Notices by tante (tante@tldr.nettime.org), page 13

Just as a small step to stop normalizing current fascists:
Do not ever - even ironically - title anything "Make X Y again". Don't give further power to those memes and (TBH inherently conservative) modes of thinking about the world.

I cannot imagine how it must feel to live in the US right now.

Like things aren't crumbling, they're destroyed with a level of malice, aggression, inhumanity and lack of respect for people's lives that it's incomprehensible.

"my gut feeling is that we need 0 innovation to tackle at least 90% of the problems that challenge our societies, us as individuals and mankind as a whole. We just need to grow up and start doing the actual work."

(Original title: Innovation is a distraction)

https://tante.cc/2025/02/03/innovation-is-a-distraction/

If you are part of a #Mastodon server admin team here's a thing I hacked together yesterday: mastomsg https://codeberg.org/tante/mastomsg/

mastomsg allows you to send a DM either to a list of people or to all accounts younger than a certain timedelta (think: everyone who joined in the last 3 weeks). It's intended use is for example to send welcome DMs to people who just joined your server.

Nothing big but maybe it helps a few people. You can also install it via pip
`pipx install mastomsg`

For those interested I posted the full interview with all questions and my full answers to my blog:

https://tante.cc/2025/01/28/quoted-in-ars-technicas-article-on-tarpits-for-ai-crawlers/

I hate the ideology of #gamification so much. It's most often just manipulative, paternalistic shit.

Life goal achieved:
""It's a great sign to see that people are challenging the notion that we all have to do AI now," Geuter said. "Because we don't. It's a choice. A choice that mostly benefits monopolists.""

I am quoted quite extensively in this Ars Technica article
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2025/01/ai-haters-build-tarpits-to-trap-and-trick-ai-scrapers-that-ignore-robots-txt/

This is basically the point at which every civilized state should grant asylum to every trans person. It feels like there are so few states that are not trying to kill them all.

When conservatives say "trans men/woman are not men/woman" what they mean is "because I want them to be a corpse".

https://bsky.brid.gy/r/https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:m65ifh7vn5zdgs7izcmht4gy/post/3lgthupw73s22

@larsweisbrod @evawolfangel ja, das ist eine strukturelle Eigenschaft solcher Modelle. Wenn du das verhindern willst, müsste du die Eingabe filtern, bevor sie das Netzwerk trifft. Oder du brichst mit der etablierten "Worte tropfen langsam rein" UX, pufferst die Ausgabe und greifst ein, bevor du sie an die User schickst

80 years ago the Concentration Camp Ausschwitz was liberated.

With fascism showing its murderous face in many places in the US and in Europe today is an important day to restate: Never again.

We know where Fascism leads when it's being allowed to fester. And that must never happen again.

When Mark Zuckerberg was trying to sell us on Meta verse I kept loudly wondering why he didn't get anyone to write him a compelling argument for why people would want it.

While the "AI" folks give a bunch of examples (mostly saying "you can have cheap machine servants like rich people do") it feels very much the same. The stories are so uncompelling, so ... inhumane?

"You never have to talk to a human" - yeah but that is what makes us human? Like being social?

"You can just generate artworks and stuff" - cool so I can never feel pride about doing something, expressing myself ever again? Great.

I wrote about how I think that in our attempts to scale, to build global systems, we've lost an important aspect of our liberation:

"Against scale"
https://tante.cc/2025/01/26/against-scale/

"But DEI is good for businesses, diverse teams are more productive, don't you see?"

That's not a humane or progressive argument. "Look you can extract more if you do this" is fucking busines advice. That's McKinsey shit and has no place here.

My big problem with this argument isn't that it's not true or that it's pragmatic. It is that we frame _rights_ that every human being has as up for debate, as something that needs to work for business.
https://tldr.nettime.org/@tante/113889360712277025

Gleich hier. Bern lass mich nicht alleine!

(Da versuchst du jahrelang inhaltlich Dinge zu machen, aber sichtbar ist dann doch nur "Oh, hat Sascha Lobo ans Bein gepinkelt".)

Ich bin ja jetzt eh nicht der große Fan des DAX-Konzern-Boomer-Manager-Digital-Influencer Sascha Lobo.
Aber dass er seine Spiegel Online Kolumne nutzt um in einem krassen Move all den nachweisbaren Betrug des Trump Clans mit Krypto, das Zeigen des Hilter-Grußes durch Musk als Bagatelle wegwischt, nur um dann die komplett illusorische OpenAI PR über angebliche Milliardeninvestitionen in #KI zum wichtigsten Thema zu machen finde ich sogar für ihn ein wenig zu sehr "Aber die Faschisten haben doch so gute Ideen um das Thema, mit dem ich durch Vorträge viel Geld verdiene, zu pushen. Heil Sam Altman!".

Zynisches Arschloch.

https://archive.ph/0vphQ

Ich komm da echt nicht drüber weg. Der labelt den Hitler-Gruß als Symbol, und die "gehören in der Demokratie halt dazu".

In der Baumschule beim Geschichtsunterricht gefehlt oder was?

Oh, the Trump crypto edicts are coming now:
https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/01/strengthening-american-leadership-in-digital-financial-technology/
Banning the state from issuing stablecoins (to protect the scammy shit like USDC or USDT) and basically giving regulators the job to find (and remove) regulation that might affect crypto.

The scams will soon run rampant again. (It has already started of course with Tumps own coins)

I know that many people building software might not be formal engineers but still: If you build things that will affect people (especially in the public) you have a responsibility towards the people affected and towards society as a whole.