@glyph This is why I tend to see the AI boosters like I do pick-up artists.
They won't take no for an answer, or leave us alone. They instead try every method of persuasion to get us to just give in.
okay I have successfully avoided responding to any of these directly but after having seen like the TENTH post today saying something like "we don't need to convince you to like AI, the revolution is coming whether you like it or not" I just have to reply, generally, to this whole sentiment: OKAY THEN. IF WE ARE GETTING LEFT BEHIND THEN LEAVE US BEHIND, ALREADY
@broadwaybabyto Here's the same article in archived form so that you don't give that garbage rag any traffic:
A few quick thoughts on why "AI Labs" love having their LLMs do math https://tante.cc/2026/09/07/the-function-of-llm-based-math-proofs/
“Heat kills 5 times more people than official stats show : NPR”
https://www.npr.org/2026/08/31/nx-s1-5724225/heat-wave-death-toll-tracker
> Thousands of Americans die every year from a chronically underreported cause: heat.
RE: https://systemli.social/@anneroth/117224382426870269
This is a pretty big deal, flying mostly under the radar. It goes to show a couple of things:
The only sovereign nations on earth are the US, China and Russia. The US has just proven that it can debank anyone it wants, with the twitch of a pen, with the exception of those protected by the other powers. There is no legal oversight, no court approval, no way to appeal...just defacto decisions by a narcissist with nukes.
Nobody is safe while these people are in charge. If the US can make a group of Italian volunteers who created a service that was proton before proton equal a hotbed of terrorists to global banks and DNS resolvers with nothing more than "I said so", then y'all...ain't a one of us that hasn't done something a fascist doesn't like.
It's wider than just Thiel. Our own Alan Gibbs was a driving force in creating the Atlas Network, and his daughter (former manager of the Headless Chickens, Straitjacket Fits and 95bFM) ran the joint for a while. They collect money from the very rich and distribute it to hundreds of grubby little front organisations like the FSU, the TPU, the ACT Party etc.
In the old days we would call this the CIA, this is the current privatised model.
I'm now very suspicious of 95bFM alumni.
If you support "age verification" online, you are supporting a system that GUARANTEES privacy meltdowns -- endangering all of us -- because the giant databases of scanned IDs are perpetually hacked by criminals who sell private data. https://www.techdirt.com/2026/09/03/hackers-had-a-live-feed-of-every-id-this-verification-company-scanned-for-over-a-year/
"Lupe" shares, "We're harvesting cilantro piece rate. We get paid $1.50 per box of 48 bunches. Supermarket sell each bunch for 75 cents each. It isn't fair. But there is nothing we can do except try to work a bit faster to squeeze in harvesting an extra box." #WeFeedYou
@internetarchive LLMs?!?! Seriously?
This is disgusting - these chatbots cause AI psychosis in their users, are built on the misuse of people's work against their wishes, and are horrendously computationally inefficient, meaning they are awful for the climate and water usage
Cancelling my monthly donation - I'm not sending money towards LLMs
@internetarchive What the fuck are you doing.
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