Benjamin
@benjami.no
art, gamedev, accessibility,
100% human.
He/him
100% human.
He/him
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"Knowledge ultimately residing in private property is the dream"
One can argue that this an AI/LLM based form of enclosure, more than simple extraction or commodification alone. As such, it's by definition carceral and authoritarian. To make it impossible to know, or think-with anything else.
One can argue that this an AI/LLM based form of enclosure, more than simple extraction or commodification alone. As such, it's by definition carceral and authoritarian. To make it impossible to know, or think-with anything else.
In applying AI to material science, biology, etc, capitalism is trying to shed science.
The point is to substitute the engineering of a machine that can generate what science has hitherto done, but without having people know things. Knowledge ultimately residing in private property is the dream.
The point is to substitute the engineering of a machine that can generate what science has hitherto done, but without having people know things. Knowledge ultimately residing in private property is the dream.
November 30, 2025 at 8:03 PM
"Knowledge ultimately residing in private property is the dream"
One can argue that this an AI/LLM based form of enclosure, more than simple extraction or commodification alone. As such, it's by definition carceral and authoritarian. To make it impossible to know, or think-with anything else.
One can argue that this an AI/LLM based form of enclosure, more than simple extraction or commodification alone. As such, it's by definition carceral and authoritarian. To make it impossible to know, or think-with anything else.
@gregk.co.uk has a fantastic voice and delivery, and the research going into each episode is amazing.
If there's one thing I can say about the podcast, is that it's 'sobering'.
"You might not be interested in political violence, but it's very interested in you"
If there's one thing I can say about the podcast, is that it's 'sobering'.
"You might not be interested in political violence, but it's very interested in you"
BLOOD WORK / EPISODE 9
TO LIVE AS PEOPLE OR DIE LIKE MEN: ATTICA
In 1971, a community cast aside by the state attempted to reclaim their humanity and political subjectivity. We look at the Attica Prison Uprising to see what that event might tell us about politics, law, and violence.
TO LIVE AS PEOPLE OR DIE LIKE MEN: ATTICA
In 1971, a community cast aside by the state attempted to reclaim their humanity and political subjectivity. We look at the Attica Prison Uprising to see what that event might tell us about politics, law, and violence.
To Live as People or Die Like Men: Attica | Blood Work
Get more from Blood Work on Patreon
www.patreon.com
November 30, 2025 at 6:43 PM
@gregk.co.uk has a fantastic voice and delivery, and the research going into each episode is amazing.
If there's one thing I can say about the podcast, is that it's 'sobering'.
"You might not be interested in political violence, but it's very interested in you"
If there's one thing I can say about the podcast, is that it's 'sobering'.
"You might not be interested in political violence, but it's very interested in you"
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Hey photography folks drop 4 fav still photographers
Bernd and Hilla Becher (they count as 1 ok)
Felix Thiollier
Fan Ho
Olga Karlovac
Bernd and Hilla Becher (they count as 1 ok)
Felix Thiollier
Fan Ho
Olga Karlovac
November 22, 2025 at 4:06 AM
Hey photography folks drop 4 fav still photographers
Bernd and Hilla Becher (they count as 1 ok)
Felix Thiollier
Fan Ho
Olga Karlovac
Bernd and Hilla Becher (they count as 1 ok)
Felix Thiollier
Fan Ho
Olga Karlovac
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Updated Input Prompts to version 1.4a, this fixes the font issues that some people reported! #gamedev #gameassets
kenney.nl/assets/input...
kenney.nl/assets/input...
Input Prompts · Kenney
Download this package (1280 assets) for free, CC0 licensed!
kenney.nl
November 22, 2025 at 11:16 AM
Updated Input Prompts to version 1.4a, this fixes the font issues that some people reported! #gamedev #gameassets
kenney.nl/assets/input...
kenney.nl/assets/input...
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For those who prefer video, here’s tonight’s story about the AI undress apps hosted on the Nevada Department of Transportation website
November 18, 2025 at 4:34 AM
For those who prefer video, here’s tonight’s story about the AI undress apps hosted on the Nevada Department of Transportation website
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For those keeping track, we are now up to 6 government agencies around the world, including 4 US state/city/county governments that have all been breached and have illegal AI nudify/undress apps hosted on their official government servers.
November 21, 2025 at 5:52 PM
For those keeping track, we are now up to 6 government agencies around the world, including 4 US state/city/county governments that have all been breached and have illegal AI nudify/undress apps hosted on their official government servers.
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we must abolish ICE
NEWSWEEK: “Chinese immigrant found hanging in ICE detention with his hands and feet tied behind him… Chaofeng Ge died 4 days after entering ICE custody in Pennsylvania… deaths in ICE custody have gone up under Trump…”
www.newsweek.com/ice-detainee...
www.newsweek.com/ice-detainee...
November 20, 2025 at 6:40 PM
we must abolish ICE
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Like some kind of zombie cockroach, THE BAN ON STATE AI REGULATIONS IS BACK FROM THE DEAD!! 🪦
Please call your senators and rep NOW and tell them no state AI regulation ban!! A cheat sheet of who to call, scripts of what to say here: tinyurl.com/msa69nkv
Please call your senators and rep NOW and tell them no state AI regulation ban!! A cheat sheet of who to call, scripts of what to say here: tinyurl.com/msa69nkv
November 19, 2025 at 9:32 PM
Like some kind of zombie cockroach, THE BAN ON STATE AI REGULATIONS IS BACK FROM THE DEAD!! 🪦
Please call your senators and rep NOW and tell them no state AI regulation ban!! A cheat sheet of who to call, scripts of what to say here: tinyurl.com/msa69nkv
Please call your senators and rep NOW and tell them no state AI regulation ban!! A cheat sheet of who to call, scripts of what to say here: tinyurl.com/msa69nkv
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Update: European Commission is starting "pre-infringement dialogue" with Ireland about our complaint against Ireland's process to appoint the new Data Protection Commissioner
These "EU Pilot" dialogues occur where the Commission suspects a Member State has broken EU law
ec.europa.eu/implementing...
These "EU Pilot" dialogues occur where the Commission suspects a Member State has broken EU law
ec.europa.eu/implementing...
Pre-infringement dialogue
Pre-infringement dialogues is a tool that can be used where it is likely to lead to swifter compliance than a formal infringement procedure. This page displays a map showing the number of active pre-i...
ec.europa.eu
November 19, 2025 at 4:54 PM
Update: European Commission is starting "pre-infringement dialogue" with Ireland about our complaint against Ireland's process to appoint the new Data Protection Commissioner
These "EU Pilot" dialogues occur where the Commission suspects a Member State has broken EU law
ec.europa.eu/implementing...
These "EU Pilot" dialogues occur where the Commission suspects a Member State has broken EU law
ec.europa.eu/implementing...
Ted Cruz is the sleaziest meatball in the senate, & that's saying something. A two-faced charlatan who uses every trick in the book to sneak in his wormy agenda as a gift to Silicon Valley.
Zero scruples about underhandedly inserting an AI moratorium into any bill he can get his wriggly fingers on
Zero scruples about underhandedly inserting an AI moratorium into any bill he can get his wriggly fingers on
🚨 Yet again Ted Cruz and Steve Scalise are trying to sneak in a moratorium on state GenAi legislation.
If passed states can no longer enact laws for transparency, child safety, privacy, environmental protection etc.
We got 3 days to stop this. Call now!
www.senate.gov/senators/sen...
If passed states can no longer enact laws for transparency, child safety, privacy, environmental protection etc.
We got 3 days to stop this. Call now!
www.senate.gov/senators/sen...
November 19, 2025 at 10:00 PM
Ted Cruz is the sleaziest meatball in the senate, & that's saying something. A two-faced charlatan who uses every trick in the book to sneak in his wormy agenda as a gift to Silicon Valley.
Zero scruples about underhandedly inserting an AI moratorium into any bill he can get his wriggly fingers on
Zero scruples about underhandedly inserting an AI moratorium into any bill he can get his wriggly fingers on
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You laugh, but down here at the electron factory it's no joke. We're on mandatory overtime, working in shifts around the clock, trying to keep up with Sam's electron demand so he can run the Plagiarism and Bullshit Machine!
#TheftTech
#TheftTech
I laughed at loud. These people are so pathetic; our enemies are numbskulls. They will kill us all and still not know hs physics.
COWEN: The stupidest question possible: Why don’t we just make more GPUs?
ALTMAN: Because we need to make more electrons.
conversationswithtyler.com/episodes/sam...
COWEN: The stupidest question possible: Why don’t we just make more GPUs?
ALTMAN: Because we need to make more electrons.
conversationswithtyler.com/episodes/sam...
November 19, 2025 at 7:20 PM
You laugh, but down here at the electron factory it's no joke. We're on mandatory overtime, working in shifts around the clock, trying to keep up with Sam's electron demand so he can run the Plagiarism and Bullshit Machine!
#TheftTech
#TheftTech
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This is a nuts story. An AI chatbot and image platform left millions of images exposed. They show what people are actually using the AI for: taking random women's yearbook, graduation, and social media photos and making super realistic hardcore porn with them
www.404media.co/ai-porn-secr...
www.404media.co/ai-porn-secr...
Massive Leak Shows Erotic Chatbot Users Turned Women’s Yearbook Pictures Into AI Porn
Chatbot roleplay and image generator platform SecretDesires.ai left cloud storage containers of nearly two million of images and videos exposed, including photos and full names of women from social me...
www.404media.co
November 19, 2025 at 3:28 PM
This is a nuts story. An AI chatbot and image platform left millions of images exposed. They show what people are actually using the AI for: taking random women's yearbook, graduation, and social media photos and making super realistic hardcore porn with them
www.404media.co/ai-porn-secr...
www.404media.co/ai-porn-secr...
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Kom på Tronsmo fredag kl 15 og få KIKIs KI-kritiske manifest i form av denne lekre, gjennomillustrerte trykksaken!
kikinorge.no
kikinorge.no
November 19, 2025 at 7:39 PM
Kom på Tronsmo fredag kl 15 og få KIKIs KI-kritiske manifest i form av denne lekre, gjennomillustrerte trykksaken!
kikinorge.no
kikinorge.no
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“While the AI industry claims its models can “think,” “reason,” and “learn,” their supposed achievements rest on marketing hype and stolen intellectual labor. In reality, AI erodes academic freedom, weakens critical reading, and subordinates the pursuit of knowledge to corporate interests.”
AI Is Hollowing Out Higher Education
Olivia Guest & Iris van Rooij urge teachers and scholars to reject tools that commodify learning, deskill students, and promote illiteracy.
www.project-syndicate.org
November 15, 2025 at 5:24 PM
“While the AI industry claims its models can “think,” “reason,” and “learn,” their supposed achievements rest on marketing hype and stolen intellectual labor. In reality, AI erodes academic freedom, weakens critical reading, and subordinates the pursuit of knowledge to corporate interests.”
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“GenerativeAI isn’t magic. It’s the product of millions of invisible creators—poets, coders, photographers, musicians—whose work has been harvested, scraped, & absorbed into AI models without consent or compensation…
This is not innovation. It is expropriation.”
—Otti Vogt
This is not innovation. It is expropriation.”
—Otti Vogt
AI Must Fund the Commons – Not Eat Them
AI feeds on the cultural commons—now it must pay its dues, supporting the creators and public institutions it depends on.
good-leadership.beehiiv.com
November 15, 2025 at 12:23 PM
“GenerativeAI isn’t magic. It’s the product of millions of invisible creators—poets, coders, photographers, musicians—whose work has been harvested, scraped, & absorbed into AI models without consent or compensation…
This is not innovation. It is expropriation.”
—Otti Vogt
This is not innovation. It is expropriation.”
—Otti Vogt
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🚨 Yet again Ted Cruz and Steve Scalise are trying to sneak in a moratorium on state GenAi legislation.
If passed states can no longer enact laws for transparency, child safety, privacy, environmental protection etc.
We got 3 days to stop this. Call now!
www.senate.gov/senators/sen...
If passed states can no longer enact laws for transparency, child safety, privacy, environmental protection etc.
We got 3 days to stop this. Call now!
www.senate.gov/senators/sen...
November 19, 2025 at 7:07 PM
🚨 Yet again Ted Cruz and Steve Scalise are trying to sneak in a moratorium on state GenAi legislation.
If passed states can no longer enact laws for transparency, child safety, privacy, environmental protection etc.
We got 3 days to stop this. Call now!
www.senate.gov/senators/sen...
If passed states can no longer enact laws for transparency, child safety, privacy, environmental protection etc.
We got 3 days to stop this. Call now!
www.senate.gov/senators/sen...
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I laughed at loud. These people are so pathetic; our enemies are numbskulls. They will kill us all and still not know hs physics.
COWEN: The stupidest question possible: Why don’t we just make more GPUs?
ALTMAN: Because we need to make more electrons.
conversationswithtyler.com/episodes/sam...
COWEN: The stupidest question possible: Why don’t we just make more GPUs?
ALTMAN: Because we need to make more electrons.
conversationswithtyler.com/episodes/sam...
November 19, 2025 at 7:27 AM
I laughed at loud. These people are so pathetic; our enemies are numbskulls. They will kill us all and still not know hs physics.
COWEN: The stupidest question possible: Why don’t we just make more GPUs?
ALTMAN: Because we need to make more electrons.
conversationswithtyler.com/episodes/sam...
COWEN: The stupidest question possible: Why don’t we just make more GPUs?
ALTMAN: Because we need to make more electrons.
conversationswithtyler.com/episodes/sam...
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Boiling here at home in Cyprus but I put the finishing touches a couple of days ago on this preprint: What Does 'Human-Centred AI' Mean? doi.org/10.48550/arX...
Wherein I analyse HCAI & demonstrate through 3 triplets my new tripartite definition of AI (Table 1) that properly centres the human. 1/n
Wherein I analyse HCAI & demonstrate through 3 triplets my new tripartite definition of AI (Table 1) that properly centres the human. 1/n
July 29, 2025 at 11:52 AM
Boiling here at home in Cyprus but I put the finishing touches a couple of days ago on this preprint: What Does 'Human-Centred AI' Mean? doi.org/10.48550/arX...
Wherein I analyse HCAI & demonstrate through 3 triplets my new tripartite definition of AI (Table 1) that properly centres the human. 1/n
Wherein I analyse HCAI & demonstrate through 3 triplets my new tripartite definition of AI (Table 1) that properly centres the human. 1/n
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I split AI into 3 non-mutually exclusive types (see Table 1 above): displacement (harmful), enhancement (beneficial), and/or replacement (neutral) of human cognitive labour. More later possibly, but see Tables 2 to 4 (attached or here: arxiv.org/pdf/2507.19960) for the worked through examples. 2/n
July 29, 2025 at 11:52 AM
I split AI into 3 non-mutually exclusive types (see Table 1 above): displacement (harmful), enhancement (beneficial), and/or replacement (neutral) of human cognitive labour. More later possibly, but see Tables 2 to 4 (attached or here: arxiv.org/pdf/2507.19960) for the worked through examples. 2/n
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Chicagoans are making, sharing, and printing designs for whistles that can warn people when ICE is in the area. The goal is to “prevent as many people from being kidnapped as possible.” @evystadium.bsky.social has more.
Full story by @josephcox.bsky.social here: www.404media.co/the-latest-d...
Full story by @josephcox.bsky.social here: www.404media.co/the-latest-d...
November 19, 2025 at 4:47 PM
Chicagoans are making, sharing, and printing designs for whistles that can warn people when ICE is in the area. The goal is to “prevent as many people from being kidnapped as possible.” @evystadium.bsky.social has more.
Full story by @josephcox.bsky.social here: www.404media.co/the-latest-d...
Full story by @josephcox.bsky.social here: www.404media.co/the-latest-d...
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After 404 Media's months-long reporting and pressure from lawmakers, the data broker owned by the U.S.’s major airlines will now shut down a program in which it sold access to hundreds of millions of flight records to the government and let agencies track peoples’ movements without a warrant.
November 18, 2025 at 9:39 PM
After 404 Media's months-long reporting and pressure from lawmakers, the data broker owned by the U.S.’s major airlines will now shut down a program in which it sold access to hundreds of millions of flight records to the government and let agencies track peoples’ movements without a warrant.
The new American economy is just Gambling and AI. No actual production of value. Siphoning money, thought, focus & culture to enrich the few.
Gambling is prediction with added stakes.
Deep Learning AI models are predictors: guess the outcome given a current state.
A match made in hell.
Gambling is prediction with added stakes.
Deep Learning AI models are predictors: guess the outcome given a current state.
A match made in hell.
November 19, 2025 at 5:15 PM
The new American economy is just Gambling and AI. No actual production of value. Siphoning money, thought, focus & culture to enrich the few.
Gambling is prediction with added stakes.
Deep Learning AI models are predictors: guess the outcome given a current state.
A match made in hell.
Gambling is prediction with added stakes.
Deep Learning AI models are predictors: guess the outcome given a current state.
A match made in hell.
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