Post by @hipsterelectron@circumstances.run

2026-04-22 09:28 UTC

RE: https://tldr.nettime.org/@tante/116444761530739242 The third violence we already alluded to: It’s the colonialist, western view to declare whatever the west thought was “worth” digitizing or whatever submits to those logic “all the world’s knowledge”. This is not just lack of representation but a forceful othering of large parts of the population of this planet. If you are not useful to western, capitalist readings of the world then you, your history, your experiences are not part of “all the world’s knowledge”. You are being declared a lesser human being. see: wikipedia, the internet

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@gkrnours@mastodon.gamedev.place 2026-04-22 09:35

@hipsterelectron I keep hearing horror story of french wikipedia, where women page keep getting rejected as "not pertinent".

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@mayintoronto@beige.party 2026-04-22 11:55

@hipsterelectron I wonder if we'd be where we are today with the current state of and attitude towards LLM if it hadn't been popularized by the VC tech bros, and instead spun out of ethical open source collaboration. In particular, I'm looking to how China is regulating AI, (copyright is a different thing there), and the attitudes towards the tech. It's not perfect and there's still a ton of slop, but it's labeled, and the government's mandate is societal stability, which means labour and human livelihoods aren't threatened by this technology. It's like the perfect storm of shit and people who bought into the shit here.

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