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(December's finally arrived, and the run-up to Christmas has begun. Credit and/or blame to David Gerard for starting this.)

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[–] gerikson@awful.systems 10 points 1 week ago (5 children)

2 links from my feeds with crossover here

Lawyers, Guns and Money: The Data Center Backlash

Techdirt: Radicalized Anti-AI Activist Should Be A Wake Up Call For Doomer Rhetoric

Unfortunately Techdirt's Mike Masnick is a signatory some bullshit GenAI-collaborationist manifesto called The Resonant Computing Manifesto, along with other suspects like Anil Dash. Like so many other technolibertarian manifestos, it naturally declines to say how their wonderful vision would be economically feasible in a world without meaningful brakes on the very tech giants they profess to oppose.

[–] dgerard@awful.systems 8 points 1 week ago (1 children)

i am pretty sure i am shredding the Resonant Computing Manifesto for Monday

and of course Anil Dash signed it

[–] blakestacey@awful.systems 6 points 1 week ago (2 children)

The people who build these products aren't bad or evil.

No, I'm pretty sure that a lot of them just are bad and evil.

With the emergence of artificial intelligence, we stand at a crossroads. This technology holds genuine promise.

[citation needed]

[to a source that's not laundered slop, ya dingbats]

[–] fullsquare@awful.systems 3 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

i don't know if they are unusually evil, but they sure are greedy

[–] Soyweiser@awful.systems 2 points 1 week ago

to a source that’s not laundered slop, ya dingbats

Ha thats easy. Read Singularity Sky by Charles Stross see all the wonders the festival brings.

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