Notices by Rich Felker (dalias@hachyderm.io)

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They all want a petrostate dictatorship.

Larry Ellison
https://www.businessinsider.com/larry-ellison-ai-surveillance-keep-citizens-on-their-best-behavior-2024-9

https://www.techradar.com/pro/oracle-cto-wants-to-put-all-americas-data-into-one-big-system-to-study-including-dna

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2022/05/20/larry-ellison-oracle-trump-election-challenges/

Charles Koch
https://www.newsweek.com/ai-race-fossil-powered-generators-are-data-centers-dirty-secret-2068791

https://www.forbes.com/sites/charlestowersclark/2025/03/14/how-ai-changes-critical-thinking-new-microsoft-research-findings/

https://www.salon.com/2018/11/05/koch-brothers-are-watching-you-and-new-documents-expose-how-much-they-know/

https://www.climatechangenews.com/2025/04/10/power-hungry-ai-data-centres-seen-driving-demand-for-fossil-fuels/

https://www.axios.com/2017/12/14/koch-tries-its-hand-at-venture-capital-1513277500

Peter Thiel
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2022/oct/15/peter-thiel-who-is-he-republican-donor-tech-entrepreneur

https://techcrunch.com/2024/08/13/thiels-gawker-takedown-could-be-coming-to-a-theater-near-you/

https://www.newsweek.com/peter-thiel-pre-nazi-germany-us-comparison-resurfaces-1934760

https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2023/11/peter-thiel-2024-election-politics-investing-life-views/675946/

https://www.silicon.co.uk/e-regulation/palantir-ai-surveillance-585999

https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/us-jd-vance-peter-thiel-founded-company-helps-israel-kill-lists-palestinians-gaza

https://www.theverge.com/2024/8/8/24216215/palantir-microsoft-azure-ai-defense-partnership-surveillance

https://sherwood.news/business/ai-companies-cia-is-investing-in/

@kevinrns

"The devices themselves condition the users to employ each other the way they employ [these] machines."

Frank Herbert

To get an idea of what AI is intended to do by its investors, look at the motivations of Larry Ellison, Charles Koch, Peter Thiel, Mohammad bin Salman, Alwaleed bin Talal, and Marc Andreessen....

They all want AI data centers that will inflate fossil fuel use & thwart a phase out.

They all want Orwellian state surveillance of every human being.

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Hey! The new Pope hates AI just like us.

"the field of artificial intelligence that pose new challenges for the defense of human dignity, justice and labor,”

https://gizmodo.com/the-new-pope-wants-to-take-on-ai-2000600652

@wa7iut This should not be posted without clarifying context. At least one of the links is associated with a eugenicist cult leader.

@Npars01 @w7voa Russia should be under permanent sanctions just for being nothing but a mafia run petrostate.

Looks like some white hat-hacking going on (or black-hat hacking for good) 👀

"Hackers targeted another app used by Trump officials and also stole passenger lists from an airline used to deport migrants."

https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/hackers-leak-to-press-passenger-details-of-trump-deportation-flights

#politics #fascism #deportation #ice #hacking

@JuliusGoat nailed it. goddamn :parrot_this_is_fine:

@nixCraft Same thanks to a buggy init script by openrc that autonomously started rm -rf during boot 🤬

But I implemented the backup strategy (and software) in bakelite.

@jeffjarvis The thing that's a risk of escaping human control isn't "AGI" or even intelligent. It's capitalism/corporatism/fascism, and it's completely unintelligent but comprised of incentives that demand it grow and self perpetuate, and it arguably already has escaped. The lie of "AI" or "AGI" is just one aspect of that.

@M0YNG @3dprinting You really need to get a clean print where it's not failing to adhere and getting dragged all over the place in order to be able to read it.

Corners are also a dubious way to tune PA because it's only one of a large number of factors that can affect how they bulge or round, but if you get this to print ok you should at least be able to choose the one that looks the most consistent and have better results than fully untuned.

@nixCraft Weird decision to frame such a warning based on a single individual's opinion. There are a lot of dissenting voices in that reddit discussion. I find this posting sloppy at best, irresponsible at worst. Otherwise, I'm generally enjoying your posts.

@emptywheel.bsky.social The people who are even so much as speaking to these goons are not journalists. They're mouthpieces.

@eniko @bean Yeah. When folks have large amounts of money that looks like it came from being a successful creator making something constructive people like, whether by selling it or giving it away and seeking donations, it literally always really comes from doing something that benefits someone rich and powerful on the side and getting to keep a minuscule portion of that profit as a reward.

@gnomon @amy Ouch they're gonna need some burn cream. 🤣

@BlackAzizAnansi These are the campaign promises I want to hear Democrats making.

@BlackAzizAnansi Repeal the Hague Invasion Act, ratify the ICC, extradite ICE to the Hague.

REMINDER:

if a white person is using #woke to insult another white person; given that the word is from African American vernacular and it’s related to activism, just substitute the word for N*-lover.

as Toni Morrison liked to remind us, there is no #fascism without #racism.

related:

Cori Bush: “Anti-Woke” Is Barely Disguised Code for “Anti-Black” | Truthout https://truthout.org/articles/cori-bush-anti-woke-is-barely-disguised-code-for-anti-black/

How the n-word became the ‘atomic bomb of racial slurs’ | PBS News
https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/n-word-became-atomic-bomb-racial-slurs

@UncleDuke1969 This looks like easy mode for how to pick up a duck...

Keep 'em coming

Klasfeld:

NEWS

Judge Sessions: “The court finds that Ms. Öztürk has sufficiently established all three factors" required for her release.

@imdavidpierce Its dramatically under-reported that the newly federated forum software #nodebb went from zero to 2.7 million federated users, and jumped. tobe the 2nd biggest platform on #ActivityPub after Mastodon shortly after launch..

https://fedidb.com/software?software=nodebb