i've heard a few times that "waymos will make streets safer" so i went and looked up sf's traffic fatality statistics and they're pretty much identical
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My website is getting _hammered_ by AI scraper bot networks. I had to upgrade my hosting plan twice last year, just to keep outages at a semi-acceptable level.
@juergen_hubert @tef You need a tarpit then. An endless generator of noise, rate limited, to keep the bots busy.
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@tef I'm interested in these stats. Can you point me at your sources?
@tef So this is *a* source: https://www.nhtsa.gov/file-downloads?p=nhtsa/downloads/FARS/
I don't know if it's what you are referencing.
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@juergen_hubert @tef You need a tarpit then. An endless generator of noise, rate limited, to keep the bots busy.
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@tef unfortunately, the original Big Web Dream began to die with the advent of mobile-first and social media. Now its death is only accelerating. Read @timbl's book about that.
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i've heard a few times that "waymos will make streets safer" so i went and looked up sf's traffic fatality statistics and they're pretty much identical
i mean, there is a slight increase over the last two years but there's sufficient variance to avoid suggesting a trend
as i understand it, waymos tend to take people off busses and other forms of transit, rather than out of their own cars
so i'm doubtful it will lower deaths on the road, just the number of busses
@tef I find it easy to imagine driverless taxis circling the city at random if someone works out that low-speed driving costs less per hour than paying for parking.
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we're destroying the open web
we're burning down the closest thing i've ever seen in my life to the library of alexandria
and people are explaining to me how warm it keeps their hands, and maybe, in the future, the ashes will contain the secrets of the universe
Same issue back then and today. In Alexandria, they collected the books and didn’t read them or learned anything. (Source: Seneca)
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"yes your problem is capitalism" yes
arguing about the technology in a vacuum is a debate club tactic, a way of denying the real consequences and moving the focus to imaginary benefits
i am not capable of putting on the pom poms and cheering for supply-side economic arguments that paper over the real world harms
i don't care if tests pass or if it works on your machine, i care how it acts in production
@tef there's a slippage between "technology" and "product" that is load-bearing for the AI companies.
LLM *technology* may be somewhat neutral, but LLM chatbot *products* are trained on unvetted and stolen data, with exploited labor, and crafted to protect the interests of their highly political owners.
I think they're intentionally obfuscating this distinction, and we shouldn't let them get away with it.
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@EndlessMason @tef "The origin point for nearly all of those 'you work harder than a medieval peasant' memes and articles is Juliet Schor’s The Overworked American (1993). The argument has been debunked quite a few times…" — https://acoup.blog/2025/09/05/collections-life-work-death-and-the-peasant-part-ivb-working-days/
@vfig bootsuck cop bitch mentality, get dogfucked
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it feels like a lot of the arguments i hear boil down to "what if none of the bad things were happening right now, and instead, good things happened instead"
and sure, if that were true, things would be good
but, well, all of the bad things are happening already and none of the good things are any closer to appearing
and i'm just not confident "wait and see if everything reverses course" is a sensible way to evaluate the impact of new technologies
@tef what if all the good things happen and the billionaires just don't exercise their unprecedented power over all the people earth and just let us have all the good things, thus reducing power! 🥺
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it feels like a lot of the arguments i hear boil down to "what if none of the bad things were happening right now, and instead, good things happened instead"
and sure, if that were true, things would be good
but, well, all of the bad things are happening already and none of the good things are any closer to appearing
and i'm just not confident "wait and see if everything reverses course" is a sensible way to evaluate the impact of new technologies
@tef it’s as if entire generations have been raised to be absolute rubes.
Sarah Vowell talked about sending her kids to sunday school, something about memetic inoculation IIRC.
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