Notices by tante (tante@tldr.nettime.org), page 10

"I think we should shed the idea that AI is a technological artifact with political features and recognize it as a political artifact through and through. AI is an ideological project to shift authority and autonomy away from individuals, towards centralized structures of power."

Exactly.

https://ali-alkhatib.com/blog/defining-ai

That is the reality of "But our data center only uses renewables!" story: That renewable power is taken while other potentially more important services have to fall back on less responsible forms of energy. https://mastodon.cloud/@slashdot/113619896222059949

Web3 is still doing oh so so bad. And it's not just the ideology or lack of use cases. The nerds don't even manage to get the tech right https://indieweb.social/@web3isgreat/113603290005430526

On holiday with my family and it's weird how little space kids often have in public. Like there's very few playgrounds or areas for them to be that are not for pay and visually overwhelming.

I am still waiting on the apologies from the "web3 is totally legit, you just don't see its amazing potential because you are dumb" folks though. So it might take a long while...

I do wish that in 2 years when the AI hype is done some people would do the apology tour. Because I surely would like some.

May he rest in piss.
https://infosec.exchange/@dymaxion/113568024503711875

Bloomberg on the new AI economy:
https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2024-11-29/chatgpt-turns-2-and-gives-8-trillion-birthday-gift-to-big-tech?accessToken=eyJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiIsInR5cCI6IkpXVCJ9.eyJzb3VyY2UiOiJTdWJzY3JpYmVyR2lmdGVkQXJ0aWNsZSIsImlhdCI6MTczMjg4NTExMCwiZXhwIjoxNzMzNDg5OTEwLCJhcnRpY2xlSWQiOiJTTlA0SzZEV0xVNjgwMCIsImJjb25uZWN0SWQiOiJDQzZEREQ1RTdGQjg0NzU4OUY0RTk0OEI4NTJDQzlCRCJ9.oqsulxQo3d1ljCrXhMp9UbIJtstB9oRofV4vvWvktjY

The interesting part is that stock values go up, hyperscaler usage goes up etc. But sill nobody can actually point to what all of that _is for_, what the _tangible benefits_ are for serious people or businesses. (I exclude slop production.)

It is very revealing that for the right wing an "efficient government" can only be achieved by cuts and never by offering more. It's almost as if it wasn't about efficiency but just dismantling government...

(Just realized that in a very twisted way and not for the good of the community or product WordPress/Automattic are doing something like this. Just not explicit, not based on values, just driven by the whims of an unstable man)
https://tldr.nettime.org/@tante/113561928635480013

Bonus question: Free Software licenses demand that you do not discriminate use (in the license). Which is why you cannot put "not for use in drones" in the license.

But if I license my code as MIT or whatever and in addition say: "If you work for Palantir, your emails will be used to make your use of the library harder and otherwise thrown in the trash" would that affect whether the powers that be consider the project free software?

Does anybody here know of an open source project that - while using a traditional license - enforces other social rules or makes political, ethical or social norms for the intended use of the project explicit and has any forms of consequences for disobedience?

Think: "This project fundamentally disagrees with capitalism, Bug reports by Amazon employees will not be answered" or whatever social "contract" you can imagine.

Not looking for projects that just say "please only use us in a certain way" but has some form of enforcement going that's not tied to licensing.

"Bluesky's vision for the new “social internet” is very much a libertarian worldview that is as old as the commercial web itself. Going back to the early days of eBay, technocrats have been trying to pawn off the labor of running a digital community onto its community members. What they'll never admit to, though, is that the digital spaces we spend our time in are rarely communities. They're markets."

https://www.fromjason.xyz/p/notebook/bluesky-may-have-the-juice-but-we-don-t-have-to-drink-the-kool-aid/

"But average people like AI poetry better than real one"

(Original title: Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Poetry)

https://www.smbc-comics.com/comic/poetry-2

(I know that for legal reasons many copyright people don't like this phrasing because at least in German law there are data mining exceptions in copyright law)

Replace "AI will be trained on your posts" with "someone will datamine your posts". Those actions are not passive, _someone_ is making choices that you might not agree with.

If you use Python you probably already use `uv` but recently I learned about `uvx --from`and it's so good to get a feel for a new library or to just do a one-shot.

`uvx --from pandas python` implicitly creates a virtualenv, pulls pandas (you can add as many libraries as you want) and runs python in that env (could be any other tool). When you close the environment (as in you exit the python shell in the above case) everything gets thrown out.

Great to not clutter one's path with meaningless packages or venvs.

A friend of mine created a piece of art that meditates on the parallels between our practice of scrolling on phones with the old practice of prayer beads. Thinking about our digital practices as continuation of older analogue practices opens up a wide range of existing knowledge and thought. Love this approach, we should do it so much more.

https://www.hojinkang.com/scrolling-prayer-beads/

This is so fucked up. The #wordpress saga continues and becomes more farcical by the day.
https://vmst.io/@jalefkowit/113549705948965207

Just looked at a new EU "open source" LLM. (opengpt-x's Teuken)

Their idea of "support" is setting up a discord server. Like: Why?

"Oh we can't depend on commercial entities for our AI shit ... but for actual communication it's great."