"[Generative AI] turns into an adversarial endeavor what used to be an earnest, if heated, battle of ideas between parties we could on some level take for granted were acting in good faith to publish true things that advance human knowledge; the punishment for breaching this social contract would be massive reputational damage. Peer review and open source, two processes that used to represent healthy and important alternatives to commercialization via capital, are now choking to death."
"In the context of the push back against AI, entryism takes on the form of actively sending infiltrators to join universities or related organisations... , or recruiting members of those institutions, or spreading rhetoric or cultish language... in order to undermine push back against AI. The important part is to do all this by looking like one is not against the organisation's goal... or even more insidiously by looking like one is staunchly anti AI explicitly."
"for many FOSS advocates, a schematically narrow focus on software freedom has become a permission structure for suspending ethical reasoning — even when ethics might serve the interests of freedom"
"Surely the time has come when the very stones themselves will cry out unless Ministers of the Christian Gospel speak out against such levity in the face of tragedy that the use of nuclear fission for destruction represents."
claims to be about games and play but is actually just a pretty good list of site-specific and/or immersive new media art, with some video games also included
"The reason why I object to the current push towards wholesale adoption of this 'AI' is because it is profoundly and pervasively harmful: it exacerbates climate change, destroys education, poisons information, erodes income from work, erodes trust, and in doing so hurts our society and economy as well as the environment we need for our existence." but wim tell us what you really think
cold slam on liberty mutual out of nowhere: "Retro video game content is the focus here. Though I would be foolish if I did not tell you that images, videos and music produced by generative A.I. make Liberty Mutual Insurance ads look like fine art." but also useful discussions of slopcode ports and slop localizations
"The long-term popularity of any given tool for software development is proportional to how much labour arbitrage it enables. The more effective it is at enabling labour arbitrage, the more funding and adoption it gets from management."