@Humam01001101

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Humam010011019h ago
Play Ball and Fight Fascists16h ago

OK, preaching to the choir here, but…

Our brains and bodies are simply not wired to handle the 24/7 horrors going on in the world right now.

I am not going to judge you based on how much you do or don’t talk about current events here.

Because I do know that the folks I follow here - they care, even if they’re not talking about it.

So if you’re feeling guilty/awkward/whatever about posting a good thing, or what you had for dinner, or something you made - please, don’t.

We need good stuff.

Humam010011011d ago
donni saphire1d ago
Ah, bedtime, when my dreams turn my fears into strange little plays
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TechCrunch1d ago
Decentralized social network Mastodon says it cannot comply with age verification laws, like in Mississippi and elsewhere, and says it's up to individual server owners to decide. https://techcrunch.com/2025/08/29/mastodon-says-it-doesnt-have-the-means-to-comply-with-age-verification-laws/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon
Humam010011011d ago
Maaike1d ago

I am absolutely sickened by the increasing number of these horrible fucking trucks on Dutch streets. This one is parked on a place prohibited for cars, and blocking the road in one go.

HATE this shit.

#urbanism #biketooter

Humam010011011d ago
BlueCrew community 💙💙2d ago
This church gets it. 💯
#BlueCrew #Resist
Humam010011011d ago
European News 🇪🇺2d ago

To defend against Russian tanks, Finland and Poland consider restoring wetlands

Finland and Poland are both considering rewetting dried out peatbogs to form defence barriers against a potential Russian ground invasion. Restoring these natural carbon sinks could also bring significant environmental benefits.

https://www.france24.com/en/europe/20250828-to-defend-against-russian-tanks-finland-and-poland-consider-restoring-wetlands

To defend against Russian tanks, Finland and Poland consider restoring wetlands

Finland and Poland are both considering rewetting dried out peatbogs to form defence barriers against a potential Russian ground invasion. Restoring these natural carbon sinks could also bring significant environmental benefits.

FRANCE 24
Humam010011011d ago
Free Software Foundation Europe1d ago

📣 Consumers should be able to buy laptops without any specific operating system, and should not have to pay the license price if they don't want to.

Together with the @ItaLinuxSociety we launched the initiative 'Refund4Freedom' to protect consumer rights when buying a new computer.

Join our demand to end of this practice that limits user freedom

🔗 https://en.refund4freedom.org/

#SoftwareFreedom #FreeSoftware

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J. L. Westover1d ago
Secret Panel HERE 💨 https://tapas.io/episode/3640089
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Kate Morley1d ago

You’re hosting a birthday party for your son, and the other kids are upset because he’s taken the entire cake and shut himself in his room, refusing to share it. Some kids are quietly collecting up the crumbs while others look like they’re about to riot.

You could demand he comes out of his room and shares the cake, but you have a different idea: ignore the chaos around you and try to bake another cake. You wouldn’t give the second cake to the other kids though: it’s your son’s birthday, so it should still be his cake. You’re sure that once he has two cakes he’d share some with the other kids.

You are a politician rejecting directly redistributive policies in the vain hope that encouraging economic growth alone might reduce inequality.

Humam010011011d ago
stux⚡1d ago
When your code works but no idea how
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Spelling Mistakes Cost LivesAug 7
New one
Show threadResistor McResistanceFaceAug 7

@spellingmistakescostlives

"I was only torrenting so I can make valid on-line reviews for your AI" - my lastest reply to those Concast emails

Show threadSamuelrodAug 7
@spellingmistakescostlives excellent
Show threadGothicAnonAug 7
@spellingmistakescostlives
lmao
Show threadkolyaAug 7
@spellingmistakescostlives I like the attitude but it's the same fallacy as those "You wouldn't download a car"-ads. a digital copy is not taking anything physical away. it takes away work and creativity and a lot of other hard to quantify values that people nevertheless get paid for.
by showing the thief taking the result of this work, it also falls into the "content" trap.
Show threadMagnus AhltorpAug 7

@kolya @spellingmistakescostlives But if we extend “train AI” to just all techbro behaviour, we have things that are actually taking physical things away, like scooter companies just unilaterally annexing public street space by placing scooters there.

Even if we stay in the “train AI” space, “AI” crawlers are now causing real harm to web server operators by uncontrollably bombarding them with queries.

Show threadkolyaAug 7
@ahltorp @spellingmistakescostlives I guess we can agree that communicating and illustrating the actual damage is difficult.
Show threadJay 🇺🇦Aug 10
@kolya @ahltorp @spellingmistakescostlives
True.
Show threadCyAug 10
Pictures of locust swarms, demonic hoards, stampeding cattle, getting buried in corpses, caption: "WHATS WRONG WERE JUST TRAINING OUR AI"

CC: @kolya@social.cologne @spellingmistakescostlives@mastodon.ie
Show threadfroxAug 8
@kolya @spellingmistakescostlives there is one key difference. The private use is usually for personal consumption, not for profit and not to create any derivative works.
The "AI" scraping is definitely for profit, intended to be a way to avoid paying creators for their work by reproducing it for free and then selling it to as many people as possible
Show threadJay 🇺🇦Aug 10

@kolya @spellingmistakescostlives

Eh.
Unlike piracy, AI does actually rapidly take the art away by deleting artists' jobs plus AI resells other people's art which is not how napster worked.
So while we all realize that digital copying does not delete the original, we should not apply stricter rules to our defense against fascist big tech than big tech itself keeps applying to us.
The picture is not accurate but it's so much closer to accurate than the original campaign.

Show threadkolyaAug 10
@Soulshine @spellingmistakescostlives
The argument against piracy at the time was the same: that it destroys jobs in the film and music industry. That didn't happen to any significant degree and it remains to be seen if AI does this sort of damage. Reselling might be a point. Then again P2P networks like eMule and BitTorrent also uploaded to others which can be understood as redistributing for zero price, ie much cheaper than the original work was sold at. Similar to how AI is cheaper.
Show threadSpelling Mistakes Cost LivesAug 10

@kolya So if I copy all the files from your hard drive without your permission, that's fine because it's not taking anything physical away?

If a digital copy is not theft why did OpenAI accuse DeepSeek of stealing their intellectual property? https://futurism.com/openai-deepseek-permission-ai-stealing

OpenAI Says DeepSeek Used Its Work Without Permission to Create an AI That's Stealing Its Job, Which Is Blatantly Hypocritical Since That's Exactly What It Did to Human Artists

After spending years indiscriminately ripping off other people's work, OpenAI is trying to pin blame on Chinese AI startup DeepSeek.

Futurism
Show threadPete's Mom 🍉 🇺🇦 ☮️Aug 7
@spellingmistakescostlives Plus its a federal agent steali$% I mean "borrowing" the artwork so a double on that one!
Show threadVerđandi K. SoldustyAug 8
@Petesmom @spellingmistakescostlives
UK Government is not federal, though I'm guessing the poster is a mock up for humour as UK government only condones theft if it's them doing it to those harmed the most (disabled, unemployed, working poor, etc.) through it.
Show threadwolfie 🐺Aug 8
@Soldusty @Petesmom @spellingmistakescostlives I mean I guess it is federal now that there are devolved powers for scotland, wales etc
Show threadVerđandi K. SoldustyAug 9
@wolfie @Petesmom @spellingmistakescostlives
It's definitely not Federal.
Show threadwolfie 🐺Aug 9
@Soldusty @Petesmom @spellingmistakescostlives ok
Show threadAlexAug 7
@spellingmistakescostlives why the Slavic looking fella?
Show threadSpelling Mistakes Cost LivesAug 10
@alex02 what makes him Slavic looking?
Show threadJonathanAug 7
@spellingmistakescostlives someone should steal the AI companies' proprietary models. I guess it's not theft 🤣
Show threadSpelling Mistakes Cost LivesAug 10
@jmcrookston It's been done, and obviously OpenAI were livid without any sense of irony
https://futurism.com/openai-deepseek-permission-ai-stealing
OpenAI Says DeepSeek Used Its Work Without Permission to Create an AI That's Stealing Its Job, Which Is Blatantly Hypocritical Since That's Exactly What It Did to Human Artists

After spending years indiscriminately ripping off other people's work, OpenAI is trying to pin blame on Chinese AI startup DeepSeek.

Futurism
Show threadJonathanAug 10
@spellingmistakescostlives I'm not even surprised.
Show threadJonathanAug 10
@spellingmistakescostlives Sam Altman is another con artist
Show threadTim ChambersAug 7
@spellingmistakescostlives I so hope this is really official….
Show threadwhooshAug 8

@spellingmistakescostlives

AND you'd donated heavily to the inauguration and library.

Show threadMy Actual BrainAug 8
@spellingmistakescostlives uhh... yes, all these Linux ISOs are for training my AI algorithm...
Show threadBob TregilusAug 8
@spellingmistakescostlives Lol!
Show threadMulti Purr Puss Aug 8
@spellingmistakescostlives @fink Arrr, matey! It's not theft if the owner gets to keep the original. Arrr! 🏴‍☠️ 🤣
Show threadSpelling Mistakes Cost LivesAug 10
@platymew @fink Tell that to OpenAI https://futurism.com/openai-deepseek-permission-ai-stealing
OpenAI Says DeepSeek Used Its Work Without Permission to Create an AI That's Stealing Its Job, Which Is Blatantly Hypocritical Since That's Exactly What It Did to Human Artists

After spending years indiscriminately ripping off other people's work, OpenAI is trying to pin blame on Chinese AI startup DeepSeek.

Futurism
Show threadGegenwind 🇺🇳🖖Aug 8
@spellingmistakescostlives copying is no theft! Why do AI-hater reproduce the obscuring framing of the copyright industry of the 90th?
Show threadNoodlemazAug 8
@Gegenwind @spellingmistakescostlives bit rich to claim to be anti-fascist and support big tech's mass theft industry
Show threadGegenwind 🇺🇳🖖Aug 8

@noodlemaz just because I clearify things, that does not mean I support fashist big tec. There are hundrets of FOSS AIs out there that run on renewable electricety. But you must be willing to differenciate to see this.

@spellingmistakescostlives

Show threadNoodlemazAug 8

@Gegenwind @spellingmistakescostlives I'm not talking about 'AI' (or algorithm-based tools and machine learning) generally.
I'm talking about generative AI
The big 'open' (yet black box) ones - the Chatgpt, image generators etc.

The ones that took global theft to produce
The ones that VCs are pumping billions into
The ones being shoved at us wherever we turn.

Some machine learning is useful, in specific cases. These generalised things are not. They just steal and waste.

Show threadGegenwind 🇺🇳🖖Aug 8

@noodlemaz and again: copying is not stealing!
And I cant‘t stress this enough, there is FOSS gen-AI and LLMs that are not made by big tech.

@spellingmistakescostlives

Show threadNoodlemazAug 8
@Gegenwind @spellingmistakescostlives yeah bullshit is scraping everything everyone has ever done, without consent, off the Internet, 'not stealing'. Why are you caping for those who take advantage and give nothing back. It's very sad
Show threadGegenwind 🇺🇳🖖Aug 8
@noodlemaz I am able to critizise big tech and fashistoid billionairs without using false arguments. You should try this once in a while.
@spellingmistakescostlives
Show threadNot🐧A🐧Convicted🐧FelonAug 10
@Gegenwind @noodlemaz @spellingmistakescostlives So I can copy everything on your computer's hard drive without your permission and that's not stealing?
Show threadGegenwind 🇺🇳🖖Aug 11

@sleepyfox it is illegal, however it is not „stealing“.

https://youtu.be/IeTybKL1pM4?feature=shared

@noodlemaz @spellingmistakescostlives

Copying Is Not Theft - Official Version

YouTube
Show threadChristian LaufAug 8

@Gegenwind @noodlemaz @spellingmistakescostlives It is if you don't have the proper licenses bought. It's maybe not theft in the sense of "somebody is now missing something" but you are still cheating the system. The very one which artists rely on to pay their bills. It's from them you steal.

And I mean really? Your argument is from the early 2000's copyright debate.

Show threadChristian LaufAug 8

@Gegenwind @noodlemaz @spellingmistakescostlives And it's exactly this argumentation which the image picks up and turns into a mockery to show how blatantly shallow the argumentation of big tech is.

It's called irony.

Show threadSpelling Mistakes Cost LivesAug 10

@Gegenwind Personal copying is different to a corporation copying in order to make models that will replace the jobs of the people it copied.

Also are OpenAI reproducing the framing you talk about when they accused DeepSeek of stealing "their" data?
https://futurism.com/openai-deepseek-permission-ai-stealing

OpenAI Says DeepSeek Used Its Work Without Permission to Create an AI That's Stealing Its Job, Which Is Blatantly Hypocritical Since That's Exactly What It Did to Human Artists

After spending years indiscriminately ripping off other people's work, OpenAI is trying to pin blame on Chinese AI startup DeepSeek.

Futurism
Show thread∴7700e6 `Violet` Aug 8
@spellingmistakescostlives For more information please reread
Show threadRythurAug 8

@spellingmistakescostlives

Am I being watched by the UK gov?

https://mastodon.social/@rythur/114946433279574240

That's last week.

Show threadTor LillqvistAug 8
@spellingmistakescostlives @paavi Yeah, confusing theft of physical objects with violating copyright is exactly what we need for a sensible discussion about these matters. (Sarcasm.)
Show threadFleshAug 8
@tml @spellingmistakescostlives @paavi As fun as AI-bashing and pointing out the hypocrisy is, yeah, using the same rhetoric as Disney and Microsoft is not the best means to go about it.
Show threadYlönenAug 8
@flesh @spellingmistakescostlives @tml While I agree, I also find this to be appropriate satire on the matter.
Show threadSpelling Mistakes Cost LivesAug 10
@flesh @paavi @tml How about using the same rhetoric as OpenAI?
https://futurism.com/openai-deepseek-permission-ai-stealing
OpenAI Says DeepSeek Used Its Work Without Permission to Create an AI That's Stealing Its Job, Which Is Blatantly Hypocritical Since That's Exactly What It Did to Human Artists

After spending years indiscriminately ripping off other people's work, OpenAI is trying to pin blame on Chinese AI startup DeepSeek.

Futurism
Show threadJonathan SchofieldAug 8

@spellingmistakescostlives masterful.

Now wondering how many occurences of the letter ‘a’ the latest Large Larceny Model thinks there are in ‘balaclava’?
https://mastodon.social/@kjhealy/114990301650917094

Show threadmabsAug 8
@spellingmistakescostlives or, something like "... so we can get a short term boost in productivity by replacing taxpaying jobs in the UK with a foreign company that does not. If that doesn't make sense, don't worry, you'll soon be able to speak to you ai government representatives when we replace them as well."; or something like that.
Show threadoscarAug 8
@spellingmistakescostlives is it a genuine gouvernemental ad ?
Show threadSpelling Mistakes Cost LivesAug 10
@oscar No but it's based on a genuine government policy
Show threadoscarAug 10
@spellingmistakescostlives okay ;-)
Show threadSophiaAug 9
@spellingmistakescostlives
Show threadThe Animal and the MachineAug 9

@spellingmistakescostlives @emory
I like this even though it’s not entirely accurate. The internet is free to read so it’s fine to build your AI model on it, however your AI is a construction of other people’s work so you can’t use it without crediting it and paying for it. Basically impossible.

The music industry killed sampling and tape deck style remix on this very point so it has prescient. Only when selling the use of the AI it’s theft.

So this picture is wrong but fuck the nuance, it communicates the idea perfectly.

Show threadEmoryAug 9

@taatm i had the same conclusion.

i think about this a lot because i end up in the middle of two diametrically opposed positions on AI regularly.

and when it comes to my photography i know i'm not going to break any new ground or anything. part of me says "creativity is iterative and influenced!" and another part of me feels possessive of the same thing as entirely my own? if i were an accomplished musician i'd surely have different opinions.

Show threadKrautdragon [ Art ]Aug 10

@emory @taatm I think it's as simple as one is a human learning just like you did and the other is not.

It makes a huge difference wether a human takes years before they become a threat to your niche VS algorithms who kill your niche within short time and for all generations. One is accepting the circle of life in an ecosystem where people work for their fruit like you did, the other is a destructive, cheating, forever living parasite. One deserves tolerance / empathy while the other does not.

Show threadEmoryAug 10
@krautdragon all i've got is a marxist critique of the attention economy and capitalism
Show threadThe Animal and the MachineAug 10

@krautdragon @emory
AI’s are a fantastic tool.

However failure of environmental law means they consume drinking water instead of sea water making drinking water.

Failure of environmental law means they are not zero carbon.

Failure of IP law means people steal.

(Failure to deal with racism has led to weakened government in order to facilitate racism, which has led to other failures)

Failure of UK defence planning means the UK adopts US standards.

AI is so misunderstood it’s talked about in the singular.

There is absolutely nothing wrong with AI. All the faults are around it in our society and we are letting politicians off the hook in blaming AI.