CIRCLE WITH A DOT

@dbattistella
/cc vulture lover @ianrosewrites

Probably showing that Benn Jordan hit an industry nerve with publishing that video, an #EffectiveAltruist went on the attack:

"THE ALTRUISTS HAVE ARRIVED" — Benn Jordan
https://www.bennjordan.com/blog/the-altruists-have-arrived

#Datacenters #Infrasound #NoisePollution #BennJordan #EffectiveAltruism

RE: https://mastodon.social/@404mediaco/116483645020178045

Datacenters produce more infrasound than wind turbines and are deleterious to health of nearby human residents and fauna.

"Datacenters Behaving Like Acoustic Weapons" — Benn Jordan
video thumbnail: DATACENTERS ARE MAKING PEOPLE SICK
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_bP80DEAbuo

[It would be nice if the @404mediaco article included datacenters when enumerating a list of infrasound sources, especially since they listed wind farms whose harms have been overblown by the far-right. EDIT: I think it's a good article though.]

#Infrasound #Datacenters #NoisePollution #BennJordan

@jmcrookston
Coming months. I took that to mean he wasn't ready to share. Maybe a misinterpretation on my part.

@nkanaev it's in the article

@kyonshi @jwildeboer samesies

@gryphonmyers

a Mastodon rep disavowed the Jenson comments

That's good to hear. Do you happen to have a source so I can keep track?

@wronglang
Black & white fluffy doggo resting on a couch. They look tired and are staring straight ahead looking zoned out.
#AltText

@xgranade

"…we announced that Haidra has joined Nivenly as a member project."
"our decision is to follow the sentiment of the membership in the vote and not accept Haidra as a Nivenly project."
https://nivenly.org/blog/2024/04/15/haidra-decision/

[I'm having difficulty finding sources of criticism of Haidra facilitating CSAM. It can be inferred from Haidra's own blog post having rushed (my opinion) CSAM detection and somewhat inferred from the Nivenly community vote to unsupport it.]

Scott Jenson pro-AI (while denying that characterization), appropriating Black experiences, and other problematic things 🧵
https://social.coop/@scottjenson/116352522288234148

That isn't a source for every claim in my first reply, but I'll stop for now.

@xgranade
Nivenly became suspicious to me for supporting (funding?) an image genAI OSS project that became notorious for being used to generate CSAM. They eventually dropped it, but not before trying to double down on supporting it.

"We will build a reference implementation of a Automated Content Detection service, again as a new Fediverse Auxiliary Service Provider with an open protocol"
https://blog.joinmastodon.org/2026/04/sovereign-tech-agency-funding/

"As a Data Provider annotating … with Labels enables both machines and humans to better understand the information being presented. For instance, a Data Consumer may choose to automatically apply recommendations with one label, …"
https://fires.fedimod.org/concepts/labels.html

"The writing of the proposal initially outlining FediMod FIRES was funded by Nivenly Foundation"
https://fires.fedimod.org/

"AI Horde has also been…making sure that our public resources on generative AI images do not facilitate the creation of CSAM…In this case we’ve had to put weeks of work…"
https://nivenly.org/blog/2023/08/14/a-deeper-dive-into-haidra/

@xgranade
> I don't have an {Instagram, Bluesky, whatever} account because of AI

Connecting a few dots, I think some folks are attempting to slip AI into the backbone of the Fediverse:

- Scott Jenson, on Mastodon GmbH payroll, arguing for AI tolerance on Fedi

- Mastadon GmbH winning grant money to fund centralized denylists and centralized content labelling

- Nivenly being involved in the FIRES specification, FIRES being the spec Mastodon GmbH stated they are following

- Around the time Nivenly tried to make TBS the central denylist, folks (not sure if associated with Nivenly or not) were openly saying that human driven moderation was ultimately futile and that AI moderation was needed

- Talk of using "automation" (didn't say AI, but I'm pretty sure it's code for AI) for content labelling

Veering on conspiracy theory maybe. I don't think I'm far off. A bit more quiet and with coded language this time. Except from Jenson who's trying to normalize AI on Mastodon / Fedi.

I'm dubious.

@wizarro
Future narrator: they made the same mistake twice.
@scalzi

A more in depth discussion of the conflation of authority and force, among other conflated concepts:

How Anarchy Works
6:05 Dissecting Authority

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lrTzjaXskUU&t=365s

@ireneista @futurebird

@ireneista
This thread reminds me of something Andrewism said recently. Paraphrased: anarchists in still use force, though not for enforcing authority nor for creating hierarchies.

Do We Need Leaders
2:54 first mention of force
11:32 second mention

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AYVWbj8naBM&t=174s

UPDATE: found it.
Let me see if I can find the source. I binged his videos so they are blending together in my head.
@futurebird

@integerpoet yes.

@L1vY@mstdn.social I feel like gerrymandering is going to come back to bite us and like we gotta use every tool available to fight off the far-right.

@CJPaloma @iwein @mistakenotmy
It's a poorly formulated reply that makes you seem like an AI apologist to me. Especially this part:

> The problem only arises when idiots claim a tool can do anything one can dream of. Blame the idiots, not the tools.

Tools & technology have politics. They aren't neutral. AI in particular, regardless of its capability or who wields it, has the politics of surveillance & oppression, environmental pollution & exploitation, labor disruption, and more.

I doubt this is the first time you've seen it characterized as such on the fediverse. So it also reads to me like you're turning a blind eye to those criticisms, many times expressed more eloquently than me.

If you are opposed to AI (genAI and LLMs), consider that you aren't coming off that way currently.

@webhat
Yeah. That works nicely.

I wish there was a "private note" feature for servers so I could remind myself why I blocked a domain.
#Mastodon

@ravenonthill
"We should improve society somewhat."
https://thenib.com/mister-gotcha/
@cstross