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I keep seeing people who have become very dependent on LLMs for everything make the point that we can’t complain about AI because the environmental impact of the meat industry is worse, but

1) A lot of them aren’t vegan/vegetarian themselves
2) It’s not because the meat industry is bad that other things can’t be bad in addition
3) We should have the capacity to be against two evils simultaneously, reduce impact on several fronts
4) There are lots of other issues with AI besides water usage

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RE: https://salisburyai.com/2026/07/20/bbc-bias-in-gaza-conflict/

‘BBC is systematically biased against Palestinians in Gaza war coverage‘

Good morning Fedi friends,

I have been feeling a rising anxiety over the state of the open web and the fediverse - after seeing efforts by politicians all over the world (in Europe too!) to introduce age verification laws for social media.

My way of coping?

Teaching people how to self-host their own Fediverse profile (using the superb #GoToSocial) via #YunoHost.

Chapter 1 in this series is available here:

🔗 : https://blog.elenarossini.com/a-newbies-guide-to-self-hosting-gotosocial-part-1-installation-and-set-up/

#resist #blog #ActivityPub #selfhosting

A former prison warden argued that a young defendant should be spared execution because prisons “need that labor.”

Calvin John Smiley examines what this call for “sweat equity” reveals about incarceration, exploitation and punishment.

https://inthesetimes.com/article/julio-foolio-unions-and-sweat-equity

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DHS expects to spend $1 billion in taxpayer money to nearly triple the number of surveillance towers along U.S. borders from 830 to 2,300, expanding a surveillance network that threatens the privacy and civil liberties of everyone in the border regions. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2026/07/explosion-surveillance-towers-coming-us-borders-costing-over-1-billion

Orbital AI datacentres come with latency issues. If they're in LEO, they will have moderately low latency to a moving point on Earth, but for a fixed client the latency will increase as more relays are needed to account for curvature, so the jitter is high. If you put them in geostationary orbit, the latency is fixed, but large.

The solution to this is to put not just the AI datacentres, but also the AI bros in orbit. If you put an AI bro and a small radio in LEO, in the same orbital trajectory as an AI datacenter, they will have very low latency - indeed, significantly lower latency than ground-based routing if both they and the datacentre are on the ground.

Importantly, AI bros have a lot less mass than datacentres. As such, they are much cheaper to launch. As a pilot programme, to assess feasibility, I recommend launching a test constellation of AI bros into LEO. Note that, unlike datacentres, AI bros are made out of non-toxic (at least, in the chemical sense) substances. The environmental impact of uncontrolled atmospheric reentry is significantly lower, making the risk from the failure of a pilot deployment significantly lower.

Decoy is an ambigious font that "hides" from AI - https://boingboing.net/2026/07/17/decoy-is-an-ambigious-font-that-hides-from-ai.html also humans...

#EVs outsold petrol and diesel in Germany for the first time. The birthplace of the car just changed its fuel. - https://thenextweb.com/news/evs-outsold-gas-diesel-germany-first-time but too late to save the industry...

Tom Homan Again Promises That ICE Will Keep Murdering People Until Democrats Stop Calling Them Murderers - https://www.techdirt.com/2026/07/21/tom-homan-again-promises-that-ice-will-keep-murdering-people-until-democrats-stop-calling-them-murderers/ great headline

Argentina Joins Global Treaty to Fight Illegal Fishing - https://www.pew.org/en/research-and-analysis/articles/2026/07/17/argentina-joins-global-treaty-to-fight-illegal-fishing well done, #argentina

Iranian women being shut out of engineering fields, official warns - https://www.iranintl.com/en/202607209913 well, that's stupid... #iran

#Australia’s Next Target In The War On Kids Online: Your #VPN - https://www.techdirt.com/2026/07/20/australias-next-target-in-the-war-on-kids-online-your-vpn/ go home, australia, you're drunk...

RE: https://mastodon.social/@gamingonlinux/116958382115564493

Mozilla also used to run a fedi instance, they killed it about 2 years ago:
https://techcrunch.com/2024/09/17/mozilla-exits-the-fediverse-and-will-shutter-its-mastodon-server-in-december/

Way to go leading the open web. 🤡

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"If a software dependency contains malicious code, we have mature practices for discovering it, tracking its provenance, and reducing its impact. AI models are different. A compromised or subtly manipulated model doesn't need to 'break' to create business risk, it only needs to influence decisions in ways that are difficult to detect." https://semgrep.dev/blog/2026/ai-supply-chain-problem/

And to demonstrate, one of the researchers prompted their way into a backdoor in an open weight model: https://www.theregister.com/ai-and-ml/2026/07/16/researcher-poisons-open-weight-ai-model-for-under-100/5273880

This is kind of an incredible website:

Why your stuff stopped lasting, who profited, and what's still built right.

https://www.worseonpurpose.com

AI Companies Are Buying Tons of Old Books Because They're Free of AI Slop
https://www.404media.co/ai-companies-are-buying-tons-of-old-books-because-theyre-free-of-ai-slop/?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub

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