Not arguing against trying to stop this as much as possible but I also recommend assuming your website will be scraped by bots and taking advantage of that to poison all the AI models you can. Feed in nonsense to the robots in places on your website that aren’t public facing to humans on your website, have 5% of your content be blatant nonsense that asserts obviously untrue statements confidently but in a way that doesn’t disguise the clear intent of purposeful absurdity to human viewers.

See it as an opportunity not a vulnerability. Text is cheap, it doesn’t even really take up storage space on your website so why not?

Be the change you want to see, from everything I have read it takes a shockingly small amount of “poisoned” information to undermine AI models, especially if multiple different non-consenting inputs to an AI model are participating in this strategy the impacts will grow exponentially as problem bits of data mix and mingle and become impossible to fully extract from bulk datasets scraped from the internet.

These conclusions must be hard science because we used math and numbers!

The muscle memory is hard to fix

Also this is software, we should celebrate and embrace the fact that the same tool can be customized to look and be organized differently to maximally ease users into learning it. This is one of the super powers of software!

Just one small teeny-tiny request. The greatest gift you can give the Fediverse (Original: Lemmy.zip and Piefed.zip) isn’t money, praise, or interpretive dance (although we would absolutely accept the last one). Its participation.

Participation awards are given out here, this is just that kind of degenerate place where that kind of stuff happens. I have seen the underground storehouses filled with participation trophies made of solid platinum and gold under some of the larger instances, it is staggering. We are the deplorably thanked for participating, witness us in our moral decay.

Move fast, break things, pay fines, *make even your own family despise you for being a prick

fyi you didn’t link the url in the post you only pasted it in the body!

The real horror is the trend. Between 2009 and 2023, pedestrian deaths rose a staggering 80%, while all other traffic fatalities increased just 13%. In a decade-plus span, pedestrians have been dying at a rate nearly seven times faster than population growth. This isn’t random. It’s the intentional outcome of systems designed to prioritize vehicles over people.

Shameful and pathetic, what a material abandonment of the social contract.

Good point!

Fuck ICE

The secure scuttlebutt protocol is definitely real.

This might be the origin of a good chunk of the actually good information on the internet.

Code can absolutely be intimidating and a creative block but on the otherhand a 440hz oscillator in Supercollider can be triggered with

SinOsc.ar(440, 0.6);

I think some kind of “pod” system would be nice where similar posts/crossposts could be visually grouped together like a “pod” of dolphins all surfacing on your feed together in a natural flowing way (randomly assigned color coding maybe?). Seeing one dolphin surface after another should feel like cohesive movement of a pod and any one post should link towards other dolphins in the pod not currently visible too.

You could then as a user “pod” a post by linking it with another post and the resulting feed of newly “podded” posts could itself be a browsable “pod feed”.

Obviously a different word than pod may be better, but I like the whale pod metaphor.

Honestly keep using Reaper at least occasionally, it is the most no-nonsense professional software I have ever used and it works great on Linux. Cockos deserves your money and it is an industry leading tool!

Otherwise I would recommend LLMS.

For a leftfield option check out Supercollider!

https://supercollider.github.io/

https://doc.sccode.org/Help.html

Supercollider is an elegant extremely mature open source audio programming language, it is a programming language true but it comes with a nice IDE and there are MANY plugins with GUIs that you can download and try, the point isn’t really to code so much as put all the tools of a DAW straight into your hands.

Great article! Honestly I believe one of the aspects of the collapse we are undergoing is an attempted reduction of neurodivergence in humanity. The same process that is causing a loss of biodiversity and the loss of diversity in human languages in general I think is also violently selecting against neurodiversity in humans.

Of course you can’t quite stop all the neurodiverse kids being born yet (genetics is trying to get us there as fast as possible though!), but you can make their life living hell and force them to mask so much they become lost in layers of masking and trauma.

The thing is, ADHD is unintentionally one of the most political disabilities as it smashes the cornerstone of expressed willpower being the basis for judgement in most societies and leaves systems of selection rudderless without the sharp distinctions expressed willpower falsely hallucinates and accentuates. Further one of the major way social safety nets and the shared collective wealth of societies have been hollowed out is by offloading immense amounts of Executive Function requirements to people navigating systems and then aggressively pretending Executive Function isn’t a limited, exhaustible capacity.

People have had their basic understanding of focus lobotomized by tech narratives (the concept of “attention span” abstracted from context is meaningless for one) and we now collectively pretend it isn’t an act of labor to focus and use Executive Function. This forces ADHD squarely into a broader discussion of collapse and enshittification.

You willing to bet a city on that?

Sure, but what if you guranteed your customers through loosely organized collusion and endless consolidation/buyouts that there is no other practical place to buy ram?

Why would companies lower their prices after consumers have been forced to get used to them?

*when

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