🤦 Facepalm of the day

The famous retro YouTuber "The 8-Bit Guy" decided to alienate his core audience and destroy his whole reputation with a single video.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RmgeFTAk2a8

(He "made" a "movie" with genAI that he will show in a cinema. The vast majority of the thousands of comments on the video are extremely negative.)

#retro #retrogaming #neverslop #noai #8bit #the8bitguy

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Screenshot of a YouTube video by "The 8-Bit Guy" titled "I made something... Very Different". The author is seen sitting at his desk, wearing a red shirt, talking to the camera.

I'm going to challenge myself to post a sketch each day this month. Starting with the California poppy, which is very dear to my heart. This one's going on my links page to decorate the Nature section.

Poppy info at Calflora: https://www.calflora.org/app/taxon?crn=3512

Nature links: https://calendsofapril.com/links/#nature

#art #noAI #calendsArt #sketch #flowers #poppy #californiaPoppy #linksLists

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Three California poppies: one fully open, one opening, one a bud still. The blossoms are four petals, which flat when fully open, with a cluster of stamen in the center. The leaves are small, narrow, and abundant. California poppies have golden-orange blossoms and light green leaves and stems, but this simple sketch is black and white, with sketchy white lines on a solid black background.

Saguaro blossoms for day 2 of my October daily sketching practice. The saguaro grows on O'odham land (in the southwest of the so-called US). The harvest of the saguaro fruit is an ongoing tradition.

O'odham land: https://www.oodhamrights.org
Saguaro fruit harvest: https://oan.srpmic-nsn.gov/baidaj-harvesting
Plant info: https://www.fireflyforest.com/flowers/339/carnegiea-gigantea-saguaro

Blog post: https://calendsofapril.com/saguaro-blossoms

#art #noAI #calendsArt #sketch #saguaro #flowers #cactus

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Sketch of three saguaro blossoms (cactus flowers). Saguaro flowers have waxy petals that curve out from a ring of stamens around a cluster of pistils; the petals are creamy white and the centers are soft yellow. This simple sketch is black and white, with sketchy white lines on a solid black background.

Today we have: mending basket. More stitches less riches is praxis.

Mending zines:

Repair & Share https://neighborhoodanarchists.org/repair-and-share
how to sew on a button, darning, patching, & more, from @naceugene

how do i stitch these patches on my stuff? https://archive.org/details/patches-zine
sewing on patches + other clothing repair & decoration, includes bibliography & vocab for mending/repair, from zip bomb zine

Make It Your Own https://makeityourown.carrd.co
detailed instructions for common repairs & simple alterations, by Claire Horne for Out in the Open

This sketch is for day 3 of October daily sketching. It's decorating the (still very tiny) DIY & Repair section of my Links page: https://calendsofapril.com/links/#diy-repair

#art #noAI #calendsArt #sketch #mending #sewing #diy #repair

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More stitches, less riches. These words frame a sketch of a mending basket with clothes to mend, along with a pin cushion, jar of buttons, loose buttons, thread, and scissors. The shirt at the top of the basket has a missing button. Other clothes have a darned patch and an embroidered circle-A for anarchism. The pin cushion is a classic tomato shape, with a strawberry-shaped needle sharpener (tiny closed pouch of emery) attached to it by a strand of thread. This simple sketch is black and white, with sketchy white lines on a solid black background.

Look a squirrel! Sorry, I couldn't help myself. Because today is squirrels! Two squirrels! And something nice they have. <3 Sketch for October 4.

Blog post: https://calendsofapril.com/squirrels-october-4-sketch

#art #noAI #calendsArt #sketch #squirrel

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Two fluffy squirrels each holding a nut in their hands with a pile of nuts between them. This simple sketch is black and white, with sketchy white lines on a solid black background.

River gull for day 5. I saw this gull at so-called Kingston Point Beach during the local Running Down the Walls this year*, when I took a moment to walk down to the beach from the pavilion where we were hanging out, sheltered from the rain.

Gulls at the river beach also inspired art for a flyer for the event. I had seen them on a cold December day at beach a couple of years ago. I won’t go so far as to say the birds on the flyer are gulls – they’re more abstract than that – but when it was time to sketch out some flyer art, those birds at the river, flying free, were on my mind.

* You haven’t missed RDTW in so-called NYC, which has been rain-dated for October 18; this was our foray into RDTW upstate, and upstate we do it in the rain.

RDTW in so-called NYC: https://nycabc.wordpress.com/2026/08/25/rdtw2026
RDTW in so-called Kingston (includes flyer image): https://commoningkingston.com/rdtw
Donate to the ABCF Warchest: https://www.abcf.net/warchest-program

Blog post for this sketch: https://calendsofapril.com/gull-walking-in-the-river-sketch-for-october-5

#art #noAI #calendsArt #sketch #birds #gulls #rdtw

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Sketch of a gull walking in shallow river water. One foot is raised as it steps toward the shore. The water ripples from its steps and its form is reflected in the rippled water below it. The bird is calm in expression and posture. This is a simple sketch, with sketchy white lines on a black background.

Canada goose for day 6. I encountered this goose the first spring after the winter in which I moved to the so-called Hudson Valley a few years ago. The intensity of winter and then the equal intensity of the spring was deeply disconcerting — it’s very different from the Mediterranean climate of the Bay Area, where my heart and soul (and at least some of the the pattern-recognition parts of my mind) still resided.*

This encounter was a bit downriver from where I live now, at a river park where there are always many Canada geese in the warmer months.

I don’t see as many Canada geese up here, still on the so-called Hudson River — they must be here somewhere, but not in the places I tend to go.

It’s mostly gulls and ducks that I notice on the river now, and bald eagles overhead, and swans in the marsh.

* My soul will always belong to the Pacific; though, as it turns out, there is part of it that can belong to the river, as well.

Blog post: https://calendsofapril.com/canada-goose-on-the-river-october-6-sketch

#art #noAI #calendsArt #natureJournal #sketch #goose #canadaGoose #birds

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Sketch of a Canada goose swimming in the river. This is a large goose with soft brown feathers and a distinctive black neck with white chin-strap coloration. This simple sketch is black and white, with sketchy white lines on a black background.

Day 7: marmot! We did not have these little guys in the Bay Area, and I cannot tell you how charmed I was to encounter them out here. They’re so earnest and determined. This one is happily munching on dandelion leaves.

Blog post: https://calendsofapril.com/marmot-sketch-october-7-sketch

#art #noAI #calendsArt #sketch #marmot

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Sketch of a marmot nestled in the grass eating dandelion leaves. Marmots are large, round rodents with cute curved ears and broad snouts. Marmots have pretty brown fur, though this simple sketch is black and white, with sketchy white lines on a black background.

Cuttlefish for day 8 of a month of daily sketches. I made a linocut of one of these guys a couple of years ago, though I was never very happy with the eye. I think I have a better handle on the eye now, so maybe I’ll make a new design and carve a new block soon.

Cuttlefish info: https://www.montereybayaquarium.org/animals-the-ocean/animals-a-to-z?q=cuttlefish

Blog post: https://calendsofapril.com/cuttlefish-october-8-sketch

#art #noAI #calendsArt #sketch #cuttlefish #cephalopod #tentacles

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Sketch of a cuttlefish among sea vegetation. It has characteristic W-shaped pupils and a face with many tentacles. It floats and moves with two broad, undulating fins at the side of its body. This is a simple sketch, with sketchy white lines on a black background.

Cephalod mermaid.* Yes, she’s queer as fuck. (Yes, she bites.) A being from the depths for day 9. This week is tentacles, and this is who wanted to come out to play.

Blog post: https://calendsofapril.com/cephalopod-mermaid-october-9-sketch

* or rather, merperson. or merfag. perhaps she is not a maid.

#art #noAI #calendsArt #sketch #mermaid #monster #fantasyCreature #cephalopod #tentacles

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Sketch of a cephalopod mermaid in the water. Tentacles form the lower half of her body, and her arms are multiple tentacles too. Instead of a human mouth and nose, she has the beak of a cephalopod. Her ear is pointed and curved like a shell. Her eyes and eyebrows are generally human in appearance, and her face has a fierce expression. Her hair is fanned out behind her. Where her tentacles are turned up, suckers are shown on the undersides. This is a simple sketch, with sketchy white lines on a black background.

Tentacles and kelp for day 10: the giant Pacific octopus.

And because I encountered some pretty disturbing images while looking for photo references: octopodes are friends, not food!

They are so bright and personable and clever. And even if they weren’t, every living being should get to live out its life in peace, not be killed for the pleasure of someone else.

Please do not eat them!

Blog post: https://calendsofapril.com/giant-pacific-octopus-october-10-sketch

#art #noAI #calendsArt #sketch #octopus #cephalopod #tentacles #vegan

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Sketch of a giant Pacific octopus in a bed of kelp. One of her tentacles is turned up to show the suckers along the underside. This is a simple sketch, with sketchy white lines on a black background.

I wanted to have another go at sketching the giant Pacific octopus, especially the eye. I enjoyed giving the suckers a bit more attention as well. I’m enjoying getting to know her.

Blog post: https://calendsofapril.com/giant-pacific-octopus-eye-october-11-sketch

#art #noAI #calendsArt #sketch #octopus #cephalopod #tentacles #eyeContact

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Close up sketch of a giant Pacific octopus, focused on the eye. The eye has the characteristic horizontal pupils and is surrounded by ridges, giving the octopus an intense expression. There are tentacles with suckers in the foreground and background. This is a simple sketch, with sketchy white lines on a black background.

The cephalopod merfag from earlier this month needed a pal. She also bites.

Blog post: https://calendsofapril.com/squid-mermaid-october-12-sketch

Merfag post: https://kolektiva.social/@calendsofapril/117411432221561479

#art #noAI #calendsArt #sketch #mermaid #monster #fantasyCreature #cephalopod #tentacles

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Sketch of a squid mermaid in the water. Her lower body has the tentacles which resemble those of a squid, with suckers on the undersides. She is looking to something off-screen with a fierce expression. Her left hand is held up to the side, and her right is gesturing forward, as though to say “stop” and “go away”. These gestures are mirrored by the two largest tentacles. This is a simple sketch, with sketchy white lines on a black background.

RE: https://fosstodon.org/@atoponce/117430207717799058

After 30+ years, I'm officially done with Linux. I'll be working my ass off to get myself onto a BSD. I'll still be running Linux until I can make this happen.

Absolutely #noAI.

AodeRelay boosted

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@atoponce@fosstodon.org

Linus Torvalds Working On A Hefty Linux Kernel Improvement With Claude Code

A new branch named "noref-filemap-read-with-llm" contains kernel improvements he's been working on with the help of AI / LLMs, Claude Code specifically

"The code, the test programs, the review behind the list above and the first draft of this text were done with an LLM coding assistant (Claude Code) under my direction. The measurements were run on my machine."

https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linus-Torvalds-Claude-Code

#linux #ai

@chpietsch @evawolfangel @holgi @uebermedien

sechsteiliger thread mit gesammeltem Material über die entsetzliche Ausbeutung der Menschen, die das „Training“ machen

https://mastodon.green/@gerrymcgovern/117172792450861828

#noai #ki

RE: https://mastodon.social/@Gargron/117424047946230444

Hey other #NoAI fans, the replies in this thread make it very easy to block, so go and block away! But thank you for making this block honney pot!

Esther Payne boosted

Eugen Rochko » 🌐 2026-10-11
@Gargron@mastodon.social

"AI" is a failed technology, in the sense that it's neither fit for purpose, nor a likely path to its stated end goal of "AGI", but a lot of people's profits currently depend on pretending it's not. I am curious to see how long the hype will last once the Nvidia ouroboros ends and money stops being pumped into marketing.

Hoy en "habilidades que no me van a servir nada para mi vida profesional":
Cuando tocamos en vivo para el Metal Battle for Wacken pedimos que se grabara el concierto, como volvimos después de más de 10 años hicimos una intro en torno al volver a la vida e incorporamos audios de Frankenstein.
Ayer se me ocurrió que podía estar bueno subir esos audios a Youtube, pero como si se estuvieran viendo a través de un electrocardiógrafo.
Éste es el resultado:
Me quedo con una estética video juego de los 90 que me resulta de lo más simpática. Ahora tengo que convencer al resto y conseguir que mi hermano largue esos audios.

Wish me luck

#metal
#KdenLive
#Inkscape
#NoAI
#Metal
#Wacken
#WackenOpenAir

#NoAI and #selfpublishing:

Today, I read something in a subreddit about books which got me thinking.

Someone there said, “I am not buying selfpublished books anymore because I cannot verify if they have been generated with AI or not. Surely there are good selfpublished writers out there, but I do not have the capacity to figure out each time if the writer uses gen. AI or not.”

1/2

#writingcommunity #writerslife #writerproblems

J'ai dessiné ça il y a quelques jours après la dernière manif. Tous et toutes dans la rue le 17. 🔥 #illustration #lycees #manifestation #noai #MastoArt #fediart

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Illustration réalisée par Silver représentant une manifestante lycéenne, brandissant une torche fumigène. Le texte indique "Gloire à la jeunesse révoltée, maudite soit la police qui la mutile."

#CovidIsNotOver #NoAI #Consent

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The "Epic Handshake" meme, with "Covid Minimizers" and "AI Bros" shaking hands over "It's here to stay".

The British don't speak German like that.

Translation isn't just about precision. It's also about audience.

A British character in a German translation often doesn't sound British. They sound like a German person's idea of a British person. The same goes for Americans.

German audiences have cultural expectations about how British and American people speak. They expect certain rhythms, certain jokes, certain kinds of politeness, a particular flavour of sarcasm. And translating dialogue means navigating those expectations without turning the characters into cultural caricatures.

You can't solve this by sprinkling well, mate and bloody hell into German sentences and calling it a day. That's not localisation. That's a fancy dress party.

You have to understand what the dialogue does. How a British person uses understatement. How an American expresses enthusiasm. How politeness, humour, irritation and intimacy work differently across cultures. And then you have to find a way to make those things work for your audience without losing the character in translation.

Sometimes precision means preserving the unfamiliar. Sometimes it means adapting the expression so the audience experiences the same effect. Knowing which is which requires judgement, cultural knowledge and a rather good ear.

AI can produce German words that look perfectly plausible. But plausible isn't the same as authentic, and fluent isn't the same as culturally convincing.

A translation doesn't just carry words from one language to another. It carries people across cultural borders.

And people are considerably more complicated than dictionaries.

🐙 Help me keep translation human: support my fundraiser.. Every share helps.

-> https://ko-fi.com/thepurpleoctopus

Thank you!

#KeepTranslationHuman #Translation #AI #noAI #Localisation #Linguistics #Culture

No sir I don't like it

"Linus Torvalds Working On A Hefty Linux Kernel Improvement With Claude Code"

https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linus-Torvalds-Claude-Code

#noai

These days the common assumption seems to be that it's fine to spread the plague. After all, if people didn't want to get infected, they would have stayed at home!

So you have to put all these "please don't spread the plague" signs all over the place. Not just in one prominent place, because plague bearers won't bother checking.

And then they'll come anyway and say:

• "Oh, but I thought I'm only forbidden from *admitting* to having the plague."
• "But I have double checked all my spit, and I'm sure it's not contagious."
• "Oh, sorry, let me just disinfect my mouth and spit again."
• "Go on, try to figure out which of my spit carries the plague, and which doesn't."
• "I'm only using the plague to learn, I'm sure it's not contagious."
• "Who cares? The plague is the future!"

This is a post about #AI.

#NoAI

Me: Finds new interesting open-source project, wow!

Looks inside: Claude AI slop built in less than a week…

We need more good open-source software built by humans, not AI.

#NoAI #OpenSource #FOSS

I'm on board with this proposal! #NoAI

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Meme. Sour face with caption "Artificial Intelligence (AI)". Approving face for the caption "Plagiarized Information Synthesis System (PISS)".

In my private projects and in #Gentoo, I have a strict #NoAI policy. Any LLM-assisted contributions are closed immediately and considered tainted. Use for messaging, bug reporting, etc. also gets you a warning and a request to write yourself. And I dare say I have a heavy ban finger on this; you get one warning only. Well, unless it's clearly an automated submission, in which case you get an immediate ban.

In my dayjob and non-Gentoo work, I also follow a strict policy for my own work. I don't use any of these tools. However, I can't really stop others from doing so, even though I cringe whenever I see someone needing to use an overengineered statistical model to make a trivial change. I can't really reject bug reports, reviews, etc.

The really hard part of it is that I'm starting to have doubts. I truly hate slop in all forms, and what these tools have done to the Internet in general, and to #FreeSoftware in particular. However, I've also gotten some good reports. Like, the kind of tricky logic issues in the specification I am developing that I would have never figured out myself, and that may have never came up during the review otherwise. In other words, someone running an LLM on the specification triggered real bugs that would likely slipped through and required a post-approval specification change when someone noticed that we've introduced incompatible constraints in two different parts of the specification, that would eventually be hit in real use.

All the ethical problems are still there. All the harm is still there. However, I can't really claim that these tools vomit pure useless slop anymore. I feel that it's really time for me to retire.

I’ve been considering borrowing the practice of someone at work and sending out a weekly update email. In the spirit of #NoAI I was just musing that I could invite folks to write me a prompt (as if I was a LLM?). And really, all this prompt engineering is just asking good questions (but I digress). For example:

“Tell us what the Dean has been doing in the last week and please avoid all analogies, interesting stories, and the use of any gendered language”, or, “What was the most exciting meeting you attended in the last week? What was the most boring and useless?”, or, “When can we hope you’ll retire?”

How would you prompt your boss? (Keep it #spicy this isn’t fucking #linkedin )

This fuckin "I made this myself with No A.I .. but then after release I used LLMs and AI to bug fix and create new features" is FUcKING EXHAUSTING Y'ALL.

Stop tying to weasel - word your way out of criticism. Have some GODDAM BALLS FFS !

#NoAI #NoLLM #Software #Feeware #SoftwareDev #Opensource

Mood.

#artByADHD #sketchbookArt #fediArt #humanArt #noAI

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Distorted face emoji, but in Van Gogh Starry Night style. Blue, purple, yellow oil pastels in a sketchbook

Open Source is about a lot of things. For one of many, it's about human interaction. At least, for me, it is. If we allow AI usage in Open Source projects, the human interaction is gone.

#noAI

#neverslop #noai #fuckai #artwork #MakeUglyThings

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A doodle by Ángel Ortega depicting a clockwork fish named Clockwerk Shue saying FCK LLM surrounded by the text "clockwerk shue says no to ai"

Silent Sunday 🌿

#art #mastoart #fediart #silentsunday #digitalart #noai #krita #speedpaint #nature #plants #dragon #fantasy

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A bonsai dragon in all of its glory. Surrounded by various green plants. https://www.deviantart.com/sylviaritter/art/Speedpainting-03122023-999088432

@FotoVorschlag
'Heiter bis wolkig' ist bestes #Mopedwetter
#FotoVorschlag #mywork #foto #noai #motorrad

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Blick über ein Motorradcockpit in eine Mittelgebirgslandschaft.

Do you want us to cut down your forest for a data centre to power our chatbot?
- Yes
- Maybe later

If you’re angry (but not surprised) that the people with zero understanding of consent may be guilty of illegal logging, here’s a list of alternative services to help chop down their bottom line:

#bigtech #nobigtech #GAFAM #deletegafam #proton #tuta #microslop #capitalism #anticapitalism #socialism #surveillance #foss #opensource #noai #digitalsovereignty #techalternatives #fediverse #finland #consent #nature #forest #ecosystem #conservation

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This image lists alternatives to various Google services like search, gmail and YouTube.

Wenn schon Linus Torvalds Drogen verharmlost bzw. meint, dass heutzutage Drogenabhängigkeit normal oder notwendig sei …

https://winfuture.de/news,161854.html

#LinusTorwalds #Linux #KI #AI #noAI #artificialIntelligence #genAI #generativeAI #ChatBots #LLMs #vibeCoding

@adrian_fellhauer i appreciate your consideration in using the slopbot tag, coz now i can add that to my blocking filters

Fuck Generative AI, coz:

• largest theft of private IP in human history
• massive water + energy demands as climate crisis intensifies
• authoritative bullshit generation via unsolvable hallucinations
• whole-internet continuous DDoS attacks by web-scraping AI-feeding bots

#AI #LLMs #FuckGenerativeAI #FuckTechBros #CredulousFools #IPTheft #AntiAI #NoAI #Hallucinations #ClimateCrisis #BiodiversityCrisis #SocialDestruction #FuckCapitalism #weareselfishcruelbastards #wearetotallyfucked #AsteroidNow

Periodic checkin: who is hiring that doesn't force developers to use AI for writing code?

#NoAI #NoGenAI #Jobs #FediHired #GetFediHired

To make this clear if it wasn't already:

I'm NOT interested in a Vibe-Coded `Design-Suite`. If *you* want to use it go for it, but STOP telling me about it.

I do graphic design because I like creating designs.
I like programming because I enjoy creating software.

I don't want to use software a clanker wrote just because it was `copied from adobe`. I haven't used adobe software in over 8 years.

Go use Krita, learn Inkscape and Scribus. We have the alternatives already.

#noai

I know this sounds weird, but I think I might start simply dropping incoming connections by src ip, if they come from an ASN of a cloud provider or an AI firm. I am aware this would exclude folks, but the open internet seems to be a thing of the past anyway. Thank the AI companies for degrading the internet commons so quickly.

#noai #llm #sysadmin #crawlers

A Mandalorian Clan following their creed but instead of requiring that no living things see their faces, showing their faces to living things directly is fine, but the creed requires that no artificial vision systems record their faces or collect their face prints.

Who's in?

#TheMandalorian #StarWars #Privacy #NoAI

simulação 3D para projeto de arquitetura residencial entregue essa semana. Casa implantada em pavimento único, com pé direito duplo e estética modernista à pedido dos contratantes.

3D modeling #sketchup #sketchup3d
rendering #vray #raytracing #noAI

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Um edifício residencial moderno com uma elegante fachada cinza com grandes janelas e um telhado plano distinto. A entrada é marcada por uma porta preta com o número 123. Vegetação exuberante envolve a entrada, e um céu azul claro é visível acima.

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Uma casa moderna e minimalista com uma combinação de materiais cinza claro e cinza escuro. A estrutura tem janelas grandes e um telhado plano. Uma elegante porta de garagem é visível de um lado, com o número de endereço "123" exibido com destaque na fachada.

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Fachada moderna da casa ao entardecer, com linhas limpas, detalhes em pedra, uma garagem e caminhos iluminados. O número "123" está visível na porta da frente.

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Uma entrada de casa moderna com uma elegante porta da frente cinza, uma garagem com um carro estacionado e um caminho que leva à porta. A fachada inclui grandes janelas com cortinas e é cercada por grama bem conservada.

@davidrevoy Have you been tracking this?

https://creativecommons.org/2026/05/13/from-signals-to-infrastructure-strengthening-the-commons-for-the-ai-era/

#NoAI #CreativeCommons

Antifa Crossing #Art #AnimalCrossing #noAI

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Drawing of Isabelle from Animal Crossing wearing an Antifa shirt.

You maybe have seen it before, but relevant to the discussion: Human Emacs.

People with no artistic skills found a way to replace people with artistic skills by using a machine that stole from those who shared their artistic skills. Now they can just pay a monthly fee to another company to access the artistic skills theft machine instead of an actual human with artistic skills.

#NoAI #FuckAI #AI

Its ridiculous what you can do with office 95, Acrobat 4.0, and Photoshop 4.0.

I've created a professional looking poster for a local furmeet from my fictional travel agency in Publisher 95.

And of course a fictional travel agency needs a sign-up form. So i created a professional looking form in Word 95 to gather all of this

Also i used Paint Shop Pro 4.0 to resize the huge images my camera created to a more reasonable size the vm could handle inside the publisher document.

The .pub comes out to a 4 mb file size. So i also installed Adobe Acrobat to convert the poster into a actual PDF.

And all of this using Windows 95 as a operating system. With is running in #86box

And i did this using my actual brain, no artificial intellenge involved!

#retrocomputing #desktoppublishing #emulation #windows9x #word95 #publisher #PaintShopPro #noai

Thanks to the *other* person ordering something from my shop! 💖

https://shop.jfml.eu/

Unfortunately, I'm now all out of anti AI slop stickers 🤖

Would people be interested in them if I order more?

#JfmlArt #art #NoAI #AISlop #NeverSlop #AntiAI #sticker #MastoArt #Art #FediGiftShop #inkscape #illustration

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Photo of a hand in front of a green plant holding a sticker on a square piece of paper showing an illustration in ochre and mint green of a tv-like robot's head that has dollar signs for the eyes and two bullet holes in it's display, making a :P emoji. Laying at it's side is a yellow cat, looking angry that is grabbing a marker with her tail. She's just written „Built from stolen art“ on the side of the robot . Above the illustration it says „Ew, AI Slop!“ and beneath it „Support Real Artists!“, with a little speech bubble pointing at the cat, saying „like her“.

RE: https://tldr.nettime.org/@tante/117406795857681781

Those people, often students, approach people at parties, events, and start talking about "AI safety". The best defense is letting them know that you are well aware of "effective altruists", and what a cult they are.

Read here what a dangerous cult they are, from a former member: https://www.realtimetechpocalypse.com/p/effective-altruism-is-a-dangerous

Here are the faces and names of "effective altruists" high up the hierarchy in Germany: https://effektiveraltruismus.de/en/team-en/

One of them tried to sell me their story 10 days ago. He is completely fried: https://ea.greaterwrong.com/users/birk-kaellberg?sort=old (this is not SF to them, they truly believe those things)

He organizes "AI safety" talks in his garden in Heidelberg and the listeners get a free dinner. He says their money comes from "philanthropists".

At first I thought he was just someone who bought into the EA talks about "AI safety", so I warned him against EA, even told him "I think your heart is in the right place" but then it turned out he knew full well what cult he was in, so then I was rude and made fun of their prophet Yudkowsky and Sam Bankman Fried, and he ended up giggling nervously and self-soothing by caressing his fingers. Then he switched to chatting up students.

Honestly, I haven't been so creeped out by a cult since Opus Dei! They have money and can pull in uninformed people. Spread the word! Make it embarrassing to engage with EA!

ETA: Of course they are in Heidelberg, they are everywhere: https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/groups

#AI #noAI #technofascism #technoOptimism

Can we please have the non-AI version of Google back? I do not want an AI summary. I do not want an AI overview. I do not want AI to read the internet for me. I want Google to show me the actual results. How do I turn this nonsense off?

#ai #noai #rechnology #nonsense #google

@IngridHbn
I’ve been using DuckDuckGo for a loooong time and their #NOAI option is very good. I could never, ever go back to Google search

#dragon doodle before bed 🌙

#digitalArt #mastoart #sketch #characterdesign #design #drawing #procreate #noai

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i am too sleepy to write an alt text but i will absolutely be finishing this drawing at some point soon and then will write a solid description!

#Gentoo has a strict #NoAI policy, so our projects are slop-free. Unfortunately, these days you cannot run an up-to-date system without tons of random slop packages, because everyone insists on using that crap.

Gentoo supports a whole bunch of architectures that probably every other distribution dumped so far. Unfortunately, these days the available software list is shrinking, as everyone insists on adding some random meaningless dependencies on #RustLang (like using uv-build, which is the single most harmful meaningless #Python project ever created).

Gentoo has a strong upstream cooperation policy. However, these days I'm afraid to file issues, because just too often they just trigger more slop. I miss the "good" old days where the worst you could expect is some toxic asshole.

The state of #FreeSoftware is truly depressing. There is little joy in distribution work these days. You're overwhelmed with shit, burned out and end up doing a shitty job. And it's bad for your health.

#FLOSS

@AeonCypher whilst some of my essential services use gen-ai bots now in lieu of humans, for their first-tier customer support, hence i can't avoid them despite my fierce objection, for everything else that i can directly control, i simply refuse entirely to use slopbottery. by that i mean i will disable all slopbottery in fav apps if i have the option, otherwise replace such apps if i can't disable the slop. i certainly will never use any overt gen-ai service, ugh vomit. sadly though, these days #linux itself seems to be rapidly overrun with slopbottery, which breaks my heart, so i am actively though so far not terribly successfully assessing possible escape avenues, eg a #BSD, or even #Haiku

Fuck Generative AI, coz:

• largest theft of private IP in human history
• massive water + energy demands as climate crisis intensifies
• authoritative bullshit generation via unsolvable hallucinations
• whole-internet continuous DDoS attacks by web-scraping AI-feeding bots

#AI #LLMs #FuckGenerativeAI #FuckTechBros #CredulousFools #IPTheft #AntiAI #NoAI #Hallucinations #ClimateCrisis #BiodiversityCrisis #SocialDestruction #FuckCapitalism #weareselfishcruelbastards #wearetotallyfucked #AsteroidNow
#DropbearPooterising #Linux #LinuxWomen #FOSS

Where can I find the word "email" in fancy caligraphy such that it's made by a human and is freely reusable for a blogpost featured image?

#noSlop #noAI

My successful Kickstarter campaign needs late pledges, because it's my survival income. I lost my livelihood for opposing Gen AI.

Check out my reputation on Kickstarter, every single campaign I've done has been fulfilled as promised. My books are lovingly human researched and human written, pre-2020 style. With human crafted cover art by Cory Gerard.

Please pledge $15 or share: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/kimcrawley/recovering-after-gen-ai/

#NoAI

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Microsoft exec called Al scrapping the "largest theft of labor in human history," september 17th, 2026 in Ars "It is highly unusual that an end-proiduct threatens the economic foundations of its essential suppliers, but that Is the situation we have created for our LLM business with respect to its ‘content supply chain." Gen Al isn't "here to stay," Gen Al is eating itself. Help a professor who was forced to quit her job because OPIT was going to force her to subject her students to Gen Al. Successful Kickstarter campaign still needs late pledges for survival income. Pledge until day before publication later in October: t.ly/AfterAlBook

Do you hate Gen AI? I'm a real human writer, and I need your help.

Late pledge Recovering After Gen AI or share the Kickstarter on your social media.

Book publishes next week. Time sensitive!

Please share! 🎉 🎉

--

I'm a former cybersecurity professor who quit her job because the Open Institute of Technology was forcing me to subject my students to Gen AI.

Kickstarter is my sole source of income for the time being, and I'm really struggling financially.

#NoAI

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/kimcrawley/recovering-after-gen-ai

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RECOVERING AFTER GEN AI RESTORING HUMANITY AFTER THE TECHBROS TRIED TO ANNIHILATE US Microsoft exec called Al scrapping the "largest theft of labor in human history," "lt is highly unusual that an end-product threatens the economic foundations of its y essential suppliers, but that » is the situation we have created for our LLM business with respect to its ‘content supply chain." Gen Al isn't "here to stay," Gen Al is eating itself. Help a professor who was forced to quit her job because OPIT was going to force her to subject her students to Gen Al. Successful Kickstarter campaign still needs late pledges for survival income. Pledge until day before publication later in October: t.ly/AfterAlBook

If you have ever paid a human being to translate something because you cared about the result:
Thank you.

If you've never done it:
Perhaps now is a good time.

If you can't afford it:
Please boost my fundraiser anyway.
-> https://ko-fi.com/thepurpleoctopus/goal?g=1

#translation #AI #noAI #support #fundraising

It's finally done. My rewrite of Python for Defenders for 2026 is live!

https://taggartinstitute.org/t/course-catalog/125/21

If you want to learn Python the way cybersecurity professionals should, this is the course for you.

And oh yeah, #NoAI was used or is recommended.

Meet 🌟 Stonking Stingray 🌟.
Created with Krita, Blender and 1% Gimp - GNU Image Manipulation Program. It took a month to paint it. Inspired by the Ubuntu release name 26.10 scheduled for release on October 15!

#art #mastoart #fediart #stingray #animals #colorful #digitalArt #noai #portrait #linux #wallpaper #krita #blender #stonking #landscape #nature

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A colorful stingray portrait inspired by Ubuntu release name 26.10, created with Krita, Blender and 1% Gimp - GNU Image Manipulation Program. There are at least 220 species of stingrays. The cownose ray caught most of my attention, probably because it looks so cute. Stonking, a British slang adjective, describes something massive or heavy, something extremely good (no pressure!) or impressive. The stingray spends most of the time on the ground of the ocean. It camouflages by burying itself in the sand. Therefore I was drawn to the moment it casts a shadow on the ocean floor. The shadow developed into an oasis in the desert surrounded by sand dunes and puffy clouds. It also resembles the nights sky on its belly. This tiny oasis (at least in comparison to the giant stonking stingray floating above) is celebrating the annual stingray festival. You can see lots of tents in different sizes, sand buildings, flora (palm trees & shrubs), stingray kites, fire places, boats, jetties. You can also get a glimpse of the inhabitants celebrating with their friends, families, visitors and pets. This stingray is also giving everybody a cooling break from the extreme heat in the desert. A special moment captured for eternity. Happy Stonking Stingray Day! :) It took a month to finish this artwork. https://www.deviantart.com/sylviaritter/art/Stonking-Stingray-1389931075

#ThrowBackThursday

Causeway Bay, Hong Kong 铜锣湾 香港

(Details In The #AltText) (Described by Human)

#NoGenAi #NoAI #No2AI #Photo #Photography #Travel #TravelPhotography #PhotoOfTheDay #POTD #StreetPhotography #CamelCase #UrbanPhotography #City #Cityscape #Street #HongKong #CausewayBay #China #香港 #Asia #Asian #Boat #Boats #HouseBoat #HouseBoats #People #铜锣湾 #铜锣湾避风塘 #Sampan #Sampans #Water

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This is a grungy black and white photo in landscape format of a Chinese man rowing a small sampan through a mass of small moored houseboats. Causeway Bay Typhoon Shelter, Hong Kong (2014). The inky black, rippled waters rise from the base of the photo upwards to the one-third up level disturbed by multiple, random, silver reflections. Below and slightly to the right of centre is the small dinghy-like sampan, no more than three metres long. The camera is two metres above the water, five metres from the boat and angled slightly downwards with the sampan filling half the width of the photo. Surrounding the boat are a few white cylindrical white plastic fenders lashed horizontally to the gunwales. Standing a little aft of centre is our middle-aged Chinese man propelling the sampan with a long stern sculling oar called a 'yuloh'. He is viewed obliquely with his front and left side in view. He has short dark hair, is wearing a light toned tennis shirt, dark trousers and dark trainers. He is looking to his left and holding the yuloh in his left hand. Inside the boat are a few ropes in the stern and a white plastic cylinder and crab pot in the bow. A few metres beyond the sampan is a mass of closely spaced, moored houseboats. All are converted from small, around five metres long, dinghies and sampans. All have arched roofs stretching the length of the boats. The roofs are made up of numerous arched frames positioned along the length of the boat with long bamboo poles lashed lengthways and a fabric cover tied on top. Many of the boats have washing drying on lines.

Because it's Halloween month, I'll post some spooky artwork every day until the joyful day has arrived.

Death Motel (2019) 💀

#halloween #horror #design #artwork #2D #vector #illustration #illustrator #fantasy #DigitalArt #OriginalArt #digital #style #art #artist #arts #arte #designer #GraphicDesign #minimalism #NoAI #HumanArt #ArtLovers #drawing #doodle #MastoArt #FediArt #MastodonArt #CreativeToots #ArtistsOnMastodon

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Graphic-style artwork of a lonely motel building at night, with a large skull on top.

Because it's Halloween month, I'll post some spooky artwork every day until the joyful day has arrived.

The Skull Collector (2018) 💀

#halloween #horror #design #CharacterDesign #artwork #2D #vector #illustration #illustrator #fantasy #DigitalArt #OriginalArt #digital #style #art #artist #arts #arte #designer #GraphicDesign #minimalism #NoAI #HumanArt #ArtLovers #drawing #doodle #MastoArt #FediArt #MastodonArt #CreativeToots #ArtistsOnMastodon

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Graphic-style artwork of a cute demon holding a trident, surrounded by fire and whimsical skulls.

Because it's Halloween month, I'll post some spooky artwork every day until the joyful day has arrived.

Flower Power (2026) 🌸💀

#halloween #horror #design #artwork #2D #vector #illustration #illustrator #fantasy #DigitalArt #OriginalArt #digital #style #art #artist #arts #arte #designer #GraphicDesign #minimalism #NoAI #HumanArt #ArtLovers #drawing #doodle #MastoArt #FediArt #MastodonArt #CreativeToots #ArtistsOnMastodon

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Graphic-style artwork, showing flowers in a skull-shaped vase.

Because it's Halloween month, I'll post some spooky artwork every day until the joyful day has arrived.

Demon Judge (2019) 💀

#halloween #horror #design #artwork #2D #vector #illustration #illustrator #fantasy #DigitalArt #OriginalArt #digital #style #art #artist #arts #arte #designer #GraphicDesign #minimalism #NoAI #HumanArt #ArtLovers #drawing #doodle #MastoArt #FediArt #MastodonArt #CreativeToots #ArtistsOnMastodon

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Graphic-style artwork of a demon judge.

Because it's Halloween month, I'll post some spooky artwork every day until the joyful day has arrived.

They come at night (2024)

#halloween #horror #design #artwork #2D #vector #illustration #illustrator #fantasy #DigitalArt #OriginalArt #digital #style #art #artist #arts #arte #designer #GraphicDesign #NoAI #HumanArt #ArtLovers #drawing #doodle #MastoArt #FediArt #MastodonArt #CreativeToots #ArtistsOnMastodon

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In a dark bedroom, a person is lying in bed, surrounded by demons.

Via Greg Pak on Bluesky: "No AI for kids" NYC, if you agree, go to HeyMamdani.fyi and tell the mayor to CANCEL the pilots that could inflict unproven "A.i." on up to 50,000 NYC high schoolers.

Our kids should not be guinea pigs for tech companies!"

#GenAI #NYC #ZohranMamdani #NoAI

https://www.nyc.gov/mayors-office/contact-the-mayor

Tips for hosting email in docker/on kubernetes?

Any helm charts you like?

Any images you like?

Any particular servers or clients you like?

Any security steps you take?

Any fancy crowdsec rules?

Firewall tips?

Please do not suggest anything LLM/AI related. I'm not interested. If I wanted that, there's an ocean of slop out there.

Update: getting great server suggestions, please keep em' coming! Also interested in TUIs, desktop apps, web mail, and android apps :)

#email #selfhosting #foss #selfhost #kubernetes #docker #noai

So, based on all the replies here, on lobste.rs, and in anti-ai spaces, I've compiled an issue on my forgejo to start parsing what I want to try for myself as well as what I might offer as a service down the line. It mostly just categorizes links to all the things and adds super brief comments selected from here and lobste.rs so I can take everything into consideration on various categories of things to offer, in addition to just fun treats to try myself (like CLI/TUIs).

You can check it out here:
https://git.open.engineering/oeng/argocd-apps/issues/115

#email #selfhosting #foss #selfhost #kubernetes #docker #noAI

Hello, @CryptPad . What is your stance on generative AI and its use in developing cryptpad?
I've been a happy user and supporter of#cryptpad for years now, but I am also radically against #LLM , and want to make sure we are on the same page. Thank you!
#noAI

One of the things AI translation is spectacularly bad at is character voice.

A character in a novel does not merely say things. They have habits. Favourite turns of phrase. Odd little colloquialisms. A particular rhythm. Maybe they are dry, breathless, pompous, tender, sarcastic, provincial, flamboyant, or gloriously weird.

AI tends to turn all of that into statistically plausible soup.

A human translator can look at a character and think: No. This is how this person talks.

And then recreate that voice in another language without losing what made it theirs in the first place.

That is what translation is supposed to do: change the language while keeping the person.

This is one of the reasons I am still fighting for human translation, especially for literature, science, and all the wonderfully strange things that deserve better than AI slop.

And yes, I am still trying to keep my little human translation business afloat. 🌱

If you would like to help me keep doing this work, my fundraiser is here:

💜 [https://ko-fi.com/thepurpleoctopus]

Sharing it helps enormously, too. Every little signal that human translation still matters counts. 🐙📚

#HumanTranslation #TranslationMatters #LiteraryTranslation #NoAI #SupportHumanWork

Huge news for the NetBSD community today! 🎉

The yearly funding campaign just wrapped up with a massive $120,282 raised against a $50,000 goal.

Great job to everyone who chipped in! 🚩

#NetBSD #Linux #runbsd #noai #nollm #noslop

What is making you stay in tech in this age of slop?
#AI #noAI #LLM #LLMs #vibecoding

#EastportME Council unanimously adopts moratorium on #DeepGreen #UnderwaterDatacenter proposal

By Melissa S. Razdrih, August 13, 2026

EASTPORT — "The City Council voted unanimously Wednesday to enact a 180‑day moratorium that halts all progress on a proposed underwater artificial intelligence data center planned for waters off Eastport.

"Councilors said the move gives them time to consult with the Eastport Planning Board on the zoning impacts of two citizen-initiated ordinances designed to prevent data center projects in the city by amending the city’s Zoning and Shoreland Zoning ordinances.

"At the heart of the controversy is a project proposed by #LouisWolfson, a #LuxuryRealEstateDeveloper from Needham, Massachusetts, and the managing member of #DeepGreenHoldingsLLC.

"The company formed in Delaware one month before applying for Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, or #FERC, preliminary permits to build tidal‑powered, underwater artificial intelligence data centers for both #DeepGreenWesternPassageSPV in #Maine and a second project in the #UpperCookInlet in #Alaska.

"The Alaska proposal has also faced #resistance from the local community.

"In February, DeepGreen filed a 48‑month preliminary permit application with FERC to begin engineering and environmental tests in Maine, a required first step toward developing an underwater #AIDatacenter in the #BayOfFundy .

"The application drew an almost immediate response from residents and #Passamaquoddy tribal officials, who strongly oppose the development. Among the most vocal opponents is the #EastportCoalitionForHealthyOceans, or #ECHO, which submitted two citizen petitions for ordinances intended to prevent the project and protect what the group describes as 'the character of the city.'

"FERC found multiple deficiencies in DeepGreen’s application, including failure to identify all Tribes affected by the project, failure to specify all physical dimensions and configurations required by statute, inclusion of maps that extended beyond the required project boundaries, and a lack of detailed technical explanation for a 400‑acre 'operational envelope' despite a much smaller active infrastructure footprint.

"In its response to FERC, DeepGreen supplied the requested names and contact information for Tribal leaders. The company also provided an updated map and revised technical specifications showing a significantly smaller proposal, reducing the original 400‑acre operational envelope in the Western Passage to an active infrastructure footprint of 27.1 acres.

"The company also told FERC that the 'total proposed project operational capacity has been scaled down to a maximum of 15 MW (megawatts) to align with revised commercial modeling,' compared to an earlier proposal that envisioned up to 51 MW. In the revised Phase I, DeepGreen projects installing 16 marine hydrokinetic turbines, increasing to 34 in Phase II. The original proposal called for 170 turbines.

"The permit application for the Alaska project received a similar letter of deficiencies from FERC, but the company has not indicated that the Alaska proposal is being scaled down."

Read more:
themainemonitor.org/eastport-adopts-moratorium-underwater-data-center-proposal/

#UnderwaterDatacenters #NoAI
#NoAIDatacenters #WaterIsLife
#OceansAreLife #BigTech #MainePol #PassamaquoddyNation #CenterForBiologicalDiversity
#Whales #EndangeredWhales #EndangeredSpecies

I'm looking forward to when all datacentre construction implodes.

@davidgerard@circumstances.run @davidgerard

#NoAI

https://youtu.be/Mj3MYXaR4nA

#FotoVorschlag 'Niedlichkeitsüberforderung'
#PhotoSuggestion 'Cuteness Overload'

(Details in the #AltText) (AltText By Human)

#NoGenAi #NoAI #No2AI #Photo #CamelCase #Photography #Animal #TravelPhotography #Animals #PhotoOfTheDay #POTD #WildlifePhotography #NaturePhotography #Nature #Wildlife #Antarctic #Antarctica #Remote #Isolated #Snow #Ice #Bird #Birds #BirdsOfFediverse #Birdsofmastodon #BirdOfTheDay #Birding #BirdPhotography #Penguin #Penguins #ChinstrapPenguin #ChinstrapPenguins

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This is a colour wildlife photo in landscape format of an adult Chinstrap Penguin (Pygoscelis antarcticus) waddling on a pack of snow down to the sea. Graham Land, Antarctica (2024). To the right of centre is our chinstrap penguin and with the bed of well trodden (by penguins) snow covering the entire photo. The penguin is viewed obliquely with the front and right side in view, the camera about half a metre above the snow and two metre from the bird (actually much further but using a long lens and a cropped image). The bird is filling three-quarters of the height of the photo, half the width and is walking (waddling) from right to left and towards the camera. Our penguin has a black back extending upwards to form a cap on top of the head finishing over the eyes and at the top of the short, black beak. A thin black line runs from the back of the neck, under the eyes and beak and up the far side: hence the name. It's wings (flippers) are spread outwards to aid balance. The wings have a thin black line stretching along the leading edges while the undersides are white. The birds front is all white though with a few small orange 'penguin poo' stains scattered around, personal hygiene isn't a penguin thing. The two large pink feet are half buried in the deep snow.

#NoAI Android games in itch.io

https://itch.io/games/platform-android/tag-no-ai

https://cliuanon.substack.com/p/the-life-of-a-nurse-practitioner

The Life of a Nurse Practitioner during the AI Takeover

#ai #noai #tech

As ridiculous as Catholicism is, The Pope is correct about this.

@davidgerard@circumstances.run @davidgerard

#NoAI

https://youtu.be/9VCWgoIrRCo

The No AI List now has a category "Books, Authors & Writers", where my homepage is currently the only entry.
http://noailist.org/books-and-authors/
If you are writing books without the help of AI, why not add them to the list?
#noai #books #writers #authors

"The Perennial Calendar - For Anniversaries".
Always keep the dates that matter in your life where you can see them. 🌿
https://shop.sylvia-ritter.com/products/perennial-calendar-for-anniversaries

#art #mastoart #fediart #calender #animals #portrait #colorful #noai #nature #wolf #deer #badger #koala #cute

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This calendar includes animal illustrations from my ongoing series inspired by the Ubuntu release names. - Limited first edition of 100 calendars. - All calendars will be signed and numbered by the artist. - Shipping Details / Lieferzeiten Featuring: January - "Lucid Lynx" February - "Breezy Badger" March - "Intrepid Ibex" April - "Jaunty Jackalope" May - "Feisty Fawn" June - "Quantal Quetzal" July - "Natty Narwhal" August - "Karmic Koala" September - "Oneiric Ocelot" October - "Xenial Xerus" November - "Wily Werewolf" December - "Raring Ringtail"

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My artwork Breezy Badger: A cute and colorful badger portrait. https://www.deviantart.com/sylviaritter/art/Breezy-Badger-584218196

Wer freut sich auf vollautomatisch halluzinierte Fichen?

«Die Polizei kann (...) Analyse­systeme einsetzen, welche die Erschliessung, Darstellung und Analyse von Zusammen­hängen oder grossen Daten­beständen einschliesslich besonderer Personen­daten erlauben.»

Das steht im Entwurf zum neuen Polizei­gesetz des Kantons Zürich. Der Kantonsrat nahm die Vorlage Ende März mit einer 2:1-Mehrheit an, es tritt am 1. Dezember in Kraft. Im Entwurf heisst es weiter:

«Zu den Analyse­systemen zählen (…) intelligente Analysesysteme, die auf der Grundlage einer algorithmischen Entscheid­findung aus den Eingaben eigen­ständig Ergebnisse ableiten.»

https://www.republik.ch/2026/10/05/skalierbare-ueberwachung

#noai #chpol

Epstein had a hand in funding the racist, eugenics-loving nutjobs responsible for this AI crap!

https://bylinetimes.com/2025/12/05/how-epstein-channelled-race-science-and-climate-culling-into-silicon-valleys-ai-elite/

#noai #ai #fuckai

🔮 Pondering

#noai #neverslop #art #bryce #3d #raytracing #orb

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its a 3d raytraced orb for pondering, it was made in bryce, its got checker textures that are cube mapped, so it forms little 'arches' along the sphere, and the water is kind of oily, with reds and blues, the sky is blue with a purple fog.

I have to say that I'm a bit surprised (okay, a lot surprised!) that the Gnu Project is actually considering a pro-AI policy. This is one project that I would have thought that AI would have been off the table, no questions asked. Thankfully, there are some Gnu developers who are willing, able, and very ready to start forking projects if the vote goes very wrong.

#noAI

#IamSeeingDots posted a very fun recorded performance for #WeirdsvilleAlternativeOnlineFestiveal 2026.

Live music with #noAI.

You can check it out on their YT channel:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NyMY_tV8xLg

Vim, with no AI.

Vim Classic

https://vim-classic.org/

#vim #noAI

As an Emacs user and someone who is very much against AI, I like this very, very much.

Human Emacs

https://human-emacs.org/

#noAI

A massive cyber attack surface! Monero cryptocurrency! Cyber attack botnets! Perhaps clankers giving their credit card numbers to the slop bot to make purchases on their behalf?

Did you know that radium was popular in a wide variety of consumer goods well into the 1930s? And despite evidence of asbestos danger since the 1930s, it wasn't banned in Canada until the 2010s?

@davidgerard @davidgerard@circumstances.run

#NoAI

https://youtu.be/HytNZfilDJs

The amount of money that has been spent on data centers could likely have fed the entire world's population a few times over.

Good to see where our priorities lie.

#capitalism #TechBros #technology #hunger #socialjustice #NoAI #DataCenters #bigbrother #SurveillanceCapitalism #privacy

I’m sharing this again because it’s so great! So, You Want to be an AI Slopper https://foofaraw.press/so-you-want-to-be-an-ai-slopper/ #AI #NoAI

Debian is obviously a rock-solid choice for CERN. With their massive software ecosystem and community, it makes total sense why they went that route. But part of me can't help but wonder what a NetBSD-powered Large Hadron Collider would look like! ⚛️

NetBSD’s hardware portability just seems like a perfect match for lab. Plus, using pkgsrc to manage complex scientific software seamlessly across all those different niche architectures would be incredible to see at that scale.

Nothing but respect for the Debian rollout, but a sysadmin can dream! 🚩🚀

@cern

#NetBSD #CERN #Debian #Linux #UNIX #OpenSource #noai #nollm #antiai

"In this era of artificial intelligence, it is becoming urgent to distinguish human art from what machines produce. There is an ontological difference, even before an aesthetic one, between art and what a machine can generate through statistical calculation based on millions of images created by others. Algorithms lack the spark of humanity. For this reason, the Church wishes to renew an alliance with artists and cultural institutions to safeguard our humanity."

https://mashable.com/tech/pope-leo-xiv-ai-art-slop

#NoAI

@leigh there absolutely is a secret cabal of anti-corporate anti-LLM developers out there. @whitequark is one of them, leading the ChiPass project which is a fork of KeePassXC; the hashtag #neverslop is emerging as a stronger, anti-corporate version of #noai though it's currently dominated by (technology adjacent) artists.

start looking there and expand your follows / search outward.

my personal thought is that tech projects consist of a community first and the software second and healthy communities will reject AI anyway. so become part of the community of the tools you want to use, and try to help them be (or become) healthy communities.

A paper that found that AI-generated art has a positive impact on cultural identity and the sustainability of cultural heritage has been retracted because (take a guess...) it was written by AI.

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2405844026010303

#AI #NoAI #art

Title: Signal (1962)

Artist: Kiyoshi Saito

https://www.wcel.org/blog/5-reasons-why-albertas-bitumen-pipeline-through-bc-not-national-interest #ShinHanga #Art #SosakuHanga #NoAi #Showa #KiyoshiSaito #Japan #Mood

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Railway tracks depicted as slim white lines intersect and weave amongst each other across dirty gray earth. In the foreground, a signal light is showing us a steady red. Beyond, overlapping utility poles and industrial gridwork structures screen the shadowy shapes of blocky city buildings. Everything is still: there are no trains on the tracks, no life in the image, no lights in the distant buildings. Above, the sky is dingy and dark.

@mozilla, once again, not reading the room. Did someone actually ask for this?

#noAI

https://blog.mozilla.org/en/firefox/firefox-ai/prompt-tuning-firefox-shake-to-summarize-recipes/

"The existential risk to humanity from AI, it's stupid people." - @davidgerard

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CfvH8vHoMX4

#noAI #AI #LLM #LLMs #vibeDefence

Trump's New 'AI Guardrails' Are Worthless Gibberish Propped Up By A Shitty Press

#noai

https://karlbode.com/trumps-new-ai-guardrails-are-worthless-gibberish-propped-up-by-a-shitty-press/

Over $100 added in the past day, but because Gen AI stole my professor livelihood, my Kickstarter funded self published books are still 95% of my income. And I'm behind in rent.

Late pledges will be taken until the day before publication! About $12 USD for an eBook.

My book Recovering After Gen AI, now 80% written and set to publish before October ends, is about what we do when this nightmare ends, very soon.

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Perhaps most explosively, Microsoft Director of Applied Science Brent Hecht repeatedly warned in documents that scraping news for Al training was proportions,” calling it perhaps the “largest theft of miabominhumERhisigry news orgs said. In another document, Hecht contradicted Microsoft and OpenAl’s argument that training Al on news content is fair use, suggesting that the plan to widely scrape news made “a complete mockery of the idea of ‘fair use.” Over at OpenAl, ChatGPT head Nick Turley wrote in an internal message that publishers would face an “existential threat” from commercial products trained on news content that can be used to substitute news providers. One Microsoft document even described a “doom loop,” news eba ime.” “iS RTgALY Unsual that an end-productthreatens the economic foundations of its essential suppliers, b created eo “supply chain,” that document said.

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For the time being, good people who actually use their brains and critical thinking skills, and, this will blow your mind, actually write their own words like it's pre-2020... are struggling to survive financially. Please, please, please either share my Kickstarter campaign for Recovering After Gen Al on your social media, or pledge about $12 USD or so to get your eBook when it comes out in a few weeks. Because the campaign for Recovering After Gen Al is taking late pledges, | will take late pledges until the day before | publish the book and my backers receive it.

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This project successfully funded on August 5, but you can still Late Pledge for available rewards. Recovering After Gen Al Scientists who aren't on Big Tech's payroll say the Gen Al nightmare will end soon. How do we deal with the environment and society? Kim Crawley 4 created « 6 backed | CA$ 8,714 300 pledged of CA$ 2,999 backers

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The nightmare of Gen Al will soon end. Extensive scientific research shows that continued Gen Al infrastructure is literally impossible due to the laws of physics. The financial bubble will likely pop in 2027. Model collapse means that Gen Al will soon no longer have good data to "train" on. (I substantiate my claims in the research citations section, further down this page.) What's next? So the next step when it comes to surviving technofascism is to do our absolute best to recover from the absolutely massive and multifaceted destruction caused by Gen Al. Such as: e Immense tech debt in the form of the code bases of most popular software being tainted by horrifically buggy Al slop code. » An entire generation of children will have stunted cognitive development that will likely disable them. Gen Al is likely a factor in the mass phenomenon of teachers and

Recovering After Gen Al: An open discussion

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Free-of-charge Zoom event to promote upcoming book.

Microsoft document: "It is highly unusual that an end-product threatens the economic foundations of its essential suppliers, but that is the situation we have created of our LLM business in respect to its 'content supply chain.'"

Sunday October 4th, 2026

Register for free: https://t.ly/AfterAl

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RECOVERING AFTER GEN Al Recovering After Gen Al: An open discussion Free-of-charge Zoom event to promote upcoming book Even Microsoft insiders admit that Gen Al is fundamentally unsustainable: Ars Technica, September 17th, "Microsoft exec called Al scraping the 'largest theft of labor in human history.": Microsoft document: "It is highly unusual that an end-product threatens the economic foundations of its essential suppliers, but that is the situation we have created of our LLM business in respect to its 'content supply chain.'" Sunday October 4th, 2026 9:00am PDT (Los Angeles) -11:00am CDT (Chicago) - Noon EDT (Toronto/New York) 5:00pm BST (London) 6:00pm - CEST (Rome) - 9:30pm 1ST (New Delhi) 12:00am midnight October 5th CST (Beijing) - 3:00am October 5th AEDT (Sydney) Register for free: https://t.ly/AfterAl

Last untainted version, forks, and alternatives for your anti-slop, software needz

https://codeberg.org/ethical-foss/open-slopware

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Just came back from South Korea after a family holiday. I managed to snap a few good photos and a few more decent travel shots between sightseeing and eating bulgogi.
Here is a photo of pampas grass catching the last light of day.

#landscape #nature #LandscapePhotography #naturePhotography #plants #sunset #art #photo #photography #noai #korea

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Tall pampas grass glowing orange in low evening sunlight, its feathery plumes rising against dense blue-grey storm clouds. Dark green grasses fill the lower frame, with separate clusters of illuminated plumes on either side.

And this also explains why it's so easy to get a chatbot to talk like a KKK Klansman to a child.

And to get the image slop bots to vomit CSAM.

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@davidgerard@circumstances.run @davidgerard

https://youtu.be/3D5_no4quNQ

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Thanks for the shoutout! #NoAI

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Free-of-charge Zoom event to promote upcoming book Even Microsoft insiders admit that Gen Al is fundamentally unsustainable: Ars Technica, September 17th, "Microsoft exec called Al scraping the 'largest theft of labor in human history.": Microsoft document: "It is highly unusual that an end-product threatens the economic foundations of its essential suppliers, but that is the situation we have created of our LLM business in respect to its 'content supply chain.'" Sunday October 4th, 2026

About the LLM/AI and open source.
And choices in life.

I tested a Gentoo Linux installation and got stuck at the Grub part and I bailed out for now. DId an OpenBSD installation which went fine. Getting disk encryption to work was easy during installation, unlike a few years ago. Did a NetBSD installation and that didn't go too well but later I found out I missed a step in the installation. A new installation went fine. Then there's ChimeraLinux which I liked when I tried it a long time ago. And I like Haiku though as long as it is a single user (root) OS it is not ready for everything.

https://codeberg.org/ethical-foss/open-slopware#other-operating-systems

I do like the idea of what someone wrote on Mastodon last week : Run a minimal NetBSD installation on the desktop and then keep an off-line version of an old stable Debian handy on another computer.

Now that the USA has destroyed my blog (formely at A/I/NoBlogs) maybe I should get a new blog to write down these things. After all Mastodon is not for blogging or is it ? 😇

#opensource #noai #netbsd #openbsd #gentoolinux #blogs #blogging

I think we tread a dangerous path when in FOSS we ignore users concerns.

If we don't factor in users feelings, why are we sharing our software?

Why do we suddenly feel put on when folks who build their tech stack around your software get upset? Especially about LLMs?

Word of mouth built a part of your popularity in the places you never see.

I thought there was a social contract with our wider communities. I'm a bit sad that apparently we don't.

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https://dotart.blog/cobbles/move-fast-and-break-infrastructure

Creepy as fuck. But nice Wile reference you got there!

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https://youtu.be/tuMYQkadVbw

It occurs to me that the reason people love to use "AI" is because they don't want to/don't know how to deal with mental friction.

It's work to sort out what you believe when faced with conflicting information. So much simpler if the universe just gives you the solution, right? Why spend a moment of your life wrestling with cognitive dissonance when the spicy autocorrect generator can tell you what to think.

But isn't the friction the point? Isn't sorting through opposing points of view & data the way we form our understanding of the world & ourselves? Isn't considering how odd shaped thoughts might fit together how creativity happens?

There is a saying I learned as a PT student studying anatomy: form follows function. Bones and muscles that are used are remodeled to be better at that purpose. Cease using them & atrophy is the result.

Our minds also follow this rule. Remove all need to actively think and lose the ability to think.

I won't use "AI"-- at all. Not for simple web searches, not to research or write my novels. Because how you form the question & how you analyze the answer in light of everything else you believe is the point.

Another analogy: you can't stop or change direction if you're driving on a road with no friction. You'll just eventually crash.

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For all Fediverse people using #Linux and starting to move to #NetBSD did you notice that NetBSD has rsync as package with a version number which is quite new and thus made with Tridge + Claude A.I.

Which rsync alternative or which rsync version are you using ? Or did you move to something else ?

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Seattle City Council becomes the first city in the United States to ban surveillance pricing in grocery stores to ensure prices are the same for all customers. #seattle #noAI #news

https://www.king5.com/video/news/local/seattle-city-council-bans-surveillance-pricing/281-a5394cec-3e32-4c23-ad7c-bba772c82da4

I really miss running Debian.

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“Don't even get me started about how expensive it would be from a compute and capital perspective to train new generations of models on cross-sectional images with >GB files sizes, cross reference those models with the underlying clinical data, gain regulatory approval for mass access to imaging data, and the inevitability of model drift as new generations of imaging hardware and procedures continue to roll out.

Oh, and legal liability, which would require a congressional act of god to immunize them from.

Trust me: I will be doing this field for a long time to come, and you too will be doing yours. Do not believe these out of touch plutocrats.”

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New Kickstarter post on the upcoming free Zoom event on Sunday, October 4th.

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Plus news about my book writing progress, and a call-to-action to late pledge to my successful Kickstarter campaign, because it's my only source of income. About $12 USD for an eBook.

https://t.ly/AfterAIBook

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/kimcrawley/recovering-after-gen-ai/posts/4810752

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RECOVERING AFTER GEN Al Recovering After Gen Al: An open discussion Free-of-charge Zoom event to promote upcoming book Even Microsoft insiders admit that Gen Al is fundamentally unsustainable: Ars Technica, September 17th, "Microsoft exec called Al scraping the 'largest theft of labor in human history.": Microsoft document: "It is highly unusual that an end-product threatens the economic foundations of its essential suppliers, but that is the situation we have created of our LLM business in respect to its 'content supply chain.'" Sunday October 4th, 2026 9:00am PDT (Los Angeles) -11:00am CDT (Chicago) - Noon EDT (Toronto/New York) 5:00pm BST (London) 6:00pm - CEST (Rome) - 9:30pm 1ST (New Delhi) 12:00am midnight October 5th CST (Beijing) - 3:00am October 5th AEDT (Sydney) Register for free: https://t.ly/AfterAl

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RE: https://fediscience.org/@jameshowell/117328896300630051

called it

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