Nostr notes by Ooze 𓁟

The irony! From a person who started a conversation about bosses ...

2026-10-23T23:39:58Z

In reply to nevent1q…azv7
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The irony! From a person who started a conversation about bosses by saying fuck bosses. I guess it's only appropriate if one agrees with the sentiment unquestioningly.

My having said that has started a conversation wherein we ...

2026-10-23T22:54:22Z

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My having said that has started a conversation wherein we acknowledged that it isn't the bosses who have the power, and found out we agree about that. We now know we have a shared goal rather than just saying fuck the bosses. This is the beginnings of solidarity.

The next step we could take is to use our power by not working for or supporting the people who we now see don't actually have the power. Then we could help other see their power.

Workers have the most power to change the system, if they have ...

2026-10-23T15:10:18Z

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Workers have the most power to change the system, if they have solidarity. Until we can realise this and put our power into action ain't nothing going to change. Perpetuating the worker victim mentality just plays into the hands of those who don't want us to realise our power.

Fuck the workers who did it.

2026-10-23T10:26:51Z

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Fuck the workers who did it.

Here is a submission I wrote for the Australian government's ...

2026-10-15T02:28:40Z

In reply to nevent1q…qza6
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Here is a submission I wrote for the Australian government's inquiry into AI. Seems sensible to me.

https://ooze.net/submitting-to-ai/

Australia is currently doing a parliamentary inquiry into the ...

2026-09-29T07:51:35Z

Australia is currently doing a parliamentary inquiry into the thing the tech bros are calling Artificial Intelligence. Submissions have just closed. There are five hundred and eleven like it, but this one is mine.

https://ooze.net/submitting-to-ai/

#AI #Australia #auspol

If I was to rage block you I could never understand you. "The ...

2026-08-27T10:10:11Z

In reply to nevent1q…66dz
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If I was to rage block you I could never understand you.

"The carbon footprint of AI systems alone could be between 32.6 and 79.7 million tons of CO2 emissions in 2025, while the water footprint could reach 312.5–764.6 billion L. To put this into perspective, this is in the same range as the carbon footprint of New York City (52.2 million tons of CO2 emissions in 202327)" https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2666389925002788

So, yes a small percentage of total global CO2 emissions at this stage, but still a whole New York of emissions. At this stage adding any more CO2 emissions is a fantastically bad idea. We need to reduce them massively and immediately. And yet that is not the extent of the environmental hazard. The water usage is nearly a third of a Warragamba dam's worth. Large parts of the planet are experiencing massive droughts. Using this much water for LLMs seems a ludicrous idea.

But there are still other harms. Data centres create heat islands which raise the temperature by 2°C on average where more than 340 million people could be affected by this temperature increase. https://arxiv.org/html/2603.20897

It is a false equivalence to compare movie piracy and the wholesale scraping of all human knowledge to train LLMs because 99% of those who pirate movies aren't doing it to sell the pirated versions. LLMs are taking the work of us all and then selling back to us. It is far from free. You mentioned paying $170 per month to buy access to Claude. Most of thew planet cannot afford that. Yet even those who can never afford it have had their work stolen to train it.

Not only are they damaging to the planet but they are damages to our minds. There is now a lot of research showing how harmful LLM use is to cognitive function. "LLM users consistently underperformed at neural, linguistic, and behavioral levels. These results raise concerns about the long-term educational implications of LLM reliance and underscore the need for deeper inquiry into AI’s role in learning." https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.08872. This is having effects in the employment market already as employers find students who used LLMs through their entire degrees end up unfit for employment. .https://futurism.com/future-society/college-critical-thinking-ai

Lastly, it comes across as super patronising when you presume people are not informed about what they talking about. I am presently writing a submission for a government inquiry into LLMs. I am happy to engage with reasoned debate supported by research.

Why are you ok with using it knowing it is damaging to the ...

2026-08-26T07:37:02Z

In reply to nevent1q…qvcq
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Why are you ok with using it knowing it is damaging to the environment and was made by stealing everyone's work? I am not having a go. I just really want to know your thinking.

Are you; (a) a data scientist (b) interested in governance (c ) ...

2026-07-23T05:46:19Z

Are you;

(a) a data scientist
(b) interested in governance
(c ) love reading gossip that's full of drama and taking notes
(d) interested in wikipedia
(e) a psychologist
(f) interested in open access and/or open source
(g) into statistics
(h) a lawyer

If so please consider contacting me about joining my project examining the state of governance on wikipedia. This is not a job posting but rather a call for collaborators. All outputs will be open access.

I would be most grateful for boosts.

He is not a trespasser. He lives there.

2026-07-05T00:57:50Z

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He is not a trespasser. He lives there.

They are dragging in a man who is playing the role of the ...

2026-06-30T06:07:54Z

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They are dragging in a man who is playing the role of the Christian devil and, extremely graphically acting out shooting him, while children chant along with them.

Ok fedifriends, strap yourselves in. This genuinely alarming ...

2026-06-30T06:00:52Z

Ok fedifriends, strap yourselves in. This genuinely alarming video is a church service in Kentucky. No really. These people are who voted for Trump.

https://youtu.be/PGO4qgfm7DU A humorous and inciteful exposition ...

2026-06-06T02:14:12Z

https://youtu.be/PGO4qgfm7DU

A humorous and inciteful exposition of the tragic state of academic life.

https://www.leffler.com.au/

2026-05-28T10:02:16Z

In reply to nevent1q…0vkt
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https://www.leffler.com.au/

Is it a nice person, are they trained cockroaches?

2026-05-22T03:21:14Z

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Is it a nice person, are they trained cockroaches?

Stop Hiring Humans billboards reportedly being put up from San ...

2026-05-16T21:54:08Z

Stop Hiring Humans billboards reportedly being put up from San Francisco to New York City. The company behind the ads is a San Francisco based startup that builds glorified chatbot sales reps.

These employees aren't employees.

Would you use substack if you were aware it monetised actual ...

2026-03-25T03:50:53Z

Would you use substack if you were aware it monetised actual nazis?

Please do part two of this poll in the replies.

#substack #ethics

That shot with the rocket launch!

2026-03-23T01:37:29Z

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That shot with the rocket launch!

Two things. Firstly, there are literally millions of ...

2026-02-09T11:11:32Z

In reply to nevent1q…dvsw
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Two things. Firstly, there are literally millions of postgraduates or posdocs on the planet. You are probably going to say that they aren't all in academia. Many more of them would be if we made places for them instead of doing stupid austerity economics with higher education or trying to automate jobs that humans are really good at.

Secondly, if we abandoned numbers of publications as a metric for academic success there would suddenly be a lot less stuff to wade through.

Yes.

2026-02-09T09:26:11Z

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Yes.

Good news everybody! We already have a great tool for this, ...

2026-02-09T01:02:32Z

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Good news everybody! We already have a great tool for this, humans. If we stop making academics run the treadmill of endless grant applications and needless publishing it will free up time for such activities.

Academic publishing has no shame. Over $200 for a 392 page ...

2026-02-02T05:38:15Z

Academic publishing has no shame. Over $200 for a 392 page hardcover. And "only" $80 for the paperback.

Plus, you know, America is a fascist state now.

2026-01-16T03:52:20Z

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Plus, you know, America is a fascist state now.

Just remember that with such things one is dependent on the ...

2025-10-28T07:04:00Z

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Just remember that with such things one is dependent on the company continuing in business. Several times these companies have gone bankrupt and bricked the devices, leaving people with non functioning implants. e.g. https://linustechtips.com/topic/1474162-more-about-right-to-repair-150000-bionic-retinal-implants-bricked-after-company-shutdowns/

I hear this all the time. And then temporary turns into forever. ...

2025-10-01T04:03:27Z

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I hear this all the time. And then temporary turns into forever. It is just as fast and easy to use, etherpad, or onlyoffice, or cryptpad, or hedgedoc as it is to use google docs. Just walk away from the evil. Just do it.

The irony of using Google docs for this.

2025-10-01T02:47:33Z

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The irony of using Google docs for this.

Day four of the Imgur user rebellion. More media have noticed ...

2025-08-30T00:07:52Z

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Day four of the Imgur user rebellion. More media have noticed https://imgur.com/gallery/todays-episode-of-wtaf-is-going-on-404-media-has-summarized-fiasco-4tv2TXa

Users are flooding the front page with "The gif" as it is known on Imgur. A pornographic Marvell gif which has previously been a guarantee of an instant ban and instant removal of the post. Many copies of the gif have been showing on the front page all day without being removed.

Sorry these posts are out of order. I was unable to post for a couple of days and am filling in the blanks.

#UserRebellion #Imgur

Day three of the Imgur user rebellion. The site owners post about ...

2025-08-29T23:59:56Z

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Day three of the Imgur user rebellion. The site owners post about the rebellion. It is a wall of text that is not well received by the users. In it the company claims both that no one was fired but that there are "less of us here" to handle the workload. The company also claims to not be doing any of the things the users have documented that they are clearly doing. They claim no one was fired while statements by ex employees saying they were fired have been posted by users.

It is as if the company doesn't read its own site and doesn't think the users communicate with each other.

https://imgur.com/gallery/hey-s-business-daddy-got-sec-ctQTDDt Full text of the company's reply.

Cory Doctorow (npub1fdr…lvhs) Are you aware of this user rebellion?

#UserRebellion #Imgur

Day two of the Imgur user rebellion. The media has noticed. ...

2025-08-26T11:17:18Z

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Day two of the Imgur user rebellion. The media has noticed.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/technology/general/imgur-protest-covers-the-front-page-in-anti-medialab-memes/ar-AA1LcArz

https://www.engadget.com/apps/imgur-protest-covers-the-front-page-in-anti-medialab-memes-225502091.html

The once great, but now a shadow of it's former self, image ...

2025-08-26T00:57:48Z

The once great, but now a shadow of it's former self, image sharing site Imgur is having a bit of a moment. The site was recently sold to MediaLabs who have plastered the site in ads, replaced moderation with AI and fired most of the staff. This has resulted in some parts of the site failing to function e.g. the entire notifications system.

Media Labs performance has been so bad it has pushed the numerically small but devoted remaining users to realise their power. The users of Imgur have united in rebellion to protest and have covered the entire front page in images disparaging the company. The site is entirely dependent on the users posting things to generate its income. The site owners literally add nothing except ads.

This is an exemplar to the rest of our society, struggling as we are under the weight of parasites who only detract from our efforts for their own gain.

#Imgur #UserRebellion #Capitalism

https://www.forbiddenhistories.com/ - This excellent blog now has ...

2025-07-29T23:45:16Z

https://www.forbiddenhistories.com/ - This excellent blog now has a podcast!

If you wish to be considered a scientific-minded person, you probably know that you really shouldn’t believe in the occurrence of events commonly referred to as supernatural. If there was something to that sort of thing, surely the greats of science such as Newton, Bacon, Boyle, the Curies and Einstein would have told us.

What may surprise you is that each of the scientific icons named above, and many others of similar standing, took reports of marvelous phenomena quite seriously. In fact, the consensus in historical scholarship regarding the relationship between science and ‘magic’ has shifted notably during the past five decades. Even the most conservative historian of science will tell you today what previous generations ignored or denied:

That the revolutionary scientific works of Brahe, Kepler, Newton and other early moderns were inextricably related to their committed beliefs in biblical prophecies, alchemy, astrology and other ‘occult’ ideas and practices.

That others like Francis Bacon, Robert Boyle, and later Pierre Curie, J. J. Thomson and William James observed and rigorously tested reported miraculous goings-on, and insisted that certain instances of distant mental influence constituted facts of nature.

That these examples are not mere anachronisms, but that – contrary to traditional assertions of a disenchantment of nature – interest in miraculous phenomena has continued in elite members of scientific communities, though not necessarily pursued within curricula of professionalized sciences.

That at least since the nineteenth century, scientific interest in these things has been marked by a pluralism of interpretations, and cannot simply be pigeon-holed as instances of a religious need to believe or flight from reason.

Depending on your personal sensibilities and experiences, such statements may provoke reactions ranging from surprise to consternation – some of the standard responses historians of science and medicine working on unorthodox topics encounter when we try to explain our work to non-historians, and which have determined the choice of this blog’s title. Forbidden Histories may have a melodramatic ring to it, but means to implicate the existence of a certain taboo, comprised of a variety of concerns that have prevented mainstream historical research from becoming part of common knowledge.

Debates over the reality of certain supposed occult phenomena are ongoing, yet our intent is not to validate nor debunk the paranormal. Instead, we wish to study and understand reasons for belief as well as disbelief by scientists in various extraordinary phenomena over time.

The purpose of this blog is therefore to rehearse questions and ideas concerning the historical contingency of scientific naturalism and other standards of Western rationality – particularly those which academics are not accustomed let alone encouraged to critically reflect upon, even though they have powerfully shaped individual and collective identities.

Aware that the subject matter of Forbidden Histories thoroughly goes against the grain of many established ideologies and metaphysical standard positions, contributors strive to employ those principles that most would agree make good science as well as good history: contextualized evidence and differentiated analysis.

#history #philosophy #science #occult #religion

Ok gardening people, what's going on with this King David ...

2025-04-30T01:28:43Z

Ok gardening people, what's going on with this King David apple?

#gardening #orchard #apple

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2025-04-16T23:28:46Z

https://www.zdnet.com/article/german-state-ditches-microsoft-for-linux-and-libreoffice/

German state ditches Microsoft for Linux and LibreOffice. Why? Schleswig-Holstein cites cost, security, and digital sovereignty - though not necessarily in that order.

"Each man thought: one of the others is bound to say ...

2025-04-02T08:32:54Z

"Each man thought: one of the others is bound to say something soon, some protest and then I will murmur agreement, not actually say anything. I am not as stupid as that, but definitely murmur very firmly, so that the others will be in no doubt that I thoroughly disapprove, because at a time like this it behooves all decent men to nearly stand up and be almost heard. But no one said anything. The cowards, each man thought."

Terry Pratchett - Guards, Guards.

It has taken way longer than we hoped, but we now have our own ...

2025-04-02T08:14:49Z

It has taken way longer than we hoped, but we now have our own instance. I have just finished migrating my account so I would appreciate it if you could boost this post so our little instance gets noticed by a bunch of servers. Here's a picture of my cats Huginn and Muninn so I am at least adding something to the fediverse instead of just asking for something.

#cats