This is important. Don’t let them take your joy. We all need that to keep going. (Plus it’s, you know, joy.)
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Feeling major FOMO as many Fedi friends and inspiring people are currently at #39c3. But luckily talk recordings are already available!
🔗 : https://media.ccc.de/popular/2025
I'm about to start watching @pluralistic's "A post-American, enshittification-resistant internet" 🍿
🔗 : https://media.ccc.de/v/39c3-a-post-american-enshittification-resistant-internet
Wishing everyone a great day! ✨
AI Must Die!
Critical Perspectives on the State of Artificial Intelligence
AI MUST DIE is a short zine by Myke Walton and Cam Smith that presents critical perspectives on the way that AI is talked about, governed, and owned in 2025.
AI is fucking everywhere: at work, at school, in our homes, in our phones, on our streets, in our governments, and at war. We are living through an era of extreme AI hype. In this climate, some people have gotten rich off of the stolen data and stolen labor that fuels these technologies. Others have been surveilled, oppressed, exploited, and killed. This text presents a short, practical guide to the technologies currently called “AI,” the ideologies and actors pouring gasoline on the AI dumpsterfire, and what we can do about it.
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How long will this go on? When will the hype cycle end? Is another AI winter coming? Faced with an inhumane tech industry and complicit governments it may ultimately fall to the people to invent new ways to evade, refuse, resist, sabotage or otherwise destroy AI.
Hammers up! AI Must Die!
Seize the means of computation
Read the full zine here: https://www.aimustdie.info/
@asrg Even if I laugh about the very ironic title (they clearly write that #AI is *no* existence or #intelligence that could die), this #zine is a good compilation for critical questions to ask and for thinking about #AIEthics and rules. A first starter for #activism.
#LLM #genAI #generativeAI #zines #resist #solarpunkSunday #luddites #noAI
I've often wondered why atheists seem to better exemplify the values and ethics that the Christian churches espouse, supposedly in the name of some dude that may or may not have lived 2,000 years ago. And I can't help but think that for many of them it's all just an act, that they don't actually believe a word of it.
#religion #atheism #cruelty #fascism #jesus #christianity #church #capitalism #poverty #socialism #anarchism #community #resist
Monstrous AI Slop imitating famous people is OUT OF CONTROL on YouTube
It's a horrific scourge. Realistic AI imitations of celebrities, politicians, and more putting words in their mouths that they never said are flooding #YouTube. Sometimes the "Altered or synthetic content" label is visible if you bother to look at the description (which takes extra effort on YT TV interfaces in particular) but the similar warning banner that used to appear for some seconds overlaid on the videos no longer seems to routinely appear.
#Google is creating a monster, and sooner rather than later that monster is likely to turn on its maker.
@lauren #AI now stands for #ArtificialIdiot. And a very dangerous one!
Feeling major FOMO as many Fedi friends and inspiring people are currently at #39c3. But luckily talk recordings are already available!
🔗 : https://media.ccc.de/popular/2025
I'm about to start watching @pluralistic's "A post-American, enshittification-resistant internet" 🍿
🔗 : https://media.ccc.de/v/39c3-a-post-american-enshittification-resistant-internet
Wishing everyone a great day! ✨
🎶 Riff Raff Radical Marching Band 🎶 🎉
Saw some red and black flags flying in the festival crowd today and found myself following this street band for the next half hour or so.
Notably they were being joined by other performers who happened to be in the area, especially indigenous performers.
http://riffraff.club/brisbane/
Absolutely made my day.
cc: @slackbastard @sexenheimer
#woodford2025 #woodfordFolkFestival #ausMusic #anarchism #anarchy #resist #protest
The Riff Raff Radical Marching Band playing through the streets of Woodford under the red and black Anarchist flag and joined by some of the 4m tall "The Elders" puppets who are dancing to their music.
The Riff Raff Radical Marching Band playing through the streets of Woodford under the red and black Anarchist flag are joined by an indigenous performer
The Riff Raff Radical Marching Band playing through the streets of Woodford under the red and black Anarchist flag
The Riff Raff Radical Marching Band playing through the streets of Woodford under the red and black Anarchist flag
Since Donald Trump’s return to the White House, the idea of the United States being the custodian of the international rules-based order has been cast aside, lending new urgency to long-simmering questions. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/commentary/2025/12/28/world/filling-americas-shoes/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #commentary #worldnews #us #china #donaldtrump #climatechange #taiwan #uschinarelations #wto
@thejapantimes #WashingtonHasFallen and #Putin is extremely pleased with his puppet in the #WhiteHouse.
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2025 End of year personal computing check-in
I've written quite a bit over the past 11 months about flipping the table on my personal computing. All very unexpected but what a relief to have done it. And also very satisfying to know that my computing now fits my personal ethics in a way that it did not before.
#Permacomputing #GNU #Linux #FreeSoftware #FOSS #Apple #Computing #Tech #Technology #Privacy #Resist #Capitalism #Fascism
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2025 End of year personal computing check-in
I've written quite a bit over the past 11 months about flipping the table on my personal computing. All very unexpected but what a relief to have done it. And also very satisfying to know that my computing now fits my personal ethics in a way that it did not before.
#Permacomputing #GNU #Linux #FreeSoftware #FOSS #Apple #Computing #Tech #Technology #Privacy #Resist #Capitalism #Fascism
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Can you imagine if the billionaire tech bros were spending all their energy developing solutions to clean the planet and distribute resources better instead of incessantly enshittifying our lives and trying to devaluate labour?
What a different world that would be.
I wish them all a Ghosts-of-Christmas experience.
😊This reminded me of this old meme I made💙. Just replace #repuglicans with #billionaires
Our only chance is to #Resist & #fight
The best way to fight is to take what they care about most -💲
That means we DON'T give our $ to fascists & appeasers #boycott #amazon #bezos #skuM #meta #zuckerberg & the rest
I feel like I need to make another gold frog
Resistance works. Keep it up!
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2025/12/the-horns-and-whistles-work/
Fishy and Ruby wish you all a very merry Fishmas.
@lowqualityfacts and a very snuggly New Year to you . #resist