Notices by tante (tante@tldr.nettime.org)

Maybe we really need to transcend "Open Source" and move towards more of a "community software" or "humane software" kind of direction that puts the focus on Freedom (similar to how Open Source works) but also on responsibility and care for each other and the infrastructures these systems establish.

The "AI" reactions really show how heterogenous the "Open Source" field and the people's and organizations' values are.

RE: https://ketanjoshi.co/2026/07/01/googles-exponential-path-to-climate-wrecking-digital-bloat/

"I wasn’t entirely sure what to expect from Google’s latest climate report, but holy hell, I did not expect this.

The company’s total electricity consumption jumped from 31 terawatt hours (TWh) in 2024 to 43 TWh in 2025."

GenAI is gonna kill us and the planet

https://ketanjoshi.co/2026/07/01/googles-exponential-path-to-climate-wrecking-digital-bloat

Do other fediverse admins with open but approval-based signups also see an increase in fake account applications that just copy some random bio from a different account from a different server?

RE: https://discuss.systems/@dev/116807460725864716

It's kinda fun how this is basically Marx' theory in goose form. "Eggs do not lay eggs" is code for "all value is produced by the worker".

> The use of AI Coding Assistants in software development is as of now widely regarded as industry best practice

That is exactly why software development as an industry is such a shit show and explicitly not engineering.

RE: https://vmst.io/@jalefkowit/116767348106104426

W Social's pitch is simple:
Very traditional business people from other big businesses creating a "startup" (very important!) that does not demand anything, any structural change.

WSocial is European-Washing for the same shit we already have.

Like a lot of "Euro Stack" and shit.

McSweeney's on "AI finances" goes harder than most business publications.

https://www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/ai-economics-for-dummies

A court in Munich declared that Google is liable for their "AI summaries" and all its hallucinations. This is an important step to bring "AI" slop in line with all other products on the market: "AI" products are basically the only ones where a provider can just deliver unchecked garbage and put all the liability on the consumer. I hope to see aggressive change here.

https://the-decoder.com/landmark-german-ruling-declares-googles-ai-overviews-are-googles-own-words-and-makes-it-liable-for-false-answers/

RE: https://mastodon.social/@glynmoody/116719578252552982

"AI will make content infinite" is a threat.

"content" is a four letter word. This is the threat of drowning our humanity in slop until nothing real can be found anymore.

Another banger by Ted Chiang on "AI":

"Employing philosophers might endow LLM companies with an air of respectability that slot-machine makers don’t get from the behavioral psychologists they hire, but in both cases the companies are preying on people’s tendency to see something that’s not there."

https://www.theatlantic.com/philosophy/2026/06/no-artificial-intelligence-is-not-conscious/687378/?gift=R2zbWGNBDp_xHqoa7Q8ZRp-EV6jGaHiamQBxQQlMJqI

Never Post's most recent episode on "Why does everything run Doom?" is excellent because as Mike says at the beginning: Doom was very much based on enabling creativity in contrast to today's systems pushing consumption. (Applies to Open Source as well)

https://www.neverpo.st/why-does-everything-run-doom/

In Yesterday's IO Keynote Google declared war on the remnants of the Web.

While they packaged it as a lot of "AI" talk what their whole approach of decontextualizing information, of taking away links to sources and instead producing some LLM generated response means is that they want to establish a new abstraction layer on the web. Where Zuckerberg with his Metaverse failed Google is starting the next attack: Your website, your work no longer matters.

Well it matters as (unpaid) raw material for their synthetic text extruders but not as cultural artifact you can share with others.

This is a literal revolution but one against the participatory web, against us: The goal is to take away the web and guide people into Google's abstraction on top of it. An abstraction they control and moderate. It's about monopolizing access to information.

If you care about the web, about people's ability to participate in it as more than mere passive consumers, this needs to be taken seriously. De-Googlifying your mental apparatus becomes more urgent today. Find other search engines, don't use their browser. Or wake up in a slopified AOL kind of environment.

RE: https://tldr.nettime.org/@tante/116603384370030013

This of course makes Google's browser monopoly even worse.

Repeating my call to the EU to just buy out Mozilla, fire the AI folks, rebuild the policy arm and run it as a public service.

If you actively run "OpenClaw" or similar services on your real data, connected to the Internet you should probably not be listened to when it comes to topics of the digital, technology or security. You disqualified yourself by being a dumbass.

"But you can't deny that it's useful" is what I hear often when I criticize "AI". But that's not the argument because everything is useful to someone for some purpose usually at someone's cost. "Child labor" is _useful_.

Question is: Do the uses bring more social value than the cost?

RE: https://tldr.nettime.org/@tante/116566758802645935

Keep coming back to one of the most important heuristics for a good life:
Nothing only men like is cool.

“It's making me dumber for sure,” the fintech software developer told me. “It's like when we got cellphones and stopped remembering phone numbers, but it's grown to me mentally outsourcing ‘thinking’ in general. I feel my critical thinking and ability to sit and reason about a problem or a design has degraded because the all-knowing-dalai-llama is just a question away from giving me his take. And supposedly I tell myself ill just use it for inspiration but it ends up being my only thought. It gives you the illusion of productivity and expertise but at the end of the day you are more divorced from the output you submit than before.”
https://www.404media.co/software-developers-say-ai-is-rotting-their-brains/

"Meet the Sad Wives of AI
Are you married to a man who’s obsessed with AI? I’m so, so sorry."

https://www.wired.com/story/meet-the-sad-wives-of-ai/

RE: https://mastodon.me.uk/@pikesley/116560335270718717

If you're still on GitLab you might want to speed up planning your migration path.

Does anyone here know about a wiki software that federates/synchronizes its pages through activitypub?