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📷 : credit for the photographer is posted on the image

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Add your project today. Without Mastodon and Piefed, this non-profit website would not be possible, other communities aren't being active. If you're looking to support projects that don't use AI- (games, software, etc) this is a useful list. Please add your project by replying or using the form, link to and share this website if you want to do something about AI.

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I am a Gen Z university student. The ChatGPT got boom when I was in 12th grade and I have been using ChatGPT, Gemini and Deepseek since then. I am starting to notice that now I cannot do searching anymore. I literally cannot do anything on my own like coding, learning something, fact checking, doing my assignments. I even become so reliant on it that I sometime even ask it what food should I eat, what exercises I should do. Sometimes, I "talk" with ChatGPT more than real human beings, maybe cuz I somehow end up having a bad experience or not so fulfilling experience with people. I have to use AI again and again for the same question, e.g., I asked a question today, I got the answer. If I encountered that question later again, I would not know the answer and have to go to AI for solution. What to do now? How to get out of this dependence on AI?

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These shitstains want people to pay money to go to an event where they judge AI slop created by participants. Adding insult to injury, the “prize” is “a shot at an interview for a ‘real’ job.”

For the first time in history, the legal system can go after Meta and other social media platforms and demand them to change the way their apps operate and are designed. In this episode we take a look at what this means and how we got here.

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Bio Terror & Superbugs (2002): Phages were dismissed in the West as ineffective, but research in Georgia tells a very different story.

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A user reportedly got infected after following a download link provided by Claude. After wiping the laptop, they found a malicious SKILL.md that could potentially reinfect the system through Claude Code and steal credentials. A worrying look at how AI agents can become a new malware and supply-chain attack surface.

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I think one of the most underappreciated and overlooked accomplishments of the times we are living in, is our ability to mine for raw earth minerals and boring technology. I see it like this. Humanity, because we no longer have apex predators, get bored, and eat each other. The people at the bottom never rise up and the people at the top are never satiated chasing exponential goals. We are no longer, or ever, self-aware as it is a exponential loop of madness. A baby diaper of shitty nonsense. In relation to the issue of global warming, some people, foolishly hopeful, think that batteries are somehow going to save us. They will not. If you look at the electrical grid from afar, and you think to yourself, well, just like any electrical system, there are little areas of the circuit board that store power in order to smooth out the signal. You don't want disruptions, you could damage the equipment, and possibly ruin the whole board. In regards to data centers, what “they” do is, “they” do what “they” want, and “they” ask for forgiveness later. Now that “we” have it, I guess “we” need to compliment it and build another... power station yada yada yada. Basically, our world is becoming a factory, we are losing space in our department and we live inbetween of those mechanisms. It is a feedback loop that justifies itself, ratcheting forward, as we get dumber and dumber and the world gets hotter and hotter. No one is at the wheel for two reasons, one politicians shake that ass and make that money, two they ain’t no fuckin wheel. For what purpose and for whom?

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Politicians are telling you they’re not banning older cars. We uncovered their secret plans. They’re just making it more expensive, more restricted, and more of a pain in the backside to keep the one you already paid for, until most of you finally give up and buy a new vehicle. That is the quiet playbook unfolding right now in California, Massachusetts, Illinois, and a growing list of other states, and almost nobody in the auto media is willing to say it out loud.

Older car ownership is under attack by new vehicle regulations designed to price you out of your current ride.

We discuss the quiet playbook being used in states like California, New York, Colorado, Illinois and Massachusetts to force drivers into new vehicles. While politicians claim they are not outright banning older cars, the reality is a strategy of increased costs and restrictions that make keeping a paid-off vehicle nearly impossible. If you are frustrated by the rising cost of driving and feel like the system is rigged against you, watch this video.

Most auto media outlets refuse to address how these car restrictions are being implemented behind the scenes. The specific policy shifts are causing these new regulations. Understanding how these mandates work is essential for anyone who wants to maintain their own vehicle rather than buying new.

Subscribe for weekly automotive policy breakdowns and let me know in the comments if you have noticed these restrictive changes in your state.

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And because I had to try it...

There's no excuse for that shit. I could see some 5 foot tall woman being nervous of a big black guy. It's not alright, but society isn't perfect and I'm not going to pretend it is.

But when the question is clearly and blatantly racist and Google assumes the victim is the problem? That's every sort of fucked up.

Problem solved. Now I need to finally change my email address. I've definitely put that off too long.

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See how towering data centers transform neighborhoods and landscapes.

Some people are dumb enough to confuse competency with merely following AI instructions, without thinking deeply about the problem.

For this reason, I wrote the article "Prompt Monkey: When AI creates the Illusion of Technical Skill "

And what do you think about it? Agree or disagree? Share your comments below.

(Alternative link: https://oupsz.github.io/prompt-monkey/ )

Harlow's experiments were ethically controversial; they included creating inanimate wire and wood surrogate "mothers" for the rhesus infants. Each infant became attached to its particular mother, recognizing its unique face. Harlow then investigated whether the infants had a preference for bare-wire mothers or cloth-covered mothers in different situations: with the wire mother holding a bottle with food, and the cloth mother holding nothing, or with the wire mother holding nothing, while the cloth mother held a bottle with food. The monkeys overwhelmingly chose the cloth mother, with or without food, only visiting the wire mother that had food when needing sustenance.

Later in his career, he cultivated infant monkeys in isolation chambers for up to 12 months, from which they emerged intensely disturbed.[1] Some researchers cite the experiments as a factor in the rise of the animal liberation movement in the United States.[2] A Review of General Psychology survey, published in 2002, ranked Harlow as the 26th most cited psychologist of the 20th century.[3]

“If 70% of AI revenues are these two companies, there is no AI industry.”

Writer of Where’s Your Ed At and the host of the Better Offline podcast Ed Zitron joins The Tech Report’s Isaac Pound to talk about the state of the AI industry as it’s revealed that over two thirds of hyperscaler AI revenue is coming from two companies.

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Read Whitney's article here: unlimitedhangout.com/2026/03/investigative-reports…

Whitney Webb explains how Leslie Wexner privatized Ohio’s state government, and is using his position between the markets and the state to build out the ‘Silicon Heartland’

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