "Call Buck's" before the voice assistant did anything at all, and then it responded by calling the Walmart Pharmacy in Tempe, AZ. We live in Montana.

Next she tried "call 555-123-4567," to which the voice assistant replied "555 minus 123 minus 4567 equals..."

At which point she screamed and turned the phone off.

Good work with the AI, everyone 😒

Looking at today's jobs numbers, I'm considering ending cover letters with a "Pretty please?" from now on.