Hubert FiguièreApparently it's rude to reject AI slop.
You know what's rude? To expect people to read / review your AI slop.
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Bart SchullerYoutube offered me a Rutger Bregman video recently, about AI. I know the name of the guy and that he's supposed to be one of the good guys.
Within the first minutes it became clear that the guy was thoroughly AI-pilled, misrepresenting the stochastic parrots paper and slamming the authors. I closed the video.
So I’m happy that @Felienne has taken the time to watch the whole thing and write about it.
https://www.felienne.nl/2026-06-13/
Within the first minutes it became clear that the guy was thoroughly AI-pilled, misrepresenting the stochastic parrots paper and slamming the authors. I closed the video.
So I’m happy that @Felienne has taken the time to watch the whole thing and write about it.
https://www.felienne.nl/2026-06-13/
Bregman has fully embraced late stage capitalism
Of course, several people sent me Rutger Bregman’s video; "My secret goal, of course, was to provoke a rant from you" someone wrote, haha. Let's go, I guess. I always find it difficult to write about Bregman; I’ve written before about his sexist views on vegetarianism, his
Insecurity Princess 🌈💖🔥“So I guess what I’m trying to say is, the new workday should be three to four hours.“
Yup! That's what every worker knows and should have been fighting for with solidarity for decades. Every neurodivergent person knows that we can't do concentrated work for more than 3 hours, and that extended hyperfocus blocks drain our energy for the next day. It's not sustainable.
Steve Yegge writes about how AI + Capitalism creates an energy vampire https://steve-yegge.medium.com/the-ai-vampire-eda6e4f07163
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Jan Wildeboer 😷
Can we please all stop the "newcomers to Mastodon should visit this and that site, follow these rules" etc? Social networks evolve. Trying to control the behaviour of newcomers is condescending and counterproductive in my opinion. I don't want the Fediverse to become a walled garden. #UnpopularOpinion, maybe. So be it.
AdfichterRE: https://infosec.exchange/@adfichter/116738333166484144
I mean...on the front page of FT.COM ?!?!!!
How cool is this...
Palantir has lost a legal bid to force a Swiss magazine to publish its responses to articles detailing how the country’s government repeatedly rejected its services, in a case that has renewed scrutiny of its technology.
In a ruling on Friday, Zurich’s commercial court dismissed 22 of 23 counterstatement requests filed by the US data analytics company and its Swiss subsidiary, finding that only a single passage in one article warranted a published response from the company, which is chaired by Peter Thiel, a co-founder.
The dispute stemmed from two Republik articles that reported how government agencies had declined to adopt the company’s software, and raised concerns about issues including data sovereignty and legal compliance.
The reports, published in December and based mainly on freedom of information requests, examined Palantir’s years-long attempts to secure business with Swiss federal authorities.
The lawsuit has had a “Streisand effect”, drawing wider attention to Republik’s reporting and the Swiss government documents detailing repeated official concerns about adopting Palantir’s technology.
https://www.ft.com/content/7ffcace7-9dc0-4e7e-9912-895ac073f979?syn-25a6b1a6=1