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51·2 days agoDon’t need all, just enough. The rest will leave when they die.
And you don’t have to convince everyone, just the folks in your life.
“No! Ban GitHub! It hosts the code of our adversaries! And while we’re at it, ban the internet!” —Plutocrats, probably.
While the calls from Moolenaar could be the first inkling of a possible congressional crackdown, Ross Burley — a co-founder of the nonprofit Centre for Information Resilience — warned that DeepSeek’s emergence in the U.S. raises data security and privacy issues for users.
Yeah, because it’s just soooo much better to have American plutocrats slurping up our data without consent and getting to do whatever they want with impunity. /s
“What they’ll use it for is behavior change campaigns, disinformation campaigns, for really targeted messaging as to what Western audiences like, what they do,” he added.
Yeah, because it’s just soooo much better to have American plutocrats doing every single one of those things and more in the name of Profit. /s
Our leaders are hilariously tone-deaf.
Because he’s a perpetual 14yo kid of 90s that never grew out of the Xtreme consumerism, and now he’s having a midlife crisis for which we all must suffer.
You’re not missing much. The author rambles for many, many paragraphs, and I don’t use that word lightly. It reads like a college essay, where the goal is to produce an X-page paper, so they just cram as many quotes, attributions, and subjects as they can to pad the length.
It feels like they’re trying to go for a Pulitzer, but it’s just reactionary garbage that rambles on and on, jumping from topic to topic, taking quotes from scientists and philosophers from antiquity—as if their ideas were still valid today simply because they once existed. The author appears to have a lack of attention, methinks…
Also they appear to be an ADHD denialist, so fuck them.
That’s a bummer. I picked an instance from…
…and it was very painless and quick. Have you tried joining a different instance? Do you have an adblocker or JS blocker that might be fucking up the registration?
But I think it’s important to understand that Bluesky has, effectively, created a technological poison pill: by building on an open protocol, ATprotocol, the system itself can be rebuilt outside of Bluesky, but in a way where everyone can continue to communicate, and that creates incredible incentives that undermine any evil billionaires, and would actually punish Bluesky (or anyone else!) should they try to enshittify.
Bruh, ActivityPub is right there, and we already have places where people can communicate. And it’s already built in such a way that anyone can make use of it. Currently not so with ATprotocol.
When BlueSky has interoperable servers that anyone can spin up, then this conversation is worth having, but if the protocol at all requires “the next person” to have tons of investment capital to get things running again, it’s still just a billionaire-buyout away.
“If these issues are not resolved quickly they risk fuelling conspiracy theories and damaging Meta’s reputation.”
Meta has a reputation? Surely, that thing was mutilated beyond all recognition a decade ago. And conspiracy theories are Meta’s bread and butter.
While users who type “#Democrat” or “#Democrats” see no results, the hashtag “Republican” returns 3.3 million posts on the social media platform.
By manually searching Instagram for “Democrats”, rather than clicking on a hashtag, users are greeted by a screen reading “we’ve hidden these results”.
“Results for the term you searched for may contain sensitive content,” it says.
There are also limited results when people search for “Republicans” as opposed to “Republican”.
And I’m sure the “free-speech absolutists” were up in arms. /s
TBH, if you’re searching Facebook for information, all you’re gonna get is ragebait anyway, even when it works. Also, why are you still on Facebook?
Just delete it now. Tell your friends that you’re moving because of all the tech oligarchs that just got handed the keys to the government and the economy. Tell your friends that Signal is run by a 501©3 nonprofit and actually cares about privacy.
I left Meta products in 2010, and it was one of the best decisions I ever made. You deserve not to “be the product” anymore.
I wouldn’t trust the guy who’s been on a firing rampage, gutting vital regulatory agencies, and who’s already been caught lying about his “fully autonomous” humanoid robots that were secretly controlled by human operators, with self-driving anything. Tesla has been in the US market for years, and they still haven’t gotten licensed for fully-automated driving.
But sure. Let’s just throw more money at it, because that’s worked out so well for American LLMs, lately.