Had a carpenter come over to install new hardwood in the dining room, but he ended up doing the entire house. I was totally floored.

Mastodon is about to launch its take on Bluesky’s starter packs https://www.theverge.com/tech/909308/mastodon-collections-bluesky-starter-packs

Secret Panel HERE 💀 https://tinyview.com/mrlovenstein/2026/04/08/ruinternet

I wrote (in Italian, this time) a few reflections on my perception of time, shaped by a place I visited recently.

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🎞️ Kodak UltraMax 400

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RE: https://infosec.exchange/@mttaggart/116371937587992264

I think the way I would put it is:

1) The point of the AI project is ideological; the goal is to reshape industries such that we are dependent on AI companies' products, and to destroy free and open knowledge such that we are dependent on these products for thought and reasoning. We see an injection of AI into cybersecurity, while simultaneously drawing money and resources away from (boring) efforts that would actually broadly improve cybersecurity.¹ We see an injection of AI into knowledge acquisition, while simultaneously polluting the landscape of the internet as a useful source of knowledge. Both are in service of the same ideological project, and working towards the same goal.

2) The touted usefulness of AI for programming and cybersecurity is directly funding the project to expand it everywhere else, where it is causing massive harms to civil society, individuals' mental health, and the information landscape. You or your company paying for these products is keeping investment money flowing and extending the runway, for AI companies to reach that point of "indispensability". There is no divorcing your cool shiny toy from the creation of AI deepfakes that destroy democracy, or the AI psychosis that destroys lives. This is because the AI companies are pursuing an ideological project that ultimately has nothing to do with improving people's work or their lives; the leaders of these companies have loudly and publicly said that very clearly. You are laundering the reputation of these companies and keeping them alive, when the only moral option is to destroy them.

I've said this elsewhere, but: Maybe you, who are reading this, is offended by this framing, because you use and enjoy the AI tools. But it's also likely that you, and many other technologists, take moral abdication almost as a point of pride, where the only thing that matters is "capability". In that case, I don't understand the defensive response. Why are you uncomfortable being described as the thing you're bragging to be?

#fuckAI

¹ The stark contrast: The breathless and brainless promotional posts about Glasswing came into my feed at the same time as the posts about the final gutting of CISA. https://www.securityweek.com/white-house-seeks-to-slash-cisa-funding-by-707-million/

今年分のMastodonぬいぐるみの販売のために、日本で倉庫を借りるのが現実的か知りたいです。20cmのMastodonぬいぐるみが5000円+国内送料だとしたら買いますか？回答ありがとう!! #plushtodon

anyways watch Beta by Still https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iTce0Vq_UvQ

Israel has unilaterally ended another ceasefire and the strait of Hormuz is closed again.

https://www.thestar.com/news/world/middle-east/israel-strikes-central-beirut-without-warning-after-saying-iran-ceasefire-doesnt-apply-there/article_752a5523-6569-53e0-ab5a-a3a1515af969.html

RE: https://mastodon.social/@Gargron/116364484636160136

Joy Mastodon, resplendent in her garden today, sends best wishes to all her fellow #plushtodon souls.