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John Stanley Hunter @johnalist.de · 05/09/2026

Warum dachte ich, dass El Hotzo und Ski Aggu die gleiche Person sind?

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👻Notorischer Diskurstroll🎃 @bildoperationen.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

More on #FoodSlop, by @theroberthart.bsky.social for @theverge.com – with my 2 cents on the matter: «‹AI image generation reproduces looks without proper knowledge about the world,› explained Roland Meyer … The result is an approximation of food divorced from any understanding of the thing itself.»

theverge.com

Why AI food looks like that

Worms, holes, and cracks reveal the technical weaknesses of image generators.

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John Stanley Hunter @johnalist.de · 05/09/2026

This probably roots in the argument that an AI system could make a better Wikipedia. Presumably by removing the people. I know.. Wikipedia has edit wars and its talk pages are often unbearable.

wired.com

Wikipedia Workers Unionize for the First Time

More than 200 people in roles such as engineering, finance, and communications will now be represented by the Communications Workers of America.

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Sascha Pallenberg @palle.eurosky.social · 18/08/2026

🧵 8 days ago she replied to a post from @tomoushie.wsocial.eu who constanly spreads hate against immigrants on #wsocial She even added @mikko.wsocial.eu raving about this visual? Who's Mikko? He's Apples Director for Privacy im EMEIA! But it gets worse...

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A screenshot of a social media post by Tom Nowak (@tomoushie.wsocial.eu) displayed in dark mode.

Post Text: "The Institute for Remigration has published a map, each point representing 100 illegal migrants who have entered Europe."

Video Still / Map: The embedded video frame displays an animated map labeled with the year 2017. A dense, concentrated swarm of bright orange data dots spreads across Europe, radiating outward from North Africa and the Middle East across Central and Western Europe.

On-Screen Metrics:

Bottom left: "CUMULATIVE PEOPLE: 6,446,560".

Bottom center/right: "TOP COUNTRIES OF ORIGIN" (showing flags and country codes including Syria, Morocco, and Albania) alongside the legend "1 DOT = 100 PEOPLE".

Comments: Below the post, a reply from Anna Zeiter (@anna.wsocial.eu) reads: "Wow! It's always so powerful if you visualize data... Might be interesting for you: @mikko.wsocial.eu".

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Sascha Pallenberg @palle.eurosky.social · 18/08/2026

🧵 @wsocial.eu CEO @anna.wsocial.eu openly supports far right ideology in #Europe Just 2 months ago she gave an interview for the suisse tabloid @blick.ch and said, that she welcomes #AliceWeidel the leader of the German extreme right party AfD, to her their platform: www.blick.ch/digital/anna...

A screenshot of an English-language news article about a social media launch, presented in dark mode.

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Red kicker: “Anna Zeiter launches Twitter alternative W Social”

Main headline: “Even Alice Weidel is welcome here”

Teaser paragraph: “W Social is launching now. The European X competitor promises a network free from Musk's influence and bots—and deliberately aims not to become a 'left-wing bubble.'”

Timestamps indicate publication on June 14, 2026, with an update on June 16, 2026.

Photo: Below the text and sharing icons, a portrait shows Anna Zeiter smiling broadly at the camera. She is wearing a white short-sleeved blouse with a light scarf draped over her neck in a modern indoor lobby setting.

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Paris Marx @parismarx.com · 13/08/2026

i think occasionally about how camera doorbells must suck so much for young people. they just seem under constant surveillance.

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Göktuğ Kayaalp @igoktugk.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

Fuck cars 🤝 Fuck "AI" sunny.garden/@librarysqui...

Mastodon post by me, reads as follows:

If we compared pro-automobile discourse and pro-LLM discourse we'd probably find many similarities, probably more than what I can think of off the top of my head (like enablement stories, abuse of disability, does more good than harm etc).

Ultimately that's probably because the tech is also quite similar: the car promises a heaven of effortless and liberated mobility unburdened with the trappings of society, but in reality it's unsustainable, costly, environmentally destructive (EVs included), and its fundamental operation is at odds with human wellbeing and there's no way around it. There's no way to reconcile fast blobs of metal roaming freely with a safe and comfortable life. And we have been made to dump or ignore much better alternatives so it can be sold to us, and so we pay for the infrastructure that allows it to ruin our life.

The LLM promises effortless access to the commonwealth of human knowledge and skill, unburdened by the toil of learning or practice for your own work, or unmediated by economy and society should you prefer to acquire the fruits of someone else's labour. The reality is ofc even worse than with the car, all you get is slop distilled from the garbage juice of the internet, which is enclosed, and now set to be extinguished and abandoned.

Fuck cars 🤝 Fuck "AI"

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Anna Meier @annameier.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

If you have so much work to do that you feel you need AI in order to get it all done: you don't. You need a union.

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John Stanley Hunter @johnalist.de · 24/07/2026

Substack now has a “Scan for AI text” feature. I don’t like the platform, but this sounds good. A possible catch is that the feature falsely hurts people who haven’t used AI. post.substack.com/p/against-cl...

post.substack.com

Against Claudefishing

Building trust in the AI age

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Mike Masnick @masnick.com · 17/07/2026

Oh come on. Dude financed a series of lawsuits designed to literally bankrupt and shut down critical media sites.

Entrepreneur and investor Peter Thiel is this year's recipient of the Axel Springer Award. The award is also intended to be a symbol of freedom of expression and open debate.

Thiel is also attacked and discredited because of his theories. For example, a discussion event with him at this year's Vienna Festival was cancelled following protests . Axel Springer stands for freedom of expression and an open culture of debate.

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Krsto Lazarević @krstorevic.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

Der rechte Antidemokrat Peter Thiel erhält den Axel Springer Award 2026. Dass Döpfners Sohn für Thiel arbeitet und Thiel 50 Millionen Dollar in dessen Fonds Döpfner Capital gesteckt hat, wird natürlich nicht erwähnt.

Screenshot von Welt. Text: In eigener Sache: Peter Thiel erhält den Axel Springer Award 2026. Dazu ein altes Portraitfoto von Thiel, der als inzwischen 58-Jahriger schon lange nicht mehr so aussieht.

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Ingrid Brodnig @brodnig.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

Warum haben wir so viel AI Slop? Nicht nur, weil es KI gibt, sondern weil die großen Plattformen (Instagram, LinkedIn etc) diese trashigen Inhalte forcieren Dazu mein neuer Newsletter:

steady.page

Alles voller Slop, weil Plattformen mitspielen

Die großen Tech-Plattformen könnten uns stärker vor billig produzierten KI-Inhalten schützen – stattdessen begünstigen sie diese

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John Stanley Hunter @johnalist.de · 16/07/2026

What’s easier? To fix something vibe-coded or to build something from scratch.

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Cracked Lemonade @crackedlemonade.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

Wait until they figure out how to paywall your prescription "your subscription has expired, reducing vision to free tier"

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John Stanley Hunter @johnalist.de · 22/06/2026

@anna.wsocial.eu I can't verify my account, no de-installing or anything has changed that. If I try it through my phone, it just says "unable to access invitation information," and if I try through my laptop and QR, the link turns red, and nothing happens. Can you help out?

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Julia Carrie Wong @joolia.bsky.social · 19/05/2026

"The author of a nonfiction book about the effects of artificial intelligence on truth acknowledged on Monday that he had included numerous made-up or misattributed quotes concocted by A.I." 🫠🫠🫠

nytimes.com

Book on Truth in the Age of A.I. Contains Quotes Made Up by A.I.

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John Stanley Hunter @johnalist.de · 19/05/2026

No one creates less than those who call themselves creators.

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Natascha Strobl @nataschastrobl.bsky.social · 22/01/2026

ICE hat ein 5jähriges Kind, das vom Kindergarten nach Hause kam, gekidnappt, um den Vater nach draußen zu locken und auch ihn mitzunehmen. Wenn euch sowas nicht radikalisiert, was dann?

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John Stanley Hunter @johnalist.de · 21/01/2026

Eine schöne, kurzweilige Reihe dazu, wie Ayn Rand, René Girard und Curtis Yarvin zu Vordenkern des digitalen Autoritarismus in den USA wurden.

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"Control. Alt. Delete"

Wie Ayn Rand, René Girard und Curtis Yarvin zu Vordenkern des digitalen Autoritarismus in den USA wurden.

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Eryk Salvaggio @eryk.bsky.social · 14/01/2026

More for the “why I don’t use Substack” checklist (🧵)⬇️

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Drew Harwell @drewharwell.com · 07/01/2026

"In this media environment, the government doesn’t even have to produce its own propaganda; it simply needs to direct the public to someone who is already doing the job for them"

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Stephan Dörner @doener.eurosky.social · 05/01/2026

"A left future worth the name doesn’t need to promise perfection; it needs to promise more control over the conditions of life than we have now. That control will be messy, uneven, often boring." Starkes Essay, @johnalist.de! odds-and-sods.ghost.io/new/

odds-and-sods.ghost.io

Notes from the Left’s Waiting Room

There was a time when “the future” meant something specific: fully automated luxury communism, or the withering away of the state, or at least a council meeting where the people who actually cleaned t...

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tante @tante.cc · 04/01/2026

Small nit-pick but especially if your argument is about the unreliability of US tech in light of the US' (and its tech sector's) turn towards fascism publishing on motherfucking Substack, a service actively platforming and supporting literal Nazis, defeats the point.

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Thor Benson @thorbenson.bsky.social · 12/12/2025

I guess it's fitting that it's a reimagined, worse version of someone else's artwork

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Patrick Breitenbach @patrickbreitenbach.de · 08/12/2025

"Die Militärexperten (in der Schweiz) kommen zu dem Schluss, dass ein Abfluss von Daten aus den Palantir-Systemen technisch nicht verhindert werden könne." Hmm. Das ist ja komisch. Denn die polizeilichen Palantir-Nutzer in Deutschland behaupten steif & fest das sei technisch ja gar nicht möglich. 🤔

netzpolitik.org

Schweiz: Palantir-Software hat verheerende Risiken

Nach Risikoprüfung des Einsatzes von Palantir-Software in der Schweiz bekam der US-Konzern eine Absage, trotz jahrelanger Hofierung von Behörden und Armee. Den Eidgenossen sind die Risiken zu groß. Da...

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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 22/11/2025

Regret to report that there has been another good linkedin post

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Very few narratives piss me off as much as the whole "let's give marginalised people LLM assistants for inclusion".

Inclusion does not mean giving marginalised people shittier versions of a thing: Sure you can give kids from poorer backgrounds an LLM to "learn" but what you are saying is that poor people are not worth having trustworthy sources of information. When you say that older or lonely people can talk to chatbots to feel less alone you are saying that some people are not worth a social life.

This is a deeply inhumane perspective that goes actively against the ideas and ideals of inclusion.
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Not (A.) I. @aerialeverything.cryptoanarchy.network · 19/11/2025

We have arrived at the stage of the GenAI grift where we pay to outsource pleasure. It will be quantified and reported back to us on a scale from meh to mind-blowing.

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John Stanley Hunter @johnalist.de · 13/11/2025

„draft documents obtained by POLITICO show officials are planning far-reaching changes to the General Data Protection Regulation to the benefit of artificial intelligence developers.“ www.politico.eu/newsletter/p...

politico.eu

How to gut a privacy law

Presented by European Commission on Education and Skills By ELLEN O’REGAN PRESENTED BY Tips, tales, traumas to influence@politico.eu | View in your browser Hey there! It’s Ellen O’Regan at th…

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Gil Durán @gilduran.com · 05/11/2025

Please take a minute to scroll through this—and share it. It's the story of our time. The Authoritarian Stack: How Tech Billionaires Are Building a Post-Democratic American—And Why Europe Is Next. www.authoritarian-stack.info

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The Authoritarian Stack

How Tech Billionaires Are Building a Post-Democratic America — And Why Europe Is Next

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e.w. niedermeyer @niedermeyer.online · 08/11/2025

The ability to convince capital markets to hand you a trillion dollars on the strength of obvious bullshit paired with the inability to get a single human to sincerely and spontaneously say they love you is some real punishment of the gods shit.

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Emily M. Bender @emilymbender.bsky.social · 07/11/2025

"This long-running war on knowledge and expertise has sown the ground for the narratives widely used by AI companies and the CEOs adopting it. Human labor, inquiry, creativity, and expertise is spurned in the name of “efficiency.” With AI, there is no need for human expertise"

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AI Is Supercharging the War on Libraries, Education, and Human Knowledge

"Fascism and AI, whether or not they have the same goals, they sure are working to accelerate one another."

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con questi nuovi ritmi americani (she/her) 🏳️‍⚧️🇵🇸🏳 @racheledini.bsky.social · 31/10/2025

I'm excited to share my piece in Los Angeles Review of Books @lareviewofbooks.bsky.social, which examines OpenAI's claims about ChatGPT's creative writing skills, Big Tech's weaponisation of grief and nostalgia, and the collapse of the academic humanities. lareviewofbooks.org/article/lite...

lareviewofbooks.org

Literature Is Not a Vibe: On ChatGPT and the Humanities | Los Angeles Review of Books

Rachele Dini discusses OpenAI’s “A Machine-Shaped Hand” and an academic sector in crisis.

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ZP Rosen @zaqdelinguist.bsky.social · 03/11/2025

Answer: no. ChatGPT has no understanding of what words mean. Collocation frequencies of words can’t bring you understanding of what those words mean, even though it might help you predict which words go together. See:

sciencedirect.com

Does ChatGPT have semantic understanding? A problem with the statistics-of-occurrence strategy

Over the last decade, AI models of language and word meaning have been dominated by what we might call a statistics-of-occurrence, strategy: these mod…

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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 19/06/2025

Chatbots — LLMs — do not know facts and are not designed to be able to accurately answer factual questions. They are designed to find and mimic patterns of words, probabilistically. When they’re “right” it’s because correct things are often written down, so those patterns are frequent. That’s all.

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Stephen Harrison @stephenharrison.com · 23/10/2025

Felt this was important to write for @slate.com to capture the experience of Wikipedia editors who were there in the room as the armed man took the stage at last weekend's Wikipedia conference. Pharos and Fuzheado showed courage & quick thinking by taking down the gunman and averting tragedy.

slate.com

A Wikipedia Conference Took a Dark Turn. Unfortunately, It’s Not a Total Surprise.

An armed man at a gathering of the website’s volunteers is just the latest reminder: Editing the internet’s encyclopedia has never been riskier.

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Gil Durán @gilduran.com · 24/09/2025

1/ A longtime Wired editor just wrote a mush-brained essay about how he totally missed the political rot of Silicon Valley (& still doesn't get it). But in the late 1990s, a Wired journalist warned of a toxic ideology bubbling up from tech. Paulina Borsook has largely been erased. Let's change that

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Micah @rincewind.run · 23/10/2025

this is the telling thing about all the billionaire hysteria they would literally rather set more money on fire propping up the most uncharismatic sex pest who ever lived than they’d pay in additional taxes these are not serious people

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Dan Davies @dsquareddigest.bsky.social · 21/10/2025

from my lunch today; "the trouble is not so much AI making you more productive, but that it's tripling the output of the biggest f***ing idiot where you work"

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John Stanley Hunter @johnalist.de · 16/10/2025

Es gibt fast 500 Journalistenpreise in Deutschland. Diese Branche ist so kaputt.

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Hyo Yoon Kang 강효윤 @hyoyoonkang.bsky.social · 16/10/2025

media thinks we are computers spitting out data

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John Stanley Hunter @johnalist.de · 16/10/2025

The best way to get featured in tech media is by pretending you do not want to be mentioned by tech media.

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