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Weeks before #ElonMusk officially left his perch in government last spring, employees on the #human #data team of his #ArtificialIntelligence start-up #xAI received a startling #waiver from their employer, asking them to pledge to work with profane #content, including sexual material.

#law #regulation #tech #AI #Musk #Grok #moderation #safety #abuse #pedophilia

Nonilex

@Nonilex@masto.ai · last week

#law #regulation #tech #AI #Musk #Grok #moderation #safety #abuse #pedophilia

@BjornW@mastodon.social

@BjornW@mastodon.social · last week

An emotional call to action - from the heart - by @RichiH - one of the #Fosdem organizers to resist, organize and protect our democracies aimed at the #floss #opensource community at the start of Fosdem 2026.

The full, original video can be found here: https://fosdem.org/2026/schedule/event/SFKNTZ-welcome_to_fosdem_2026

PS: Happy to join you on the list @RichiH 😉

#Democracy #Politics #Tech #HumanRights #Human #Historical #EU #TechPolicy

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Kevin Dominik Korte

@kdkorte@fosstodon.org · 3 weeks ago

The fact that the World Economic Forum thinks it's necessary to remind business leaders not to forget their human employees in the AI boom should be telling.
#AI #human #business
https://www.weforum.org/stories/2026/01/ai-agentic-workplace-human-resources/

Kevin Dominik Korte

@kdkorte@fosstodon.org · 3 weeks ago

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Fodongo

@fodongozine@sunny.garden · 2 months ago

Merry 25th of December! You should definitely consider becoming a #solarpunk after reading @jam 's 'How to be a Solarpunk"

Please read their incredible work at https://jammyness.com

And read more #freeculture #indie #human #comics at https://fodongo.ca !

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First page of Jam's 'How to be a Solarpunk'. A farmer cat holding a plant talks to the reader: ''SolarPunks' believe that we can create a better future together. One where we all thrive without damaging the planet or its people. Maybe you've wanted to join in on the fun!'. A confused cat is confused and narration above it reads: 'But what if you don't know where to start?'. Then a happy title reads: 'JUST DECIDE!', and the cat says 'I want to be a SolarPunk!'. Narration reads: 'You can start today, wherever you are! 'Being a SolarPunk' is all about making DECISIONS. In our lives, there are some options that are 'more' or 'less' aligned with the SolarPunk ethos. To be a SolarPunk, choose the best aligned option as often as possible.' The confused cat is walking towards a sign that says 'MORE SOLARPUNK', which points to wind turbines, eco villages, bikes, gardens etc, walking away from a sign that says 'LESS SOLARPUNK', and to a factory spewing smoke with a sign that reads 'BUY BUY BUY'. There's also a cybertruck and other cars, a sign that says '24/7 grindset' and pollution.

Narration reads 'Not everyone will agree on what 'the most SolarPunk' option is in a situation. But learning to disagree and compromise for the greater good of all is PART of being a SolarPunk. You don't need to dress, work or, eat a certain way, or live in a certain place. SolarPunks can be ANYONE and can start their practice from ANYWHERE!. First we see a younger cat arguing with an older farmer cat. The older farmer cat is saying that money and fuel cars are bad, but battery cars and bikes are good. The younger cat is thinking that he has kids. So they agree that the bus is the best option. Then we see a wide variety of cat people: some punks, a parent and child, an older person with a cane, a businesswoman, a cat on a wheelchair. They are all over an assortment of settings, a suburb, a farm, a city.

Narration reads: ' There are lots of ways to start your journey to being more SolarPunk. Try them out bit by bit, and don't worry about doing them all at once. Before you know it, your whole life will start transforming into something completely new!'. We see an assortment of options. A cat buying local, a cat going to a Repair Cafe, a little Free Library, using zero waste products, a cat biking to work, a garden planted with native plants, and a vegan dish. The cat from the beginning says 'Wow! So many options!'. Then we see a thriving community with a library that uses solar panels, a bunch of wind turbines, little cafeterias, produce markets, bikers, small rise buildings, etc. Narration says: 'When millions of SolarPunks are all working together, we can be sure we'll create a world where both the people and our planeet will be able to heal and flourish.'

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Jeremy

@frxe@friendsocial.inet.place · last month

Quixoticgeek

@quixoticgeek@social.v.st · last month

After working on it for almost 9 months. I recently finished my hardest build yet. I've written a blog post about it. (Warning, long). Grab a cuppa and have a read.

#Making #MakersHour #Machining #WoodWork #3DPrinting #OpenSCAD

https://cetaceanneeded.com/a-kerfed-project.html

I'm a few paragraphs in and loving it @[url=https://social.v.st/users/quixoticgeek]quixoticgeek[/url] maybe I'm dumb but I haven't figured out yet what it is that you're making? Though I think I'll find out as I keep going thanks for sharing a genuine human maker project thank goodness people still do that

#[url=https://friendsocial.inet.place/search?tag=human]human[/url] #[url=https://friendsocial.inet.place/search?tag=maker]maker[/url] #[url=https://friendsocial.inet.place/search?tag=writing]writing[/url] #[url=https://friendsocial.inet.place/search?tag=blogging]blogging[/url]

RE: https://social.v.st/users/quixoticgeek/statuses/115837367801808255

Jeremy

@frxe@friendsocial.inet.place · last month

Quixoticgeek

@quixoticgeek@social.v.st · last month

After working on it for almost 9 months. I recently finished my hardest build yet. I've written a blog post about it. (Warning, long). Grab a cuppa and have a read.

#Making #MakersHour #Machining #WoodWork #3DPrinting #OpenSCAD

https://cetaceanneeded.com/a-kerfed-project.html

RE: https://social.v.st/users/quixoticgeek/statuses/115837367801808255

🫧 socialcoding..

@smallcircles@social.coop · last month

#ThoughtProvoker

🤖 #AI, what's the #RootCause of all big #WickedWorldProblems?

🗣️ sigh, well..

🤖 Oh no, wait! Everyone is prompting about problems already, wasting much energy WorrisomeGPT. I'll promptly engineer this differently.. What's the solution?

🗣️ Hi #human. Very smart to think so differently. Perspective shifting.

🗣️ The 🪙🪙 #solution that exists is simple. Pay 🤑 #attention to each other, human to human. Listen, reflect together and just make smallest best decisions.

Charlie Stross

@cstross@wandering.shop · last month

#WritersCoffeeClub 30: How much would writing by another means (by hand, digitally, audio transcription) change your prose?

Significantly!

I started out writing on a manual typewriter, then an electric one, before graduating to a word processor. Each change lowered the barrier to composition, at word/sentence level then structural level.

Audio transcription is impossible for prose fiction—it's entirely incompatible with the way I compose text, and suffers from a highly restricted vocabulary.

A man is retired.

@Photo55@mastodon.social replied · last month

@cstross
In principle, audio #transcription includes #dictating to a person, and offers the real intelligence feature of watching the #human react.

Jubal Harshaw is running through my mind.

Including "oh I finished that one boss and sent it off"

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🫧 socialcoding..

@smallcircles@social.coop · last month

Remember #people..

Together we can change this future. Turn things around, and twist them right again. Just by bringing our alternative intelligence to the table.. our own #AGI:

Abundantly available our #human wit and spirit, boundless #creativitity, and above all our ability to play. It requires some #playfulness and a whiff of #scifi and #fantasy.. Just enough to #imagine different worlds, and #dreamwalk towards their 👁️realization.

https://discuss.coding.social/t/sci-fi-labs-federated-worldbuilding/95

💃🕺 Happy #cocreation in 🍒 2026 !!

Meme with a scene from Charlie Chaplin's famous movie "Modern Times" showing a man stuck in the gears of a big machine, only their head sticking out, and a shocked and surprised Charlie Chaplin standing on a ladder and looking helpless. Top text says "Modern times 2026" preceded with a :blobaww: emoji, and the bottom text reads "ChatGPT: Your message has arrived".

🫧 socialcoding..

@smallcircles@social.coop · last month

Remember #people..

Together we can change this future. Turn things around, and twist them right again. Just by bringing our alternative intelligence to the table.. our own #AGI:

https://discuss.coding.social/t/sci-fi-labs-federated-worldbuilding/95

💃🕺 Happy #cocreation in 🍒 2026 !!

Alecia Batson (she/her)

@aleciabatson@mastodon.social · last month

These next few years, #creative #arts will contend with intense #slopification. Considering this current, liminal public state, I recall an ep. of Mr. Rogers’ Neighborhood in which Mr. Rogers compares the #Internet to make-believe.

“Your own imagination is far more wonderful than any computer could ever be. You know why: you’re a living #human being. And a #computer is just a machine. Human beings are far more wonderful than machines.”

His advice is as apt today » https://archive.org/details/ipoy143season29/1746.mp4

Fodongo

@fodongozine@sunny.garden · 2 months ago

Merry 25th of December! You should definitely consider becoming a #solarpunk after reading @jam 's 'How to be a Solarpunk"

Please read their incredible work at https://jammyness.com

And read more #freeculture #indie #human #comics at https://fodongo.ca !

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Elena Brescacin

@elettrona@poliversity.it · 2 months ago

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I talked to my co-worker about @timnitGebru and we decided to talk about it in our blog as well, due to the fact I use @letsenvision 's AI companion, Envision Ally.
Reflect and be aware of tools we have in hand, is the only way for us to take control on tech, rather than being controlled by it.

https://plusbrothers.net/ai-companion-dark-side-michael-story/

#ai #empathy #human #social #tech https://plusbrothers.net/ai-companion-dark-side-michael-story/