#CISA Tells US Agencies to Fix Security Bugs in as Little as 3 Days Thanks to #AI Threats

https://www.wired.com/story/cisa-ai-vulnerability-directive/

#cybersecurity

The #Old #Mariner #Portrait by Kaye Menner Wide variety #Prints & lovely #Products at:

https://kaye-menner.pixels.com/featured/the-old-mariner-portrait-by-kaye-menner-kaye-menner.html

#ai #digitalart #oldsailor #weatheredface #expressive #wrinkles #beard #rugged #homedecor #mastoart #fediverse #fediart #fedigiftshop #giftideas #wallartforsale #Art #artforsale #BuyIntoArt #AYearForArt #Artist #FineArtAmerica #PhotographyFeed #VisualArts #CreativeArts

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Point me please, to projects which are heavily dependent on LLM code generation which are older than 10 years.

The Linux distributions I use,  have no code which is 100% LLM generated

@rl_dane @FranklinFrank

#LLM #slop #hallucinations #AI #programming #coding

Path traversal flaw in #AI dev platform #Langflow exploited in attacks

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/path-traversal-flaw-in-ai-dev-platform-langflow-exploited-in-attacks/

#cybersecurity

So when #Anthropic can't buy #GNU Toolchain project wholesome, it can always buy its developers.

Oh wait, this mail that starts with Anthropic marketing bullshit is not "an endorsement of Anthropic". And you're not permitted to criticize him.

https://sourceware.org/pipermail/libc-alpha/2026-June/178028.html

#NoAI #NoLLM #AI #LLM

ICYMI: Agentic AI and the ad stack: who controls the buying layer now?: Mediaocean NIVO AI, Magnite Orchestration, Teads EngageOS, and Walmart Connect on DV360 each launched June 11 as ChatGPT fell to 52.7% of global AI traffic. https://ppc.land/agentic-ai-and-the-ad-stack-who-controls-the-buying-layer-now/ #AI #AdTech #Programmatic #DigitalMarketing #MarTech

♻️ Brussels' datacenter efficiency scorecard may come with a credit warning

｢ The European Central Bank's (ECB) 2021 climate action plan made the integration of climate risks into its collateral framework a stated priority, meaning that across EU member states, firms with stronger environmental ratings are statistically more likely to secure lines of credit and less likely to face heavy collateral requirements. ｣

https://www.theregister.com/on-prem/2026/06/10/brussels-datacenter-efficiency-scorecard-may-come-with-a-credit-warning/5253297

#datacenters #ai #eu #climate

Yep, that week pretty well did it.

This week helped me make the decision to put dedicated energy into finding a new job so I'll be getting my resume polished and sent around.

I'm looking to #GetFediHired, ideally working with a company that is interested in leaving the world in better shape than it was handed to us. Remote-only as I'm not looking to uproot my family.

In terms of working with #AI, anyone who follows me knows that I'm against it, it's too harmful in its current iteration, but I am definitely interested in groups like #DAIR who study and understand AI and are interested in creating an alternate future with technology so if that's you then I'd love the opportunity to work with you.

In terms of my background, nowadays I'm a people manager in Engineering but I have my own tech projects that keep my skills sharp. Primary skills are CI/CD development, OpenTofu/Terraform, Ansible, Python, Shell Scripting, C++, Perl, Go. I can do Windows scripting though haven't had cause to do so in a few years.

I've been at this for 26 years so there aren't many things in the Ops/IT/DevOps space that I haven't at least played with a few times and I'm a quick study. Not meant to be a brag, that's just the reality I think of anyone who has been at this long enough. The landscape shifts and when we look back we all realize that we've worked with a lot of different tools over the years. Hell, my first job was working in Fortran 90 and COBOL and thankfully that knowledge is buried somewhere in my brain and will hopefully never see the light of day again.

Ideally I'm looking to stick with a management gig as I enjoy people leadership, but if the company is a good fit, I'll gladly jump in and write code, it's just not what I'm looking for. For the right company though I'd probably make an exception, especially if you're working on bettering things for people.

So yeah, shoot me a message if you have something, otherwise I'll start sending the resume out to places I find on LinkedIn and the like.

There are lots of deliberately vulnerable applications with the word 'Goat' in their title. #OWASP's WebGoat kicked that off. And now there's NodeGoat, AI Goat, and a few others. The thing is, I keep seeing people trying to show me that their security code scanner is good because it finds errors in these deliberately vulnerable apps. But how much published data about these deliberately vulnerable apps is in the training data?

Seems likely that an LLM will key on the word 'Goat' to indicate "this is probably very vulnerable"?

The #AI can rely on its training data in a case like this. And that's not representative of how it would perform on novel code that doesn't appear in its training data anywhere.

#appsec #sast

@nixCraft

Wonderfully played.

I guess the operator learned that clouds can create lightning that will strike in the pocketbook.

#AI #Insanity

Prata Potpourri: Algorithms and the Christian, Speaking truth in love, Female Piety, more

By Elizabeth Prata

The dog days of summer are upon us here in the south. High humidity, high temperatures even through the night, the air thick with wetness and bugs.

According to Farmer’s Almanac, the dog days officially begin July 3 to August 11, but the publisher is a Mainer so…I hereby testify that the dog days are upon us in June! Dog days actually doesn’t originate from anything about a dog. Sirius is the brightest star in the night sky and is named Sirius. It’s the eye in the constellation Canis Major, Greater Dog so Sirius is known as the Dog Star. The ancients used to believe when Sirius was in a certain summer position that it caused heat and drought.

Since it’s summer and summer to me means BEACH, here are some beach pics from north to south along the eastern seaboard.

Lubec Beach, easternmost in the US. EPrata photo

I’ve rounded up sme articles for you. I hope you enjoy them, or at least one!

I’ve been writing about digital life, AI, and algorithms lately. A friend sent me this essay about digital life and the Christian. it’s at a prophecy news type site but it’s a good article absent any woo-woo or fringe stuff.

The author proposes the following question: Unlike a pastor who prayerfully prepares a message or a teacher who intentionally builds a lesson, algorithms are designed around a different objective. Their purpose is not spiritual maturity. Their purpose is attention. They are designed to learn what captures us, what keeps us watching, and what prevents us from moving on to something else. That reality raises an important question for Christians: If something is constantly shaping our thoughts, then who (or what) is teaching our minds?

Read the thought provoking article here: Christianity In The Age Of Algorithms

Sometimes as Christians we must confront a brother or a sister if they are sinning, or raise a difficult subject with a non-Christian. We are reminded always to ‘speak the truth in love’, a phrase from the verse at Ephesians 4:15. Here is ACBC counselor Susan Heck on the topic, and drills down to specifics, like ‘What is Speaking the Truth in Love?’, explains how to do it, why we must, and why we often don’t.

https://biblicalcounseling.com/resource-library/articles/how-to-speak-the-truth-in-love/

Myrtle beach, SC. EPrata photo

And on that note, sometimes we must admit that when we engage in difficult conversations with folks, we drift toward the judgmental but hide behind an excuse of discernment. And we know that discernment often comes with it those difficult conversations. Treading that balance of speaking truth but in love without judgment is hard to do. Here is Eric Bancroft at TableTalk Magazine with a discussion about the difference. He said, “Judgmentalism is concerned about truth regardless of people. Discernment is concerned about truth because of people.”

https://tabletalkmagazine.com/article/2024/04/discernment-without-judgmentalism/

I plopped this Reformation Heritage Books link in my draft here a month ago and the book is already out of stock! 15 copies are available at Amazon. It’s a republishing of the 1853 book. The blurb says, “John Angell James, through biblical exposition and character sketches of women from the Bible, shows the benefits of growing in piety as a goal for women from youth through motherhood. Young women are offered biblical and practical advice in order to fulfill the high calling of being a Proverbs 31 woman.”

Here is the outline-

1. The Influence of Christianity on the Condition of Woman
2. The Conspicuous Place which Woman Occupies in Holy Scripture
3. Woman’s Mission
4. Early Piety
5. Religious Zeal
6. The Parental Home
7. Life Away from Home
8. Character of Rebekah
9. The Ornaments of a Profession of Religion
10. The Characters of Mary and Martha of Bethany
11. To Young Mothers
12. The Beautiful Picture of a Good Wife in the Book of Proverbs

The reviews on Amazon are good.

https://heritagebooks.org/products/female-piety-james.html

Pompano Beach, east coast of FL. EPrata photo

Here, Pastor Gabe Hughes, the voice of WWUTT.com (When We Understand the Text) posted a 1 minute reel explaining the Karmelo Anthony verdict from a biblical perspective. His wise words should be heard. His reel is here (on Facebook).

On Youtube, another good video lesson from Gabe Hughes, this time, on why the Holy Spirit will never ‘call’ a women into the pastorate. 26 minutes.

It’s summer, and many families go camping. In the US we say camper, in the UK it’s caravan, but either way, many families have fond memories of camping in one during the warmer months. Here is an article from Apartment Therapy on a family’s re-do of a 1970s camper. Cool before and after photos.

Here is an article from UK’s magazine Country Life about the egalitarian-ness (is that a word?) of coffee houses. Anyone with a penny could enter, and discuss issues of the day, philosophy, ideas, or converse with anyone else at communal tables, regardless of class. Benjamin Franklin transported this idea into the US as well, forming the Junto Club where men could exchange ideas and discuss concepts. Here was also born Franklin’s notion of educating the men by creating a lending library, the first in the new world. The Philadelphia Library Company is still going.

Naples Beach, west coast of FL. EPrata photo

Enjoy your days!

So something I’ve started working on that obviously only I will use:

Eloquence for Android with community dictionary and upsampling and other knobs found in the NVDA addons. I stole the upsampling from an NVDA addon by @fastfinge; I think others contribute around that space too, because I'm an evil AI-using pirate. Anyway, I got it to talk, but it backquote pp0 says stuff like this backquote p1 at the beginning and end of utterences. I'm working off of @Mudb0y and his Apple Eloquence marvel. Could be done by the end of next week, could be done by the end of July, I don't know, depends on depression and anxiety and burnout. But I mean I'd use it. A lot. Especially if I can get it as responsive as ESpeak with Commentary. Also I'm doing this because CodeFactory is simply incapable of doing it themselves. No really it just can't be done. Like the universe will not accept it. /s

#accessibility #ai #blind

During the WebEvolve 2026 conference in #Hangzhou 🇨🇳 in April 2026, @dontcallmeDOM (@w3c #AI strategist) outlined AI's potential impact on front-end development, #WebApps and #WebStandards. #a11y

🎬 Watch "Web Standards and AI-driven development": https://youtu.be/scWHFYeG-m8

Slides: https://www.w3.org/2026/Talks/dhm-webevolve-ai/

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Snapshot of the video presentation of Dominique Hazaël-Massieux showing the slide "AI-Generated Code for Standards Adoption" - Accelerate generation of polyfills, validators? - Impact of LLMs on documentation: production & consumption

Bell Labs Aeronautics

#unix_surrealism #comic #9front #plan9 #ai #space #glenda

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EARTH 48 MONTHS LATER A CAPSULE LANDS IN THE DESERT ASTRONAUT CLIMBS OUT THEY'RE SURROUNDED BY COMPUTERS what the fuck

Dit was ook al door Microsoft opgemerkt zag ik in een Tweakers artikel, maar het bewaartermijnen beleid van Anthropic betekent eigenlijk dat ze alles oneindig kunnen bewaren:
"After 30 days, the data is deleted automatically, except in the rare cases where it's part of a safety investigation or we're legally required to keep it. Eligible organizations also have the option to add customer-managed encryption keys and access transparency audit logs."
https://support.claude.com/en/articles/15425996-data-retention-practices-for-mythos-class-models
#AI #privacy

I need your help.

AI criminals have copied the face and appearance of excellent military commentator Ben Hodges.

If you have a YouTube account, please help by reporting this as spam — either using the report button or the three dot menu report item, depending on your device.

https://youtu.be/U6ZYrEzkoxc

#ai #disinformation

"Billionaire Elon Musk’s Grok AI violated Canada’s privacy laws and, at one point, generated more than 6,000 sexual deepfake images per hour, Canada’s privacy commissioner found.

“The investigation has found that X Corp and xAI violated Canada’s federal private sector privacy law by launching the Grok AI-powered image generation tool without implementing appropriate safeguards at the outset,” privacy commissioner Philippe Dufresne said in a press conference in Ottawa Thursday.

“This lack of protection allowed users to create and share sexualized deepfakes largely targeting women and children,” he added.

Dufresne launched an investigation in January to examine the proliferation of sexualized deepfakes created by Grok and shared on the X social media platform.

“According to researchers, Grok was at one point generating well over 6,000 [sexualized] images per hour,” he said, adding that “millions” of sexual deepfakes were created."

https://globalnews.ca/news/11899687/grok-sexual-deepfake-report/

#Canada #AI #GenerativeAI #Grok #DeepFakes #SocialMedia #Twitter

@w3c China held the "WebEvolve: 2026 W3C Open Day & International Web Standards Forum" in #Hangzhou 🇨🇳 in April 2026.

Chunming Hu (Beihang University) delivered the opening speech and shared his thoughts on the future of the Web and #AI.

🎬 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nJbMCi7GDNg

▶️ Slides: https://www.w3.org/2026/04/hangzhou-webevolve-hu-chunming.pdf

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Snapshot of the video of Chunming Hu presenting the slide "Toward an open Agentic Web"

ICYMI (cos I keep forgetting to share things on social), Canonical has begun to spell out its plans for AI integration in Ubuntu – beginning this year.

Planned for the upcoming 26.10 release is Whisper-powered voice.

Canonical's VP of Engineering asks "Why type like an animal?" when you can talk.

https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2026/06/ubuntu-speech-to-text-ai?v1

#ubuntu #linux #ai

Tell Congress: Just Say No to #NOFAKES

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2026/06/tell-congress-just-say-no-no-fakes

#privacy #AI #copyright #deepfake

#OpenClaw #AI agent found falling for #phishing attacks, spills user data

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/openclaw-ai-agent-found-falling-for-phishing-attacks-spills-user-data/

#cybersecurity #privacy

#EU Says Decision Not to Launch #Siri #AI in Europe Is #Apple's Alone

https://www.macrumors.com/2026/06/09/eu-says-decision-not-to-launch-siri-ai-in-europe-is-apples/

#privacy #DMA

#Anthropic Offers #Mythos Upgrade for Cyber Partners and a ‘Safe’ Version for the Rest of You

https://www.wired.com/story/anthropic-releases-claude-fable-5-mythos-5/

#AI #cybersecurity

AI is reshaping technical careers across Europe.
A key takeaway from the 2026 State of Tech Talent Europe Report: addressing the skills gap isn't just about finding talent, it's about helping people develop the skills needed for an AI-driven future.

Technical training now ranks above compensation as a retention strategy.

Read more:
https://www.linuxfoundation.org/blog/ai-open-source-and-the-skills-imperative-unpacking-the-2026-state-of-tech-talent-europe-report
#TechTalent #OpenSource #AI #LFEurope

#NHS prescribes half a million #Copilot licenses for its paperwork headache

https://www.theregister.com/ai-and-ml/2026/06/08/nhs-prescribes-half-a-million-copilot-licenses-for-its-paperwork-headache/5252214

#healthcare #privacy #AI #Microsoft

#XBOW tests #Anthropic's #Mythos Preview for offensive security

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/xbow-tests-anthropics-mythos-preview-for-offensive-security/

#AI #cybersecurity

This story has been updated to include Huffer’s statement this morning. https://lucire.com/insider/20260604/model-calls-out-huffer-over-alleged-ai-use/ #Huffer #AI #Instagram #fashion #mode #moda

Those sparkle emojis ✨ in AI apps aren't just decoration. They're part of a broader design language that encourages us to see software as more human, capable, and autonomous than it really is.

Policy researcher Caroline De Cock joins Glyn Moody to unpack how anthropomorphic design shapes public perceptions of AI in AI TOOLS, NOT GODS on the Future Knowledge #podcast.

🎧 Listen & subscribe 👉 https://futureknowledge.transistor.fm/episodes/AI-tools-not-gods

@glynmoody @AuthorsAlliance #AI #Tech #informationlabs.org

#Apple says its #AI is still private, even when it’s running on #Google’s servers

https://arstechnica.com/apple/2026/06/apple-says-its-ai-is-still-private-even-when-its-running-on-googles-servers/

#Siri #Gemini #privacy

It looks like the World Economic Forum has woken up and realized that without entry-level positions, there is no middle or senior level. Let's see how long that wisdom takes to trickle down to decision-makers.
#AI #entrylevel
https://www.weforum.org/stories/2026/06/ai-leadership-crisis-gen-z/

My work tracking cryptocurrency and AI industry political spending has only underscored the importance of getting big money out of politics. I recently talked to Tiffany Muller, President of End Citizens United, about what it would take to do that, and how we’re closer than you might think.

Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oZAhNJbsPcA
Transcript: https://www.citationneeded.news/end-citizens-uniteds-tiffany-muller-on-fighting-big-money-in-politics/

#cryptocurrency #crypto #AI #ArtificialIntelligence #CitizensUnited #USpol #USpolitics

You know what you need? Someone to autocomplete your database. Someone to hand-wave it. Someone to yadda-yadda it. It's too deterministic, you need more vibes in it.

#AI

Meta AI embedded into WhatsApp lies to you!
About Privacy and about how it works. That's fucked up!!

Here is how you try it:
- Text to the AI about whatever topic, generate a picture or whatever.
- Go to the Profile
- Click "Clear Chat" and also "Clear Chat" hidden in the Three Dot Menu top right.
- To make sure everything is Gone, go to your chats-List and delete the Chat with Meta-AI

Now start a new Conversation with "Hi" and be surprised!!

#meta #facebook #ai #privacy #security #whatsapp

"I asked them if they did this kind of thing often. First time, they said, and pointed out that this study only recruited first-timers. Your body’s data was only valuable once." —Max Callimanopulos for n+1 https://www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/online-only/in-the-reality-lab/?src=longreads #technology #ai #artificialintelligence #meta #longreads

Too funny.

The judge, finding AI hallucinations in the court filings and learning lawyers on both sides of the case used #AI to create their briefs, cancels the trial and kicks everyone off the case.

"This case presents the Court with an unusual scenario—attorneys for both litigants engaged in similar sanctionable conduct. This court is yet again burdened with addressing AI hallucinations in court filings."

All 4 lawyers were disqualified, 2 barred from the court for 2 years. All were fined.

https://www.404media.co/judge-learns-lawyers-on-both-sides-of-case-used-ai-cancels-trial-kicks-everyone-off-the-case/

Hard pass. Privacy, either the illusion of it or what's left of it, comes first here. Siri is turned off where found on.

Inside the new Siri AI and the privacy paradox of Apple Intelligence | Scientific American

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/inside-the-new-siri-ai-and-the-privacy-paradox-of-apple-intelligence/

#Apple #Siri #AI #privacy #ethics

#interview #interviews #ai #llm #claude #systemdesign

Open AI, the company behind ChatGPT and destruction of our watersheds and breathable air, just sent out an email about their privacy policy to users.

They have probably about a dozen ways to know where each user is, and even thought they know I'm not in Quebec, the email is in English and French. One email for an entire continent.

And they want to sell us intelligence.

Can't sell whatcha don't got! Zing! Bingo!

Why we letting these fools dictate laws and data center construction?!

#AI

It’s absurd

People are paying for AI tokens to create bot accounts on #Mastodon to post nonsense, increasing the costs for servers, storage and emails all while making the #AI hype even bigger so our servers are gonna costs a lot more

And some wonder why I hate pointless LLMs (AI) so much🤔

WARNING: Apple MacOS 27 is reportedly loaded with massive, non-disableable Google Gemini AI SLOP

Presumably Apple is paying Google a fortune for access to their
misinformation SLOP machine Gemini AI, and Apple wants to make sure you can't opt-out. That's how the billionaire Big Tech CEOs operate. They stuff this garbage DOWN YOUR THROAT like they own you. DISGUSTING.

Reports so far -- subject to change as I learn more -- are that unlike in previous versions of macOS there is no simple way to disable "Apple Stupidity" -- oops, I meant "Apple Intelligence" which is wedded at the hip to Siri. Also, reports are that the AI crap alone is taking 10s of gigabytes of space and comes right back when deleted. If you don't have a big storage Mac, this is going to hurt. Does Apple care? OF COURSE NOT. Like Google, it's all about keeping their billionaire CEOs living the lifestyle to which they've become accustomed and we could never dream of.

You might let Apple know how you feel about this, for whatever good it does.

If I learn more that changes any of this, I'll let you know.

L

#google #apple #gemini #ai

#Microsoft Hacked to Deliver #Malware to #Claude and #Gemini Users

https://www.404media.co/microsoft-hacked-to-deliver-malware-to-claude-and-gemini-users/

#AI #cybersecurity

Indirect #PromptInjection remains a fundamental security challenge for #AI

https://brave.com/blog/indirect-prompt-injection/

#cybersecurity #Mozilla #Cotypist #Tabstack

How are the #primaries going?

In #LA #LosAngeles #urbanPlanner #NithyaRaman advances over #realityTV star #SpencerPratt whose campaign consisted of edgelord #AI shit, I think, I didn't follow that noise

How did she manage that?

Well, people fucking voted

So you out there:

Show up, #vote

Magic perfect candidate doesn't descend from the heavens with angels singing

It's a product of you showing up

It's on *you*

Get off your fucking ass, and vote

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jun/08/nithya-raman-los-angeles-mayor-runoff-profile

#California

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Los Angeles Profile Nithya Raman: progressive who bested Spencer Pratt eyes Hollywood ending Raman shook up LA mayoral race by entering hours before the deadline and now faces one-time political ally Raman advances to face Karen Bass in LA mayoral runoff Nithya Raman in Los Angeles on Monday last week. Photograph: Justin Sullivan/Getty Images

Don't use LLM for writing cryptographic code. You have been warned.

#cryptography #AI #LLM

It's Sunday morning in Europe! #archive 8UTC Sunday as always #lispyGopherClimate #podcast since 2022.

https://toobnix.org/w/pU6zu95YDdyGKqsxxRf3Vg #peertube live

#RSS (recent times) https://toobnix.org/feeds/videos.xml?accountId=580185

@vnikolov 's Quality Without A Name toot #AI

As much as I can remember about the #lisp community #architecture and Christopher Alexander https://www.dreamsongs.com/Files/PatternsOfSoftware.pdf https://alexandria.common-lisp.dev/

My NicCLIM #IDE demo and the #DL book I am #writing - loose bibliography and sketch of chapters

#AI #softwareEngineering

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The lisp alien and gopher fighting in the unix_surrealism corpofoss war arc. LISPY GOPHER SHOW vintage banner recently unearthed.

New post: Intent-First Computing

https://lanie.work/technology/intent-first-computing/

#Accessibility #Disability #Technology #AI #Workflow #Cognitive-Prosthetic #Technology

Cryptography as a tool of power
https://negativepid.blog/cryptography-as-a-tool-of-power/

#cryptography #history #IT #tech #privacy #Internet #tech #IT #science #STEM #computing #AI #quantumComputing #quantumPhysics #inventions #innovation #negativepid

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OtEidzV5nNE

"Ever heard of the Enuma Elish? It’s this ancient Babylonian myth where the gods got tired of working, so they created humans to be their slave class. Sound familiar?"

"In this video, I’m exploring how Silicon Valley is basically reenacting this exact same story right now. Except this time, we want to be the gods, and AI is the new slave class."

"I dive into the difference between being made in the "Image of God" vs. the "Image of Man" (Imago Hominis), and why that distinction matters more than ever. We aren't building a god; we are building a mirror—and the reflection isn't always pretty."

#AI #SiliconValley #Tech #ArtificialIntelligence #Religion #Myth

The #COVID19 lockdowns were the fork in the road. The communities of the world independantly huddled up - paused in a moment of dead sober reflection.

Down one path, the world joined forces to combine knowledge and worked together to eradicate a deadly virus, a threat to all mankind.

While they did so they noticed with extraction and manufacturing and transport running at a bare minimum, nature began to heal. We found a way out of the climate crisis, and proof that ecosystems can be restored - sometimes in short order.

We learned that we can cooperate and share information and tackle problems together. We kept it up, got real socialist with large-scale adoption of UBI, housing first, harm reduction, staffed & funded healthcare for free for all... the arms race ground to a halt. Nations set aside petty past problems in order to contribute to a livable planet for everyone.

The distribution of vaccines became equitable, available to all. Misinformed about them is a thing of the past. Food and clean water are made available to hungry communities.

Education flourishes. Bright minds solve real problems. Everyone prospers.

Down the other path, the billionaires realised the pandemic was the perfect time to enact a new world order, where they would - eventually - rule as technocratic dictators.

They took every precaution against covid for themselves, while forcing their own employees back into cramped offices with dirty air and no sick time.

They invented the most potent drug imaginable and called it Normal. The entire westernised world is instantly hooked. One intended side-effect is the inability to care about what your eyes and ears tell you, and allows your lips and fingertips to deliver the billionaires lies.

They kicked off a game of hungry hungry hippos - snatching up any value by any means. Gone is any ambition of any corporation providing anything of use any longer. Gone are the *fun* brands of our youth. Everything and every person becomes an ATM.

Billionaires became multi-centibillionaires. The very first trillion dollar company emerged - soon followed by a dozen more.

The claim of AI-now-AGI-soon was a perfect vehicle for moving around unfathomable amounts of cash. It also accelerated an already erroding public trust. It destroyed entire occupations, displacing many from jobs in an already tight market. It misused an devastating amount of natural resources, further damaging the environment.

The manufactures of end-user electronics stop doing so. General purpose computing stops. Only a few electronic devices are available to regular people. They are all surveillance devices that have familiar functions: phone, streaming tv...

Since the multi-centibllionaires own all the popular media/social media and have spent a fortune discouraging critical thinking, the majority of people inadvertently champion all of this. Their likes and shares and subscriptions fund it.

An alternative is too hard.

#capitalism #ai #DarkestTimeline

#Privacy #AI #Singularity

AI is not the future of anything except domination and control. AI is the death of the future and the return to a dark age of conformity and social thought control. AI regurgitates accepted dogma and is a bar to real research and inspired creativity. AI is a homogeneity engine.

People becoming dependent upon AI will be homogenized zombies. Of course the AI will convince them they are wise thinkers. The more obedient they are to their hidden masters, the black box owners, the more the singularity system will assure them they are the avant garde of gray matter.

I have already seen numerous instances of idiots depending upon AI to come up with ridiculous conclusions while defending them like Don Qixote. This is becoming epidemic among researchers and techies.

Watch out for the controlled opposition--public figures pretending to be against creeping enslavement while leading their followers to do absolutely nothing useful to curtail or stop the advance.

#AI #ArtificialIntelligence #Singularity #Tech