OpenAI insist that they can’t make money from the putrefaction of human knowledge unless all of their input costs are government-subsidised and they can freely steal copyrighted works.

Good to know.

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/apr/09/openai-pulls-out-of-landmark-31bn-uk-investment

#AI #OpenAI #LLM #Parasitism #Theft #Slop

The state as organism: not as political thesis, but as biological pattern. Why bureaucracies grow, dependency is no accident, and what "immune suppression" has to do with the Overton window.

🔗 https://kairos-prometheon.com/en/blog/2026-04-04-parasite/

#Sovereignty #PoliticalTheory #Parasitism #Freedom #Libertarian

Having red Nick Davies' book "Cuckoo: Cheating by Nature" [1], this paper is even more interesting:

"Categorical identity signatures can reduce host error rates during brood parasitism", Dixit et al. 2026 https://journals.plos.org/plosbiology/article?id=10.1371/journal.pbio.3003667

"The African cuckoo finch Anomalospiza imberbis parasitizes several host species, each of which has evolved inter-individual variation in egg appearance (“egg signatures”) that facilitates recognition and rejection of mimetic cuckoo finch eggs. We demonstrate that egg signature traits in one host species, the zitting cisticola Cisticola juncidis, are categorically distributed. Field experiments reveal that zitting cisticolas make fewer Type II errors (accepting parasitic eggs) and Type I errors (rejecting their own eggs) than hosts exhibiting continuous variation. This challenges the long-standing expectation (from classification models, statistics, and signal detection theory) of a strict trade-off between these two error types."

[1] https://uk.bookshop.org/p/books/cuckoo-cheating-by-nature-nick-davies/2880037

#cuckoo #BroodParasitism #birds #parasitism

ich hab am montag, als es noch sonnig war, es in manchen buschwindröschenblüten krabbeln sehen, dutzende winziger viecherchen, höchstens 1-2 mm lang.
ich denke dass das triungulinusse (triungulini?) sind, dreiklauige larven von ölkäfern, die in blüten auf wildbienen o.ä. warten, um sich von ihnen in deren nest schleppen zu lassen, das sie dann plündern

https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Triungulinus

#insekten #insects #krabbeltierchen #AuwaldRunde #BugOfTheDay #biodiversity #parasitism #nature #entomology #macro

Space, Lee Mullican, 1951

trying to think of something that relates to a new war started. This image has the feel of the inextinguishable light of Truth that is always there, shining through and through, knowing what you are, and why you do what you do. Inescapable.

Hi there! Yes, you! (always right there, inescapable)

#art #light #truth #weKnow #IsawWhatYouDid #capitalism #lies #economy #militaryIndustrialComplex #bronzeAgeReligion #notAgainAgain #parasitism #manipulation #exploitation #obvious #badMagician

For scale, the butterfly eggs in this shot are 1.8 mm in size.

"The overall winner in the ’18 and over’ category is Raghuram Annadana (Instagram: @macro_by_raghu) for his photo ‘Parasitic Play’ showing the eggs of a Banana Skipper butterfly (Erionota thrax) taken in India. He captured a parasitic wasp in the act of laying its own eggs inside the butterfly eggs. "

https://www.royensoc.co.uk/news/winning-insect-images-revealed-in-res-photography-competition-2025/

#Photography #Macro #Nature #Butterflies #Wasp #Eggs #Parasitism

RE: https://tldr.nettime.org/@tante/116020268562044519

It's not killing, so much as Vampirising.

Sucking the life out of everything.

Basically. #Parasitism