@ErikJonker @BrKloeckner @olivia
> the technology will not go away
this is a cut'n'paste excuse that, insofar as it means anything, does not mean what you are using it to mean (you are telling us to give in and stop objecting)
https://pivot-to-ai.com/2025/07/10/ai-is-here-to-stay-is-it-though-what-do-you-mean-stay/
@BrKloeckner @ErikJonker I have a lot of resources on my website... perhaps you can start with https://olivia.science/cheating 1/2
Open Letter: Stop the Uncritical Adoption of AI Technologies in Academia
It's been a year & people tell me they've changed their mind, feel safer now to sign, etc. So I'm sharing it again for them. We're almost at 2k & anybody from anywhere can add their names.
@ErikJonker @olivia I feel like if the argument is just "we should support them in it because they're going to do it anyway" then that's equally true of *everything* students do despite being asked not to, so by that logic universities should have supportive policies about how best to use essay mills to increase learning, and the most responsible forms of plagiarism. What makes AI special?
✒️ I had A LOT to say about that whole "10 fountain pens" thing...
https://cjs-wunderkammer.ghost.io/if-i-could-only-keep-10-fountain-pens/
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My column on how capital becomes a death cult.
Faced with a choice between profit and human life, the radical right chooses profit. Then it tries to persuade us that mass death is what we want.
It's the new phase of climate denial: accept your fate, earthlings.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Murderous heat, an endangered ...
i am sort of stuck on this. you have to remember whenever these totally off the planet AI guys describe their workflow to stop and do the math for what that would mean in a normal person's life. so with 12+1 $200/month claude subscriptions and the one $200/month chatGPT subscription, that's $2,800 a month. He says that's the equivalent of $87,000 a month of token usage.
$2,800/month is more than my rent and utilities, and $87,000 is more than i make in a year. This guys addiction costs more than my annual salary per month for nothing. this is the future of software development where you have to be ridiculously rich to play - where he is also actively pulling the ladder up and saying "don't develop shared libraries" - no more "if you have a laptop and a keyboard you can program," not even a fig leaf to "AI enables nonprogrammers to program."
the vision of the future of programming that's being presented here is literally just "if you have more money than 99.9999% of people on this earth, then you can totally lose your mind"
Bird fatalities drop by 72% when one rotor of wind turbine is painted black.
#windturbines
#greenenergy
#birds
https://www.ecoportal.net/en/painting-norwegian-island-black-turbine-blade-white-tailed-eagles/29212/
Might be helpful to read today's column in conjunction with this one, from January, as they point to the same root cause: www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
At the root of all our problem...
I fear we might see a new alignment between a radical right death cult and a rural revivalist "simplicity" drive, which views collapse and a return to "organic" communities as a solution to decadent urbanism. A century ago this convergence led to a very bad place. www.monbiot.com/2023/10/04/t...
The Cruel Fantasies of Well-Fe...
Some more links, in case the previous one ”suddenly stops working”:
https://archive.org/details/report-a-growing-threat-the-anti-rights-movement-in-the-uk-july-2026_202608
https://sciop.net/datasets/amnesty-uk-2026-anti-rights-reports
https://web.archive.org/web/20260000000000*/https://media.amnesty.org.uk/documents/Like_a_snowball_final_.pdf
Perhaps a good idea might also be to share this information (that TERFs were able to blackmail the worlds biggest human rights organization to take down their factual report of anti-rights funding) to relevant wiki articles and also hint about it to our newspapers and journalists.
This is a newsworthy thing that just happened to democracy in Europe
@th Have you heard about lentils?
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Just thought you'd might like to know for no particular reason whatsoever.
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What sort of idiot drives their wankpanzer into the city center and decides "this narrow bridge in the negenstraatjes seems like a reasonable place to park?"
@david_chisnall @jonny Vibe coders: "I am a rugged self-reliant individualist, which is why my entire career and self-worth depends on sending all of my money to a trillion-dollar company with the power consumption of Belgium"
(The early age of home computing was a magical time, but if I wanted to recapture that the very last thing I'd want to do is sign myself over to the companies that are a major part of why it now isn't)
The thing that really gets me with the Wikimedia Foundation's response to their staff wanting a union: Imagine you're charged with running the world's biggest free knowledge resource, which is only possible because of an army of nerds who love nothing more than fact-checking.
And then decide to bullshit that very crowd of people.
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wiki_Workers_United/Claims_and_responses