Notices by Dawn Ahukanna (dahukanna@mastodon.social)

@dalias @trondhjort
How does this person ”Sulphurboy” with 2443 pending submissions and a whole bunch denied (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Sulfurboy) suggest Meredith’s is deleted - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Merrelyn_Emery?

See attached screenshots.

2/3:Avarice-codified & automated
“-Read the Docs non-profit hosts open-source software docs saw 1 crawler download 73 terabytes zipped HTML in 1 month=$5,000
-iFixit logged million hits from Anthropic’s crawler in 1 day
-Triplegangers 7-person company sells 3D scans knocked offline during business hours by OpenAI’s bot
-Linux news site LWN editor had crawler traffic from “literally millions of IP addresses”
-university library banned 16,000 IP addresses in 48 hours to keep its catalogue online.

1/3:Avarice - codified and automated

“Then, in the early hours of Thursday 5 March, the servers collapsed.”
“Just last week, ZEGO, a German textile firm that had been in business for 37 years, filed for insolvency after a single cyberattack in March shut down its production for six weeks.”

Related -
From - https://stephenfollows.com/p/what-just-happened-to-thenumberscom-should-worry-us-all

3/3 - There is active harm being done to the owners and producers of digital content without recompense due to greed and deceit being grandly rewarded.

I wonder what would happen to those model producers if there was no digital web to “pillage”?

@thomasfuchs this is ulcer-inducing. I don’t want to have to worry about operating or reviewing what is essentially thoughtless and meaningless garbage.
- https://mastodon.social/@dahukanna/116958017842909025
- https://mastodon.social/@dahukanna/113685462079683584

So the AI business “model” is:
1. NOT HIRING 📉 juniors to create human candidates for the specialists & experts with work experience.
2. BURNING OUT ☢️ mid-level engineers, hardware (prices rising), infrastructure consumed unsustainably (water & electricity) to make everyone “addicted” to AI-LLM word & sentence calculator.
3. PUSHING OUT 📉 experienced senior-level engineers who advise & set tech strategy for “the business”.

This is the “Kodak” & “Boeing” business downfall case studies combined.

Related courage or stupidity?- https://infosec.exchange/@briankrebs/116896277399131257

“Doesn’t take a genius to figure out that lots of companies smarting from increasing costs of AI tokens might start to look for cheaper alternatives, and that those alternatives increasingly are going to come from our adversaries.”

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"Cursor, which will be acquired by Elon Musk's SpaceX for $60 billion, built its Composer 2 model using Chinese AI model Kimi, which was developed by Moonshot AI."

https://www.cnbc.com/2026/07/08/chinese-ai-models-probe-us-lawmakers.html

Related courage or stupidity? - https://toot.cafe/@baldur/116860922240961497

‘as AI companies are starting to charge based on token-usage not simply a flat subscription, many of their customers are shocked at the bill. "Companies are scrambling to stop spending so much on AI," as 404 Media reports.-https://www.404media.co/the-tokenpocalypse-is-here-companies-are-scrambling-to-stop-spending-so-much-on-ai/

These are businesses that moved fixed-cost to variable-subscription- cost and are “surprised” they can no longer afford essential service price increase. What did they think would happen?

“Courage is knowing it might hurt & doing it anyway. Stupidity is the same & that’s why is hard.”
-https://mas.to/@skeletor/116818454299783370

Revised:
Courage is knowing it might hurt (from prior experience/knowledge) & doing it anyway.
Stupidity is “believing it hurts other people but NOT them” & doing it anyway.

Life is hard for everyone, especially those that don’t accept that “earth physics” applies to them and flabbergasted by “earth physics” surprises.

Related courage or stupidity? - https://hachyderm.io/@mweagle/116898915360905510

“Key takeaways:
- Mid-level engineers are subsidizing everyone else’s AI productivity – and burning out for it.
- The warning signs are there if you look closely: the invisible validator problem is probably already in motion.
- The ‘fix’ is making oversight explicit. The engineers burning out today were meant to become your senior leaders tomorrow.” - https://leaddev.com/ai/ai-productivity-is-burning-out-your-best-engineers

Related courage or stupidity?- https://flipboard.com/@futurism/future-society-q9o43qrjz/-/a-t_vHFkmNSpyeK7HvheAfUw%3Aa%3A1737388686-%2F0

“AI Is Pushing Older Employees Straight Out of the Workforce, New Report Finds
https://futurism.com/future-society/ai-pushing-workers-retirement-older-labor-automation?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
Posted into Future Society @future-society-Futurism”

Mistaken correlation (how much money earned by each individual) and causation (who does the housework and emotional work in the home shared by a family).

Amount of money does not change an individual’s behavior. It enables them to expose who they really are without external monetary and societal limits/constraints.
- https://newsie.social/@TheConversationUK/116186468189429349

@evan
It should be visible to the original set as Alice shared the post with her followers, not followers of followers (light blue segment of set diagram). Any of Bob’s followers that also follow Alice will see the post and replies anyway. See comments on set diagram.

@thomasfuchs that whole sentence is backwards.
- Beta testers said - No
- Release users said - No, rewind to previous
- Existing users said - No upgrade

- Person “having difficulty understanding something, when their salary depends upon his not understanding it!" Uptown Sinclair style - “why no upgrade traction?”

@evan Currently, my response is no.
Where’s open source reference implementation (recipe) that implements (cooks) all the specification as defined, not as opinionated interpretation by specific software development team (chef)?

HTTP-Apache web server, serves standardized specifications for HTML, CSS, JavaScript and digital media files
FTP-FileZilla server & client
ActivityPub - ?
Why & how would I incorporate ActivityPub in my software-what need/problem does it address?
https://mastodon.social/@dahukanna/113612968607430015

Personal websites, made by individuals, are social media. They have 1 author, are open to anyone on the Internet public and usually provide means for comments and conversation based on the initial topic post.

Social media is any digital medium, websites and applications, that enable people to create and share data/information or to participate in social networking (creating relationship connections by having a conversation on common topic with other people).

Related: 3.related Illusion of scaler speed ≠ dimensional velocity - https://mastodon.social/@dahukanna/115751407204010708

Related: 4. Comfort Food for the Thinking Class: The Great Intellectual Stagnation, the economics of attention - https://www.joanwestenberg.com/comfort-food-for-the-thinking-class-the-great-intellectual-stagnation/ via https://mato.social/@josemurilo/115751054614151022
#tyrannyOfAesthetics

Starting a new hashtag - #tyrannyOfAesthetics

Aesthetics sits firmly in attention grabbing, novelty trend & transient pace layer but governs most decisions because we can’t tolerate boredom or boring-https://longnow.org/ideas/pace-layers/

1. Reinventing XMPP protocol (plumbing) for instant messaging. This is like reinventing HTTP everytime you create a web application-https://gultsch.social/@daniel/115751087451745641

2. Reinventing software packaging & distribution (logistics), 1 computer language at a time-https://circumstances.run/@hipsterelectron/115751055245955928

Related: 7b - “But what I vehemently object to in this situation is the use of the first-person voice without my review or permission. The language used in the description makes it sound as if I wrote it (“In this post, I share my personal journey…”).”

- https://eiratansey.com/2025/12/20/i-announced-my-divorce-on-instagram-and-then-ai-impersonated-me/

#tyrannyOfAesthetics

Related: 7a - “Instead of having a hot divorcee Saturday night instead I wrote about how after announcing my divorce on Instagram, AI impersonated me in a hidden metadata field. Fuck the techbro oligarchs. https://eiratansey.com/2025/12/20/i-announced-my-divorce-on-instagram-and-then-ai-impersonated-me/“

- https://glammr.us/@TeamMidwest/115754711143502617
#tyrannyOfAesthetics