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OSI Mastodon

OSI Policy Team (@policy@opensource.org)

Attached: 1 image Along with @mozilla@mastodon.social, @wikimediafoundation@wikimedia.social, @communia@eupolicy.social, @nextcloud@mastodon.xyz a...

Sure, bringing more Open Source into public infrastructures would be great. Pouring more funding (and structural support) into that space also would be fantastic. But what has "AI" to do with any of that? (Open Source AI does not exist even if the OSI made up a bad definition that undermines the fundamental ideas of open source/free software) View quoted note →

GitHub is not your friend. They're also not on your side.

So, @npub16sjv...va89 wrote an interesting reflection on "AI" and Firefox a few days ago:

I know you don’t want them to want AI, but… - Anil Dash

A blog about making culture. Since 1999.

He argues that the number of people who want Mozilla to just stop with the AI development and focus on a more traditional browser is small (probably true) and that people are so used to using AI in their everyday lives that it's Firefox's/Mozilla's job to make that as secure and "less big tech dependy" as possible. I think that's not an unreasonable argument. I do think that the actual question is more about _what Mozilla is for_ and not "AI" (or other tech hypes). From my reading the people who don't want AI in Firefox are often AI critical, sure. But it's also about resources and narrative. The idea of Mozilla was to have something that would work for the good of the open web, that would fight for users through participating in standards development but that would also argue based on what is right. Mozilla's sales pitch was a moral one - at least that is how many in the community on Mastodon for example interpreted it. So when Mozilla cuts down on policy work, cuts work on technologies like Servo or Rust that were supposed to materially improve the security of browsers and people online while setting a lot of developer hours on fire in order to integrate fundamentally insecure (and some would say fundamentally anti-"open web") systems "just because people use them", it feels like an organization having lost their mission or the drive to push their values. I think "AI" is just the latest (and probably biggest) event that illustrates a sentiment that has been brewing for a while: That Mozilla's mission or goals have shifted in a way that their original supporters no longer feel aligned with.

Good night.

We bought into the "post scarcity" narrative because digital tech feels so magic and ethereal but we need to get back to an understanding of the material costs and effects of those systems. They are not very post-scarce in reality.

"Don't be evil" is so far in the past, it's not even a memory anymore (Original title: Google Has Chosen a Side in Trump's Mass Deportation Effort)

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Google Has Chosen a Side in Trump's Mass Deportation Effort

Google is hosting a CBP app that uses facial recognition to identify immigrants, while simultaneously removing apps that report the location of ICE...

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tldr.nettime

tante (@tante@tldr.nettime.org)

Joscha Bach, der hier einen Zivilisationsbruch nach dem nächsten im Austausch mit seinem Geldgeber Jeffrey Epstein macht, spricht dieses Jahr _wie...

Der Pipeline von "KI" Forscher zu Rassentheoretikern und Eugenikern ist leider extrem ausgebaut. Wäre doch ne schöne Gelegenheit für den #39c3 dazu jetzt nen Talk reinzuschieben: "Why the fuck are all these AI bros racist eugenicists?" Das ist ja kein Zufall sondern das hat System und innere Logik. View quoted note →

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norden.social

Weltzeitgeist (@wackJackle@norden.social)

Attached: 4 images Die Dialektik der Aufklärung: Joscha Bach schreibt folgendes an Jeffrey Epstein (must read)

Joscha Bach, der hier einen Zivilisationsbruch nach dem nächsten im Austausch mit seinem Geldgeber Jeffrey Epstein macht, spricht dieses Jahr _wieder mal_ auf dem Chaos Communication Congress btw #39c3 EDIT: Scheint gerade aus der Planung rausgenommen worden zu sein. Evtl. wars jetzt sogar dem CCC zu viel (Dokumentierte Deals mit Epstein als der schon verurteilt war hat ja nicht gereicht) View quoted note →

Please do not use "AI-slop" to illustrate your articles or presentations. If you need images and have none just use one of the free stock image sites. It's not harder and doesn't make you look like a dumbass.

Also ich finde, jeder sollte einfach ne BahnCard100 bekommen. Und weil ja alle Effizienz wollen, sparen wir uns den Unfug gleich und die Bahn fährt fahrscheinlos.