Ivan Reesewould love to see more culture framed as follows:
"ai sucks. it makes gentle people sad, and rich people more powerful. here's something else to feel good about instead."
i want so much of that right now.
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Laurence Diver
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AI strategy at the FCA • views my own • ivory tower escapee; wrote 'Digisprudence: Code as Law Rebooted' (EUP '22, OA) http://bit.ly/digisprudence; cofounded Journal of Cross-disciplinary Research in Computational Law (CRCL) • some-time dev 💻 • always a European Scot
@Iris maybe try the phanpy.social client, it has both (and looks beautiful)
Friday Front-End"x86CSS is a working #CSS-only x86 CPU/emulator/computer. Yes, the *Cascading Style Sheets* CSS. No JavaScript required." https://lyra.horse/x86css/
Anil DashEverybody is (understandably) very excited that Anthropic isn't selling their AI for Hegseth to use to automate his war crimes. But I would gently suggest that we not accept setting the bar quite so low. https://www.anildash.com/2026/02/27/a-cookie-for-dario/
404 MediaThe creator of Nearby Glasses made the app after reading 404 Media's coverage of how people are using Meta's Ray-Bans smartglasses to film people without their knowledge or consent. How it works:
https://www.404media.co/this-app-warns-you-if-someone-is-wearing-smart-glasses-nearby/
This App Warns You if Someone Is Wearing Smart Glasses Nearby
The creator of Nearby Glasses made the app after reading 404 Media's coverage of how people are using Meta's Ray-Bans smartglasses to film people without their knowledge or consent. “I consider it to be a tiny part of resistance against surveillance tech.”
tante"AI is built on the collective knowledge of humankind."
No. Nononononono. It is not built on _knowledge_, it it built on _data_. And not everyone's experiences are available as data, many communities are excluded. Also: "Collective" implies some sort of collaboration and shared activity. But "AI" is just accumulation by a few powerful.
So No. It's not collective but extractive, not knowledge but data, not humankind but the hegemonic western view. Everything in that statement is wrong.
Ethan MarcotteWhatever the output gains promised by LLMs, their initial productivity surge is erased over time, and replaced by heavier workloads—and that leads to workers experiencing “cognitive fatigue, burnout, and weakened decision-making.”
All this from research out of the notoriously pro-worker rag [checks notes] Harvard Business Review: https://hbr.org/2026/02/ai-doesnt-reduce-work-it-intensifies-it
La IA no reduce el trabajo, lo intensifica
Una de las promesas de la IA es que puede reducir la carga de trabajo para que los empleados puedan centrarse más en tareas de mayor valor y más interesantes. Pero según una nueva investigación, las herramientas de IA no reducen el trabajo, sino que lo intensifican constantemente: en el estudio, los empleados trabajaban a un ritmo más rápido, asumían un mayor número de tareas y ampliaban su jornada laboral, a menudo sin que se les pidiera. Puede parecer una ventaja, pero no es tan sencillo. Estos cambios pueden ser insostenibles y provocar un aumento de la carga de trabajo, fatiga cognitiva, agotamiento y un debilitamiento de la capacidad de toma de decisiones. El aumento de la productividad que se disfruta al principio puede dar paso a un trabajo de menor calidad, a la rotación de personal y a otros problemas. Para corregir esto, las empresas deben adoptar una «práctica de IA», es decir, un conjunto de normas y estándares en torno al uso de la IA que pueden incluir pausas intencionadas, secuenciar el trabajo y añadir más base humana.
Autonomic Co-opHello friends, today we’re launching https://cooperative.computer !
It’s like dGaaS (De-Googling as a Service). Nextcloud files storage, contacts and calendar syncing and a Matrix account all for £3 per month.
- No ads
- No data mining
- No BS
AND THAT’S NOT ALL! Don’t like it? Change it! Cooperative.computer will eventually be its own cooperative where the members decide how it’s run.
Come talk to us on Matrix today! Operators are standing-by. https://matrix.to/#/#general:cooperative.computer
Molly WhiteEven when there’s no accountability, the record matters. Credit to the Wikipedia editors maintaining this page.
Open Rights GroupAmerica sneezes. We catch a cold.
And the UK is overexposed.
As long as foreign tech runs our digital infrastructure, our systems can be used as leverage or disrupted on Trump's say so.
Tell your MP to support the motion for #DigitalSovereignty ⬇️
https://action.openrightsgroup.org/tell-government-devise-uk-digital-sovereignty-strategy
#trump #sovereignty #tech #nationalsecurity #uk #ukpolitics #ukpol
Protect Britain’s Digital Backbone — Ask Your MP to Act
Take action! What’s the problem? The UK’s digital backbone. The cloud services, data systems, and platforms that underpin government, public services, and democratic processes is dangerously reliant on a small number of foreign tech companies. Much of this critical digital infrastructure is controlled by US-based firms such as Amazon, Google, Microsoft, and Palantir, whose services are embedded across government and the public sector. Other key providers are based in Israel and China. Together, these companies operate systems that are essential to how the UK state functions day to day.