AI fanatics are concerned about a singularity but the risk at the moment is if a relatively dumb AI is put into a large weaponised drone swarm with a killing YOLO mode switched on
AI is not just developed in the US but is American to its very soul 🇺🇸
🗣️ Confident and often incorrect
👨💼 Wants to dominate every industry
😵 Misanthropic ambitions for everyone who is not a billionaire
💰 Involves huge amounts of cash
🏭 Screwing the environment
💥 Involves itself in war for profit
Are there any activitypub implementations which encrypt the contents of messages and only allow federated instances a key to decrypt it or a similar privacy mechanism?
Last night I went to bed feeling like I was going to die, slept like the dead and woke up feeling like I'd been raised from the dead. Did I die?
Seeing the recent wave of AI slop I can say, as someone with dyspraxia and minimal artistic talent, that skill being a natural gatekeeper for expression was actually a good thing
During the industrial era in Manchester, mill workers would not work hours according to a standard clock but would instead work "mill time" where the clock would slow if the water powering the factory did, so workers had to stay to make up for lost production even though this was out of their hands. They built special two faced clocks for this purpose #labour #labor #history
RE: @greenpeace@mastodon.social
These should be called the climate breakdown fires of 2026. The year will become an important differentiator down the line... #green #climate #wildfires
