Anil Dash @anildash: “It's telling that the creators of so many of the AI tools don't even have enough confidence in their offerings to simply let users choose to adopt them, and are instead forcing them into users' faces in every possible corner of their apps and websites.

“If, as they say, AI tools are going to get better quickly, then let them do so and trust that smart people will pick them up and use them. If you think your workers and colleagues are too stupid to recognize good tools that will help them do their jobs better, then... you are a bad leader and should step down. Because you've created a broken culture.”

https://www.anildash.com//2025/04/19/ai-first-is-the-new-return-to-office/

#ArtificialStupidity #DigitalSerfdom #BossesHateWorkers #SeizeTheMeansOfComputation

@dancingindystopia to tak brzmi jakby bycie neoluddytą, albo po prostu luddytą było czymś złym?
Dla przypomnienia pytań stawianych przez króla Ludda i jego poddanych, na moim biurku w pracy, leży pendrive ze sklejki z napisem: #SeizeTheMeansOfComputation

@Kurtis_Clark
@pluralistic #SeizeTheMeansOfComputation

Another gem of a talk by Cory Doctorow on enshittification! Highly recommended!

DEFCON 32 - Disenshittify or Die!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4EmstuO0Em8

(Also read his book 'How to seize the means of computation'!)

#enshittification #CoryDoctorow #SeizeTheMeansOfComputation

@blogdiva
#HackThePlanet and #SeizeTheMeansOfComputation

#informationwantstobefree used to be a foundational principle of the #Internet. In #2024, let's bring that kind of energy back.

#information #anarchy #digitalanarchy #seizethemeansofcomputation #kolektiva

https://www.sci-hub.st/

@AubreyDeLosDestinos owszem, nie tylko dlatego że to niemożliwe do podtrzymania, ale również dlatego że społeczeństwa zaczynają wymagać obiecanych deskolotek.

#SeizeTheMeansOfComputation

@esther
#SeizeTheMeansOfComputation sister!

@beckett
#wereadcorydoctorow of course I keep a wooden USB stick in my pocket ...
#seizethemeansofcomputation
@pluralistic

Tech is now (or always has been?) used by capitalists, VC investors and private equity firms to lock in creators: let’s #SeizeTheMeansOfComputation !

https://invidious.privacydev.net/watch?v=QzzIftKz600

3/3

https://blog.beeper.com/p/beeper-mini-is-back

Kudos to #Beeper for their competitive compatibility hijinks as of late.

No doubt they’re intentionally building a case for regulators. They’ve forced Apple’s hand, effectively showing that cross-platform comms is a matter of willingness, not technical limitation.

Seeing as Apple’s company policy is provably anti-competitive, we the users rely on state-mandated policies to overrule them in favor of adversarial interop.

cc @pluralistic

#SeizeTheMeansOfComputation

@m0bi13 @warroza @ftdl @jakmarcin @pawelszczur
#seizeTheMeansOfComputation

📚 Got my Kickstarter reward for @pluralistic's latest book.
#SeizeTheMeansOfComputation

I’ve officially bought my ticket and booked my trip for the #Matrix Community Summit at @cbase, 21.-24. September.

Excitedly looking forward to meeting lots of @matrix folks in person to talk about community building & strategy, coops, interoperability and #CommuneApp 💫

See y’all in three short weeks!

#SeizeTheMeansOfComputation

@pluralistic: The new, good internet is an internet where we #SeizeTheMeansOfComputation. It's an internet operated by and for the people who use it.

Hodgman is right. Nostalgia is a toxic impulse. The point of making a new, good internet isn't to revive the old, good internet.

There were plenty of problems with the old, good internet. The point is to make a new, good internet that is the worthy successor to the old, good internet – and to consign the enshitternet to the scrapheap of history..