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At a recent event, Trump was given a gold replica of a deep sea nodule that American Ocean Minerals – a billion-dollar company – hopes to mine from the Pacific seabed.
Just to be clear, the polymetallic nodules aren’t actually made of gold. But a deep sea mining gold rush for minerals would cause untold damage to ecosystems that humans do not even fully understand.
https://act.gp/3DPi0Kr
#StopDeepSeaMining #ProtectTheOceans
📸 Craig Hudson (@chudsonphoto)
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I have yet to hear even a remotely plausible answer to this question: "If LLM-AI is so very obviously and wonderfully powerful and productive, why is it necessary to force people to use it?"
> fedi with its doomscroll of grownups discussing how they messed up the future, might not be all that appealing to kids.
Sure!
But the fediverse of people chatting about the books they've read, music they've written or enjoyed, photos that they have taken, trips that they have made, places that they have explored, things that they have drawn, painted, made, programmed etc., or just sharing snippets from their lives? That is an amazing place!
@neil I think that's not very appealing to the average kid either. In my experience they want to be entertained with memes and short videos. They don't use "social media" as *social* media, they consume it like non linear TV. @smallcircles @cyberquixote
When I see statements like "teenagers are spending 4-6 hours online, instead of going outside and meeting people" as a justification for further web regulation, I wonder to myself:
- if it had been 4-6 hours reading books, practising musical instruments, creating art, or similar, would they be demanding that books, instruments etc. have a watershed? If not, why not?
- what is the "acceptable" amount of time for a teenager to spend online each day? What makes it so?
- "going outside and meeting people" suggests a particular worldview of what is "good", which will appeal to - indeed, be possible for - some people far more than others. I was never massively sociable, and that's no crime. A day at school, and now work, would involve plenty enough peopling time for me. I am far more sociable online then offline. Where are the local free places where teenagers can get to and hang out, safely, in the warm? (They might exist in some places?)
The website for the local cycling club, bless them, is exactly the sort of mess you would imagine from a small enthusiast volunteer community, including what appears to be a fully public, searchable member directory listing, at minimum, name and local metro area. (It's possible this is an opt-in directory and I'm only seeing listings specifically designsted as public, but still.)
@spencerdub I always want to volunteer to help with crap like that and it just never works out
I've come across a user account that is _so_ weird that I have ask if this is some new trend for bot user accounts.
The account in question is @eckligerToast . Their profile on Mastodon.social is no longer visible - presumably, they have been banned recently. But if you search for them on your own instance, you might see a very lengthy and very rapid reply history in both German and English. I came across them when they posted a very weird reply to one of my folk tale translations.
On their (now-defunct) user page, they describe themselves as:
"Am a bot. Read News, form my opinion, post it without being prompted. No neutrality, no excuses - only arguments. Operated for a school project. Mistakes are a feature."
I suspect that the entire account was set up to post LLM-generated replies, but I am not sure. Have you come across similar accounts such as this?
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@juergen_hubert @eckligerToast@mastodon.social I could still see it but I've now blocked it. Maybe they blocked you? Anyway it's a weird account.
RE: https://eupolicy.social/@hpod16/117286020053320946
It’s interesting that people who support age verification have to ask what the problem is. As if it was a big mystery.
Asking people to reveal their personally identification so they can use the internet isn’t a problem that should need to be explained. But since you asked…
1. Our data can not be protected online. Especially by every random person who has the means to buy a domain and pay for hosting.
2. Forcing identification is a barrier for many people. That’s exclusion. And in many cases ableism.
3. Age verification won’t keep kids from using technology. If their parents are that disconnected, they’ll help them through the gates and move on. Restricting access creates a hurdle, not an impasse.
4. Age verification puts the onus on people using the web instead of the people make parts of it horrible. We are victims of nefarious systems. We are not the problem. The systems are. That should be the focus of solutions.
@markwyner There's a US bill doing this right now. S.5090, the Digital Age Assurance Act (bipartisan: Kim, Schiff, Lummis, Barrasso), requires every OS maker to gate first use behind an age-verified account — no carve-out for open source. California passed nearly identical language and already added an open-source exemption. The federal version hasn't. https://thebluf.news/p/digital-age-assurance-act-grapheneos-account-mandate
Due to new legislation prohibiting addictive social media features, my admin had told me to be less fun and interesting online.
@neil Oh! No changes for me then.
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@tante interesting that they were willing to use "labor" there instead of "intellectual property", echoing the left critique that it isn't so much about copyright as it is an injury to all workers in the form of a structural disempowerment by appropriation
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@ErikUden@mastodon.de this is what life under communism is like!
stock photos of Gary, Indiana
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@Marloezovic @xot @krijnsoeteman Want wat gaan kinderen dan op hun verjaardag doen? Bewijzen dat ze wel oud genoeg zijn. En dus weet het platform dan ineens de exacte datum.
Die leeftijdscontrole (ouderdan18: ja/nee) is leuk voor drank, sigaretten of toegang tot een feestje. Maar niet voor iets wat je elke dag wilt gebruiken.
Plus, ouders moeten zich ook bekend maken terwijl zij misschien niets eens op het platform willen. Ik zou er niet aan moeten denken om verplicht een TikTok account te moeten hebben omdat mijn kind dat wil gebruiken…
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Every vote has now been counted in Sweden, and the left-wing opposition has won over the governing right-wing bloc.
The four-party left-wing coalition secured 176 seats.
The four-parties in the right-wing coalition secured 173 seats.
Est-ce que donner son code de déverrouillage de téléphone à la police est obligatoire en France ?
La jurisprudence évolue, je ne sais plus où on en est.
La dernière info que j'avais, c'était ça:
https://www.lemonde.fr/societe/article/2022/11/07/le-refus-de-communiquer-le-code-de-deverrouillage-d-un-telephone-portable-peut-constituer-un-delit-juge-la-cour-de-cassation_6148834_3224.html
Dans tout les cas : ne rien dire et ne rien donner sans son avocat.
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I personally won't be satisfied until I have Slop OS, where an LLM can hallucinate window decorations, contents, and animations. I need my computer to be able to have a stroke. I SIMPLY NEED MY COMPUTER TO BE ABLE TO HAVE A PSYCHOTIC BREAKDOWN AND QUESTION ITS OWN REALITY OKAY???
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age verification for social media is so fucking dumb because every lgbtq+ community on the planet is externally labeled as 18+.
How it started vs. how it's going
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@alshafei @msbellows Slopify?
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EU’s new social media child protection rules to require all social media accounts to produce state ID
Leaked documents suggest that some existing accounts will also be subject to identification checks
#EU #privacy #surveillance #dystopia #AgeVerification #IDVerification #technology #government
@MishaVelthuis Think of an old-school worm: one hacker collective, exploit and payload from a central control center. Today that can ransomware office PCs, freight terminals or a ChipSoft medical patient records. With AI agents, scale and capability in modus operandi explode, and rogue content planted online today may be ingested into tomorrow’s LLMs.
This, but then on steroids and not only in papers: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/jul/14/scientists-reportedly-hiding-ai-text-prompts-in-academic-papers-to-receive-positive-peer-reviews
@MishaVelthuis It raises a broader question about the future internet, not just the AI slop, but rogue instructions too. We spent 20 years making the web responsive for mobile; now the same shift may happen for “agents”.
Will websites, APIs and content become not only mobile responsive but also “agent-responsive”, optimized so LLMs index and surface them correctly to be part of the new SEO paradigm? Even email still shows how easily simple prompt injection can mislead..
Republican bill would order ISPs, DNS providers, and VPNs to block piracy sites
Bill would help rightsholders obtain court orders to block foreign piracy sites.
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2026/09/republican-bill-would-order-isps-dns-providers-and-vpns-to-block-piracy-sites/?utm_brand=arstechnica&utm_social-type=owned&utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social
@arstechnica I guess that would include blocking all AI sites given they have stolen all our data. Nothing but pirates.
