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  realized my core life motivation is building infrastructure for others so that the advantages of so-called superior "intelligence" and/or funding cannot be used to subjugate and oppress

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  @jordan@sometimes.social hell yeah

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  @joe@f.duriansoftware.com veteran of the DOS wars

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  @ska@social.treehouse.systems @whynothugo@fosstodon.org oh yes my complaints with filesystems go beyond their compliance with the essentially missing VFS API but i wholeheartedly agree here

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  @jeremy_list big cutie

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  @kimapr is there fascist dubstep yet

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  @fiore@brain.worm.pink cause i have Concerns about mysteriously funded nonprofit orgs

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  @worik @hazelnot surveillance and censorship can be and is performed in the face of "hard" (what does this mean?) encryption. you have an extremely narrow and slightly romantic view of how surveillance works

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  @davidgerard hmm seems right. then it's good lifestyle marketing too bad the product is just too useless to be evil. hope they paid the models well cause they're getting their money's worth

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  @simonomi thx so much super cool stuff. i don't do too much hex reading but if i impl something similar for emacs i'll def link to this piece. great argument

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  @gkrnours well, there is willpower from the users and editors. but there are embedded power structures that disenfranchise them

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  @gkrnours @hazelnot directional wifi is super interesting i had forgotten that radio waves can absolutely be directed like that

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  @hazelnot obviously the first. i mentioned i was a government worker i don't destroy things unless i have a good reason to

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  i think we can follow on to this and destroy the internet too but we need to develop a movement explicitly resisting fascism more broadly to win

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  RE: https://mastodon.social/@APC/116447899546251592 Again and again, they have established that their primary commitment is to their business models, not to the people using their platforms. “Senator, we run ads,” as Mark Zuckerberg once said.

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  @joe@f.duriansoftware.com SSA without kink is actually an anti-queer project

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  RE: https://tldr.nettime.org/@tante/116444761530739242 The third violence we already alluded to: It’s the colonialist, western view to declare whatever the west thought was “worth” digitizing or whatever submits to those logic “all the world’s knowledge”. This is not just lack of representation but a forceful othering of large parts of the population of this planet. If you are not useful to western, capitalist readings of the world then you, your history, your experiences are not part of “all t...

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  CMON The third level is somewhat more devious. Because it makes us do that form of dissolving of social bonds ourselves. An example: If I use an “AI” to generate an illustration instead of asking a designer I am saying that while my skills and labor has value, that of the designer has not. This implicitly cuts my ability to form connections of solidarity with designers whose work and livelihood I have implicitly declared irrelevant. It makes me put myself over my fellow workers, workers who are...

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  @kirakira phil says: nice content! ✅

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  clarifies that you absolutely can apply additional restrictions to the AGPLv3 you just can't call it the AGPL or the fsf(e) will smite you https://mastodon.social/@kirschner/116436469612221961

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  @angelthorns ???

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  @abstractedfox this is one of the reasons i love using regex-based search it can be applied per-language without setting up an entire development environment

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  thanks to everyone who gave propublica "the benefit of the doubt" when i tried asking nicely about their job postings using LLMs in the newsroom and then asking less nicely https://bsky.app/profile/propublicaguild.org/post/3ma76tfkmrk2h