How the Non-Profit Industrial Complex keeps people quiet about genocide.
https://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/items/ff4f7d06-ded6-42c5-92d0-90edc69c7418
Suggesting dumping money into the weapons industry will help the economic situation of the general public is suggesting trickle down economics works, all the evidence demonstrates it doesn't, it just consolidates wealth
Cutting green regulation leads to climate catastrophes that drive migration
War leads to catastrophes that drive migration
The feedback loop here should be obvio, I find it frustrating that its not
Spoke to a former colleague recently. Their employer monitors employee AI use and wants to see number go up.
Since the obligatory AI nannying, multiple product teams have fallen apart and they’ve stopped delivering new features of value while users are leaving.
A whole layer of middle management are destroying good products to make a Potemkin village of fake automation to justify their bosses buying crap enterprise software. It’s as if the entire industry had their heads kicked in by a donkey.
We just transitioned CoSocial from an ad-hoc combine of AWS, OVH, and DO to @fedihost, see https://fedihost.co, a Managed Fediverse Hosting outfit. Already feels faster, and should be cheaper too. Self-managed instances are cool but not, I suspect, the general-case future.
Browser 'privacy' extensions have eye on your AI, log all your chats
L: https://www.theregister.com/2025/12/16/chrome_edge_privacy_extensions_quietly/
C: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46306201
posted on 2025.12.17 at 17:04:18 (c=0, p=4)
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