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"We see a future where intelligence is a utility, like electricity or water, and people buy it from us on a meter..." -- Sam Altman
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There you go, there it is. Yup.
🚨 SAM ALTMAN: “We see a future where intelligence is a utility, like electricity or water, and people buy it from us on a meter.” pic.twitter.com/KuoMDp1upQ— Chief Nerd (@TheChiefNerd) March 12, 2026Chief Nerd (X (formerly Twitter))
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Whenever you hear "ban for kids" on the internet, read in reality "ID collection by a sketchy third-party company that will definitely use it or leak it or both for every adult."
Because that's what this truly means.
Also, it doesn't even help the kids.
#AgeVerification #Privacy #MassSurveillance #Authoritarianism
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Hezbollah fired a rocket straight into an Israeli school killing 168 children and 2 teachers! They wanted to target an Israeli military base and due to outdated information they hit that school....
The entire world condemns it!
Now Israel says it has the right to destroy Hezbollah and everyone in Lebanon who stays in their way.
There you go!
Oh wait...
(source)
Nevermind...
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The hypocrisy of US and Israel is insane..... How is this different from Russia attacking Ukraine?! By all accounts this feels worse.....
These lunatics in power don't have any ethics or morality, all they know is to kill people. And NEVER EVER forget about Netenyahu's corruption trials and Trump's connection with Epstein, there is an allegation of them starting the war to distract people from these issues....
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One of my favorites from Beuda, Spain, on a spectacularly clear night. The brightest dot is Jupiter.
Wouldn't it be amazing if people focused on the things that connect us- the stars, the universe, the creation of atoms, the Earth, life, evolution, the interconnectedness of it all- rather than on the silly beliefs that separate us, or on the self-centered desires for wealth and power brought about by a corrupt system run by lunatics..
War should be considered a complete absurdity, a failure of the human species. A shameful, primitive practice. A loss from the very start.
So long as there are wars we cannot consider ourselves an intelligent species. We've gotten so far in understanding the universe and advancing technology, yet we've gotten nowhere in applying that understanding to our society as a whole. We remain a tribal, primitive society, only now with more powerful weapons and more violence.
What a shame.
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#war #notowar #nowar #stars #astrophotography #nature #universe #jupiter #nightsky
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We signed @keepandroidopen 's open letter calling on lawmakers, developers, and users to put pressure on Google to stop its recent maneuvers to further dominate Android, preventing alternative libre applications and systems from existing on it. Let’s make some noise, enough is enough: keepandroidopen.org/
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Advocating for Android as a free, open platform for everyone to build apps on.keepandroidopen.org
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@eff, @OpenMediaOrg, @brave, @Vivaldi, and many more!keepandroidopen.org/open-lette…
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Do you want to have your own #Mastodon instance? How about #Peertube, #Nextcloud, #Matrix or a #Pixelfed instance? You can buy a managed hosting of these services from webape.site/
#ManagedHosting means you don't need to have any technical skills or know how to maintain a Linux server, all of that will be done for you. The #Webape project is a small business run by @tio, he also made trom.tf and have been providing all of those #FOSS services for free since 2021.
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We use dedicated VPS for each instance and we can upgrade to more powerful servers if necessary. I would say for a small instance around 30€ a month should do very well. If not 60€ should work fine. That is what we offer:
You can give it a try with us if you want, and migrate your account to us. If is not working well you can switch back. I think Mastodon provides such an option for migrating accounts.
No I meant to migrate the current account to a new server. Alternatively you can migrate the entire database and files. Do you know how big is your database?
We also do cleanups from time to time to prune old unused stuff from the Mastodon instances we manage.
That is a massive database for 1 user. Even our Friendica that has over 1k users is half that size. Also a lot of Media storage I see. Likely you should prune the old media that is not even accessed anymore. Else you are caching all media and store it locally.
The biggest Mastodon instance we manage has 2 users, 1 has 23k followers. The database is 3.7GB and stored Media about 40GB,
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We also do not give root access to our server to do such things yourself, but we do maintenance to not let the databases grow so much. The account that has 23k followers I was saying about is on our lowest tier. And indeed the database grew a lot but I rather clean it and keep it small than ask to move to a bigger server. We only take a few projects for WebApe and I want do do it right. It is not a business but a paid service so we are able to support our free projects.
In case you want to move to our hosting let us know and maybe we can find a way to transfer your instance, although the best would be to export your Mastodon account, then setup a new instance with us and import your account. So you dont drag a poorly maintained database to the new server.
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And there I was thinking those prices look quite expensive... I mean your 5k followers is already medium sized, but you could probably self-host something capable of serving that for less than $10 a month.
@liaizon @kris @mastohost
If you are planning to self-host and manage a server by yourself then I recommend looking into @yunohost
Yunohost is made to be easy to manage by nontechnical folks, tho I still recommend having a bit of Linux experience if you can. Tio and I maintain a Linux distribution called TROMjaro so we know quite a bit about Linux, you don't need to be that involved but just using Linux on your laptop/PC can teach you a lot.
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Using a free software stack, you could be an effective developer with a relatively low budget. A cheap or used laptop and an internet subscription.
LLM coding is changing that too. You either need a very powerful and expensive machine to run a local model, or (currently more likely) an LLM subscription. We are lead to believe you have to pay a monthly fee to be an effective developer.
The prospect of your output as a developer being tied to a proprietary service seems risky at best.
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yeah it's what I've been fearing, it's willingly giving away the means of production to a corporation in another country.
it's also not being able to code unless you have a decent always on internet connection. it's already the case for a lot of people, but your coding should be able to be done on a disconnected laptop
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Discussing Pseudoscience With Archeologist Flint Dibble
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I don't know what happened but pseudoscience and conspiracy theories started spreading like wildfire ever since the covid-19 pandemic. Fighting all of that misinformation online is not easy work, but thanks to people like this who take their time and effort to do so. Not all heroes wear capes!
Auf YouTube findest du die angesagtesten Videos und Tracks. Außerdem kannst du eigene Inhalte hochladen und mit Freunden oder gleich der ganzen Welt teilen.Professor Dave Explains (YouTube)
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The Librarians is a 2025 American documentary film, directed and produced by Kim A. Snyder. It follows librarians in Texas, Florida, and other states, as they unite to combat book banning in the United States. Sarah Jessica Parker serves as an executive producer under her Pretty Matches Productions banner.
The film had its world premiere at the Sundance Film Festival on January 24, 2025, and was released on October 3, 2025, by 8 Above.
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As a former translator, hailing from an industry that has already been decimated by AI 👋
In the translation business, there have always been bottom feeders charging dimes to the dollar for crappy translations. Those were the first to die when AI took hold. Then companies figured: why pay humans to make decent translations if we can have AI produce half decent translations for free?
In a few years time my yearly income from my translation side business plummeted from €10k+ to zero, so I folded my business, as did many other freelance translators. We're now left with a world that's worse for everybody. Consumers get badly translated interfaces and manuals (in the Dutch interface of a major Microsoft product I saw a button labeled "onbewolkt" = "uncloudy" - it took me a while to figure out that the button must have been labeled "clear" in English and translated from a totally unrelated context, a mistake a human technical translator wouldn't make), skilled translators fled to other work, enshittification all around.
“In the case of Colorado’s and California’s bills, effectiveness is lost. In the case of New York’s bill, liberty is lost.”
Carl Richell, System76 Founder and CEO, urges New York to reject S8102A OS-level age verification.
Read his full statement: s76.co/m-S8102A
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> The challenges we face are neither technical nor legal. The only solution is to educate our children about life with digital abundance. Throwing them into the deep end when they’re 16 or 18 is too late. It’s a wonderful and weird world. Yes, there are dark corners. There always will be. We have to teach our children what to do when they encounter them and we have to trust them.
Thank you for writing this, so true....
The first week of our Open Letter to Keep Android Open has been a resounding success! Our signatories list has grown to nearly 50 organizations from 20 countries around the world, including the
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Computer scientists are campaigning against the global march toward age checks online.Eliza Gkritsi (POLITICO)
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in reply to Christine Lemmer-Webber • • •Christine Lemmer-Webber
in reply to Christine Lemmer-Webber • • •Christine Lemmer-Webber
in reply to Christine Lemmer-Webber • • •I'm not claiming that they're right, that you are actually buying "intelligence" from them by the meter, I think that's misleading.
But also, the fact that that's the *framing* goes to show to you that they absolutely, completely want it to be, and want to sell intellectual slavery, as far as they can get it.
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in reply to Christine Lemmer-Webber • • •refraction
in reply to Lykso • • •Kropotkinson (we are all 🇵🇸)
in reply to refraction • • •anarchists are communists, at least the anarchists who take the name from the first international, from which it was used to describe those who did not believe in Marx's idea of the dictatorship of the proletariat as a temporary continuation of the state apparatus
refraction
in reply to Kropotkinson (we are all 🇵🇸) • • •Kropotkinson (we are all 🇵🇸)
in reply to refraction • • •@elexia @lykso
I agree it's a simplification, but I also have issues with those who try to take away the historical context of anarchism, such as to describe vague and inconsistent relationships with the state and authority overall
ancaps and "lifestyle anarchists" come to mind
in my opinion all anarchists are communists, otherwise their use of the term anarchism is highly suspect - I certainly would like to know why they think their position is significantly different to an ancom
Lykso
in reply to Kropotkinson (we are all 🇵🇸) • • •@amici @elexia I definitely tend to think of myself as some form of small-c "communist" under which many positions may fall, including anarchist ones.
I recognize that there are people who appropriate the term "anarchist" without understanding the self-contradictory nature of their position, most notably ancaps.
But again, I need to read more.
Violet Madder
in reply to Lykso • • •Small C communism was the word originally, anarchism came a bit later-- I think after the split at the 1st International, where Marx ran off in a more authoritarian direction just like Bakunin worried he would.
Preston Maness ☭
in reply to Lykso • • •Jan Antoš
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in reply to Jan Antoš • • •Jan Antoš
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in reply to Jan Antoš • • •@janantos @lykso
Sheesh.
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in reply to Christine Lemmer-Webber • • •Jenniferplusplus
in reply to Christine Lemmer-Webber • • •The closest they've ever come to a consistent definition of intelligence is something that can do economically valuable work.
Under that definition, what he's proposing is that you would rent the ability to do work, at all, from him. And that is in keeping with the ai/vc set's stated goals and past actions.
Matt Hall
in reply to Jenniferplusplus • • •@jenniferplusplus
Yeah, I think I'm in pretty strong agreement with this.
That what's being 'sold' is 'work' not 'intelligence'. It's not _thinking_ about a problem it's _iterating_ until it's RNG kicks out a good-enough solution. An endless parade of, "How 'bout this one, boss? 😃"
Intelligence isn't manifested in 'work'.
The choice of the word 'intelligence' is a deliberate mislabeling of what they would _like_ to be selling.
@cwebber
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in reply to Jenniferplusplus • • •@jenniferplusplus yes! This is a thing I keep coming back to in how I feel about what's going on. The effort here is to build the ultimate "rent a shovel" service where the entire economy is dependent on an oligopoly of cloud providers to functionally do work.
I can live with a lot of things I don't like, but that's basically anathema to me.
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in reply to Christine Lemmer-Webber • • •@cwebber @gotofritz
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in reply to Christine Lemmer-Webber • • •non-X-hosted copy of the video
#dystopian #AI #SamAltman #evil #intelligence
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in reply to Solarbird • • •@moira nah, they’re just high on Pied Piper VC money. I would be shocked if AI ever achieves utility status. It’s not a conduit like the internet. It’s not essential for survival in any way.
After the dust settles and everyone gives up on their stupid chatbots, AI will just exist as another tool for niche endeavors like software development, bioinformatics, medical research, and a few others that don’t require much creativity.
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It's not just "AI" he's talking about-- but computer power in general, in and of itself.
The hardware has been getting pushed in that direction for a while now. They only want us to have little terminals, which reach through their surveillance gates to access CPUs in their cloud.
Kumar McMillan
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in reply to Christine Lemmer-Webber • • •It is likely that I am using a different definition. 🙄
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in reply to Michael Wyman • • •@mwyman @jalefkowit grok is this true?
it isn't?
I'm sorry i didn't mean it Grok i was just asking
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in reply to Christine Lemmer-Webber • • •Я⊛ḶḶ model ‽‽‽
in reply to Christine Lemmer-Webber • • •now might be a good time to support your local library.
while you've still got one.
Lucas C. Wheeler
in reply to Christine Lemmer-Webber • • •"Knowledge, like air, is vital to life. Like air, no one should be denied it."
–Alan Moore, V for Vendetta
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in reply to Christine Lemmer-Webber • • •i&i say: metaphysical- historical- & materially speaking, Altman just pronounced his own death sentence & OpenAI's & the whole TESCREAL TechBroism's death sentence.
they & this must die, the sooner the better, & will eventually.
this is the clearest Writing On The Wall one can get at this stage.
#AI #AIism #TESCREAL #TechBroism #DeathSentence
#WritingOnTheWall
(i&i humbly speak so as a poet & a conscious being)
e.g. Karp's last one is a mere confirmation:
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Unknown parent • • •Interesting. I don’t think it’s vague at all. But I’m not trying to change your mind, I was just agreeing with Christine and didn’t untag you
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