Michael 🏴‍☠️ Fleet @f1337@librem.one

If I’m honest, I think React is bad technology, and I’m mad at what it and the surrounding JS community has done to the web.

Respect to all workers, but there are better ways.

Once again, I'm reminded of how much the billionaire space race has absolutely destroyed my love of rockets.

10 years ago, I definitely would have been paying close attention to the current giant SpaceX launch. But because I know it's going to be used to launch hundreds of unregulated, unsafe, polluting, for-profit Starlink satellites at once, I just can't look.

Instead of being excited and awestruck by a new gigantic rocket launch, it just makes me want to puke.

Socialism is a scare word they've hurled at every advance the people have made. Socialism is what they called public power, social security, deposit insurance, and independent labor organizations. Socialism is their name for anything that helps all people.

—Harry Truman, 1952

A neat little reminder for Christofascists you may run across.

Hi everyone, I'm a totally blind electronic musician. Looking for a audio, developer fluent in C++ d to help me with a very special open source project to assist blind people with electronic music production. If you can help me, or know anyone in your network who can please reach out and get at me. Thanks very much everyone :-) #electronic music :-)

Could we maybe stop shaming people for reading kids’ books? Adult books are full of sad people having affairs while kids’ books have magic wardrobes and worms driving around in apples; you tell me who’s winning.

I work for the government, and every year I have to take an ethics course to remind me not to do the things Clarence Thomas has done.

https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2023/04/clarence-thomas-lavish-gifts-propublica-supreme-court.html

I really want to share that some friends earlier tonight explained to me how and why GPT-like generative text LLMs are fundamentally unethical, so now I finally feel like I get (and share) the animus. I just didn't really put all the facts together before.

Now my point of view is that the models' basis in drawing in the entire content of the internet (more or less) extracts the collective creative labor of billions, which is then blended up and repackaged as a technological innovation, in order to launder the source of this labor and thereby extract its value efficiently.

Even models used by Dolly v2 ultimately derive from earlier GPT models of questionable provenance. The entire field is built on the fruit of the same poisonous tree.