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tante (@tante@tldr.nettime.org)

Joscha Bach, der hier einen Zivilisationsbruch nach dem nächsten im Austausch mit seinem Geldgeber Jeffrey Epstein macht, spricht dieses Jahr _wie...

Der Pipeline von "KI" Forscher zu Rassentheoretikern und Eugenikern ist leider extrem ausgebaut. Wäre doch ne schöne Gelegenheit für den #39c3 dazu jetzt nen Talk reinzuschieben: "Why the fuck are all these AI bros racist eugenicists?" Das ist ja kein Zufall sondern das hat System und innere Logik. View quoted note →

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Weltzeitgeist (@wackJackle@norden.social)

Attached: 4 images Die Dialektik der Aufklärung: Joscha Bach schreibt folgendes an Jeffrey Epstein (must read)

Joscha Bach, der hier einen Zivilisationsbruch nach dem nächsten im Austausch mit seinem Geldgeber Jeffrey Epstein macht, spricht dieses Jahr _wieder mal_ auf dem Chaos Communication Congress btw #39c3 EDIT: Scheint gerade aus der Planung rausgenommen worden zu sein. Evtl. wars jetzt sogar dem CCC zu viel (Dokumentierte Deals mit Epstein als der schon verurteilt war hat ja nicht gereicht) View quoted note →

Please do not use "AI-slop" to illustrate your articles or presentations. If you need images and have none just use one of the free stock image sites. It's not harder and doesn't make you look like a dumbass.

Also ich finde, jeder sollte einfach ne BahnCard100 bekommen. Und weil ja alle Effizienz wollen, sparen wir uns den Unfug gleich und die Bahn fährt fahrscheinlos.

"This is not some grand heel turn, or some brainwashing that DHH suffered. This is straight up a midlife crisis turned fash speedrun." (Original title: Jordan Petridis: DHH and Omarchy: Midlife crisis)

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DHH and Omarchy: Midlife crisis

Couple weeks ago Cloudflare announced it would be sponsoring some Open Source projects. Throwing money at pet projects of random techbros would har...

The ecological impacts of "AI" are bad but if people only used it intentionally, they'd stay there. But with every provider, every search engine, every website firing up some chatbot or summarizer even when not asked it quickly turns from bad to monstrous. "Just integrate an LLM, see if people like it" is like leaving your ICE-powered SUV running because someone might enjoy some cool air inside.

The translation of "just use our docker image" into human language is "we don't have good docs and we don't give a shit".

"An LLM helped me with some task" is not a good argument for these things increasing productivity. Did you also factor in all the cases where it made you slower? Where the output created extra work? And how much of your work/activity is that task? All bigger studies we know (even those done by Google for example) show a total lack of meaningful productivity gains, especially when looking at a whole organization. (There are few exceptions: Spam generation might see productivity gains for example. Translation services where quality doesn't matter much. But how much of our economy is that?)

This is sometimes read as "look 'AI' isn't working". But the opposite is true. _This_ is what "AI" is _for_. Push down labor power, push down wages, make employment more insecure.

AI layoffs to backfire: Half quietly rehired at lower pay

: Bosses banking on automation? 55% will regret those job cuts

We keep seeing startups who want to replace something valuable (therapy, counseling, tutoring, artistic expression) with some tech bullshit under the banner of democratization. But why do we need to invest so much in bad tech that doesn't work instead of just giving people access to what they need? This is a sign for how fucking atrophied our mental muscles are. How limited our space for thinking about how things should be. You want to democratize "going to therapy"? Make it "free" as in paid by socialized healthcare. You want to democratize "making art"? Give people money and free time to express themselves. None of these things are meaningfully addressed through tech. It's always about the political struggle to give people what they need and deserve.