https://youtube.com/watch?v=kvlrnc7hlQI

2026: Sony erases digital content from libraries; we’re reminded we don’t own what we buy

2024: PS5 owners lose access to hundreds of games as digital purchases wiped from their accounts

2023: PlayStation Is Deleting Purchased Shows From User Libraries, And People Are Furious

I mean, take your pick. This is a place where a lot of us…

• are leftists who disagree with extractive, anti-human economic systems
• left Reddit because they insisted on controlling how people could connect to each others ideas
• like the open collaboration of open source, which is getting wrecked by AI
• like open access communities like wikipedia, which are also getting undermined by AI
• dislike copyright law, which is being selectively ignored here because the people violating it are rich (on paper)
• are marginalized people, who tend to be disproportionately effected by AI decision-making

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Maybe you only know about the ones who got caught?

You would need a way to walk through a good chunk of realistic gameplay without user input. Good luck with that.

The closest thing to this right now is the performance monitoring that Valve does for Steam Deck compatibility — which isn’t headless, it’s just crowdsourced.

We might want two separate terms: one for the personal ways that AI slop infects and manipulates your mind, and another for the way it makes the wider cultural landscape difficult to navigate by adding noise and intercepting your attempts to find the original sources of concepts or artifacts which might bring you into a community (and the fact that these communities are now all playing defense because of the everlasting scraping DDoS).

I’m concerned about the former because I think it might make doing anything at all much more difficult.

But I’m concerned about the latter because we… don’t really know how much pollution culture can withstand before collapsing. We may already be in the early stages of something like Kessler Syndrome but for communications.

https://fortune.com/2026/03/09/ai-opinion-poll-democrats-iran-war-president-donald-trump/

Well, for one thing, among the general public, AI is less popular than ICE.

And the economics of AI don’t add up, so it can’t last forever. And everything that can’t last forever eventually stops.

I’m not gonna pretend everything is guaranteed to be fine, but I feel like we genuinely have a lot on our side.

From my perspective, it is the materialists who are navel-gazing.

Emerson Green convinced me that p-zombies are plausible. So there’s no way to know if a teleporter would end your consciousness.

That efficiency is an absolute good.

“Where” is a question that applies to the physical world. The dream people are constituted of something more fundamental than matter.

When yall gonna arrest Sam Altman?

Culture is our most important invention as a species. So important, in fact, that we’ve evolved to make it essential to our individual health and collective capacity to function. To deny someone access to interact with culture on the basis of their lack of wealth is cruel and anti-human.

Likewise, developing something like an LLM, which spews thoughtless pollution into the only shared infosphere we have, and displaces individuals’ ability to connect to each other to develop culture… that is an existential threat to the human race and should be opposed vehemently.

Culture is our most important invention as a species. So important, in fact, that we’ve evolved to make it essential to our individual health and collective capacity to function. To deny someone access to interact with culture on the basis of their lack of wealth is cruel and anti-human.

Likewise, developing something like an LLM, which spews thoughtless pollution into the only shared infosphere we have, and displaces individuals’ ability to connect to each other to develop culture… that is an existential threat to the human race and should be opposed vehemently.

Some people genuinely have a problem with it.

But I’m convinced that the majority of it is just: It’s embarrassing (and therefore costs social capital) to defend it.

So therefore: If you attach it to something else you want to attack, you just gave yourself a strategic advantage.

A lot of it probably isn’t legal, but who’s gonna prosecute them?

I agree with Prime on most things, but I think he’s getting this one wrong.

There are more options than just “light-hearted satire” and “earnest business idea”.

The FOSDEM talk is silly, and reads like a skit, but it has a gravely serious undertone.

The security guy has posted on Twitter “I still can’t believe he hooked it up to Stripe lol”.

Meanwhile the LinkedIn of the other guy describes him as a “researcher of political economy of FOSS” at Rochester Institute of Technology, and he runs a non-profit about FOSS for humanitarian aid.

He’s also been very active replying to people talking about the conference talk or the Malus site, asking whether they think this should be legal and what we can do to protect the future of open source.

I think these are people who take this threat very seriously, and are willing to expose themselves to litigation in order to force the issue into courts.

I avoid the potential presence of ads.

I recall seeing some research that suggested “ignoring” ads makes you more susceptible to their content. I couldn’t find it after a couple searches though.