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<p>RE: <a href="https://mastodon.social/@Blender/116482997785333001" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="mastodon.social/@Blender/116482997785333001"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">mastodon.social/@Blender/11648</span><span class="invisible">2997785333001</span></a></p><p>And related to this, <a href="/tags/blender/" rel="tag">#Blender</a> already has Claude slop commits.</p><p>It&#x27;s all fucked, Blender went dark.</p><p><a href="https://github.com/blender/blender/commit/336b5d0de12a438614846961b7961bbf35399eb3" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="github.com/blender/blender/commit/336b5d0de12a438614846961b7961bbf35399eb3"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">github.com/blender/blender/com</span><span class="invisible">mit/336b5d0de12a438614846961b7961bbf35399eb3</span></a><br><a href="https://github.com/blender/blender/commit/79e02e1405a98884cc8fd5505cc54df2c2dc5d21" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="github.com/blender/blender/commit/79e02e1405a98884cc8fd5505cc54df2c2dc5d21"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">github.com/blender/blender/com</span><span class="invisible">mit/79e02e1405a98884cc8fd5505cc54df2c2dc5d21</span></a><br><a href="https://github.com/blender/blender/commit/7ee94c067cf71845727672ed77dc25f088cd5b32" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="github.com/blender/blender/commit/7ee94c067cf71845727672ed77dc25f088cd5b32"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">github.com/blender/blender/com</span><span class="invisible">mit/7ee94c067cf71845727672ed77dc25f088cd5b32</span></a></p><p>Not to mention one user has specifically admitted to using AI code review for commits that are in Blender&#x27;s codebase.</p><p><a href="https://github.com/blender/blender/commit/b80b3e040dd3ac979e97540b4bb0f18a1c5ad021" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="github.com/blender/blender/commit/b80b3e040dd3ac979e97540b4bb0f18a1c5ad021"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">github.com/blender/blender/com</span><span class="invisible">mit/b80b3e040dd3ac979e97540b4bb0f18a1c5ad021</span></a><br><a href="https://github.com/blender/blender/commit/eaadb0c3043288d78b897b15bcc8d336c749de15" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="github.com/blender/blender/commit/eaadb0c3043288d78b897b15bcc8d336c749de15"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">github.com/blender/blender/com</span><span class="invisible">mit/eaadb0c3043288d78b897b15bcc8d336c749de15</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/noai/" rel="tag">#NoAI</a> <a href="/tags/fuckai/" rel="tag">#FuckAI</a> <a href="/tags/antiai/" rel="tag">#AntiAI</a> <a href="/tags/tech/" rel="tag">#Tech</a> <a href="/tags/technology/" rel="tag">#Technology</a> <a href="/tags/animation/" rel="tag">#Animation</a> <a href="/tags/3danimation/" rel="tag">#3DAnimation</a> <a href="/tags/claude/" rel="tag">#Claude</a></p>

<p>Bored with the war he started, mean judge made him stop his ballroom, plans for the descecration of some other american sacred places ;<br><a href="/tags/uspol/" rel="tag">#uspol</a> <a href="/tags/photoshop/" rel="tag">#photoshop</a> <a href="/tags/joke/" rel="tag">#joke</a> <a href="/tags/art/" rel="tag">#art</a> ish <a href="/tags/noai/" rel="tag">#noai</a> <a href="/tags/thistimelinesucks/" rel="tag">#thistimelinesucks</a></p>

<p>RE: <a href="https://infosec.exchange/@david_chisnall/116379211678912109" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="infosec.exchange/@david_chisnall/116379211678912109"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">infosec.exchange/@david_chisna</span><span class="invisible">ll/116379211678912109</span></a></p><p>This is one of the best descriptions of AI that I have read so far:</p><p>&quot;It isn’t a technology, it’s a branding term, and it’s a branding term used almost exclusively for things that have no social benefit.&quot; </p><p>-- <span class="h-card"><a href="https://infosec.exchange/@david_chisnall" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>david_chisnall</span></a></span> </p><p><a href="/tags/noai/" rel="tag">#NoAI</a><br><a href="/tags/aiisascam/" rel="tag">#AIisAScam</a></p>

Did you ever like the groove of a music track, starting to dance to it but then you stumble because the beat seems to reset itself randomly? I&#x27;ve got a bunch of those tracks this time in<br><br>RADIO IRRTUM! !!<br><br>so happy dance lurching :)<br><br>--- ↓↓↓ Deutsch Version below unten ↓↓↓ --- <br><br>The next issue of <a href="/tags/radioirrtum/" rel="tag">#RadioIrrtum</a>! will arrive this Saturday, 2026/04/11, 8:00pm UTC+2/Berlin time/CET. On Alex Berlin at DAB+ K12D in <a href="/tags/berlin/" rel="tag">#Berlin</a>/Brandenburg and worldwide @ <a href="https://www.alex-berlin.de/radio-livestream" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.alex-berlin.de/radio-livestream"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.alex-berlin.de/radio-lives</span><span class="invisible">tream</span></a> . <br><br>A German language <a href="/tags/radioshow/" rel="tag">#radioShow</a> exploring the sonic vastness of the <a href="/tags/underground/" rel="tag">#underground</a>. Emitted transmissions may raise attention for new unheard <a href="/tags/music/" rel="tag">#music</a>. Don&#x27;t worry about the <a href="/tags/germanlanguage/" rel="tag">#GermanLanguage</a> aspect - this is about <a href="/tags/music/" rel="tag">#music</a>!<br><br>So what&#x27;s in it?<br><br> - <a href="/tags/alternativepop/" rel="tag">#AlternativePop</a> <br> - <a href="/tags/offline/" rel="tag">#offline</a> Music<br> - cluttered <a href="/tags/beats/" rel="tag">#Beats</a><br> - super <a href="/tags/slowbass/" rel="tag">#slowBass</a> with DnB elements<br> - <a href="/tags/ukgarage/" rel="tag">#UKGarage</a><br> - <a href="/tags/fingerdrumming/" rel="tag">#fingerdrumming</a><br> - <a href="/tags/bytebeat/" rel="tag">#ByteBeat</a> from <a href="/tags/math/" rel="tag">#Math</a> formulas<br> - <a href="/tags/microtonal/" rel="tag">#microtonal</a> <a href="/tags/mathpunk/" rel="tag">#MathPunk</a><br> - <a href="/tags/punk/" rel="tag">#Punk</a> of various flavors (Post~, Garage~)<br> - <a href="/tags/livingroom/" rel="tag">#livingroom</a> music from Brazil and Lebanon<br><br>On top I will pronounce words wrong at an embarrassing amount, &amp; play stuff that isn&#x27;t available at <a href="/tags/spotify/" rel="tag">#Spotify</a>, which simply shows how much this service sucks. <br><br>Besides unusual rhythmic structures there will be examples of microtonal music (explained even!) – if you followed the music news the last weeks you may already know which project will be featured.<br>Featured are <a href="/tags/fediversemusicians/" rel="tag">#FediverseMusicians</a> as well, like <span class="h-card"><a href="https://chaos.social/@ScottHuehnerkrisp" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>ScottHuehnerkrisp</span></a></span> or <span class="h-card"><a href="https://mastodon.art/@herrkaschke" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>herrkaschke</span></a></span> .<br><br>But a very special one among those <a href="/tags/fediartists/" rel="tag">#fediartists</a> will be <span class="h-card"><a href="https://sonomu.club/@stephan" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>stephan</span></a></span>. <br>This is probably your ONLY chance to have a listen to one piece of his offline album &quot;Strategies against Algorithms&quot; if you don&#x27;t already own it. It will only be played during the aired show, it won&#x27;t be contained within the archive version! You know: That&#x27;s what &quot;offline&quot; is all about.<br><br>I&#x27;ll post playlist + manuscript later here. Having questions? I&#x27;ll gladly answer. Just ask. CU all on Saturday! :)<br><br><br>--- ↑↑↑ English version above, the Deutsche welche jetzt ↓↓↓ ---<br><br>Radio Irrtum! kommt näher → Samstag, 11.04., 20:00 isses soweit auf Alex Berlin (DAB+ K.12D / Stream URL oben).<br><br>Also die seltsam funke(ln)de Radiosendung, in der planetenumfassende Weiten des musikalischen Untergrunds erforscht werden.<br><br>Mit:<br> - Alternative Pop <br> - offline Musik<br> - Bass / Garage<br> - Fingergetrommel<br> - ByteBeat aus Mathematik<br> - microtonaler Mathepunk<br> - mehr Punk<br> - Wohnzimmerpop<br><br>Viele Sachen davon gibz nich auf Spotify, und Fediartists sind auch dabei (s.o.); vor allem Schall und Stille: Da wird nur in der Ausstrahlung was vom aktuellen spektakulären (!) Offline-Album gespielt; aus meinem Sendearchiv ist es rausgeschnitten. Offline muss Offline bleiben!<br><br>Details in englisch oben, Playlist/Manuskript nach der Show hier drunter. Fragen einfach stellen – ich antworte! <br><br>Bis zur Sendung… vielleicht? :)<br><br><a href="/tags/schallundstille/" rel="tag">#SchallUndStille</a> <a href="/tags/fediartists/" rel="tag">#fediArtists</a> <a href="/tags/musicrecommendation/" rel="tag">#musicRecommendation</a> <a href="/tags/mathinmusic/" rel="tag">#MathInMusic</a>. Radio Irrtum! stands for: <a href="/tags/noai/" rel="tag">#NoAi</a> <a href="/tags/noaiinmusic/" rel="tag">#NoAiInMusic</a>

Another in a growing list of evidence that the financial underpinnings of the AI mania are coming unglued.<br><br>One speaks of &quot;exposure&quot; to a concerning risk, not to a bonanza of wealth creation. Some of the quotes in this article seem to be cherrypicked to minimize alarm, which I disagree with: there is cause for alarm. Looking between the lines (e.g. use of words like &quot;exposure&quot; and &quot;choking&quot;), one sees a dismal picture emerge.<br><br>Banks seek to offload risk to avoid ‘choking’ on data centre debt<br><p>Global lenders explore private deals and risk transfers to cut exposure to AI boom<br></p>From <a href="https://www.ft.com/content/08aba5e4-5834-4e79-a48d-989a2c5bad0f" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.ft.com/content/08aba5e4-5834-4e79-a48d-989a2c5bad0f"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.ft.com/content/08aba5e4-58</span><span class="invisible">34-4e79-a48d-989a2c5bad0f</span></a> (paywalled)<br><br><a href="/tags/ai/" rel="tag">#AI</a> <a href="/tags/genai/" rel="tag">#GenAI</a> <a href="/tags/generativeai/" rel="tag">#GenerativeAI</a> <a href="/tags/agenticai/" rel="tag">#AgenticAI</a> <a href="/tags/llms/" rel="tag">#LLMs</a> <a href="/tags/claude/" rel="tag">#Claude</a> <a href="/tags/chatgpt/" rel="tag">#ChatGPT</a> <a href="/tags/gemini/" rel="tag">#Gemini</a> <a href="/tags/noai/" rel="tag">#NoAI</a> <a href="/tags/aibubble/" rel="tag">#AIBubble</a> <a href="/tags/aihype/" rel="tag">#AIHype</a><br>

That anti-datacenter-moratorium article in Jacobin folks are talking about is embarrassingly bad, and wrong in basic facts that could have been easily verified. By my read this is carrying water for tech companies, something you&#x27;d think any self-styled socialist would be so allergic to they&#x27;d burst into flames. What a world.<br><br><a href="/tags/ai/" rel="tag">#AI</a> <a href="/tags/genai/" rel="tag">#GenAI</a> <a href="/tags/generativeai/" rel="tag">#GenerativeAI</a> <a href="/tags/datacenters/" rel="tag">#DataCenters</a> <a href="/tags/noai/" rel="tag">#NoAI</a> <a href="/tags/nodatacenters/" rel="tag">#NoDataCenters</a> <a href="/tags/jacobin/" rel="tag">#Jacobin</a> <a href="/tags/socialism/" rel="tag">#socialism</a><br>

<p>Went for a hike in Genoa, NV, with an artist friend of mine. Had a great time because: she and I have the same political/social views, and we are smart. Also we like each other&#x27;s arts. We&#x27;d stop every 5 minutes or less to take photos. And we are always hungry. Perfection.<br><a href="/tags/mastoart/" rel="tag">#MastoArt</a> <a href="/tags/nevada/" rel="tag">#Nevada</a> <a href="/tags/noai/" rel="tag">#noAI</a> <a href="/tags/humanmade/" rel="tag">#HumanMade</a> <a href="/tags/hike/" rel="tag">#hike</a></p>

<p>In an email from Storyblocks today titled &quot;Two new ways to create faster,&quot; you can probably guess what they&#x27;re selling. The slop maker of course. </p><p>&quot;We’ve launched two new ways to help you find exactly what you need, faster.</p><p>Artist Voices bring distinctive, human-inspired AI narration into AI Voiceover, giving you more expressive voice options trained on real professional artists...</p><p>And with Search by Sound, you can upload any audio reference to instantly discover similar music and SFX - matched by tone, style, and pacing.&quot;</p><p>Artist voices inspired by humans. I want to gag reading this. This is one of the most egregious misuses of the technology.</p><p>And how much does replacing yourself with slop cost? Only about $252 per year, which is a discounted rate for paying annually, to start with a few &quot;credits&quot; per month. They&#x27;ll happily charge you for higher tiers, like their &quot;Small Business&quot; license which is about $480 per year.</p><p>I once considered using Storyblocks because of their stock media but quickly discovered the &quot;AI Toolkit.&quot; No artist or creator should ever use this service. Be wary of anyone who takes them as a sponsor as well. This represents everything in the <a href="/tags/enshittification/" rel="tag">#enshittification</a> of everything.</p><p><a href="/tags/noai/" rel="tag">#NoAI</a> <img src="https://eggplant.place/media/emoji/climatejustice.social/NoAI.png" class="emoji" alt=":NoAI:" title=":NoAI:"></p><p><a href="/tags/storyblocks/" rel="tag">#Storyblocks</a> <a href="/tags/aislop/" rel="tag">#AISlop</a> <a href="/tags/humanart/" rel="tag">#HumanArt</a> <a href="/tags/digitalsovereignty/" rel="tag">#DigitalSovereignty</a> <a href="/tags/youtube/" rel="tag">#YouTube</a> <a href="/tags/creator/" rel="tag">#Creator</a> <a href="/tags/videoediting/" rel="tag">#VideoEditing</a> <a href="/tags/postproduction/" rel="tag">#PostProduction</a> <a href="/tags/voiceover/" rel="tag">#VoiceOver</a> <a href="/tags/voiceacting/" rel="tag">#VoiceActing</a></p>

<p>Silent Sunday 🌿 </p><p><a href="/tags/nature/" rel="tag">#nature</a> <a href="/tags/capybara/" rel="tag">#capybara</a> <a href="/tags/animals/" rel="tag">#animals</a> <a href="/tags/birds/" rel="tag">#birds</a> <a href="/tags/garden/" rel="tag">#garden</a> <a href="/tags/digitalart/" rel="tag">#digitalArt</a> <a href="/tags/noai/" rel="tag">#noai</a> <a href="/tags/tarot/" rel="tag">#tarot</a> <a href="/tags/silentsunday/" rel="tag">#silentsunday</a> <a href="/tags/krita/" rel="tag">#krita</a> <a href="/tags/outdoors/" rel="tag">#outdoors</a> <a href="/tags/art/" rel="tag">#art</a> <a href="/tags/fediart/" rel="tag">#fediart</a> <a href="/tags/mastoart/" rel="tag">#mastoart</a></p>

<p>quick study of my coffee grinder created in <a href="/tags/freecad/" rel="tag">#freecad</a> and rendered in <a href="/tags/blender/" rel="tag">#Blender</a> <a href="/tags/noai/" rel="tag">#noai</a></p>

I have not updated <a href="/tags/openbsd/" rel="tag">#OpenBSD</a> yet, BTW. Do not feel good with the fact that team still has not responded to the AI-coded tmux update, especially that it sits in source from January. I am aware that Theo said no to AI code in source, but the reality says something else. Utlimately more AI code will leak into the source through tmux, LLVM and other stuff. What is the choice then? <a href="/tags/netbsd/" rel="tag">#NetBSD</a> even if has no-AI code policy (a little unclear), then it will get the AI code through 3rd party apps in base. <a href="/tags/haikuos/" rel="tag">#HaikuOS</a> has LLVM in base. I am left with 9front, TempleOS, MS-DOS 4 and RedoxOS.<br><br>But at the end of day I am hypocrite because I need Fish Linux for y*-dlp and gov websites.<br><a href="/tags/noai/" rel="tag">#noAI</a><br>

<p>In my <a href="/tags/homelab/" rel="tag">#homelab</a> I have built a private cloud. I have been able to get a <a href="/tags/haproxy/" rel="tag">#haproxy</a> load balancer created in under a minute. Plan on adding others in the future but it&#x27;s nice seeing it all come together on the frontend UI.</p><p>Built in <a href="/tags/golang/" rel="tag">#golang</a> and in <a href="/tags/minnesota/" rel="tag">#minnesota</a> <a href="/tags/mnastodon/" rel="tag">#MNastodon</a> with <a href="/tags/noai/" rel="tag">#noAI</a> </p><p><a href="/tags/selfhosting/" rel="tag">#selfhosting</a> <a href="/tags/technology/" rel="tag">#technology</a> <a href="/tags/virtualization/" rel="tag">#virtualization</a></p>

<p>I just read this article about chess-like vs poker-like problems, and how poker-like problems are bad candidates for solution with LLM type models. </p><p>I&#x27;m looking for more reading like this about the underlying architecture, behavior, and future directions of the models and the cutting edge research around them. Does anyone have links they found valuable?</p><p><a href="https://www.latent.space/p/adversarial-reasoning" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.latent.space/p/adversarial-reasoning"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.latent.space/p/adversarial</span><span class="invisible">-reasoning</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/noai/" rel="tag">#noai</a> <a href="/tags/aicritic/" rel="tag">#aicritic</a> <a href="/tags/ai/" rel="tag">#ai</a> <a href="/tags/llm/" rel="tag">#llm</a></p>

<p>More directories should adopt this kind of anti-AI stance. <a href="https://www.theend.fyi/article/ai" rel="nofollow"><span class="invisible">https://</span>www.theend.fyi/article/ai</a> <a href="/tags/noai/" rel="tag">#NoAI</a> <a href="/tags/llm/" rel="tag">#LLM</a> <a href="/tags/ai/" rel="tag">#AI</a></p>

<p>🔥 I&#x27;ve pre-released the 44th animal illustration <img src="https://eggplant.place/media/emoji/mastodon.social/blobcat.png" class="emoji" alt=":blobcat:" title=":blobcat:"> inspired by the current Ubuntu release name on <a href="https://www.patreon.com/sylviaritter" rel="nofollow"><span class="invisible">https://</span>www.patreon.com/sylviaritter</a> :)</p><p>Featuring Kinetic Kudu </p><p><a href="/tags/art/" rel="tag">#art</a> <a href="/tags/mastoart/" rel="tag">#mastoart</a> <a href="/tags/fediart/" rel="tag">#fediart</a> <a href="/tags/animals/" rel="tag">#animals</a> <a href="/tags/digitalart/" rel="tag">#digitalArt</a> <a href="/tags/noai/" rel="tag">#noai</a> <a href="/tags/nature/" rel="tag">#nature</a> <a href="/tags/energy/" rel="tag">#energy</a> <a href="/tags/portrait/" rel="tag">#portrait</a></p>

<p>Silent Sunday &amp; Mother&#x27;s Day 💚 </p><p><a href="/tags/art/" rel="tag">#art</a> <a href="/tags/mastoart/" rel="tag">#mastoart</a> <a href="/tags/fediart/" rel="tag">#fediart</a> <a href="/tags/nature/" rel="tag">#nature</a> <a href="/tags/silentsunday/" rel="tag">#silentsunday</a> <a href="/tags/tarot/" rel="tag">#tarot</a> <a href="/tags/digitalart/" rel="tag">#digitalArt</a> <a href="/tags/noai/" rel="tag">#noai</a> <a href="/tags/landscape/" rel="tag">#landscape</a> <a href="/tags/portrait/" rel="tag">#portrait</a> <a href="/tags/animals/" rel="tag">#animals</a> <a href="/tags/krita/" rel="tag">#krita</a> <a href="/tags/wildlife/" rel="tag">#wildlife</a></p>

<p>Y&#x27;all, I&#x27;ve shared this story on a couple of different threads, but it&#x27;s just so brilliantly written that I want to broadcast it. </p><p>It&#x27;s called The Colonization of Confidence, by Robert Kingett (<span class="h-card"><a href="https://caneandable.social/@WeirdWriter" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>WeirdWriter</span></a></span>), and it is magnificent. </p><p>Rarely can a writer sneak up and mug me with the feels, but this story...girl, I literally burst into tears multiple times, some because my heart was broken, and then...because it wasn&#x27;t. </p><p>Not since China Mieville&#x27;s Iron Council have I felt a story as deeply as I feel this one. Take some time away from *all of this* and immerse yourself for a few minutes in glorious prose. </p><p>Apologies to the pocket friend who originally clued me to this author, I&#x27;ve forgotten where I saw it first. </p><p><a href="https://sightlessscribbles.com/posts/the-colonization-of-confidence/" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="sightlessscribbles.com/posts/the-colonization-of-confidence/"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">sightlessscribbles.com/posts/t</span><span class="invisible">he-colonization-of-confidence/</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/noai/" rel="tag">#NoAI</a> <a href="/tags/realwritersforrealpeople/" rel="tag">#RealWritersForRealPeople</a></p>

<p>Meet ✨️️ Resolute Raccoon ✨️, the unyielding problem solver. 🗝️ 🌿 <img src="https://eggplant.place/media/emoji/mastodon.social/blobcat.png" class="emoji" alt=":blobcat:" title=":blobcat:"> <br>Created with Krita and Blender within 56 days. Inspired by the Ubuntu release name 26.04 LTS.</p><p><a href="/tags/art/" rel="tag">#art</a> <a href="/tags/mastoart/" rel="tag">#mastoart</a> <a href="/tags/fediart/" rel="tag">#fediart</a> <a href="/tags/raccoon/" rel="tag">#raccoon</a> <a href="/tags/animals/" rel="tag">#animals</a> <a href="/tags/krita/" rel="tag">#krita</a> <a href="/tags/blender3d/" rel="tag">#blender3d</a> <a href="/tags/digitalart/" rel="tag">#digitalArt</a> <a href="/tags/noai/" rel="tag">#noai</a> <a href="/tags/nature/" rel="tag">#nature</a> <a href="/tags/night/" rel="tag">#night</a> <a href="/tags/rust/" rel="tag">#rust</a> <a href="/tags/linux/" rel="tag">#linux</a> <a href="/tags/wallpaper/" rel="tag">#wallpaper</a></p>

<p>So I wrote a piece on the new <a href="/tags/draft2digital/" rel="tag">#Draft2Digital</a> fees:</p><p><a href="https://eroticmythology.com/draft2digital-to-penalise-low-performers/" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="eroticmythology.com/draft2digital-to-penalise-low-performers/"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">eroticmythology.com/draft2digi</span><span class="invisible">tal-to-penalise-low-performers/</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/indieauthor/" rel="tag">#indieauthor</a> <a href="/tags/writingcommunity/" rel="tag">#writingcommunity</a> <a href="/tags/writerslife/" rel="tag">#writerslife</a> <a href="/tags/noai/" rel="tag">#NoAI</a></p>

<p>Moving to a new instance is a sly excuse to write an <a href="/tags/introduction/" rel="tag">#introduction</a> post (I never did one before). </p><p>I&#x27;m Drew, pleased to meet you. I&#x27;m male, middle aged, child-free, a Brit but don&#x27;t feel like one, living in 🇵🇭 for the last few years. I&#x27;m <a href="/tags/neurodivergent/" rel="tag">#neurodivergent</a> with quite severe <a href="/tags/cptsd/" rel="tag">#CPTSD</a>. You can ask me about it, I&#x27;m trying to get better at discussing it. I&#x27;m married, I work in <a href="/tags/tech/" rel="tag">#tech</a> and I love animals and nature.</p><p>I post about (takes deep breath): <a href="/tags/dogsofmastodon/" rel="tag">#DogsOfMastodon</a> <a href="/tags/webdev/" rel="tag">#WebDev</a> <a href="/tags/linux/" rel="tag">#Linux</a> <a href="/tags/fedora/" rel="tag">#Fedora</a> <a href="/tags/raspberrypi/" rel="tag">#RaspberryPi</a> <a href="/tags/apple/" rel="tag">#Apple</a> <a href="/tags/noai/" rel="tag">#NoAI</a> <a href="/tags/fuckai/" rel="tag">#FuckAI</a> <a href="/tags/banai/" rel="tag">#BanAI</a> <a href="/tags/enshittification/" rel="tag">#Enshittification</a> <a href="/tags/autism/" rel="tag">#Autism</a> <a href="/tags/actuallyautistic/" rel="tag">#ActuallyAutistic</a> <a href="/tags/audhd/" rel="tag">#AuDHD</a> <a href="/tags/adhd/" rel="tag">#ADHD</a> <a href="/tags/childhoodtrauma/" rel="tag">#ChildhoodTrauma</a> <a href="/tags/mentalhealth/" rel="tag">#MentalHealth</a> <a href="/tags/stroke/" rel="tag">#Stroke</a> <a href="/tags/ptsd/" rel="tag">#PTSD</a> <a href="/tags/modelrailway/" rel="tag">#ModelRailway</a> <a href="/tags/ngauge/" rel="tag">#NGauge</a> <a href="/tags/philippines/" rel="tag">#Philippines</a> <a href="/tags/silentsunday/" rel="tag">#SilentSunday</a> <a href="/tags/bookstodon/" rel="tag">#Bookstodon</a> <a href="/tags/music/" rel="tag">#Music</a></p><p>Almost forgot! I have a single-page personal profile website at <a href="https://drewtowler.me" rel="nofollow"><span class="invisible">https://</span>drewtowler.me</a> which expands on all this.</p>

<p>World Turtle Day 💚</p><p><a href="/tags/art/" rel="tag">#art</a> <a href="/tags/tmastoart/" rel="tag">#tmastoart</a> <a href="/tags/fediart/" rel="tag">#fediart</a> <a href="/tags/noai/" rel="tag">#noai</a> <a href="/tags/digitalart/" rel="tag">#digitalart</a> <a href="/tags/nature/" rel="tag">#nature</a> <a href="/tags/architecture/" rel="tag">#architecture</a> <a href="/tags/krita/" rel="tag">#krita</a> <a href="/tags/blender/" rel="tag">#blender</a> <a href="/tags/tarot/" rel="tag">#tarot</a> <a href="/tags/animals/" rel="tag">#animals</a> <a href="/tags/turtle/" rel="tag">#turtle</a> <a href="/tags/landscape/" rel="tag">#landscape</a> <a href="/tags/cute/" rel="tag">#cute</a></p>

<p>Since &#x27;intelligence&#x27; in AI is a graph search, what is the breakthrough AI vendors are riding on?</p><p>Its transformers. Just transformers.</p><p>The mechanism to translate representations such as natural language, code or genetic sequences to and from something a machine can apply to graph search (in the abstract) using artificial neural networks.</p><p>Everything else is old stuff with a new marketing term. Because you won&#x27;t get crazy VC money if you simply apply old discoveries.</p><p><a href="/tags/noai/" rel="tag">#noai</a> <a href="/tags/ai/" rel="tag">#AI</a> <a href="/tags/llm/" rel="tag">#llm</a> <a href="/tags/llms/" rel="tag">#LLMs</a></p>

<p>Since &#x27;intelligence&#x27; in AI is a graph search, why do they seem to think like humans?</p><p>1/</p><p><a href="/tags/noai/" rel="tag">#noai</a> <a href="/tags/ai/" rel="tag">#AI</a> <a href="/tags/llm/" rel="tag">#llm</a> <a href="/tags/llms/" rel="tag">#LLMs</a></p>

<p>Heres what my university degree in algorithmics taught me about AI.</p><p>All AI algorithms can be reduced down to graph search. A graph search algorithm is defined by functions &#x27;test&#x27;, &#x27;expand&#x27; and &#x27;combine&#x27;.</p><p><a href="/tags/noai/" rel="tag">#noai</a> <a href="/tags/ai/" rel="tag">#AI</a> <a href="/tags/llm/" rel="tag">#llm</a> <a href="/tags/llms/" rel="tag">#LLMs</a></p>

Yesterday I attended the first major protest against AI data centres in Vancouver. There was a solid turnout, more than I expected for an event organized by a teen who&#x27;d never run a protest and just put out some Instagram posts and physical posters on a few main streets. At least 300, maybe over 400 people? I&#x27;m trying to be conservative in my guesses.<br><br>Speaking to the crowd, the top concerns were the social and cultural effects of AI (misinformation, disconnection, undermining the arts), then environmental concerns (Vancouver is already under water restrictions due to drought; fossil fuel buildup for AI; etc), then prioritization (why is money and space going to this instead of housing, healthcare, etc). A few other topics came up less often, like economic effects.<br><br>The group shut down traffic on two of Vancouver&#x27;s biggest streets, Granville and Broadway, including the Granville Street Bridge. They also passed through Granville Island, one of the most-visited tourist destinations in Canada.<br><br><a href="/tags/cdnpoli/" rel="tag">#cdnpoli</a> <a href="/tags/canada/" rel="tag">#canada</a> <a href="/tags/vancouver/" rel="tag">#vancouver</a> <a href="/tags/britishcolumbia/" rel="tag">#britishcolumbia</a> <a href="/tags/ai/" rel="tag">#ai</a> <a href="/tags/noai/" rel="tag">#noai</a> <a href="/tags/datacenter/" rel="tag">#datacenter</a> <a href="/tags/protest/" rel="tag">#protest</a> <a href="/tags/protestsign/" rel="tag">#protestsign</a> <a href="/tags/telus/" rel="tag">#telus</a>