"Imagine if you had infinite resources to build something that might topple the established world order, and all you could come up with was… an automatic internet troll10."
Plato vs Grok - by M. F. Robbins - The Value of Nothing
https://martinrobbins.substack.com/p/plato-vs-grok?utm_medium=ios
#techbro
#LLMS
#Society
#Psychology
#criticalthinking
#Philosophy
@quillmatiq still NOT decentralized, still CORPORATE OWNED, still owned by vc crypto techbros.
thIs TimE wILL Be difFerEnT, right?
Hardest of passes, thanks, no.
BIG BALLS DOWN, I REPEAT, BIG BALLS DOWN.
One of the "assailants" was a *15* yo girl.
@MightyOCD Every single author who publishes their stuff on #substack are, from now on, bereft of excuses for still being at the nazi bar, and it's on them.
@fixatedpersonsunit
spot on… and only serves to confirms #TechBro manigance.
finished watching Superman
That was surprisingly fun! And no wonder the right are mad about it: for starters, a broligarch and Netanyahu are the villains XD
@emmadavidson
I run Mint on an old laptop as a second computer that I can jump onto when my microsoft machine eventually stops working with that OS. I also use it as a linux training tool (tinkering with Wine64 atm). So far, I’m very happy with the Linux Mint distro.
Getting free of #TechBro software is an ongoing tasks. I am a few days away from migrating my blog away from WordPress and onto @shlee ‘s enhance.net. Still have a Gmail account I need to get out of - that‘s ongoing too。
So much fun…
AI tools are already helping marginalized communities daily - translations, image descriptions, text simplification.
You can/should hate Big Tech while recognizing real impacts - anything else isn't meaningful discourse.
Good news! You can instead use our Windoze
ystem which, granted, will throw ads at you every 15 seconds, oh and send all your details to a gazillion advertisers, and also won't run on any older hardware, but at least you don't need to know anything useful. 
You know what, seriously, I'm done with the tech community rn.
Tech community be like:
"Oh you want to drive a pretty car? Well first you need to go to engineering school to learn how to design engines, we provide the vehicular frame but you have to build your own engine. Oh but painting your car is easy, you just have to know how to create paint from scratch. No we don't just use standard vehicle paint, we created a special type and only it stick to our car. Oh and don't forget that you have to design seats too, that's an entirely different tutorial, written by Sumerian monks! It's 80 percent out of date but you'll be fine.
Ugh. Sorry. But its not only AI killing the Internet, its this nonsense.
Just a thought, for no reason, whatsoever...
We been there before.
Are you still on #Spotify?
Spotify’s CEO Daniel Ek has raised €600M for his new startup, which is developing AI TECH FOR WAR. Ek still owns 9% of Spotify, but has 37% voting control. His net worth went from $2.5B to $10B in the last two years alone, on the back of paying musicians a pittance in royalties.
And don’t forget:
• Spotify spent $250M of your subscription dollars to invite Joe Rogan to spew his disinformation on their platform.
• They’re still trying to embrace and extinguish Podcasts.
• They’re developing in-house, AI-generated “music” so users will play them (royalty-free) instead of music created by humans (who demand royalty).
And now, he’s using his wealth, created by your subscriptions, to fund tech that will use AI to literally murder humans in war.
Stop funding him. Quit Spotify now.
#QuitSpotify #music #ai #militaryTech #techbro
“Spotify’s CEO invests $1 billion into an AI military start-up — and musicians are fuming”
The new right weaponizing culture: The right goes post-liberal
Let’s have a look at an example of the new mess we’re facing: JD Vance – author, venture capitalist, convert Catholic, and now Vice President. He’s not a Reaganite libertarian, nor a traditional conservative. Instead, Vance represents something more dangerous: a dogmatic ideology, born in the boardrooms of tech billionaires and the seminaries of Catholicism, forged on in the #dotcons, and now pushing American politics into very dark territory.
This isn’t politics as usual. It’s […]
https://hamishcampbell.com/the-new-right-weaponizing-culture-the-right-goes-post-liberal/
Tech Bros weren't drafted into the fascist coup, they volunteered.
Delete windows, get a non google, non apple phone, drop twitter, delete Facebook, install linux, use blockers.
You may have ignored tech bro spying and control before, but now your life and family and country is at stake.
A great argument for setting aside our preconceived notions about AI.
#climateChange #ai #creativity #writing #technology #photography #video #techBro
We rightfully revile Silicon Valley style techbroism as we take moral higher standpoints, stick to our values.
Yet in our total rejection of #techbro culture, do we fail to learn from it? SV outperforms #FOSS under #hypercapitalism. #BigTech is winning. We must improve our fitness formula to catch up.
Is where SV #culture differs that folks from across the globe totally dare to unleash creativity? While fedi sees ideas usually followed with techies-impl-talk?
Welcome. There us no algorithm putting your posts into eyes.
Engagement on Mastodon is by hashtags. Make new hashtags, find well.used ones.
After typing a # Mastodon will the you the number of users for the hashtag.
For example if you type - #usp - Mastodon will say 1.9k under highlight meaning almost two thousand recent posts with rhe US politics hashtag "#uspoli"
The only answer to the " opt in opt of AI scraping ask/threat/exposure" is neither yes or no, but uninstall.
Or sometimes, quitting.
@bruces when do people start attacking "#AI" #datacenters?
