Long story short on relevant parts: tobacco industry jumped on "stress" to divert from cigs cause cancer, much like AI companies will inevitably do the same for psychosis or wtv to divert from the fact that they cause harm. No user is causing this.

As @Iris and I say: "Industry agendas – whether the industry is tobacco, petroleum, pharmaceuticals, or tech – rarely align with human welfare or disinterested research, especially when left unchecked and unregulated."

https://www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/ai-will-not-save-higher-education-but-may-destroy-it-by-olivia-guest-and-iris-van-rooij-2025-10

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All I want for my birthday is no April's fools jokes 🙏

📢 VACATURE: implementatieondersteuner Autonome Werkomgeving

Gem. Amsterdam, Den Bosch, Ede en Zaanstad werken samen met VNG Realisatie, MinBZK en SSC-ICT aan een soeverein alternatief voor de digitale werkomgeving.

We zoeken voor de gemeentelijke pilot iemand die praktisch gaat helpen om de autonome werkomgeving bij gemeenten op kleine schaal te operationaliseren en hen te begeleiden gedurende de pilot. 1/2

#digitalesoevereiniteit #fedihire #TheNetherlands #DAWO #MijnBureau

Ms. Gracie decided 5AM was wake-up time this morning. Ugh. 🥱

nigh driving without headlights, wearing sunglasses too…

starting the day listening to Soul Asylum's 33 year old sixth album - Grave Dancers Union

#ILwx #LOT #Chicago
Several waves of showers and storms are expected through Saturday. Some of these storms may be severe, particularly Thursday afternoon and evening. Locally heavy rainfall is also likely to accompany these storms, and could result in localized flooding.

As today unfolds, remember that while space may be a vacuum, it doesn’t take place in one.

The Moon may still be an exciting destination for some, but it’s what’s happening here on Earth that’s a far more important marker of where we are as a species.

I’d like to hope that we’re all grown up enough to look at the bigger picture by now.

Personally, I feel very conflicted about #Artemis II & its geopolitical context, but of course wish Reid, Victor, Christina, & Jeremy a safe voyage.

#Space 🌓

In theory, any decent backup should be off site, but, like, I don't have anywhere off-site to do that.

So what I could do is set up an old laptop in another room, whose entire job is to rsync the Nextcloud folder once a day. That's probably sufficient, right?

#ILwx #LOT #Chicago
Another round of strong to severe thunderstorms is expected on Thursday, especially during the afternoon and evening hours. All severe hazards will be possible along with heavy rainfall which could lead to localized flooding. Make sure you are staying up to date with the latest forecast!

Inevitably they will blame psychosis. And we've seen this before with companies and academics claiming lung cancer is caused by stress not smoking!

Remember Hans Eysenck? https://www.theguardian.com/science/2019/oct/11/work-of-renowned-uk-psychologist-hans-eysenck-ruled-unsafe

> This research programme has led to one of the worst scientific scandals of all time

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Couldn't resist adding something to @Ameboid's @Gargron meme… 😉

#mastodon #meme #garfield #fun #funny #LOL #humor #humour

Record low Colorado mountain snow won't bode well for water in the drought-stricken US West
https://apnews.com/article/colorado-drought-water-snow-record-west-d204acb04bdac2524071b6bd627e4665?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub

Posted into U.S. News @u-s-news-AssociatedPress

RE: https://wandering.shop/@xgranade/116325720616619165

really fully jokerfying to learn that claude uses hard-coded regexes to do "sentiment analysis" we had actual techniques for 15 years ago *in the UI for a language model*

Det goda folkhemmet känner inga kelgrisar. #godaFolkhemmet #reformisterna #zucmanSkatt

It's so important to understand how evil this rhetorical move they are playing is... It's really just not possible to do what they claim.

And have we seen this before? Absolutely. And there's even more tricks in the book sadly...

AI seems to copy tobacco as well as petrochemical industry rhetorical moves. Be prepared.

https://olivia.science/before

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'schabb das mal aufgeschrieben, weil ich das dokumentierendswert finde:

https://webrocker.de/2026/04/01/phishers-phritz-phisht-phrishe-phishe/

Raspberry Pi prices rise again, along with a new 3GB Raspberry Pi 4 announced https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/04/raspberry-pi-prices-rise-again-along-with-a-new-3gb-raspberry-pi-4-announced/

#RaspberryPi #Arm #Hardware

Tirocinio in collaborazione con la WordPress Foundation https://wordpress.tv/2026/04/01/tirocinio-in-collaborazione-con-la-wordpress-foundation/ #WordPress #wpmisc

In einer #Arschlochgesellschaft ist mobbing / bullying "freie Meinungsäußerung", und wenn Ihr das weiter denkt, wird es in einer vollentwickelten Arschlochgesellschaft auch keine "Vergewaltigung" geben können - maximal die Beschädigung des Eigentums anderer weißer Männer.

Putin is not in charge.

Netenyahu is not in charge.

Trump is not in charge.

These absolute cunts are sponsored by faceless fossil fuel/weapons barons worldwide, who are cuntier by far than any of our populist leaders.

Fuck this shit.