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707Kat @707kat.bsky.social · Jun 8

Open knowledge sharing AND copyright are both under siege. Whether you are for one or the other doesn't matter.

This is a shared issue that's hitting "both sides". They are taking away YOUR choice, replacing it with regurgitation & centralisation while the open internet withers away.

📌 Instance🧵

707Kat @707kat.bsky.social · Mar 19

They are making it impossible to host information online and drying up resources. Stop defending and supporting these malicious entities.

Whether it’s cryptocurrency scammers mining with FOSS compute resources or Google engineers too lazy to design their software properly or Silicon Valley ripping off all the data they can get their hands on at everyone else’s expense… I am sick and tired of having all of these costs externalized directly into my fucking face. Do something productive for society or get the hell away from my servers. Put all of those billions and billions of dollars towards the common good before sysadmins collectively start a revolution to do it for you.

Please stop legitimizing LLMs or AI image generators or GitHub Copilot or any of this garbage. I am begging you to stop using them, stop talking about them, stop making new ones, just stop. If blasting CO2 into the air and ruining all of our freshwater and traumatizing cheap laborers and making every sysadmin you know miserable and ripping off code and books and art at scale and ruining our fucking democracy isn’t enough for you to leave this shit alone, what is?

If you personally work on developing LLMs et al, know this: I will never work with you again, and I will remember which side you picked when the bubble bursts.

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707Kat @707kat.bsky.social · 4m

This petition is not just for US citizens, but any Windows user around the world.

I've signed and I've uninstalled Windows from my computers.

707Kat @707kat.bsky.social · 6m

You can sign the Fulu Foundation petition and support Rossman in this goal to have Microsoft respect the right of US consumers.

FULU Foundation - Fighting for Digital Ownership Rights

Restoring freedom, autonomy, and real ownership in a digital-first world

fulu.org

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707Kat @707kat.bsky.social · 6m

You can sign the Fulu Foundation petition and support Rossman in this goal to have Microsoft respect the right of US consumers.

FULU Foundation - Fighting for Digital Ownership Rights

Restoring freedom, autonomy, and real ownership in a digital-first world

fulu.org

707Kat @707kat.bsky.social · 6m

Satya Nadella has pissed off the Clippy movement aka Louis Rossman and he's going to help people uninstall Windows in Austen Texas as well as have other members of the movement do so unless Microsoft agrees to give US citizens the same support as the EU has negotiated for their citizens.

Microsoft went too far

YouTube video by Louis Rossmann

www.youtube.com

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Lauren Walsh @laurenwalshart.bsky.social · 1h

Man… way to sour my day. Someone sent me an ai generated version of this commission.

1. You didn’t get my consent to do that or the commissioners
2. Get fucked
3. Fuck you
4. You are a piece of shit
5. You are blocked
6. You suck

Lauren Walsh @laurenwalshart.bsky.social · 7h

Meet Harriette Flittertail, a Harengon Druid.

A commission for @howlinggnome.bsky.social ‘s wife!

[ #art #dnd #ttrpg ]

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Lauren Walsh @laurenwalshart.bsky.social · 7h

Meet Harriette Flittertail, a Harengon Druid.

A commission for @howlinggnome.bsky.social ‘s wife!

[ #art #dnd #ttrpg ]

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Assemblymember Bauer-Kahan @bauerkahan.bsky.social · 2h

Today is World Mental Health Day: a reminder that mental health is health, and no one should face these challenges alone.

We’re working to strengthen mental health services and protections across California.
Learn more: a16.asmdc.org/mental-health

#MentalHealth #988Lifeline #YouthMentalHealth

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Artists Against Copyright Infringement @ipcopyright.bsky.social · 2h

Apple “continues to retain private AI training-data, including pirated books,” to train future models without compensating rightsholders or seeking their consent, the professors said.

news.bloomberglaw.com/ip-law/apple...

Apple Accused of AI Copyright Infringement by SUNY Professors

Apple Inc. flouted copyright law when it used pirated materials and copies of e-books sold on its own books app to train its AI tool Apple Intelligence, a pair of State University of New York professo...

news.bloomberglaw.com

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707Kat @707kat.bsky.social · 2h

Dance worker dance. <<Points loaded gun at their feet>>

707Kat @707kat.bsky.social · 2h

Also if everyone stops using em-dashes due to people believing it's gAI. The models will start doing something else that stands out to the human eye. It will only be a temporary measure. What should matter is good writing.

707Kat @707kat.bsky.social · 2h

Programmers do. 😂

But don't let 'em take your dashes!

I won't let them take my markdown or anything else that I love.
If people accuse you of using gAI, because of the em-dash, inform them that the use of those alone is not a tell on it's own and it's trained on human written text using em-dashes.

Wikipedia:Signs of AI writing - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

707Kat @707kat.bsky.social · 3h

... so.... the Church across the street has it's port standing open wide with red light coming out of it and nobody is to be seen inside.

Should I be worried? Is this that rapture thing everyone has been talking about?

707Kat @707kat.bsky.social · 4h

Yeah, that's usually the case. 😅
Here's to hoping that the virtual machines will be able to run those programs well enough soon.

I'm experimenting a bit with it, so if you'd like me to try whatever program it is you need/use (if possible) I can test it if you'd like?

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707Kat @707kat.bsky.social · 4h

If you are in the EU they have forced Microsoft to extend support.
I can still recommend familiarising yourself with linux as MS are forcing us into a more Chromebook like OS where you log on with online credentials and your data is uploaded to the cloud, invasive telemetry, commercials and AI etc.

Europe forces Microsoft into free extended support for Windows 10

Residents in the European Economic Area won't need to jump over any hurdles to get an extra year of Windows 10 security updates.

www.pcworld.com

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707Kat @707kat.bsky.social · 6h

Me, but with all of Windows 11. 😅

Machined Surfaces @machinedsurfaces.bsky.social · 2d

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707Kat @707kat.bsky.social · 6h

That sounds like a really sad modus operandi.

I hope that isn't it. I'd think if using those tools were so wonderful I'd be spending my time creating amazing things and using them for good to prove people I didn't agree with wrong rather than attacking them verbally on social media.

707Kat @707kat.bsky.social · 6h

I completely get that. Especially if you've had multiple bad experiences in the past. Same for Olivia.

Oftentimes it isn't honest engagement. I've had people troll me continuously after I tried engaging and boy should I not do it if I'm having one of those days you just described. 😅

707Kat @707kat.bsky.social · 6h

I meant to share this part of his thread, rather than the first one. Although all 3 posts are kind of great. He's trying to understand something he has limited experience with. And by doing so he is trying to understand and explain it in a language that might connect better with his audience.

tinybaby @tiny.baby · 14h

they think of writing as work, and think well if i could get a magic box that did my work for me, of course i would use it. and they legitimately do not understand why some people are appalled by the idea of producing content with AI

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707Kat @707kat.bsky.social · 6h

in nature to why they don't get why artists, journalists, authors etc. who are revolted about seeing what they love being extracted and reanimated without the essence and craftsmanship put behind a labour of love.

So I try to bridge the gaps of understanding. Even if it sometimes prove futile.

tinybaby @tiny.baby · 14h

i think the fundamental disconnect here, and i say this as an engineer without much creative talent, is that a lot of people who don't do creative things regularly (or ever) look at creative output (writing, music, whatever) as a product, and consume and experience it like a baby looking at a mobile

Juno Rylee Schultz @junoryleejournalism.com · 1d

David Simon, creator of ‘The Wire’, being interviewed by Ari Shapiro (NPR)

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707Kat @707kat.bsky.social · 6h

view stupid or limited in some ways. Asking me why I bothered spending time arguing and fighting against what they saw as inevitable. They couldn't wrap their head around the intrinsic value there was for me helping others or speaking up on a subject that mattered to me.

It's essentially similar-

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707Kat @707kat.bsky.social · 6h

I believe you and Olivia when you say this. I can see the behaviour, but in my experience someone who is this persistent about something has a bone to pick of their own. Not necessarily caused by the person they are trying to pick it with.

I've had exchanges with people on X who found my point of-

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Marisa Elena Duarte @mwhitehorse.bsky.social · 7h

Okay, thank you for this, as the president of my university recently compared AI to the printing press, and as an information scientist I am saying, "no, sir, that is neither helpful nor accurate."

Olivia Guest · Ολίβια Γκεστ @olivia.science · 10h

really nice piece on this btw from @sonjadrimmer.bsky.social sonjadrimmer.com/blog-1/2025/...

"The Printing Press Democratized Knowledge": When Slogans Masquerade as History — Sonja Drimmer

The phrase is said so frequently it seems, like the mechanism it celebrates, to mechanically replicate itself.  It's become a favorite catchphrase among tech boosters of any sort (see my post on...

sonjadrimmer.com

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707Kat @707kat.bsky.social · 7h

hold up to scrutiny as the printing press helped the accessibility to reading and spreading the written word.

We are not opining against new technology. We're opining against technology which main purpose is value extraction and the result is undermining human made work and knowledge.

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707Kat @707kat.bsky.social · 7h

opining against is a major drain on society overall. Not just on the individual. It's inefficient, servers little to no purpose and is unreliable.

Olivia even expressed this in one of her posts. The arguments you are using to talk to Anna she and I have seen a million times before and they don't-

Olivia Guest · Ολίβια Γκεστ @olivia.science · Jul 29

I split AI into 3 non-mutually exclusive types (see Table 1 above): displacement (harmful), enhancement (beneficial), and/or replacement (neutral) of human cognitive labour. More later possibly, but see Tables 2 to 4 (attached or here: arxiv.org/pdf/2507.19960) for the worked through examples. 2/n

table 2 from https://arxiv.org/pdf/2507.19960

table 3 from https://arxiv.org/pdf/2507.19960

table 4 from https://arxiv.org/pdf/2507.19960

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707Kat @707kat.bsky.social · 7h

The problem here Brett is that both Anna and Olivia aren't speaking out and saying "all ai are bad". They are talking against a very specific kind of AI and the abusive systems behind it.

Most people don't have an issue with semantic search or ML used for specific tasks, but the kind of AI we're-

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707Kat @707kat.bsky.social · 7h

Really curious about what CabbageSystems is doing on r/SwordandSupper as well as the whole r/GamingOnReddit

Social Gaming embedded on Social Media Platforms is something I've experimented with on a very low-tech level, but was curious exploring more. Although I prefer it in closed communities.