Notices by emenel (emenel@post.lurk.org)

@hipsterelectron one of the most toxic open source traits is desiring to be more like a big tech product, and to measure success with big tech metrics.

@codl they missed my favourite, the cold-short.

@sean_ae oh for sure. And they are trying to sell that idea. There are also lots of well meaning leftists trying to see the good in this tech, but failing to see how it is fundamentally against them … the same thing happened in the crypto-bubble …

There is no such thing as leftist “ai”, not even in the most ridiculous fiction. The core idea of “ai” is fundamentally authoritarian and eugenicist.

@servo 👎👎 this will only make the project less trustworthy, less robust, and less open. It will also make Servo far less sustainable in both technical/documentation and environmental impact. You will lose a lot of contributors and supporters, replacing them with dubious contributions.

@clarity @jplebreton oh absolutely. i just mean that the ideologies that these tech/SV cults are using/indoctrinating are largely coming from the tescreal set of beliefs...

@jplebreton @clarity it’s basically the foundation for all of TESCREAL beliefs and systems…

@inthehands what did you choose as a replacement?

@cwebber sorry if this wasn’t clear. I wan’t referring to you or your posts but only to the discussion on lobsters specifically, since they were bringing up other references to “originators” // @sacha

@sacha @cwebber disappointed that they’re all missing the historical reference to Steve Mann who was cyborging as early as the late 70’s and still is today.

@inthehands and data != context or understanding … something people seem to misunderstand these days.

@thomasfuchs definitely. I can check with my dad also.

The strange mp3 player camera was the Kodak mc3. Nothing about it made sense.

@thomasfuchs that is entirely possible. We actually did get prototypes and unreleased cameras often. Why do you need to know?

@thomasfuchs i’m going to see what i have. But it might be so long ago that’s i’d have to look in archived stuff

@thomasfuchs i also can’t find evidence of it… dc20, dc25, etc … dc210 … could it be one of these berenstein/stain situations? :)

@thomasfuchs i had one! My dad worked for kodak from the mid-80’s until the early 2000’s. We had every version of the DC cameras, including one that was also an mp3 player.

Applying to university/college for the fall? Withhold or defer until the institution divests from genocide and arms. Students are both the customer and product of the institution. Deprive them of you.

If you had code on GitHub at any point it looks like it might be included in a large dataset called “The Stack” — If you want your code removed from this massive “ai” training data go here:

https://huggingface.co/spaces/bigcode/in-the-stack

I found two of my old Github repos in there. Both were deleted last year and both were private. This is a serious breach of trust by Github and @huggingface.

Remove all your code from Github.

CONSENT IS NOT OPT-OUT.

Edit — thanks for all the replies. More context here: https://hachyderm.io/@joeyh/112105744123363587

Also the repos i found of mine i’m sure were private, but even if they were public at some point, for a brief time, in the past that isn’t my consent to use them for purposes beyond their intent.

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Edit 2 -- I see this made it to HN, which is a level of attention I do not want nor appreciate....

For all those wondering about the private repo issue -- No, I am not 100% sure that these ancient repos weren't at some point public for a split second before I changed it. I do know that they were never meant for this and that one of them didn't even contain any code.

If my accidentally making a repo public for a moment just so happened to overlap with this scraping, then I guess that's possible. But it in no way invalidates the issues, and the anger that i feel about it.

@killyourfm yes! I also stopped asking this question and instead try to ask something more like “what’s interesting you these days?” Or something like that.

This is a must-watch to understand the roots of current "ai", it's ideology and philosophies, and how that manifests in the tech and its immediate impacts.

Thank you @timnitGebru

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P7XT4TWLzJw