Mauve 👁💜 @mauve@mastodon.mauve.moe

A reminder that one of the reasons people love AI as you can ask it to justify any dipshit idea and it'll just write whole documents about it being a great idea, write the PowerPoint decks, the Capex requests etc.

One of the many problems is people don't realise they're a dipshit, and giving them an infinite bullshit machine to flood the zone with makes it almost impossible to argue against - you're pissing in the wind.

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