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Don't blindly believe everything you read online, tempting as that is. Do your homework first. This video series will help you do it well: youtube.com/playlist?list=PL8d

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Remember to pop your filter bubble every so often. If you think you're not in one, you're trapped in one and in for a rude awakening.

If you ignore the ethical and moral issues around the training data used by “AI”, there’s still the environmental issues. If you ignore the environmental issues, there’s still the social and societal issues. If you ignore the social and societal issues, there’s still the financial issues. If you ignore the financial issues, there’s still the technical limitations. If you ignore the technical limitations…

The gen AI Kool-Aid tastes like eugenics: Ghost in the Machine director Valerie Veatch wants you to understand how race science has shaped this moment in tech

theverge.com/entertainment/897

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how about instead of everyone does this shit you let them make linux illegal in california and see how quick the tech ceos show up at evil ken doll gavin newsom's chateau to get this shit reversed

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RE: social.treehouse.systems/@wwah

thinking abt the timeline where the linux baddies got tshirts made that say ILLEGAL IN CALIFORNIA and MUST BE 18 TO READ THIS SHIRT like where is the fuck you make me attitude here

A small set of people are merging changes to various Linux components to make sure every application knows your birth date.

This is being done rapidly by people with unclear motivations and being merged with no youth and few marginalized people involved.

gitlab.freedesktop.org/account

In case anyone is unclear, since I hear he's also campaigning on this Linux age-gating trash:

Bryan Lunduke is a fascist hatemonger. He represents the absolute worst in free software and I believe he should be ostracized from any and all parts of our community. He wants software freedom for himself and in the abstract but despises individuals expressing their freedom. He believes in a software freedom that is hollowed out and missing love.

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people vibe coding their "projects" are missing out - if you don't know how your projects even work, you can't infodump about them, so like what do you even talk about then ​:neocat_floof_explode:

Gonna make a Microsoft version of The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion that replaces the speechcraft "Not now, not later, not ever" response with "Ask me again in 3 days"

Just remembered my all-time favourite bug, where Android accidentally rendered the name of the "Grunt" tool on its webpage as "Dorkq" github.com/gruntjs/gruntjs.com

Hey. Hey guess what. Guess what day it is? It's our birthday, and the Vagina Museum is nine years old today. The world has changed massively in those nine years. We started out with a tweet... and now we're a vibrant community space, dedicated to education and celebration!

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