Old Fucking Punk @lwriemen@librem.one

Pete Hegseth’s propaganda push is failing.

No matter how many journalists he bans from the Pentagon, the press is still finding scoops.

But that could change, unless politicians stop supporting crackdowns on leaks and restrictions on the open internet.

https://freedom.press/issues/hegseth-is-a-propaganda-flop-dont-let-congress-throw-him-a-lifeline/

"Flock’s controversial cameras were removed from this Californian city over privacy concerns — but Flock reinstalled them anyway"

"Grass Valley authorities removed Flock cameras from their city, but later found that Flock had reinstalled them."

https://www.techradar.com/tech/flocks-controversial-cameras-were-removed-from-this-californian-city-over-privacy-concerns-but-flock-reinstalled-them-anyway

#Privacy

Question: Anybody out there a US lawyer who can review a video draft in the next 3 days to confirm we're clear on libel/defamation?

(I've got a guy who normally does it! But his availability vs my production timeline aren't matching up this week.)

If this is you, reply below & I'll DM you.

I usually save these kinds of rants and essays for print zines, where I don’t have to embarrass myself by reading the comments online. But last weekend, I wrote something, then kept editing and expanding it until it had some structure. Hopefully, it turned into something constructive.

https://diyconspiracy.net/substack-and-music-journalism/

RE: https://mastodon.social/@nixCraft/117241250895962141

the only reason to join the omarchy trust is to signal new political allegiance.

it is, simply, a vice signal.

#fashtech

RE: https://tldr.nettime.org/@tante/117229170396354993

At my kid's school parents' assembly this week, I spoke out against the uncritical use of generative AI in the classroom. Another parent disagreed and said that it's "important to point out the positive aspects" of the new technology for the workplace, "as an example, I don't have to pay that expensive graphics designer anymore to do my job."

Part of why I keep coming back to "AI doesn't cause problems, it dramatically accelerates and exacerbates them" as a framing is that the slopbros working so hard to push AI products are, above all, capitalist accelerationists. It helps to look for where things already went wrong, where capitalism already ate our lunches before AI came along.

It is exhausting to work in an industry where it is considered normal to throw out your entire toolset every six years and do everything the opposite way

https://shopify.engineering/back-to-native

@aburka @neatnik I tell people who bring Omarchy up enthusiastically about DHH's fascism and about how bad the code is.

So far even two very AI pilled individuals (one fight at the time) are horrified enough to either say they won't check it out anymore or to stop bringing it up.

But it's worrying how being aligned on vibe coding makes these people enthusiastically extol this shiny new thing without the most rudimentary background check - another example of AI addiction eroding critical thinking, or increaaing people's impatience I guess

I worry that some people aren’t taking Omarchy seriously enough. It’s not just another Linux distro. It’s a well-orchestrated campaign to centralize power and influence within the Linux FOSS ecosystem. And it’s working.

Anyone paying attention to DHH and what he stands for can see what’s going on here. When the guy who thinks that brown people don’t belong in society hires the guy who thinks trans people shouldn’t exist, you can see where this is going.

Stop the surveillance state, I want to get off. https://patreon.com/BrianMcFadden

It’s hard to convey the scale and scope of how cooked a generation of people are by LLM slop.

“You can use AI to improve efficiency but make sure you double-check all its output to make sure it isn’t just hallucinating bullshit” thanks that’s actually more work and thus less efficient than not using an LLM at all.

“You have to double-check LLM output, but also if the task is too complicated or complex to figure out on your own, you should use an LLM” thanks but if it’s too complicated to figure out on your own, then you can’t double-check the output.

Just absolutely cooked.

A woman can be shackled, forced to remove all her clothes and menstrual products, and subjected to an invasive search—yet the government does not consider that sexual abuse.

Khawla Nakua reports on how strip searches are normalized “in the name of security.”

https://inthesetimes.com/article/investigation-prison-abolition-invasive-humiliating-routine-violence-incarceration-women-strip-searches

There's an EU feedback consultation open on the usage of LLMs in creative and cultural spaces. You don't need to be an EU citizen to participate (but you do need to make an account). If I read it correctly, it ends in like 3 hours (I've just been made aware like 10 minutes ago)!

https://ec.europa.eu/info/law/better-regulation/have-your-say/initiatives/18592-Artificial-intelligence-strategy-for-the-cultural-and-creative-sectors_en

CC: @tante @davidgerard @zzt

#AI #Math

The most recent case of the finite time solution of the forced Navier-Stokes equation has been discussed a lot in the recent days, on this network and in the mainstream press,
but I will try to give a perspective on what happened recently.

This is prompted by a friend informing me this morning of two annoying additional stories that taint the recent public success of AI generated proofs and will hopefully lead the mathematical community to address the question of predation and plagiarism.

However, I won't address here the even more important questions posed by AI companies beyond merely quoting some of them:
- its energetic cost;
- its impact on rare earths and other matters;
- its direct and immediate consequences on the ecosystem (water heating, pollution, land waterproofing, etc.);
- its impact on the work market, in particular those prompted by (actual or alleged) productivity gains;
- its impact on learning, cognition, etc.;
- its impact on the economic structure, tremendous announced gains/losses of companies that look like a Ponzi scheme;
- its impact on the power structure, who owns what, who gives access to what;
- its impact on the political structure, the surveillance capitalism, etc.

These are fundamental issues that should be addressed more clearly in the mainstream medias, and that, in my view, suffice to object to the existence of AI.

Anyway, what does it mean for academic math?

1/n

If being "clearly at odds" with your values is not enough to stop you from using the slopbot, your values aren't worth much, are they now?

"Although using the big AI platforms, as the study notes, is clearly at odds with the solidarity economy’s values, the lack of an alternative means many organizations within the sector are using it anyway..."

The alternative is NOT F'ING USING IT!

https://canadianworker.coop/study-concludes-a-co-operative-alternative-to-big-ai-platforms-is-both-necessary-and-feasible/

If you can’t write code without a particular IDE or LLM, it’s because you don’t know how to write code.

Learn! It’s fun to learn how to code.

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RE: https://neopaquita.es/@berniethewordsmith/117246249020074543

"Disabled people need AI! Why are you so ableist?!"