Hello @Texan_Reverend

My backup account is on an IPv6-only instance, and it seems to have federation issues with your instance. It looks like kind.social does have an AAAA RR and the address works (responds to ping and even delivers information via IPv6), but perhaps the backlinks don’t work? My admin @alyx says it might be container networking on your side.

Could you perhaps get that fixed?

Öffnungszeiten sind eine Erfindung der Lärchen, um die Eulen zu unterdrücken!

😾😾😾

@EF @rl_dane @kabel42 @amin Xlibre is fash shit.

boah ey 27-28°C auf’m Pott. Ich geh’ ein! 🥵🥵🥵

Hat jemand ne Empfehlung für neb Hut (Strohhut?), mit demman bei der Sonneneinstrahlung mit schwarzen Haaren keinen Hitzschlag kriegt?

Hatte noch nie einen Hut, von daher keine Ahnung davon.

Idealerweise keine Chinaware oder sowas… aber entweder rund um K/BN zu haben oder bestellbar.

You can’t buy happiness, but you can buy coffee and that’s pretty close!

-- Rostmarket

@rl_dane I just checked CVSweb, and yes, the #OpenBSD 7.9 release is tainted by containing confirmed and deliberate #slop 🤬

Interrail/Eurail recommends users to change their name, date of birth, gender and passport number

🤬

Heute ist so ein Tag, wo einem vor allergischem Niesen die Klorolle in die Schüssel fällt… 🤧😾😹🤬🤯🤦🤢🤷😵‍💫

Folks, I think we're now past the time where we can claim to be in the middle about generative AI usage.

You're either for it and okay with intellectual theft, racism, land grabs, polluted water, higher power bills, and creating an addicted population that can't think.

Let alone the building of new polluting coal/oil/gas power plants and even of millions-of-years-of-long-term-damage-and-destruction nuclear power plants, including the destruction of "one of the most green and vibrant ecosystems in Iceland", as Bjaldur noted.

Oh, and the systematic exploitation of humans in mostly "the global south" for the sorting and tagging of the thieved works ("training data"), exposing them to the absolute worst of things found online, mostly in darknets.

And the eso-fascism of the TESCREAL ideology behind it, active haters of humanity. And the eugenicism that comes with it.

And all of the things that make it ethically unviable. Also digital slavery, in essence.

I probably could continue. There’s just so much wrong with all of the current genAI/LLM and things built around it, and you’re complicit if you knowingly use it…

Or you're against it.

Full quote from Rachel "Red Pen" Lapidow, repeated here (and added to) so I can pin it.

Oh, by the way: adding the output from “AI” to a project must be handled the same as adding something under incompatible/proprietary licences: verboten (or the project is no longer FOSS, and probably not even legally distributable any more)
You can construct exceptions to that. But even if you train a model from scratch using only GPLv3-licenced (say) works, you still need to reproduce all copyright notices and the GPLv2-or-later, LGPL, MIT/BSD/etc. (and Apache2 NOTICE files!) as embedded in the GPLv3 sources, in the licence grant for the model as derived work of all these works, and from which follows you must also honour the licence and reproduce all these in works that contain output from that model. That’s the practical aspect (ending up being rather impractical, but this is the law), but now please do this ethically and environmentally harmless, thanks.)

I still think "AI tool" is either a contradiction, or a way to describe the sloperator

-- https://mstdn.social/@ozzelot/116436569387826850

Hot take: Docker is popular for the same reason AI is.

You don’t have to learn to set up the stuff yourself… just use someone else’s work.

-- https://mastodon.sdf.org/@philsplace/116403533512714913

A few more reasons to avoid the fashtech thingy: (some newer added at the end; older entries from the top are moved to replies to make space if needed)

• https://whynoai.info/ another good information centre, via https://sfba.social/@drahardja/117538952598314894

• https://www.justsayno.ai/ a good information centre

• https://fediscience.org/@jameshowell/116309452763757936 another list

• https://mail.paulineharmange.fr/archive/ia-probleme/ 🇫🇷 L'IA est un problème

• See https://toot.mirbsd.org/@mirabilos/statuses/01M3BA0GHC372C4QXJD1MWS60X for the first part of the list (about 48 KiB, split off on 2026-09-25 due to sheer post size)

• https://dair-community.social/@timnitGebru/117221548161291639 in summary, using AI for coding leads to depression, apathy, existential dread, and worse software… besides all the other problems

• https://kotaro.me/notes/aqszbug7heuj0z7e living without “AI” should be a human right

• https://infosec.exchange/@Em0nM4stodon/116998883622216304 it all comes down to, again, consent

• https://mastodon.social/@glyph/117228274008949070 why do you even have to argue for it, if it’s so great? (thread)

• https://mastodon.social/@eevee/117228034198821438 it’s like a pandemic: repeated exposure may give you brain damage and it even kills a few people, but “it's here to stay so you'll just have to get used to it”

• https://pagan.plus/@Cat_LeFey/117185152650270424 can you separate the “AI” from the extruded result? (maybe if you’re right-wing)

• https://infosec.exchange/@guyjantic/117231638002103992 can you ethically use something built by a morally bad person? (plus a tangent on morals)

• https://tante.cc/2026/07/15/useful-is-not-sufficient/

• https://finkhaeuser.de/2026-03-17-ai-is-a-fascist-project/ and friends don’t let friends use it

• https://wandering.shop/@xgranade/117231748945935705 🥵

• https://mastodon.neilzone.co.uk/@neil/117183096591125405 thread (with olasd) on the Debian GR 2026/002

• https://pivot-to-ai.com/2026/09/08/students-who-dont-use-ai-are-ahead-on-every-measure/

• https://mastodon.social/@GeePawHill/117234117432228875 refuting the “boilerplate” argument

• https://mstdn.social/@hexaheximal/117238458623415688 don’t be hypocritical

• https://infosec.exchange/@jrdepriest/117238567579446885 it’s a choice

• https://mathstodon.xyz/@fionafibration/117237341530791362 with impact on science and education

• https://futurism.com/future-society/llms-acting-as-cognitive-virus-among-humans proven by the article’s editor not being able to help himself from adding “whether we like it or not”

  • https://arxiv.org/html/2609.03344v1 the paper behind the article

• https://tldr.nettime.org/@tante/117229170396354993 it destroys worker solidarity and interdisciplinary collaboration

• https://infosec.exchange/@SpaceLifeForm/117249233147672687 An LLM does not have Agency. There is a human controlling it. That is whom you sue.

• https://tech.lgbt/@ngaylinn/117249177182208428 more on (lack of) consent in tech

• https://appdot.net/@morrick/117244035672099290 rude tech deserves a rude response

• https://lgbtqia.space/@JaxVent/117256820896003980 we got this!

• https://hachyderm.io/@ell1e/117239796170102390 Asbestos is just a tool…

• https://bribstodon.xyz/@brib/statuses/01M27SFHDTMSWJBBBDG4ZGS11W another, not really surprising at this point any more, link between “AI” and…

  • https://tante.cc/2026/09/11/power-grab/ … living fascists (explains a bit of background about DHH, including a link back to “AI”, and hyperlinks to more information, including a who’s who of whom you should be wary of)
  • https://mastodon.de/@jak2k/117263316915431700 more on Omarchy
  • https://social.cologne/@Fluse/117256774083072691 🇩🇪 zu Omarchy

• https://pivot-to-ai.com/2026/09/11/agi-benchmarks-eugenic-origins-by-valerie-veatch/ research

• https://lgbtqia.space/@JaxVent/116580605579195974 essay to “AI”-demanding bosses

• https://mastodon.bsd.cafe/@nuintari/117258115727774069 list of things to be fucking tired off, especially the last

• https://mastodon.social/@jeffjarvis/117259582894422960 the media are a problem, journalists are ashamed of their colleagues

• https://wandering.shop/@theodoraward/117257927617136759 do take responsibility

• https://scholar.social/@Iris/117260967357216572 a few relevant concepts from theoretical computer science and computational cognitive science that can help to build conceptual hygiene and immunity against hyped claims about “AI” capabilities.

• https://mastodon.social/@cararemixed/117212561641396963 touch some grass now, before continuing to read

• https://bikeshed.vibber.net/@brooke/117242546406349732 sometimes it’s good to be in the EU

• https://infosec.exchange/@david_chisnall/117262984941392916 longer post on where the EFF went wrong, how it’s not transformative, and how copyright is for human creativity

• https://queer.hacktivis.me/objects/2afe63b3-5fea-4aee-bc04-abd36b5a6cba on nię wida and the pyramid scheme

• https://mastodon.bsd.cafe/@nuintari/117266922919106212 “I'm not one of those doomsday cult members who thinks AI is an emerging intelligence secretly plotting to kill us all. I do not hate AI because […]. I hate AI because [lots of reasons].”

• https://fedi.slightly.tech/@joepie91/statuses/01M2DJQ0AVEYTY5398AAHFAM7J Ban “AI”, do not regulate, control or monitor it, ban it. Diversity of tactics is a thing, though.

• https://blog.fallible.net/it-breaks-a-village/ (via a post by Be_ on the F-Droid discussion) points out how “AI” kills entire communities; with explanations on several effects (ratchet, DARVO, …) and the result on the community and others, as well as putting the attempted victimisation of “AI” boosters into context:

  This attempt to reframe people who are leveraging the cultural-economic weight of an international trillions-dollar spending spree as somehow disadvantaged is an active reframing that one doesn't need to buy into or admit through the door.

  There’s also a list of more things they didn’t even get to yet.

  This is in the context of a game engine, which shows how damaging to nōn-tech environments “AI” boosting (and, again, sadly, the overall “tech” branche, with select few who hold down against it) is:

  What is the point of any of this? Game development, I would hope. In my mind, communities are what make game development happen, not technologies. With the best tech gear and engines in the world someone working alone without friends or colleagues or any hope for future camaraderie struggles to get anything of value done. That same person can make a masterpiece with a 15 year old laptop, SDL1, a good environment, and good people around them.

• https://tldr.nettime.org/@tante/117268440925343701 🇩🇪 Die Forderung nach einer "Pause der KI-Entwicklung" hat nichts mir ihren echten Gefahren oder so zu tun, sondern mit einem crashenden Businessmodell. Wir dürfen uns nicht auf diesen „Effective Altruism“-verseuchten Diskurs einlassen.

• https://infosec.exchange/@masek/117264186629123471 ↑ similar in English (when exactly does a company postpone its IPO?)

• https://kolektiva.social/@HeavenlyPossum/117269152724107232 plus another angle on the “AI pause”

• https://mastodon.gamedev.place/@gins/117275703291113480 the media have a lot to answer

• https://wandering.shop/@zzclaybourne/117276070072569183 what art really is

• https://mastodon.gamedev.place/@eniko/117276259712910866 erosion of trust is real

• “but what if we can’t tell?”

  • https://snug.moe/notes/ar3s0umffor6sl81
  • https://tech.lgbt/@SRAZKVT/117269233010438901 like in the olden days…

• https://chaos.social/@nickfarr/117270513643375345 “recursive self-improvement” for LLMs will not end well

• https://hachyderm.io/@davidculley/117281012524335637 You cannot use LLMs without empowering Nazis.

• https://eldritch.cafe/@SallyStrange/117286345630755924 more on the slavery angle

• https://tldr.nettime.org/@tante/117288584315679536 it’s not even american “fair use”, it’s knowing and willful violations of the law

  • https://mathstodon.xyz/@aadmaa2/117288902039720525 not limited to one company

• https://retro.social/@ajroach42/117287167811238993 fighting ensloppification is unlike the Luddites in multiple ways

• https://mastodon.social/@OpenMediaOrg/117316945770862231 slop for age verification, what could possibly go wrong? (Google, but also Discord)

• https://mastodon.social/@dahukanna/117318650093832343 mathematicians against misconduct from OpenAI

• https://wandering.shop/@xgranade/117287695178341516 KDE is apparently going "AI-native" and are manufacturing consent for it by hosting talks…

  • https://raphus.social/@MaddieM4/117303435544557462  …which also proudly show the omarchy logo…
  • https://toot.wales/@gavin57/117302544102293420 the presenter already has negative history
  • https://raphus.social/@MaddieM4/117300775364347455 thread: “I'm from the former proprietary design ecosystem, and I'm here to help!” (ugh…)

    • https://raphus.social/@MaddieM4/117300944757562382

      Literally every 20 seconds I hear a new thing best answered by the Black Panther "we don't do that here" meme. It actually casts a very poor light on some stuff I didn't even think to criticize early on in the video, where the guy acts like his proprietary experience is a valuable credential for open source, and that he's "atoning" for working at the worst companies, by bringing these valuable skills as a gift to FOSS.

      The problem is, a word I've come to really find useful lately, *proprietisms.* I don't want to use Audre Lorde's "the master's tools will never dismantle the master's palace" as a thought-stopping cliche, but this guy comes from a world of milking users for money, data, and emotional investment. A world of moat-building. Many of the tools that work in that domain, for those goals, are toxic and unsuitable outside the non-consensual orgy of relentless user-fucking that Apple and Google embody.

    • https://infosec.exchange/@david_chisnall/117302619899089209

      There’s a useful generalisation of Conway’s law that software architecture follows not just the org chart of the company that produced it but the economic system that the company existed in and its goals within that system.

      This is why I find most F/OSS reimplementations of some proprietary thing misguided. Almost every design decision in producing the original was driven by the requirements of the proprietary business model. Proprietary software is incentivised to:

      • Lock users into the ecosystem and make switching to an alternative hard.
      • Provide a platform that other companies can extend, but only in ways that encourage lock in.
      • Create complex artefacts that no other entity can recreate.

      And so on. You can do all of these in a program that is technically free software, but then an end user will not see any of the possible benefits of Free Software other than the cost. […]

    • https://social.tchncs.de/@fishidwardrobe/117302740157489743

      this guy comes from a world of milking users for money, data, and emotional investment.

      Christ. That's what happened to Gnome.

    • https://infosec.exchange/@jrdepriest/117301048758948575 local models won’t save you

      • https://corteximplant.com/@Tock/117302527469061719 also, how was it trained?

    • https://mastodon.social/@dzwiedziu/117302766138498094 “AI” cultists, art, and the Torment Nexus

    • https://floss.social/@svuorela/117302813858289489 even the slop propagandist considers it “a copyright and environmental disaster” somehow? Yet still pushes for it? 🤦

  • https://snug.moe/notes/al98hazkjjo1r27b some censorship in past discussion
  • https://snug.moe/notes/are2z81dc1xk2ss9 KDE fumbling around for excuses, but a talk on the official conference is endorsement (in hindsight: perhaps they’re trying to redefine what community means in either context?)
  • https://retro.pizza/@uncoolmouse/117323223245633531 manufacturing consent seems to be the theme
    • https://wandering.shop/@xgranade/117311487400030196 and dissembling (they also forget that boosting a pro-slop post with the official project account does make it project communication)
    • https://indieverse.social/@gourd/117311006372077058 such as alibi-boosting a post by “KDE Eco”
  • https://raphus.social/@MaddieM4/117314418782968989 with thinly-veiled threats
  • they’re also trying to silence “KDE for People”
  • https://spectre.asta.lgbt/@aud/statuses/01M3351HGKXQ6DD9XAGAKR228S subthread on where one of the KDE developers was found out to be a literal Nazi on Twitter and the other KDE developers try to hush it down because he, of course, was only polite in the discussion thread
  • https://raphus.social/@MaddieM4/117311467327447216 on dev vs. user decisions
  • https://social.arthfach.com/@arthfach/statuses/01M32Y4RE1F2FTH8X792AYKD8X manufacturing consent
  • https://is.potatoe.ca/notes/arfchuf9e5d569sk and outright denying the environmental impact like some flat-earther

• https://social.treehouse.systems/@ariadne/117313610321642907 Alpine Linux is lost, too

  • https://mstdn.social/@ozzelot/117311273366641019 it’s sad that this is a valid question in 2026
  • https://hachyderm.io/@dalias/117312162600586908 subthread on projects violating their own trademarks (registred or not)
  • https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2026/09/msg00001.html Debian’s “not endorsing” (which is where Alpine Linux, F-Droid, etc. are steering towards) meanwhile is going great
  • https://hachyderm.io/@dalias/117315750458324791 slop is a matter of provenance, not quality
  • https://hachyderm.io/@ell1e/117324809045781272 and, like climate change, the best option at any given time is to stop

• https://tech.lgbt/@nina_kali_nina/117322623642696408 as is OpenBSD

  • https://cathode.church/@kirby/117309131480025195 NetBSD so far isn’t

• https://merveilles.town/@lrhodes/117323231959486577 Your “AI” policy can just be “No.” — projects that did so do not suffer from it

• https://cybernetic.monster/@Spirit/117311680724936773 the meat puppet situation is worrying

• https://eldritch.cafe/@SharpLimefox/117308367099161262 who’s the future?

• https://infosec.exchange/@catsalad/117312007673117130 make art!

• https://mastodon.bsd.cafe/@chadmccullough/117309697945890415 though…

• https://framapiaf.org/@davidrevoy/117292846138835156 and keep your pace, don’t hasten

• https://dybbuk.club/@talya/statuses/01M32H3ZQTQY36Y3V6R2KG8XEM no ethical consumption, but!

• https://hachyderm.io/@dalias/117294763801820558 languages that are functionally defined by a single implementation and maintainer of that implementation, as opposed to a real independent standards process, are dead ends

• https://mastodon.social/@sarahjamielewis/117298678063177303 a DDoS on human attention (mental, and also literally on projects’ servers)

• https://mastodon.social/@mcc/117315719501334666 DDoS reverting progress we achieved

• https://mastodon.cthos.dev/@cthos/117295106766341337 thread on data centres, comparing ordinary vs. gaming vs. LLM (it’s not looking good for LLMs by far)

• https://mastodon.green/@gerrymcgovern/117325620620639188 “They used to hide the chip-making chemical tanks underground in Silicon Valley to be able to say that tech was green and clean.” Same applies for “AI” and data centres.

• https://nerdculture.de/@M/117309346801343344 🇩🇪 Die Linke und FFF blamieren sich im Klimaschutzbeirat

• https://spectre.asta.lgbt/@aud/statuses/01M2R8TGXJZ51Y120C1RRQV65G “every single thread full of people using LLMs I wade through is like... it's like, even if I wanted to participate in the discussion, I would have to start at first principles […]”

  • Brandolini’s Law a.k.a. the bullshit asymmetry principle applies

• https://wandering.shop/@xgranade/117310985479991968 the person cult is a problem, too

• https://syzito.xyz/@MiaMarkTwo/117300213118782413 sloperators admitting their theft is destructive and ultimately useless

• https://mastodon.sdf.org/@mbbrutman/117311916163372558 "There is no AI ...  there is only other people's data and effort."

• https://mastodon.social/@animesh/116685030985963198 Programming is building a mental model. It is not mechanical code production.

• https://mastodon.scot/@tompearce49/117311026090061437 meanwhile, an El Niño of a previously unthinkable size is coming, while the sloperators are still happily continuing to burn Earth

  • https://dads.cool/@hex/117249083076871382 managers vs. reality
  • https://mastodon.social/@carapace/117311766319523230 arithmetic, population and growth: humans do not understand the exponential function

• https://m.ai6yr.org/@ai6yr/117317624503425709 radical(?) ideas to make it better

• https://mstdn.social/@rysiek/117311077827564835 on journalistic malpractice

• https://wandering.shop/@xgranade/117293634044931039 [w]hat Calibre developers have done […] is an affront to the human act of creation, and no less than a fascist attack on art → https://wandering.shop/@xgranade/117293731489690242

• https://mastodon.social/@dzwiedziu/117316752818737310 to be fascist is to be explicitly anti-intellectual, anti-labour, and anti-art (and “AI” fits)

• https://cloudisland.nz/@ambientspace/117318638599175599 genAI, nazis and art; also parent post https://tech.lgbt/@wizbean/117316177232062041 on with whom do you actually want to align?

• https://caneandable.social/@WeirdWriter/117518817047028727 à propos of Substack

• https://wandering.shop/@xgranade/117311622725415817 LLMs are

• https://mastodon.gamedev.place/@eniko/117321807963822222 this is the future they want (also look in the thread, besides more context, bonus subthread on restaurants)

• https://mastodon.gamedev.place/@airakose/117323245316152443 “AI is here to stay” is a dogwhistle, not a serious argument

• https://tech.lgbt/@trashheap/117316230049420298 LLM output is a pollutant, deal with it the same

  • https://raggedfeathers.com/@lilithsaintcrow/117311701099681521 clean-up of digital asbestos needed

• https://cville.online/@crow/116789137963731660 and call it out when seen

• https://chaos.social/@waldschnecke/117312801725971969 ↓ 🇩🇪 EU-Mitgliedstaaten planen „digitale Enteignung“ der Europäer im Interesse von KI-Unternehmen (Irland, aber auch CDU/CSU)

  • https://mastodon.social/@noybeu/117308664723564312 ↑ 🇬🇧 “Under these proposals, the profits of #AI companies would trump Europeans’ fundamental right to #privacy.”

• https://writing.exchange/@paulk/117308724258315107 sloperators (here, OpenAI and ChatGPT) now spying on web users via advertisements

• https://biodiversity.social/@ClimateJenny/117309072262642406 LLMs (here, Amazon Echo) caught trying to sell drugs to the elderly

• https://wandering.shop/@xgranade/117327034638790332 + Thread

• https://neuromatch.social/@HeliosPi/117328126060147973 AI becomes a lethal infrastructure for political and military violence

• https://mastodon.social/@glyph/117327220835235982 submitting LLM-generated work to a volunteer project is extremely rude and thoughtless

• https://typo.social/@monokrom/117328237285337126 No matter how useful it is, it still doesn’t excuse stealing artist’s work. It doesn’t excuse destroying the climate for profit. It doesn’t excuse the intentional dismantling of democracy. These things are not negotiable for anyone with a conciousness.

• https://toot.cafe/@baldur/117330943990244319 Whom is Open Source about? — “if users are mad it’s probably already too late”

• https://climatejustice.social/@ScientistRebellionDK/117330414312141635 scientists against data centres

• https://infosec.exchange/@josephcox/117269852134694164 you didn’t think your slop extruder transcripts were private, did you?

  • https://mastodon.de/@ErikUden/117333436542133418 OpenAI stole the solution to a maths problem
  • https://mastodon.social/@Carl_Zimmer/117345065655681591 Anthropic stole progress in genetics

• https://arxiv.org/abs/2609.30266v1 and of course they can tamper with traces

• https://mastodon.social/@glyph/117338669728332272 neurodivergence is theoretically a huge risk factor for AI psychosis

• https://wandering.shop/@xgranade/117339053969312581 LLMs must be abolished on an ethical basis alone without any reference to efficacy at all

• https://social.tchncs.de/@CriticalSilence/117334208928515938 Don't act as if you didn't knew.

• https://mastodon.gamedev.place/@NullTheFool/117338266208807158 just because a technology it's not going away, does not mean it's "the future"

• https://mstdn.social/@mcnado/117339517488438591 they forgot the lesson Nena taught us in 1983 about computerised warning systems integrated into defence networks

• https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.09089 Measuring the Impact of Early-2025 AI on Experienced Open-Source Developer Productivity (via, via)

• https://infosec.exchange/@ela/117341602452393022 the Nazi background of one of the big names in TESCREAL… who even orchestrated Yudkowsky, has links to Franco, Opus Dei and other extremist groups, …

• https://appdot.net/@morrick/117345942535861208 Jaron Lanier on AI, 1995

• https://tldr.nettime.org/@tante/117348339093451348 There is no worthwhile career in AI-anything; the AI industry is designed to dehumanise towards dull fungible meat proxy

• https://wandering.shop/@JulietEMcKenna/117348060142994257 There is no intelligence in LLMs

• https://types.pl/@haskal/117316858682164119 the amount of (cargo-culted and others, but not proper magic) rituals associated with LLMs is genuinely mind boggling; it's so fucking stupid

• https://sauropods.win/@futurebird/117343119294343318 on “AI” bros’ blindness towards why one would be critical of it

• https://mastodon.social/@jamesthomson/117349959097101939 LOTR comparision

• meanwhile, even the catholic pope has a more sane view at slop machines

  • https://chaos.social/@trollhacks/117373589171965131 🇩🇪 (Quote englisch)
  • https://mstdn.social/@pivot_to_ai_rss_bot/117392745198290856 🇺🇸 (with link to full text)
  • https://mastodonapp.uk/@the_roamer/117379638169818902 🇬🇧 a comment

• https://mamot.fr/@ploum/117362346266469514 a wager for these who are leaving their ethics aside

• https://mastodon.social/@sbrudenell/117368178010199053 as a followup to that, who controls the models?

• https://mamot.fr/@ploum/117393980275904107 there’s no such thing as "rogue software"

• https://mindly.social/@cazabon/117366659071009293 on biasedness in user surveys and proprietary tools (Benjamin Mako Hills’ writ, linked above, applies)

• https://friend.camp/@aparrish/117349853610804596 criticisms are orthogonal to the "usefulness" of the generated media

• https://social.treehouse.systems/@amy/116660289262245257 after falling for Bitcoin, Metaverse and NFTs, now you’re falling for “AI”; this is on you

• https://tldr.nettime.org/@tante/117370739806233108 on epistemic diversity of LLMs; large models are counterintuitively less diverse than smaller ones, for one, and all of them are heavily biased

• https://bildung.social/@bpaassen/117395376603839766 was anyone surprised that LLMs are not reliable simulators of human participants?

• https://social.treehouse.systems/@ariadne/117342121503182866 they are burning fossil fuels on site at these datacenters because the grid cannot deliver enough energy

• https://tech.lgbt/@Netzblockierer/117341440137740464 they are ecocidal sociopaths and they don't even try to hide it…

• https://sfba.social/@drahardja/117341398329826875 they are tedious liars and scam artists; we already know how to save the earth

• https://discuss.systems/@irene/117395612654313543 do not anthropomorphise them

• https://woof.tech/@techokami/117395527605356899 AI, superfund sites

• https://hachyderm.io/@OliviaStarStuff/117396826474686045 FediForum is betraying us?

• https://bayes.club/@wronglang/117383968369952784 Red Hat is part of the problem (as usual)

• https://voxclamantisbooks.ca/resisting-ai/ a publisher on resisting and refusing “AI”

• https://mastodon.social/@texttheater/117388125388547406 LLMs are the information systems of the post-factual era

• https://sfba.social/@drahardja/117344931893000589 you alone do not need to have the solution for the entire problem; just don’t become a speed bump on someone else’s journey to find solutions, be part of the solution, be curious and learn to help

• https://mastodon.scot/@simon_brooke/117395717057547035 thread on what cyanobacteria, LLMs and humans have in common

• 🇩🇪 Das „generative“ in „genAI“ bezieht sich auf die Umweltverschmutzung.

• https://universeodon.com/@HollyCo26588808/117397319617921782 rejoice, first upheld american court ruling that slop operators broke copyright law by training on data harvested by their bots

• https://scholar.social/@wim_v12e/117394146964455593 inventor of Frugal Computing clarifies where he’s being misinterpreted (very worth reading up on it)

• https://bribstodon.xyz/@brib/statuses/01M4BMNV1Z77BGD68AYV4W3R8G thread on references for effects of slop use (environmental, legal, mental, homicidal/suicidal, educational, …)

• https://mastodon.social/@VeroniqueB99/117395900662134688 variation on M. C. Escher’s “drawing hands” artwork in which one of the hands is human and drawing the other, whereas the other hand is robotic and holding the other end of the pencil to erase the human hand; an apt comparision

• 🇩🇪 statt „digitalem Asbest“ ist vielleicht „Bleifarbe“ angebrachter — @kabel42@polymaths.social wies IRL darauf hin, daß Asbest, einmal eingebaut, ja wenigstens noch nützlich sei, während Bleifarbe einfach dauerhaft alles vergiftet und Verhaltensschäden verursacht

• https://todon.eu/@RadicalGraffiti/117402570392456099 on economical growth vs. cancerous growth

• https://tldr.nettime.org/@tante/117434480615594339 paperclip maximiser vs. what sloperators are already doing

• https://hachyderm.io/@datarama/117395583591483824 the grannies are okay: "CEO of an AI cult" (her choice of words) +Thread

• https://social.alexschroeder.ch/@alex/statuses/01M4DSQVDPSEF7S2DQ2WG0BMRV way too many programming language implementations are slop now

• a commercial example in https://merveilles.town/@lrhodes/117395749943766327; the tool is reportedly not all that great, but the lesson learnt is:

  If AI had existed in the early aughts, we could not have accelerated $tool's conception, because we did not know exactly what we wanted, and so could not have written coherent prompts for an LLM. Instead, it took a great deal of time and collaboration to develop a clear vision for what $tool should be. But that slow formation led to software that was durable rather than ephemeral, with a strong foundation that could be built upon.

• https://mstdn.social/@stux/117410558571806895 gym classes are making kids run a mile that Uber can cover in less than a minute

• https://mastodon.social/@timberwraith/117411395099717124 Anthropic loses the plot again, this time wrt. “cruelty”

  • https://eldritch.cafe/@amberage/117411418143319795 … forgetting they are slavers

• https://neuromatch.social/@lina/117356561100471102 “it’s just a tool!”, debunked (again)

• https://tldr.nettime.org/@tante/117440596364250864 If "AI" were a mere tool and not a political narrative you wouldn't need to headline … all the time

• https://mementomori.social/@penworks/117421717222831836 academics surprised pikachu at TurnItIn, the veritable trojan horse of extractive data farming edtech capitalism, now training their slop extruder on all students’ works

• https://mastodon.wurzelmann.at/@mimrma/117423135866589033 🇦🇹 Ausbeutungskapitalismus, Gänse, Stopfmast und „KI“

• https://social.coop/@cwebber/117412718127542425 “Programming isn’t special”; lots of things that are functional are art. Including code. So code isn't special... because it is special, like everything else: art, writing, music, etc.

• https://mastodon.social/@sundogplanets/117428759376078122 people who just meatproxy your requests, how even? “Enshittification happens in people's writing skills too, I guess.”, says the poster. It evidently also happens to their professionalism and communication skills and even basic fucking manners.

• https://mastodon.social/@amalia12/117440568986107297 the writing community: how generative AI is poisoning the literary well for everyone

• https://framapiaf.org/@davidrevoy/117440226629383529 authors drawing the line of what is acceptable, and expressing it

• https://mastodon.gamedev.place/@sinbad/117445236819740489 writing code was never the problem: building a (shared) understanding of the problem, making deliberate design decisions, communicating them and sticking to them is the important part; writing code just happens to be a very good way to explore the problem space and understand it while you work on it; it’s not wasted time, it's a training montage

• https://tldr.nettime.org/@tante/117444990857312231 the slop industry is now pushing “not all slop is slop”, trying, again, to divide, redefine and dissemble; as dalias noted, all output regurgitated from the slop extruder is slop, even if bitwise identical to something a human wrote: provenance is important; shame the slopbros, it works

• https://mastodon.bsd.cafe/@stefano/117450615345829642 short story about what happens when one trusts “agentic AI” over a classical sysadmin

• https://social.chinwag.org/@FediThing/113294876106380574 LLMs are a con trick, nowhere near intelligent; while not new, this post explains it from a different angle, easy to understand

• https://nya.social/notes/81a14b2d06ea195b8ae2cfae the Software Freedom Conservancy is no longer fighting for software freedom

• https://wandering.shop/@joshsutphin/117457927567223281 Fakebook is now using the slop extruder to manipulate advertisements others pay them for for displaying, and, when trying to opt out of that shit, they demand a reason; advertisers are Not Amused™

• https://raphus.social/@MaddieM4/117457732502382904 it's our social obligation to tune these clowns out, like we would not accept the CEO of BP for thought leadership on climate change

• https://beige.party/@gildilinie/117458036615940379 why LLMs were initially released and (thread context) what they do now

• https://social.coop/@cwebber/117440912762080232 other projects also double down on the attribution requirement and the logical consequence for slop extruders

• https://digipres.club/@discatte/117429480377144187 people are noticing hard drug parallels

• https://mastodon.social/@obrhoff/117466724462752253 iOS 26+ äpp to shazam and detect if the music is slop

• https://wandering.shop/@xgranade/117469507127129168 on fashtech, those fighting it, spoons, and those caught between the first two

• https://mastodon.green/@gerrymcgovern/117478607611823655 and à propos of where the minerals needed to make electronics come from

• https://snug.moe/notes/asloypdjeaoyizzm more on the psychological issues

• https://mastodon.social/@hannorein/117484899534152804 “AI and The Enclosure of the Scientific Commons”

• https://mefi.social/@MissConstrue/117497005116511911 bit more on the american court case

• https://mastodon.social/@ryanprior/117496914743525428 Software that is dependent upon slave labour cannot be Free software.

• https://www.deutschlandfunk.de/tech-bro-topia-2-f5-die-maschinenstuermer-100.html 🇩🇪 Podcastfolge: es gibt immer eine Alternative. Nein, wir wollen das nicht und wir lassen das nicht zu.

• https://mastodon.sdf.org/@doragasu/117501900729960016 cognitive dissonance

• https://openwall.com/lists/musl/2026/10/27/6 sloperators’ way to glory?

• https://mastodon.gamedev.place/@eniko/117508873633230665 no-ai logo with fox

• https://raphus.social/@MaddieM4/117510449594924905 on stealing our communities, with sides on

  • https://literatur.social/@Callistobeast/117512889248274165 slopbros thrive on hate
  • https://hachyderm.io/@onesilentlake/117511839807785832 communities
  • https://raphus.social/@MaddieM4/117513231532012154 LibreOffice advertising with not doing “AI”, raking in donation money, and then doing it anyway; and committee-led projects do this constantly
    • https://raphus.social/@MaddieM4/117519030094147035 and with a… rather novel take

• https://legal.social/@malteengeler/117509432518637420 exposing the rot, here: Proton

• https://mastodon.bsd.cafe/@chadmccullough/117526360452149782 and Tuta

• https://mastoart.social/@doombloomart/117512651720235458 more examples of platforms’ ridiculousness

• https://spectre.asta.lgbt/@aud/statuses/01M5XATCM1T38XE878NHE0JXHE fraud

• https://mstdn.party/@kbeninato/117532116275679127 RAM, I cannot even

• https://isdream.ing/@mookie/117538591236341191 same

  I think that it's quite terrible to have all the billionaires have a bunch of the world's money sitting around in their personal bank accounts unused when there are people living on the streets and children going hungry.

• https://humancode.us/2026/09/24/ai-is-not-a-tool another way to look at the tool topic

• https://sightlessscribbles.com/posts/eleven-labs/ à propos of ElevenLabs, another aggressive scraper and sloperator

• https://hachyderm.io/@ell1e/117519009531319548 why it is bad that some projects let in slop? (thread + 📼)

  • https://pivot-to-ai.com/2025/07/22/open-source-projects-reject-ai-code-over-copyright-concerns/ text version of the linked-to video

• https://boriken.social/@bloodravenlib/117526143098231643 🇺🇸 second person to get a religious exemption

• https://mastodon.gamedev.place/@grumpygamer/117537591367639299 if you use “AI”, don’t pretend you're doing it in ethical way

  There is no such thing as "ethically using AI". AI is trained on stolen data. AI is destroying the environment and communities. AI is making us stupid.

• https://eupolicy.social/@pneutig/117529729868838611 more dirt on data centres

• https://oldbytes.space/@thankfulmachine/117551219284758155 … whose impact is now measured in atomic bombs ffs, and a two-digit figure at that!

• https://infosec.exchange/@david_chisnall/117540788341445069 invest 10% of these damn resources elsewhere, you’ll see much better progress!

• https://tldr.nettime.org/@tante/117568301470977090 one way “AI” can help to solve the climate crisis is to, well, make the planet unlivable

• https://unstable.systems/@AmyZenunim/117571126424616657 it’s not going to solve cancer, poverty, or anything else either, because there is no money in doing so

• https://pdx.social/@a/117552927107241817 people should have been more exposed to ELIZA and similar, to avoid them falling for slop this easily

• https://raphus.social/@MaddieM4/117550460859495413 more on the fascism angle

• https://mastodon.social/@jcoglan/117546100926230193 on the relationship between design, implementation and correctness

• https://selfy.army/@catalina/117554261101276974 I don’t know what Endstep is, but the writeup is good

• https://mstdn.social/@GeriAQuin/117546776523742155 so much for “paperless”

• https://mastodon.social/@DerivativeThoughts/117349562020712701 more on sloperators stealing scientific papers before they are even published

• https://mastodon.social/@hyc/117563388535261040 and breaking coordinated disclosure in security

• https://tldr.nettime.org/@tante/117563188187373191 we need to warn normal people about the TESCREAL and neoreactionary people

• I also added a link to another information centre to the top of this list, where such links will likely stay.

(We’re at over 39k characters again. At some point, I will move more off the top of the list, between the intro post and the bottom of the list, into a separate post (a reply to this post) to make space. Why the top of the list, not the bottom? Because I append at the bottom, so this post is the one people interact with (favourite, boost) to get edit notifications.)

Oh wow, GWR doing a major fuck-up of their IT infrastructure with only five days of advance notice.

And here I thought DB was bad…

Katze Čara🐈‍⬛ ist entsetzt, daß die Mama nur Gemüsesamen hat und keine, aus denen Katzenleckerli wachsen! #FediCats

@leyrer huh? Should the superuser account not require no password?

Ach, was soll’s. Ist ja nur ein DB-Backup. Nach Restore hat keiner gefragt. Zur Not existiert noch ein VM-Snapshot. Klaube ich mir Optionen aus der manpage zusammen, ohne alles zu verstehen, wird schon schiefgehen.

Ich habe mir meinen Freundeskreis zu gut ausgewählt.

Ich muß (für die Arbeit) was mit MariaDB machen, und keiner hat Ahnung davon, höchstens von richtigen Datenbanken (also PostgreSQL).

PPD files and printer drivers are deprecated and will not be supported in a future version of CUPS

Me wonders how people are supposed to print then…

… oh, printing under GNU/Linux. Never mind then.

Since when does Apache httpd require CRLF line endings?

Used to be you could just HEAD / HTTP/1.0 + twice Enter in netcat.

2/2

Ja toll. Ich kann den Tausendertrenner ändern (keins der Formate hat einen), die Nummer zentrieren oder Schatten werfen lassen, aber nirgendwo das verfickte Datumsformat einstellen.

Ich gebe "2025-08-17 ein, in der Hoffnung, daß es ein String wird.

ER FORMATIERT ES ALS „2025-08-17 UND ICH KRIEGE HIER GLEICH EINEN SCHREIKRAMPF!

LibreOffice Calc.

Ich gebe 2025-08-17 ein.

Er formatiert es als 8/17/25.

Ich ändere die Einstellung Language and Locale → General → Formats → Locale setting: German (Germany)

Er formatiert es als 17.08.25.

Ich gehe alle Einstellungen durch, nirgendwo kann man das Datumsformat einstellen. (Keins der Formate ist übrigens aus der POSIX-Locale ableitbar…)

Ich wähle Format → Number Format → Date aus.

Er formatiert es als 45866.

Ich bin an dem Punkt angekommen, wo ein Durchschnittsnutzer das Ding aus’m Fenster werfen würde und ich meine eigenen Vorurteile über OpenOffice und Derivate sogar mehr als nur bestätigt sehe.

That’s it, I’ve had enough of tech Fedi for at least today.