Curioso 🍉 🇺🇦 (jgg) @jgg@qoto.org

RE: https://social.coop/@cwebber/116172866488754801

UBI in relation to genAI harms is absolutely a red herring. Even if it were implemented, when you play it out in your head it... doesn't look great. So let's talk about that?

What does UBI get you? A basic standard of living, not very fancy, still encouraging you to seek out work if you want more luxuries but at least you won't die in the streets. That's kinda what it is, definitionally. It's achieved through some level of taxation, wherever you want that to come from to make it effective, but corporations and billionaires are obvious big targets.

Setting aside the idea that both of those obvious targets are largely politically untouchable and will continue to be for the foreseeable future, what we're left with is a bunch of people who have been pushed out of work, who can only afford the very basic living standards in our society, and who have no way to climb out of that hole because all the "value" is being captured by automation, which is controlled by... the corporations and billionaires which must continue to be at least fairly profitable, and fairly filthy rich in order to be taxable and able to fund the UBI. It also removes the possibility of worker power being able to influence corporate direction in any way, which is terribly convenient.

The result of UBI in an AI world isn't a more comfortable world, it's a further-stratified world where even more people are pushed to "barely scraping by" than ever, the environment continues to be set on fire, and the worst people in the world have all the economic and political power.

Yesterday there was an all hands meeting at my company to say that we're going "AI first".
The aim is to get everybody really leaning in on LLM tools, and a working group set up to start researching new workflows and sharing them for everybody to use....

So the end of April will be my last day.

I'm planning to start actually selling some of the hardware synthesisers I've designed, as well as picking up bits and pieces of freelance work.
Hit me up if you want noises made or circuits soldered.

If the whole of Europe isn't in a civilizational mad dash for renewables within months I don't know what to tell you. It's going to get real rough and even more expensive to function.

De momento, nuestra Españita es la nación europea que está mostrando más gallardía frente al caos desatado por la hidra ultraderechista de dos cabezas (las de Trump y Netanyahu). Los lamebotas del Emperador Naranja, que básicamente son unos cagaos (y, en el peor de los casos, como Abascal, no son más que sus caniches, la sucursal de los zumbaos MAGA en nuestro país) están quedando bien retratados: al abusón del patio hay que hacerle frente, hostia, no chuparle el culo. Esos cipayos de mierda deberían lavarse las muñecas con salfumán antes de volver a ponerse la pulserita porque está muy claro que no son ni medianamente dignos de los colores. Putos cobardes.
#Spain #EEUU #no_a_la_guerra #NoWarWithIran

La IA generativa ética no existe. 

Que la postura crítica hacia la IA generativa se señale a menudo como tecnofobia y/o ludismo es una distracción que no logra desviar la atención sobre los auténticos miedos que despierta esta tecnología entre sus acólitos: el pánico a quedarse atrás o a no tener la posibilidad de lucrarse a costa del trabajo de otras personas sin consecuencias.

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#iagenerativa #inteligenciaartificial #IAÉticaEsMentira #ética #derechoshumanos

Buena explicación de por qué usar IA o algún automatismo para describir las imágenes es bastante inútil, y por qué es importante que nosotres mismes escribamos las descripciones, centrándonos en lo que queremos expresar con esa imagen. https://mas.to/@meganL/116172199626730320

The German government completely refuses to tell parliament whether (and if yes, how) German federal police uses highly intrusive and unlawfully processed mass behavioral/location data from digital advertising and data brokers for surveillance purposes or not.

Deeply problematic in terms of democratic accountability.
https://netzpolitik.org/2025/sicherheitsbehoerden-und-databroker-bundesregierung-macht-datenkauf-zum-staatsgeheimnis/

Regulator contacts Meta over workers watching intimate AI glasses videos
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c0q33nvj0qpo?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub

Posted into Technology @technology-BBCNews

El Periódico:
«Starmer se defiende de los ataques de Trump: "El Reino Unido no está preparado para unirse a una guerra sin una base legal y sin un plan viable"»

"Y sin un plan viable"

Ahí es donde duele.

Overreliance

#webcomic #krita #miniFantasyTheater

How the BBC chose to report on the US and Israeli attack on the Shajareh Tayyebeh school in Minab, Iran:

1. It used “dead” instead of “killed,” softening the violence and removing agency.
2. It relied on passive construction, carefully avoiding naming the perpetrators — the United States and Israel.
3. It added “Iran says,” subtly framing the massacre itself as an allegation rather than an established event.

#iran #israel #bbc #news #journalism #Mediawatch #us #trump #genocide #islam

Hoy Aznar estará feliz. De nuevo se vuelve a hablar de España en el mundo, como en su época de las Azores. Esta vez no ha sido necesario besarle los pies a EEUU ni mentir promocionando guerras.

"Jeanette contra Trump".
Mi columna de hoy en CTXT.

https://ctxt.es/es/20260301/Firmas/52447/Gerardo-Tece-Jeanette-Pedro-Sanchez-Donald-Trump-guerra-Iran-extrema-derecha-Union-Europea-Aznar.htm

Lo siento muchísimo.

Edit: YA SÉ QUE ME COMÍ UNA S ME ESTABA DURMIENDO JOÉ

Two things:
1. If we’re sinking Iranian ships in the open ocean using submarines, this is an offensive war, and the President needs to declare war and go to Congress.
2. If you sink a ship with a torpedo, and there are no other threats around, you are obligated to search for, and rescue, survivors. The US Navy needs to stop being complicit in Hegseth’s war crime spree.