Reminder to #MaskUpSaveLives.
More than #covid is #airborne - #measles is airborne too. Also, with #wildfires & folks with pollen allergy issues - wearing a mask helps with not getting super sick, especially if others also mask up. You're guaranteed only one life - don't fuck it up by simply refusing to #MaskUp
We live in a society that doesn't accept apologies, that doesn't want people to learn and do better. No, it just wants to shame others, to make fun of them, and ultimately to cancel them.
Just got asked to sign an open letter to OpenAI asking for transparency on their announced restructuring. You’ll hear about it soon enough, no doubt, given some “big names” are attached to it.
While I agree with the premise of the letter, there’s no way I can sign it after seeing the level of cluelessness and perpetuation of harmful assumptions regurgitated in it. It’s depressing to see those supposedly pushing back against Big Tech’s AI grift having themselves accepted the core myths of this bullshit.
It starts:
“We write to you as the legal beneficiaries of your charitable mission.”
What charitable mission? Are you idiots? You’re talking to a ~$4B organisation.
“Your current structure includes important safeguards designed to ensure your technology serves humanity rather than merely generating profit…”
Oh, really, that’s news to me. I guess I must be missing how their current bullshit serves humanity.
“However, you have proposed a significant corporate restructuring that appears to weaken or eliminate many of these protections, and the public deserves to know the details.”
Ah, so they’re removing the smoke and mirrors, is that it?
Then a bunch of questions, including:
“Does OpenAI plan to commercialize AGI once developed?”
You do understand that there is NO path that leads from today’s mass bullshit factories that are LLMs to AGI, right? None. Zero. Nada. You’re playing right into their hands by taking this as given.
“We believe your response will help restore trust and establish whether OpenAI remains committed to its founding principles, or whether it is prioritizing private interests over its public mission.”
What trust? You trusted these assholes to begin with why exactly? Was it the asshat billionaire founder? How bloody naïve can you be?
“The stakes could not be higher. The decisions you make about governance, profit distribution, and accountability will shape not only OpenAI's future but also the future of society at large.”
Please, sirs, be kind.
No, fuck you. Why are we pleading? Burn this shit to the ground and dance on its smoldering remains.
“We look forward to your response and to working together to ensure AGI truly benefits everyone.”
Yeah, no, I won’t be signing this. If this is what “resistance” looks like, we’re well and truly fucked.
Will *you* be ready when #ICE #Gestapo test *your* courage to stand up to #fascism in the #UnitedStates ? 
Many bystanders in #NewYork City proved to be cowards when #ICE intimidated youth #baseball players during their practice. https://www.rawstory.com/ice-baseball/
I have been guysplained to more times for this one post than in my whole previous history on Fedi.
If you're mad about "y'all", you missed the point of the post.
If you're looking up the etymology of "guy", you missed the point of the post.
If you're telling me that *you* don't think "guys" is a gendered term, you missed the point of the post.
If you're saying "dude, it's just a word", you're kind of a dick.
If you're thinking that "maybe `cisheteronormative white man` shouldn't be the default assumption just because they hold a disproportionate share of power and oppressors often influence language so as to make it seem like their way is the only sane way", then...damn, you *were* paying attention!
If you're like "omg, so much this", omg, ikr?? 
If you're typing out "I'll try to do better", thank you, that's all we ask 
@collectifission @jeffmcneill @alberto the problem is that #Mozilla failed to use their past "#UncoditionalIncome" or rather absurdly good #Google deal in any meaningful and sustainable way.
Which is why I want @Mozilla / @mozilla_support to hand over #Firefox to @torproject and make #TorBrowser it's #upstream.
Obviously the best option would be for #Mozilla to become like a #nonprofit (#eV) or #cooperative (#eG) where they have to actually #audit their finances (in the case of cooperatives, by an accredited external auditor) to enshure they ain't wasting huge amounts of money.
Cuz even if everyone there makes $200k a year (obviously they don't) that's still $300M that had to go somewhere.
And even if we assume they blow another $100M on equipment, hosting, sponsorships and other expenses that's still $200M unaccounted for.
Anything else is a #donation.
I kid you not fellow Canadians, but The Guardian is providing live coverage of the opening of Canada's parliament under "US Politics Live"
#DoBetter #CDNPoli #KingCharles
#JournalismFail
Saw this bumper sticker. If every human being obliged this sentiment, the world would level up to infinity.
With all demographic data that marketers collect and use to target audiences you'd think they'd know by now not to target me for Mother's Day ads as my mom has been dead for 25 years and I do not have any children. #DoBetter
Every time I watch Netflix... I am reminded that all other streaming services should be figuring out how Netflix's video player works so well...
Because Paramount Plus player sucks -- especially at startup.
Prime starts up a bit better and provides in-player details well... but still behind the Netflix player.
I find NBC & ABC players not worth the time.
Dear sci-fi authors,
Pay attention to your units! Nothing rips me out of a story like it taking minutes to travel "10 klicks" (which you have not defined separately from the well known slang for kilometers) while DEcelerating to at most 999 m/s. Which would cover 10km in... 10 seconds.
Wisconsin’s Supreme Court race proves democracy is STILL under attack. Trump & MAGA are rewriting the rules, and Starmer can’t even muster a clear stance on voting rights. #DoBetter
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/apr/02/wisconsin-supreme-court-election-result-race
Hey, #cdnpoli
Free #healthcare with for-profit parking pretty much defeats the purpose.
One constantly gets cut, so the wait times a-splodes, and then inflation makes the other rise.
I know theres a lot happening but yeah, pretty sure we can #dobetter.
@franksting @emmadavidson It wasn't hard to find out that it's not from the PNG Courier. And unless "Henry Morris" is "The Secret Tory," he didn't write it either.
"Although there is a genuine newspaper called the Papua New Guinea Post-Courier, the article in question does not appear to have been published there."
https://fullfact.org/online/papua-new-guinea-courier-satire/
Everytime some #racist Peace Of Shite is spreading "#GreatReplacement" bullshit I wish to replace them.
But the "#GreatReplacementTheory" is just racist #TinfoilHat shite...
"Do good and inspire others to good as well!" is something that stuck with me for quite a long time.
Because at the end of the day, that I've to live with what I did (not) and I intent to not just talk, but #DoBetter!
Ken Yager of Kingston, Tennessee is the State Senate Caucus Chair for #BananaRepublicans. This story of him peeing his pants while being arrested for #DUI after a hit-and-run in #Georgia is reminiscent of when #DonaldTheDeplorable visited Cookeville, #Tennessee to survey #tornado damage during his first term of #AmericanCarnage and was photographed with a leaking Depends diaper.
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/ken-yager-appears-video-pee-pants-arrest_n_67519aa6e4b014edcda64b26
is watching!
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#FBPE 
