Curioso 🍉 🇺🇦 (jgg) @jgg@qoto.org

Word.

If I were on #spotify, I’d cancel my subscription/account immediately.

King Gizzard pulled their music from the platform so Spotify has replaced it with #AI knockoffs of their music. As if paying almost nothing for streaming wasn’t evil enough, they’re now using LLMs trained on stolen content to pay artists nothing at all.

https://futurism.com/future-society/king-gizzard-spotify-ai-knockoff

It really pisses me off how American media and legal scholars talk about sanctions like something the US has a divine right to unilaterally impose and make everyone else follow. Venezuela is not "evading sanctions", they're rightfully resisting US piracy and economic warfare, the right of every sovereign state

Inspección cita a un jefe por obligar a empezar 7 minutos antes: ¿te pueden hacer entrar antes de tu hora sin pagarte?
https://alertatrabajo.com/noticias/inspeccion-cita-a-un-jefe-por-obligar-a-empezar-7-minutos-antes-te-pueden-hacer-entrar-antes-de-tu-hora-sin-pagarte

Which one do you use the most, while not at work, but in your free personal time?

Please consider boosting for a larger sample size. Thank you.

#poll #computing #fediverse

#Maga

The very fact that Keir Starmer can suggest that the European Convention on Human Rights should be modified to deal with the immigration 'crisis' is the very reason it shouldn't; the whole point of human rights is they recognise that humans should have rights that transcend & are more important than the day-to-day disputes that pattern politics.

Starmer either chooses to ignore this or has forgotten this & more importantly how such protection is key to the Rule of Law!

#HumanRights #politics

#Maga

How many times do we need to point this out? By appeasing the far right, you do not weaken it. You strengthen it. While weakening your own position. There's a vast amount of academic research showing this. But Labour will not listen. www.theguardian.com/law/2025/dec...

Starmer urges Europe’s leaders...

🟦 Movistar deja que sus clientes sufran los ⚽️ bloqueos del fútbol durante muchas más horas que el resto de operadoras

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https://bandaancha.eu/articulos/movistar-deja-bloqueos-futbol-prolonguen-11593

For its 50th anniversary, the original theatrical cut of Star Wars will be released in theaters in Feb 2027 (maybe even IMAX). Han shoots first, no weirdly svelte Jabba. https://gizmodo.com/star-wars-original-version-rerelease-2000696337

Secret Panel HERE 😤 https://tapas.io/episode/3076990

Linus Tech Tips: There was a recent thing from a major tech company where developers were asked to say how many lines of code they wrote, and if it wasn’t enough, they were terminated. And there was someone here who was extremely upset about that approach to measuring productivity because it means nothing.

Linus Torvalds: Oh yeah, no, you shouldn’t even be upset at that point. That’s just incompetence. Anybody who thinks that’s a valid metric is too stupid to work at a tech company.

LTT: You do know who you just said that about, right?

Linus Torvalds: No.

LTT: Oh. Uh… he was a prominent figure in the improved efficiency of the U.S. Government recently.

Linus Torvalds: Oh, apparently I was spot-on.

https://www.neowin.net/news/linux-creator-torvalds-thinks-elon-musk-is-too-stupid-to-be-working-at-a-tech-company/

Bueno, ya está puesto negro sobre blanco: para Estados Unidos, el Estado del bienestar europeo, abierto, tolerante y democrático, es el enemigo. Estados Unidos es nuestro enemigo. Tratémoslo como lo que es. https://elpais.com/internacional/2025-12-05/trump-advierte-de-que-europa-se-enfrenta-a-la-desaparicion-de-su-civilizacion.html

Science y Nature se han sincronizado para sacar un par de artículos científicos bastante interesantes, ambos en la misma dirección.

A estas alturas nadie debería estar sorprendido al escuchar que al utilizar los modelos extensos de lenguaje (LLM), esos que todo el mundo llama IA —ignorando que la IA es algo mucho más grande y esos modelos son solo un tipo, probablemente, uno de los más problemáticos y menos útiles—, las capacidades cognitivas del usuario se ven inhibidas, el pensamiento crítico se reduce, y los sesgos que los LLM arrastran —que son muchos— se ven perpetuados y retroalimentados a través de esos usuarios.

Bien. Pues aunque este nuevo descubrimiento publicado en Science y en Nature es algo que merece ser estudiado, y viene bien que existan evidencias en este sentido, yo creo que a estas alturas de la película no sorprende a nadie.

El asunto es que, según describen en los estudios, la gente que se fía de los LLM se ven tan profundamente persuadidos por ellos, que incluso pueden alterar su pensamiento político. Dicho en otras palabras, los chatbots estos podrían emplearse para manipular la intención de voto de la audiencia mediante técnicas de persuasión. A los autores de los estudios les preocupa, y no sin motivo, el papel que los LLM puedan jugar en las elecciones futuras.

Y si bien los estudios no son suficientemente escalables —los participantes se inscribieron voluntariamente, y en el caso del trabajo de Science, bajo remuneración; además, geográficamente también son limitados—, sí que ofrecen un indicio claro de riesgos evidentes.

Os dejo los estudios.

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-025-09771-9

https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.aea3884

#VaryDivulga

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Gaza must remain at the center of our thought because it reveals the future. The hope that there will only be more neoliberalism, that things may slowly degrade but will nonetheless remain on course, is pure fantasy. We must destroy the present order before it destroys the world.

Es evidente que Infantino, elegido por corruptos, sucesor de corruptos, probablemente corrupto él mismo, sabe cómo tratar con corruptos. En el caso del Donald, no hay nada más fácil: dale algo enorme y dorado y dile lo muy importante que es