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Tim Nethermans @plakaap.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

That's fine, I don't see their usefulness and certainly don't think that whatever utility can be eked from them was worth the costs and externalities

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Tim Nethermans @plakaap.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Except there is not, because software is finished (there are no breakthrough frontiers left). So the revolution is coding faster to make the bossman more money with slop

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Tim Nethermans @plakaap.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

You cannot have "rigorous" anything with LLMs

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Tim Nethermans @plakaap.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Ah so it's starting now? A revolution in software, any minute now? Like how Elon keeps going to Mars any minute now?

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Tim Nethermans @plakaap.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Translation: it generates so much garbage that the review process gets clogged as actual people have to waste time checking the slop

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Tim Nethermans @plakaap.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

I will say that AI boosters said this in march 2026 as well, and at every stage before and since, and I must ask: where is it? Where is all the revolutionary new software? Where is all the groundbreaking stuff? That's right, it's not there. Wasn't in march 2026 and won't appear with agents

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Tim Nethermans @plakaap.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Astronaut meme always has been dot jpg

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Tim Nethermans @plakaap.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

It's 'Police Nationale', they report to the ministry of the interior and not to him. There is municipal police in France but they have a smaller mandate and can't be deployed for crowd control etc. It's a cool Vichy regime (i.e. fascist) relic..

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Tim Nethermans @plakaap.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Ik vind dit heel erg goed, uitstekend verwoord voor leken. Ik haal zelf ook altijd taalsubtiliteiten erbij als ik het probeer uit te leggen. Wat nu als de piratenschat het liefje van een piraat is! 😜

citaat uit het stuk: "een geliefde (‘schat’) is iets wezenlijk anders dan een piratenschat."

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Foucault's Pudendum @kaitave.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

I'm telling you guys, you gotta put killcodes in the games you make now and hold them hostage. Day 0 patch set to automatically apply and delete everything if you aren't there to manually pause it. Go full Pandora Tomorrow. Your bosses don't know anything about coding, they can't fix it!

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Tim Nethermans @plakaap.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Is this where you mention those??

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Tim Nethermans @plakaap.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

A real shame that Plex has also become such a piece of trash (proprietary, increasingly premium/paid for) as it's the easiest one to share with non-technical users

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Olivia Guest · Ολίβια Γκεστ @olivia.science · 16/09/2026

this is just to control them, deskill them, impoverish them more

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Working Class History @workingclasshistory.com · 16/09/2026

#OtD 16 Sep 1920 Dutch communist resistance fighter Hannie Schaft was born. Under Nazi occupation, she stole ID cards for Jewish locals, and sabotaged and assassinated fascists. She was eventually captured, tortured and murdered by Dutch fascists stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/8840...

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Teresa Heffernan @tjheffernan.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

This is of course the Orwellian goal of the AI industry--to pollute information/knowledge "tens of millions of Americans who use chatbots are increasingly likely to receive answers manipulated by Parscale on behalf of the Israeli government"

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Deva Woodly @devawo.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

I’m not a culture critic but this obsession with rebooting things is a sign of deep malaise. Let’s just cultivate new things. Nobody is going to be improving on Point Break.

deadline.com

‘Point Break’ Series Greenlit By AMC & France’s Canal+ From Alcon

This comes after Deadline revealed in December that it was developing a series based on the iconic Patrick Swayze and Keanu Reeves surf heist thriller.

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Night of the Living Red Durkin @daedsider.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Periodic reminder that your "concerns" about trans people are being beamed directly into your head by a small cadre of incredibly rich psychopaths.

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Tim Nethermans @plakaap.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

I'm just a computer science guy reading this discussion but I think what Jacob is trying to convey is that this isn't a *philosophical* issue, it's a *technical* one. The technical foundations tell us what they do, and reasoning isn't a part of it (our brains, reading language, attribute that bit)

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Tim Nethermans @plakaap.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Sort of sad that I can't see the quoted post now, but pretty sure that I agree!

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Alex Hanna @alexhanna.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

It is very rich that these people are suggesting there has been a "death of expertise" when the technologies and institutions they promote are premised on just that.

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Jacob Kramer-Duffield @jaykaydee.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Data centers are providing only things that people really don't like - more inequality, more impunity, more Internet (people use it but also hate it! it's true!) - while not really providing a proper buyout. What would be the reason that people *would* support data centers in their back yards? (2/2)

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Mallory Moore @sexabolition.blog · 29/08/2026

The funny thing about prompt engineering is that the word engineering implies measurable tolerance margins for error and the word prompt implies no such thing

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Rachel Leggett @rleggos.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

I got the shot. I've been scheming and hoping the conditions would work out for this for two weeks!! 🪶

A broad-tailed hummingbird hovers next to an anise hyssop plant framed by purple blooms and with a rainbow behind it!!! The bird also has a little bead of water on its bill because it is raining.

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Neil Turkewitz @neilturkewitz.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

“As Golumbia makes clear over & over throughout Cyberlibertarianism: the problem with digital technology is not that it has been captured by the right-wing, the problem with digital technology is that it is inherently right-wing.” With AI, understanding this truth grows more important by the day.

librarianshipwreck.wordpress.com

Digital Technology Will Not Set You Free – A Review of David Golumbia’s “Cyberlibertarianism: The Right-Wing Politics of Digital Technology”

“This is how cyberlibertarianism works: it is not so much about party politics as it is about controlling the terms of discourse and the conversation itself. This ensures that only variations…

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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 25/08/2026

A consistent pitch by the makers of ai wearables is that they solve the problem of getting to know your child. www.businessinsider.com/parents-brea...

Molly, who runs a startup to help parents book activities for kids, is willing to use AI for logistics, like meal planning or sorting through her email to surface the most important messages from their daughter's school. Sean, who works in tech sales, wants to go further. He has his eyes on Omi necklace, an AI wearable that listens in on your day and includes a feature called Parent Whisperer. It records and analyzes interactions between parent and child, logging things like school assignments and supplies to order. The device also picks up on tone, alerting parents when their kid may be unhappy — registering everything from "from toddler tantrums to teenage mood swings," per its ad copy — and offering "expert-backed guidance" on how to respond.

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Tim Nethermans @plakaap.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

The de-skilling is most obvious, how could it not happen when you outsource thinking to the machine? You ask for evidence but I suspect you've not actually seriously thought critically about these things at all yourself

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Tim Nethermans @plakaap.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

And we struggle to procure water and RAM chips for genuinely useful stuff while the plagiarism machines suck it up.. to what end? Information is destroyed as these are lossy compression machines that do not guarantee the accurate reproduction of data. Meanwhile their owners shred books to feed them

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Tim Nethermans @plakaap.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

Many objections are self-evident if you think about them. LLMs currenly are a pure tool of capital, built on stolen labor, used to de-skill and control workers. The resources required are staggering for.. what exactly? while at the same time we struggle to keep our electrical grid operating

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Tim Nethermans @plakaap.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

The same challenge could be put to you, as you don't bring any evidence either but simply rapid fire a bunch of claims. You also bring a tremendous amount of arrogance and condescension which leads me to believe that any evidence (I am a computer scientist fwiw) probably wouldn't convince you?

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tef @tef.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

CAPITAL: We have invented a machine that can cross picket lines PROGRAMMERS: I bet this will give us four day weekends. The left need to get behind this. What else can it do CAPITAL: Psychosis! Deepfakes! Propaganda! Plagerism! Yaml! Todo Apps! PROGRAMMERS: Run those last two past me again

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Tim Nethermans @plakaap.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

It must be nice to have all the answers

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Tim Nethermans @plakaap.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

LLMs are not suitable as search tools and if they outclass Google it's because Google has degraded their algorithm for advertising purposes

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Tim Nethermans @plakaap.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

The thing making it a cancer are the very severe externalities it brings including but not limited to: sheer waste of resources, loss of useful search, destruction of skills, knowledge and information, loss of a free and open internet, damage to FOSS ecosystems, shifting yet more power to bosses

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Levi @levi98k.eurosky.social · 19/08/2026

De afgelopen maanden postte IDV de meest ranzige neonazi shit op sociale media. Van "Adolf is welkom" en "Die or Fly" tot aan een foto waarmee ze insinueren dat migranten in concentratiekampen zoals Auschwitz moeten worden gestopt. Nogmaals: deze mensen organiseren de demo van 19 september!

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Tim Nethermans @plakaap.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

By the way you know that the reason so many Koreans were killed is because top brass (mostly air force, read: MacArthur) were obsessed with "strategic bombing" and thought they could demonstrate that they could win any conflict if they just bombed hard enough? Turns out it doesn't work, lol, oh dear

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Tim Nethermans @plakaap.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

Even the most grizzled veterans of WW2 who had seen the most atrocious shit recoiled in horror at the scale of the slaughter the US inflicted in Korea. There was no precedent, nothing was left standing, a deranged bloodbath of unimaginable scale. Insane war crimes. There can be no justification.

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Levi @levi98k.eurosky.social · 11/08/2026

In Loosdrecht gaat de "buurtwacht" ook vrolijk verder. Inmiddels met een nieuw insta account. Wet op de weerkorpsen doen we niet meer aan? cc: @lisawesterveld.bsky.social

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Tim Nethermans @plakaap.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

Wow, deze gaat hard (als je een 13-jarige bent)

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Tim Nethermans @plakaap.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

Oh haha "gender realist". Ik weet genoeg!

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Tim Nethermans @plakaap.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

Sorry, wat? Is het te ingewikkeld voor je?

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-Boulet- @bouletcorp.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

J'en peux plus de vos conneries en IA, même pour vos takes de gauche. C'est de la chiasse. C'est de la merde jaunasse, pas drôle, mal branlée, qui ne raconte rien. Le moindre dessin de presse réalisé par un humain est mieux foutu et plus intéressant que ce dégueulis. Arrêtez, bordel.

De la chiasse IA: Une mauvaise parodie de couverture d'un album d'Asterix. On y voit Obelix chasser d'un grand coup de pied une romaine nommée Brecelectronix qui s'envole au son de son bracelet électronique. Elle a les traits de Marine Le Pen. L'ensemble est confus et moche, et a probablement coûté 4h de flotte à robinet ouvert, mais qu'est-ce qu'on en a à foutre, hein ?

Montage IA de chiasse avec 3 images superposées :
- vampire vs soleil
- Superman vs Kryptonite
- Facho vs Livres d’histoire
Évidemment le facho est un gros bonhomme en marcel parce que hihihi on est très intelligent les fachos ils sont MOCHES hihihi. Il fallait absolument accélérer la destruction des métiers artistiques et de la planète pour faire cette vanne qui aurait été exactement aussi efficace avec des bonshommes-bâtons mais on n'aurait pas eu les reflets sur la tête du gros monsieur (il est gros parce que pour dire que quelqu'un est moche il FAUT qu'il soit gros, mais on n'est pas grossophobes parce que ça c'est de droite)

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Francis Ford Coppola’s Bram Stoker’s Jimbiddybimbim @jimbiddybimb.im · 08/08/2026

Thanks to @jenaciousd.bsky.social for reminding me of this video I made **four goddamn years ago**. Christ how time flies

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Tim Nethermans @plakaap.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

Em het verdient aanbeveling om gewoon eens na te denken (dat kan geen kwaad) over Marx' issues met de "burgerlijke" democratie. Die kan namelijk eenvoudig gekaapt worden door fascisten, om maar iets te noemen, dat zien we nog dagelijks gebeuren

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