CIRCLE WITH A DOT

@liztai This is pretty egregious defence of authoritarianism and erasure of China's horrible labour abuses and AI policies

I'll mute you shortly but I think anyone boosting you this needs to take a moment and think about the message here, and whether you're just viewing China as a magical land that has solved all of your problems, rather than a real place with real people

In China, the people's voice is actually heard and acted on.

how? what are the democratic feedback mechanisms in china? where are the journalists, lawyers, independent trade unions, etc.?

If you understand the way their politics work and the way their government is structured, it will not surprise you at all.

really? how is the government structured? who are the most marginalized people in china, and how do they get a voice in the government?

In that society [America], only corporations and billionaires are heard.

well, I'm glad that in china corporations and billionaires' influence is small, then! (it's not)

And for anyone who actually wants real news from and about China, and not a weird projected illusion:

https://chinadigitaltimes.net
https://chinamediaproject.org
https://chinalaborwatch.org
https://lausancollective.com

@tezoatlipoca yes there is unfortunately 🫠

YIKES

Investigators following up on the complaint became concerned about a YouTube video showing how to search the Centurion Project database for names and personal information.

Investigators signed into the database to view the electoral list and discovered profiles for scores of voters. They then used a specialized software program that linked the database to the electoral list provided to the Republican Party of Alberta in June 2025.

RE: https://flipboard.com/@cbcnews/top-stories-01r3k2ttz/-/a-xF2veYIUQ4OwlcIVsEkNgw%3Aa%3A107108217-%2F0

oooooooof this is bad. separatists posted alberta elector database online

#canpoli #abpoli #alberta #canada

@kouhai @oilheap @ifin TY! I'm a little surprised by the extreme negative reactions to this TBH. From the perspective of being a Forgejo or other OSS maintainer it sucks to see this. But at the end of the day attackers don't care and aren't going to tell you in this way, or any way, that you have serious issues

RE: https://infosec.exchange/@jvoisin/116488420408417722

For @ifin folks, I started a discussion about this on the Discourse here: https://discourse.ifin.network/t/carrot-disclosure-forgejo/

My personal thought is that I appreciate, as a defender, knowing this information about a project having a systematic lack of security.

@gayint i love u guys so much

RE: https://mastodon.social/@caseynewton/116456942253634796

Opponents of AI are often depicted as naive and ignorant. We are depicted as having our heads buried in the sand, unwilling to accept the great capabilities of AI, or as insecure and afraid of AI's capabilities.

I would like to flip this narrative around: I think pro-AI technologists who only look at AI's "capabilities" are the naive ones.

This is because the AI industry and the people funding, producing, and pushing AI tools are not at all working on the level of capability - they are working on the level of AI as ideology. They are interested in AI as a tool to devalue labour, suppress wages, justify layoffs, and foster dependency on centralized tools controlled by a few companies. Technologists who only focus on "this code can be written good by this tool" are not even playing on the right level. Programmers talking about "wow! look at the code it can generate!" feel to me at this point like the 2-dimensional inhabitants of Flatland.

Perhaps this sounds conspiracy-minded to you, but the way in which AI is practically being deployed across industries is very stark evidence of this. The quoted employee monitoring at Meta, to gather data for using AI to devalue the work of white-collar workers, is just one example. AI mandates, token usage dashboards, performance reviews based on AI adoption, AI code acceptance metrics, and even the time and energy spent on building AI tools rather than things that would actually improve product quality - these are all in service of the same ideology.

The AI industry, and those who push AI tools are fundamentally uninterested in making your work better or leaving you in control of your work. They are telling you this directly through both words and actions. I think ignoring that is a stunning level of naïvete.

#noAI

@tendstofortytwo they did NOT miss with this one. direct hit

@tendstofortytwo yo i heard there's NINE PEOPLE thinking about it so like we legit may get another not-conversion-therapy-stan

every day the PP crosses the floor 22 minutes sketch becomes more uncomfortably close to reality

https://youtu.be/TvDb7BlUVtk

@tendstofortytwo what a YEAR it's been

@tendstofortytwo the one from last year when they were waiting forever for the minority/majority call...she was just like "it's been a week and a half but we're finallly ready (thank fucking god can i go on vacation now)"

@tendstofortytwo rosie barton well on track. i hope. she looks 20x more tired every election

@tendstofortytwo omg this is exactly my type of content thank you. i think we are the same type of nerd

also really drives home just how long peter mansbridge was there for lol

ok the CBC news decision desk riding call music kinda slaps

@cwebber Thanks! It's very good that it's hosted by an actual immigration lawyer practicing in Canada. There is a ton of misinformation and generally very poor understanding by most Americans (and honestly Canadians too) of our immigration system, and I think a lot of people are not really aware of paths that are open to them that may be easier (or even in general how the various visa, permanent residency, and citizenship paths work)

@cwebber Would you be able to share who is running the webinar? I ask because the likelihood of LGBTQ Americans being able to successfully use the asylum pathway to come to Canada is extremely low, and for a lot of people, there may be another temporary visa pathway or permanent residency pathway that's more suitable. I think it is important to not give people a false sense of hope, and to offer realistic pathways.

@SnoopJ LITERALLY my exact thoughts. sunset visitor TAKE MY MONEY

ok not all of them are wearing denim here and the denim isn't blue BUT this is such a western-themed stage that it's like...spiritually #BlueJeans

Mamamoo - Destiny (long korean title, 우린 결국 다시 만날 운명이었지, "in the end, we're destined to meet again")

https://youtu.be/i0bHc8k-FdM

#KPopMonday #KPop #Mamamoo #마마무

RE: https://infosec.exchange/@mttaggart/116371937587992264

I think the way I would put it is:

1) The point of the AI project is ideological; the goal is to reshape industries such that we are dependent on AI companies' products, and to destroy free and open knowledge such that we are dependent on these products for thought and reasoning. We see an injection of AI into cybersecurity, while simultaneously drawing money and resources away from (boring) efforts that would actually broadly improve cybersecurity.¹ We see an injection of AI into knowledge acquisition, while simultaneously polluting the landscape of the internet as a useful source of knowledge. Both are in service of the same ideological project, and working towards the same goal.

2) The touted usefulness of AI for programming and cybersecurity is directly funding the project to expand it everywhere else, where it is causing massive harms to civil society, individuals' mental health, and the information landscape. You or your company paying for these products is keeping investment money flowing and extending the runway, for AI companies to reach that point of "indispensability". There is no divorcing your cool shiny toy from the creation of AI deepfakes that destroy democracy, or the AI psychosis that destroys lives. This is because the AI companies are pursuing an ideological project that ultimately has nothing to do with improving people's work or their lives; the leaders of these companies have loudly and publicly said that very clearly. You are laundering the reputation of these companies and keeping them alive, when the only moral option is to destroy them.

I've said this elsewhere, but: Maybe you, who are reading this, is offended by this framing, because you use and enjoy the AI tools. But it's also likely that you, and many other technologists, take moral abdication almost as a point of pride, where the only thing that matters is "capability". In that case, I don't understand the defensive response. Why are you uncomfortable being described as the thing you're bragging to be?

#fuckAI

¹ The stark contrast: The breathless and brainless promotional posts about Glasswing came into my feed at the same time as the posts about the final gutting of CISA. https://www.securityweek.com/white-house-seeks-to-slash-cisa-funding-by-707-million/