Yesterday I was invited to speak for the @npub16nz9...pw42 campaign at the "Good Night Far Right" conference of @npub1kyzw...upnj. It was humbling. Also on the panel were brave humans from Greece, Peru and Brasil who shared strategies and learings from their fights against their regions flavor of the extreme right. What stuck with me is how fundemental this well known and ofter repeated truth ist: DO NOT OBEY IN ADVANCE!
Please don't call it "techno-feudalism". Really. Don't. I know it sounds fancy but it's really not helping. It's still friggin' capitalism but with tech monopolies and a focus on rent-extraction. Capitalism always changed. No need to invent fancy new terms for every iteration. That would only disguise the exploitative dynamics of contemporary (but still) capitalism and the structural changes needed to overcome them.
This is it. The most important book about digital policy of our present. When you are active or interested in the areas of tech, digital policy or antifascism you must read "Cyberlibertarianism" by David Golumbia. I come out swinging with such an clear recommendation because I think that one would not oerestimate the possible influence of this book if one would count it as one of the most relevant works of political analysis in our digital age. Buy and read it now. image
"Die Federführung und die Aufsicht über die Wirtschaft soll beim Bund angesiedelt werden. Die bislang für den Datenschutz zuständige Behörde "Bundesbeauftragte für Datenschutz und Informationsfreiheit (BfDI)" soll umbenannt werden in "Beauftragte für Datennutzung." Hey Zivilgesellschaft, some opposition please 👀
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Arbeitsgruppen-Entwurf: Kommt das Digital-Ministerium?
Fundamentale Neuausrichtung inhaltlich und ein neues Ministerium: Was der künftigen Koalition bei Digitalisierung, Datenschutz und KI vorschwebt.
"Es geht nicht um ein imaginäres Wettrennen zwischen Regionen der Welt. Es geht darum, das öffentliche Interesse vor den Tech-Oligarchen zu schützen." - Cecilia Rikap und @npub1l7g6...nudk im heutigen Tagesspiegel Background ✨ https://background.tagesspiegel.de/digitalisierung-und-ki/briefing/demokratisch-kontrollierte-alternativen-gegen-technologische-abhaengigkeit
"Planwirtschaft ist nicht nur möglich, sondern bereits überall um uns herum da, wenn auch in hierarchischer und undemokratischer Form" schrieben Leigh Phillips und Michal Rozworski in ihrem 2019er Buch "The people's republic of Wallmart". 2021 brachten Timo Daum und @npub1vn3u...4h3m dann ihren Sammelband "Die unsichtbare Hand des Plans" heraus und leisteten damit einen wichtigen Beitrag dazu, die Planungsdebatte in Deutschland neu zu beleben. Immer noch lesenswert! image
"A line of text that is true has – for the LLM – absolutely no different quality than one that is false. There is no link to reality, no sensor data or anchoring, there’s just the data one was trained on (that also doesn’t necessarily have any connection to reality). If using the term hallucination is useful to describe LLM output it is to illustrate the quality of all output. Everything an LLM generates is a hallucination, some just might accidentally be true." - @npub1j8vy...ld5q
Smashing Frames
It's all hallucinations
The discourse on “AI” systems, chat bots, “assistants” and “research helpers” is defined by a lot of future pro...
To hell with "Don't try to save people". I wish someone would try. I need saving.
Von allen Scheusslichkeiten, die im Sondierungspapier der CDU/SPD stehen, alarmiert mich die Verbindung von Entziehung der Staatsangehörigkeit mit dem von der CDU instrumentalisierten Begriff des "Antisemitismus" besonders. Gleichzeitig ist Empörung Zeitverschwendung und robuste Solidarität die einzig sinnvolle Antwort. What a nightmare this all is.
Great piece by [@Rainer_Rehak](
Bits&Baeume
Rainer Agentic Quantum Rehak (@Rainer_Rehak@mastodon.bits-und-baeume.org)
6.54K Posts, 981 Following, 1.4K Followers · Informatik, Politik, Gesellschaft, Freude, Kritik, Chaos, Daoismus. @Weizenbaum_Institut@social.bund....
 ) about the circular reasoning behind "sustainable AI": Yes, pattern recognition technologies ("AI") could optimize our energy consumption or public transport. But optimizing for bikes instead of cars is a political decision. A decision "we" as western societies are not willing to make. We can't automate the very social change necessary for "AI" to be implemented for sustainability purposes in the first place.
On the (im)possibility of sustainable artificial intelligence
Why it does not make sense to move faster when heading the wrong way.