TODAY @xankarn @tante @mhoye have contributed 3 threads that are important to the development of an #antifa praxis for not just #FLOSS but the whole #tech industry:

xankarn on how Jim Crow and Hitler ―and the #STEM ways USA inspired the development of #fascism
mastodon.online/@xankarn/11744…

tante on how #AIslop is used to build separate and unequal wall around the #Linux #kernel
tldr.nettime.org/@tante/117444…

mhoye on the way out of separate & unequal in tech
cosocial.ca/@mhoye/11743927274…

thanks to them all.

tante

2026-10-15 12:45:41

"I suggest the social action: shame. Shame these people. Their actions are shameful. AI bros hate being shamed and they try to make rules against shaming — because shame works.

None of these people doing shameful things deserve a place in polite company. They should be shamed for their shameful choices.

The AI industry is also running a PR push to redefine common word usage. The word “slop” is also super effective — so the bros really hate “slop” and try to define it to mean slop they don’t like.

But all AI output is slop. It’s social spam. That’s what it’s for. It’s slop! Say “slop” every time."

pivot-to-ai.com/2026/10/14/lin…

Linux kernel goes full AI slop code, hides chatbot commits

Linux is the name of a computer operating system kernel and a group of systems built on it, like Ubuntu or Mint. Linux is the basic infrastructure of the Internet. It’s important. A report ju…

^{Pivot to AI}

The Expo files and other articles : Larsson, Stieg, 1954-2004
archive.org - login

PREFACE
Another side of Stieg Larsson — a voice sadly missed

As time passes, memories of my colleague and friend Stieg begin to fade. I recall the smoke-laden atmosphere in the coffee room where we discussed the latest developments in far-right movements, and listened to Stiegs endless repertoire of anecdotes. About his National Service, his time at T.T. (Tidningarnas Telegrambyra —the Swedish Central News Agency), his trips to Africa. But I have trouble in remembering everything that was said.

But I do remember one thing perfectly clearly.

His way of writing. How he would bang his fingers down hard on the keyboard, fast and accurately, as if he were still using a typewriter.

Stieg was often stressed. A small office with so much to do. He was happy to delegate, but even so usually wanted to keep a finger in the pie. He was always adjusting the texts one last time, checking the editing one last time, correcting the reports one last time.

Yet somehow or other, he always looked relaxed as he sat there, typing away.

He often squandered hours by writing long e-mails to right-wing extremists who were eager to set debates in motion. The explanatory notes and handbooks new members of staff were immaculately formulated,informative and comprehensive.

One year he kept the editorial he wrote for board entertained by circulating a series of summer updates via e-mail. He wrote polemical articles, books, pamphlets, policy documents.

And he wrote crime novels.

Stieg knew his crime novels were good. He stated quite early on, somewhat cockily, that they were going to be his pension. But nobody could possibly have dreamed they would turn out to be as successful as they have been. There is no getting away from the fact that the story of Lisbeth Salander and Mikael Blomkvist has knocked the rest of Stieg s writing into the shade.

This book is intended to remind readers of the other side of Stieg Larssons writing. To some extent it helps to explain what Stieg wanted to say in his Millennium Trilogy. It is not possible to separate the novels from his commitment to opposing racism and promoting womens rights. The book also provides information about Stieg Larsson the journalist, and the issues to which he devoted his life.

What you are about to read is far from everything that Stieg the journalist wrote. He was a contributor to various books, and for many years was a correspondent for the English journal Searchlight ,besides being a contributor to other magazines.

Included here is some travel writing and several articles he wrote while working for the Swedish Central News Agency. They demonstrate that for Stieg his writing was about more than just expounding political ideas.

He also wrote because he enjoyed doing so. Most of the articles are taken from the first ten years of Expo. They comprise columns, leading articles and correspondence with readers. Some of the texts selected are extracts from books that in various ways touched on subjects close to his heart. The articles are arranged thematically, and provide a guide to Stieg’s views on anti-racist and feminist questions. At the same time they highlight aworrying political development.

When the journal Expo was launched in the mid-1990s, the violent neo-Nazi movement was attracting a great deal of attention in Sweden. The anti-immigration policies of New Democracy1 resulted in the party’s resignation from the Swedish parliament, movement and the so-called nationalist made its presence felt by aseries of murders and dramatic white-power concerts. During the first ten years of the twenty-first century, the spotlight focused on the Sweden Democrats2 and, in the early days, the National Democrats3 —parties with roots in the murky sludge that was beginning to ooze into democratically elected institutions.

In the most recent elections, the Sweden Democrats won seats in parliament. Previously regarded as political clowns, they had now entered the corridors of power.

With hindsight it is easy to see that the driving forces behind Stiegs crime novels are also present in the rest of his writing. He had a broad basic education. He could be sarcastic and confrontational. He did not hesitate to make fun of the marginalized white-power movements peculiar way of life and conspiratorial philosophy.

I was never especially interested in Stiegs crime novels while he was writing them. Strictly in order to be polite, I once asked him how he would exploit the fame he hoped to achieve with them. The plan was well mapped out in his head. The financial security they would provide would enable him to spend all his time writing even more crime novels, polemical articles and columns.

Obviously, what I miss most is Stieg the man. His humor, his drive, his generosity. But I am also sad that he was not able to experience his success. Not for the success in itself, but for the possibilities it would have opened up for him.

He would have had a lot to say now. About the increase in Islamophobia. About the progress achieved by the Sweden Democrats. About the violence that men inflict upon women. About issues he never had the opportunity explore while he was working on Expo.

The world has become a little quieter without Stieg around.

This is our way of giving him a voice again. Our way of making sure that his thumping away at the keyboard was not in vain.
Daniel Poohl

Notes

1. New Democracy, a populist party with a xenophobic agenda, was very successful in the first half of the 1990s. The party was founded in 1991, and that same year entered the Swedish parliament with 6.7 percent of the vote. During their time in parliament the party was beset by internal battles and lost its seats in the 1994 general election.

2. Sweden Democrats was a nationalist right-wing populist party formed in 1988. Several of its founders had a background of involvement with fascist and Nazi organizations. Today, the party has twenty seats in parliament, having received 5.7 percent of the vote in the parliamentary elections in 2010.

3. National Democrats was a right-wing party with close ties to the Swedish Nazi movement. The party was founded as a radical breakaway from the Sweden Democrats in 2001. In the parliamentary elections of 2010, the National Democrats won three communal seats and got 1,141 votes.
#book #antifa #stieglarsson #history #fascism #sweden

AI slop hurts your soul.

It makes you: distrustful, dismissive of creative works, uncreative, derivative, imaginatively stunted, unreflective, dependant, it robs you of the satisfaction and growth granted by the creative process and it poisons you with all the same cultural biases taken from the training data.

AI robs people of imagination and the drive to create and instead produces output that is pastiche on steroid, uninspired unchallenging slop, every little detail crafted without personality or opinion with nothing to say except "this might vaguely remind you of something good that already existed": degrading culture and artistic expression into a facsimile of art similar to how fascists view art, it funnels visual expression through a filter designed by some of the most powerful people on the planet and is trained on data that has been proven to embed cultural biases such as racism and sexism

Gen AI is notorious for lying about things, googles AI search famously told people to eat rocks and put glue on pizza. So called "Hallucinations" are endemic to AI models and there is currently no known way to root them out.
By trusting LLMs for factual reference you are contributing to poisoning the information ecosystem with hallucinated LLM garbage. Please don't do that, stick to sources written by humans who can be held accountable for lies

I am also particularly concerned about the rise of chatbots pretending to be humans for political purposes.

alextheward.com/blog/llms_are_…
#LLM #LargeLyingMachine #AI #GenAI #AISlop #Censorship #Racism #Sexism #Fascism #Art

Habeas Corpus - the latin expression for the right to question someone's
imprisonment - is vehemently defended as being alive and well, according to
the AI on Google search. ¹

As you can see below, all the sources used, bar one, are "establishment" sources.
The passing of the 2003 act was a classical good cop/bad cop performance in parliament, with the "progressive" Labour government under Blair demanding 6 months imprisonment without charges etc... and the conservative Tory Party under David Cameron, playing the good cop, pleading for 3 months.

Much fuss is being made now about the rise of "fascism" - for me a marketing
term - when in fact the direction we are moving in was set already back in
2001 with the consensus of all in the ruling classes, which includes the media, of course.

Those who want war also want "fascism" because during war fascism exists - emergency/war time powers and a command economy.
"What's in a name?" ²

The obsession with political personalities doesn't address the problem, never has.

It is a problem with the system.
Not a flaw in the system, but it is the heart and soul of the system.

As with the Magna Carta, all the pretty talk of values was and is intended
only for the ruling classes themselves.
(The "freeman" was the lowest class to which a noble could be demoted to, temporarily, by the monarch.)

If you haven't read Lenin, you can't criticise him.
If you haven't read Orwell, you can't praise him.

#habeascorpus #fascism #privateproperty

1. sources referenced by Google:
   Habeas Corpus Explained
   brennancenter.org/our-work/res…
   Joint Committee on Human Rights
   publications.parliament.uk/pa/…
   7 Key Moments In the History of Criminal Law in the UK
   mortons-solicitors.co.uk/7-key…
   Criminal Justice and Public Order Act 1994
   legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/19…
   Criminal Justice Act 2003
   legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2003/…
   The End of Habeas Corpus in Great Britain
   monthlyreview.org/articles/the… ↩︎
2. Shakespeare: Romeo and Juliet (Act 2, Scene 2) ↩︎

AI slop hurts your soul.

It makes you: distrustful, dismissive of creative works, uncreative, derivative, imaginatively stunted, unreflective, dependant, it robs you of the satisfaction and growth granted by the creative process and it poisons you with all the same cultural biases taken from the training data.

AI robs people of imagination and the drive to create and instead produces output that is pastiche on steroid, uninspired unchallenging slop, every little detail crafted without personality or opinion with nothing to say except "this might vaguely remind you of something good that already existed": degrading culture and artistic expression into a facsimile of art similar to how fascists view art, it funnels visual expression through a filter designed by some of the most powerful people on the planet and is trained on data that has been proven to embed cultural biases such as racism and sexism

Gen AI is notorious for lying about things, googles AI search famously told people to eat rocks and put glue on pizza. So called "Hallucinations" are endemic to AI models and there is currently no known way to root them out.
By trusting LLMs for factual reference you are contributing to poisoning the information ecosystem with hallucinated LLM garbage. Please don't do that, stick to sources written by humans who can be held accountable for lies

I am also particularly concerned about the rise of chatbots pretending to be humans for political purposes.

alextheward.com/blog/llms_are_…
#LLM #LargeLyingMachine #AI #GenAI #AISlop #Censorship #Racism #Sexism #Fascism #Art

#Brazil: "A large portion of the electorate voted for a gang that attempted to stage a coup d’état; plotted to assassinate the president-elect, his vice, and Supreme Court justice Alexandre de Moraes; and has supporters who planned to plant bombs in airports and occupy military barracks to protest the previous election result. A large portion of Brazilians voted for a gang whose leader—currently in prison but hoping his son will win and release him—has publicly said his hero is colonel Carlos Alberto Brilhante Ustra, torturer not only of adults who opposed the dictatorship but also of little children, the offspring of political prisoners.

A large portion of Brazilians voted for a gang that, during history’s worst pandemic since the Middle Ages, deliberately delayed vaccines and boycotted prevention measures, leaving Brazil to report 30% of the deaths worldwide during the height of Covid-19, although the country represents less than 3% of the world population.

A large portion of the electorate voted for a group that is working to destroy the biggest tropical forest on the planet, upon which depends our ability to combat global heating, a phenomenon that has already intensified extreme weather from the south to the north of Brazil and around the world. A large portion of the electorate voted against itself.

Flávio Bolsonaro received the most votes in eight of the ten municipalities that have had the highest deforestation rates in the Amazon over the past decade. If he wins the runoff, with this Congress and a weakened Supreme Court, the Amazon will reach the point of no return. And so will we. This is already happening in various parts of the Amazon biome."

sumauma.com/en/flavio-bolsonar…

#Brazilelections2026 #fascism #politics #farright #Amazon #deforestation #environment #humanrights #climate #climatecrisis

“Watson ‘threatens’ Lewis for criticising Palantir”

by Skwawkbox with The Canary

@uk_politics
@UKLabour
@palantirwatch
@keinebasisfuerpalantir
@resist_fascism
@Yogiomm

“US spy- and killing-firm Palantir has put its latest parliamentary revolving-door hire [former UK Labour Party MP] Tom Watson to use — ‘threatening‘ other politicians for criticising it. Labour MP Clive Lewis has outed the manoeuvre, publishing a letter that the former deputy party leader sent him and categorising it as an “implicit threat”.

Lewis had already criticised Palantir’s appointment of Watson, already considered one of Labour’s most odious and problematic figures for his Israel-fanaticism and his part in the plot to topple Jeremy Corbyn through the ‘Labour antisemitism’ scam”

thecanary.co/skwawkbox/2026/10…

#Press #SocialMedia #Government #UK #Labour #Palantir #Watson #Lewis #Threat #Thiel #NHS #Spytech #Infiltration #Fascism

» EUGENIST AND FRIEND OF EPSTEIN Bill Gates p̶r̶e̶d̶i̶c̶t̶s̶ HOPES AI will kill a billion people – b̶u̶t̶ s̶a̶y̶i̶n̶g̶ h̶e̶’s̶ b̶e̶e̶n̶ w̶r̶o̶n̶g̶ b̶e̶f̶o̶r̶e̶ i̶s̶ q̶u̶i̶t̶e̶ t̶h̶e̶ u̶n̶d̶e̶r̶s̶t̶a̶t̶e̶m̶e̶n̶t̶ | A̶r̶w̶a̶ M̶a̶h̶d̶a̶w̶i̶ theguardian.com/commentisfree/…

#eugenics #AI #techbros #fascism #EpsteinClass