I was curious what did Tom and think about modern AI: "Pretend Intelligence" — his central objection Stallman warns that "nowadays, people often use the term artificial intelligence for [Slashdot](https://news.slashdot.org/story/26/01/25/1930244/richard-stallman-critiques-ai-connected-cars-smartphones-and-drm) things that aren't intelligent at all." He specifically coined the term "Pretend Intelligence" (PI) as a counter to the marketing hype, arguing that calling LLMs "AI" endorses a false claim and encourages people to trust systems they shouldn't trust. He calls LLMs "generators" because they generate text without understanding what that text means, and make mistakes "without batting a virtual eyelash," meaning you can't trust anything they produce. (https://news.slashdot.org/story/26/01/25/1930244/richard-stallman-critiques-ai-connected-cars-smartphones-and-drm) Stallman pointed to the real-world harm of people believing LLM output because they assume the system understands what it generated. He cited the example of a lawyer who asked a chatbot to provide relevant legal citations — and the chatbot invented plausible-looking references to non-existent cases. (https://techrights.org/n/2025/03/07/LLM_Slop_Versus_Richard_Stallman.shtml) He's particularly alarmed about LLM-generated content flooding the internet with low-quality, unverified text — what he and others call "slop" — degrading the overall quality of information on the web. His broader concern ties into his free software philosophy: if a program users don't control is doing their computing, it controls them. He urges people not to entrust their computing to systems whose operators aren't accountable to them. (https://techrights.org/n/2025/04/24/Richard_Stallman_Can_Explain_to_Oxford_Artificial_Intelligence_.shtml) He sees cloud-based AI as another vector for the centralized data surveillance he's always opposed — where user inputs, queries, and data flow to servers controlled by corporations with no user accountability. The short version of his position: LLMs are a sophisticated autocomplete dressed up in dangerous marketing language, and the real harm is that society is building trust in systems that don't understand, don't reason, and are controlled by entities with no loyalty to the user.

I'd rather eat raw meat than rotten meat. "For Tetanus, You Need Rotten Meat. That's How The Tetanus Vaccine Is Made, With Rotten Meat." Dr Suzanne Humphries Because Of This, The Vaccine Puts You At Risk For Prion Disease AKA Mad Cow Disease. Here Are 4 Truths That Everyone Should Know About Tetanus & The 'Vaccine.' 1⃣ Tetanus Toxoid Vaccine Manufacture: Beef Heart Infusion (BHI) is used as a culture medium to grow C. Tetani, the bacterium that produces tetanus toxin. The infusion is prepared by suspending minced beef heart in water & then heated to boiling. The heated putrid environment allows the tetanus toxin to grow. The tetanus toxin is then treated with formaldehyde to inactivate its pathogenic properties. But some toxoid preparations can still contain undesirable contaminants such as the Prion causing Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy also known as Mad Cow Disease. 2⃣ Tetanus (Clostridium Tetani) Is An Anaerobic Bacterial Spore: It resides in the intestinal tract of ruminant animals & in their feces. If your wound was not in an area where cattle, sheep or horses graze you will not get Tetanus. Tetanus is an anaerobic bacteria that cannot survive in the presence of oxygen. The bacterial spore dies when it's oxygenated. Blood carries oxygen, so a bleeding wound that is cleaned thoroughly will not have living Tetanus spores. ✳️Tetanus does not live on knives or scissors in your kitchen. ✳️Tetanus does not live on nails you brought home from the hardware store. ✳️Tetanus does not live on the shards of glass that broke in your sink. ✳️Tetanus does not live on the wood splinter that entered your foot in your home. 3⃣ There Is No Single Tetanus Vaccine: The Tetanus vaccine was discontinued in 2012. When a Tetanus vaccine is given, it is actually the TDaP Vaccine, which is Tetanus, Diphtheria & Pertussis. Doctors & Pharmacists do not disclose this fact when they administer a 'Tetanus Shot.' Those with milk & latex allergies are not given informed consent as to the milk casein & latex used in the production of TDaP. Many cases of fatal anaphylaxis are caused by this. 4⃣ The Tetanus Shot Will Not Help An Active Tetanus Infection: It takes a minimum of 3 weeks & possibly up to 8 weeks to build antibodies from the Tetanus vaccine within TDaP. An active injury & Tetanus infection will not be helped at all by getting vaccinated. It is pointless to get the shot & harmful side effects are well known from TDaP. Actual Tetanus bacterial infection is rare. In the US there are less than 30 cases annually. And the risk of dying from Tetanus is 1 in 44 million. The good news is, Tetanus as C. Tetani, is easily treated & eradicated from the body: *⃣ 1 Gram of Vitamin C (whole acerola complex) per day for 5-7 days kills the Tetanus bacterial spores. As shown in clinical trials as 100% reversal with no fatalities when Vitamin C is used as prevention & treatment for Tetanus bacterial infection.

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Can your ring camera knock someone out? No? Then what's the point?

Bitcoiners riding along the AI tsunami #ai #japan

Email of the future will be based on your 12/24 word recovery phrase. No logins, no passwords, possibly offline 2fa.

https://www.crowdsupply.com/sutajio-kosagi/precursor update from precursor team (bunnielabs iirc) "Going to custom silicon removes the supply chain hardening benefit of compiling your own FPGA code from scratch, but it greatly reduces the barrier to entry: while Precursor costs about $600, the Dabao sells for about $9"

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The Super friends called it on AI.

Great show! Keep it up! https://fountain.fm/episode/FflriuwjQQuKHFNx7Phg