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I think this piece from January was my favourite thing I wrote this year. In which I argue that "scale" is a brain work that makes it harder for u...

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I think this piece from January was my favourite thing I wrote this year. In which I argue that "scale" is a brain work that makes it harder for us to built a humane Internet.

Smashing Frames

Against scale

Some of you might have heard the phrase “corporations don’t want to make money, they want to make all the money” (I think I heard...

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Using “AI” to manage your Fedora system seems like a really bad idea – OSnews

"Digital Sovereignty" as a term always has the implicit danger of fueling nationalist narratives. We should be finding better terms, I like @npub1vj2t...xpte 's "resilient infrastructure" framing.

"These “prediction markets” take Zuckerberg’s “here are 12 photographs of eggs” philosophy to its logical endpoint. A way to capture one of the few parts of the human experience they haven’t been able to ingest into their mega-platforms. Here are 12 photographs of opinions, bet on which ones will come true." (Original title: Here are 12 photographs of eggs... you can bet on)

Garbage Day

Here are 12 photographs of eggs... you can bet on

Read to the end for the only place you should go when your wife becomes a sex addict and starts cheating on you with everybody

I think that one thing that kicked "being an AI thought leader" into higher gear than what happened with "the cloud" or whatnot is that to be an "AI expert" you literally don't have to know or be capable of anything.

I just got a "Decomputing" talk accepted by a very tech-focused business conference (as a Keynote even) and a labor rights organization who wanted me to propose a talk instantly went for the "The Luddites were right" suggestion. Two things that a few months ago would not have been possible I think. Things are changing, the dire state of the world sometimes allows new narratives to punch through.

It is an interesting data point that the "resonant computing" thing was pushed on Bluesky by a lot of people and it's basically non-existent on the Fediverse.

But if AI is so userful and everyone wants it, why does Microsoft have to cut its AI sales targets in half? (Original title: Microsoft drops AI sales targets in half after salespeople miss their quotas)

Ars Technica

Microsoft drops AI sales targets in half after salespeople miss their quotas

Report: Microsoft declared "the era of AI agents" in May, but enterprise customers aren't buying.

Any social internet worth thinking about needs to be built on the idea of care. - care for the wellbeing of the people on the network (moderation) - care for those doing extra work (like moderation) - care for each other (add alt-texts to images, thinking about inclusivity etc) - care to make running infrastructure sustainable (in all respects) The social Internet needs to be a web of human care.