Mastodawn

Karma Burrito Mar 24

@pluralistic Might want to see if any of your talks are being involuntarily sold

https://www.404media.co/this-company-is-secretly-turning-your-zoom-calls-into-ai-podcasts/

This Company Is Secretly Turning Your Zoom Meetings into AI Podcasts

WebinarTV hosts 200,000 “webinars.” A Zoom call you may thought was private might be one of them.

404 Media

Karma Burrito Mar 17

@pluralistic Norway knows what's going down

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/mar/16/norway-rails-against-enshittifcation-deliberate-tech-deterioration

‘Another internet is possible’: Norway rails against ‘enshittification’

Absurdist video urges policymakers and users to resist deliberate deterioration of platforms and devices

The Guardian

Karma Burrito Mar 14

@pluralistic It's not AI, it's just more gig work in a trenchcoat

https://www.404media.co/ai-is-african-intelligence-the-workers-who-train-ai-are-fighting-back/

'AI Is African Intelligence': The Workers Who Train AI Are Fighting Back

Kenyan workers are still the underpaid labor behind AI training, moderation, and sex chatbots. The Data Labelers Association is fighting back.

404 Media

Karma Burrito Feb 28

@laurenshof Internet Podcast pundits just started their own Mastodon instance, userbase jumping on. But will it last?

https://maho.dev/2026/01/the-forkiverse-experiment-and-why-instance-choice-matters/

The Raccoon Bytes - Bite-piece of knowledge from a garbage code connosseur by Maho Pacheco, Software Engineer at Microsoft

The Raccoon Bytes - Bite-piece of knowledge from a garbage code connosseur by Maho Pacheco

Karma Burrito Feb 26

@pluralistic Stock market taking a dive due to a science fiction story https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-02-24/citrini-founder-shocked-his-ai-prediction-spurred-stocks-selloff

Citrini Founder Shocked His AI Prediction Spurred Stocks Selloff

The last thing James van Geelen expected to do on Monday was trigger a stock market meltdown. But that’s what he did.

Bloomberg.com

Karma Burrito Feb 6

Brad Gateway of the 502 Errors Feb 4

who wants some tea
i said
WHO WANTS SOME FUCKIN TEA

Karma Burrito Feb 5

Karma Burrito Dec 9

It's entirely possible to have too much AI in things

(Courtesy Jules_Starn on Insta)

Karma Burrito Feb 5

@pluralistic
Kinda your thing
https://theamericanvandal.substack.com/p/you-have-to-use-it-you-have-to-trust

"You have to use it. You have to trust it.": Forced Adoption of AI is The Subtext of Davos

Authoritarianism is the AI Bailout; But If AI Doesn't Need a Bailout, Does it Need Authoritarianism?

The American Vandal

Karma Burrito Feb 1

evacide Feb 1

Planning to film ICE? Wired has a guide for that: https://www.wired.com/story/how-to-film-ice/

How to Film ICE

Filming federal agents in public is legal, but avoiding a dangerous—even deadly—confrontation isn’t guaranteed. Here’s how to record ICE and CBP agents as safely as possible and have an impact.

WIRED

Karma Burrito Jan 27

@pluralistic Huge amount of skits about AI nonsense on Instagram and Tiktok, many quite good