More Intel Driver Maintainer Changes In Linux 6.17
Following the recent Intel driver being orphaned due to layoffs at the company and other Intel Linux engineering changes due to the ongoing restructuring at the company, for the Linux 6.17 kernel there are some additional Intel driver maintainer changes spotted... phoronix.com/news/Intel-Driver…
An excellent thread on why there's so much propaganda pushing "personal responsibility" over collective action — the only force with the power to genuinely move the needle on big problems. mamot.fr/@pluralistic/11494929…
I need to tell you something unsatisfying: your personal consumption choices will not make a meaningful difference to the amount of enshittification you experience in your life.
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If you'd like an essay-formatted version of this thread to read or share, here's a link to it on pluralistic.net, my surveillance-free, ad-free, tracker-free blog:
"My book on Enshittification is coming out in a couple of months, and the early reviews are already coming in, and they are gratifyingly glowing. But there's a trend in these reviews, a caveat that reviewer after reviewer has raised: my book is 'short on individual solutions.'
"You're goddamned right it is. Because this isn't an individual problem, it's a systemic one." — @pluralistic
I almost posted a picture of an old house I passed on a walk. It sits just off the road—like most houses, I suppose. I mean, building one in the road wouldn’t work out too well. Anyway, back on track: it’s a simple house with a gabled roof, still mostly white. What makes it interesting is how the forest has nearly swallowed it. In Louisiana, the woods grow fast—neglect your lawn too long and suddenly you’re living in a grove. This house has clearly been abandoned for a while. Its door hangs wide open, as if inviting any passerby to step inside. But in the photo I took, the house is barely visible—just the faint outline of its roof—so I decided not to post it this morning.
“I always find it curious to discover a home left as if in a state of interrupted daily life…” — Mike Correll, Abandoned Sulphur, Louisiana
I almost posted a picture of an old house I passed on a walk. It sits just off the road—like most houses, I suppose. I mean, building one in the road wouldn’t work out too well. Anyway, back on track: it’s a simple house with a gabled roof, still mostly white. What makes it interesting is how the forest has nearly swallowed it. In Louisiana, the woods grow fast—neglect your lawn too long and suddenly you’re living in a grove. This house has clearly been abandoned for a while. Its door hangs wide open, as if inviting any passerby to step inside. But in the photo I took, the house is barely visible—just the faint outline of its roof—so I decided not to post it this morning.
“I always find it curious to discover a home left as if in a state of interrupted daily life…” — Mike Correll, Abandoned Sulphur, Louisiana
"No one is coming to save us *except* us. There is such a thing as #society, and you're a part of it, and so am I, and so are the rest of us. You can't fight #enshittification. But together, *we* can."
There is still hope, reading @pluralistic helps a little bit.
The AI revolution is reshaping the creative foundations of Hollywood — from storytelling and performance to production, labor and power. In Hollywood Tomorrow, we explore its impact from all angles.
@GustavinoBevilacqua In realtà sappiamo sempre benissimo quando sarà il festival, volendo anche anni prima: da tempi immemori, è sempre stato sul ponte dei morti. Però quando escono le date ufficiali, ogni anno è sempre un'emozione unica! 🤩
@marco197 Dai, allora chissà che non ci becchiamo allora! La nostra cricca è iperpresente da molti anni in full immersion totale. L'anno scorso eravamo quelli con l'alabarda fotonica ;)
Trieste Science+Fiction Festival, il più importante evento italiano dedicato alla fantascienza, si prepara a festeggiare i suoi primi 25 anni a partire dal 28 ottobre fino al 2 novembre nel capoluogo giuliano: un’edizione imperdibile e ricca di appun…
@luther Sì, è esattamente così, praticamente ogni anno. Infatti l'ho sempre trovata una cosa estremamente stupida che non si coordino sulle date: molte persone parteciperebbero volentieri ad entrambi gli eventi se non fossero sovrapposti... in fondo sono aree di interesse con molto in comune!
Not defending Microsoft or Windows. But Apple is one of the most anti consumer companies out there. They have done more to squash right to repair laws than any other company. They did it in Ontario where I live. Personally Microsoft o's the lesser of two evils if I had to choose.
@paultk MS' insistence on LLM pillaging and generative AI makes them untenable. forcibly disabling it makes the system increasingly unstable and even unbootable.
apple lets you turn that off with a single switch.
"Earlier this month in southern Arizona, nearly 1,000 people in Tucson turned out to a city council meeting after local reporters revealed that officials had secretly planned an Amazon Web Services facility in their community. At a public meeting, angry residents cited that the city’s pattern of droughts would not meet the data center’s surging water needs."
In the new horror-tinged Western, a fictional Pueblo tribe and a fractured town reveal how pandemic politics and AI infrastructure deepen old patterns of violence.
Sanctions May Have No Effect on Russia, But More Are Coming – Trump sputnikglobe.com/20250801/sanc… WASHINGTON (Sputnik) - US President Donald Trump said he is ready to impose sanctions on Russia in connection with the Ukraine conflict but is not sure if they would have any effect. #news #press
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#Deutschland hat nach den USA, China und Indien die meisten #Milliardäre. Und ihre Zahl steigt weiter. Gleichzeitig werden die Armen hierzulande immer ärmer.
Deutschland hat nach den USA, China und Indien die meisten Milliardäre. Und ihre Zahl steigt weiter. Gleichzeitig werden die Armen hierzulande immer ärmer.
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