Mastodawn

General Strike 5d ago

Rob Vincent 🎙️5d ago

"Leave me alone! You're not my real can!!"

General Strike 5d ago

Jens Ohlig Apr 1

„By Wednesday morning, Anthropic representatives had used a copyright takedown request to force the removal of more than 8,000 copies and adaptations of the raw Claude Code instructions—known as source code—that developers had shared on programming platform GitHub.“

Because if there’s one thing GenAI companies absolutely don’t take lightly, it’s copyright.

https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/anthropic-races-to-contain-leak-of-code-behind-claude-ai-agent-4bc5acc7

General Strike 5d ago

tante Apr 1

"The experience of workslop directly erodes social connection, erodes trust in one another and in the end erodes solidarity. Because why would you stand with a person who does not do their job and offloads their work on you?"

(Original title: Dissolving the social)

https://tante.cc/2026/04/01/dissolving-the-social/

Dissolving the social

“AI” exists to disenfranchise labor. That’s what it’s for. Regardless of how good these stochastic systems are or the flaws they have just being able to point at the non-unionized robot whenever the employees ask for raises or anything really is incredibly valuable for business. The existence of “AI” and the supporting narrative mean that […]

Smashing Frames

General Strike Feb 26

Anat Shenker-Osorio Feb 18

We not only can MAKE THE ARGUMENT we must. And it turns out, even in this horrific climate, most Americans already get it:

General Strike Jan 29

janhoglund Jan 21

”…people really need to understand that the world we've known is gone and it's not coming back any time soon. … The people who support Trump are not going away even when Trump goes away.”
—Robert Kagan
https://www.thenerve.news/p/robert-kagan-carole-cadwalladr-europe-wake-up-trump-dictatorship-russia-white-supremacy-keir-starmer
#trump #usa #europe

‘Europeans have to understand that it’s over’: Robert Kagan on Trump’s coming ‘dictatorship’

The geopolitics expert, who warned of the president’s authoritarianism a decade ago, tells Carole Cadwalladr how deep the roots of American white nationalism are – and that European governments needs to wake up, fast

The Nerve

General Strike Jan 29

Enshittification Film Jan 21

In 2023, the noted visionary and no fucks-giver Cory Doctorow surveyed modern society and declared: “We need a word that adequately describes the hell that’s our world.”

And thus, the word of the year was brought into existence: “Enshittification”

Join us on our journey out of the Enshittocene, as we document the journalist, the activist, the tech crusader extraordinaire Cory Doctorow and everything #enshittification

@pluralistic