Tidigt i morse somnade vår älskade franska bulldog Rusa in efter att drabbats av akuta smärtor i måndags som till slut inte gick att vända. Jag känner mig trasig och söndergråten. Helvete vilken bedrövelse, saknad och urkraft det finns i sorgen efter en förlorad livskramrat.
Ni behöver inte kommentera detta. Såklart är hjärtan välkomna, men jag menar bara att egentligen tänkte jag först inte skriva något här men sedan kändes det plötsligt konstigt att inte markera händelsen i något av mina flöden.
I juni skulle hon ha fyllt tio år. Nu kryper jag tillbaka in i sorgearbetet, det får ta den tid det tar.
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So you want to watch that latest Last Week Tonight with John Oliver about AI?
Why not watch it without unnecessary tracking and without personalised ads 🤓
https://yt.axbom.com?id=Ykvf3MunGf8
So you want to watch that latest Last Week Tonight with John Oliver about AI?
Why not watch it without unnecessary tracking and without personalised ads 🤓
yt.axbom.com?id=Ykvf3MunGf8
Task completion is not the same as goal fulfillment. Designing for the first while ignoring the second is how we end up with systems that technically work and truly fail.
Här kan ni se debatten med begränsad YouTube-spårning och utan personliga annonser.
yt.axbom.com?id=oFYNhWQN3qs
@moabrglf.bsky.social: Jag såg en debatt på Youtube mellan Martin Melin och Markus Allard och det var nåt.... extra. In o läs! www.sydsvenskan.se/opinion/moa-...
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I don’t think a story gets more USA than this.
https://theintercept.com/2026/04/22/renea-gamble-trial-penis-costume-no-kings-protest/
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McDowell cut to the chase: Did Fletcher remember telling this man that he had gone to get bail money the day before the protest?
His objective was suddenly clear: The city attorney was suggesting that Gamble had gotten arrested on purpose.
If this was meant as a gotcha, things didn’t go as intended.
“I always make sure I have bail money!” Fletcher replied emphatically, as if this should be the most obvious thing in the world.
Did he have bail money on him now?
“Yeah!” Fletcher exclaimed, then gestured broadly. “With this many cops around? Come on.”
The room erupted with laughter. Moments later, Fletcher was back in his seat. Gamble reached back and held his hand.
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@leffe Haha, fair enough. 😁
@kolombiken I honestly hardly know how that happened, but I will definitely disconnect it going forward. It works fine without 'app access'.
If Adolf Hitler had launched a bot - ChatGestapo from Open Reich - half the world would be rushing to use it because 'technology is ethically neutral' and 'the future is inevitable'.
I never wonder anymore how so many could be silently complicit, because I'm seeing it happen.
And what the tech führers of today are saying out in the open, regularly and with a straight face, about their disdain for non-white and non-western cultures and people, is not stopping democratic governments from embedding the führers' ideologically driven software in public institutions.
What I see moving fast is not technology itself but rather the dismantling of democracy and the exploitation and abuse of the underserved, marginalized and minoritized.
"Radically technocratic, Palantir’s manifesto frames its tech as a response to the lack of order and security: the belief that advanced technology can and should be used to impose order on a complex, unruly world, guided by those who build and understand these systems.
Let’s reconstruct the argument. The tech imperium that is envisaged here — a Fourth Reich? — is put forward as an answer to a particular framing of the problem: a framing that was already introduced by Hobbes in the 17th century and further developed by Nazi thinker Carl Schmitt. Hobbes held the pessimistic view that without authoritarian order, humans don’t manage to live together. They create disorder, chaos. He justified absolute state authority by arguing that it can restore order. A Leviathan that rules over people. Palantir’s answer to the chaos at the global level is similar. The message to their clients is: make sure you’re the winner, dominate, then order is restored and you’re the one who is in control. Forget multilateralism; become the strongest and impose your order on all others."
https://coeckelbergh.medium.com/palantirs-manifesto-technofascism-in-plain-sight-c160ca377e9a
Löwengrip skall locka unga kvinnor till Moderaterna genom att misskreditera kvinnor? Fascinerande ändå.
https://www.aftonbladet.se/nyheter/a/d4J5mJ/isabella-lowengrip-efter-kritiken-kvinnor-rostar-mer-emotionellt
Yesterday’s newsletter from Ed Zitron was a free one. It’s always interesting to follow the numbers that Zitron breaks down in these newsletters.
- Data centers are planned but not getting built (AI compute demand is being inflated).
- NVIDIA Is selling years’ worth of GPUs in advance and warehousing them.
- For every paid dollar to Anthropic, Anthropic is spending anywhere between 8 to 13 dollars. A business very much dependent on a steady stream of venture capital.
- Anthropic uptime is less than adequate.
- Zitron’s theory is that Mythos has been held back due to capacity constraints, not fears of its capabilities.
- Claude source code leaked despite Mythos being scary powerful and apparently not being able to find a vulnerability…?
- AI is very expensive, with companies spending as much as 10% of headcount cost on AI tokens, all without appearing to provide any stability, quality or efficiency gains (or justification for lay-offs).
- Uber managed to blow through its entire AI budget for the year a few months into 2026.
- Microsoft has stopped signing up new paid GitHub Copilot subscriptions entirely (new subscription model likely in the works).
- Zitron makes a strong case for how the AI startups are misleading both investors and the general public about their revenues.
https://www.wheresyoured.at/four-horsemen-of-the-aipocalypse/
@markisevil Yeah, you're absolutely right. I've just been too curious I suppose. And now that you mention it I'm not even sure I'm certain on how best to do it. Ideally I'd want to pull hardware out of the machine. 😅 Ah, this is how all my projects start…
Our previous dishwasher lasted almost 25 years. A quarter of a century. It just kept working. We took it over from my in-laws. Our current dishwasher (a year old) needs a software update via an app every month. The world is just so devastatingly stupid right now.
An experienced copywriter, having finished a longer text, decides to just for laughs check it in “AI” detector software. It comes back saying 61% is likely AI-generated. For his own text.
But.
Wait for it.
The “AI” detector then offers a service…
“Would you like to humanize your text?”
…
The implication of this hurts my brain.
The only thing that realistically should happen if a generative system edits your text is that any estimation of it being “AI”-generated should increase. But the “AI” is now offering to reconstruct human text so that will appear less “AI”, and more “human”, to “AI” detection.
I’m out.
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Really good tante. It does worry me a lot that most people don't see/grasp this and will, when called on it, completely reject this notion because they themselves are "of course not fascist".
It would also require them to take responsibility for their actions, when they want to deflect it with AI.
The experience I draw from is attending a boarding school where hazing was common practice. Integrated into this environment it took me years after leaving school to understand what I had been through, and had been complicit in, as a teen. I defended the practices for years, as I see many still do.
What I'm seeing is people already embedded in the abusive nature of AI and it will take years after leaving to gain a healthy perspective on it. And people aren't leaving, they are going deeper into it. I just don't see arguments working, and I hate that feeling of hopelessness.
Seeing the harm and seeing the role you play in it opens two paths: 1) forgiving yourself and dedicating yourself to opposition 2) doubling down on "I'm not evil" and staying complicit within the system
Not sure how to best help more people choose the first, but I know I want to offer that help.