Yes. He has.

@Gargron

But AI might find niche applications, such as state/mind control by authoritarian regimes.

"Texas Tech University is using AI to help the university root out suspected "woke" texts from its curriculum, a move that has caused roughly a quarter of the university's staff to look for work elsewhere. The chatbot was developed in response to a state law that requires academia to represent that there are only two genders, male and female."

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/10/texas-university-censorship-free-speech/688827/

RE: https://mastodon.social/@mcc/117424450157056248

Lots of people running with the story that Ukraine bombing Russian data centers has cut off bot traffic and sharing a graph to prove it.

Be careful simply accepting stories like this just because you want it to be true.

Thanks @mcc for keeping it real.

@paulmelis I'd love to believe that, but do we have more evidence than a random graph from a random post from the Nazi platform?

So this one datacenter in Russia got bombed by Ukraine and caused a Yandex outage. And I have seen people posting data-backed analyses showing this has resulted in a drop in net traffic from certain scraper bot networks; and I've seen people making *jokes* that this will show up in drops of coordinated inauthentic activity on websites such as "X" [Twitter]. But I haven't seen any attempts to analyze with hard data whether social media activity changed during this particular data center outage.

Had to verify. And yes. Kernighan and Ritchie really did this. TIL :)

It’s really an A+ troll by Zelenskyy to take out half of Russia’s bot farm, weeks before the US midterm elections.

#USPOL

"Massive show of support for Lula NOW in São Paulo as Bolsonaro appointed Supreme Court judge imposes military regime style censorship on Lula supporters."
- Kleber Mendonça Filho, Brazilian filmmaker (on X)

Source: https://x.com/kmendoncafilho/status/2109327961778250081

Video: Daniel Frias/ Mídia NINJA
#censorship #Brazil #Lula #humanrights #politics #SaoPaulo #Brazil #brazilelections2026

But here we run up against an unpleasant reality: the tech sector values the #LLM craze chiefly because it's outrageously inefficient and destructive, always needing more and more. The tech grifters get richer the more money and resources are blown on the fad. Subsidiary corporate industries like the #energy sector and the #gas sector (and increasingly the #nuclear sector) are themselves ecstatic at the runaway consumption. As I keep saying: the GenAI fad makes the most sense if you stick to the assumption that it's not really supposed to work. It's supposed to be big and hungry, more than anything else. And if a pack of terminally stupid managers and executives think that LLM gibberish is a fine substitute for human activity, so much the better.

At some point the penny has to drop: high-tech profit-seekers are the enemies of humanity. There is no honor in tech CEOs or entrepreneurs. They do the world no vital service. They are not builders. They are not the vanguard of science and intellect; they're gluttonous, avaricious, and they're destroyers.

~Chara of Pnictogen

It wasn't that the #AI kept giving me wrong answers. It was that some were so staggeringly wrong, and some were right, and unconsciously it started to erode my motivation to find a definitive answer completely.

I got over it a day later, but it slithers into your critical thinking space and fucks with it very badly.

AI CEOs should have their lives be made a living hell.
take for example Anthropic claiming Claude can feel pain. they should immediately be sued for false advertising, then if they (somehow) convince the court it isn't false advertising, take them to court for slavery.
either they're lying or they're slave owners. they can't have both. i believe it's obviously the first one, and that under the threat of jail they'll admit it.

Mamdani: "There is a reason why the NYPD would not be shooting at a moving vehicle. There is a reason why law enforcement agents are supposed to wear identifiable information and uniforms. What you could see in the videos is bystanders outside unsure as to what they were even seeing. Because in that imagery, it feels as if you’re almost looking at a mass shooter as opposed to seeing someone who’s purportedly representing a federal agency."

On our way to Lewiston, Maine for a noon rally with Troy Jackson.

EVERY STATE COUNTS.

We cannot continue to have a Senate which acts as a rubber-stamp for Trump’s disastrous policies and behavior. 3 weeks left to Election Day. Keep fighting.

Aaaand.. There we go. Elon Musk announcing he’s in Vladimir Putin’s pocket too.
#RussoUkrainianWar #elonmusk #nafo

🚨 HOLY CRAP! Ben Meiselas just dropped a MAJOR LEGAL BOMBSHELL on Trump's Russian diesel deal!

Ben warns Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent could face CRIMINAL PROSECUTION for his role in the deal.

“I believe Bessent actually already engaged in criminal conduct.”

And something to note... Bessent DOES NOT have Trump's presidential immunity.

Ben breaks down the laws he believes were violated. WATCH!

https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/trump-falls-apart-on-sunday/id1510240831?i=1000795709269

Silicon Valley is falling in line with Trump’s attempt to rename AI
https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/1009406/silicon-valley-is-falling-in-line-with-trumps-attempt-to-rename-ai?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub

Posted into The Verge @the-verge-theverge

You don't even understand the damage Zelensky did to Republicans midterm messaging by taking out that Russian bot farm.

@mastodonmigration @aburtch I remember when it was Baucus and Lieberman. The Democratic elite have a long established preference for a political arrangement where they cannot satisfy the preferences of their base even when they enjoy majority control.

The billionaire media would have us thinking that the centrists have a lock on power, but the opposite is actually true. To understand just how overwhelming the progressive insurgency in the Democratic Party is, let's look at a prospective whip count for the next term on the issue of replacing centrist establishment Chuck Schumer as Leader...

Russia's Yandex bot traffic nearly eliminated overnight after Ukraine drone strikes cripple multiple of 'Russia's Google' data centers — Ukraine intensifies bombing of Yandex data centers in response to Moscow’s strikes on Kyiv data centers | Tom's Hardware

https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/data-centers/russian-disinformation-bot-traffic-nearly-eliminated-overnight-after-ukraine-drone-strikes-cripple-multiple-of-russias-google-data-centers-ukraine-intensifies-bombing-of-yandex-data-centers-in-response-to-moscows-strikes-on-kyiv-data-centers