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Sociotechnologist, writer and speaker working on tech and its social impact. Communist. Feminist. Antifascist. Luddite. Email: [email protected] | License CC BY-SA-4.0 tfr

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2024-09-07 19:40:49

Linkin Park's new singer must have set a new record in milkshake ducking.

2024-08-19 14:14:42

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@npub18hq…znkd What makes the prusa more ethical?

2024-08-06 09:46:53

Capitalism is a death cult.
https://zirk.us/@istuetzle/112913882472844156

2024-08-05 23:00:13

I am afraid so, too. And Mozilla hasn't shown any signs of knowing how to make money in different ways (or setting itself up as a different org with maybe different incentive structures ...).
Maybe Mozilla will survive but it will need to massively change.
https://mastodon.well.com/@ianb/112911392889451259

2024-07-28 16:00:10

If you ever wondered about what the Politics of #Bitcoin were, just look at the invited headliners at the Bitcoin2024 conference:
https://b.tc/conference/2024
Donald Trump (Fascist), Russel Brand (Right Wing Grifter), Robert F. Kennedy (Conspiracy Nutjob), Vivek Ramaswamy (another fashy right Wing Grifter). And Edward Snowden (Libertarian with often dubious politics) to look less openly fascist.
But the politics are right there on the surface.

2024-07-16 21:05:40

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@npub1al0…088z mit deinen Leitmedium Millionen fundest.du ne neue Org und machst mich zum GF ;)

2024-07-16 20:47:32

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@npub1al0…088z Mozilla wirkt seit Jahren leider lost

2024-07-16 11:45:05

Alle meckern darüber, wie schlecht die Bahn funktioniert (zu recht). Aber zu selten führt das dazu direkte, grundsätzliche Forderungen abzuleiten: ich will nicht, dass ein bisschen an der Bahn rum reformiert wird. Eine funktionierende, verlässliche und kostengünstige Bahn als backbone des öffentlichen Verkehrs ist zentral für eine Gesellschaft, die sich den Herausforderungen dieser Zeit aktiv stellen will.

2024-07-12 12:22:42

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@npub1al0…088z war schon bei "XING Nachricht" getriggert

2024-07-10 13:55:12

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@npub1al0…088z Kann sich also nur um Jahre handeln

2024-07-10 13:50:42

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@npub1al0…088z https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/pulls

2024-07-08 14:30:06

"The root problem is that neoliberalism has effectively eliminated the left wing of the political spectrum, meaning that the only apparent challenge to the system as it stands comes from the right. In other words, the political problem under neoliberalism is political, not narrowly economic.!
(Original title: Why this keeps happening: On neoliberalism and the right-wing reaction)
https://itself.blog/2024/07/08/why-we-keep-ratcheting-right-or-its-the-neoliberalism-stupid/

2024-06-28 13:38:30

Hat hier jemand Zugang zum Manager Magazin? Mich würde https://www.manager-magazin.de/unternehmen/tech/aleph-alpha-und-ki-die-ungeduld-mit-jonas-andrulis-waechst-a-6c5a5c1c-2068-43a6-b53e-6f77809098cd interessieren.

2024-06-27 15:47:36

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@npub1al0…088z Das soll authenzität symbolisieren. "Nicht so staged" usw.

2024-06-26 15:44:52

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@npub17ns…h6qj that's the thing that pisses me off the most. How Mozilla uses it's money for that kind of garbage. Like I want to support the development of Firefox because it's important but I don't want my money doing that

2024-06-26 15:34:17

Mozilla.ai did what? When silliness goes dangerous
Mozilla.ai did a study on generative AI trends and their methodology shows that they should never be allowed near anything AI. Ever.
https://tante.cc/2024/06/26/mozilla-ai-did-what-when-silliness-goes-dangerous/

2024-06-25 17:34:28

The German state of Saxonia still has over 10k #Bitcoin (given current fictional valuation almost 3 billion EUR) which were seized from an illegal video streaming platform (the course of Bitcoin was a lot lower back then).
They are contemplating selling them and this could actually be interesting just to make it obvious how little actual liquidity there is. Because they wouldn't exchange for other Shitcoins but for hard cash. Could get interesting.

2024-06-21 14:13:33

Ihr kennt euch doch immer gut aus. Was genau ist noch mal der Unterschied zwischen Volt und den Grünen? Bis auf die Tatsache, dass die einen regieren und sich daher in (teils faule) Kompromisse begeben (müssen?) ist das doch same.
Volt wirkt auf mich wie der realo Flügel der Grünen.

2024-06-21 10:45:39

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@npub1d67…0s95 harmful. Because of the embedded beliefs (for example the suggestion that every tech will at some point be useful)

2024-06-21 09:51:41

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@npub15c9…znne yes

2024-06-21 09:30:08

On "Tech Won't Save Us" I got to talk about tech, Europe and innovation.
(Original title: “Can Europe Chart Its Own Path on Tech?” – being a guest on the “Tech Won’t Save Us” podcast)
https://tante.cc/2024/06/20/can-europe-chart-its-own-path-on-tech-being-a-guest-on-the-tech-wont-save-us-podcast/

2024-06-21 09:28:46

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(Like I literally spend and hour last evening to look for things to migrate my wordpress to.)

2024-06-21 09:28:01

With Mozilla and Wordpress (among others) the last years and months have shown that in order to have a good, humane Internet we might need to liberate a few core products.
So, does anyone have a billion or two to get that done? Pretty please?

2024-06-21 08:58:05

What is Mozilla doing? Like WTF?
https://narrativ.es/@janl/112653294364721662

2024-06-20 17:05:57

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@npub1t4w…qvwz thank you

2024-06-20 00:23:33

Whether it's OpenAI or Perplexity or StabilityAI there seems to be a pattern of big AI companies being run by people with only very loose relationships to the truth.
It is almost as if in order to sell those kinda bullshit systems to the public you need be be a lying grifter...

2024-06-20 00:12:16

I still remember a few "no AI is good actually, you don't get it" dudes who went all in on perplexity. But of course it's also shit. And destroying the web. While fabricating lies.
https://mastodon.macstories.net/@viticci/112645104615834724

2024-06-19 17:46:40

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@npub1g57…y839 leave it out.
If it's central to your argument you need to know if it's solid. If it's not, it can be cut

2024-06-19 13:59:15

Do people really have a "writing schedule" (as in: dedicated blocked times to write)? Or are those more like "publishing schedules" (as in: The newsletter goes out every Tuesday)?
Like I wonder if that would make sense for me but currently my writing happens when I have an idea and (accidentally) some time that's not blocked

2024-06-19 11:43:36

Noch mal kurz Werbung in eigener Sache:
Nächsten Mittwoch sprechen wir im Literaturforum im Brecht-Haus über "KI als Austeritätsmotor"
https://lfbrecht.de/event/austeritaetsmotor-ki/

2024-06-18 14:42:55

A few months ago when Automattic started pushing AI everywhere and did deals with AI companies selling their user's writing I stated (https://tante.cc/2024/02/27/the-automattic-ai-thing/):
"Maybe WordPress needs a fork and a new home governed by an entity that does care about the people using it to express themselves. Automattic obviously does not want to be that."
Baldur's post basically underlines just that.
https://toot.cafe/@baldur/112637484711042117

2024-06-18 12:57:22

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@npub1tfx…n4hu Ich gehe nicht davon aus, dass sie wirklich IPs geoblocken, aber sie werden wahrscheinlich nicht mehr im Play Store/App Store sein

2024-06-18 11:39:41

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@npub13e2…zk7d Yeah I know, lately it's just been lack of time. Bu I have some good stuff in the pipeline I hope

2024-06-18 11:00:05

"I used that example [...] to illustrate how pervasive the effects all these little examples of automation are.[...] But collectively they’re a corrosive force that erodes social bonds and spoils personal interactions and generally makes it less pleasant to go about our days as human beings."
(Original title: AI can't fix what automation already broke)
https://www.bloodinthemachine.com/p/ai-cant-fix-everything-automation

2024-06-18 09:49:20

“Ethische Nutzung von KI” beim Tag der Abschlussarbeit am KIT
Ich war eingeladen, um am "Tag der Abschlussarbeiten" am KIT in Karlsruhe über den ethische Fragen beim Einsatz von "KI" insbesondere im Universitäten Kontext zu sprechen. Den Mitschnitt meines Vortrages kann man hier ansehen: Die Slides stehen hier zum Download. Das gesamte Programm und evtl. auch weitere Mitschnitte findet an unter
https://tante.cc/2024/06/18/ethische-nutzung-von-ki-beim-tag-der-abschlussarbeit-am-kit/

2024-06-17 18:33:34

Menschen antworten, dass es dann langweilig würde. Ich finde diesen Mangel an Commitment zum Zucker beklagenswert. (Ja, ich habe die Geschmacksnerven eines 5 Jährigen)
https://tldr.nettime.org/@tante/112632873164529205

2024-06-17 18:20:53

Das erste mal Kaiserschmarrn gemacht. Warum machen Menschen überhaupt noch was anderes?

2024-06-17 17:00:29

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@npub1y96…6e57 holy fuck that is bad.

2024-06-17 13:33:56

Ich sagte es neulich schon mal. Einige Leute haben auf dem Crypto Ticket in größeren Institutionen überwintert und jetzt wo der KI Hype etwas einbricht, wittern die wieder Morgenluft.
Weiterhin gilt: Crypto ist weiterhin pointless und vor allem eine Infrastruktur für Scams.
https://chaos.social/@isotopp/112631716292814768

2024-06-17 10:41:43

Sam Altman wants to turn #OpenAI into a full for-profit. TBH that would at least be honest: Nothing about what OpenAI does is "open" in any way, shape or form.
https://www.reuters.com/technology/artificial-intelligence/openai-ceo-says-company-could-become-benefit-corporation-information-2024-06-15/

2024-06-17 09:58:47

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@npub1lp8…4rrw none of these fuckers have ever read a book. Not even the books their heros write to push on LinkedIn.

2024-06-16 15:24:55

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@npub1wxs…zpe7 https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/issues/19889

2024-06-16 14:33:10

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@npub1wxs…zpe7 da ist das als "Quote Posts" aufgeführt. Und direkt davor ist ein Link auf das Ticket (MAS-*) in dem das diskutiert wird

2024-06-16 11:29:18

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@npub1hjh…7vxf immer noch auf der Roadmap

2024-06-14 20:00:51

Fun fact. Man kann zu 95% davon ausgehen, dass alle albernen Deutschland Devotionalien, die Herr Söder hier trägt, made in China sind.
https://mastodon.social/@hagen/112616225397587438

2024-06-14 13:49:16

Gestern war ich in Karlsruhe beim KIT zu Gast für den "Tag der Abschlussarbeiten".
ich habe mich in meinem Vortrag mit dem ethischen Einsatz und Nicht-Einsatz von "KI" in der Lehre insbesondere auch durch Lernende beschäftigt.
https://youtu.be/XDH7GayMSck?si=8rgEWJbMczMoawcG

2024-06-14 13:39:10

(Ist wieder diese Zeit wo man Unkenntnis vortäuschen muss, damit niemand merkt, dass man die ganze Nationalismus-Scheiße und FIFA zum Kotzen findet, aber man Fußball einfach mag)

2024-06-14 12:49:45

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@npub197f…6tvl Sie haben nicht mal ne deutsche Locale auf ihrer Büchse und generieren englische Fehlermeldungen. Sie wird's nix mit der Deutschmacherei

2024-06-13 20:04:07

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@npub19qm…sn8k or both ;)

2024-06-13 20:02:53

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@npub1j92…t9s5 Vielen Dank, es freut mich, dass er so gut angekommen ist.

2024-06-13 18:32:22

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I mean hey I know I am a bit of a weird looking dude but this shirt is just a good look. It makes everyone wearing it at least 30% more attractive.
https://tldr.nettime.org/system_nettime/media_attachments/files/112/610/267/765/535/847/original/d223558d97d9c081.jpg

2024-06-13 18:15:27

Gave a talk on "Ethics of AI usage" for a bunch of university students and teachers.
Most unexpected thing: People in the chat of the life stream complained about my shirt sporting a big Antifa Flag.
Most fun thing: Dropped a link to Scihub on a slide reflecting on copyright and how to think about harm of large AI models.

2024-06-13 18:00:05

"It is helpful that the X icon is a literal reminder not to use it. A few months ago I took it off my phone, but then I was traveling for conferences and trying to talk to journalists so I had to add it back. Journalists still love X, because Twitter used to be where important people said things. Nobody is saying anything important there now. "
(Original title: How to Leave Twitter)
https://cyberneticforests.substack.com/p/how-to-leave-twitter

2024-06-13 17:41:07

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@npub1aj3…4209 The whole RAG thing kinda points into that direction that does limit fabrications _a bit_ but they are still not solved and I have not seen any serious person arguing that they are or will be.

2024-06-13 17:30:05

"We ought to approach LLMs not as an imminently world-altering technology, but as an incremental advance on existing technologies. There are areas where that incremental advance will matter a lot. LLMs aren’t going to be the next metaverse, gone and basically forgotten two years later. But they also aren’t such a dramatic break from the recent past."
(Original title: What's in a name? "AI" versus "Machine Learning")
https://davekarpf.substack.com/p/whats-in-a-name-ai-versus-machine

2024-06-12 18:20:11

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@npub19m0…e0x8 It's got us all by the balls I guess. But I like my family to eat and stuff

2024-06-12 18:14:20

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@npub1fp5…zl8g Nope, a few weeks old.

2024-06-12 18:05:11

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@npub199j…4mjh warum keine Startup KI?

2024-06-12 18:04:22

Interesting: Working with a new MacBook Pro (M3) on the train and the power outlet is busted so just battery. This thing drains almost as fast as random x86 Intel machines with just a browser and Google Docs on. I thought Apple got this handled?

2024-06-12 12:34:15

"Innovation als Anti-Politik" Buchkapitel angenommen, jetzt muss ich das wohl schreiben.

2024-06-12 11:53:03

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@npub1txr…5pqr Schön, da muss ich gleich auch noch durch. HUrra

2024-06-11 21:06:10

Am Donnerstag den 13. spreche ich in Karlsruhe am KIT über die Ethik des "KI" Einsatzes mit besonderem Fokus auf Abschlussarbeiten. Drumrum gibt's ne Menge Prompting Voodoo, also versuchen wir mal mitten rein ein bisschen nen Hypebrecher zu bauen.
Wird sicher lustig.
#ai #ethics
Programm, Location und Stream auf https://llm-literacy.de/

2024-06-11 13:33:55

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@npub18s6…cjvc haven't looked into Apple's ads (I rarely do) but have it on my list to see how much "AI" B's they peddle

2024-06-08 18:59:52

Volt in Deutschland waren zu Beginn irgendwelche McKinsey Leute und der Stink ist weiterhin da.
https://chaos.social/@patrislav/112440482541275547

2024-06-07 18:43:11

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@npub1xq2…kn9m between Steam's Proton and Wine (Windows Emulation Layer) many games just work out of the box.

2024-06-07 18:37:07

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@npub1vx9…rvse The others in that consortium are not fully aware of my oeuvre I think, they only know Herr Jürgen Geuter, Research Director ;)

2024-06-07 18:27:52

This is very good. Whether you think Recall is useful or not, the half-assed way Microsoft built it just to dump it on people is absolutely unacceptable.
We need to push back against corporations delivering shoddy work and forcing it on people.
https://mastodon.social/@superglaze/112576239940706760

2024-06-07 18:25:06

Today a consortium the company I work for is part of we prepared a meeting on Monday where we'll defend a grant application. When it came to who was gonna present or answer questions people were very protective of me and two other people because "you are still so young, we don't want to overwhelm you".
I am 44 years old.
Boomers are really fucking Out of touch with reality.

2024-06-07 16:08:56

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@npub1pan…g6ra Hagen. ... Hagen. Wir machen hier SPRUNGINNOVATIONEN. Warum hasst du den Fortschritt?

2024-06-07 13:39:07

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@npub1470…h68t Your paper is great. Still have it open here in a tab as reference for an article.

2024-06-06 17:07:00

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@npub1642…murx where is that from?

2024-06-06 16:23:09

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@npub1huj…j0y9 it only has an image so it has to (and tries to) extract all texts it can find. I am unsure if it tries object recognition as well (might make sense though).

2024-06-06 15:12:51

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@npub1huj…j0y9 (that SQLite DB also gets a few system events sent in as well like window operations [minimize, maximize, etc.])

2024-06-05 18:00:28

Es geht Menschen wie Lindner bei "Steuersenkungen " ja auch immer darum, den Handlungsraum für staatliches Handeln zu verkleinern und damit immer mehr Services zu beerdigen oder durch Privatwirtschaft zu ersetzen. Er will euch nichts geben, er will euch Dinge nehmen, die seine Buddies euch dann vielleicht für viel mehr Geld zurückverkaufen https://zirk.us/@istuetzle/112564819454203392

2024-06-05 17:56:04

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@npub1ee4…5m9s dann sind Ressourcen frei um bei GAIA-X richtig Gas zu geben

2024-06-05 16:09:20

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@npub19lt…qfjk You say that the sound works but how good are the actual speakers? How is the Keyboard?

2024-06-05 13:30:05

Teilzeitquote geht hoch, was ja oft problematisiert wird. Aber es ist doch viel mehr ein Zeichen, dass Menschen das 40h/Woche Ding nicht machen wollen und andere Modelle suchen.
Ich und meine Partnerin arbeiten auch beide nur 32 h/Woche, die Zusatzzeit geht in Zeit mit unserem Sohn.
(Original title: Teilzeitquote steigt auf Rekordniveau)
https://www.spiegel.de/wirtschaft/soziales/teilzeitquote-steigt-auf-rekordniveau-a-76496d0d-72a3-477d-8490-1a6aabe52c24#ref=rss

2024-06-04 22:41:46

I did all my work, it's 22:40, #Destiny2 #FinalShape is out and I can't get in and have to head to bed in an hour or two :(

2024-06-03 14:17:48

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@npub1al0…088z Wie damals bei Email? Da wurden ja großen Providers direkt Abhörboxen in die Infra gehängt

2024-06-03 13:11:04

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@npub1qjq…hq9j I'll add that last sentence of your response to my active vocabulary.

2024-05-31 12:30:05

"But now, Google’s move to AI search is creating a whole variety of new difficulties. It isn’t just that it fosters errors, but that the errors are tied to Google’s name in a way that they weren’t previously."
(Original title: Google AI fails the taste test)
https://www.programmablemutter.com/p/google-ai-fails-the-taste-test

2024-05-29 19:39:42

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@npub1zga…adft wo bist du denn da unterwegs ey?

2024-05-29 19:28:53

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@npub1zga…adft das ist ... eine Meinung.

2024-05-29 10:25:08

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@npub1qmy…uj5c Profesther?

2024-05-28 12:42:44

If you only took one thing from my talk let it be this https://chaos.social/@creohn/112514204013054765

2024-05-27 16:15:21

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@npub1al0…088z pretty much. Kenne nur Bitcoin Fans, die da unterwegs sind.

2024-05-24 18:38:41

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@npub1pt8…eexx me, too

2024-05-19 19:11:54

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@npub19m0…e0x8 ich bin 44, ohne IBU geht da gar nix mehr

2024-05-19 11:45:20

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#tanteisafuckingdumbass but got it done.
Now I never have to do this ever again
https://tldr.nettime.org/system_nettime/media_attachments/files/112/467/110/239/821/614/original/369dcd416012fe05.jpeg

2024-05-19 09:30:43

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Almost done. #tanteisafuckingdumbass
https://tldr.nettime.org/system_nettime/media_attachments/files/112/466/580/587/215/144/original/7d438350502f37fd.jpeg

2024-05-18 23:21:47

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11 hours and 50 km later #tanteisafuckingdumbass Halfway done.
https://tldr.nettime.org/system_nettime/media_attachments/files/112/464/186/126/214/549/original/ec38d97b47750759.jpeg

2024-05-18 11:53:45

Let's go. #tanteisafuckingdumbass
https://tldr.nettime.org/system_nettime/media_attachments/files/112/461/479/304/073/963/original/cffeaa918603f1ec.jpeg

2024-05-16 20:50:57

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@npub14u0…z6km Looks good, where is that?

2024-05-15 09:47:55

Every morning on my way to work I pass this "Worldcoin store" and there's a lot of advertising for that scam.
The fuck is going on?
https://tldr.nettime.org/system_nettime/media_attachments/files/112/443/995/259/885/037/original/19dd7655d66c9045.jpeg

2024-05-13 14:59:10

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@npub175x…2fat For some it is possible, I don't know if it is _for me_ ... yet / I am a fucking idiot

2024-05-13 14:28:22

You know that feeling of dread when you've made a bad decision that you'll have to follow up on soon and that's gonna be really fucking horrible?
I signed up to walk 100km within 24 hours next Saturday/Sunday. Because I am a fucking idiot.

2024-05-13 12:00:05

"I am mad that vital human institutions and practices are being threatened, contorted, disrupted, killed off, that hundreds or thousands of people doing this kind of work are unemployed, are fighting for their right to earn a living, because a handful of tech companies have seen fit to profit at their expense, no matter the human cost."
(Original title: For artists, writers, humans, big tech's mission has been clarified: "Crush!")
https://www.bloodinthemachine.com/p/for-artists-writers-humans-big-techs

2024-05-10 11:57:48

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I mean he is right in saying that Bluesky basically just follows Twitter's playbook (and it's gonna get weird when funding runs out) but apart from that it's mostly just a lost boy talking.

2024-05-10 11:34:50

That Jack Dorsey interview is mostly just a sign that he's not really a serious thinker.

2024-05-01 22:29:20

Mozilla celebrates their "AI" project.
- By pointing at their Discord
- project also directly pays a fascist
Just if you were wondering how things in tech are going.
https://mozilla.social/@mozilla/112366201277570326