RE: https://infosec.exchange/@darkuncle/116778528340746246

“When writing is hard, it’s often not just because we are tired, underfed, or inefficient but because our mind is trying to tell us crucial things. How many draft texts to colleagues or family members have we all stared at in frustration, wondering why they don’t feel quite right—until we finally realize that they need to be rethought completely, or not sent at all? When a book I was writing became an almost hopeless grind, I tore up 90 percent of the manuscript; it became a far more honest work for having been halted at a conceptual dead end, forcing me to turn back.

AI can’t make that kind of judgment.”

Holds equally for code.

#AI #writing #code #LLMs

@handi @muddle Yeah, that’s some fucked up crap right there. Nothing wrong with you.

“Oil hits three-month low, markets soar as U.S. and Iran announce peace deal.”

And the people who were murdered? Just the cost of doing business. Consequences for the murderers: zero.

But hey, you get cheap gas again and Wall Street’s happy so what do we care, right?

I’d say we’re lemmings but we’re not. Lemmings aren’t evil.

https://betanews.com/article/oil-three-month-low-us-iran-peace-deal/

RE: https://mastodonczech.cz/@jirirbr/116775196894528223

Oopsie, you go sign up right away then. Twat.

Needless to say, do not sign up for W or give them your ID information no matter how simple they eventually manage to make it.

You simply don’t need to.

You’re already in a far superior – non-corporate, federated – space.

Do not sign up for W. And warn your friends.

The only time you have any power to stop this is now. If they succeed in gaining network effects, you will be as powerless to stop them as you are with X.

And yes, they’re just another venture capital funded surveillance capitalist, people farmer, and burgeoning Nazi Bar. They just happen to be based in the EU. (As Nazi Bars traditionally have been.)

#WSocial #NoWNoX #surveillance #capitalism #BigTech #VC @_elena https://mastodon.social/@_elena/116770291207686239

@XavCC @_elena @EUCommission @rysiek Thanks for the heads up. Just unfollowed @occrp. They’re clearly not what I thought they were.

https://blog.elenarossini.com/w-social-public-institutions-and-the-theater-of-european-digital-sovereignty/

@johan Alt text: screenshot (detail of article): “…either. There have been so many red flags with W Social since its hastily cobbled-together announcement at Davos that they might as well make a red flag their logo.”

(Look at me writing alt text for my own quote.)

@leadore @_elena @EUCommission No tin-foil hat necessary. It’s just institutional corruption (lobbying and revolving doors).

@petrikas @EUCommission None. It’s VC. It’s already been sold.

@julie @EUCommission X but European.

@EUCommission https://mastodon.ar.al/@aral/116764732093075287

@aadschippers @EUCommission Alt text: Screenshot of @_elena’s article on W Social (detail):

“Balkan then addressed the issue of identity verification - which is required by W Social:

It's very concerning - but again, not surprising - to see folks from the European Commission jumping on this particular bandwagon. Especially given the commission's push for identity verification (under the guise of age verification - as lobbied for by Meta) and W Social's plans to make identity verification a core part of their system. My fear is that W Social is just another for-profit Big Tech startup that happens to be based in the EU. We don't need that. We don't need more European surveillance capitalists and people farmers. We need ethical alternatives working for the common good.”

@_elena “Journalists”

@_elena Clueless (corrupt?) fools.

Also: my pleasure. Thank you for your excellent exposés.

“My fear is that W Social is just another for-profit Big Tech startup that happens to be based in the EU. We don’t need that. We don’t need more European surveillance capitalists and people farmers. We need ethical alternatives working for the common good.”

– Yours truly, in @_elena’s excellent expose on W Social.

https://blog.elenarossini.com/w-social-public-institutions-and-the-theater-of-european-digital-sovereignty/

Do read the article to the end, especially noting the bit about the composition of their board of advisors, which includes an ex-Google AI lead and an ex-Paypal Chief [Violate Your] Privacy Officer who now works at Tools for Humanity (Sam Altman’s “Sci-fi dystopia? Hold my beer…” identity farming startup that wants to scan your eyeballs).

#WSocial #EuropeWashing #PrivacyWashing #BigTech #peopleFarming #surveillance #capitalism #EU #ATProto #fediverse

@timnitGebru Also, it wasn’t “Sunday Pichai’s keynote” it was their graduation ceremony.

When you read this and watch the video, remember that Stanford is basically Silicon Valley Techbro Training Academy. And even there, it would appear the kids are all right.

https://www.businesstoday.in/trending/world/story/free-free-palestine-over-100-students-walkout-as-sundar-pichai-delivers-keynote-address-at-stanford-536829-2026-06-15

Via @timnitGebru

@random_sapiens “All this talk of Genocide is all well and good but we’re trying to have fun here, old chap.”

What Eurovision and the FIFA World Cup prove is that some people care more about their own petty entertainment than the mass suffering of others.

And I simply can’t think of a worse indictment of humanity.

The bar is so very low and we can’t even meet that.

Who knew, the singularity was just fascism all along.