tante

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 #noAI

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2026-04-30 15:02:40 UTC

Oh Mullenweg exploded again.
The thing is: He criticizes processes and slow pace (which one can do) but his solution basically is no process and just winging it. Which - given wordpress runs millions of people's websites - is just childish and irresponsible. It's the classical "strong man" argument.
Wordpress' processes might be problemattic ( ;) ) but that also stems from lack of vision and lack of establishing modes and spaces for experimentation where people are not afraid that Mullenweg is gonna publicly shit on them for not loving LLMs enough.
The problem is still weak leadership. Who is the leader again?

2026-04-29 12:58:40 UTC

The Open Source community never learned that big tech is not trustworthy.
Maybe this time?
(based on https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Datei:Zuckerberg_-_dumb_fucks.png)
https://tldr.nettime.org/system_nettime/media_attachments/files/116/488/111/320/619/976/original/93f42305253181ca.png

2026-04-29 12:42:13 UTC

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@nprofile…s733 it's kinda insulting TBH. Not even coming up with "we are being attacked" or anything. Just "yeah we created a bad situation and we do not invest into the core business because we are too busy misusing all the code you naively gave us"

2026-04-29 12:32:50 UTC

Microsoft and people working there just are not very trustworthy sources of information these days.
As the GitHub exec's gaslighting shows.
They just think you are dumb or very ill-informed so the can get away with nonsense.

2026-04-27 10:56:28 UTC

Okay gotta migrate off to stock Debian then I guess.
Microsoft kills its OS with all the copilot garbage users do not want and Canonical has to go: "Yeah, that's where we need to go."
Strategic genius.

2026-04-24 12:43:54 UTC

A lot of the time when people argue that we should look at the opportunities of "AI" instead of always looking at the damages, that "AI" just won't go away I mentally replace "AI" with "child labor" and it really shows how people think about the world.

2026-04-23 13:32:33 UTC

I never understood why people do not want to know stuff or understand stuff or be able to do stuff.
Sure nobody wants to know/understand/be able to do _everything_ but the current "LLM does t all, I just prod it" is super alien to me.

2026-04-23 11:32:56 UTC

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@nprofile…sksg thank you!

2026-04-22 08:02:04 UTC

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@nprofile…unx4 Well if that is about the recent "Mythos" thing, did you see https://www.flyingpenguin.com/the-boy-that-cried-mythos-verification-is-collapsing-trust-in-anthropic/ ?

2026-04-21 21:45:47 UTC

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@nprofile…rny0 that is exactly _not_ the kind of support I wanted.

2026-04-21 21:39:16 UTC

With my day job being a bit ... in trouble (company is not me as a person) I keep looking at whether I should try to do a PhD.
Which is a massively dumb idea that I should not follow up on cause it would not work and I'd just hate myself.
If I mention it again, please punch me over TCP/IP.

2026-04-21 21:15:29 UTC

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(I care so much about this issue that I actually did even some proofreading!)

2026-04-21 21:14:13 UTC

In which I argue that "AI" as we understand it today is a structurally fascist artifact.
https://tante.cc/2026/04/21/ai-as-a-fascist-artifact/

2026-04-21 21:12:18 UTC

A @nprofile…u7p7 at least tries to keep his promises.
Here it is: https://tante.cc/2026/04/21/ai-as-a-fascist-artifact/

2026-04-21 06:07:29 UTC

This sort of repairability should be legally required.

2026-04-20 17:30:40 UTC

The "agentic" in "agentic AI" refers to the agency the "AI" providers want to take from you.

2026-04-20 16:43:14 UTC

Okay I am a bit late but I promised some people I'd write this. So if all goes well I might get it out of the door today.
https://tldr.nettime.org/system_nettime/media_attachments/files/116/438/033/551/954/717/original/315adc981f0ed2f7.png

2026-04-20 10:11:01 UTC

Personally I mostly tried shifting to "digital agency" ("digitale Handlungsfähigkeit" in German) because it talks about what it's about rather than pointing at the "evil other"

2026-04-20 07:24:19 UTC

I have been warning about the term "digital sovereignty" and how it is right-wing coded and probably can't be salvaged for non-right-wing politics.
The German fascist party AfD now created a European foundation to push their fascist politics further. The name: "Sovereignty Foundation".
Even thought tactically it might feel like it makes sense to use the term to get funding, you are integration right wing politics into your thinking and speaking.

2026-04-02 19:54:55 UTC

“I also see that I have two Microsoft Outlooks, and neither one of those are working.”
Honestly. That's like 50% of office workers' experience these days

2026-04-01 15:18:52 UTC

I have been thinking a lot about the term "free and open web" lately and I think that if we want to build an Internet that can live up to some promise beyond "I can order garbage delivered to my house quickly" we need to go back to the drawing board. Hard.

2026-03-31 22:33:26 UTC

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@nprofile…4z9s @nprofile…lkqc I elaborated on that here https://tante.cc/2026/01/15/software-as-fast-fashion/

2026-03-31 21:14:04 UTC

Anthropic's Claude Code's full source code leaked. Claude is seen by many to be the best coding LLM on the market with Anthropic proudly stating that Claude Code itself is mostly written by the LLM.
Now this sounds good as long as nobody can see the code which is quite the trash fire. Detecting "code sentiment" via regular expressions, variable and functions names containing prompt parts trying to influence the bot, a completely intransparent mess of a control flow that makes actual maintenance and debugging functionally impossible and the prompts ... of the prompts. All the begging and pleading to the chatbot not to do this or not to do that or please to do this.
It is fascinating but it is as far away from actual engineering as drunkenly pissing your name in the snow. Dunno what you call the people prompting software at Anthropic but "engineer" is not it.
Now it is fun to look at the currently hyped product striped bare and showing its pathetic quality but that is the future of software if we let those companies continue to undermine every good practice software engineering has tried establishing.
The software we have to use will be bad, insecure, unmaintainable, expensive with nobody having the skills or resources to build something better. As I wrote a few months ago: LLM based software production is equivalent to saying that fast fashion should be the only way to produce clothing. A tragic degeneration of the quality of the artefacts we rely on build for maximum profit on the backs of people in countries from the global majority.

2026-03-30 10:20:06 UTC

"Das Auf und Ab der Tech-Konzerne an der Nasdaq hat ein Ende - nun geht es stetig abwärts. Um ihre Versprechen zu halten, agieren OpenAI und Co zunehmend verzweifelt."
(Original title: Tech-Konzerne an der Nasdaq: Druckabfall in der KI-Blase)
https://www.golem.de/news/tech-konzerne-an-der-nasdaq-druckabfall-in-der-ki-blase-2603-207049.html

2026-03-25 15:00:46 UTC

I personally consider "I asked ChatGPT to generate a response to you" not witty but a form of an insult. Don't do that please. If that is how you want to talk to people at least don't tell me. It's offensive.

2026-03-25 14:58:17 UTC

That would just be one user account. The service connects with each user's account through a browser making it a bit annoying to detect. So you can block the developer but anyone else could use the same tool to scrape your posts and feed it into a slop machine.

2026-03-25 13:38:08 UTC

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@nprofile…efvt yeah. Since it runs in people's browser's IP blocking or headers don't work, but it registers as a specific Application name with a mastodon server which could be blocked.

2026-03-25 13:34:02 UTC

Does anyone know if a Mastodon server can block client applications based on their name?

2026-03-24 20:14:43 UTC

OpenAI kills their Sora Video generator.
Which isn't that surprising TBH:
- it is massively expensive to run
- the results were not that usable
- it was a lawsuit generator
So in order to keep the numbers looking better till their IPO at the end of this year they are starting to cut shit. Just an indicator that things are not looking good cashflow-wise.

2026-03-23 13:12:46 UTC

The "AI" bubble currently cannot pop because tech has nothing else to land on.
Metaverse was dropped after a few months like a bad habit because everyone could pivot to "AI". But there is no new story available right now.

2026-03-23 13:09:35 UTC

Spending 3 to 5 USD for every USD you make is not exactly what I'd consider good business.

2026-03-23 13:04:39 UTC

"Microsoft 365 has more than 450 million paid commercial seats. After roughly two years on the market, Copilot has converted approximately 15 million of them into paying users. That's a 3.3% conversion rate, at $30 per user per month, generating roughly $5.4 billion in annual revenue. That's less than what Microsoft spent on infrastructure in a single quarter (3)."
None of the numbers make economic sense.
https://finance.yahoo.com/markets/stocks/articles/nadella-paid-650m-recruit-ai-170000361.html?guccounter=1

2026-03-22 14:52:19 UTC

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@nprofile…fvyn I knew her short stories just never had read her Long-Form

2026-03-22 14:30:14 UTC

It was my plan to read some Ursula K. Le Guin and having gone through half of "The Dispossessed" I am so angry for it taking me so long to do it.
Holy fuck.

2026-03-21 21:20:20 UTC

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@nprofile…208x WARUM WERDEN DIE HAFENSÄNGER DANN SO KRASS GUT BEZAHLT?

2026-03-21 20:47:52 UTC

Ich hätte also nachweislich mehrfach deutlich mehr Recht als hochbezahlte PWC Berater*innen.

2026-03-21 07:29:27 UTC

The "parrot" in "stochastic parrot" stands for "memorization".

2026-03-20 12:00:16 UTC

Declaring one's humanity seems to be the thing these days so I also did:
https://tante.cc/human.json (using the standard defined here: https://codeberg.org/robida/human.json)
If we know each other/met and want me to vouch for you, ping me.

2026-03-20 09:41:27 UTC

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@nprofile…5fek he needed to defend himself since my criticism got a bit of traction. I get it. I think he's still arguing against a straw man but I personally didn't feel too attacked TBH.
He used a lot of quotes to basically say "I do not need to care about the source of things" which sadly is kind of the mainstream conservative standpoint.

2026-03-20 09:32:08 UTC

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@nprofile…5fek he is? He kinda wrote a blog post trying to rebuke my criticism (not 100% successfully) but I didn't see more than that.

2026-03-19 17:54:59 UTC

This is garbage. `uv` is the best tool for the job in the Python ecosystem but it being developed and maintained by a startup (with no path to sustainable funding) this was basically inevitable.
People underestimate the bad position open source is in currently and how much of that space is annexed

2026-03-19 11:50:16 UTC

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@nprofile…dv93 sind seine LinkedIn Posts eigentlich offizielle Dokumente oder vibed er da auch nur so rum?

2026-03-10 16:47:54 UTC

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@nprofile…4agh but Microsoft and Amazon have super sovereign EU data centers! Easy. They also have chips!

2026-03-10 08:26:41 UTC

Weil die "KI" Unternehmen alle Hardware kaufen, wird der "du bekommst nur noch ein dummes Terminal und musst alle relevante Infrastruktur mieten" Trend noch weiter angeheizt. Hardware wird nicht nur teuer, sie wird komplett unzugänglich. Da hilft uns dann auch keine Open Source Software mehr.
https://www.golem.de/news/verteuerte-hardware-ki-konzerne-versperren-den-weg-aus-der-cloud-2603-206158.html

2026-03-09 20:01:41 UTC

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@nprofile…m5v4 @nprofile…37xe nur als Hinweis: Brave fällt immer wieder mit shady shit auf (Crypto bullshit, referral codes überschreiben, damit Brave das Geld bekommt, etc) und wurde von einem Typen gegründet und wird weiterhin von ihm geleitet, der wegen seiner Homophobie bei Mozilla rausgeflogen ist. Brave ist ewww

2026-03-09 13:42:14 UTC

"AI" skills are basically just documentation and it says something about how documentation only gets resources and respect if it is framed as "technology". Which has gender bias all over it.

2026-03-09 13:00:28 UTC

A few unsorted thoughts about how the "Claude" models differ from what for example OpenAI release. Basically: One is a religious text, the other tries to be more of a commercial product
https://tante.cc/2026/03/09/claude-magic/

2026-03-05 14:50:42 UTC

This case shows how Open Source will die. With anyone just being able to pipe existing code and tests through an LLM and claiming that to be "clean room" (which is hogwash) no licensing can protect your work from being accumulated and monetized by anyone. The commons are actively being shredded in front of our eyes.
https://github.com/chardet/chardet/pull/322

2026-03-05 10:02:07 UTC

Okay, my "Democracy instead of just “Open Source”" talk proposal for #rp26 was rejected. Maybe I'll find another home for it.
https://tante.cc/2026/01/19/republica-2026-talk-proposals/

2026-03-05 07:55:11 UTC

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@nprofile…drgj @nprofile…qxkq with code just adding comments wouldn't suffice.

2026-03-05 00:20:05 UTC

"People proudly saying how much the software they work on is “vibe coded” or “written by Claude” underlining how there is no pride in or responsibility for the work one not only put out but actually forces on people."
(Original title: Artisanal care)
https://tante.cc/2026/03/04/artisanal-care/

2026-03-04 16:18:46 UTC

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@nprofile…hzu2 I mean the new code is MIT so removing restrictions seemed to have been the whole point

2026-03-04 14:28:40 UTC

Yesterday I read an interview with the singer in a punk band who uses GenAI to help with writing his texts.
Punk. The whole point of punk was that if you know how to play 3 cords badly and have something to say just fucking go for it.

2026-03-04 13:47:52 UTC

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@nprofile…drgj @nprofile…qxkq if he changes something he gets copyright. Stuff directly out of the LLM is not copyrightable though

2026-03-04 12:55:08 UTC

Kept thinking about it so I tried to add to it in a quick article. It's about software and love. And Open source.
https://tante.cc/2026/03/04/artisanal-care/

2026-03-03 15:57:18 UTC

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@nprofile…jpgl what do they need editors for? They can just use "AI"

2026-03-03 12:28:04 UTC

Their makers also do not want you to be able to understand. It's about turning the means of understanding and sensemaking into externalized products to rent.

2026-03-03 11:16:26 UTC

The answer to problems in sociotechnical systems is not always "more software", "better software" or "open source software".
A lot of the time the best solution is _less software_ and sometimes even _no software_.

2026-03-03 11:02:50 UTC

Das ist diese Modernisierung, von der wir immer so viel hören.

2026-03-02 11:00:05 UTC

"we need to open our eyes to the fact that the current industry many of us work in, not only doesn’t care about their workers, it actively resents them. In their eyes, we have gone from being the people who made things possible, to an unnecessary burden on the bottom line.
They hate that we charge money for our labor, and see that money as something we are stealing from their pockets."
(Original title: How to grow strawberries)
https://buttondown.com/monteiro/archive/how-to-grow-strawberries/

2026-03-02 08:28:50 UTC

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@nprofile…fzun performance ain't great.

2026-02-28 13:05:57 UTC

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@nprofile…87tr when they released their "experiment" people asked what their plans were and it was all just cast aside: "Don't criticize us, we're just experimenting"
They got their podcast episode and moved on.
Which in general wouldn't matter. But it will teach 10k people that "decentralized social media doesn't work". And that's really tragic.

2026-02-27 09:50:24 UTC

Given how they can only be produced by exploitation of workers from the global majority no system including any of the big LLMs in their production can ever be called "fair".
"Fair LLMs" of the size required to do the tasks people want LLMs to do (badly) do not exist.

2026-02-26 15:24:42 UTC

"AI" does exist but it's a narrative/political movement of centralization and disempowerment.
But it's not tech and when talking about the stochastic systems popular these days the term shouldn't be used. It obscures way more than it helps and throws so many things together that one might want to look into in detail.
So if you are talking about "AI" is political project/narrative, go apeshit. Otherwise we probably should try to be more specific about what we mean and ask especially the "AI" boosters, what it is specifically they mean.
Side benefit: When you correctly call that fancy new "assistant" a stochastic word generator, a lot of the magic goes "poof".

2026-02-26 14:03:33 UTC

So oft wie mich Leute fragen, wäre es glaube ich eine gute Idee, wenn Bildungsorganisationen, die sich Sorgen über "KI" machen, einmal ausgearbeitete und auf den Bildungssektor optimierte kritische Betrachtung in Form von Video und Text und Material finanzieren/organisieren würden.
Alle haben dieselben Fragen, dieselben Probleme und Sorgen und niemand hat das Gefühl, irgendwo ne Anlaufstelle zu haben.
(Dasselbe gilt wahrscheinlich für Gewerkschaften und andere Domänen)

2026-02-26 10:21:55 UTC

At work we are part of a EU funded research project. These days it's actually expected to track your social media presence for "impact". So I have to listen to a 10 minute report by someone counting the amounts of likes some meaningless post got on instagram. This is a good investment of everyone's time and money.

2026-02-25 20:17:23 UTC

"Kyle Fish, who leads model welfare research at Anthropic"
Journalism is hard. How can you write that sentence without wanting to shoot yourself in the head 4 or 7 times.
Yeah sure. Your bucket of statistics needs a spa day. Dipshits.

2026-02-25 11:36:44 UTC

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@nprofile…v2v2 didn't OpenAI just do a shift like that?

2026-02-24 15:26:21 UTC

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@nprofile…a4js @nprofile…3m4w is ja auch nicht so, dass man Zeit mit den Kids verbringen wollte. Es ist ein Wert, der hochgehen muss um den eigenen eugenischen Zielen zu Folgen.

2026-02-24 14:15:36 UTC

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@nprofile…a4js er ist ja sogar Vater eines kleinen Kindes...

2026-02-24 10:42:29 UTC

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@nprofile…k9f7 it's not about "being worthy", it's about ensuring a level of reliability and security.
If anyone wants to code whatever for themselves that's one thing. But OpenClaw is just the latest, most extreme example of somewhat clueless people pushing massively dangerous code on the public.
We do have certain quality gates for people wanting to do medicine, practice law, build bridges. We have absolutely nothing for software. Maybe that no longer suffices

2026-02-24 09:59:19 UTC

Everyone loves not having to have a license to develop and release code but the argument for stronger controls on who gets to do surgery on the core infrastructures of our digital society is getting stronger by the day.

2026-02-24 09:55:27 UTC

Basically: If you run OpenClaw connected to any meaningful system you are not fit to design, program or run any kind of software. That disregard for security and quality should leave a black mark on you for many years.

2026-02-24 09:54:05 UTC

This is a great illustration about the state of the art in "AI": People with access to inconceivable resources running massively expensive, dangerous code on anyone's data (sometimes even their own) with no regards for basic security or quality standards and practices.
The discipline of software engineering has never been great at establishing and following those kinds of practices but "AI" has thrown us back decades. And we'll suffer the drop in software quality and security for a long time.

2026-02-24 06:40:41 UTC

"Briggs and his Goldman Sachs colleagues recently said that investment spending on AI made “basically zero” difference in U.S. economic growth last year."
As Robert Solow was saying ...
https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2026/02/23/ai-economic-growth-gdp-mirage/

2026-02-23 13:47:28 UTC

At least 70% of things I read about people doing with "AI" assistants like "Open Claw" are basically things people have been doing with deterministic, secure tools like Home Assistant for years.
Oh you can tell your bot to dim the lights via WhatsApp chat? Welcome to 2015!

2026-02-23 12:46:34 UTC

Als Grund werden explizit die Verteuerung von Komponenten durch "AI" angeführt. "AI" wird zunehmend ein Hyperobjekt, das man überall spürt und das einem auch alles ruiniert, wenn man sie nicht nutzt.

2026-02-23 10:29:49 UTC

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@nprofile…xsz4 Exakt. _Das_ erzeugt Handlungsfähigkeit.

2026-02-23 10:02:31 UTC

Ich war zu Gast bei Breitband vom DLF Kultur und wir sprachen (auch) über "Digitale Souveränität" und Open Source.
https://www.deutschlandfunkkultur.de/jugendschutz-in-social-media-die-plaene-der-plattform-discord-100.html
TL;DL: Ich halte das Thema "Digitale Souveränität" viel weniger für ein Shoppingthema (wo kaufe ich meine Software) denn eine Frage der Fähigkeiten einer Organisation, IT Systeme entlang ihrer Ziele und Bedüfrnisse aktiv zu gestalten. Open Source ist dazu eher notwendig denn hinreichend.

2026-02-23 09:14:32 UTC

"Menschen betrügen manchmal, deshalb darf man eine Maschine, die ziemlich verlässlich falsche Informationen verbreitet nicht deshalb kritisieren" ist ein ziemlicher Hot Take für eine *checks notes* Bundestagsabgeordnete.
Selbe Logik: "Menschen fahren manchmal zu schnell, daher dürfen Selbstfahrende Autos so schnell fahren, wie sie wollen." oder "Menschen machen manchmal den Grill an und erzeigen CO2, daher braucht eine automatisierte Produktionsstraße sich nicht an CO2 Limits zu halten".
Das ist eine Kapitulation. Die Aufgabe politischen Gestaltungswillens weil man an Technikdeterminismus glaubt.
Nicht ideal für die Obfrau des Ausschusses für u.a. Medien.

2026-02-23 08:09:49 UTC

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@nprofile…44dh interesting. Thank you for the summary!

2026-02-23 07:59:06 UTC

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@nprofile…44dh what does thins functionally do?

2026-02-22 18:44:44 UTC

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(Sparked by some of the comments to my recent article about Cory Doctorow telling me how my writing sucks and is unreadable because of grammar mistakes and typos.)

2026-02-22 18:42:16 UTC

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Like in German I am actually somewhat eloquent and texts I write don't look like a person with a head injury wrote them.

2026-02-22 18:38:39 UTC

Many of the people I do have online conversations with speak English as their first language. I kinda get by but you native speakers really underestimate how hard it is to express oneself in a foreign language. Concepts work differently, metaphors don't really translate, references you have used for decades don't make sense.

2026-02-22 15:50:55 UTC

Bayern hat sich idyllisch gemacht
https://tldr.nettime.org/system_nettime/media_attachments/files/116/115/074/064/422/966/original/89127e6d421cd860.jpg

2026-02-22 12:59:50 UTC

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@nprofile…lvjh Ich weiß nicht, was die kriegen (hörte aber auch, dass es nicht viel ist), aber Lobo verdient sein Geld ja mit Vorträgen für DAX Konzerne usw.

2026-02-22 12:34:10 UTC

Dear media writing about tech: Sam Altman shitting on "data centers in space" is not the story. Nobody thought that that narrative makes any sense.
You failed as reporters when you pretended it did just cause rich dude claimed it would be the future.

2026-02-22 12:11:50 UTC

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(Fun Fact: Sascha Lobo sitzt in deren Beirat https://www.iu.de/news/sascha-lobo-wird-beiratsmitglied-der-iu-internationalen-hochschule/ )

2026-02-22 12:09:42 UTC

Vor einigen Jahren habe ich mal einen Vortrag für Professor*innen der IU gegeben.
Heutzutage würde ich das definitiv nicht wieder machen, die IU scheint mehr eine Ausbeutungsmaschine insbesondere für indische Studierende zu sein.
(Original title: IU Internationale Hochschule: Die fragwürdigen Silicon‑Valley‑Methoden Deutschlands größter Hochschule)
https://www.spiegel.de/start/iu-internationale-hochschule-die-fragwuerdigen-silicon-valley-methoden-deutschlands-groesster-hochschule-a-bd3cb7c8-aa06-43d1-a0a0-6357cc18afd1#ref=rss

2026-02-21 20:09:38 UTC

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(I know there are niche attempts that work even worse than all the other models)

2026-02-21 20:08:40 UTC

Since the topic came up in the whole "I run models locally so it's all fine" conversation:
"Open Source AI" does not meaningfully exist. It's just openwashing proprietary shit
https://tante.cc/2024/10/16/does-open-source-ai-really-exist/

2026-02-21 12:20:05 UTC

"Capable LLMs require a logic of dominance and of disregarding consent of the people producing the artifacts that are the raw material for the system. LLMs are based on extraction, exploitation and subjugation. Their politics is violence. How does one “liberate” that? What’s the case for open source violence?"
(Original title: Acting ethically in an imperfect world)
https://tante.cc/2026/02/20/acting-ethical-in-an-imperfect-world/

2026-02-21 09:54:06 UTC

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@nprofile…ulnl pro view. Plattformen müssen das zahlen.

2026-02-21 09:41:50 UTC

Eine Steuer von einen Cent pro ausgespieltem Short-Form-Video (Instagram Reels, TikTok, YT Shorts) würde mehr für die Demokratie und die mentale Gesundheit der Jugendlichen (und Erwachsenen) tun als alles was gerade angedacht ist.

2026-02-20 22:34:09 UTC

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@nprofile…h2cr I live to serve

2026-02-20 21:39:54 UTC

Follow up to the article from this morning. In which I argue how @nprofile…ugpy was right in his article: https://tante.cc/2026/02/20/on-alliances/

2026-02-20 15:36:16 UTC

Yeah I did that now my mentions are intense

2026-02-20 12:07:47 UTC

It's true but Club Mate is still the best

2026-02-20 11:08:06 UTC

Yesterday Cory Doctorow argued that refusal to use LLMs was mere "neoliberal purity culture". I think his argument is a strawman, doesn't align with his own actions and delegitimizes important political actions we need to make in order to build a better cyberphysical world.
https://tante.cc/2026/02/20/acting-ethical-in-an-imperfect-world/