die gute Nachricht: #Scobel ist wieder da: vom Kassenfernsehen gekippt, nunmehr privat(institut)finanziert. yay.
und der erste Beitrag im Kanal will nicht gefallen, sondern scheint notwendig. auch gut.
aber nun zu den eher bitteren Fakten:
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The French data protection authority has fined Google €325 million ($378 million) for violating cookie regulations and displaying ads between Gmail users' emails without their consent.
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Folgen der Klimakrise: Deutlich erhöhte Gefahr von Waldbränden in Europa
Ohne Klimawandel wären Waldbrände wie dieses Jahr in Spanien und Portugal nur alle 2.500 Jahre wahrscheinlich – mit sind sie es alle 13 Jahre.Nick Reimer (taz)
Bret Taylor’s Sierra raises $350M at a $10B valuation
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Customer service AI agent startup Sierra claims to have hundreds of customers including SoFi, Ramp and Brex, among others.Rebecca Szkutak (TechCrunch)
Oakoak’s Genius Art! (10 Photos)
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"Discover the imaginative world of Oakoak, where everyday urban elements are transformed into playful works of art. From a rusted fence turned into a dancing figure to Obelix carrying a crosswalk stripe as a menhir, Oakoak's creativity brings humor and charm to the streets.
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Creative by Oakoak (10 Photos)
Since 2006, OAKOAK has had streets, walls, sidewalks and roads as its playground. Originally from Saint Etienne, he sticks his drawings in each of the places he crosses in order to create a smile in the pedestrian at the bend of a street where he does not expect it.
His approach consists of diverting urban elements, playing with flaws that at first glance seem of no particular interest, such as cracks in a wall. He thus adds his own vision, his own references which often relate to the geek universe. A way of imagining the urban space in a more poetic way.From playful interactions with crosswalks to whimsical depictions of beloved cartoon characters like Homer Simpson and Obelix, Oakoak’s work brings a fresh perspective to the streets.
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Oakoak transforms a pedestrian crossing into a playful scene with Obelix carrying a menhir, blending urban infrastructure with comic creativity.
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Oakoak turns a natural crack in a concrete wall into a desert path for a caravan of camels.
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Gaston Lagaffe, painted by Oakoak, brings humor and life to the remains of a crumbling building.
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This crosswalk becomes a quirky playground in Oakoak’s hands, featuring cartoon faces and a 3D ghost.
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Oakoak uses a stop sign to highlight climate change with a polar bear stranded on melting ice.
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Oakoak transforms a bent metal fence into a joyful dancing figure.
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Marsupilami comes to life in Oakoak’s piece, swinging and peeking from an overgrown planter on a concrete wall.
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Oakoak incorporates a bent railing into a dynamic scene of Bruce Lee delivering a powerful kick.
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Oakoak humorously combines wisteria flowers with a painted Sideshow Bob.
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Homer Simpson hilariously interacts with real electrical wires.
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Hugo Motta diz que votação da anistia do 8 de janeiro ainda não tem data - Gazeta Brasil- Notícias do Brasil
O presidente da Câmara dos Deputados, Hugo Motta (Republicanos-PB), afirmou nesta quinta-feira (4) que não há definição sobre a votação da anistia dosGazeta Brasil
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Congress not planning vote to extend Trump’s 30-day D.C. police takeover
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Haushaltsausschuss einigt sich auf Etat für 2025
Die Ministerinnen und Minister mussten sich gestern stundenlang dem Haushaltsausschuss stellen. Eine besondere Bereinigungssitzung - denn sie dauerte nicht so lange wie sonst. Nun steht er aber endlich: der Haushalt für 2025.
They did nazi that coming.
Someone out there, doing god's work.
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Trump, parlerò con Putin, abbiamo un buon dialogo - Nord America - Ansa.it
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Trump, parlerò con Putin, abbiamo un buon dialogo - Nord America - Ansa.it
"Parlerò con Putin, abbiamo un buon dialogo". Lo ha detto Donald Trump rispondendo a chi gli chiedeva se dopo il colloquio telefonico con il presidente ucraino Volodymyr Zelensky avrebbe sentito Vladimir Putin. (ANSA). (ANSA)Agenzia ANSA
After lunch, the car's regular inspection.
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Chess.com: come un tool di file transfer ha esposto i dati di migliaia di utenti - (in)sicurezza digitale
Nel panorama dei servizi online, poche piattaforme possono vantare la stessa pervasività e fedeltà degli utenti di Chess.com. Con oltre 100 milioni diDario Fadda (inSicurezzaDigitale.com)
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Republican Gabriel Sterling, defender of 2020 Georgia election, runs for secretary of state
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🪖🎖🪖 Check out this massive, choreographed military parade in #China. Whole lot of ketchup on the White House walls these days, i'd imagine.
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Milan, Bennacer ad un passo dalla Dinamo Zagabria
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Milan, Bennacer ad un passo dalla Dinamo Zagabria
Il giocatore, ai margini con Allegri, è vicinissimo al club croato, della cui dirigenza fa parte Zvonimir Boban (legatissimo a Bennacer nei suoi anni rossoneri)Luca Bianchin (La Gazzetta dello Sport)
Trump 2 rename Defense Department
Restoring the name ‘Department of War’ will sharpen the focus of this Department on our national interest & signal to adversaries America’s readiness to wage war to secure its interests
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Help Luna, a 19 years old trans girl move out of her emotionally abusive and transphobic household, away from Florida where she currently resides. She's currently working part time but struggling between it and college.
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Help sable, a trans woman, move to Minneapolis with her partner, away from north dakota's anti-trans legislations and an increasingly hostile transphobic environment. She's been threatened and harrassed multiple times based on her trans identity. Donations will be used to move and get HRT.
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MY life is more important than a fetus'.
i don't know why we tiptoe around saying this explicitly when this is what we (the folks who believe in not being forced to be pregnant) mean.
anyway, that's what popped into my head when i read this.
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Texas Legislature Passes ‘Bounty Hunter’ Ban on Abortion Pills
House Bill 7 attacks one of the last remaining options for reproductive care in Texas and declares legal war on blue states.Mary Tuma (The Texas Observer)
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For the forty-eighth anniversary of Elsie Carlisle's death:
"When That Man Is Dead and Gone." Words and music by Irving Berlin (1941). Recorded in London on April 9, 1941 by Elsie Carlisle with orchestral accompaniment directed by Jay Wilbur. Rex 9960 mx. R-5566-1.
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"When That Man Is Dead and Gone" (Irving Berlin; 1941). Recorded in London on April 9, 1941 by Elsie Carlisle with orchestral accompaniment directed by Jay Wilbur.Alexandros Kozák (Elsie Carlisle)
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One of the best things about this place is that if you are dealing with something difficult, someone will immediately offer tangible, concrete help, in addition to compassion. This is, I think, what separates this social media from every other.
People here support each other in genuinely holistic ways: in each other's emotional, mental, physical, and spiritual health, and even in each other's interests. Frogs or photography, windows or waterfalls, trees or tech, it's all not only welcome, but often commonly shared. You can say "Look at this cool leaf!" and not only does no one make fun of you, but many ooh and ahh and agree.
We've had a few trolls and spammers of late, but we all work together to limit them.
So, give yourselves a pat on the back. You're doing something meaningful here.
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Scientists issue warning on 'unstoppable' phenomenon that could have global impact: 'Catastrophic consequences'
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"According to a recent study, a team of researchers has determined that the West Antarctic Ice Sheet is at an increased risk of completely collapsing due to continually high levels of atmospheric carbon dioxide. Even with progressive shifts in dirty fuel usage, realistic reductions in CO2 may still not be enough to prevent more abrupt changes."
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World’s biggest iceberg, A23a, has broken up
The A23a iceberg has been closely tracked by scientists ever since it calved from the Filchner-Ronne ice shelf in Antarctica in 1986.
By Lianne Kolirin and Issy Ronald, Sep 4, 2025
" 'The world’s largest iceberg is 'rapidly breaking up' into several large 'very large chunks,' scientists from the British Antarctic Survey (BAS) have said.
"Previously weighing nearly a trillion metric tonnes (1.1 trillion tons) and spanning an area of 3,672 square kilometers (1,418 square miles) — slightly bigger than Rhode Island — the A23a iceberg has been closely tracked by scientists ever since it calved from the Filchner-Ronne ice shelf in Antarctica in 1986. "
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Scientists looked deep beneath the #DoomsdayGlacier. What they found spells potential disaster for the planet
By Laura Paddison, September 20, 2024
"Scientists using ice-breaking ships and underwater robots have found the #ThwaitesGlacier in Antarctica is melting at an accelerating rate and could be on an irreversible path to collapse, spelling catastrophe for global sea level rise.
"Since 2018, a team of scientists forming the International Thwaites Glacier Collaboration, has been studying Thwaites — often dubbed the '#DoomsdayGlacier' — up close to better understand how and when it might collapse.
"Their findings, set out across a collection of studies, provide the clearest picture yet of this complex, ever-changing glacier. The outlook is 'grim,' the scientists said in a report published Thursday, revealing the key conclusions of their six years of research.
"They found rapid ice loss is set to speed up this century. Thwaites’ retreat has accelerated considerably over the past 30 years, said Rob Larter, a marine geophysicist at the British Antarctic Survey and part of the ITGC team. 'Our findings indicate it is set to retreat further and faster,' he said.
"The scientists project Thwaites and the Antarctic Ice Sheet could collapse within 200 years, which would have devastating consequences.
"Thwaites holds enough water to increase sea levels by more than 2 feet. But because it also acts like a cork, holding back the vast Antarctic ice sheet, its collapse could ultimately lead to around 10 feet of #SeaLevelRise, devastating coastal communities from Miami and London to Bangladesh and the Pacific Islands.
"Scientists have long known Florida-sized Thwaites was vulnerable, in part because of its geography. The land on which it sits slopes downwards, meaning as it melts, more ice is exposed to relatively warm ocean water."
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@Angle🖇 My complete and utter reject of this technology isn't born out of underestimating it. Even now in its "infancy" stage, it has been shown to wreck massive havoc on several intellectual disciplines for the benefit of ridiculously few people. I don't need more evidence from more mature applications.
You're talking about the terminator, but I'm just talking about LLMs/GenAI which is an outsized application of machine learning. And like I said, the benefits are felt by extremely few people while the downsides are felt globally. I expect this imbalance to be its undoing, no matter the validity of the few niche uses that do not only benefit mindbogglingly rich people.
To go back to asbestos, it doesn't matter if your building is cheaply fireproof if the people get cancer just by existing within its confines.
I will also note, it's not enough to just 'reject' the technology - you have to actually do something about it. Otherwise you're just going to find yourself getting shoved into a smaller and smaller corner. :/
Like, I really want to see people actually learning about the technology and how it works and what it's good for - but at a bare minimum, learning what other people are doing with it and how you can prevent them from fucking you over seems important...
You'll only get shoved into smaller and smaller corners if we, collectively, allow that. Gen AI is destroying industries and lives and does so entirely through theft for the benefit of a tiny, tiny minority of people.
"Just ignore it" is a viable tactic in some circumstances. Blockchain and NFT guys promised just as much revolution as the current AI bubble (cont)
but just like AI, those fads required enough people to sign on. And it didn't happen, and it faded.
AI isn't inevitable, unless we make it so. It's already starting to crumble as profits fail to appear, as lawsuits start catching up. The people pushing for it will find something else to try, undoubtedly.
And personally I think "trying to find the good uses" is just giving it legitimacy. Any good use will be corrupted by capital.
AI has a way, way lower bar, though. Like, you can generally tell if you're getting caught up in blockchain nonsense, whereas telling if a company is using AI is a lot harder. Yeah, a lot of it is really shit right now, but you shouldn't assume it's going to stay that way forever.
As for good uses, the first requirement is to cut capital out of the equation as much as possible. Ideally, you want AI developed by the people, for the people.
I mean, Ideally, I want no genAI at all. I don't see a use case that doesn't just waste time and resources.
What is the point of producing lots of text? What social purpose does that perform? IDK if its built "by the people" and "for the people" meaningless but grammatically correct text is just chaff.
And yeah Capital will keep trying I don't doubt that. They do it with child slavery too. Anything to make a profit.
And like child slavery you can't be like "well there might be a good use case!" (I'm not saying you're in any way in support of CS, just using an example). And when laws wont stop it it's up to us to deny it a part in our society.
And if we wont do that, then we get the bullshit.
I don't think individual rejection actually accomplishes that much, though.
Like, I use AI to help me write Minecraft mods - it's far from perfect, but it's still a 10-20% productivity boost, even in the current early prototype form that I have access too. And if I weren't telling people about, nobody would know. Even with me telling people about it, I think it's extremely unlikely that I face significant pressure over it - and that's just me! I'm a small player here. :/
@hypolite I get that. But the same argument could be used and is used to justify all sorts of bullshit.
Individual action doesn't mean anything, so why bother. One person shopping Walmart doesn't make the community store fail. But everyone believing that, does make it fail.
One person trying to win rights never works, so why try at all?
I'd personally be okay with 20% fewer minecraft mods, in exchange for a healthy society.
@hypolite But this isn't a warzone, not like that at least. In war, if you don't have a weapon, you're a victim. In society, we are only victims /if we let ourselves be/ (please don't take this out of context).
NFT bros wanted us to be victims, but we rejected that because that future sucks. We /do/ have the power to do that. Collectively. And enough individual people were like "fuck that" that it wasn't the future. The same can be true of AI.
@hypolite But I think the biggest problem is getting that across. Getting people to think in terms of societal cost-benefit.
Sure, meat is delicious. Am I okay with eating meat, if it means wasting 54% of calories grown in the USA?
Sure, Walmart is cheap. Am I okay with having more things if it means my town and economy is destroyed?
Sure, AI is convenient. Am I okay with more websites and movies if it means the destruction of professionals?
@hypolite Sure, in which case, we're fucked. Cuz Capital will /always/ be able to out-spend, out-propoganda, out-/anything/ us. Capital are experts at making us complacent.
I'd posit that the lack of education and leftist outreach during the rise of those industries lead to their current monopolies. And I'd rather try for a better future than give up and give more power to the weapons that oppress us.
@hypolite To circle back to my original point: the people rejecting AI aren't your enemy nor are they the antithesis for keeping society safe from the AI crisis.
Just like vegans aren't the enemy when fighting wasteful land use policies.
I stand by that AI, currently, isn't inevitable so rejection might be by itself valid. It might need more active work than NFTs did, but it's possible it can be nipped in the bud.
@Angle🖇 @KolaMagpie I believe we disagree on capabilities. I believe GenAI is capable of mesmerizing an entire generations of humans into believing a human-shaped parrot serves them using a language they are familiar with.
On the other hand I don't think GenAI is capable or will ever be capable of writing or drawing masterpieces, generating production-ready code for complex real-world applications, or make any progress in research and development. I believe its widespread adoption would lead to an overall stagnation of the artistic, scientific and technologic production, while decreasing humans' very ability to learn and make stuff ourselves.
The capability that is currently being developed is fooling the training staff that it's reaching its arbitrary metrics goals. Machine Learning has always been able to do that, and the introduction of natural language only reinforces this because as humans, we strongly associate language with intelligence.
But even this is showing its limits. To "increase productivity", training staff is now running the output of a model by another GenAI model to check for "quality". Predictably, the trained model has started optimizing for this very task and outputs very well-formed nonsense that the other model is applauding as the pinnacle of literacy: futurism.com/gpt-5-literary-ou…
@hypolite Tell people about it! Be a society about it. Target's imploding cuz people stopped wanting to go there because they made anti-societal decisions.
Unionize. Organize. We are not helpless.
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1. I like to write code.
2. I don't like to read code someone else wrote.
3. I'm not confident I would be able to measure productivity change with GenAI. Studies show that people who believe they are more productive with AI actually aren't. Because that's what GenAI is good at and optimized for, giving the change about its actual limited capabilities.
4. I don't know what code it's been trained on, if their authors are aware and consenting to their work being used this way.
@Angle🖇 @upbeat estimation software Again, I have to reject the analogy. GenAI is (only?) good at making people believe it is competent, regardless of their actual competency. What kind of people do you think wants to wield such "weapon"? What kind of people do you think are the prime targets?
Using local models isn't fighting back against megacorps (I assume the Russians in your military analogy), it's potentially a softer self-subjugation with a much smaller energy footprint. Which is still a plus in my book.
@hypolite @amsomniac ...I'm sorry, but you're just fucking delusional on this. You're noticing a handful of obvious failures and insisting that's all there is, because that's what you want to believe. Here's a video examining the effects:
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TLDR: AI absolutely can be useful if you use it right, and it already *is* transforming our economies in big ways. We will need to figure out how to grapple with it, and ignoring it won't get you anywhere.
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@Angle🖇 @upbeat estimation software Nope, I did my due diligence, I learned how the tech work, what it is capable of and mostly not capable of, I've been impressed with some of the output (mainly the generated video) but I don't want any part of it.
There's no valid strategy for me that involves actually using the stuff in any form. Just like drugs, you don't have to try them to know how they work and how harmful they can be. I don't judge too harshly people who casually use chat bots or GenAI because they are designed to be enticing and I know there are valid niche use cases, but I won't get near it myself.
I make sure to make my point known when the topic comes up, and that's pretty much all I can do. Like I said, it might reduce my opportunities, but I prefer the idea of finding my people in the corner rather than submitting to this humankind-sucking trend. Either it will come to pass and things will keep on for me practically unchanged, or it will reign and I don't want to have any part of it.
@hypolite @amsomniac ...I mean, I took my dexmethylphenidate this morning. 5 MG, extended release. Plus 100 MG caffiene. Helps me focus and get moving. :/
So, yeah, drugs can be useful, actually, if used correctly. Lots of finicky details, of course, and a lot of people probably shouldn't try and use them, but they're far from useless. A good parallel to AI, honestly. XD
@Angle🖇 @upbeat estimation software Still not. Medicine (which I separate from drugs even if there's a single word for both 😖) has to undergo extensive clinical trials before being put on the market which AI currently isn't bound to.
Would you use a new bootleg drug its manufacturer says it will cure all your ills if only you trust them, although they didn't go through any serious trials? This is what LLMs feel to me at the moment. I don't doubt it has useful applications, LLMs existed before chat bots and was pretty useful as a first pass for translation for example. I've happily used DeepL for years, for example.
But I don't want to have to talk to machines, it just isn't the most efficient way of interacting with them and it tricks people into awkward situations where they trust the machine based on the presentation of the output rather than the output accuracy itself.
@hypolite @amsomniac Drugs are just medicine used wrong. I could walk outside and start selling the same pills I use, straight from the pill bottle, and bam, I'd be a drug dealer. Not something I want, but it's a thin line. :/
Of course, for some chemicals, there an argument to be made that there is no good use for them - but that doesn't mean we can dismiss all chemicals. -_-
And I'm kinda iffy about talking to machines too? I use them in Cline, a Codium plugin, mainly, where I can pretty much just give them a few sentences, shove some files at them, and have them figure out the rest. Summarizing error logs or code, suggesting what might be the cause of problems I encounter, that sort of thing.
@hypolite @amsomniac Like, the early industrial revolution analogy really works, IMO. You're in the position of a worker seeing the new machines and going 'These things are terrible! They do bad work, they cost too much, they're trying to take my job, I saw one grind a small child into paste right in front of me! I hate them!"
It's a fair viewpoint. From the perspective of the worker, those things are all true - his mistake is in thinking that they're universal and will never change.
@Angle🖇 @upbeat estimation software I understand the appeal of the Industrial Revolution analogy, but I'm weary of it. On one hand, we know the exact way it went down for industrial machines. They became more precise and safer to use for workers, and then they got relocated to developing countries to save even more on labor. But they were things that needed to be engineered and built by people who built the skills to make them more precise and accurate with safety features.
On the GenAI/LLM front however, we're building global black boxes that aren't engineered for accuracy but for human likeness. No industrial machine engineer was ever convinced their design was their friend and deserved personhood rights.
Since they are global, we all have a personal choice whether to use them or not, unlike industrial machinery that had an expensive upfront cost for business owners only.
Since they are black boxes, we have no reliably way of increasing the precision of the models or measuring the accuracy of their output, and that isn't even an optimization goal for the three main players in the space.
And then for safety, using local models sounds better but they are purposefully mesmerizing machines made to exploit human instincts, so it is only marginally safer.
@Angle🖇 @Nick As for what to do about it:
- friends don't let friends use LLMs as a baseline.
- Criticizing the systemic harm while not letting the few niche valid use cases weaken the larger point.
- Shedding the assumption it's there to stay. Rejecting the false marketing promises in favor of real, current harm.
The tech already is unpopular after just a few years of mass deployment, so the only thing currently sustaining it is the massive sunk costs by the handful of companies who poured everything they had into an intangible moon shot.
@Angle🖇 I understand what you are trying to get at with the warzone analogy, but I don't think it reaches the mark. Mainly because the current crop of AI directly exploits human weaknesses: our tendency to look for humanity anywhere and our longing for convenience in all things. This means the only people wielding it as a weapon are the megacorps. Individuals running homegrown models aren't "fighting back", they just contribute slop at a much smaller scale.
This also means to me that the only way to defeat the megacorps is to reject their premise entirely. No, GenAI isn't an inexorable future, no, I do not want any of its output in any of my workflows, and yes, I prefer humans writing text, drawing images or coding slower and more deliberately. For me, running local models is already giving them the benefit of the doubt, which is more than I want to do.
To take your analogy literally, not everybody in a warzone takes up arms. You still need plenty of civilian support, and that's what I feel closer to than direct combat if it even meant something in the GenAI paradigm, which I don't think it does.
@Angle🖇 Ah wait, I found a case where you can somehow fight fire with fire: theregister.com/2025/09/03/ai_…
But for me my main policy would rather be to avoid companies using AI at all. I know this limits my opportunities and I'm not impatient for my possible layoff which will throw me into the IT job search meat grinder, but I'd still favor direct approaches at tech event and mixers rather than looking to automate job search using AI. I'm hoping that I would find my people by doing the legwork and standing firm on my principles, but I'm not eager to see them tested in real life.
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