Ed Zitron keeps choosing violence for breakfast: "Every CEO talking about AI replacing workers is an example of the real problem: that most companies are run by people who don’t understand or experience the problems they’re solving, don’t do any real work, don’t face any real problems, and thus can never be trusted to solve them."The Case Against Generative AI. A thread full of bangers 👇 🧵

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The Case Against Generative AI

Soundtrack: Queens of the Stone Age - First It Giveth Before we go any further: This is, for the third time this year, the longest newsletter I've...

What's happening at #Bluesky right now is very interesting. The corpos and the moderation team are sending Nazi bar signals (again), so established alternatives like #Blacksky are opening their doors to a possible mass migration. Blacksky even has a "comrade" option for people who aren't black. I still prefer ActivityPub so far, but the amount of work that Blacksky is putting in this is nothing short of amazing

Recordatorio de que el 12 de septiembre la Comisión Europea votará la iniciativa de #chatcontrol para darle el hachazo definitivo a la #privacidad de todas las personas salvo políticos y fuerzas del orden. Por favor, aseguraos de que escribís y llamáis a vuestros representantes. Si podéis llamar, mejor que enviar correo. Las llamadas no son tan fáciles de filtrar. Pásalo

Fight Chat Control - Protect Digital Privacy in the EU

Learn about the EU Chat Control proposal and contact your representatives to protect digital privacy and encryption.

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Ok folks, will need your help with this thingie. The #ChatControl legislation corpse has been reanimated im the EU. I am reading through it and is crazy as fuck, but I need your takes as well. Please read the text that can be found here and share with others. Paging @Cory Doctorow ahshitherewegoagain.gif #privacy #infosec 📄.pdf

If you listen closely, you will be able to hear a million catgirl hackers typing on their keyboards with only one purpose: block the fuck out of #Meta in any way they can. I will say this in the kindest possible way: Meta AI chose the wrong people to scrape data from.

Hey @Cory Doctorow, Louis Rossman is planning to do some campaigning against certain section of the DMCA to see if it could be taken down. You may want to ping him. I also advised him to try and reach out to you and to the EFF since you have been fighting this for years