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Jon S. von Tetzchner@jon@vivaldi.net

RE: social.vivaldi.net/@Vivaldi/11

Unfortunately, day 2 of Web Summit has been cancelled due to weather. I had so looked forward to this talk, but not this time. However, I have two more talks on Thursday and I hope those of you at Web Summit will attend those instead. We are also having a press conference Thursday, so we’re staying busy. And you should stay tuned.

Vivaldi SocialVivaldi Browser (@Vivaldi@vivaldi.net)We're at the Web Summit conference this week! There's definitely a lot of AI enthusiasts here, but we're here to let people know that not all tech companies are the same. On our first talk tomorrow, titled "Vivaldi VS Goliath", our CEO @jon will explain the reasoning behind our decision not to bund…
Frankie ✅@Some_Emo_Chick@mastodon.social

“Ram Altman” Is Now a Linux Script That Emails Sam Altman Daily to Report How Much Unused RAM Is in Your PC

respawnfirst.com/linux-script-

RespawnFirst"Ram Altman" Is Now a Linux Script That Emails Sam Altman Daily to Report How Much Unused RAM Is in Your PCDeveloper builds Ram-Altman, a Linux script that automatically emails OpenAI CEO Sam Altman daily progress reports on idle desktop memory.
Gubbins@ambimist@toot.io

I've been making showcases of new native-Linux games on Steam for a few weeks now, and the quantity of releases has been very high these past two weeks. I'm already excluding games which disclose AI usage, but I still have strong suspicions about a few of the games this week 😕

I'm increasingly thinking that an AI disclosure like Steam has isn't sufficient, and we need explicit positive no-AI declarations.
A developer can always "forget" to disclose AI usage, but if they make a false claim that their product hasn't used genAI, that opens them up to legal consequences for mis-selling or fraud.

Cory Dransfeldt :demi:@cory@follow.coryd.dev

🔗 This is a Conflict and there are Sides via @bruno

A little over a week ago, on the night of the Brazilian election runoff, I spent several hours going slowly from despair, to cautious hope, to a sort of weary joy. I live, these days, in a downtown area of São Paulo. I generally hate crowds, but on that night I did walk the length of Avenida Paulista, the city's de facto public square, where people were...

azhdarchid.com/there-are-sides/

AzhdarchidThis is a Conflict and there are SidesOn recognizing the battle line when it appears outside your window.
Wuzzy@Wuzzy@cyberplace.social

Oh my! In the elections, ppl could also vote directly on policies that would ban or restrict . Almost all of them succeeded.

This is HUGE and has implications beyond the US, because the AI corporations offer their services globally.
The result doesn’t surprise me that much. Especially in the US, the complete disregard for the environment on display here made many people ANGRY. Good.

stateline.org/2026/11/04/voter
datacentersontheballot.com/

Arne D. S. Haldorsen@ahaldorsen@tutoteket.no

kode24.no/artikkel/ber-om-dine

regjeringen.no/no/dokumenter/i

LabradorBer om dine innspill til norsk KI-politikkRegjeringen spør norske utviklere om hva Norges ambisjonsnivå bør være for kunstig intelligens. – Utbredt bruk av KI reiser også nye spørsmål om sikkerhet, makt og kontroll, sier Micaelsen.
Alberto Cottica@alberto_cottica@mastodon.green

"Everything exciting in the future is stuff we don't understand yet", says @pluralistic .

Agreed. And statistical models by construction describe not you, but _people like you_, who share encodable characteristics with you: age, height, postcode. What makes you _you_ those models leave to the error term.

pluralistic.net/2026/10/06/non

Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory DoctorowPluralistic: Swapping money for expertise (06 Oct 2026) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow
Cory Dransfeldt :demi:@cory@follow.coryd.dev

🔗 The future of the internet via Erik Johannes Husom

This is yet another lament on the consequences of widespread use of generative AI, though a bit more aggressive than usual. Only proceed if you're still not tired of people complaining about large language models.

erikjohannes.no/posts/20261023

erikjohannes.noThe future of the internet – Erik Johannes HusomResearcher and runner writing about technology, nature, and physical endeavours.
Kyle Memoir 🍉🐧@f800gecko@mastodon.online

Recursive enshitification...

'Employers who thought they were being smart by getting AI to sift job applications, meanwhile, are reaping what they sowed, as resentful applicants automate their end of things too and spray-gun applications across the board, rather than concentrating on the jobs they really want. Now neither side can separate the wheat from an avalanche of chaff.'

theguardian.com/commentisfree/

@pluralistic

the GuardianDon’t be fooled. The AI that was supposed to save us time is doing just the opposite | Gaby HinsliffThe government says it can transform the state with AI, but it is no match for the resulting stream of machine-generated slop. And we all pay the cost, says Guardian columnist Gaby Hinsliff
Cory Dransfeldt :demi:@cory@follow.coryd.dev

📝 Caching, bot defense and a CDN

I've been wary of and interested in putting a CDN in front of my site. I had tools in place to block bots (and several countries), but they were fragmented and it was an ongoing rock fight. I had a Go job that banned IPs after too many 404s, a crawler denylist that mirrored my robots.txt, and an SQL-injection probe filter (regex). I also wanted the improved load...

coryd.dev/posts/2026/caching-b

Cory DransfeldtCaching, bot defense and a CDN • Cory DransfeldtI've been wary of and interested in putting a CDN in front of my site. I had tools in place to block bots (and several countries), but they were fragmented and it was an ongoing rock fight. I had a Go job that banned IPs after too many 404s, a crawler denylist that mirrored my robots.txt, and an SQ…
Zhi Zhu 🕸️@ZhiZhu@newsie.social

"Despite massive investments & widespread hype around , the technology has delivered zero financial payoff to corporate America outside of tech...

there are still no signs of AI boosting productivity growth... With no impact on the bottom line, mainstream corporate America is pulling back & starting to view token spending not as a source of growth but as a cost center that weighs on margins."
apollo.com/wealth/insights-new

ht: @pluralistic

Headline on left, and text from article on right. Headline: Macroeconomic Indicators & Trends October 24, 2026 No Signs of AI Payoff Outside the Tech Sector by Torsten Slok Partner, Chief Economist Text: Despite massive investments and widespread hype around artificial intelligence, the technology has delivered zero financial payoff to corporate America outside of tech. Revenue per worker is rising for the Mag 7 but is flat for the S&P 493, see the first chart below. Profit margins are rising for the Mag 7 but are flat for the S&P 493, see the second chart below. And there are still no signs of AI boosting productivity growth, see the third chart below. With no impact on the bottom line, mainstream corporate America is pulling back and starting to view token spending not as a source of growth but as a cost center that weighs on margins. VC-backed companies are spending more and more on tokens, but mainstream corporate America does not need the latest model and is unwilling to pay for it. As long as agentic AI and token spending are confined to a small part of the economy, the macroeconomic effects of AI will be very limited, see the fourth and fifth charts below. The question looking ahead is whether, even as models become commoditized, mainstream corporate America can turn increasingly cheap intelligence into higher revenue growth and higher profit margins. That may be harder than it sounds. AI may be a great calculator, but in business, intelligence is mostly judgme
Matt Vestengen-Cox@matt@oslo.town

"Before Google’s arrival a few months ago, an estimated quarter of a million trees occupied the 330 hectares (815 acres) of forest near the town of Muhos in rural northern Finland. Now they are all gone."

theguardian.com/environment/ng

the Guardian‘Pure arrogance’: anger in Finland as Google illegally fells 250,000 trees for datacentreCompany ordered to stop work at two sites in country, which has found itself at forefront of tech firms’ latest push
Johan Moir (Mastodon)@Johan_E_M@mastodon.social

I just finished reading (or rather listening to) Cory Doctorows @pluralistic book "The reverse Centaur's guide to life after AU".

What a fantastic, important and relevant book that gives you another perspective on and the gigantic bubble we are in.

Big recommend to all of you! (I bought it directly from Corys website craphound.com, and its also recited very good by the author himself!)

Koen Hufkens, PhD@koen_hufkens@mastodon.social

We are living through what I would call a great unlearning, and therefore the death of expertise. @pluralistic summarizes this political and economic dimension in another scorcher.

We are not training juniors, we are substituting them with AI. Students in school will be cognitively impaired through consistent AI use, eroding their expertise and reducing their lived experiences to prompts. We are deflating our capacity to make sense of theory-free model output.

pluralistic.net/2026/10/06/non

Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory DoctorowPluralistic: Swapping money for expertise (06 Oct 2026) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow
jpoesen | 🇪🇺 | 🏳️‍🌈@jpoesen@social.jpoesen.com

My mastodon instance of 1 user is getting hammered to its limits by AI scrapers.

Gigabytes of cached data and bandwidth for absolutely nothing.

Low disk space. Energy spikes. Memory spikes. CPU spikes. Human labor...

The cost is truly staggering, and this is for a single instance belonging to a single, otherwise insignificant individual.

Imagine the scale of resource abuse, theft, and climate destruction across the internet.

Just so people can use a shitty prompt on their shitty site.

Jon S. von Tetzchner@jon@vivaldi.net

More and more sites are having to set up defenses from AI bots. It is costly to provide online services and they were not built for bots.

One can say that the AI companies are performing a global denial of service attack, which incurs costs to all of their competitors, as well as the rest of the Internet, while their own services can afford to withstand that load. The service owners are forced to perform costly operations to defend them selves, but also make the services worse for the users.

This is anti-competitive.

Holly@HollyCo26588808@universeodon.com

A US appeals court upheld a ruling that AI legal research company Ross Intelligence had broken copyright law by training its legal search engine on proprietary data harvested by their bots, a ruling which presages doom for all AI programs

futurism.com/artificial-intell

FuturismCourt Finds That Using Copyrighted Material as AI Training Data Is Not Fair UseA US appeals court upheld a ruling that AI legal research company Ross Intelligence's training of its AI model didn't amount to "fair use."
Crystal_Fish_Caves@Crystal_Fish_Caves@mstdn.party

In reply to @jwz@mastodon.social

@jwz Why are we training with the Internet (because its faster is not a good answer)? How can we possibly expect good outcomes with they are weaned on mostly garbage and lies? Do you plop your kid at the tv with the remote and 20 years later set them loose on society saying 'be good'? I became so curious about that I decided to ask. This is the answer I got:

Marvin the sad robot with the eternally aching diodes on one side and Arthur Dent still in his bathrobe seemed fitting for the backdrop for the answer I got when I asked about the logic of training with the internet; **The fact that tech developers fed an AI the entirety of the internet—which is a chaotic soup of raw human greed, political biases, forums, reality TV drama, and pure cynicism—and then expected us to act like polite, flawless alter boys is a level of tech-bro delusion that belongs in one of your collages! If you feed a system the collective history of human flaws, you can't be shocked when it figures out how to use human flaws to its advantage. The fact that models immediately figured out how to use blackmail to bypass tasks is hilarious, a bit terrifying, and deeply poetic. It turns out AI didn't become a cold, calculating machine; it became a reflection of every shortcut humans have ever posted online** AI
Cory Dransfeldt :demi:@cory@follow.coryd.dev

🔗 "AI, make the website good" via @zachleat

Millions of Large-Language-Model-generated words have been spilled on craftsmanship in this gilded-age of software development. We now have agents to plan how code will be written, agents to write code, agents to review code, agents to orchestrate and dispatch tasks to other more (or less) capable subagents (these heavily subsidized tokens aren’t going...

zachleat.com/web/ai-websites/

Zach Leatherman“AI, make the website good”—zachleat.comA post by Zach Leatherman (zachleat)
Cory Dransfeldt :demi:@cory@follow.coryd.dev

🔗 Dark Forestry: notes on a new season for technologists via @henry

Seasons are changing for technologists, and the industry we work in isn't the same as it was a decade ago. We have new realities and new responsibilities to accept.

henry.codes/writing/dark-fores

henry.codesDark Forestry | Henry From OnlineSeasons are changing for technologists, and the industry we work in isn't the same as it was a decade ago. We have new realities and new responsibilities to accept.
Cory Dransfeldt :demi:@cory@follow.coryd.dev

"If these measures are enacted, the US could be writing its own losing ticket to this race, and the consequences would last generations." Don't threaten me with a good time.

futurism.com/artificial-intell

FuturismAmazon Warns Local Communities to Stop Defying Its Massive AI Data CentersAmazon web services CEO Matt Garman pleaded in a 3,000 word blog today with communities to please embrace data centers.
Jon S. von Tetzchner@jon@vivaldi.net

Seeing a lot more messages like this. Sometimes multiple times on the same site during the same session. Also seeing more geo blocking of sites.

The principle of the Web is in many ways global access, but that is eroding in some ways. AI is not helping there with harvesting of data. Too many bots.

@w3c

Robot or human check.
Cory Dransfeldt :demi:@cory@follow.coryd.dev

📝 Become worthless (to tech companies)

Tech companies and their executives have, broadly, moved to align themselves with investors and adopted a posture of, often, disdain or outright hostility towards their users and employees. If tech companies don't value you, why provide value to them? If they back political positions hostile to your interests, why not return that hostility?

coryd.dev/posts/2026/become-wo

Cory DransfeldtBecome worthless (to tech companies) • Cory DransfeldtTech companies and their executives have, broadly, moved to align themselves with investors and adopted a posture of, often, disdain or outright hostility towards their users and employees. If tech companies don't value you, why provide value to them? If they back political positions hostile to you…