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a girl that stores data on spinning hard drives (she spins the hard drives on her fingers)

@iamada More math needed: what's the bus fare to get to all of these stops? In what order should you visit these stops? Probably best to visit each stop only once, hmm. Let's call this problem TSP (Trans Sticker Problem).

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Passengers/cargo travel on shuttles from planet to planet now.

I want to release a first prototype for play-testing at the end of the week to get some feedback if this is going anywhere fun.

#gamedev #bevy #rust

@Unixbigot so like... ice breakers?

@skeletor oh no... Prith!

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We have translated our website to English! ✨

📜 You can read our manifesto here: https://critical-switch.org/en/about/

💾 And the workshops we can offer to collectives:
https://critical-switch.org/en/posts/workshops/

#permacomputing #lowtech

@lynn where even are the emoji. How can you know your build succeeded without a big 🎉? How do you know things are in progress without a ⏳⌛ (ideally animated)? Where is the 🤖 AI assistant chatting with you???

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I don't want to "talk" to my browser. I don't want my browser to "summarize" things. I don't want my browser to "help" me with things. I don't want my browser to do anything except show me web pages and shut the fuck up and get out of the way.

@lynn @theresnotime average French pharmacy sign:
https://youtu.be/Ea7pn92W-Kg

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"Trapping AI" – New Update! 🌀

Web crawlers play a central role in the escalating race to develop ever-more powerful AI models: they tirelessly scour the web, harvesting vast quantities of content to feed large language models. Babble (https://git.jsbarretto.com/zesterer/babble), originally developed by @jsbarretto, is a tool that lures these crawlers into an endless labyrinth—feeding their insatiable hunger for data with masses of pointless content.

To deliberately drain the resources of exploitative crawlers—and push AI models further toward collapse—we’ve deployed Babble, initially enhancing it through subtle, targeted modifications that align its functionality tightly with our strategic and operational priorities.

Babble dynamically generates an unending stream of deterministic bollocks, trapping crawlers on a single site where they endlessly navigate an ever-growing sea of pages 🌊—each filled with vast amounts of useless text and dozens of links that draw them ever deeper into the tarpit 🔁.

In the coming period, we’ll continue to develop and escalate this tactic—adding new layers of complexity and increasing both the intensity and offensiveness of the approach. At the next stage, we’ll openly share our code—allowing others to deploy, adapt, and build upon it.

See it in action: https://content.asrg.site/

P.S. If you're looking for similar tools and frameworks to deploy or explore further, check out our list titled "Sabot in the Age of AI"—a record of strategically offensive methods and purposefully orchestrated tactics for facilitating (algorithmic) sabotage, framework disruption, and intentional poisoning.

Explore it here: https://algorithmic-sabotage.github.io/asrg/posts/sabot-in-the-age-of-ai/

A screenshot showing a page generated by Babble, filled with a ton of useless text and dozens of links that drag crawlers ever deeper into the tarpit.

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"ai"-generated profile pictures are disgusting, please stop putting that fucking garbage in front of people

@victorgijsbers Title was interesting, but the speaker isn't good? Waiting for the next talk in the same block? Waiting for the Q&A because they are already familiar with the work?

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