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@glent they don't do a password reset using the email address? That seems very limiting.

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@stilgherrian Peasants, delete your old emails and turn off your taps.

The billionaires need that precious water to cool the NVidia cards they're using for industrial scale copyright infringement.

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The goal of the companies who run AIs is to

1. get us all to use AI until the point where

2. we're dependent on AI, then

3. remove all access to AI and

4. grant the privilege of use only to those who pay a monthly fee,

5. which will periodically rise

6. while the service becomes worse and worse.

It'll be enshittification of enshittification.

enshittiception

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Epic series of tweets by Gavin Newsom. He nailed the style perfectly. Hilarious. 🤣🤣🤣

@glent sounds less than helpful

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Last night, at 2:30 a.m. CET, a new European #weather #satellite was launched in French Guiana. The new #MetOp-SG A1 satellite will map the entire world every day. This should provide a wide range of important information that is essential for weather forecasts, storm warnings and #climate research. The new satellite will also make #Europe less dependent on the #US for #scientific #research.

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"When Australian artificial intelligence expert Dr Kobi Leins declined a medical specialist’s request to use AI transcription software during her child’s upcoming appointment, the practice told her the practitioner required the technology be used and Leins was "welcome to seek an alternative" provider."

https://ia.acs.org.au/article/2025/kobi-refused-a-doctors-ai-she-was-told-to-go-elsewhere.html

We are giving our lives and health over to a piece of super dangerous AI crap. All for supposed efficiency and cost savings and to make the tech bros richer.

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#GAZA #UKRAINE are tied at the capitalist hip. it is no coincidence that #Netanyahu showed a map with no Palestinian Territories months after #methane #naturalGas deposits were confirmed off the coast of Gaza.

3,000 billionaires are paying for Palestinian and Ukranian #genocide in a vain attempt to wipe-out nations and re-draw maps based on their investments.

#fascism #petromafias

image of Putin superimposed over map of Ukraine and the territories Russia invaded

image of Netanyahu showing his New Middle East map at the United Nations in September 2023, a month before invading Gaza. the map shows an Israel with no Palestinian Territories and half of Lebanon gone.

map showing the Gaza Marine field, it’s exploration wells and the different Israeli blockades imposed on Gaza’s beaches so Palestinians couldn’t get to the gas fields or even fish for food

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My latest cartoon for @newscientist.com

Panels one and two:
Two white mice make their way through a maze.

Panel three:
Having completed the maze, the two mice are rewarded with some fruit. Two scientists watch them. One says:
“Poor little things: all that thought and effort just to earn themselves a little treat.”

The second scientist looks at a clock and says: “Coffee time!”

Panels four and five:
The two scientists make their way through a maze of corridors to a door marked “Canteen”

Panel six:
The scientists look at the food on offer. One says: “Ooh, Donuts!”

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My mistrust towards #Github just passed a tipping point, as its CEO resigned (yes, it had been acquired by #Microsoft a while ago, but it was still allowed to operate as its own company) and Nadella announced that he won't be replaced.

Instead, Github will be swallowed by the CoreAI department at Microsoft.

Which means that the largest (by far) storage of open source code is officially going to become just another piece towards Microsoft's plans for AI supremacy.

Also, even though I disagreed with him quite a few times, do you remember the time when youtube-dl got a DMCA takedown request, and Thomas Dohmk joined the Discord channel, apologized to the developers, promised to do his best to bring it back and apparently he did it indeed? Well, you can forget Satya Nadella doing the same thing - he cares about automating coding and cutting costs, not about dev experience nor the community that he inherited.

If you want to host your source code please just run your own Forgejo or Sourcehut server and implement anti-bot measures.

Every single other thing, no exceptions, just exposes you to enshittification.

https://www.theverge.com/news/757461/microsoft-github-thomas-dohmke-resignation-coreai-team-transition

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@gvwilson My favourite ageist nonsense:

"Senior developers can't handle change."

Listen here, Lucky: Anybody with 20+ years of experience in our industry has seen more changes than you've had hot breakfasts. We specialize in change. It’s literally all we know. Our expertise is assessing opportunities for change and implementing change.

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"Violent crime is up in Washington, DC" says man who pardoned the largest group in history that committed violent crimes in Washington, DC.

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Literally every good person I know who is working in tech actually wants to be doing something else like gardening or carpentry, says a lot about how much we've all fucked up this industry

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The only reason you assassinate every Al Jazeera journalist left in Gaza is because you don’t want anyone to document the genocide you are about to accelerate.

Any politician, Democrat or MAGA or Independent, any journalist, liberal or conservative, who cannot call this genocide for what it is, is complicit, and I hope history remembers you as such.

@n_dimension @glent as someone who used to design a University's network I would find it entirely unacceptable to disenfranchise a section of the student body (not to mention making any of them tether to a phone due to providing a sucky service).

@glent so how to under 18 students use the WiFi and why is the eduroam SSID "special" in the government's eyes?

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I was about to order a small USB-powered desk fan for $7.99 -- I need something small and quiet to blow on me while I do my radio reports -- my other fans are just too noisy. There was a selection box to order two, so I said what the hell I can use an extra one, let's see what the discount is. The discount was 50%. So two fans for ... $7.99 total out of pocket. Same as one fan.

Nothing makes sense anymore.

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A publication I respected greatly just switched platforms, from Ghost to the odious Substack. I canceled my (paid) subscription and explained why.

The founder replied that network effects were what mattered.

Bad actors accrete power when good people rationalize the consequences of their choices.

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Check out my #DEFCON33 talk about the Signalgate, full of unbelievable incompetence from the highest levels of the Trump administration https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KFYyfrTIPQY

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