tante

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De-Evangelist, writer and speaker. Communist. Feminist. Antifascist. Luddite. He/him. Email: tante@tante.cc | Masto: @tante@tldr.nettime.org (Don't always see DMs cause my client can't show them since they are proprietary extensions of the protocol)

Screenshot der Page des Axel Springer Verlags, auf der der Preis für Peter Thiels angekündigt wird.
Graphic about "AI adoption as transmission mechanism" that basically says nothing but has statements like "Technology defines what is possible."
Picture of a brown/black striped cat sleeping on top of a shelf in our bedroom.
Screenshot of my Result going through the "AI compass". I was assigned the group "The Conscientious Objector" with the description: "It doesn't work well, it's doing real harm, and you've opted out on principle. You're not a technophobe — you just think this specific technology is overhyped and corrosive, and you're tired of being told you just don't understand it. You understand it fine. That's the problem."
Poster for Quicksand playing Hole 44 June 23rd.
Doch die reibungslose Umsetzung stellte sich schnell als Illusion heraus. Denn das Sprind-Team, so berichten es ganz unterschiedliche Akteure, zeigte schnell eigene Interessen. Solche, die sich mindestens teilweise mit Geschäftsinteressen decken, die Mitglieder der „Open Wallet  Foundation“ (OWF) verfolgen. Die OWF unter dem Dach der Linux Foundation Europe wird von großen und kleinen Unternehmen finanziert, die Geschäftsmodelle für digitale Identitäten entwickeln oder von diesen profitieren – von der Telekom bis Google. In der Branche gilt die OWF als eines der üblichen Lobby-Vehikel. Der Projektleiter, den die Sprind auswählte, scheiterte zuvor mit einem Unternehmen, das digitale Identitäten entwickeln sollte. Parallel zur Tätigkeit für die Sprind arbeitete er mit einer eigenen Beratungsfirma weiter für die OWF. In der Sprind-Jury, die für wichtige Weichenstellungen konsultiert werden sollte, saß Brian Behlendorf – der CTO der Open Wallet Foundation. [...] Die Sprunginnovationsagentur erkennt in diesen Verquickungen keine Interessenkonflikte. Durch das Sprind-Freiheitsgesetz ist sie seit Januar 2024 von verschiedenen Compliance-Vorschriften befreit,
In Yesterday's IO Keynote Google declared war on the remnants of the Web. While they packaged it as a lot of "AI" talk what their whole approach of decontextualizing information, of taking away links to sources and instead producing some LLM generated response means is that they want to establish a new abstraction layer on the web. Where Zuckerberg with his Metaverse failed Google is starting the next attack: Your website, your work no longer matters. Well it matters as (unpaid) raw material for their synthetic text extruders but not as cultural artifact you can share with others. This is a literal revolution but one against the participatory web, against us: The goal is to take away the web and guide people into Google's abstraction on top of it. An abstraction they control and moderate. It's about monopolizing access to information. If you care about the web, about people's ability to participate in it as more than mere passive consumers, this needs to be taken seriously. De-Googlifying your mental apparatus becomes more urgent today. Find other search engines, don't use their browser. Or wake up in a slopified AOL kind of environment.
Ankündigung des heutigen Kafvka Konzerts.
Screenshot of a conversaton originally between Mark Zuckerberg and a friend in which Zuckerberg telle the friend that he has all data about anyone at Harvard. When asked how he just says "don't know, people just trust me". The friens has already typed "dumb fucks" into his chat box without having it sent yet. The image has been edited by me to prsent it as a conversation from github with a friend. Github asks is the friend ever needs code for their proprietary codebase because github has all the code in the world stripped of its license in an LLM. The conversation stays as the original: friend asks "how" and github answers "dunno, they just gave it to me, they trust me".
Screenshot of my wordpress text editor showing the headline "AI as a fascist Artifact"
Foto des Covers des Buches "KI und Demokratie - Zukunftsbeiträge aus Wissenschaft und Praxis"
Screenshot eines Fotos in einem Artikel des Gossenjournals WELT über die Cables of Resistance von einem Panel mit 4 Personen. Am rechten Rand sitze ich mein "Destroy AI" shirt tragend
Photo of a middle ages white man with tattooed arms wearing a T-shirt with the statement "Destroy AI"
By using GenAI: I accept the models were trained on stolen data. I accept that the data was labeled by exploited workers. I accept the environmental costs of the data centers running these models. I accept that I am outsourcing some of my skills to a company. I accept these companies don’t have a viable business model. I accept that I am granting more power to big tech and their vision for the world. I accept that I am granting more power to the United States. I accept that all this effort could have been spent elsewhere. If any of these facts are new to you, you haven’t been doing your due diligence.
Bild des Buches "KI und Demokratie" (Vorbestelllink: https://link.springer.com/book/9783658503345) Zitat aus der Kachel: "KI verspricht Skalierung , Zugang, Tempo. Demokratie braucht Verantwortung, Transparenz, Reibung."
Screenshot of a Tweet by @TheChiefNerd inclusing an interview with Sam Altman. The text in the Tweet says: SAM ALTMAN: “We see a future where intelligence is a utility, like electricity or water, and people buy it from us on a meter.”
Photo of the Columbia Theater in Berlin showing the Band Thrice playing tonight
A photo of one of my cats sleeping curled up in my arm
Spiegel Artikel mit Titel "KI: Digitale Zwillinge bringen die Industrie ins Metaversum" in meinem Feedreader.
screenshot of the https://bluesky-map.theo.io/?live=1 application that shows my account in a large cluster of accounts labelled "German Antifascist Expanse"
Screenshot of a Bluesky DM by a bot claiming to be Elon Musk wanting to send me a message
Photo out of the window of a train showing snow-covered hills and mountains
“Intelligence” as we use it today is a value judgement by a (sub-)culture’s mainstream. Entities of “intelligence” are not just seen as valuable but are also imbued with the right to agency and autonomy.
A receipt for "GenAi - an exploitation model" Costs: AI psychosis: ???? Ownership: ???? Data centers: 600000000 Environment: ???? Misinformation: ???? Subtotal: ???? Service Charge: Freedom Total Charge: $Democracy
Photo of Bart Fish's "Power Tools" zine (first edition, November 2025) and some slogan stickers with statements like "GenAI sucks"
Screenshot of an WSJ article reporting that the NVIDIA invests 100 billion USD in OpenAI has stalled cause people inside of NVidia are not convinced it makes much sense
Screenshot des Instagram Accounts von Doro Bär (BMFTR) mit dem Statement: "Die strikte Trennung zwischen zivil und militärisch ist eindeutig überholt - ebenso wie die Zivilklauseln an Universitäten"
Photo of 4 hand-printed postcards, two with black type, two with light-blue type. All cards say "don't create. make! (it's about the process)"
Screenshot meines Artikels in der aktuellen Jacobin mit dem Titel "Der Mittelpunkt der Welt"
Screenshot of an article headline "AI layoffs to backfire: Half quietly rehired at lower pay" with "at lower pay" being highlighted
Over the course of a few dates, he’d make this mistake often, where he’d talk about Trump in the first person. And I came to realise that while I was trying to separate Jared from who he voted for, he may have been personally struggling to do the exact same thing, just in a very different way. It became clear to me that he truly loved Trump not just because he identified with Trump the politician but because he identified with Trump the person being considered ‘bad’ by progressive standards.
Screenshot of a few tweets by Andrej Karpathy. First telling he released a new software. He is then asked how much of it was written by "AI". His response: "Good question, it's basically entirely hand-written (with tab autocomplete). I tried to use claude/codex agents a few times but they just didn't work well enough at all and net unhelpful, possibly the repo is too far off the data distribution."
Photo of my laptop's back with a prominent sticker on it saying: "the devil doesn't need an advocate"
Sceenshot of a Tweet from Guillermo Rauch (Vercel CEO) about the conversation he had today with motherfucking Benjamin Natanyahu about "AI empowering everyone to build software". He ends it with "Optimistic for Peace, safety and greatness for Israel and its neighbors".
Photo of the announcement slide of the event "The Individual in the Machine - Meredith Whittaker on reclaiming Privacy in the Age of AI"
"Charlie Kirk Was Practicing Politics the Right Way" by Ezra Klein for the New York Times
Screenshot der aktuellen Sascha Lobo Kolumne im Spiegel, in der er "KI Pflicht in der Schule" fordert.
Screenshot einer Kostenaufstellung für Tickets zu einem Event. Im Presale kostet ein Ticket 630 EUR, "Early Bird" kostet 720 EUR und Regulär kostet 900 EUR.
Photo of the side wall of a house. Hera (the artist) drew a huge boy holding an elephant on the wall with the words: "As long as you are standing give a hand to those who have fallen" next to it.
Photo of me sitting on a couch with a cat lying on my arm with her paw on my arm.
Eye mask and a pin from the "private music" pre release listening show.
What’s the point of vibe coding if I still have to pay a dev to fix it? what’s the point of vibe coding if at the end of the day i still gotta pay a dev to look at the code anyway. sure it feels kinda cool while i’m typing, like i’m in some flow state or whatever, but when stuff breaks it’s just dead weight. i cant vibe my way through debugging, i cant ship anything that actually matters, and then i’m back to square one pulling out my wallet for someone who actually knows what they’re doing. makes me think vibe coding is just roleplay for guys who want to feel like hackers without doing the hard part. am i missing something here or is it really just useless once you step outside the fantasy
Selfie of me wearing a black shirt with a punk-looking woman wearing a chainsaw kicking down robots with the writing "DESTROY 'AI'" on top and "Bad at everything! Kills the Planet! Brain atrophy!" below.
Screenshot of an article about the game developer KING. Highlighted quote: "Many of the staff cut will effectively be replaced by the AI tools they built and trained"
screenshot of a LinkedIn comment by me stating that people who spread Nazi propaganda and show the Nazi salute are by definition Nazis.
Screenshot of a post of mine on linkedin: "Got my first comment on LinkedIn removed and a stern warning. Reason? Well, I called a tech oligarch who spreads antisemitism (https://lnkd.in/eE3eG_Ns), eugenicist and fascist narratives (https://lnkd.in/eKJY7Wcp), supports for example the German fascist party multiple members of which you can legally and court sanctioned call Nazi in Germany and who showed the _Nazi salute_ at the Trump inauguration multiple times on camera a Nazi. I stand by my statement."
Photo of the announcement for the "Fascist AI" session tonight at TU Berlin
Screenshot des Ankündigungsscreens zu meinem Talk bei der GPN. Es ist ein Bernsteinfarbener Text auf schwarzem Grund im Stile alter digitaler Haltestellenschilder.
Cola Zero Flasche mit dem Aufdruck "Mate"
Foto des Covers von Gabriel Yoran's "Die Verkrempelung der Welt"
Foto eines silbernen Kugelschreibers mit der Gravur "Beste tante"
Foto des Bayern Standes auf der Re publica mit großen "AI for Good" Schriftzug.
Foto of me laying on the bed with one of our cats sitting on my lap chilling
Foto meines Badges für das Journalismusfest Innsbruck.
Foto der Stage beim University Future Festival in Braunschweig
Foto eines Banners des University Future Festivals in den Räumen der TU Braunschweig
photo of our female tigered cat named Suri sleeping all snuggly while cuddling with a small white mouse toy.
Screenshot of a post by Mullenweg announcing: "WordPress Jubilee As I said, we’re dropping all the human blocks. Community guidelines, directory guidelines, and such will need to be followed going forward, but whatever blocks were in place before are now cleared. It may take a few days, but any pre-existing blocks are considered bugs to be fixed."