tante

From each according to their ability, to each according to their needs.

Sometimes some people say stuff about parenting and I wanna go "yeah, but you don't have kids, give person X some slack". But I think anyone who was ever a ten year old is qualified to comment on whether its bad if a parent can't say three nice things about their child without coaching from AI.

Großartiger Podcast zu Widerstand gegen sog. "KI", der Rolle von Gewalt darin und dem Erbe der Ludditen mit u.a. @tante.cc, @bcmerchant.bsky.social, @danmcquillan.bsky.social und @annanosthoff.bsky.social. Unbedingt anhören! www.deutschlandfunk.de/tech-bro-top...

"Men are an embarrassing cringe gender" is objectively correct.

Seems to be a thing people do these days.

“No Signs of AI Payoff Outside the Tech Sector” https://www.apollo.com/wealth/insights-news/insights/daily-spark/no-signs-of-ai-payoff-outside-the-tech-sector?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email > the technology has delivered zero financial payoff to corporate America outside of tech.

So #berlin, I got an extra ticket for Enter Shikari (supported by the Callous Daoboys) for Saturday, November 7th. Any takers?

🔥"Tech Bro Topia" 2 ist da🔥 www.deutschlandfunk.de/tech-bro-top... 🙏🏻 @philippschnee.bsky.social u.a. auch @annanosthoff.bsky.social @tante.cc @drzimmermann.bsky.social @bcmerchant.bsky.social @emilymbender.bsky.social @danmcquillan.bsky.social @ricardalang.eurosky.social @karenhao.bsky.social

AOC is correct

Props to the ad agency: they nailed the "white person who plagiarises and steals credit using LLMs" look with 100% accuracy

While BioWare's recent games didn't capture me like their earlier works (often due to management interference) it's just sad to see such a great studio die. Electronic Arts Closing BioWare, Laying Off Hundreds

Patch notes: - improved security (incremented private key from '4' to '5')

Like I get that art is beautiful magic hashtag cottagecore dark academia but also the reason an AI can't do it is because it's dumb as shit and not sentient.

I feel like when people talk about the superiority of man made art over AI slop they tend to focus too much on the mystic of it and not enough on the fact that for a lot of artists the process is made up of a long series of complex and meaningful deecisions that a robot sucks at making.

Pro tip for the people sharing anti-AI slop posts that are themselves AI generated: you are part of the problem

Just saw Ólafur Arnalds "Falling Apart Together" tour and it's been a breathtakingly beautiful concert. If you have any chance to see it, it's super worth it.

To the extent Twitter is "succeeding" it isn't anything intrinsic to the platform. It's that the fascistic tech bros that remain want to stay on there so they can be racist while talking about AI. If you join them then you legitimize them and the platform. You are working for Elon to make him money.

It isn't hard to understand. Don't do work to make money for a guy who wants to have you killed. This is not an unreasonable baseline. Are you non-white? Are you non-Christian? Are you a journalist? Are you a liberal? Are you not fash? Do you live outside the "west"? Then Elon wants you *dead*.

Twitter was one of the best things to ever happen to me and I'm never going back.

"Releasing over 700 files at once is not a demonstration of scholarship, but a demonstration of power. We urge mathematicians to discontinue their work with OpenAI and to return to a vision of science that centers human understanding." www.ahmath.org/statements

"Nerds would rather be slavers than admit that their stochastic token predictor is not intelligent" reveals way more about nerds and their views on other human beings than it says about Chatbots.

This made me laugh this week.

"this downright black-and-white refusal of generative AI is childish" Okay, now replace"AI" with child labor and say that again. Because a lot of the moral arguments against genAI are similarly structured than those against child labor.

Right so the war against social science. Yes it’s ideological. It’s also a termination letter from the state saying it no longer needs legitimation. that’s the public crisis — ask yourself why it doesn’t need legitimacy.

Just saw BlackRock ceo warning that data center moratorium would trigger a massive recession, which is fear mongering. And also hahahahahahhahahahaaaa.

This is so so nuts: the @earthshotprize.bsky.social is partnering up with NVIDIA. By my calcs: just 1 yr of NVIDIA's AI climate emissions undo Earthshot's total avoided emissions todate, several times over. No other company getting away with it quite like this one ketanjoshi.co/2026/09/16/n...

Some tech assholes in Silicon Valley read “Don’t Create the Torment Nexus” as an instruction manual, but there are variations: “My Torment Nexus is Open Source and Any Humanities People Complaining Are Just Too Lazy to Learn to Code so They Can Be Smart Like Me and Take Part in This Conversation”

Claims of increased productivity rest on the affected people and organizations actually being able to measure productivity which - aside from traditional manufacturing processes - is often very hard to do if not borderline impossible.

"Modern automation of everything, including art, thinking, and writing, numbs who we are. Total automation softens our ability to discern between struggle that makes and pain that takes." https://www.frank.computer/blog/2025/05/just-a-tool.html

If "AI" were a mere tool and not a political narrative you wouldn't need to headline "X used AI to do Y" all the time. Anything anyone does while "AI" is involved must reify "AI"'s power and relevance. Because it's not "just a tool", it's a project of disenfranchisement some willingly embrace.

he can comfort himself with the millions of dollars he makes being overly cozy and credulous with the companies he covers

Die bürgerliche "Mitte" steht am Ende eben doch den Konservativen näher als progressiver Politik.

Ich erwarte von grünen, linken und SPD, dass die jetzt mal ihren shit together bekommen! #berlin

New: I pulled the Character ai bankruptcy documents. They show: - They were spending $14 million/month on compute alone at a time their revenue was around ~$1 million/month - Currently losing $9 million a month - They admitted they enshittified & that it didnt work www.404media.co/character-ai...

I left x despite having a large following bc I don’t want to make free content for the world’s wealthiest racist. It’s not worth it to me.

Personally I think the "I buy Apple for privacy" narrative was always just a post-rationalization for status behavior.

Anybody who is constantly trying to find a middle ground between personal benefit on the one hand and horrendous ethical and environmental violations on the other while a financial crisis bubbles in the background, is a fence sitter at best. Calling them critical is a ridiculous statement

“AI” boosters calling themselves “AI critics” or claiming to be critical of the technology seems to be such a common thing No doubt they believe it themselves So many people worried about the tech accept these “AI”promotions unexamined and assume anything more critical is unfounded extremism

as a Good Person, I enjoy theorizing how much more valuable my life is than the life of an infant.

Don't buy anything from EPIC Games

It's important to remember that this kind of performative dehumanization is a show of loyalty. @tante.cc wrote about this in relation to the press, but the deeper reason AI people keep saying the most shameful anti-life shit is to show that they're willing to burn their family for the ideology.