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Jesse McClure

4h ago

@jonny

No code written for, by, or with the assistance of AI should ever be executed. Only the authors of it should be.

Jesse McClure

4h ago

Thomas 🔭🕹️11h ago

A very “surprising pattern” that people don’t want to use fucking shit that doesn’t fucking work and depends on stealing people’s work and fucking lighting the mother-fucking planet on fire while feeding their fucking money into the greedy throats of billionaires.

I used to have those combo-lock anxiety dreams frequently. It's been many years now though.

While speculative / anecdotal, it seems that these dreams were frequent during a period of my life when I had enormous insecurity about my home / privacy. I.e., making rent month to month with a horrible landlord who violated tenant privacy on a whim for little to no reason.

While I still have my share of financial anxiety, I own my own home now, and have not had those dreams since.

Reefer-Policy: Don't write official standards while high.

Jesse McClure

1d ago

Baldur Bjarnason 1d ago

“Artificial intelligence is the opposite of education”

https://helenbeetham.substack.com/p/artificial-intelligence-is-the-opposite

> But what if there isn’t a middle of this road? What if the project of ‘artificial intelligence’ is not a road to new kinds of education - not even a slow and bumpy one – but the reversal of everything education stands for?

Artificial intelligence is the opposite of education

Or: what if there is no middle ground?

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Jesse McClure

1d ago

Steve Herman 1d ago

Wired - DHS urging local law enforcement to consider a wide range of activities as violent tactics, including skateboarding, riding a bike or livestreaming a police encounter. https://www.wired.com/story/dhs-tells-police-that-common-protest-activities-are-violent-tactics/

DHS Tells Police That Common Protest Activities Are ‘Violent Tactics’

DHS is urging law enforcement to treat even skateboarding and livestreaming as signs of violent intent during a protest, turning everyday behavior into a pretext for police action.

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Jesse McClure

1d ago

@FrancoisPrague @georgetakei

Even the ones who don't speak any English.

When you skipped history class and the briefing.

Jesse McClure

2d ago

Roni Laukkarinen 2d ago

Fediverse is still the most lively social network I have ever used, since MySpace in 2003. It is better than Twitter or any commercial social media platform ever was. Absolutely love being here.

The most profound thing about it is the international coverage. After the first wave of enshittification in 2010, algorithms took over, and suddenly as a polyglot I was labeled as Finnish. No more visible international posts, people only saw the Finnish ones.

I've noticed the same effect in commercial AI. It ignores the fact that I use English online 99% of the time and still replies to me in Finnish despite all instructions. Algorithms and AI label you. They assign you a language, a status, a certain type of person. There's no changing that.

The Fediverse and Mastodon are delightfully mine, yours, and truly open source - respecting privacy. Nobody's machine can tell you, "You are this, and this is why we do that."

Fuck labelers and the fog machines. Let me be me. Here, on my own server, I can embrace my weirdness and post however I want, how often I want, whenever I want, in whatever language I choose - without constantly worrying about how my identity will be perceived by a machine.

#SocialMedia #Mastodon #Fediverse