Notices by Håkan Geijer (hakan_geijer@kolektiva.social)

Beating up tech losers working for "AI" / LLM companies is a social good
https://mastodon.social/@camwilson/114267595008201156

@arrrg I feel like there's "jokes" and the sort of trite low effort shit that just pollutes the internet and social media the same way AI slop and misinfo does

Tomorrow is April 1st. We live in a world of AI slop and misinformation, of descent into fascism. Consider if adding to the noise is worth it to make a hackneyed joke.

@jocarren @HeavenlyPossum @davva23 Maybe you could just try stating what you believe directly instead of trying to atom smash opposites into each other if you're finding that people don't react well to your dialectics.

@jocarren @HeavenlyPossum @davva23 by that definition you should object to the State more than people self organising

@autonomysolidarity Folx, you are spreading AI misinfo. Kindly edit and/or delete. https://www.404media.co/pikachu-spotted-fleeing-police-crackdowns-during-turkey-protests/

@schmittlauch the tiles load so slow that I feel like I'm back on an early 90s modem. And they're already downloaded locally. Zoom in or out? Hooray, an unstyled grid for literally 25 seconds!

OsmAnd ia absolute dogshit and borderline useless. What do you use instead?

*sending nudez to friends*
"hmm this is the same app used to plan wars"

@enby_of_the_apocalypse @foolishowl Cops already use motorcycles to harass protesters. France and Greece are notorious for this (see the Deltas). Bikes aren't so nimble even if they give speed. You can't hop a wall or even minor barriers, and with the increased speed, injuries become worse. Bumping your front tire on someone is going to send you and everyone behind you down. I don't really see this happening on foot so often, as a comparison point.

I think bikes could be interesting for causing chaos on the edges of an action that force cops to spread thinner, but often people hope to be "part of the masses" so they can yeet stones and be protected by others. Small bicycle squads lose a lot of that. Maybe the hardened core @'s could do that, but I'm not sure it would be broadly appealing.

But often the most interesting target of an action is the thing most heavily protected by the police with portable barriers, so I don't see bikes helping with that.

Maybe if we got real advanced and mostly hit softer targets when the main targets are well-guarded, and if we got much better at small autonomous groups causing chaos, that *could* be viable, but oddly I don't see much of a path toward that.

Other notes: can't "debloc" as easily (small group of cyclists might stand out regardless). Can't duck into a store as a cop car whips past. Can't hide in pedestrian traffic.

I love bikes, but I don't see them being as effective as one might imagine. Someone prove me wrong please.

@enby_of_the_apocalypse they have limited budgets, equipment, skills, and political capital to expend, so making it harder can prevent them from winning

@foolishowl @enby_of_the_apocalypse I think we need more small fast autonomous groups but also people to understand momentum and committing to a movement so when one group sees an opening, everyone swarms. Cops are heavy and slow, and if we armor up the same then we're going to only increase the violence they use while forcing direct combat that has higher penalties. Hitting a col vs smashing a window for example. I suspect light infantry style (helmets, hard gloves, goggles) protects against most of what the cops do so a charge against a line gets a lot less scary, but we don't sacrifice speed and agility. This means the vanguard that slams the line first can fully commit. Often the front bloc hesitating kills momentum that could easily overwhelm the cops. Idk. Maybe you have a different idea of calvary than me

@enby_of_the_apocalypse yeah but those laying siege have helicopters. See the eviction of Ungdomshuset for example

@Voline we must make the most beautiful places out strongholds

@whatanerd I have been multiple times and never noticed their flag. Need to go back, obviously.

brb starting a commune in Valle d'Aosta

I'm all for antifascist investigation, but at some point this numerology shit is just pointing out coincidences.

In some alternative history, Musk renamed Twitter to Z because he thought that was the cooler letter, and these people would be saying things like "Oh, like Zyklon-B?"

Liberal antifa QAnons saying shit like "the ASCII code for X is 88" when Musk pretty clearly knows nothing about computers and probably just thought X was a cool sounding letter.

@asranarchism what in the AI-generated hell is that image

@abolisyonista That site has always given me bad vibes. Just pure aggregation with no filter? What purpose would that serve other than centering oneself?