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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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Meredith Whittaker @meredithmeredith.bsky.social · 2d

We're so relieved to see Germany reaffirm its opposition to the dangerous Chat Control proposal--the one that would mandate mass scanning of communications. Germany's long been a solid champion of privacy, and the news that it was considering backing mass surveillance was alarming. 1/

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Jeff Lockhart @jwlockhart.bsky.social · 6h

Sometimes you just can't tell people things. You just have to sit back and let them find out for themselves. Usually those people are children.

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I'm just one person, and my programming needs are somewhat unusual (building various kinds of statistical forecasting models). But I'm just not seeing the consistent productivity gains from LLMs that I would have expected if you'd asked me 6 months ago.

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707Kat @707kat.bsky.social · 6h

Big Tech Is Faking Revenue

YouTube video by Sasha Yanshin

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707Kat @707kat.bsky.social · 7h

Been a fan of Felicia's ever since she made the Guild and starred in Dr. Horrible and I'm always delighted when she pops up in something new I watch.

Supernatural, Eureka etc. She just brings so much whenever she appears. ❤️

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emily moonlight @threnody.bsky.social · 2d

just watched a dozen people ask microsoft copilot experts their most pressing questions and those questions were 90% “how do i turn it off?” and “when i turn it off, is it really off or is it spying on me?”

707Kat @707kat.bsky.social · 8h

This had me cackle. 😂

Also I can’t believe I read that book. Got it in my first and only lootbox ever, purchased second hand to get my hand on another item that came with it. Never have I ever felt more talked down to. It was member berries on steroids with little to no pay off.

707Kat @707kat.bsky.social · 8h

It is consistent if you look at what it actually does. Which is retrieve statistically likely combinations of words which might resemble information aka the data it was trained on, but whether it is accurate or not. 🤷‍♂️

707Kat @707kat.bsky.social · 8h

It’s the Venture Capitalists version of Four Yorkshire Men.

Four Yorkshiremen- Monty Python

YouTube video by TheFullMontyPython

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Ian Coldwater 👻🌿 @lookitup.baby · 9h

as enjoyable as it is to dunk on vibe coders, this is just the nature of cloud services. they’re really expensive and they can easily cost you shocking amounts of money really fast even if you know what you’re doing! if you don’t know what you’re doing, messing with them is just asking for trouble!

cait (and adonis) @cait.bsky.social · 1d

guy in a legal advice reddit wants to know how to get out of paying google the money he owes them after vibe coding one of his apps into running 40 times a second for several days straight, but says it's not his fault bc they should have stopped him by making it harder to use

r/LegalAdviceUK u/ShavedAp3 • 3d
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Google want to charge me 7 k for API access what can I do as they are denying appeals
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Hi there and thanks for reading.
I tried to keep this brief and just ended up rambling on trying to get as much in as possible so here is my edited hopefully a lot smaller problem.
Google are charging me 7k for a mistake that I told them about within a day, the bill went from about £45 to 16k in a day! when I asked for help I was told "dont worry well reset it as a one off, you'll need to put measures in place and ill guide you through those after you agree" So i did he then said "I will monitor it for a further 24 - 48 hours and then tell you how to put the measures in place. " Less than 24 hours later the bill was now 23k and I found out how to stop it myself. Then came the long back and forth to get it reset.
Fast forward 5 months they have finally given me a 20k credit but with VAT the total bill at the time of the credit was 27k
The 20k would have cleared the costs at the time of making them aware they claim its both our responsibilities to monitor costs I feel I did that by contacting them as soon as I saw the irregularity.
I asked them to reconsider they said no the appeal has said that is their final offer so 1 now owe 7k.
Is there anything I can do here from a legal standpoint. I don't have 7k I barely have £45.
Thanks for reading I am in England if it helps.

Intentional or not, OP used either 36k (16 + 20) or 43k (16 + 27) of API credit. Obviously what API it is matters, but with google maps, 16k would equate to ten million pulls. Or two hundred thousand Gemini 2.5 calls with 1000 token input and 5k token output.
Those aren't numbers that something running correctly should run up for any average person or company. So either google screwed up something (which is unlikely that it would only happen to one person in the entire network) or OP has some app or something which isn't running properly and is sending too much to the API.
Edit: It was OP's app, polling google maps nearly 40 times a second for days.

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According to other posts he ended up polling Google maps direction API 2300 times per minute for a few days. Looks like a combination of OP not knowing coding and asking ChatGPT to do it for him, and potentially Google's backend doing something weird in interpreting the janky code.
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Chris 🎃 DevPods.gg gamedev community @chrisdeleon.bsky.social · 9h

chat is that bad

those data centers at least aren't being used for stuff with no path to seeing any profitability even according to the actual people who work with it and surely aren't estimated to last three times as long as they actually will before needing to be replaced so it'll work out right

Mark Lemley @marklemley.bsky.social · 11h

And this:
92% of the growth in the entire country this year has been data centers. And some of that is "circular deals" that dont involve actual money

fortune.com/2025/10/07/d...

Without data centers, GDP growth was 0.1% in the first half of 2025, Harvard economist says | Fortune

Is a U.S. without data centers a country without GDP growth?

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Iris Meredith @iris-meredith.bsky.social · 9h

I have to say, I am fascinated by the informal school of thought that states that isolating and analysing a social phenomenon or a speech act without necessarily trying to understand why people do it internally is a bad thing.

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emily moonlight @threnody.bsky.social · 2d

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 11h

seems like a non-insignificant percentage of rage against the machine's fanbase are young republican men driving SUVs bopping their head to anti-oil, pro-immigrant songs thinking the lyrics are about how they wish their suburban parents would get off their back

Tom Morello tweets: "Fascinating that all those “don’t tread on me” posers and their AR-15’s are nowhere to be seen and government tyranny is instead being opposed by a guy in an inflatable frog suit."

Someone named Manny replies: "@grok
why do some people say Tom Morello and band mates are RAGE FOR THE MACHINE and not against ?"

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Armand Castro @evilplanets.bsky.social · 15h

Water is an important element in the game, it appears in one form or another constantly in the game.

From my upcoming game, Dungeon. Like and follow to see more and find out when the game's coming out!

#FPS #IndieGame #GameDev #RetroGaming #OldSchoolGaming #DoomLikeGames #Exploration

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artfol.app @artfol.app · 13h

We’re taking artist support even further! 💖  You can now add your own donation card! These will appear on your profile and next to your posts, so fans can support you directly through Artfol!

💻 Currently available to set up on web only: www.artfol.app/settings/donate

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SpacePrez @spaceprez.bsky.social · 12h

One side aspect of this story is demonstrating how lies and slander on reddit gets picked up and regurgitated to you as fact without context of bias by LLMs

707Kat @707kat.bsky.social · 12h

The article by @larslofgren.bsky.social that Primeagen cites in this video.

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707Kat @707kat.bsky.social · 12h

I think you might have an interesting talk with @ichbingisele.bsky.social from @housefresh.bsky.social. :)

Thank you for an insightful article.

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Lars Lofgren @larslofgren.bsky.social · 3d

A Reddit mod has spent years tearing down the coding bootcamp space, relentlessly attacking the leading bootcamp: Codesmith. This is, by far, the most fucked up thing I've seen on Reddit: larslofgren.com/codesmith-re...

The Story of Codesmith: How a Competitor Crippled a $23.5M Bootcamp By Becoming a Reddit Moderator

Let’s say you decide to start a coding bootcamp. Your background is in pedagogy and you love teaching. Your parents were teachers. You find a co-founder, raise a bit of money, and pour your soul into ...

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707Kat @707kat.bsky.social · 12h

The article by @larslofgren.bsky.social that Primeagen cites in this video.

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707Kat @707kat.bsky.social · 12h

@ichbingisele.bsky.social you might be interested in this one as it resonates with the experience you have had with your website.

One Reddit Mod Cripples $23.5M Company

YouTube video by ThePrimeTime

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Darren M. A. Calvert @dmacalvert.bsky.social · 13h

One of my weirder contributions to the Internet: in 2014, some friends and I spotted these knock-off Mario hoodies at a local mall and I did some fan art.

Some goofy looking hand-knitted hoodies based on Mario

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707Kat @707kat.bsky.social · 13h

2/2 utilised for varying purposes, but they also spoke about the downsides as well as data biases, where the data comes from and how it's utilised.

Build accessible products.

Programmable 2025: Accessibility through AI? - Maia Miller

YouTube video by Banks Productions

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707Kat @707kat.bsky.social · 13h

🧵 1/2 He was giving the keynote here. Even as the title seems clickbait-y, the talk itself as well as many of the other speakers at this conference if worth listening to.

alephaccessibility.net held a very good talk on accessibility and AI/ML. Most of the internet is not accessible to people with-

707Kat @707kat.bsky.social · 14h

I'd looks closely at LLM translations as well.

707Kat @707kat.bsky.social · 9d

I could imagine with gAI LLM translation it might work similarly to how it works with summaries? I haven't read up on this exactly, but there was a case not too long ago where Kotaku had an article claiming that "Kpop Demonhunter" used generative AI to write the songs, but it turned out to be a-

'KPop Demon Hunters' Producer Accused of ChatGPT Use for Songwriting

The Saja Boys tune has come under scrutiny because of a seemingly mistranslated report.

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707Kat @707kat.bsky.social · 16d

Mentioned on the risk side regarding LLM summarisations "When ChatGPT summarises, it actually does nothing of the kind." by René Maatman, Daniella Melis, Bart Oldenkamp and Alfred Slager.

When ChatGPT summarises, it actually does nothing of the kind.

One of the use cases I thought was reasonable to expect from ChatGPT and Friends (LLMs) was summarising. It turns out I was wrong. What ChatGPT isn’t summarising at all, it only looks like it…

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