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Anatole France wrote: “The law, in its majestic equality, forbids rich and poor alike to sleep under bridges, to beg in the streets, and to steal their bread.”
@GeePawHill Anatole Etats-Unis n'aurait jamais dit une chose pareille, c'est beaucoup trop socialiste.
The reality is no fascist leader, not Trump, not Hitler, can get us all by themselves. This shit happens because ppl, a society, lets it happen. We have spent a good long while now, much longer than most people realize, letting this happen.
We could stop doing that at any time. Bur it's not going to be easy, it's not going to be safe, and you can bet your sweet ass cheeks it's not going to be legal.
At some point you will fight; do it now while you have a chance of winning w/few casualties.
Womit freiberufliche Journalist*innen, gerade zu kämpfen haben:
>> KI-Konzerne, die ihre Arbeit gestohlen haben für ein Produkt, das den #Journalismus ersetzen soll
>> Verlage und Sender, die an allen Ecken und Enden sparen
>> Slapp-Klagen und andere Drohungen, um sie mundtot zu machen
Auch darum ist es gut, dass wir uns bei @riffreporter zur Genossenschaft zusammengeschlossen haben. Aber das funktioniert nur mit mehr Abonnent*innen. Jetzt zum selbstgewählten Preis: https://www.riffreporter.de/de/gesellschaft/riffreporter-abo-kampagne-selbstbestimmter-preis
@christianschwaegerl @riffreporter
Pressefreiheit! Total wichtig (wenn man die Bild in seinem Laden nicht mehr verkaufen will. Wenn es darum geht, dass Journalisten in den Ruin getrieben werden können nicht so!)
Via @statewatch is een ontwerptekst gelekt van een kaderovereenkomst tussen de EU en de VS inzake de wederzijdse uitwisseling van informatie voor veiligheidsscreenings en identiteitsverificaties in verband met grensprocedures en visumaanvragen.
De EU en de VS onderhandelen hier momenteel over. Statewatch waarschuwt dat deze overeenkomst negatieve gevolgen kan hebben voor verschillende grondrechten van inwoners van de EU. https://statewatch.org/news/2026/august/leaked-latest-eu-us-data-exchange-draft-shows-eu-still-submitting/
Scoperto per strada e condivido.
SCALPO è un collettivo anarco-pacifista che ha come obiettivo la condivisione e l’educazione attraverso la lettura, l’archiviazione e la produzione di testi liberi.
(…) Le registrazioni vengono caricate sul canale Castopod.
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provo molta gratitudine verso SCALPO, che mi ha permesso di audio-leggere libri meravigliosi. Lo sto ascoltando dai primi incontri, quando ne aveva parlato @kenobit.
Pubblicando su castopod, è anche sul fediverso: @SCALPOcast
"Come out and fight!" the knight called.
"Very well," the dragon replied. "As the challenged party, I get to choose weapons. I choose pistols."
"What? I have a lance and horse!"
"I don't. Here is a matched set, pick one."
"Those are cannons!"
"Tomayto tomahto. Pick, or forfeit the challenge."
@MicroSFF Idiots, those who bring lances to a cannon fight.
The reigning social order is extremely precarious. It is impossible to maintain such intense disparities in wealth and power without continuous surveillance and repression. That is why Flock cameras and related technologies have become ubiquitous.
To fight surveillance is to resist tyranny. But the only way to put an end to invasive surveillance technologies is to topple the social order that requires them.
https://store.crimethinc.com/products/you-are-under-surveillance
A data protection lawyer told 404 Media the sharing was likely illegal, and Channel 5’s own privacy policy explicitly says it won't give subscribers’ emails away to people for marketing purposes.
@404mediaco we need to see that csv on Hunter Biden’s laptop.
mastodon.bida.im -> mastodon.bidone.im
The route to the Clay problem through a smooth force, options c and d in Fefferman’s statement of the problem, is the route Luis and Diego opened and the one Levent and I had quietly chosen to attack. Almost nobody else I know of was working on it. It is not the direction one arrives at in a few days by giving a model the problem statement. When I heard “forced,” it was a bright red flag. [...]
Levent had been told by Sebastien “very little human input” had been used. This turned out not to be true. Over the course of the call, as members of their team sent Sebastien corrections and details over their internal chat, it emerged that an entire team had been working on the problem, that this was one of a number of things that was tried [...]
I asked when the first prompt had been sent by them. This question was not answered directly by OpenAI for some time. Eventually it was agreed that it had been sent in the past few days, after information about our work had reached OpenAI
I asked whether the model had been trained on, or had access to, our sessions in Codex, into which we had been putting all our drafts for the whole of this project. I was told the model did not look up user data. I asked again, about training, and I did not get an answer [...]
I said that if OpenAI released its result in the way proposed I would go public with what happened. The reply was, “Why would you ruin your career?” I replied that I am an academic, and asked why he thought going public would ruin my career. The reply was, “If you don’t want me to be nice, then I don’t have to be nice.”
Well there's the shoe dropped: the terms of service have always allowed openAI to use your data essentially however they please, and apparently they will in fact use it to steal your work.
NIH to use part of its budget to pay for Department of Defense research
Money would ostensibly fund research the NIH leadership said it no longer wanted.
https://arstechnica.com/science/2026/09/nih-to-use-part-of-its-budget-to-pay-for-department-of-defense-research/?utm_brand=arstechnica&utm_social-type=owned&utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social
Broadly speaking, I see the term data sovereignty being used to talk about two not-entirely compatible ideas: 1. that you should be in control of all of the data you generate, and 2. that countries should have authority over the data generated by their citizens. And that conflation ultimately serves the goals of data nationalists better than it does those of the data individualists.
@lrhodes yes, and the data communitarians are ignored (as much of our own data is also data about others at the same time)
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The other day, I wanted to see if alcohol-free port existed. The top search link went to a page of the 20 best alcohol-free ports! Except none of them were port, they were all spirits (not even other fortified wines). The ‘AI’ summary described a fictional process for removing alcohol from port and had two citations, neither of which supported the claim. The next 30 pages were all LLM slop that talked about what port is for a long time before saying that there’s no alcohol-free version.
I have been using the web since the mid ‘90s and it has never been this bad. Anyone advocating for ‘AI’ is advocating for a future where this damage is spread to all facets of life.
@david_chisnall Oh it'll be fine once we get AIs to verify the search results /s
@jonny repeating what ai company executives say about ai counts as journalism, right? 😅
One of the amazing creatures lurking in the sea off the coast of Vancouver Island, British Columbia.
Photo taken during a recent photo tour.
#photography #nature #TextureTuesday #VancouverIslandWildlife
Real photos of young girls were in nudify-app ads on Facebook, Instagram
Meta dragged its feet removing ads that nudify young girls' Instagram pics.
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2026/09/real-photos-of-young-girls-were-in-nudify-app-ads-on-facebook-instagram/?utm_brand=arstechnica&utm_social-type=owned&utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social
@r00tingcat @riffreporter Weil wir letzteres sehr gut verstehen, arbeiten wir seit Jahren intensiv mit Bibliotheken zusammen, die unser Angebot für die Nutzer*innen kostenlos zur Verfügung stellen. Bei einem beliebigen Preis würde ich glaube ich “frei” wählbar schreiben. Dass man bei uns ab dem jetzt verringerten Mindestpreis den Tarif selbst wählen kann, ist schon ein Maximum an Flexibilität.
@christianschwaegerl @r00tingcat @riffreporter
BTW:
Danke für die Zusammenarbeit mit den Bibliotheken, ich profitiere davon, freue mich darüber und erzähle es immer wieder andren Armutsbetroffenen!
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British police will arrest pensioners for wearing t-shirts with words that merely *resemble* the name of the proscribed group Palestine Action but allowed a gang of masked racists to block the Port of Dover and terrorize people.
The state will say a lot of words about its values and priorities, but its use of violence will always tell you what it actually cares about.
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