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submitted 11 days ago • 1 comment

My heart breaks for Amaal, @amaalqamar.bsky.social, child and I'm afraid something might happen to him, God forbid. I hope he achieves his goal as soon as possible. Please send the campaign link to your friends 👇🏻 www.gofundme.com/f/help-child...

submitted 15 days ago • 7 comments

Shoot for the moon! Even if you miss, you might hit a SpaceX rocket

submitted 22 days ago • 17 comments

Meta illegaly downloaded 80+ terabytes of books from LibGen, Anna's Archive, and Z-library to train their AI models. In 2010, Aaron Swartz downloaded only 70 GBs of articles from JSTOR (0.0875% of Meta). Faced $1 million in fine and 35 years in jail. Took his own life in 2013.

submitted 16 days ago • 51 comments

The United States has declared economic war on some of its closest allies and Silicon Valley is itching to use the power of the state to defend its interests at all costs. It’s time for an alliance not just to combat US belligerence, but to build a different vision for tech.

submitted 21 days ago • 47 comments

Elon Musk saying the Nazis were communist is clear proof that he is in fact not a genius. It is a breathtakingly ignorant claim. The Nazis were feverishly anti-communist, and massacred some one million socialists and communists for their political views.

submitted 22 days ago • 32 comments

Good summary on the state of the media & tech platforms by @ryanhatesthis.bsky.social. Bonus points for not using the word enshittification

submitted 25 days ago • 3 comments

Newsletter: The DeepSeek situation is a moment that should fill Silicon Valley with shame, a monument to the lack of vision and herd mentality of the American tech industry. OpenAI and Anthropic have no moat, no business, no innovation, and I believe no future. www.wheresyoured.at/deep-impact/

submitted 25 days ago • 93 comments

Please RT to gain a ban of harmful pesticides, neonicotinoids being 7,797 times more toxic than the 'simple' DDT is. 😡 I planted from more than 4,000 varieties of wild flowers on 200 m2 only, by applying the Miyawaki method, to save the pollinators in my small way. Donate 👉 change.org/SaveTheBee 🆘

submitted 30 days ago • 5 comments

Please repost if you think there should be a worldwide ban on harmful pesticides. 😡 ‼ Please sign, share & support (805 donators to 850+) to Save The Pollinators 👉 change.org/SaveTheBee 🆘

submitted 29 days ago • 3 comments

Could any big accounts who are following me, especially Americans which I seem to have half or most of as followers, please follow her and repost her a lot: @beeasmarine.bsky.social 🐝 I'm trying to encourage her to stop wasting her time on Tw*tter & the link suppression. Also sign & share this plz

submitted 89 days ago • 30 comments

Whatever direct air capture is meant to be, or could be, this is unambiguously what it is becoming: a fossil fuel industry run factory creating single units of greenwashing to sell to the worst emitters maritime-executive.com/article/nyk-...

submitted 38 days ago • 45 comments

submitted 43 days ago • 7 comments

1. Hello everyone, Happy New Year. I’m back from a lovely time, though now stricken by a nasty bug. Right, back to it: In my catch-up reading, there are several articles about the “collapse of democracy”. Was 2024 the year in which it began to die? But NONE of them seeks to define democracy. 🧵

submitted 47 days ago • 40 comments

This is the last photo of Dr. Hussam Abu Safiya, the director of Kamal Adwan Hospital, walking toward Israeli tanks before being detained by Israeli forces after they destroyed the last hospital in northern Gaza. His current condition is unknown.

submitted 57 days ago • 24 comments

“What is happening all around us is the creation of a technical infrastructure that is directly competing with humans for basic resources like water, energy and land.”

submitted 61 days ago • 15 comments

The Russian far-right supports the American far-right, which supports the German far-right. This is the global alliance we need to combat.

submitted 64 days ago • 66 comments

THREAD This Is The Story Of The The Pernicious Rise of AI-Generated Papers and their Online Impact An Incomplete History Told In The Voice of Documentarian Adam Curtis 1/31

submitted 66 days ago • 29 comments

companies programmed us to refer to art, music, video, and writing as "content" to make it seem like it comes from the website and not from a person who had to think of it and make it

submitted 531 days ago • 70 comments

This is, by the way, the last newsletter until probably the middle of January. Please reshare it because it took me hours of work and distills the last year. I'll have one "thank you" newsletter going out next week that doesn't count. See you at CES with Better Offline. Please reshare for real

submitted 69 days ago • 8 comments

This.

submitted 78 days ago • 41 comments

Here’s another comic about some aliens

submitted 84 days ago • 1 comment

1. You think you’ve seen it all. You really have not. I’m a hard-bitten journalist of 39 years’ standing, but details of this story made me shout, weep and slap my head. This week’s column + 🧵 www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

submitted 87 days ago • 76 comments

“Shoulder Gandalf”

submitted 103 days ago • 1 comment

For anyone looking to adjust their media diet, now’s a great time to consider escaping The Algorithms with RSS. Here are some of the blogs, newsletters, and independent news sites I follow: www.mollywhite.net/blogroll/ For feed readers, I use Inoreader, but there are many other good options.

submitted 105 days ago • 83 comments

Reminder that Aaron Swartz was facing 35 years in prison and financial devastation for trying to programmatically download and open the contents of JSTOR, which led to him taking his own life. But OpenAI is going to scrape all of academia and make billions by plagiarizing it.

submitted 121 days ago • 28 comments

Watching US politicians applaud a war criminal and genocidaire in Congress is sincerely one of the most disgusting things I have ever witnessed. Rotten to the core, all of them.

submitted 214 days ago • 1 comment