The dark side of the balloon boom – is it time they were banned? - https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/apr/02/the-dark-side-of-the-balloon-boom-is-it-time-they-were-banned "these bits of floating rubber and plastic can have disastrous effects on wildlife" ban them now
#Copyright Industry Continues Its Efforts To Ban #VPNs - https://www.techdirt.com/2026/04/01/copyright-industry-continues-its-efforts-to-ban-vpns/
Claude Code codebase leaked
Anthropic: ‘human error, not a security breach’
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OpkyF-ugVq4&list=UU9rJrMVgcXTfa8xuMnbhAEA - video
https://pivottoai.libsyn.com/20260401-claude-code-codebase-leaked - podcast
time: 8 min 19 sec
Sycophantic Chatbots Cause Delusional Spiraling, Even in Ideal Bayesians
RE: https://infosec.exchange/@0xabad1dea/116308891820413082
At the @BZKopensource we're about to soft launch the government-wide code platform, based on Forgejo, and we've had to promise that we would offer a similar uptime as GitHub.
So.. do we just turn off the platform on Tuesdays? 🤔
This "careful" "AI Safety" company that just accidentally leaked its entire source code to the world is the one that African governments are entering into agreements with to include in infrastructures from health care to god knows what.
These are the products people have to use to make sure that they don't get dinged in their performance reviews for "not using AI."
These are the products teachers have to use in schools so that "students aren't left behind."
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/apr/01/anthropic-claudes-code-leaks-ai
Are you tired of so-called AI features being pushed on everyone everywhere?
Do you obstinately refuse to use these unethical technologies out of moral principles?
Do you write to your government representatives to tell them to oppose citizens' data being fed to proprietary corporate AI?
Are you part of the Slopposition? ✊
i have been writing a graph processing library for about a year now and if i was a fucking AI grifter here is where i would plug it as like "actually a graph processor library" and "could do all of what claude code does without fucking being the worst nightmare on ice money can buy."
I say that not as self promo, but as a way of saying how in the FUCK do you FUCK UP graph processing this badly. these people make like tens of times more money than i do but their work is just tamping down a volley of dessicated backpacking poops into muskets and then free firing it into the fucking economy
All corruption, all the time in Trump world. Exhibit 65,342, presidential "library" -- https://www.thebulwark.com/p/the-great-trump-library-robbery
“The answer isn’t to try to take a dictator and make them a better dictator, right? We’ve got these social media dictators,” EFF’s Cindy Cohn said on The Daily Show. “The answer is to get rid of the dictators and make them less important.” https://www.thewrap.com/culture-lifestyle/culture/daily-show-cindy-cohn-ai-social-media-x-meta-video/
Capitalist, colonialist exploitation depends on traumatized children. It all depends on traumatized children, & it always has.
The Epstein class fights us on "social" issues because the logical result of respecting all people would be a world where people become hard to exploit & even harder to convince to do someone else's violence.
Without suffering, the power structure collapses. The suffering is necessary to the economic system.
One week until our in-person Linux install workshop! Come one, come all!
Wednesday April 8th, 6pm at @firestorm in Asheville
You bring computer, we bring everything else! More info on our blog: https://blog.bunk.computer/in-person-bunk-event-linux-install-workshop-on-april-8th
This is compelling for the 'electrification' movement. https://ourworldindata.org/battery-price-decline #Batteries #PriceGoDown
Another day, and another reminder of why Microsoft is simply farcically bad, and entirely unworthy of its dominance. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KPtIx5ZFSOY
Probably all of us at first tried to reason with conspiracy theorists, and, of course, it didn't work. Then we learned that they react emotionally, and conspiracy theories are designed to provoke strong emotional reactions. What if you believed that satanic cults molesting children existed, would you not try to free those children?
Later it was demonstrated that the far right, and most of the "moderate" right also don't care about the facts, and I've even read (and boosted) an article about that being the reason they use machine generated images and videos (the other reason being that those generators are biased because of outdated racist sexist training sets).
I had a passing thought: "Now that Claude Code was leaked,, are the proponents of LLM generated code going to feel stupid?" The code is still there, you just need to go a few commits back to see it.
And no, they are not. If anything, they are going to double down on propaganda, because it has always been emotional. It is like women who post about their husbands' abusive behaviour, and, when advised to leave, posting a response "He is a really great husband, you don't know him like I do!" Intermittent reinforcement is both how abusive partners and slot machines work.
„By Wednesday morning, Anthropic representatives had used a copyright takedown request to force the removal of more than 8,000 copies and adaptations of the raw Claude Code instructions—known as source code—that developers had shared on programming platform GitHub.“
Because if there’s one thing GenAI companies absolutely don’t take lightly, it’s copyright.
Today, we're introducing three things.
The first one is a forum. A real forum - with categories, threads, and actual conversations that don't disappear in a timeline after six minutes.
The second is a Fediverse platform. Fully federated, ActivityPub-native. Your posts go out, the world's posts come in. No walled gardens, no algorithms, no tricks.
The third is a Bar. A place to sit down, talk to strangers who happen to care about the same weird things you do, and stay as long as you want.
A forum. A Fediverse platform. A bar.
Are you getting it?
These are not three separate things. This is one thing.
And we're calling it Billboard.
And no, we checked the calendar. We know. This is not an April Fools' joke.
We're just really bad at timing.
#ShlaerMellor, #FunctionPointAnalysis, #punk, #environmentalist, #unionAdvocate, #anarchosocialist
"with a big old lie and a flag and a pie and a mom and a bible most folks are just liable to buy any line, any place, any time" - Frank Zappa