Vincent Cloutier @vincent@librem.one

People keep saying that people will adapt to AI like we did to other tech revolutions.

But the scale and the speed of progress in AI will dwarf anything we’ve ever experienced before.

The technology will have impact far faster than our ability to adapt our societies.

This is an amazing chart from the International Monetary Fund. If we stopped subsidizing fossil fuels, we would come very close to meeting our international climate targets. You can support capitalism or the fossil industry, but not both.

DJ Khaled toilet

The SEC going after Justin Sun and TRX for market manipulation is just *chef kiss*. https://www.sec.gov/news/press-release/2023-59

Researchers monitoring the Twitter bot space noted, correctly, that TRON-themed bots were unbelievably, unimaginably prolific from 2018 onwards. We spent a massive amount of time building detections to shut it down — and it would just keep coming back. Major portions of all spam globally on Twitter, for months at a time, was just dedicated to hyping Sun and TRX.

#Valve Officially Announces #CounterStrike2

https://www.phoronix.com/news/Counter-Strike-2

Introducing #MozillaAI: A startup — and a community — building a trustworthy, independent, and #OpenSource AI ecosystem.

https://blog.mozilla.org/en/mozilla/introducing-mozilla-ai-investing-in-trustworthy-ai/

It is funny to see some very large accounts that have been consistently anti-crypto, move seamlessly into fudding ChatGPT.

Clearly there is a spectrum of human responses in terms of openness to novelty.

The same ofc applies to us. We are more open than average to new ideas.

how it feels to talk about #activitypub and how #fedi implements it

Any experienced programmer worth their salt will tell you that •producing• code — learning syntax, finding examples, combining them, adding behaviors, adding complexity — is the •easy• part of programming.

The hard part: “How can it break? How will it surprise us? How will it change? Does it •really• accomplish our goal? What •is• our goal? Are we all even imagining the same goal? Do we understand each other? Will the next person to work on this understand it? Should we even build this?”

Lifecycle CO2 g/km, Nissan Leaf: 104
Lifecycle CO2 g/km, ebike: 22

Electric cars sold across all of Europe, 2022: 1.5-1.6 million
Ebikes sold just in Germany, 2022: 2.2 million

Panasonic 2170 battery cells, Tesla 3 (short range): 2,976
Panasonic 2170 battery cells, Malibu GT ebike: 65
(= 45 ebikes : 1 Tesla 3—or 140 ebikes : 1 Tesla X)

Cars parked per parking space: 1
Ebikes parked per parking space: ~10

someone who is good at math please help me budget this. my city is dying

With all the GPT4-will-change-everything hype and fanfare happening now, it is worth mentioning that I just had to deal with some rural contractors that DIDN’T HAVE EMAIL ADDRESSES. The system of the world has more inertia than it sometimes seems.