@florianscholz.com
Director & Documentation D(a)emon @openwebdocs.org Cares about technical writing, the web platform, open source & open collectives, as well as post-punk and wave music. he/him. Bremen, Germany. https://florianscholz.com
Letzte Woche war ich zu Gast bei NANO Talk (3sat/ZDF): Thema: „Neuer Kolonialismus“, Ressourcen- und Datenausbeutung durch KI, Tech-Macht & warum es bei Grönland um mehr geht als Geopolitik. Einig waren wir uns: Europa darf bei #KI nicht dem Deregulierungstrend folgen.
👉 www.3sat.de/wissen/nano-...
Exciting news: an expanded English translation of my bestseller "AI and the New Fascism" is coming out with Pluto Press later this year. Grateful to Pluto Press for making this happen.
More on the book:
rainermuehlhoff.de/en/KI-und-de...
@plutopress.bsky.social
Yo what the fuck short form videos are bad
Short-Form Videos Degrade Our Capacity to Retain Intentions
arxiv.org/pdf/2302.03714
Ht: HowTown
As if artists don't have enough to deal with, Amazon has a "Buy For Me" program in beta which is scraping indie shops for their items and putting them up on Amazon (often incorrectly), for their "AI agent" to buy from the other site. It is NOT opt in, and there is no opt out.
Schöner Talk zum Thema KI-Heilserzählungen, Selbstoptimierungswahn und was das kaputte Gesundheitssystem stattdessen bräuchte:
media.ccc.de/v/39c3-ki-di...
📣 Germany's close to reversing its opposition to mass surveillance & private message scanning, & backing the Chat Control bill. This could end private comms-& Signal-in the EU.
Time's short and they're counting on obscurity: please let German politicians know how horrifying their reversal would be.
I'll be working more on Web Security and Privacy thanks to an investment from the Sovereign Tech Agency! 🎉
I really enjoyed yesterday's colab with @tante.cc about" Fascist AI".
If you want to know how we got, why we have technologies like "AI" and how both are a very fertile soil for fascism: We got you covered.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=OMl-...
The AI Slop Fight Between Iran and Israel
🔗 www.404media.co/the-ai-slop-...
Does your organization rely on MDN for reference docs?
Do you often check browser compat on MDN or caniuse.com?
Do you use tools like browser DevTools or VSCode in your work?
If so, you rely directly on the work that Open Web Docs does and should consider sponsoring.
To convince your boss.
> our implementation was not developed by Mozilla employees, but was contributed entirely by a single volunteer, André Bargull.
Temporal is an absolutely massive spec and complicated implementation - it's been YEARS in the making.
André out here just beating out billion dollar corps
Generative KI und die Ästhetik des digitalen Faschismus -- re:publika Vortrag von @bildoperationen.bsky.social
www.youtube.com/watch?v=JZpi...
a chart showing power consumption of big tech companies
hey lovelies, I finally got around to publicly sharing my compilation of big tech energy and emissions data. I'll be using it in articles, posts etc but it's yours too, free to use (w/ attribution is nice)
ketanjoshi.co/2025/05/23/d...
The new Expectation Fail foundation is offering 10 grants (1500-7000 EUR) for artists to work on strategies against the growing tech fascism.
https://error417.expectation.fail/
The UN Open Source Principles are comprised of eight guidelines and provide a framework to guide the use, development and sharing of Open Source software across the organization. The UN Open Source Principles Open by default: Making Open Source the standard approach for projects Contribute back: Encouraging active participation in the Open Source ecosystem Secure by design: Making security a priority in all software projects Foster inclusive participation and community building: Enabling and facilitating diverse and inclusive contributions Design for reusability: Designing projects to be interoperable across various platforms and ecosystems Provide documentation: Providing thorough documentation for end-users, integrators and developers RISE (recognize, incentivize, support and empower): Empowering individuals and communities to actively participate Sustain and scale: Supporting the development of solutions that meet the evolving needs of the UN system and beyond.
the United Nations Open Source Principles
unite.un.org/news/open-so...
I wondered if "AI" systems are "tools" and realized that structurally they are not. They are makeshifts.
https://tante.cc/2025/04/27/are-ai-system-really-tools/
Went home to my parents for Easter to fix their computers AND to tell them what happens to the photos they've uploaded to ChatGPT.
Ghibli, miniature dolls, or whatever trend is on right now: it is a giant viral privacy trick to get fresh personal images into OpenAI's models. People are giving their data away for free carelessly.
www.luizasnewsletter.com/p/openais-vi...
After the community feedback Servo TSC would like to share that we have decided to not modify the AI policy and keep it as is.
Future discussions on this topic (if any) will happen on public channels.
More details: github.com/servo/servo/...
After a court order by the Turkish government, Bluesky made accounts unavailable for Bluesky users in Turkey this week.
I take a closer look at geographic-based moderation works on Bluesky and atproto, how it can be sidestepped, and much more
fediversereport.com/bluesky-cens...
ich bin schon länger dazu übergegangen, die vielen datacenter, die die ki-bros in die welt bauen, als waffen zu sehen. ihre anschlussnutzung nach dem crash werden mit großer sicherheit überwachungs- und militär-ki bereitstellen. also alles, was ein zunehmend autoritärer staat halt so braucht.
Cloud-Dienste und Plattformen kommen aus den USA, Mikrochips aus Taiwan, Seltene Erden aus China. Die Digitalisierung hat zu massiven Abhängigkeiten geführt, von denen Europa sich spätestens seit Donald Trumps Amtsantritt lösen will. Welche Konzepte gibt es dafür?
netzpolitik.org/2025/digital...
Carole Cadwalladr: "We now have to start acting as if we live in East Germany and Instagram is the Stasi"
www.youtube.com/watch?v=TZOo...
Ich habe einen Artikel über meine Reise nach Athen und zur griechischen synth/wave Szene geschrieben www.spontis.de/schwarze-sze...
Vielen Dank an @wizardofgoth.bsky.social fürs Veröffentlichen!
"We therefore suggest that one of the most pragmatic anti-capitalist things that one can do is to push for any organizations that you might be involved with to participate in the standards development process"
thereader.mitpress.mit.edu/the-anti-cap...
"We have seen the bandwidth used for downloading multimedia content grow by 50%.This increase is not coming from human readers,but largely from automated programs that scrape the Wikimedia Commons image catalog of openly licensed images to feed images to AI models"
diff.wikimedia.org/2025/04/01/h...
