Hans-Christoph Steiner @eighthave@librem.one

#Government and #military leaders right now are talking a lot about how they need to prepare for the threats they are facing from other countries. But what they basically never talk about is how their own military #buildup makes other countries feel threatened. From what I've seen, this applies everywhere no matter which side they are on. That looks like a clear path to more war. They should be considering #deescalation is also a proven method for avoiding #war, not only #deterrence.

Another case of the #AI #bubble in action: insane #VC funding to create things that corrode the internet and public sphere and that people don't actually really want. #OpenAI's #Sora is no more! It was very expensive to run with hardly any paying customers.

https://www.revolutioninai.com/2026/03/%20chatgpt-gpt-54-mini-silent-switch-march-2026.html

"If that holds at scale, the “#AI coding boom” is not a #productivity #revolution. It is a #debt-acceleration loop wrapped in excellent #UX."

https://medium.com/write-a-catalyst/an-ai-wrote-576-000-lines-to-replace-sqlite-7ea538826d72

#TechnicalDebt #Claude #ClaudeCode #LLM

Well, this is one way to get out of #NaturalGas and #oil 😂 Looks like #Iran, #Israel and the #US are going to blow it all up 😉 Sorry, the #IranWar is all so messed up and sad, I just have to make a stupid joke about it.

Watching two party politics like #Democrat vs #Republican in the #US, it seems like an endless game of "he said she said". With multi-party politics, there are more possibilities. When three differing opposition parties get together to have a hearing to hold the government to account, that sends a pretty clear message that is not possible in two party politics.

Democrats have a hearing, Republics say its just politics. Or vice versa. Then stalemate.
For example:
https://abcnews.com/Politics/follow-law-bondi-after-democrats-storm-epstein-files/story?id=131199517

Hey #Europe, check out how #Sanchez and the #Socialist party in #Spain stood up against
the #IranWar, ignored threats from #Trump, so far received no meaningful retaliation and improved their standing in the latest #elections.

https://www.politico.eu/article/pedro-sanchez-socialist-party-defeat-regional-election-castilla-y-leon-spain/

#Technology can empower people, the key is what it empowers people to do. #Weapons technology allows people to kill others ever more effectively. And #AI #ChatBot #tech like #ChatGPT can empower us to make our deepest darkest fantasies real. Most of the world has decided that it is not a net positive for individuals to have easy access to deadly weapons. Although chatbots can do useful things, it seems ever clearer that lots of the uses of #LLMs do more harm than good

https://techcrunch.com/2026/03/15/lawyer-behind-ai-psychosis-cases-warns-of-mass-casualty-risks/

After a couple of decades of working to make the #web private enough that we can search it alongside our #private files, now it seems the goal is to focus on #local data because the web is trending so fast towards drowning in #AIslop. "The best way to predict the future is to invent it"... thank you #AI #startups 😉 and #VentureCapital! 🤑 And I'm sure #OpenAI's trending towards #SurveillanceCapitalism is only going to make things better 😱