I think we should shed the idea that AI is a technological artifact with political features and recognize it as a political artifact through and through. AI is an ideological project to shift authority and autonomy away from individuals, towards centralized structures of power. Projects that claim to “democratize” AI routinely conflate “democratization” with “commodification”. Even open-source AI projects often borrow from libertarian ideologies to help manufacture little fiefdoms.

Ali Alkhatib

@futurebird

Peter Thiel continuing to have wealth and social power, apparently.

@tokyo_0@mas.to @liquidparasyte@app.wafrn.net

The problem is i have a limited space. And i like using jellyfin out of home

Im only downloading movies that I own btw as a backup

@fesshole "might"

Good morning to readers; #Kyiv remains in #Ukrainian hands.

#Russia is trying everything to influence public opinion in the U.S. ahead of the upcoming midterm elections. Yuliia Dukach explains how the latest in #AI technology helps the #Kremlin do just that.

https://www.counteroffensive.news/p/how-russia-uses-ai-to-meddle-in-midterm

@TheBreadmonkey um. wow.

@Kingu
Les mêmes que nos "patriotes" qui vont chercher leur financement chez Poutine. 😡

Running to the bank to pull out all my cash while stumbling because I'm tryna pull on the stripey thighhighs, I shout to someone running beside me WHAT'S ACTUALLY GOING ON and they shout back something about a goose not being valued

@ilja@ilja.space PS audio cds have two different files on them

CDDA and CDDB

cd-digital audio and cd database
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compact_Disc_Digital_Audio
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CDDB

90s kid, woohoo!

@fak you look awesome!

Why don't we meet in the middle and call it superficial intelligence

@liquidparasyte Piracy would be terrible. I think a lot of people who understand that piracy is terrible think it would be more terrible if it was from a web source rather than physical media, because the web source captures the data directly with less risk of errors. @gabboman

Fedi loves to do this thing where everyone reacts to a thing with wails or lols or wow did you see what just happened but nobody actually mentions WHAT EXACTLY we're gawking at

It's like when you see a big crowd gathering about something but you can't see what it is so you kinda amble over with everybody else and then you're part of the big crowd and somebody passes you a pair of stripey socks and a twenty-year-old linux laptop and asks where your fursuit is

#BrokenPost is jealous of the #BrokenTimes intimate relationship with the Pitchbot. Who wrote this? Some guy from the right-wing American Enterprise Institute.

Also, is there any centralized forum that is more active than the Threadiverse (Lemmy/Piefed/Pylova/Mbin)?

It looks like there are on the order of maybe 20-30k total monthly active users of the threadiverse, though I had to cobble this together from a few sources, so if you have any solid numbers I’d love to see them.

As much drama as there is/was, the Something Awful Forums are a Web 1.0 old school centralized forum which has been around for over a quarter of a century and is still going. At their peak they had hundreds of thousands of users.

@mntmn My wife giggles at the background as somebody describes my desk as 'clean'. :)

Le gouvernement pro séparation dy Québec nomine comme haute fonctionaire une Maga pro-51ieme état.

Allez comprendre...

New-to-me Thinkpad getting Ubuntu Studio'd!

I'm excited to have a powerful laptop again. It's been a while. I'll be able to use it for basement streaming, and when I inevitably want to use a computer for live music making again in the future, it will be there for me.

Long live owning your own hardware.

#Linux

@sqhistorian The nice thing about the trash is it so often takes itself out