@redlibrarian JUSTIFIED

@electricarchaeo I would GO EVERY DAY

Man I'll take good news where I can get it. https://globalnews.ca/news/11249732/lgbtq2-pride-support-canada-world-ipsos-poll/

Wow, rare Hacker News W:

This is the true problem with AI. It's with who owns it, and what they will inevitably use it for. Whether it can do cool stuff with code or equal a junior developer is irrelevant. What it can do is less important than what it will be used for.

The owning class will use it to reduce payroll costs, which from their perspective is a cost center and always will be. If you're not an owner, then you have no control over the direction or use of AI. You are doomed to have your life disrupted and changed by it, with no input whatsoever. To quote the article, your six shillings a day can become six shillings a week, and you are left to just deal with it however you can. You are "free" to go find some other six shilling a week job. If you can.

And if you think, "Oh, every technology is like this, it's always been this way", you are right. You have always been at the whims of the owning class, and barring a change towards economic democracy, where average people regain control over their lives, it likely always will be.

@simon it's now on Ollama! That was fast.

Build it to respect customers' time and They Will Ride:

"Passengers made more than 52 million trips by train between Beijing and Shanghai last year, while only about 8.6 million people took a flight between the two cities.

Business travellers especially are increasingly viewing high-speed rail as a superior option, experts said, with China Railway’s fastest service now able to travel the 1,300-kilometer route in just over four hours."

https://www.scmp.com/economy/china-economy/article/3311483/chinas-airlines-raise-alarm-travellers-ditch-planes-bullet-trains

Still reeling from a nearly five hour long interview in which someone who worked at Esri for nearly 30 years told me that shapefiles were, essentially, a mistake

Humanity should overcome capitalism and make climate change the main priority, but some experts say the superrich aren't rich enough.

bet you never thought the ai singularity would be investors forcing mass adoption of tools and practices that undo all of the productivity gains and insights of the digital revolution

the things aren’t getting smarter, they are efficiently reenforcing and amplifying our own stupidity. horrorshow.

Huh. Had no idea the feds were running their own local LLM stuff. https://www.iphoneincanada.ca/2025/06/17/ottawa-federal-workers-ordered-to-ditch-chatgpt-for-canadian-ai/

@redlibrarian I have evaded Carousel to this date and I'm not going to be undone by the likes of you

@redlibrarian oh my god so old sam how do you manage

I remember being bedridden with foot elevated for a good long while and I spent a lot of time watching MTV, which was brand new at the time

I once twisted my foot really badly on a particularly gnarly-rooted tree in South Haven, Michigan

The Internet Archive now has a Podcast!

About Libraries, Internet, Copyright, AI, and more.

https://futureknowledge.transistor.fm/

please give us feedback @internetarchive

@misty we're both right! You're more right, mind you! The best kind of right! https://guides.library.cornell.edu/copyright/publicdomain

@misty ....80s is well past the time where that woulda been a defence though - that copyright loophole was closed in 1978 in the US iirc

How *spoiled* I've gotten! I've been using Linux for 30 years, and for the majority of that time there were a billion things that MacOS/Windows people got that would never come to me. Now I'm like GIMME GIMME

(sees cool software, open source, based on existing cross-platform open source thing) oh wow cool.

"Download for MacOS" (and nothing else).

(╯°□°）╯︵ ┻━┻

Because I am a cheap man I bought this yogurt I was very unfamiliar with at the Freshco for like two bucks. It's not Greek-style, so it's a bit runny compared, but the flavour is...not *savoury* but sourer, a bit more aggressive than I remember normal plain yogurt being. It's pretty great. I'd get it again.