tante

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Sociotechnologist, writer and speaker working on tech and its social impact. Communist. Feminist. Antifascist. Luddite. Email: tante@tante.cc | License CC BY-SA-4.0 tfr

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2026-02-16 22:55:05 UTC

RE: https://tldr.nettime.org/@tante/116082694984669549
I am just so tired of this "AI" shit. Truly. Not just the extra maintenance burden on my but the constant discussions that lead nowhere. I can keep making the same arguments against using "AI" for anything relevant from here till the cows come home but it's not gonna change people's opinion. Because they are "on AI" or their bosses force it upon them or whatever.
But honestly. It's all been said. Neither does the tech change significantly (regardless of what the boosters tell you) nor do the other facts at hand, the brain and skill atrophy, the exploitation, the ecological impact, etc. etc. etc.
Dunno. It's hard to keep doing this whole "keep making your point and maybe some people will change their mind thing" when the facts are all on the table and people just have made decisions I find morally questionable.
Maybe I am just tired. Will keep doing the same shit tomorrow. Keep running against that concrete wall hoping that it will somehow crumble.
#note1kud…hlzu

2025-06-28 09:46:31 UTC

Google's emissions are up over 50%, Amazon builds huge data centers powered by 75% natural gas.
Remember all those posts telling us that "AIs climate impact isn't that bad" supported by some really funky math/perspective and/or numbers Sam Altman invented?
Here's the actual impact.
"AI" is a fossil fuel technology.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/24/technology/amazon-ai-data-centers.html?unlocked_article_code=1.SU8.2JRa.e3Ju6r_pL1Im
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/jun/27/google-emissions-ai-electricity-demand-derail-efforts-green

2025-04-02 15:51:41 UTC

"LLM did something bad, then I asked it to clarify/explain itself" is not critical analysis but just an illustration of magic thinking.
Those systems generate tokens. That is all. They don't "know" or "understand" or can "explain" anything. There is no cognitive system at work that could respond meaningfully.
That's the same dumb shit as what was found in Apple Intelligence's system prompt: "Do not hallucinate" does nothing. All the tokens you give it as input just change the part of the word space that was stored in the network. "Explain your work" just leads the network to lean towards training data that has those kinds of phrases in it (like tests and solutions). It points the system at a different part but the system does not understand the command. It can't.

2025-03-27 18:21:49 UTC

"Efficiency" is not the main outcome to optimize for in government. That's a neoliberal brain worm.

2025-03-24 11:47:42 UTC

The one thing that seems to connect almost everyone in "AI" is this colonialist, dominating thinking:
"I have this tool and it will be and must be used and applied , regardless of what you think. Your ideas are worth less than mine"

2025-02-03 09:41:40 UTC

"Elon Musk's attempt to destroy the United States government isn't random chaos. It's the methodical execution of the "network state" blueprint. [...] Democracy isn't dying in darkness. The lights are on. We can see it all happening in real time. No, democracy is dying in silence."
https://www.thenerdreich.com/the-network-state-coup-is-happening-right-now/

2025-01-15 16:49:50 UTC

Cool project: "Nepenthes" is a tarpit to catch (AI) web crawlers.
"It works by generating an endless sequences of pages, each of which with dozens of links, that simply go back into a the tarpit. Pages are randomly generated, but in a deterministic way, causing them to appear to be flat files that never change. Intentional delay is added to prevent crawlers from bogging down your server, in addition to wasting their time. Lastly, optional Markov-babble can be added to the pages, to give the crawlers something to scrape up and train their LLMs on, hopefully accelerating model collapse."
https://zadzmo.org/code/nepenthes/

2025-01-13 19:31:33 UTC

I used to judge people for this because obviously and clearly it's wrong.
But this is how we have to live now, otherwise the cats annihilate every roll of TP within minutes.
It pains me every day.
https://tldr.nettime.org/system_nettime/media_attachments/files/113/822/700/767/021/437/original/afa5e7c1df3f2231.jpeg

2024-12-26 21:23:15 UTC

People always tell me it's weird that I don't know my blood type. Just never had a use for that information. But in conversation I get the impression that everyone does. Weird.

2024-11-28 19:09:04 UTC

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Bonus question: Free Software licenses demand that you do not discriminate use (in the license). Which is why you cannot put "not for use in drones" in the license.
But if I license my code as MIT or whatever and in addition say: "If you work for Palantir, your emails will be used to make your use of the library harder and otherwise thrown in the trash" would that affect whether the powers that be consider the project free software?

2024-11-28 18:11:54 UTC

Does anybody here know of an open source project that - while using a traditional license - enforces other social rules or makes political, ethical or social norms for the intended use of the project explicit and has any forms of consequences for disobedience?
Think: "This project fundamentally disagrees with capitalism, Bug reports by Amazon employees will not be answered" or whatever social "contract" you can imagine.
Not looking for projects that just say "please only use us in a certain way" but has some form of enforcement going that's not tied to licensing.

2024-10-09 12:35:26 UTC

When logging into Wordpress.org (login.wordpress.org) you have to confirm that you are not affiliated with WPEngine.
While this looks petty and childish it's another sign the Wordpress is in the hands of people who can't find less destructive ways to handle their fucking midlife crisis.
https://tldr.nettime.org/system_nettime/media_attachments/files/113/277/489/990/254/788/original/3e4df92427116fb5.png

2024-09-09 15:56:50 UTC

Sound of a bubble popping:
"Things got worse for Nvidia on Tuesday, when shares fell 9.5%, wiping $279 billion off its value. That was the biggest loss in Wall Street history. As my colleague David Goldman noted, only 27 companies on Earth are worth as much as Nvidia lost on Tuesday. "
https://edition.cnn.com/2024/09/05/tech/nvidia-stock-falling-nightcap/index.html

2024-09-09 10:40:24 UTC

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willkommen bei der Strategie der BuReg

2024-06-28 12:17:41 UTC

Der Titeltrack des neuen Kafvka Albums "Kaputt" ist so 2024, dass es auch ein bisschen weh tut. (Ist live ein ziemliches Brett)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CKUnY5jpoXU

2024-06-28 07:30:05 UTC

The Verge goes hard after Perplexity.AI:
"Perplexity is basically a rent-seeking middleman on high-quality sources"
[...]
"So that’s Perplexity’s real innovation here: shattering the foundations of trust that built the internet."
(Original title: Perplexity’s grand theft AI)
https://www.theverge.com/2024/6/27/24187405/perplexity-ai-twitter-lie-plagiarism

2024-06-26 13:34:17 UTC

Mozilla.ai did what? When silliness goes dangerous
Mozilla.ai did a study on generative AI trends and their methodology shows that they should never be allowed near anything AI. Ever.
https://tante.cc/2024/06/26/mozilla-ai-did-what-when-silliness-goes-dangerous/

2024-05-23 17:33:01 UTC

If anti-monopoly law means anything, any acquisition by Microsoft should be stopped.
https://social.jacobian.org/@jacob/112491506135592044

2024-05-07 16:51:14 UTC

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sfdisk is very limited but does that kind of stuff