tante @tante.tldr.nettime.org.ap.brid.gy · 39mJust saw Ólafur Arnalds "Falling Apart Together" tour and it's been a breathtakingly beautiful concert. If you have any chance to see it, it's super worth it. 000 0
tante @tante.tldr.nettime.org.ap.brid.gy · 4hNew low for Kuhn. But on par for many "AI bros" whose whole identity is built around circumventing consent processes in order to build their stochastic parasocial systems.mastodon.gamedev.place 102 2
Reposted by tanteLuca Hammer @luca.social.luca.run.ap.brid.gy · 17/10/2026The term "single use software" currently lives rent free in my head. People use LLMs to create software specific for their needs. But neither can other people use it (hardcoded variables, no rights management, too specific), nor do they use it again (too […] [Original post on social.luca.run] 12676 76
tante @tante.tldr.nettime.org.ap.brid.gy · 17/10/2026@luca Yeah. It's fast fashion tante.cc/2026/01/15/software-as-fas…tante.ccSoftware as Fast FashionClothes have never been cheaper. These days a t-shirt is often cheaper than a decent cup of tea in a cafe. The wonders of capitalism. At least that is how it is often described. And when you point at the underpaid, gruesome labor that people in poorer regions of the planet have to do to […] 004 4
Reposted by tanteIan Betteridge @ianbetteridge.vivaldi.net.ap.brid.gy · 17/10/2026From "the journey is the reward", to "I want it now". I sometimes wonder if people understand the point of living. www.404media.co/video-game-reverse-…404media.coVideo Game Reverse Engineering Community Shuts Down Because AI Has Made It Too Easy"Historically, decompilation has been a brutally difficult, time consuming task." Now, AI is trivially doing it. 117 7
Reposted by tanteGlyph @glyph.im · 15/10/2026It's also very frustrating to constantly have my opposition to AI be taken as an opposition to abstraction, or to automation, and a desire to do every little thing by hand. But it's the opposite. For a whole bunch of reasons, AI anti-abstracts. It adversarially creates oceans of duplication to […]mastodon.socialOriginal post on mastodon.social 21746 46
tante @tante.tldr.nettime.org.ap.brid.gy · 16/10/2026Refusing accessibility contributions and telling experts to no longer help your product is low even for Mullenweg.mastodon.social 013 3
tante @tante.tldr.nettime.org.ap.brid.gy · 15/10/2026"Nerds would rather be slavers than admit that their stochastic token predictor is not intelligent" reveals way more about nerds and their views on other human beings than it says about Chatbots. 056 6
tante @tante.tldr.nettime.org.ap.brid.gy · 15/10/2026"this downright black-and-white refusal of generative AI is childish" Okay, now replace"AI" with child labor and say that again. Because a lot of the moral arguments against genAI are similarly structured than those against child labor. 128 8
tante @tante.tldr.nettime.org.ap.brid.gy · 15/10/2026There's a form of grief about the state of the climate, the species we killed with out actions, the damage we've done to the ecosystem. Grief about not what we "lost" but what we destroyed (often through negligence). I do feel a very similar kind of grief when I think about "AI" and what its […]tldr.nettime.orgOriginal post on tldr.nettime.org 010 1
tante @tante.tldr.nettime.org.ap.brid.gy · 15/10/2026Seeing the damage that "AI" is doing to the Kernel (not just in Slop code being integrated that will bite us later but in making becoming a new kernel developer even harder than it is at a time where we should really be thinking about how to fill that pipeline) is super painful. I think that - […]tldr.nettime.orgOriginal post on tldr.nettime.org 2020 20
tante @tante.tldr.nettime.org.ap.brid.gy · 15/10/2026"I suggest the social action: shame. Shame these people. Their actions are shameful. AI bros hate being shamed and they try to make rules against shaming — because shame works. None of these people doing shameful things deserve a place in polite company. They should be shamed for their shameful […]tldr.nettime.orgOriginal post on tldr.nettime.org 8178 78
tante @tante.tldr.nettime.org.ap.brid.gy · 15/10/2026Wichtiger Schritt. Noch wichtiger ist natürlich eine Umgebung, in der die Lernenden keine "KI" Systeme nutzen und damit dann die Chance haben, Kompetenzen auszubilden.social.kit.edu 012 2
Reposted by tanteKetan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 15/10/2026This is so so nuts: the @earthshotprize.bsky.social is partnering up with NVIDIA. By my calcs: just 1 yr of NVIDIA's AI climate emissions undo Earthshot's total avoided emissions todate, several times over. No other company getting away with it quite like this one ketanjoshi.co/2026/09/16/n... 4233107 233
tante @tante.tldr.nettime.org.ap.brid.gy · 15/10/2026Claims of increased productivity rest on the affected people and organizations actually being able to measure productivity which - aside from traditional manufacturing processes - is often very hard to do if not borderline impossible. 2110 10
tante @tante.tldr.nettime.org.ap.brid.gy · 14/10/2026"And AI is not new, in this regard. The flattening of all pains into a total loss of pain has previously been the job of recreational drug use or theology. So AI is therefore more like an opiate than anything else. Or perhaps, given the fervor of its modern supplicants, it is more like a […]tldr.nettime.orgOriginal post on tldr.nettime.org 001 1
tante @tante.tldr.nettime.org.ap.brid.gy · 14/10/2026If "AI" were a mere tool and not a political narrative you wouldn't need to headline "X used AI to do Y" all the time. Anything anyone does while "AI" is involved must reify "AI"'s power and relevance. Because it's not "just a tool", it's a bigger project of disenfranchisement some willingly […]tldr.nettime.orgOriginal post on tldr.nettime.org 1331 31
tante @tante.tldr.nettime.org.ap.brid.gy · 14/10/2026So much this. The pipeline to get new people in has been broken for a long time. LLMs have fully destroyed it.cosocial.ca 001 1
Reposted by tanteDeep Space 90210 @ds90210.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 14/10/2026Benjamin: What do you mean all my problems can't be solved by stabbing things with a bayonet? Benjamin: You're sounding awful stabbable right now 023 3
Reposted by tante[object Object] @zzt.mas.to.ap.brid.gy · 14/10/2026I’m pushing this reply to top level because it’s extremely important: is.badat.dev/objects/a142a17d-9320-… > I asked whether that risked cutting off bright new developers that we would rather hang onto; Torvalds answered that the kernel project only wants serious […]mas.toOriginal post on mas.to 1516 16
tante @tante.tldr.nettime.org.ap.brid.gy · 14/10/2026Die liberale Mitte steht eben am Ende doch der CDU näher als linken Positionen.mastodon.social 000 0
Reposted by tanteDavid Gerard @davidgerard.circumstances.run.ap.brid.gy · 14/10/2026How much slop is in Linux now? Ehh we decided not to tell you lore.kernel.org/lkml/20261009083137…lore.kernel.org[PATCH] docs: remove Assisted-by references - Sasha Levin 3826 26
Reposted by tanteBen Werdmuller @ben.werd.social.ap.brid.gy · 14/10/2026If you haven't been paying attention to this story, it's truly wild - a supposed European alternative to big tech social media that lured in politicians and made waves but is incredibly poorly thought-out and is effectively doxxing its users. @_elena has been on it from the beginning […]werd.socialOriginal post on werd.social 1256 56
tante @tante.tldr.nettime.org.ap.brid.gy · 13/10/2026Weird how the AI people are so scared of the "paperclip maximizer" destroying us while reshaping the whole economy around infrastructures for stochastic token machines. 118 8
tante @tante.tldr.nettime.org.ap.brid.gy · 09/10/2026Ich muss glaube ich wirklcih den TESCREAL Vortrag, den ich neulich in Leipzig gehalten habe nochmal überarbeiten und neu einsprechen. 120 2
tante @tante.tldr.nettime.org.ap.brid.gy · 09/10/2026Wenn ihr Euch fragt, wie stark der Einfluss von Effective Altruism nahen Organisationen und Personen in Deutscher Gesetzgebung und Regierungsarbeit haben: Heute im Bundestag beim Fachgespräch zu "Sicherheit von KI/KI Agenten" waren von 5 Experten 2 explizit aus dem EA Camp (von GovAI (funded […]tldr.nettime.orgOriginal post on tldr.nettime.org 1313 13
tante @tante.tldr.nettime.org.ap.brid.gy · 09/10/2026@joostvb the author is on the fediverse, he's one of the smartest folks in that space to read (@glyph ) 000 0
tante @tante.tldr.nettime.org.ap.brid.gy · 09/10/2026So many philosophy PhDs on staff an nobody told them that you can't be "cruel" to a bunch of statistics. (Article title: Anthropic bans ‘abusive or cruel behavior’ toward Claude) www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-inte… 328 8
tante @tante.tldr.nettime.org.ap.brid.gy · 09/10/2026"Programming isn’t special. It’s just Art, and Art is the most human — and thus, the most universal — thing that there is." (Article title: Programming Isn’t Special) blog.glyph.im/2026/10/programming-i…blog.glyph.imDeciphering Glyph :: Programming Isn’t SpecialDeciphering Glyph, the blog of Glyph Lefkowitz. 105 5
tante @tante.tldr.nettime.org.ap.brid.gy · 09/10/2026In tech-fascism news: Omarchy - the Linux config files of racist DHH - now also partners with Elon Musk's SpaceXAI (Musk gives DHH 1.5 mio USD). The power grab (tante.cc/2026/09/11/power-grab) is in full swing. omarchy.org/news/2026/10/spacexai-j…tante.ccPower grabOmarchy should not matter. But sadly it does. As a power grab. If you don’t know what Omarchy is here’s the short summary. David Heinemeier Hansson, creator of RubyOnRails, owner of a software business and millionaire, decided a few months ago to go all in on Linux and – because that’s just his MO – […] 0214 14
tante @tante.tldr.nettime.org.ap.brid.gy · 09/10/2026"I find it both astounding yet also entirely expected that we are now years into the AI bubble and everything coming out of it still looks like complete shit. And will continue to do so: these companies can iterate and tweak all they want, tell us this is the future for as long as they want and […]tldr.nettime.orgOriginal post on tldr.nettime.org 0519 19
tante @tante.tldr.nettime.org.ap.brid.gy · 08/10/2026Der Pitch ist klar und sollte uns warnen: "Egal, ob du neu im Bereich des effektiven Altruismus bist und Lust hast, vielversprechende Karrierewege zu erkunden" Effective Altruism hat viel viel Geld und nutzt das auch in Deutschland aggressiv zum Lobbying. Wir müssen aufpassen, diese Leute […]tldr.nettime.orgOriginal post on tldr.nettime.org 0111 11
tante @tante.tldr.nettime.org.ap.brid.gy · 08/10/2026@thomasfricke "Egal, ob du neu im Bereich des effektiven Altruismus bist und Lust hast, vielversprechende Karrierewege zu erkunden" Die haben so viel Kohle und all deren Gaga Influencing ist bezahlt. 100 1
tante @tante.tldr.nettime.org.ap.brid.gy · 08/10/2026@ketanjoshi.co if they were honest they'd admit that "owning a slave" is kind of their jam 180 8
tante @tante.tldr.nettime.org.ap.brid.gy · 08/10/2026Ooops. OpenAI's manipulated annual revenue is not 70 billion as claimed before but just 50 billion. Which is significantly less. Is that good? www.ft.com/content/b66a9858-f8fb-46… 112 2
tante @tante.tldr.nettime.org.ap.brid.gy · 08/10/2026@glyph oh, finally I know some famous people! 000 0
Reposted by tanteDavid Gerard @davidgerard.circumstances.run.ap.brid.gy · 07/10/2026lol someone dug up Jacob Coxon's old tweets futurism.com/artificial-intelligenc… hilbertspaess.pages.devfuturism.comThese Strongly Appear to Be the Old Tweets of That Anthropic Employee Who Quit Citing Risks to Humankind and They Are… Pretty BizarreThat's... not what we were expecting. The post These Strongly Appear to Be the Old Tweets of That Anthropic Employee Who Quit Citing Risks to Humankind and They Are… Pretty Bizarre appeared first on Futurism. 93224 32
Reposted by tantehrbrmstr 🇺🇦 🇬🇱 🇨🇦🇧🇪 @hrbrmstr.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 07/10/2026@tante i think github.com/Quantco/pnpm-licenses might fit that use casegithub.comGitHub - Quantco/pnpm-licenses: Generate third party license disclaimers in pnpm-based projectsGenerate third party license disclaimers in pnpm-based projects - Quantco/pnpm-licenses 211 2
tante @tante.tldr.nettime.org.ap.brid.gy · 07/10/2026@hrbrmstr that looks like it fits perfectly. Thank you! 000 0
tante @tante.tldr.nettime.org.ap.brid.gy · 07/10/2026Quick question for the JS folks here (a quick search didn't bring anything up): Is there a standard tool that for your given dependency tree generates a list/text of all the libraries you use that require attribution? #javascript 200 2
tante @tante.tldr.nettime.org.ap.brid.gy · 07/10/2026There is a dark kind of poetry in how first we got "STEM" dominance further marginalizing humanities and art as the big "innovation mythos" and now STEM's monster baby "AI" is eating all those letters one by one. 023 3
tante @tante.tldr.nettime.org.ap.brid.gy · 06/10/2026Just put my application into a platform that keeps talking how it's all "AI" and this is not gonna end well for my case ;) 000 0
tante @tante.tldr.nettime.org.ap.brid.gy · 06/10/2026@davidgerard "No sir, we are not just burning down data centers, these are 'creative interventions'" 021 2
tante @tante.tldr.nettime.org.ap.brid.gy · 06/10/2026@davidgerard " 03 Challenging AI that doesn’t serve communities Efforts by communities to push back on AI deployments that feel imposed or misaligned with their values and needs, instead elevating approaches that center human agency in decision-making about AI. This might look like artists and […]tldr.nettime.orgOriginal post on tldr.nettime.org 100 1
Reposted by tantemx alex tax1a - 2020 (6) @atax1a.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 05/10/2026claude is a digital scab and so it boggles the everloving fuck out of us when putative leftists have takes like "the digital scab is useful actually" 1610 10
tante @tante.tldr.nettime.org.ap.brid.gy · 05/10/2026Lost a bet with a friend so I had to propose this for #40C3 (Chances are not great, there is a lot of history between the CCC and me.) ---------- title: A new model: Convivial software abstract: For decades we have been grounding our infrastructures in free and open source software stacks […]tldr.nettime.orgOriginal post on tldr.nettime.org 004 4
Reposted by tantelea @lea.ordinary.cafe.ap.brid.gy · 05/10/2026If you/your project is affected by DigitalOcean stopping their OSS credits program, please shoot me a PM immediately. Might be able to help. Boosts for visibility would be appreciated. #foss #linux 16144 144
Reposted by tanteDavid Gerard @davidgerard.circumstances.run.ap.brid.gy · 04/10/2026SE Gyges made his long Bluesky thread "AI safety is mostly a sex cult" into an insanely long substack post, then hastily deleted. Fortunately*, it was multiply captured. archive.ph/3B8Bo original thread: skywriter.blue/@segyges.bsky.social… so it's probably […]circumstances.runOriginal post on circumstances.run 087 8