Mauve 👁💜 @mauve@mastodon.mauve.moe

ArXiv is going to ban researchers for a year if they are caught submitting AI slop. ArXiv told us it's a one strike rule: do it once, you're out.

https://www.404media.co/new-arxiv-rules-ai-generated-papers-ban/

I would like to have a new electric car but the whole data collection part is the main thing keeping me away from it.

So I liked this article quite a lot. Forgot where I found it, likely here somewhere on the fediverse...

https://arkadiyt.com/2026/05/13/removing-the-modem-and-gps-from-my-rav4/

Without control of your food, you have no leverage. Period.

You can't strike if you can't feed your family.

You can't protest if you're spending all your waking hours finding enough to eat.

You can't build an alternative economy if you're dependent on the existing one for the most basic requirement of biological existence.

#activism #activists #solarpunk #climatecrisis #capitalism

Looks like Chromebook is being replaced with something called "Googlebook" and it is full-scale Microsoft-style Surveillance PC. Apparently anytime you "wiggle your cursor" anything that is underneath the cursor gets fed into Google's surveillance AI https://blog.google/products-and-platforms/platforms/android/meet-googlebook/

One of these things that makes me consider detecting the platform from my webserver and blocking it entirely because the probability of whatever I wrote becoming an LLM input is too high

I had a dream that Mozilla were bullied into including a toggle in Firefox that disables all the corpo bullshit (so no tracking, ads, AI, etc.) but they were really pissy about it so they called it "communism mode" and you had to click on a little Karl Marx to activate it

I am *loving* how every site puts up a Cloudflare or other "checking your browser" delaywall, before I can read a page.

It's just like early '90s web, you'd hit a link, wait for up to 90s for the page to even respond, start loading in, images would be many seconds or minutes more.

The wait builds appetite. Did you *need* to see this page, or just *want* it? Triage those links before clcking.

Consider closing browsers & going outside, play some hackeysack & drink Jolt Cola, while Korn plays.