Old Fucking Punk @lwriemen@librem.one

If I followed my heart, I would be dedicating my free time to building more resilient food systems, or working to actively grow our neighborhood mutual aid system, or fighting for various important changes in my city and state. But all of that takes energy. My supply of energy is limited. And meanwhile, we've lost federal protections for reproductive freedom, trans people are unable to get the health care they need, and voting rights are being degraded.

@dynamic I'm sorry, but as someone who was heavily involved in Occupy and remembers quite well the Federally coordinated multi-state crackdown, I feel compelled to remind you that it was not the Bush admin's DHS that led the charge to break up the encampments and bash in heads, but the Obama admin's. Bush was not in office, and to pretend like he was somehow was still calling shots at DHS in 2011 is...strange. Bush has plenty of blood on his hands, but Obama has to own that one...just sayin'.

More evidence that our society is run by morons who are so stupid they think that they're geniuses. This appears to be the case in tech, journalism, finance, academia, etc. The tech moron says some stupid shit; the journalist moron reports the stupid shit uncritically; the finance moron funds the stupid shit; and the academic moron waxes poetic about how the stupid shit will save and/or doom humanity. It's morons and stupid shit all the way down. 🤦‍♂️

https://www.wheresyoured.at/sam-altman-is-full-of-shit/

The really big changes---working toward mutual care, dismantling capitalism, learning to work in partnership with the more-than-human world rather than treating it as something to exploit---these will never be delivered by governments that are responsive to business interests or the desires of the hyperwealthy. And yet, that's what governments do, with the U.S. government more guilty than most.

@GossiTheDog #Windows and #Microsoft products are thus not suitable for use in #school. Our #education system should be free of #surveillance tech.

We should not be normalising this kind of dangerous #spyware by teaching kids that this is normal.
#SpywareByDesign #Recall

Modest proposal.

Bring back the corporate death penalty. Use it for things like ecocide, gross pollution, and wage theft.

Liquidate and give the proceeds to those who were wronged.

https://kolektiva.media/w/tcuagAThpZyg2QoovgxgAc

The waters are receding in Porto Alegre and the massive undertaking of cleaning the mess left behind by the floods has begun. Some of our comrades have been able to return to their squats and begin assessing the damage.

Donations have already been used to buy protective gear; like goggles, gloves and rubber boots, to protect those cleaning up the wreckage from diseases often associated with floodwaters like leptospirosis.

Comrades have also purchased a pressure washer to share freely with those within their communities and power inverters to help the indigenous Mbya Guarani community, who are reclaiming their lands in the south of Porto Alegre, rebuild their solar power system. As we take stock of the extensive damage, we have decided to raise our fundraising goal to $7500 CAD.

We’d like to say our special thanks to those who have already donated, shared and showed solidarity. Your donations have already made a significant effect for the Anarchist and Indigenous communities in the lands in southern so-called Brazil.

See the fundraiser at: https://www.gofundme.com/f/espaco-mutual-aid

It suddenly occurred to me to wonder how much of the reason that coming-of-age rituals often involve time away from community or venturing out on one's own (whether to go on walkabout, to attend college, travel) might be just as much for the parents and elders as for the young people in question.

Much of what you need to know to understand the current dysfunction in the US (and other parts of the world too, I'm sure).

https://www.okdoomer.io/all-about-the-dissonance/

These bricks conduct electricity and combine to create a powerful thermal battery | Backed by federal funding, MIT spin-off Electrified Thermal Solutions says its bricks can replace fossil fuels. https://slrpnk.net/post/9821276

Our corrupt Supreme Court is an arm of the Republican Party, and democracy is the victim. https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/05/23/supreme-court-ruling-south-carolina-voting-map-gerrymander/

@lightweight it’s bullshit. https://mastodon.social/@ThePlant/112486469559854730

I say "you can't be both a 'progressive' and comfortable with the multinational corporate model." Change my mind.

With all the Microsoft Recall stuff saturating the Fediverse right now (my feed at least)... It seems a good time to remember that Microsoft has always had form as an unethical organisation... I commemd to you this detailed (and enjoyable) account of their first decade or so: https://web.archive.org/web/20051013072349/http://www.vanwensveen.nl/rants/microsoft/IhateMS_1.html

Yes, you can host Git bombs on Codeberg.

No, we are not fond of this idea.

We are currently looking into countermeasures to get Codeberg back on track.

I got ahold of the Copilot+ software.

Recall uses a bunch of services themed CAP - Core AI Platform. Enabled by default.

It spits constant screenshots (the product brands then “snapshots”, but they’re hooked screenshots) into the current user’s AppData as part of image storage.

The NPU processes them and extracts text, into a database file.

The database is SQLite, and you can access it as the user including programmatically. It 100% does not need physical access and can be stolen.

“Most people are not aware of the resource usage underlying ChatGPT,” Ren said. “If you’re not aware of the resource usage, then there’s no way that we can help conserve the resources.”

In July 2022, the month before OpenAI says it completed its training of GPT-4, Microsoft pumped in about 11.5 million gallons of water to its cluster of Iowa data centers, according to the West Des Moines Water Works. That amounted to about 6% of all the water used in the district, which also supplies drinking water to the city’s residents.

#tech #technology #AI #generativeAI #ChatGPT #microsoft #ClimateCrisis

https://apnews.com/article/chatgpt-gpt4-iowa-ai-water-consumption-microsoft-f551fde98083d17a7e8d904f8be822c4?fbclid=IwZXh0bgNhZW0CMTEAAR3RSpm6xHK11bscxSH0LOYa_u0NzVqm82Q6rYJ6wY9I3CEHNJjy3AGXkYs_aem_AZajQUCRmv2g52SCEwjpSTEV1O3wZE25xpNndxjJRG0H3JKJBG-abCQJA12X_owD3rmSmRXu4wOOfUmjLs5KJzKf

@CedarTea kicked off a mega conversation thread about labor, productivity, and all kinds of other issues here:
https://social.coop/@CedarTea/112479784376602038

Here we see the unhinged liberals in their natural habitat...