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Linotype Pilgrim

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Linotype Pilgrim @symbo1ics.bsky.social · 2h
#Nura community's position on LLM contributions dreampi.es#/s/01M3PRCMR... nura.eco
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@drakulix admin social.dreampi.es
cw-boost; llm; ai; nura
Accepting contributions requires a certain level of trust towards any contributor from the rest of the community. Previously the work required to make a significant contribution acted as some barrier to filter out low-quality contributions. If you were determined to put in the work, you most likely wanted to do a good job, which reflected itself in the contribution. If your tokens are just a commodity to get a job done, that depends on the individual much more..

No matter if you think that was a good thing or not (gate-keeping like this has it's fair share of problems), LLMs completely shattered this barrier. So for a project with limited maintainer bandwidth and focus on longevity and thus maintainability, banning LLMs just makes sense from a technical viewpoint.

And that completely ignores all the ecological and ethical reasons, which Nura stands for, so I am really happy, that they take a strong stance here.

social.treehouse.systems/@cas/
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Sep 28
saw someone on HN say they will never contribute to Nura again since we ban LLM generated contributions (they had receipts too, they had contributed in the past)
their argument was that having done device porting manually before, doing it with an LLM was something like 10x faster
having seen the various LLM driven ports going around, we can't deny that LLMs are capable of doing kernel bringup, finding a functional implementation, and making many more attempts to trial and error than we humans are.
of course, this doesn't come without a cost, as with most technical advancements this cost is mostly offloaded onto those without the resources to prevent it -- the under educated working class and the global south, those who will be most affected by droughts and worsening climate change
this is reason enough to disengage from this technology, at least the implementations of it that cause most of this harm, but there is another more devious issue…
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Iris van Rooij 💭 @irisvanrooij.bsky.social · 5h
Dear @erc.europa.eu , we DO already have common standards & frameworks. 'AI' likes to pose itself as 'special' but we do not need to reinvent the wheel. We already have established codes of conduct for research integrity. We just need to apply them. See below + more resources in thread🧵
Protecting the Ecosystem of Human Knowledge: Five Principles
We must protect and cultivate the ecosystem of human knowledge. AI models can mimic
the appearance of scholarly work, but they are (by construction) unconcerned with truth
— the result is a torrential outpouring of unchecked but convincing-sounding “informa-
tion”. At best, such output is accidentally true, but generally citationless, divorced from
human reasoning and the web of scholarship that it steals from. At worst, it is confidently
wrong. Both outcomes are dangerous to the ecosystem.
Olivia Guest, Iris van Rooij, Marcela Suarez, et al. (2025, n.p.)
Knowledge production is supposed to be safeguarded by (inter)national codes of conduct for research
integrity (ALLEA 2023; KNAW et al. 2018). Such codes forbid, for instance, fabrication of data,
falsification of results, plagiarism, and, generally, distortion of the scientific record. Many argue that
new rules are required to regulate academic AI use, but pre-existing guidelines fit the bill (cf. Tafani
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Linotype Pilgrim @symbo1ics.bsky.social · 4h
👇 seriously. 'ai' is a dead signifier now, the LLM frauds can have it
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Coach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · 5h
This is a list of all the people who are going to be getting bailed out with your tax money. I guarantee it. Not tough to call this shot.
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Dr Abeba Birhane @abeba.blacksky.app · 16h
unsolicited brag: dug into the data -> ai -> surveillance pipeline in class this morning and received a standing ovation at the end of class. genuinely did not expect it. now i’m in tears. first time for everything
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Jacky Alciné @jacky.wtf · 5h
Apple is about lay off a bunch of people:
bloomberg.com
Apple’s New CEO Seeks to Make Company Run Faster and Leaner
Apple Inc. Chief Executive Officer John Ternus, just weeks into the role, is moving to overhaul the iPhone maker in an effort to accelerate product development, broaden its range of devices and create...
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Linotype Pilgrim @symbo1ics.bsky.social · 5h
this is going well 🧵
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Rachel Gilmore @rachelgilmore.bsky.social · 6h
Ragebaiting myself by watching Carney announce “ocean protections” while he’s massively escalating tanker traffic for oil and gas exports
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MondoAB @mondoab.bsky.social · 7h
Wait times increasing, as Ontario government privatizes surgeries and imaging! Alberta's doing the same. The Fed are doing nothing to enforce the Canada Health Act.
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Riker Googling @rikergoogling.bsky.social · 7h
howstop swelfdetruct
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Sandy Wolf @sandywolf.bsky.social · 7h
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loren schmidt @lorenschmidt.bsky.social · 7h
i was talking with a few folks about this recently- does anyone have any good recipes for cellular noise with rectilinear edges? this is max(abs(dx), abs(dy)), which has ortho and diagonal edges and maybe could be modified (or postprocessed?) to be rectilinear...
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Linotype Pilgrim @symbo1ics.bsky.social · 29/03/2026
sorry, srry I am rying to ddelete it
OP's egg pic with a green glowing crack à la ALIEN movie poster
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TheSinnamom @thesinnamom.gay · 23h
One of the hardest parts of running a counseling practice rn is just the Current State of the World. We can tangibly help with lots of very serious things and is worth doing on its own merits, but therapy can't fix material conditions. Especially when material conditions include mass insurance loss
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(Self) Regulators, mount up! @bankuei.bsky.social · 8h
Here's a new thing to watch out for; they're selling you forever access to a program that depends on AI - what happens when the token cost goes up too much or the AI gets shut down? Yeah so it's basically like NFTs, you spent money on nothing. boingboing.net/2026/09/29/m...
boingboing.net
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Marco Rogers @polotek.bsky.social · 9h
All Meta wants to do with AI is convince you to give them more ways to exploit you. Just like they did with Muse. You've got a helpful assistant, but that assistant is also hoovering up your private data. New data sources that Meta wanted but didn't have access to before.
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Iris van Rooij 💭 @irisvanrooij.bsky.social · 10h
🚨 Please boost, read, and sign if you want to support ✍️ OPEN LETTER: Pause the national rollout of AI-mediated tutoring in England's schools docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
docs.google.com
OPEN LETTER: PAUSE THE NATIONAL ROLLOUT OF AI-MEDIATED TUTORING IN ENGLAND’S SCHOOLS
OPEN LETTER To the Rt Hon Andy Burnham MP, Prime Minister, and the Rt Hon Lucy Powell MP, Secretary of State for Education The Department for Education has announced plans to develop, what it calls, “...
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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 9h
“What if we released malware represented in the form of a cute avatar” is an actual business plan now.
engadget.com
Dots are OpenAI's new personal agents and soon you'll be able to control several of them - Engadget
Sure, seems safe.
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Linotype Pilgrim @symbo1ics.bsky.social · 9h
watching a 360p version of L'Appartement on YouTube ain't the future grand streaming services have failed us in every dimension relatively speaking, Tubi's scoring well though
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Linotype Pilgrim @symbo1ics.bsky.social · 9h
It certainly is the template for Carney #cdnpoli
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#StupidSuez @diplomatofnight.com · 9h
Every single American administration since LBJ's has been opposed to [unilateral] annexation of Palestinian territory by Israel and settlement and settler violence, yet also every single one of those administrations let it continue apace without any consequences. This is by design.
🇺🇸🇮🇱🇵🇸A State Department official told me the Trump administration is aware of the overnight events in the West Bank village of al-Jalud and condemns the attack on Palestinian residents
🇺🇸🇮🇱🇵🇸“We condemn criminal violence by any party in the West Bank and support appropriate investigations, legal accountability, and judicial processes for those responsible,” the State Department official said
🇺🇸🇮🇱🇵🇸The official added that the U.S. is in regular dialogue with Israel about improving stability and security in the West Bank
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Meechy Dorko @diedfrombeing.labeledrude.online · 10h
god i hope the future of websites isn't every piece of information being consolidated behind its own branded AI chat bot landing page but now that i type it
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Linotype Pilgrim @symbo1ics.bsky.social · 10h
gosh, what if demand collapses
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✨Directed by John Carpenter✨ @ourflagmeansbeth.bsky.social · 10h
Stop using IG and FB 🥲
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✨Directed by John Carpenter✨ @ourflagmeansbeth.bsky.social · 10h
Client: are there laws about how AI can be used Me:
static.klipy.com
Happy New: We Are Laughing
Alt: Happy New: We Are Laughing
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Tyler King @tyleraking.com · 23h
Basically using LLMs and agentic ai is a massive security risk and no one should do so basically ever and these companies should be prosecuted for hacking. Also two-party consent should extend to all electronic communications.
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Connie @bethechange1682.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
This is so disappointing to see - across the political spectrum, that the ruling class is willing to destroy our future and environment
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Patrick Canning 🇨🇦 @patrickcanning.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Vote BCNDP to incinerate your children's future.
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Olivia Guest · Ολίβια Γκεστ @olivia.science · 28/09/2026
no amount of making the these systems bigger will make them be safe or more performant & only humans can make things that have been automated safe
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Olivia Guest · Ολίβια Γκεστ @olivia.science · 28/09/2026
reminder...
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Funranium (AKA Phil Broughton) @funranium.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Not that shit again.
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Paul Monaghan @paulmonaghan.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Insane that newly listed giants of the size of SpaceX and Anthropic would be given a free pass from audits on financial internal controls for five years If anyone is the next Enron its SpaceX! www.ft.com/content/2ef0...
ft.com
The post-Enron auditor reforms are being rolled back
Regulators plan to further limit audit requirement imposed under Sarbanes-Oxley Act
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Linotype Pilgrim @symbo1ics.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Just in time to save the global 'ai' circular fraud
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Linotype Pilgrim @symbo1ics.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Surprising and impressive consistency in the answers...
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Mike Sowden @mikeachim.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Agreed. And it's fast money that doesn't reach consumers, in far too many cases, including with allegedly cheap goods that are actually more expensive because they don't last. The recent growth in repair cafes in the UK & Europe proves there is often a better way: www.gov.wales/repair-cafe-...
gov.wales
Repair Cafe Wales saves over one million kilograms of carbon dioxide emissions | GOV.WALES
The Deputy First Minister with responsibility for Climate Change and Rural Affairs, Huw Irranca-Davies, launches Fix it February at a pop-up repair café in Cardiff.
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Spacing @spacing.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
EXCLUSIVE: Inside the contract to rip out Toronto’s bike lanes Spacing has obtained the RFP for the Ford government's bike lane removal, and it looks even worse than thought. spacing.ca/toronto/2026... #toronto #bikes #torontobike @cycletoronto.bsky.social
spacing.ca
EXCLUSIVE: Inside the contract to rip out Toronto's bike lanes - Spacing Toronto
After the Ontario Court of Appeal (ONCA) shot down CycleTO’s legally innovative charter challenge that sought to stop Doug Ford’s attack on the city’s bike lanes, Queen’s Park wasted little time befor...
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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 29/09/2026
Reuters got some of the IPO docs. Anthropic is a total dog of a company. Spent $12.6bn to make $4.6bn in revenue in 2025, $7.33bn of which was compute costs. Operating loss of $8bn. Losses getting worse year over year. Amazing stuff www.reuters.com/business/fin...
Summary
Companies
• Anthropic IPO could value the company at more than $2
trillion
• Anthropic lost $42 billion in 2025
• Al lab spent $7.33 billion on compute and infrastructure last year
• Operating loss widened to $8.06 billion in 2025 from $2.98 billion in 2024
• Execs, industry analysts have expressed concerns over harms of Al tech
Sept 28 (Reuters) - Anthropic is making a massive bet that Al will transform the global economy more profoundly than industrialization, electricity and the internet, according to its IPO prospectus seen by Reuters.
But the cost to get there will be staggering. Anthropic reported a net loss of $42 billion in 2025, and plans to spend $518 billion on cloud, computing and infrastructure obligations in coming year, according to the
prospectus.
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Anodyne @anodynesix.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
"[Die Linke] views [housing] as a human right and not a commodity to be manipulated for private profit ... The party has called for a solidarity-based 'immigration society' in which all people enjoy the same political, legal, and cultural rights."
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Alex Wild @alexwild.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Another museum in trouble
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Éireann @eireannmor.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Who will organize an "another university is possible" conference with me?
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Linotype Pilgrim @symbo1ics.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
NEVER budge on any of these four, but we could also list 40, or 400
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Xodanix3 @xodanix3.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
And there's lots of ppl who live this way. The system lies, rewards "influencer content" that champions vast inequality, to continue propping up ethnic cleaning and classism based, hybristophilia
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Xodanix3 @xodanix3.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
There is no "avocado toast" or "iced coffee" to speak of. Ever since the intentional sabotage of safety nets by the upper classes, it's been a rat race of focusing on getting needs met on a day to day, week to week basis.
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Dr Kim Stewart @drkimscrolls.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Good news from people power. #DataCentres #AI www.abc.net.au/news/2026-09...
abc.net.au
Controversial Sydney data centre project pulled amid community anger
A controversial proposed data centre has been withdrawn by its developer after it became a flashpoint amid growing opposition to the AI infrastructure development across the country.
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dr. rich traditions, JD @helldude.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
it's a striking moment in time. really hard to even get ones head around it. virtually everyone in a decisionmaking role has decided to shrug their shoulders and unleash automated processes with unknown function on the world with the best case scenario being: ending all human endeavor
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Linotype Pilgrim @symbo1ics.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
it would be a catastrophe if Brazil falls again
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
The rise of 287(g) programs has meant that ICE is increasingly using local police as a very significant force multiplier, with up to 1 in 8 arrests of noncitizens in the interior now being carried out by state and local police. This is going to have profound impacts on community relations.
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Luke O'Neil @lukeoneil47.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
This happened. Every institution in the country, media, college, movies, music, democrats, republicans, law, sports, all conspired to make it illegal, de facto or literally, to not only try to stop, but even vocally oppose Israel massacring every Palestinian man, woman, child and infant.
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Fade In @fadeinpro.com · 28/09/2026
These things "work" by hoovering up your data. Your messages? Your emails and documents? Every click and mouse move you make? (Ever clicked yes to the "Enable telemetry" option?) You are two things to them: a source of data for their data soup, and a customer to sell it all back to.
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