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Boosted by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):
whitequark ("✧✦Catherine✦✧") wrote:

hey remember this slide

isagalaev ("Ivan Sagalaev :flag_wbw:") wrote:

"Have you accepted AI yet". My take on a recent thread here. Nothing particularly new there, but I needed a place to aggregate all the links I cared about on the topic :-)

https://softwaremaniacs.org/blog/2025/12/05/have-you-accepted-ai-yet/en/

fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻") wrote:

I'm starting to think that AI is causing a sort of mass hysteria, where people too close to the technology and people who are too far from any frame of reference for the technology, are under some weird hypnosis caused by a very realistic mimicking of human sentience. A Stochastic Parrot, if you will.

Damn man, @timnitGebru sure did warn us. I would've never guessed it would be like this.

fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻") wrote:

The Cottingley Fairies was a hoax in the early 1900's where two cousins "photoshopped" fairies into photographs of themselves.

Photography was new enough that something like this had never happened before.

The Fairies were so convincing that it fooled the author of Sherlock Holmes, Arthur Conan Doyle, and he wrote an essay arguing fairies were real.

And this is what I think is happening with Bernie Sanders and AI right now.

https://publicdomainreview.org/essay/sir-arthur-and-the-fairies/

#democrats

Boosted by jwz:
jef ("Jef Poskanzer") wrote:

#KingTides sea level rise party

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• video: 29c83498ec2b9757.mp4

fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻") wrote:

Bernie Sander's Labor Committee asked CHATGPT how many jobs CHATGPT will take from humans. They asked a chatbot to *predict* the future, then published it.

Jesus lord we're fucked.

https://www.sanders.senate.gov/wp-content/uploads/10.6.2025-The-Big-Tech-Oligarchs-War-Against-Workers.pdf

fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻") wrote:

Bernie Sanders Falls for Mathy-Maths and Doomer Gloom • Buttondown:

"As Alex put it: “They do this bullshit analysis, but then the people that they quote approvingly are certified enemies of the working class. Why are you taking these people at their word, when you shouldn’t?”" https://buttondown.com/maiht3k/archive/bernie-sanders-falls-for-mathy-maths/

jwz wrote:

Los Campesinos on streaming:

"It being Streaming Stat Season, I thought now would be a good time to offer a detailed breakdown of how much money we make from our music being streamed." There are many reasons, unrelated to artist reimbursement, why...
https://jwz.org/b/ykyI

Boosted by fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻"):
schuler ("Marcus Schuler") wrote:

OpenAI's advertising pivot reveals an uncomfortable truth: the LLM industry needs 3 billion paying subscribers just to break even—10x Netflix's total after two decades. With only 5% of 800 million users paying, ads aren't innovation. They're a lifeline.

#AIBusiness #OpenAI

https://www.implicator.ai/openai-ads-2026-chatgpts-revenue-lifeline-or-investor-trap/

Gargron ("Eugen Rochko") wrote:

A crane in the evening.

📷️️️️ Canon AE-1
🎞️ Ilford HP5+ @ 800
🔭 Canon FD 50mm/2.0, yellow filter
⚗️ Come Through Lab

#BelieveInFilm #FilmPhotography #AnalogPhotography #35mm #BlackAndWhitePhotography #BlackAndWhite #MonochromePhotography

ChrisWere@toot.wales ("Chris Were ⁂🐧🌱☕") wrote:

New project, trying to do more stuff away from YouTube.
https://chriswere.wales/voicenotes

fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻") wrote:

Big tech, and just mega corporations in general, from streaming to healthcare, are a more consequential and longterm threat than Donald Trump.

jscalzi@threads.net ("John Scalzi") wrote:

FIFA inaugurates the peace bribe

https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6854845/2025/12/05/fifa-peace-prize-trump-infantino/?source=athletic%5Fuser%5Fshared%5Farticle%5Fcopylink&smid=url-share-ta

Boosted by fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻"):
downey@floss.social ("Michael Downey 🧢") wrote:

@fromjason

https://buttondown.com/maiht3k/archive/bernie-sanders-falls-for-mathy-maths/

fribbledom ("muesli") wrote:

This is so on-brand for FIFA, Gianni Infantino could tattoo 'corrupt clown' on his forehead (believe me, there's plenty of space) and it would still be subtler messaging.

pzmyers@freethought.online ("pzmyers 🕷") wrote:

Teaching cell biology is going to be fun.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2025/12/05/mildly-concerned-about-the-trajectory-of-the-education-profession/

fribbledom ("muesli") wrote:

FIFA giving Trump a peace prize is the most FIFA thing FIFA has ever FIFA’d.

jscalzi@threads.net ("John Scalzi") wrote:

Reminder that RFK, jr. wants your kids to just fucking die, already

https://www.npr.org/sections/shots-health-news/2025/09/16/nx-s1-5542405/rfk-jr-acip-vaccine-advisory-panel-vote-delay-hepatitis-b-shot-in-infants

Boosted by ChrisWere@toot.wales ("Chris Were ⁂🐧🌱☕"):
cmconseils ("Laura Manach :bongoCat:") wrote:

In a parallel universe, Mariah Carey is doing her shopping and is sick of hearing me on every store's speaker system.

pzmyers@freethought.online ("pzmyers 🕷") wrote:

I've known that spiders are brilliant goin' on fifty year, sonny.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2025/12/05/you-need-some-more-spider-information/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lwPryksCmIo

db@social.lol ("David Bushell ☕") wrote:

new Cloudflare weekly outage recap just dropped

https://blog.cloudflare.com/5-december-2025-outage/

Boosted by adam@social.lol ("Adam :prami:"):
vzq@social.lol ("Jose") wrote:

VZQ holo pack is live!

a small run of die-cut holographic stickers. bright, sharp, and stupidly reflective

includes 2 stickers: one vzq wordmark and one vzq seedling

$10 — ships worldwide
https://vzq.studio/store

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Boosted by fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻"):
Hawaii@mastodon.world ("Tofu Musubi") wrote:

@fromjason
No surprise detected: "an escalation critics see as a well-funded smokescreen to head off regulation and competition."

fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻") wrote:

I have a growing collection of articles, studies, and other interesting reads on the sophisticated regulatory capture strategy orchestrated by #OpenAI, #Anthropic, #Google and others. Happening right now.

If you have sources to include, comment below.

https://raindrop.io/fromjason/hank-green-and-the-fantastical-tales-of-god-ais-63491581

fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻") wrote:

Researchers question Anthropic claim that AI-assisted attack was 90% autonomous - Ars Technica:

"“Why do the models give these attackers what they want 90% of the time but the rest of us have to deal with ass-kissing, stonewalling, and acid trips?”" https://arstechnica.com/security/2025/11/researchers-question-anthropic-claim-that-ai-assisted-attack-was-90-autonomous/

fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻") wrote:

"Each nonprofit spent close to $100,000 on lobbying in the last three months of the year. The groups draw money from organizations with close ties to the AI industry like Open Philanthropy, financed by Facebook co-founder Dustin Moskovitz, and Lightspeed Grants, backed by Skype co-founder Jaan Tallinn."

fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻") wrote:

AI doomsayers funded by billionaires ramp up lobbying - POLITICO:

"The similarly named Center for AI Policy and Center for AI Safety both registered their first lobbyists in late 2023, raising the profile of a sprawling influence battle that’s so far been fought largely through think tanks and congressional fellowships." https://www.politico.com/news/2024/02/23/ai-safety-washington-lobbying-00142783

fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻") wrote:

AI and the threat of “human extinction”: What are the tech-bros worried about? It’s not you and me - Salon.com:

"TESCREALism — meaning the worldview that arises from this bundle — is simple enough: at its heart is a techno-utopian vision of the future in which we re-engineer humanity, colonize space, plunder the cosmos, and establish a sprawling intergalactic civilization full of trillions and trillions of “happy” people, ... https://micro.fromjason.xyz/2025/12/05/ai-and-the-threat-of.html

fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻") wrote:

Regulatory Capture in AI: How Fear of Competition Drives Policy - Blog | Pragmatic AI Labs:

"Leading AI companies are increasingly advocating for government regulation that would constrain their competitors while preserving their market advantages. Recent statements by OpenAI and Anthropic reveal a pattern of using national security concerns to push for regulatory barriers that would primarily benefit established players." https://paiml.com/blog/2025-03-14-regulatory-capture-ai-competition/

fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻") wrote:

Fear, uncertainty, and doubt

"Fear, uncertainty, and doubt (FUD) is a manipulative propaganda tactic used in technology sales, marketing, public relations, politics, polling, and cults. FUD is generally a strategy to influence perception by disseminating negative and dubious or false information and is a manifestation of the appeal to fear."

#Microsoft used the FUD strategy against #opensource to help build its software monopoly. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fear,%5Funcertainty,%5Fand%5Fdoubt