“Diffusion of Responsibility”

https://tante.cc/2026/02/14/diffusion-of-responsibility/

> One of the features of “AI” is the diffusion of responsibility: “AI” systems are being put in all kinds of processes and when they fuck up (and they always fuck up) it was just the “AI”, or “someone should have checked things”.

I’ve seen a lot of articles and posts about AI that use the term “like it or not” as in “like it or not, AI is here, and we might as well get used to it” and that is such bullshit.

Like it or not, ableism is here… like it or not, racism is here… like it or not, fascism is here.

No, fuck that, I will resist. I will speak out. I will fight back.

You do not have to roll over and accept the shit corporations and the existing power structure try to force upon you.

We can build a better world.

The underlying nihilistic premise of all "AI" slot machine solutions is: What if nothing mattered. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

"AI is built on the collective knowledge of humankind."

No. Nononononono. It is not built on _knowledge_, it it built on _data_. And not everyone's experiences are available as data, many communities are excluded. Also: "Collective" implies some sort of collaboration and shared activity. But "AI" is just accumulation by a few powerful.

So No. It's not collective but extractive, not knowledge but data, not humankind but the hegemonic western view. Everything in that statement is wrong.

Wait.
There's a Gobliins 6 adventure game out.
And not only that. There's also a Gobliiins 5 which I somehow missed.
Both 2D, thankfully, unlike the 4th chapter. The last one I knew existed.

Concentration ruined. Timetable fucked.
I need to play them.

https://pierre-gilhodes.itch.io/gobliiins5
https://pierre-gilhodes.itch.io/gobliins6

Dystopia notwithstanding, Ring's commercial about using their surveillance to find lost pets makes no sense.

They say 10M pets are lost per year & their service finds "more than 1 dog per day." So let's even say generously 500 dogs per year.

Out of 10M lost pets, they want Americans to commit privacy suicide for a .005% success rate???

"We fail 99.995% of the time! Let us violate your privacy!" is a helluva way to burn $10M in ads and destroy your brand.

I'm uninstalling my RING today.

Q: Why did you need to wait in a long line at Radio Shack to buy a 6502 microprocessor?

A: Not enough registers.

"Take life one step at a time."

The steps:

(Fun fact, Apple’s autocorrect has never heard of the word fascism.) 🤷‍♂️

Isn’t it funny how “Let’s keep politics out of this“ always turns out to translate into “Let’s not challenge my support of fascism”?

When people say Shakespeare isn't relevant to modern life it's good to have people like Sir Ian around to prove them wrong:

In 2025, Big Tech—just ten major companies—spent €49 million lobbying Brussels. That’s more than pharma, finance, and automotive combined.

Google funds all sixteen major European think tanks shaping EU policy. Not *some* of them. All of them. Amazon and Meta fund most of the rest.

This is no longer “poor old me, I need a bit of help,” this is full regulatory capture. With a view to becoming even more embedded into businesses and governments, and getting whatever favorable legislation passed or diluted to suit them.

https://corporateeurope.org/en/2025/10/big-tech-lobby-budgets-hit-record-levels

They seem nervous

@galaxis 🤘

This OPL3 take on Quazar's Funky Stars is perfect. 🪇

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cn3zPyLAqhU

Nerd sniped myself by realising I can probably store a 6502 opcode table more densely by some form of bigram representation. :blobthinking:

This guy named Ben Palmer made an "Immigration tip line" and people call it thinking he's ICE.

He records them and shares it with the world.

What do people sound like when reporting their neighbors, coworkers, students? Are they confident they are doing a righteous good thing?

Witness the banality of evil in these sheepish suburban voices.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zJnkikcrHA0

PEERTUBE option: https://kinowolnosc.pl/w/p/av2NQ5ug2M7TgJzkSvyzi6