For the record, AI is a technocratic political project for the purpose of industrializing knowledge work.

That industrialization of knowledge work has 2 parts. First, is mechanization. Making knowledge work dependent on some particular machine. This is already the case, with computers generally. Knowledge work is thoroughly computerized. But, those computers are small, cheap, universally available commodities. That doesn't serve the second part, so they're forcing in new layers of mechanization, and removing access to the old machines.

Second, they ensure those machines can only be obtained through large investments of capital. Thus, all knowledge work can be done only at the pleasure of the capitalists who own the machines. Personal computers don't help them, there. But a black box hosted service that consumes the entire web to build and a whole country's worth of electricity to operate sure as hell does.

"AI" is merely the banner under which they are organizing and justifying this project. The implementation details are just the implementation details.

@pallenberg Ist doch klar, der Herr Bogenschulte wars. 😇🤣

this graduation speech moment is notable, and her amazed shock at having failed to read the room feels instructive.

when you’re inside the bubble, you think everybody else is. but everybody isn’t.

@bartreardon congrats on your cute little baby! How many watts?

Too many Whoppers

More on the shape of the support for the Green Party of England & Wales in Thursday local elections; they performed best in areas with lots of renters (which may be at least partly coterminous with the age profile posted about earlier today/yesterday).

#greens #politics #renting #housing

Screaming into the void? Have it your way.

@dansup I am proud one of million users of Pixelfed. Keep going. Honestly the “Suggested for you” posts and “Ad” posts on Instagram definitely killed me. I want @pixelfed to remain chronological. I remained happy the fact that it is ad-free here on pixelfed

#proudimmigrant here

Presentazione del libro "Il #caporalato Una storia" 11 maggio a #Benevento https://www.carocci.it/appuntamento/il-caporalato-8

Aaron Swartz joined the RSS working group when he was 13. At 15 he became a foundational member of Creative Commons. He was working on precursors to markdown at 16.

We should not be locking young people out of our communities and keeping them away from digital tools that can open doors for them, expand their knowledge, sharpen their skills, and help them grow into well-rounded adults.

Too many Whoppers

Sometime when I see a subtoot and I have no idea what it's subbing, I feel the urge to write my own post that it might refer to just to muddy the waters and add a little whimsy.

can someone explain the joke being made here https://nesbitt.io/2026/02/03/incident-report-cve-2024-yikes.html

@TheBreadmonkey oh no the pictures of Henry reminded me on social media apparently Henry is having a Birthday Tour?! During May half-term... ominous mysterious posting on social media and a link to https://www.myhenry.com/surprise

And apparently he did a tour of the UK already https://henrybags.co.uk/blogs/news/henry-hoover-on-tour-cleans-up-the-uk "A very special Henry Hoover is taking his army of Instagram followers on a “suction taking” photographic tour of the UK" 😬

die shimanos s-phyre versuche ich aktuell tatsächlich zurückzugeben weil die bei der heißen 100+ fahr neulich dann doch endgültig zu sehr gedrückt haben und vor allem zu heiß geworden sind. (aber nicht an der stelle lol)

@gnirre I do not explain that at all because I don't have enough knowledge to do so.

Esta fue la de abril, que se quedó muy menguada porque no tenía vocales suficientes para completarla:

Aquel año, al final del verano, vivíamos en una casa de un pueblo que, más allá del río, y de la llanura, miraba las montañas.

This isn't about security or any missing functionality. GrapheneOS can be verified via hardware attestation. Google bans using GrapheneOS for Play Integrity because we don't license Google Mobile Services and conform to anti-competitive rules already found to be illegal in South Korea and elsewhere.

It's tiny.