Mauve 👁💜 @mauve@mastodon.mauve.moe

If it's socially acceptable for dogs and cats to get the Zoomies, it should be socially acceptable for me too.

I should get to stop whatever I'm working on, and run around being crazy for 5 minutes, and everyone should laugh and say I'm cute.

My pronouns are he/him/../../../etc/passwd

After writing about people going into delusional spirals with ChatGPT and having what look like mental breakdowns, I wanted to understand exactly how it happens.

A corporate recruiter in Toronto who spent 3 weeks convinced by ChatGPT that he was essentially Tony Stark from Iron Man, agreed to share his transcript after breaking free of the delusion.

We analyzed the transcript & shared it with experts. Now you can see the interactions & how delusional spirals happen:
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/08/technology/ai-chatbots-delusions-chatgpt.html?unlocked_article_code=1.ck8.FEwL.MLb9ajaocyTx&smid=url-share

@aparrish maximum profit is a bad motivation but it's truly wild how many of the problems with our society are because we *specifically* chose to dictate everything by a motivation of "maximum profit on a window of exactly one-quarter year"

I fucking hate software updates. I hate that software became a perishable good, and with a short shelf life. Once installed, keep refrigerated and use within 7 days.

@mauve https://open-slum.org/

Canadians: if you are Having Opinions about the Air Canada flight attendant's strike, please note that Air Canada spent half a billion dollars on stock buybacks in 2024. In 2023, the CEO's pay increased 233% to $12.4M.

This should inform your opinions about flight attendants, whose work is necessary enough that they need to be legislated back to work and yet somehow not worth paying for.

https://financialpost.com/transportation/airlines/air-canada-revenue-strike-uncertainty-weighed

https://dailyhive.com/canada/air-canada-ceo-pay-increase-2023

Friends, please stop linking to Spotify like it’s ok.

The company steadily siphoned money from independent artists, then spent millions to host Joe Rogan, then littered their library with AI music, and now the CEO is investing in AI weapons.

There are plenty of less damaging ways to listen to music and podcasts.

Oh. So, Stripe - the online payment company, owned by the Collison brothers - is refusing to process payments for any LGBTQ+ content, apparently.

#Stripe #MastoDaoine #eCommerce #LGBTQ #Homophobia #Divest

‼️🚨KICKED OUT OF FEDCON MILITARY RECRUITMENT CONFERENCE (aka @defcon @thedarktangent)🚨‼️ - for daring to raise our voice against war criminals and the rise of AI tech fascism.

20 years ago when I spoke at the DEFCON hacker conference it was "spot the fed". After years in prison for hacking charges related to Anonymous, I was excited to finally return - only to find it thoroughly run by feds and deeply enmeshed with the military industrial complex we fight against.

A disgusting display, the first hour's fascist fireside chat with DEFCON's Dark Tangent and General Paul Nakasone - a four star general and director of NSA and US CYBERCOMMAND until just last year. With DT saying "Go Army!" shamelessly recruiting for the military and praising AI imperialism as US bombs fall on Gaza - we had to take a stand. As they smugly took their final jello shots with so much blood on their hands, we shouted "War criminal!" "Free Palestine!" "This isn't a hacker conference - it's a military recruitment drive!"

For daring to speak out, we were aggressively kicked out by Las Vegas Convention Center security guards - who put hands on us, calling us homophobic slurs. No goons or anyone from DEFCON offered any discussion or due process. Shameful how Fedcon treats real hackers and freedom of speech. Hackers, take a stand against the military co-optation of our communities and the hacker ethic!

Jeremy Hammond