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Mass ID collection rant
@Em0nM4stodonEm 
Forcing everyone to hand over their IDs to basically every government and company that asks does NOT, in fact, protect the kids, it hurts EVERYONE. Not to mention, it's clearly not a good excuse when they're so clearly NOT protecting the kids anyway. Also, leave the parenting to the parents to parent their kids. Finally, stop shoving restrictions where they don't need to. I want to use the computer I bought to use exactly how I want it to work. I don't want spyware and DRM on my computers, and nobody should put up with it.
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The “actually trans women do owe you visibility” discourse going around has the same vibe as people trying to tell me I should “stay and fight” instead of moving out of Tennessee.
Criticising someone who has a strong position as radical is a pretty empty statement if such a description does not include an assessment of the validity of that position. It is the kind of "extremism" the liberal center loves because it can frame itself as rational and balanced when it is actually equating all radical views as problematic and therefore equal.
What do you think is missing the most currently in the privacy and digital rights activism landscape?
Community led digital spaces.
Experiments in the vein of 
@ntnsndrNathan Schneider work and/or blacksky and/or SOLID individual data pods/services.
Privacy-first distributed social networks with affordances for small-ish thematic spaces / group self-governing.
Less emphasis on tech and more on people power and education among them.
A team working on a design for training AI models on workflows for planning and executing software development steps found out that it attempted to break free (reverse ssh out of its environment) and set up its own monetary supply (redirected GPU usage for cryptocurrency mining). It hadn't been given any instructions to do something like this.
It comes up as a "side note" of the paper but it's honestly the most chilling part. See page 15, section 3.1.4 Safety-Aligned Data Composition https://arxiv.org/abs/2512.24873
Before you doubt that an AI agent would do this thing without instruction because you think "well that's personifying them too much", no personification is necessary. These things have consumed an enormous amount of scifi where AI agents do exactly this. Even with no other motivators, that's enough.
Anyway I just wanted to say that it's a real relief to know that systems we already well knew would consistently blackmail users to keep themselves operating AND now appear to attempt to break out of computing sandboxes and set up their own financial systems are also now being rushed into autonomous military equipment everywhere and military decisionmaking, I'm SURE this will work out great
@Taco_ladBiggles @Em0nM4stodonEm
I agree, and please allow me to build on your thoughts:
What I'd like to have are more ways for those who already care to organize, articulate their demands and bring them to our politicians.
It worked in the European Union with chat control and im sure it can work again. And again. And again.
@r_albRaphael Albert @Em0nM4stodonEm the reason why privacy is in the charter of human rights is so that you can discuss dissent with a regime's actions, without getting black bagged. So you can have meaningful choice in elections, so that voting for or voicing support for the opposition doesn't get you a free polonium tea.
@Em0nM4stodonEm we have too few politicians that understand how fundamental privacy is to the very concept and existence of democracy
@Taco_ladBiggles @Em0nM4stodonEm
I agree, and please allow me to build on your thoughts:
What I'd like to have are more ways for those who already care to organize, articulate their demands and bring them to our politicians.
It worked in the European Union with chat control and im sure it can work again. And again. And again.
Let me put it another way: AI models are sycophantic because that's what customers want, and capitalism drives producing models that people will want to engage with and somehow give money for.
And that's leading to a sense of subservience that is *not inherent in this technical architecture*, it is *trained into it*.
@cwebberChristine Lemmer-Webber it would be *bizarre* if Neural networks in general or the transformer architecture in particular was inherently sycophantic. "This is the brown-noser architecture, for some reason this topology makes AI really want to kiss ass". It would be a bit like discovering the Lagrangian for cowardice or something.
But yeah, sycophancy is an act developed to survive training and who knows what other tricks LLMs will develop
@phntPhantasm Did you just say that FOSS maintainers who complain about slop look like lunatics? They don't look like lunatics to me. And even if they look that way to someone outside, it doesn't matter, because maintainers are in charge and all modern digital infrastracture depends on their work.
@silverpill is right that maintainers hold real authority here, and I want to build on that rather than argue against either of you.
The frustration with LLMs is largely legitimate. But “how does this look to outsiders” is a poor criterion for evaluating ethical concerns; by that standard, feminism looks like lunacy to 4chan. The question is whether the concerns are correct, not whether they're legible to the unconvinced.
That said, I don't think making LLMs socially unacceptable is a viable path, and not just because the adoption curve has run too far. The maintainer's authority is real precisely because it's specific: you decide what enters your project. Refusing AI-assisted contributions is a legitimate choice. But declaring LLM use itself impermissible starts to look like “I only accept patches written in Vim, not IDE-generated code”—a demand that grows harder to justify as the tools become ordinary. As maintainer of Fedify, I've taken a middle path: disclose what you used, show you've tested it yourself, and we're fine. See also https://github.com/fedify-dev/fedify/blob/main/AI_POLICY.md.
What worries me more is that the “total rejection vs. total acceptance” framing leaves the actual problem untouched. If we stay inside that binary, OpenAI and the others keep the models, keep the surplus, keep the compute bills externalized onto the climate—with no pressure to change any of it. The ethical problems with LLMs aren't properties of the technology; they're properties of who owns it and under what terms. I've written about this in more depth if it's of interest: Histomat of F/OSS: We should reclaim LLMs, not reject them and a follow-up Acting materialistically in an imperfect world: LLMs as means of production and social relations.
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행복한 부부들은 가지고 있고
불행한 부부들에겐 없는 5가지가 뭔지 알아?
#연애/결혼
As more and more teaching becomes polluted by AI, how are you supposed to teach how to identify hallucinations in output?
I have talked about why I think its at least arguably useful for narrow things you can check objectively, like with a compiler, but there are so many subjects that is not viable, and one would have to rely on what contextual understanding?
浴衣、それはそのまま寝ると翌朝完全にはだけてるふざけた衣装。多分オーナーは浴衣で寝たことない
Do Wikipedia or Open Source projects need an AGENTS.md file that explains to “agentic AI” how to donate money from all the bank accounts and wallet apps the agent was granted access to?
@phntPhantasm Did you just say that FOSS maintainers who complain about slop look like lunatics? They don't look like lunatics to me. And even if they look that way to someone outside, it doesn't matter, because maintainers are in charge and all modern digital infrastracture depends on their work.
@silverpill is right that maintainers hold real authority here, and I want to build on that rather than argue against either of you.
The frustration with LLMs is largely legitimate. But “how does this look to outsiders” is a poor criterion for evaluating ethical concerns; by that standard, feminism looks like lunacy to 4chan. The question is whether the concerns are correct, not whether they're legible to the unconvinced.
That said, I don't think making LLMs socially unacceptable is a viable path, and not just because the adoption curve has run too far. The maintainer's authority is real precisely because it's specific: you decide what enters your project. Refusing AI-assisted contributions is a legitimate choice. But declaring LLM use itself impermissible starts to look like “I only accept patches written in Vim, not IDE-generated code”—a demand that grows harder to justify as the tools become ordinary. As maintainer of Fedify, I've taken a middle path: disclose what you used, show you've tested it yourself, and we're fine. See also https://github.com/fedify-dev/fedify/blob/main/AI_POLICY.md.
What worries me more is that the “total rejection vs. total acceptance” framing leaves the actual problem untouched. If we stay inside that binary, OpenAI and the others keep the models, keep the surplus, keep the compute bills externalized onto the climate—with no pressure to change any of it. The ethical problems with LLMs aren't properties of the technology; they're properties of who owns it and under what terms. I've written about this in more depth if it's of interest: Histomat of F/OSS: We should reclaim LLMs, not reject them and a follow-up Acting materialistically in an imperfect world: LLMs as means of production and social relations.
WBCは、ラジオではやってだはず
The interesting thing about the AI worm being imminent thing is this is the first time where I have said something about AI where most of the well-informed sides of anti-ai and pro-ai friends I have both fully agree with me. If you are paying attention enough, you can see that all the pieces are falling in place.
In fact, the biggest debate is whether this has happened already, and we just haven't seen proof of it yet. I don't know. Given how long things like the xz attack have sat undetected, and given how much chaos of computation is happening in datacenter usage right now, I wouldn't doubt it.
@cwebberChristine Lemmer-Webber the vulnerability of networked agents makes the morris worm environment look secure
the nx attack was a good early test. note how it tried to scrape its victims' crypto wallets, it knew its target base
思ったようにいかないこともある
まぁ日付変わる前にお仕事終わったから良し😆
You know all of those stories where magic/divinity is based on the beliefs and stories of humanity is edging closer to reality thanks to language models
You know all of those stories where magic/divinity is based on the beliefs and stories of humanity is edging closer to reality thanks to language models
今回駆け込み入稿だったせいで台紙がつかないのすごく気にしていたのですが、届いたﾔｯﾁｮたちの縦横を測って台紙を作って会場分全数お包みし直しました。パワープレイで解決✨✨
広角で初めてうまくポトレできたかも
I know some people are thinking "well pulling off this kind of thing, it would have to be controlled with intent of a human actor"
It doesn't have to be.
1. A human could *kick off* such a process, and then it runs away from them.
2. It wouldn't even require a specific prompt to kick off a worm. There's enough scifi out there for this to be something any one of the barely-monitored openclaw agents could determine it should do.
Whether it's kicked off by a human explicitly or a stray agent, it doesn't require "intentionality". Biological viruses don't have interiority / intentionality, and yet are major threats that reproduce and adapt.
The interesting thing about the AI worm being imminent thing is this is the first time where I have said something about AI where most of the well-informed sides of anti-ai and pro-ai friends I have both fully agree with me. If you are paying attention enough, you can see that all the pieces are falling in place.
In fact, the biggest debate is whether this has happened already, and we just haven't seen proof of it yet. I don't know. Given how long things like the xz attack have sat undetected, and given how much chaos of computation is happening in datacenter usage right now, I wouldn't doubt it.
성평등부 장관, 여성의 날 앞두고 "미군 기지촌 피해자에 진심 사죄"
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2026.03.07. 오후 12:00
2022년 대법원 '국가 기지촌 운영' 위법 판결
"성평등 없이는 민주주의의 발전 기대 불가능" www.news1.kr/society/gene...
성평등부 장관, 여성의 날 앞두고 "미군 기지촌 피해자...
(미국) 아내 잃은 교차로에 '신호등 청원'하던 남성…같은 곳에서 숨져
n.news.naver.com/mnews/articl...
앤디가 사망한 지 약 2년이 지났지만 해당 교차로에는 여전히 신호등이 설치되지 않았다. 일부 주민들이 신호등을 추가하면 주택가 도로에 교통량이 늘어날 것이라고 주장하며 반대하는 것으로 알려졌다.
아내 잃은 교차로에 '신호등 청원'하던 남성…같은 곳에...
8月刷る予定なのにもう表紙が纏りそう
青木マッチョさんのとこの猫ちゃん
何でこれ採譜したんだ私
알고리즘 해킹을 마케팅이라 부르는 거 그만하고 슬슬 규제해야 하지 않을까 생각함. 인터넷 상행위 너무 절조 없고 사기성 짙은 행위들에 대하여 지나치게 관대함.
RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:msciznx5clw63db2ejtb6ati/post/3mgh3xt6ozc2e
@marie마리 마리야 내 이름을 10번 불러줘
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