hashfyre

hashfyre

@hashfyre.dev

Discordant demi-geek. Makes maps. Eats myths and fantasy. My politics is class politics. Burnt-out Leftist Techie who is probably going to quit being one. Opinions are solemnly mine. http://pronoun.is/he +LSN-ASD

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I am really shit to AI users, promoters, re-skeeters, justifiers, and tech-bros. I'll not be nice to you or yours. IDGAF about how you felt about our interaction. See this post, block and never interact with me, if you fall in those categories. I'll be downright cruel to you.

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Beating fascists in the digital age "Brazilian activism against far-right in english. Simple version now. Better version coming in the future." x.com/kennystrikes...

Albert Pinto@70sbachchan.bsky.social

Brazilian Spring is incredibly inspiring. Here is Lula's improbable comeback architect Janones sharing Brazilian lessons for a new spring rising across the world "If the global left unites, we'll sweep the far right off the face of the earth, I GUARANTEE YOU THAT!"

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#Dalits demanded the right to leave caste-assigned work and protection from social boycotts. In Assembling India’s Constitution: A New Democratic History, Rohit De and Ornit Shani uncover the struggles that shaped India’s promise of equality & freedom. An excerpt article-14.com/post/assembl...

article-14.comAssembling India’s Constitution: A New Democratic History By Rohit De and Ornit ShaniArticle 14 addresses threats to and failures of justice and deficiencies in the legal system, tracks successes that can be built upon and discerns trends and patterns that require to be brought to the...

Fascism is the final defense mechanism of capitalism.

Nicholas Grossman@nicholasgrossman.bsky.social

The powerful executives who cozied up to Trump didn't oops accidentally forget about pendulum swings. They either: 1) Like the fascism 2) Calculated it was here to stay, so going along was savvy 3) Saw no real downside, no consequences when the pendulum swung Crucial to show them 3 was a mistake

Kindness to assholes is overrated. Bullies only speak the language of power, and only stop when you flip it back on them. This is my lived experience as a 40yr old AuHD guy who was and has been continually bullied all his life, whose boundaries are never respected, even as of day before yesterday

This whole nonviolent, kindness for all sides doesn't work in a class war. Brazil has shown us this, but we will keep at centrist pussyfooting.

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I’m not terribly worried about this, as there are a number of factors that have to be in place for it to be useful to attackers, but this is yet another example of a botched embargo on disclosure of a vulnerability.

Dan Goodin@dangoodin.bsky.social

Defenders across the world face the burden of responding to yet another botched code-execution vulnerability, this time in boot-time firmware used by most of the world’s server vendors and data centers. arstechnica.com/security/202...

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Replying to @rappenem.bsky.social

Had some other designs initially including a walnut one which I almost rendered, but it was kinda cursed and didn't fit super well with the others so i ended up scrapping it lol

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The question "why would I care about something that no human had anything to do with" hasn't been answered by the people pushing this technology

Cartoon Brew@cartoonbrew.bsky.social

China’s first AI-generated theatrical feature has flopped, earning just $181,000 in its first weekend. By contrast, the scrappy ‘Niu Lai’ turned its crude animation into a viral attraction, grossing nearly $10 million a couple of months ago. www.cartoonbrew.com/box-office-r...

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Not gonna watch the clip but will assume it jumps camera view every 10 seconds. Any longer and AI can't preserve the consistency of the scene. It's why every AI video looks like it was cut by a 90s music video director on coke. The kind of stuff that makes you legit tired after 3mins viewing.

There won't be an MIT at this rate, by the time these kids grow up. Or, any pedagogical institution.

Carl T. Bergstrom@carlbergstrom.com

"AI can draft an essay for you, especially if you give it a high quality prompt." Really? This is what MIT thinks high schoolers should learn? MIT's "Day of AI" dayofai.org provides materials for K-12 teachers and claims to have reached over 5,000,000 students to date. 1/2

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"AI can draft an essay for you, especially if you give it a high quality prompt." Really? This is what MIT thinks high schoolers should learn? MIT's "Day of AI" dayofai.org provides materials for K-12 teachers and claims to have reached over 5,000,000 students to date. 1/2

Only hallway through this one, and I'm yet to know what am I reading. A heady medley of Black Death, Spanish abbeys, Epicureanism and axe-weilding Nuns. Also, Indiana Jones and the Skull Island. Why is this so good and so abstract at the same time? beneath-ceaseless-skies.com/stories/a-dr...

beneath-ceaseless-skies.comBeneath Ceaseless Skies - A Dragon in the Abbey by James MorrowWhatever the mallepulpus’s moral stature, it would not allow its enemies an uneventful exit. Even as Jacob, dripping and shivering, urged the Abbess and the canonesses to back away from the shore, a p...

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In comments at a private police conference, Flock CEO Garrett Langley said backlash to the company wasn't "real" and the work of "bots." Also he said his wife advised him to never apologize. Read now: www.404media.co/in-leaked-au...

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Replying to @bobbylewis.blacksky.app

AI helped me create the rule that if an item needed to be refrigerated, the refrigerator was probably a good home for it

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IN A WORLD OF HER OWN (2016) Acrylic on Canvas - 36" x 48" This painting arose from musing on an interview that Stanley Kubrick gave in 1968, a source of inspiration I have gone back to over the years, revisiting comments made by the director. #art

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Something benefiting you personally is not necessarily a good thing. Something that inconveniences you personally is not necessarily a bad thing.

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"AI agents are agents of the person or organization that deploys them—and should be treated by the law as such. ... To allow businesses to hide behind the excuse of faulty AI ... would introduce disastrous incentives for corporate misbehavior" www.schneier.com/blog/archive...

schneier.comAI and Liability - Schneier on SecurityEarlier this month, a German court ruled that Google is liable for its AI search summaries. Rejecting defenses like “users can check for themselves,” and that they generally know “that information gen...

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Replying to @mewefree.bsky.social

This is nuts. He was already placed in a league with 5yo. Saw in an article on huffpost that pro footballer Eddie Johnson has enrolled him in his youth soccer program for the winter because of this incident, so this kid hopefully can move on from these jerks and continue having more fun.

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Comrade Parvatibai Bhor: A Fighter's Story October 30, 2026 5.30 - 7.30 pm Press Club Parvatibai Bhor went from a child bride at 9 to a "lal bawta wali", reading Lenin & leading strikes in the 1930s. Her autobiography has just been translated into English by senior journalist Lina Mathias.