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#Introduction: I started building #worlds on the #internet nearly 30 years ago. I’m an expert in #AR, #VR, #AI, and #ARGs.
Over 2 years ago, I started exposing the people abusing the digital world to #radicalize people and destabilize global #liberal #democracy.
I was banned from the #birdsite w/60k followers and smeared by hundreds of sadistic trolls because I exposed #MikeFlynn, #QAnon and the #insurrection
Grateful for #mastodon and my new home toad.social. 💙🙏🇺🇸🏴☠️
#ArrestMikeFlynn
To keep #OpenStreetMap.org up and running while we're being deluged by scrapers, we've blocked 320,000+ primarily residential IPv4 addresses in the last 24 hours (+ 100,000 IPv6) involved in scraping.
If you need OSM data, please don't scrape the website - use the official downloads at planet.openstreetmap.org
🙏🌍 #AI #Bots #Abuse
The new CTO, started today, has decided that I am not necessary for his plans to introduce AI into the software development cycle.
I guess that’s me on the job market.
- 35+ years experience
- Ops: AWS certified, bare metal, VMs, containers, IaC. No k8s.
- SWE: DDD, TDD, architecture, design, OOP, backend or frontend
- Typescript, Python, PHP, Go, Java
- Django, FastAPI, MySQL, Postgres, Ansible, Terraform and others
- In my last role I reduced delivery from 6-8 weeks to a weekly cadence with fewer bugs by introducing acceptance tests using Playwright, units tests with TDD, the Ports and Adaptors pattern to isolate and test business logic, a Kanban board to improve flow, and humanity into the daily standup. I mentored junior developers, started a weekly book club, and ran workshops to elevate the quality of the entire team.
- I am currently reading Frictionless (Forsgren, Noda) and The Real World of Technology (Franklin)
Stoehr features a doctored AI-produced image of Pretti immediately before Trump's masked thugs shot him repeatedly in the back. The image appears to show Pretti pulling his gun — though actual footage of what happened, from repeated angles, shows that this did not ever happen and his gun was taken away before he was murdered. He never touched the gun.
#AlexPretti #ReneeGood #Trump #StephenMiller #KristiNoem #murder #execution #AI
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GOG now using AI generated images on their store gamingonlinux.com/2026/01/gog-…
GOG now using AI generated images on their store
AI continues to be everywhere, and now it's appearing on the GOG store too most recently a big banner for their New Year Sale.Liam Dawe (GamingOnLinux)
#Google adds your #Gmail and #Photos to #AI Mode to enable “#PersonalIntelligence”
arstechnica.com/google/2026/01…
#privacy #cybersecurity #Gemini
Google adds your Gmail and Photos to AI Mode to enable "Personal Intelligence"
Personal Intelligence is optional and rolling out first to AI Pro and AI Ultra subscribers.Ryan Whitwam (Ars Technica)
#AI models are showing a greater ability to find and exploit vulnerabilities on realistic cyber ranges
Richard #Stallman Critiques #AI, Connected Cars, #Smartphones, and #DRM
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Richard Stallman Critiques AI, Connected Cars, Smartphones, and DRM - Slashdot
Richard Stallman spoke Friday at Atlanta's Georgia Institute of Technology, continuing his activism for free software while also addressing today's new technologies.news.slashdot.org
#AI and #FacialRecognition to be rolled out as #Britain’s ‘broken’ policing system faces sweeping reforms
independent.co.uk/news/uk/crim…
#FRT #privacy #surveillance #UK
AI and facial recognition to be rolled out as Britain’s ‘broken’ policing system faces sweeping reforms
Officials say using AI will free up 6 million hours of police time – the equivalent of 3,000 officers – each yearAmy-Clare Martin (The Independent)
🎉 #Oracle #AI #Database 26ai Enterprise Edition is now generally available for Linux x86-64 on-prem!
geraldonit.com/oracle-ai-datab…
Oracle AI Database 26ai Enterprise Edition now GA for on-premises Linux x86-64
Oracle AI Database 26ai Enterprise Edition is now generally available for Linux x86-64. You can download it from the usual places, such as the Oracle Database download page, Software Delivery Cloud…Gerald on IT
This is an essential read from @pluralistic – well worth your time to understand the points he’s making fully as he’s spot on and the excellent analogies will make it easier for you to discuss the topic with others.
theguardian.com/us-news/ng-int…
#AI #capitalism #neoliberalism #tech #reverseCentaur
AI companies will fail. We can salvage something from the wreckage
AI is asbestos in the walls of our tech society, stuffed there by monopolists run amok. A serious fight against it must strike at its rootsCory Doctorow (The Guardian)
Having jumped through all the hoops, it appears that my institution does not get me access to this article of clear public interest.. "Settling the Score on Algorithmic Discrimination in Health Care" ai.nejm.org/doi/pdf/10.1056/AI…
Luckily, I can ask an #AI Companion (beta) to interpret it for me so I don't have to trouble myself with using my own mind.
Have I stated a preference for #OpenScience yet? @openscience
With a passing note of the usefulness of the Unpaywall extension* (here, with #Firefox), here's another, "Using labels to limit AI misuse in health"
nature.com/articles/s43588-024…
* It was redundant here but often comes in handy
Using labels to limit AI misuse in health - Nature Computational Science
The proliferation of artificial intelligence (AI) algorithms for public use has led to many creative healthcare applications, some with the potential to create or worsen health inequities.Nature
Labour really can go in the bin now. Talk about tech bros servants.
I thought the Labour party were the party for the working man (people) but they are loving replacing all the working mans work with AI 🤬
via @theprivacydad
social.linux.pizza/@theprivacy…
The Privacy Dad (@theprivacydad@social.linux.pizza)
"AI and facial recognition to be rolled out as Britain’s ‘broken’ policing system faces sweeping reforms" https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/crime/police-overhaul-shabana-mahmood-home-office-ai-b2907845.htmlLinux.Pizza
"Yet, it turns out no one is buying Copilot."
#Microsoft #Copilot #AI #KI #Bubble
"But why is Copilot’s growth and/or sales so bad? Well, one study tested these ‘agentic’ AIs, including Copilot, and found that they flat out failed to complete even simple tasks 70% of the time, rendering them somewhere between useless and an active hindrance.
The same is true for Microsoft’s cash baby, ChatGPT."
No shit, sherlock?
planetearthandbeyond.co/p/the-…
(Danke, Mathias!)
Oh, I forgot: #windows #windows11
The AI Industry Is Starting To Unravel
The wheels are falling off the bandwagon.Will Lockett (Will Lockett's Newsletter)
#AI #scam #KI #TheBigSteal
"This is a doom spiral"
"This is big tech stealing from Silicon Valley and to see it as anything else is naive."
"That AI startup that needs to keep raising 100 B dollars in a single round isn't sending that cash to other startups. It's mostly going to Open Ai, who sends it to Microsoft, Amazon, Core, Evil, Google, Anthropic who sends it to Google, Microsoft or Amazon or one of the large hyperscalers such as Amazon, Microsoft or Google." /1
omny.fm/shows/better-offline/t…
The Enshittifinancial Crisis: Part Two - Better Offline
In part two of this week’s four-part Better Offline Enshittifinancial Crisis special, Ed Zitron walks you through how companies like AMD, Broadcom and NVIDIA are swindling stockholders with the help of analysts and the media, and how decades of easy …omny.fm
🖥️ Hallucination Stations: On Some Basic Limitations of Transformer-Based Language Models
"We show that LLMs are incapable of carrying out computational and agentic tasks beyond a certain complexity, and further that LLMs are incapable of verifying the accuracy of tasks beyond a certain complexity."
Sikka, Varin and Sikka, Vishal (2025) 'Hallucination Stations: on some basic limitations of Transformer-Based Language models,' arXiv (Cornell University) [Preprint]. doi.org/10.48550/arxiv.2507.07….
#AI #ArtificialIntelligence #LLM #Technology #Tech #ComputerScience #Research #Preprint #Academia
Hallucination Stations: On Some Basic Limitations of Transformer-Based Language Models
In this paper we explore hallucinations and related capability limitations in LLMs and LLM-based agents from the perspective of computational complexity.arXiv.org
Ugh there are a lot of AI models 😵💫
At least found a TUI for it...
🤖 **models** — A TUI for browsing AI models
🔥 Compare context windows, pricing & capabilities across providers
🦀 Written in Rust & built with @ratatui_rs
⭐ GitHub: github.com/arimxyer/models
#rustlang #ratatui #tui #cli #ai #llm #devtools #terminal #productivity
GitHub - arimxyer/models: Super fast CLI and TUI for browsing AI models. Quickly look up context windows, pricing, capabilities, and more for 2000+ models across 75+ providers.
Super fast CLI and TUI for browsing AI models. Quickly look up context windows, pricing, capabilities, and more for 2000+ models across 75+ providers. - arimxyer/modelsGitHub
Marcy Wheeler notes:
"The AI slop the White House released yesterday really embodies what Pam Bondi’s DOJ has become.
Bullshit all the way down."
She also notes that Bondi went personally to Minnesota to see Nekima Levy Armstrong and others arrested, and the FBI initially arrested the wrong Black woman. And:
"The AI slop will make it far easier for [Nekima Levy Armstrong] to argue this is vindictive."
#WhiteHouse #Minnesota #AI #lies
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"The Armstrong photo didn’t emerge from nowhere. It’s the latest entry in what has become a defining feature of the second Trump administration: the systematic deployment of AI-generated and digitally manipulated content as official government communication. …
The White House would very much like you to focus on the fake tears. What they don’t want you thinking about is why Nekima Levy Armstrong was protesting in the first place" — the murder of Renee Good.
#WhiteHouse #Minnesota #AI #lies
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"The White House digitally altered the image of Armstrong’s arrest to manufacture the appearance of emotional breakdown. There was no disclosure, no indication the photo had been manipulated. It was posted as though it were real, with a caption labeling Armstrong a 'far-left agitator.' Vice President JD Vance amplified it to his own followers."
~ Parker Molloy
#WhiteHouse #Minnesota #AI #lies
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They Faked Her Tears
The administration's response to getting caught digitally altering an image of a civil rights attorney: "The memes will continue."Parker Molloy (The Present Age)
The need to lie to defend or promote a cause you purport to be righteous gives away the game — that is, that the cause isn't righteous at all.
#WhiteHouse #Minnesota #AI #lies
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"This is the first example I’ve seen of an American government using AI to meaningfully misrepresent actual events with the intent to deceive the public."
~ Don Moynihan
#WhiteHouse #Minnesota #AI #lies
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donmoynihan.substack.com/p/pas…
Past the breaking point
The violent occupation of an American city is more than a warningDon Moynihan (Can We Still Govern?)
"The White House's flippant response was obviously drafted by someone whose parents failed to teach them the difference between right and wrong. Trying to cover up a lie by describing it as a 'meme' is unworthy of a high schooler—let alone a presidential spokesperson."
~ Robert B. Hubbell
#WhiteHouse #Minnesota #AI #lies
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The first photo of the arrest of Nekima Levy Armstrong was posted by Kristi Noem of DHS. A half hour later, the White House posted the second image — taking Noem's image, darkening Armstrong's skin, and making it appear she is crying.
When asked if it had digitally altered the first image, the White House responded with a tweet by Kaelan Dorr, deputy communications director, stating, "The memes will continue. Thank you for your attention to this matter."
#WhiteHouse #Minnesota #AI #lies
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"The White House posted a digitally altered image of a woman who was arrested on Thursday in a case touted by the US attorney general, Pam Bondi, to make it seem as if she was dramatically crying, a Guardian analysis of the image has found."
~ Sam Levine
#WhiteHouse #Minnesota #AI #lies
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theguardian.com/us-news/2026/j…
White House posts digitally altered image of woman arrested after ICE protest
Guardian analysis shows images are the same, with Nekima Levy Armstrong looking composed in original but sobbing after alterationSam Levine (The Guardian)
Is this supposed to be good news?
Anthropic updated Claude’s “Constitution,” spelling out the chatbot’s “ethical character” and, crucially, requiring it not to “kill or disempower” humanity.
The Constitution is baked into Claude’s thinking; previous versions were softer guidelines, but as Claude becomes more powerful, its maker has added constraints on dangerous behavior.
semafor.com/article/01/23/2026…
#AI #AIthreat #AIethics #Anthropic #Claude #chatbots #dystopia #press
Anthropic vows to protect humanity with AI ‘constitution’
Anthropic updated Claude’s rules, spelling out the chatbot’s “ethical character” and, crucially, requiring it not to “kill or disempower” humanity.Tom Chivers (www.semafor.com)
Microslop's CEO is on a roll!
Few weeks ago he begged us to stop using "slop" because it makes AIs sad. Days ago he complained "AI boom might falter" if we don't start using more spicy autocomplete. 
Now he's begging developers to "do something useful" with lying machines, or they might lose the "social permission" to boil the planet. 
techradar.com/ai-platforms-ass…
What, is Microslop's Slopilot services not useful enough on their own? 
"“There is no alternative” is a cheap rhetorical sleight. It’s a demand dressed up as an observation. “There is no alternative” means: “Stop trying to think of an alternative.”
I’m a science-fiction writer – my job is to think of a dozen alternatives before breakfast."
- @pluralistic
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#Tech #Technology #AI #ArtificialIntelligence #StockMarket #Business #News #World #SciFi
@pluralistic on the #AIbubble, why it is a #bubble and what we will get out of it after it busts:
theguardian.com/us-news/ng-int…
One of the best texts I've read about #AI so far.
AI companies will fail. We can salvage something from the wreckage
AI is asbestos in the walls of our tech society, stuffed there by monopolists run amok. A serious fight against it must strike at its rootsCory Doctorow (The Guardian)
This is interesting, but not for the obvious reasons:
The era of Photoshop may be ending, as Adobe stocks take a battering
finance.yahoo.com/news/era-pho…
tl;dr Adobe's stock is down because "AI" so Yahoo concludes this is the end of the "Photoshop era".
What's interesting here is that "Photoshop era" is ending – according to Yahoo – not because users are turning away. It's because *investors* are.
The "market" for software and services is a side-show. Only the stock market matters.
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"As a technology writer, I'm supposed to be telling you that this bet will some day pay off, because one day we will have shoveled so many words into the word-guessing program that it wakes up and learns how to actually do the jobs it is failing spectacularly at today. This is a proposition akin to the idea that if we keep breeding horses to run faster and faster, one of them will give birth to a locomotive."
~ Cory Doctorow