"Millions of people are using AI! It's the world's most popular technology. People clearly want it."

Tech companies have been using every dark pattern available, every business deal and agreement, every subsidy they could find to jazz up numbers, so none of these user numbers can actually be trusted

Anybody who trots out the "this is an incredibly popular tech used by millions, be careful about regulating its harms" is being a manipulative dick. They know it, so you should remember it too.

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Lionsgate Confirms AAA John Wick and SAW Games In Development

During a recent earnings call, Lionsgate executives confirmed the development of both a John Wick and a new SAW game.
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if you ever needed a presentation to talk about the risks of AI-on-the-desktop to some medium-level technical types in your life who are on the fence about it, this presentation from the folks at Signal on the fundamental problem with running agents in your OS might be a good thing to show them #39c3 media.ccc.de/v/39c3-ai-agent-a…
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#LaBOG 1190 🐞

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A semi-regular shout-out from me about the brilliant Standard Ebooks (@standardebooks) the "volunteer-driven project that produces new editions of public domain ebooks that are lovingly formatted, open source, free of U.S. copyright restrictions, and free of cost."

Their books really are a joy to read.

standardebooks.org/

#Ebooks #StandardEbooks #FreeEbooks #CopyrightFreeEbooks #DRMFree

Nice intro... 👍

Ep. 6203 - Larry Johnson on the Forces Pushing for More War in Ukraine - 12/29/25

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"Your Party UK has used sortition for the selection of their inaugural launch conference. Let us be super frank: representative democracy is a failure and elections are a circus. If we want to reform democracy, elections have to be abolished. Getting degrowth done would require a separation of policy writing from policy selection. People who write policy should not be the same who vote on turning policy into law."

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¡Hola desde Praga! 🌍
Una vez más le doy una oportunidad a Mastodon en 2026. Me llamo Peter, soy eslovaco, tengo más de 40 años y trabajo en helpdesk / soporte técnico.

Me apasionan los ordenadores, Linux, BSD, viajar, España e Italia, y el café preparado en la moka. Me encantan los trenes, aunque por falta de tiempo y el precio del billete no los uso tanto como quisiera. ¡Casi lo olvido! Soy también un gran aficionado a las plumas fuente.

#introduccion #presentación #Linux #NetBSD #Viajes #España #Italia #CaféMoka #Trenes #PlumasFuente

Accelerationism is for retards and commies. You know who you are.
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Here is this vile creature... an appearance at the end of November.

I wonder if Susan Miller is joooooooo.

Let's ask Search Assist.

"There is no information available regarding Susan Miller's religious background or ethnicity."

Former CIA Tel Aviv Station Chief admits the U.S. and Israeli Mossad work hand-in-glove
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Venus Williams gets Australian Open wildcard aged 45
https://www.aljazeera.com/sports/2026/1/2/venus-williams-gets-australian-open-wildcard-aged-45?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub

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New year, no reset.

A short essay on continuation, constraint, and why ‘fresh starts’ don’t work for everyone.

‘For me, and for many, the work is not in beginning again but in continuing. Continuation is far less aesthetic than renewal, harder to commodify, and it doesn't lend itself well to announcements, before and after photos, or public commitments. But it is honest.’

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#Scotland #Writing #WritingCommunity #Reading #Books #Disability #UK #NewYear

I have not listened to Mahmood for several weeks. Look at this gem that he has... a SCUMMY former CIA Station Chief of Tel Aviv admitting how much they work with ISIS and al-Quaida [the base].

Who is this scummy woman, former CIA Station Chief in Tel Aviv?

Hmm... Susan Miller is her name.

Ex-CIA Tel-Aviv Station Chief ADMITS!
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Why I am on hunger strike in solidarity with Pal Action detainees
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The Fragrant, Winter-Flowering Shrub That Is Perfect For Your Entryway
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"Our history has been marked by resistance to systematic violations of human and collective rights: such as the rubber boom, Catholic and evangelical evangelization, agrarian reforms, the forced imposition of other ways of life, the oil, mining, and timber booms, drug trafficking and organized crime, and the new waves of green colonization, which can be summarized as massacre and destruction."

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Guten Morgen zusammen!

Für das neue Jahr habe ich mir vorgenommen, für unser Städtchen eine Mastodon Instanz aufzusetzen in der Hoffnung, dass sich mehr Menschen für das Fediverse zu interessieren beginnen.

Die ersten Arbeiten am Server sind gemacht, aber noch bin ich mir nicht so ganz schlüssig wie die Domain lauten soll.

Schauen wir mal wie es nach einer Tasse Kaffee aussieht.

#fediverse #mastodon #server #linux

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Belarus’ central bank sets target values of standard risks for January eng.belta.by/economics/view/be…

Ορκίστηκε ο Ζοράν Μαμντάνι, ο πρώτος μουσουλμάνος δήμαρχος της Νέας Υόρκης thepressproject.gr/orkistike-o…

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The ceasefire did what it was meant to do – make Gaza invisible
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Prices of an obscure PS4 game are skyrocketing thanks to the latest PS5 jailbreak efforts

The price of an obscure PS4 game is skyrocketing on the second-hand market, thanks to its necessity in a new PS5 jailbreak. This game, of which 1,000 or less physical copies were produced, has suddenly become a hot commodity among jailbreak enthusiasts and resellers alike. Read more

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WikiFlix - Plus de 4000 films libres a regarder gratuitement


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Comment trouver et regarder légalement des vieux films sans vous taper 47 abonnements de streaming différents ? Hé bien j'ai trouvé un truc qui va vous plaire !

Ça s'appelle WikiFlix , et c'est un projet de bénévoles Wikimedia qui compile plus de 4 000 films libres de diffusion dans le domaine public ou sous licences libres. On y trouve par exemple Nosferatu (1922), Metropolis (1927), et des pépites soviétiques ou japonaises difficiles à dénicher ailleurs. Le tout accessible gratuitement, sans compte à se créer, et surtout sans pirater quoi que ce soit.

Ça vous changera un peu ^^.

Concrètement, vous arrivez sur une interface qui ressemble à Netflix (mais en version propre, sans les algorithmes qui essaient de vous vendre le dernier navet à 200 millions de budget), ensuite vous naviguez par décennie, par genre, par pays, par réalisateur ou par acteur. Pratique pour se faire une soirée "expressionnisme allemand des années 20" sans galérer mes petits élitistes d'amour...

Les vidéos viennent de trois sources : Wikimedia Commons pour les plus propres, Internet Archive pour les raretés, et YouTube pour certains classiques. Quand un film est dispo sur plusieurs plateformes, WikiFlix affiche plusieurs boutons de lecture et vous choisissez celui qui vous arrange.

Notez que la communauté maintient aussi une blacklist pour éviter que vous tombiez sur de la propagande fasciste en cherchant un film muet avec des pirates. Les films concernés restent accessibles via la recherche (contexte éducatif oblige), mais ils ne polluent pas les catégories de navigation. C'est pas con !

Côté technique, la base de données se synchronise toutes les heures avec Wikidata donc si quelqu'un ajoute un nouveau film ou corrige une erreur sur la fiche Wikipédia d'un acteur, ça arrive rapidement sur WikiFlix.

Par contre, attention, tous les films listés ne sont pas forcément vraiment libres de droits partout dans le monde. Certaines entrées pointent vers des copies Internet Archive qui ont été retirées pour violation de copyright. Le domaine public, c'est compliqué, et ça varie selon les pays donc si vous voulez utiliser un extrait dans une vidéo YouTube, vérifiez quand même avant.

Pour les amateurs de films gratuits, WikiFlix représente une alternative organisée et bien documentée et contrairement aux offres temporaires comme les films Ghibli sur France TV , ici c'est permanent. Tant que le domaine public existe, WikiFlix existera bien sûr !

Je sens que ce soir vous allez kiffer votre soirée à découvrir le cinéma muet allemand ou les premiers westerns américains sans débourser un centime, bande de radins cinéphiles ^^.

Moi ce ne sera pas mon cas, je suis plus films d'action de années 80/90 en ce moment...
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“We could be left with no water,” says Rivera. “How will we plant crops or feed our animals? It will make it very hard to survive here.”

No Green Transition without Green Sacrifice Zones

"The huge British-Australian mining multinational Rio Tinto has signed a deal to extract lithium, the “white gold” of the energy transition, from a salt flat farther up the mountains."

theguardian.com/global-develop…

Things my husband didn't know:

* what is grok(in the context of X)
* That OpenAI used to be non-profit
* What Studio Ghibli is.
* The Studio Ghibli Controversy
* What "Training Data" are

Thought "everyone" knew this stuff. That's *my* bubble I get it.

He's very up to date on news, just not this.

Nonetheless his IT department keeps asking them to "learn copilot" so they can "be more efficient" everyone hates it. (Is Microsoft doing something to make IT departments do this all over the place?)

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Elon Musk’s AI chatbot Grok prompted by users to troll Trump, Modi, and Netanyahu

The AI chatbot Grok has been prompted by X users for several days to post provocative images of politicians and world leaders, referring to them as corrupt, uneducated, war criminals, or sex predators

thehindu.com/sci-tech/technolo…

“How could we have known?!”

Maybe if you’d listened to those of us warning you – often times your own damn friends – instead of siding with the corporations that paid your salaries/consulting fees/sponsored your conferences/invited you to parties and bought you free booze…

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#BigTech #BigWeb #SiliconValley #SiliconRoundabout #SurveillanceCapitalism #PeopleFarming #fascism

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"A team of researchers at Epoch AI, a non-profit research institute, are using open-source intelligence to map the growth of America’s datacenters. The team pores over satellite imagery, building permits, and other local legal documents to build a map of the massive computer filled buildings springing up across the United States. They take that data and turn it into an interactive map that lists their costs, power output, and owners."

404media.co/researchers-are-hu…

Saudi-Arabien - Neuer Höchststand bei Hinrichtungen - Todesstrafe oft für Drogendelikte


Saudi-Arabien - Neuer Höchststand bei Hinrichtungen - Todesstrafe oft für Drogendelikte
Saudi-Arabien - Neuer Höchststand bei Hinrichtungen - Todesstrafe oft für Drogendelikte

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Russische Öl-Einnahmen: Die Preise fallen unter die Schmerzgrenze


Russland bekommt die Folgen der westlichen Sanktionen inzwischen hart zu spüren. Doch ein wirtschaftlicher Kollaps ist noch nicht in Sicht.
Russische Öl-Einnahmen: Die Preise fallen unter die Schmerzgrenze

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Mecha-Hitler, la IA de Musk, ahora se dedica a coger fotos de las usuarias en tuiter y desnudarlas. Si esto ya es vomitivo, también lo está haciendo con fotos de menores de edad, es decir, está creando pornografía infantil on demand.

Si aún tenéis cuenta abierta allá y tenéis fotos vuestras o de vuestres hijes, borradlas lo más rápido que podáis.

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"Despite their critical role in modern technology, REEs remain a non-renewable resource with dismal recovery rates. Currently, global recycling of REEs is estimated at a mere 1%, with the vast majority of these metals – contained in everything from electric vehicles to everyday electronics – ending up in landfills as waste. This systemic loss is driven by a lack of robust infrastructure and the absence of a legislative push to prioritize material circularity."

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#EZB verschleiert Gehalt: #Bankchefin #Lagarde verdient 56 Prozent mehr, als ihr offiziell zusteht

EZB-Präsidentin Christine Lagarde verdient etwa 56 Prozent mehr, als es von der EZB ausgewiesen wird. 726.000 Euro erhält die Bankchefin – weit mehr, als es das #Grundgehalt vorsieht. Damit verdient sie fast doppelt so viel wie Ursula von der #Leyen.

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#Geldsozialismus #Bargeld
#EuroID #EID #Corona #Covid #Impfung #ZwangsImpfung
#EID #ElektronischeIdentität
#DigitaleIdentität #ElektronischeIdentität #eID #eIDAS #IDWallet #SmarteID
#totalitarisme #dictature #UE #EUVABECO #eid
#Bargeld ist #Freiheit
#Bargeld #Bargeldabschaffung
#Geldsozialismus #Hayek #Milei #Menger #Mises
#Überwachungsstaat
#Bargeldverbot #Überwachung #Orwell #1984 #CBDC #E-Euro #DigitalerEuro #DigitaleEuro #D€ #Freiheit
#SelberDenken #SelbstDenken #BitCoin #DigitaleID #KI #digitalID

“Our frail thoughts. — Ethan Marcotte”

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> I remain dismayed by what’s currently happening in tech, and at the same time I’m incredibly inspired by the people fighting for a better vision of it

Many of us are mourning the industry we thought we were part of, careers we thought we had, and the societies we believed we were building

in reply to Baldur Bjarnason

It’s also interesting to consider the many prominent web developers who were all too happy to exorcise from the community any of us who were criticising the Googles and the Facebooks ten years ago and branding us “tinfoil hat conspiracy theorists” and the like for pointing out the trajectory of the people farmers that they either directly or indirectly worked for.

Some of us won’t be forgetting that.

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13 Open-Source Apps I Use from a Web Browser (And You Can Too) itsfoss.com/open-source-apps-f…


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via dandelion* client (Source)

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