Smashing Frames

Jensen Huang, the NVIDIA CEO and wearer of the most midlife crisis looking leather jackets in the world, was on Ezra Klein’s podcast.

I met with a friend yesterday and the conversation got to what the next hype might be after the current bubble pops.

Laurie Voss, who was one of the founder of NPM, the Javascript package repository that is now run by Microsoft, has written a longer post about an idea about how to fund Free Software that I found interesting.

Wir lesen in den letzten viel über die besorgen “KI”-Bros: Dario Amodei und Sam Altman sprechen beide davon, man müsse jetzt die Entwicklung von “Frontier KI” verlangsamen und Elon Musk stimmt ebenfalls zu.

Omarchy should not matter.

The last few years have been hard as someone who is not only very much engaged with technologies, their applications, damages and affordances as well as their politics.

As some of you might know, I am part of a team of people moderating a Mastodon server.

There has been quite the uptick in “AI” labs’ claims of their LLMs “solving complex math problems”.

So it seems like NVIDIA has agreed to buy Hugging Face.

So ganz ist der Crypto Betrug ja nie weggegangen, er hat sich nur verschoben.

So Linus Torvalds, head of the Linux kernel development, put his foot down on the Linux Kernel development mailing list when someone was bringing up criticism of LLMs: “Linux is not one of those anti-AI projects, and if somebody has issues with that, they…

(Für ein Event wurde ich gefragt ein paar Worte zur politischen Dimension von Daten und Infrastrukturen der Digitalität” zu schreiben.

I wanna expand on something I wrote a few months ago: One of the features of “AI” is the diffusion of responsibility: “AI” systems are being put in all kinds of processes and when they fuck up (and they always fuck up) it was just the “AI”, or “someone sh…

(Dieser Text ist mein Beitrag zum Sammelband “KI und Demokratie” herausgegeben von Ramona Casasola-Greiner und Korbinian Rüger.

Am 13.06. durfte ich zum Programm der “Sicherheit ohne Überwachung” Demonstration einen Redebeitrag beisteuern.

In Yesterday’s IO Keynote Google declared war on the remnants of the Web.

(Christian Tieber hat eine deutsche Übersetzung des Textes angefertigt: “KI” als faschistisches Artefakt.

“AI” exists to disenfranchise labor.

Anthropic’s Claude models are having a moment.

Making big public statements is always fun and people who think themselves to be important love doing it as a way of trying to influence public opinion and/or politics.

When we moved into our apartment we hired a contractor to build bespoke cupboards for a few niches that we wanted to use optimally.

Ich war eingeladen zur Breitband Sendung des Deutschlandfunk Kultur.

This morning (it is evening now in freezing Berlin) I wrote an article about a blog post Cory Doctorow had released the day before.

Life is complicated.