‘Medium Hot’: The Age of #Slop · Steyerl challenges us to recognise the vast scale of AI’s ubiquity & also to realise its ‘artificial stupidity’. @hito

👉🏻 https://artreview.com/hito-steyerls-medium-hot-the-age-of-slop-artificial-intelligence-terry-nguyen-opinion/

more very important local news: a "non project related message": "I know Denver is holding firm, but this was another f-word altogether." https://www.westword.com/news/hacked-denver-traffic-boards-say-fuck-ice-to-drivers-24883486

This Queer Online Zine Can Only Be Read Via an Ancient Internet Protocol

https://www.404media.co/queer-online-zine-new-session-telnet/

#LAPD Face Search · A web app that allows users to search through over 9,000 LAPD officer headshots using facial recognition technology. @kcimc

👉🏻 https://fucklapd.com/

Four Construction Vehicles Burned at Data Center in Georgia

"At the end of March, some entered the construction site of the data center hypercampus east of Atlanta, Georgia and burned 4 construction vehicles. This was done to oppose data centers that quickly exhaust the limited water supply of the region. [..] This specific data center has aimed at facilitating AI connection for local companies. #AI not only use more water than other computer processes, but is quickly becoming a way for the state to increase its intrusion in our personal life. And more and more are used by police and state forces to monitor those who oppose them. The people who burned these machines do not believe that our thoughts and movements should be used for profit or incarceration."

⟶ https://dirtysouth.noblogs.org/post/2025/04/07/four-construction-vehicles-burned-at-data-center-in-georgia/

In a world where data is a resource in itself, creating more data and controlling that data is a path towards wealth and power. Generative AI is capable of easily and quickly constructing massive amounts of data, and as such it is the perfect tool for exactly this.

Research shows that increases in temperature correlate to increases in violence. With each 1ºC increase in temperature, the frequency of interpersonal violence (eg assault, murder, rape) increases by about 2.4%, and the likelihood of intergroup conflict (eg civil war, riots) increases by about 11.3%.

Global temperatures in 2024 were already 1.28ºC above NASA's 20th-century baseline (1951-1980). By 2100, global warming is projected to increase average temperatures by up to ~6 °C.

Further reading:
- https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S2352250X21000130
- https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/25992616/

#antifa, #nazis, #weimar #history, #WeimarRepublic

Would you like another prediction?

Generative AI as we know it is a bubble.

It’s unsustainable.

Relying on it now will result in very expensive work to undo that damage in years to come. And we’re going to live with the accuracy debt for decades.

We are going to have an enormous skills and critical thinking shortage in the very near future, once the layoffs have slowed, and organisations start to cave in under the weight of their own shortsightedness.

Consultancy demand will go through the roof for people who actually know what they’re doing, attracting large salaries, and many won’t be able to afford this, dooming them further. There will be some bittersweet justice in those being laid off picking up the big money.

Vendors will transition to alternative technologies while trying to convince us that the technology is improving and AGI is just around the corner. They’re selling you something they haven’t figured out yet, and you won’t be able to afford (or will likely be dead) when it does actually arrive.

Alternative technologies will continue to be researched, and progress will be made. But they’re not the same thing, don’t let them fool you.

Ikonischer Moment gestern in #BadFreienwalde, als eine Person mit dem Kochtopf einen der Nazis vertreibt. 😂

Soviel Respekt für alle, die daran beteiligt waren, und dann in Ruhe, so wie es geplant war, das Fest 'Bad Freienwalde ist bunt' gefeiert haben.

(Quelle: RBB)

"They were like some fringe group that nobody took seriously,” she says of how the tech billionaires who talked up AGI were viewed by those who worked in her field. “Everybody sort of laughed at them out of the room. But because of the money, the billions of dollars that were going into it, they started slowly taking over. Fast-forward to now, this conversation about superintelligence is basically mainstream.”

I watched a YouTube video of someone using Vibe coding to make a game with AI. 45 mins in and it was running but spewing out error after error. The presenter finally went in an fixed the errors by hand requiring a lot of time and knowledge. I watched the whole thing like someone staring at a traffic accident.

just checking in on the financial revolution that was meant to sidestep banks, tech giants, and the state

#crypto #cryptocurrency

My dear friend and comrade (don't tell her, I called her that) @alineblankertz gave a powerful keynote on this year's @berlinbuzzwords conference, moving from digital sovereignty to open source libertarianism to tech fascism in well-crafted 40 min.

I recommend watching the recording. It really is a good overview about what is happening right now. Also: I wish more people had the courage to take a stand in such a public and clear manner. If you have a stage, USE IT!

https://youtu.be/nbz66dUyLBs?si=bk5XxFwCDJcTv0ih

@FAccT unless the 'A' in FAccT is changing to 'Anti-fascist', your positioning is increasingly irrelevant under current conditions

#TaxTheRich #EatTheRich

It's good that bigger mainstreamer people such as John Oliver are also talking about the "AI slop" era and phenomenon. I do think he was a bit too charitable though.

AI slop is not just bad visuals, it's the esthetic of modern fascism.

https://youtu.be/TWpg1RmzAbc?si=IJOnB4s38GiLFFkB

Iran: “Women, Life, Freedom” against the War

https://crimethinc.com/Iran2025

This statement by Iranian, Kurdish, and Afghani internationalist feminists argues that we must oppose the US and Israeli military assault on Iran while also refusing to endorse the repressive Iranian government.

Genocidal imperialist projects will never liberate us, nor will patriarchal nationalist regimes protect us.

"You can tell what happened — Google promised iNaturalist free money if they would just do something, anything, that had some generative AI in it. iNaturalist forgot why people contribute at all, and took the cash."

(Original title: Google bribes iNaturalist to use generative AI — volunteers quit in outrage)

https://pivot-to-ai.com/2025/06/19/google-bribes-inaturalist-to-use-generative-ai-volunteers-quit-in-outrage/