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Nicole Parsons  

@vfrmedia @wdlindsy

Focus on the people funding civil rights rollbacks.

Bradley, Koch, Coors, Scaife Mellon, Seid, Uihlein
newsweek.com/koch-bros-hide-do

theguardian.com/us-news/2018/s

metrojustice.org/7_disturbing_

desmog.com/2024/08/14/project-

nbcnews.com/politics/2024-elec

exposedbycmd.org/2022/08/11/ko

politicalresearch.org/2021/10/

Larry Ellison, Elon Musk, David Sacks, Peter Thiel.
washingtonpost.com/technology/

newrepublic.com/article/203337

Putin, #PrinceBonesaw
bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

amnesty.org.uk/saudi-arabia-hu

cnn.com/2025/11/18/politics/vi

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Mx. Eddie R  

@neil
To your last point, in this case I don't think calling it something else would have helped. This isn't a case of legit computer vision or other machine learning techniques being u fairly maligned, this seems to be "jam a plagiarism-based LLM into something just for the buzzword", which is a major specific "ai" usecase that pisses people off.

A good search algorithm would have been a good feature.

A legitimate recommendation engine would have been a good feature.

An LLM is not it.

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David Gerard  

boomsupersonic.com/flyby/ai-ne

fuckin. not just repurposing *old* jet engines as gas turbines for OpenAI. now they're building new one specially for OpenAI.

the world becomes South Memphis

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Freedom of the Press  

Threatening to punish app stores if they don’t remove apps the government dislikes is unconstitutional.This time it’s ICEBlock, but tomorrow it could be a news app.

Good for ICEBlock for standing up for everyone’s First Amendment rights.

cnn.com/2025/12/08/tech/iceblo

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Adding in viable , like , will make one an outcast among outcasts.

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Old Fucking Punk  

Vibe coding will never be able to replace a good OO analyst. ...not that any companies are looking to hire a good OO analyst. ...or even know what a good OO analyst is (even if they already have one they aren't using for OOA). ...or even what OOA is (thinking that a D should follow). ...or that OOA models can be translated into 3GL code automatically (now I've gone too far and am branded an outcast).

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PeerTube  

🐙 We just published the 8th version of #PeerTube !

New video player, collaborative channel management, improved import system…
With each update, PeerTube improves to better meet your needs!

In a new blog post, we review these new features, as well as the past year and our plans for the future.

Check it out on Framablog!

👉 framablog.org/2025/12/09/peert

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🅰🅻🅸🅲🅴 (🌈🦄)  

Because age verification is really just there to:

- suppress queer information
- restrict abortion access
- gatekeep sexual education
- slurp up more personal data for marketing

"But think of the children!"

Maybe we should think about the corporations that prey on their attention-spans and self-esteem instead.

Sign stuff here:
stoponlineidchecks.org

Info on how to help here:
docs.fightforthefuture.org/s/6

#CallToAction #Activism #InternetSafety

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Josh Davis  

The idiots are in charge...are they've taken over the schools. GenAI is a scourge, and anyone pushing it in an institutional setting should be shown the door immediately.

Frankly glad I don't have kids, because if I did I'd be homeschooling them for sure, between this and our govt's refusal to adequately ventilate schools and classrooms.

youtube.com/watch?v=GZT5NulzUVM

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Enola Knezevic  

This is your friendly reminder that only privileged can afford to buy nothing in November (or on Black Friday), to boycott cheap brands, conventional agriculture, plastic packaging, or terrible companies such as Nestle.

Many, myself included, have a list of things to buy on Black Friday, because something broke or got worn out months ago, and we are waiting to get a replacement for at least 5% cheaper.

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Enola Knezevic  

@ludicity @apth Juniors stop being juniors at some point.

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Ludic 🧛  

I've tried Claude Code twice in the past month and cannot reconcile the insane results people are reporting with its actual performance.

It's superhuman at specific things (my ability to join two CSVs is capped by my typing speed), but anything that's much more complex than that starts to get into weird territory where I'm typing so much English that it might have been less tiring to simply write the code.

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Chuck Darwin  

Medicare pilot program will allow private companies to use artificial intelligence to review older Americans’ requests for certain medical care — and will reward the companies when they deny it.

In January, the federal Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services will launch the
"Wasteful and Inappropriate Services Reduction" (WISeR) Model to test
👉AI-powered prior authorizations on certain health services for Medicare patients in six states:
Arizona, New Jersey, Ohio, Oklahoma, Texas and Washington.
The program is scheduled to last through 2031.
❌The program effectively inserts one of private insurance’s most unpopular features
— prior authorization
— into traditional Medicare,
the federal health insurance program for people 65 and older and those with certain disabilities.
Prior authorization is the process by which patients and doctors must ask health insurers to approve medical procedures or drugs before proceeding.
stateline.org/2025/12/04/medic

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BrianKrebs  

...and you're wasting even more of your life posting about your regrets at the Nazi bar. Still, they probably need to hear it most. Points for partial awakening. Hey, at least you made good money doing it, right?

"I wasted 8 years of my life in crypto"

"Over time however, I felt like I have lost my purpose in crypto. The initial siren songs of crypto’s transformative powers waned after working in the space full-time. I was disillusioned by my target customers and who I was really building for. I completely misunderstood what the actual users of crypto are v.s. just propaganda. Crypto purports that it helps decentralize the financial system, which I completely bought into, but in reality, it’s just a speculation and a gambling hyper-system that’s really just a mirror of what the economy is now."

"The reality hit me like a fucking truck. I am NOT building a new financial system. I built a casino. A casino that does not call itself a casino, but it is the biggest, online, multi-player 24/7 casino our generation has ever concocted. Some part of me wants me to feel proud that I contributed at least my 20s building this casino out. Another part of me literally feels like I wasted my entire 20s in this space. I wasted my life on this, but at least I made good money from it."

x.com/kenchangh/status/1994854

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BrianKrebs  

via Hackernews. It really is comical the lengths to which companies will go to avoid being contacted by their customers.

What the fuck is a ‘fuck off contact page?’

"A “fuck off contact page” is what a company throws together when they actually don’t want anyone to contact them at all. They are usually found on the websites of million or billion dollar companies, likely Software-as-a-service (SaaS) companies that are trying to reduce the amount of money they spend on support by carefully hiding the real support channels behind login walls. These companies tend to offer multiple tiers of support, with enterprise customers having a customer success manager who they can call on this ancient device we call phones, whereas the lower-paying customers may have to wrangle various in-app ticket mechanisms. If you solve your own problem by reading the knowledge base, then this is a win for the company. They don’t want to hear from you, they want you to fuck off."

nicchan.me/blog/the-f-off-cont

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Electronic Frontier Foundation  

Police surveil everyone driving in San Jose and search that data thousands of times per month without ever seeking a warrant. It’s an unchecked police power, an end run around the courts & a blatant privacy invasion, EFF’s Lisa Femia wrote for the Mercury News. mercurynews.com/2025/12/06/opi

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Grassroots Economic Organizing  

We just publised Chapter 13 of Cooperative Enterprise and Market Economy, by @luisrazeto, tranlated by @Matt_Noyes
#cooperatives #economics #SolidarityEconomy

geo.coop/articles/cooperative-

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Elena Rossini ⁂  

Follow-up to this morning's post about #AIslop.

@bookstardust @lefteristrip23 suggested I could turn off AI-gen image recommendations on #Pinterest. I did - thank you!

No more LEGO AI slop... but now my feed is 100% illustrations with the same style... and I don't know what to trust anymore.

I found an illustration of NYC really odd (Statue of Liberty in the middle of the city?!?), zoomed in and boom: complete gibberish on a store sign (aka surest sign of AI slop).

No more Pinterest for me 😭

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Dave Lane :flag_tino: 🇳🇿  

It begins: rnz.co.nz/news/national/581225 - people being unable to afford insurance for their homes due to climate-related risks they don't themselves understand. This is just the first domino.

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PM Press  

As a Friend of PM, you’ll get a package of our new books every month and 50% off our webstore until you tell us to stop. No strings. Just radical books for the fight ahead. Sign up this month, and get this scarf free!

pmpress.org/index.php?l=produc

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