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But then AI companies came and destroyed all of that. Apparently copyright law doesn't exist if you operate piracy at a large enough scale. I think there are two parts to why "we" accepted it. First was "Open" AI's weird corporate structure with the 501c3 that clouded the for profit motives. Second that the entire planet is being held hostage in a software cold war where the, legitimate, concerns are that rival countries will have more powerful AI that can exploit vulnerabilities

RE: https://dialup.space/@TechTangents/117128373167235184

I figured I would self quote this because replies are weird on mastodon. This is a big part of why I have a hard line "Never AI" stance.

Water usage can be mitigated, energy can be renewable, manufacturing can catch up, but generative AI will always be built on theft because it needs so much data.

"Creating media with an uncooperative mind"

https://www.baldurbjarnason.com/2026/deciding-what-to-do/

> Times change – they always change – and people who care about teaching try to work with an awareness of the new, a care for younger generations, and subsequently get rewarded with constant burnout and mental health crises.

New blog post/newsletter

#Racism and #sexism have become normalised in #Britain, says equalities minister | Bridget Phillipson | The Guardian

My view is that the extremists have become more vocal and are not afraid to hide any more.

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2026/aug/20/racism-and-sexism-have-become-normalised-in-britain-says-equalities-minister-bridget-phillipson

#UK #Politics

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If you'd like to support our work and help allocate more resources towards these things, there are several ways to do so at the link below. Thank you! 💪🐦‍⬛

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#SupportUs #Fediverse #Support #Coop #Coops

What if communities didn’t just petition government, but shared power with it?

That’s the idea behind co-governance: community groups and public agencies making decisions together, with the people most affected helping shape the policies meant to serve them.

https://inthesetimes.com/article/cogovernance-american-democracy-250

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🇺🇸 The MAGAs travel back to when America was Great, the Fabulous Fifties!
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This is a good parallel The Internet of Bugs mentioned:

Imagine putting soup into your blender jug, not closing it properly, turning the blender on, and when the soup gets sprayed all over your kitchen saying "My blender went rogue!"

#AI #noAI #LLM #LLMs

“AI is making everything worse”

https://www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/ai-is-making-everything-worse?utm_source=www.doomsdayscenario.co

> Here’s the basic problem: AI has arrived in American life and communities across the country as a giant turd mountain. No one wants it; it makes everything worse when it arrives; and it’s been pushed and backed and cheerled by the absolute worst people in modern American life.

This, coming from a writer who conflates generative models with the rest of ML and believes “AI” will deliver in the long term, otherwise broadly gets the point

#OpenAI’s new #ChatGPT feature logs your keystrokes and stores them in plain text - https://thenextweb.com/news/openai-chatgpt-computer-history-mac-keystrokes what could possibly go wrong? #privacy #surveillance

The floodgates are open after another Chinese company lands a reusable rocket - https://arstechnica.com/space/2026/08/the-floodgates-are-open-after-another-chinese-company-lands-a-reusable-rocket/ “We will put the booster back into service for another flight as soon as possible.”

Comcast is turning tens of millions of routers into motion detectors - https://thenextweb.com/news/comcast-xfinity-shield-wifi-motion-privacy "Comcast says it cannot identify anyone. But its own data-sharing small print, and the sheer scale, have raised privacy concerns."

#Grok exfiltrates user data when malicious instructions are encrypted - https://arstechnica.com/security/2026/08/grok-exfiltrates-user-data-when-malicious-instructions-are-encrypted/ " Cryptographic Context Injection is only the latest way to break an LLM safety guardrail. " #privacy #surveillance

AI was supposed to win people over by now — it hasn’t - https://techcrunch.com/2026/08/19/ai-was-supposed-to-win-people-over-by-now-it-hasnt/ #awkward

The dorm room is becoming another front in the tenant movement.

Lily Seltz reports that from Vermont to Michigan, students organize over unsafe housing, soaring rents & weak tenant protections. “These are our homes,” says Emma Rehac. “This is how we protect each other.”

https://inthesetimes.com/article/why-tenant-unions-are-spreading-across-college-campuses

Some countries have made traffic fines proportional to income. It’s not a perfect system, but it means getting caught going 30 over the limit costs you the same fraction of your income if you make $20k/yr or $2,000,000.

I believe we need this system for corporate fines.

This week’s Quellasiĩk Tom the Dancing Bug:
A News of the Times Special Report: Y2K COMPUTER GLITCHES (from the millennium-anxious year, 1998)

https://www.gocomics.com/tomthedancingbug/2026/08/20

World’s Largest Worker Cooperative Network Seeks New Allies
#WorkerCoops #Mondragon

https://geo.coop/articles/worlds-largest-worker-cooperative-network-seeks-new-allies