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The Luddite Club of Oberlin College · Oberlin #Luddites Reject “Year of AI Exploration” Adopted by School. Image credit: @loriemerson

VIXIL 3d ago

James Gleick 4d ago

Do you understand why Trump has lifted the oil sanctions that were punishing Iran, the country he’s bombing, and Russia, the country that’s helping it?

Do you understand why Trump is sending 5,000 Marines to sail through the Strait of Hormuz while complaining that none of our friends and allies will help him reopen it?

Here's the whole explanation.

https://no01.substack.com/p/march-19-21-god-is-a-comedian

March, 19-21: God is a comedian

A stiff drink is recommended

Gold and Geopolitics

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VIXIL 4d ago

@occult At least the hair is possible. 👩‍🎤🧑‍🎤👨‍🎤

VIXIL Mar 17

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jwz Mar 17

"It's like having a reference librarian!"

My Brother in Taxonomy, it is the farthest thing from that.

A reference librarian is a person with feelings, motivations and ethics, who has a goal of helping you find the answer to your question.

The chatbot is a clockwork mechanism that extrudes text optimized to make you *think* your question has been answered.

It is also a machine built by fascists with the goal of creating a dependent, de-skilled, submissive populace and ending Democracy. HTH.

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VIXIL Mar 15

@h2onolan 𝒞ℴ𝒸𝓉ℴ𝓁𝒶 🤮 Nothing like the real thing. Thanks for the reminder to not trust content from random sources. Unfortunately, everything is getting polluted. 😭

VIXIL Mar 14

404 Media Mar 14

Moons orbiting free-floating planets may remain warm for billions of years, raising the possibility some might host stable water, or even life.

https://www.404media.co/alien-life-might-exist-on-the-starless-moons-of-rogue-planets-scientists-say/

Alien Life Might Exist on the Starless Moons of Rogue Planets, Scientists Say

Moons orbiting free-floating planets may remain warm for billions of years, raising the possibility some might host stable water, or even life.

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VIXIL Mar 14

@thomasfuchs That is hilarious. 💡 #clawards

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VIXIL Mar 13

@cstross This Art of War excerpt reminded me of this for some reason. Over 800K killed in 100 days.

“I yo uza kwimenya nanje ukamenya ntuba waranyishe.”

- Felicien Ntabengwa

[“If you knew me, and if you really knew yourself, you would not have killed me.”]

Murambi Genocide Memorial

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VIXIL Mar 13

@sassdawe @Viss Same here. I have the same little router but had not considered this. Are you making what you wrote public? No worries if not, you inspired me to tinker with this. Thank you!

VIXIL Mar 12

Bellingcat Mar 12

De Telegraaf, the Netherlands’ largest newspaper published an interview with a woman claiming to organise her own evacuation flights from Dubai, promoting seats at €1,600. Bellingcat found that the image in the interview was likely AI-generated, and flight-tracking data suggests no such plane took off.
https://www.bellingcat.com/news/2026/03/12/ai-used-to-promote-non-existent-evacuation-flights-from-the-middle-east/?utm_source=mastodon

AI Used to Promote Non-Existent Evacuation Flights From the Middle East - bellingcat

A Dutch newspaper published a story about private evacuation flights from Dubai, but the photo shows signs of AI generation and the flights appear never to have existed.

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