Notices by Thomas 🔭🕹️ (thomasfuchs@hachyderm.io), page 2

This is has been the endgame for years.

Remember AMP, the bullshit thing that Google used to break news websites with?

And then quietly removed after the damage was done?

Washington Post article, "Web publishers brace for carnage as Google adds AI answers: The tech giant is rolling out AI-generated answers that displace links to human-written websites"

https://archive.is/flZXI

“In a year from now, AI will be sentient”

Yeah no

@amigalove they were really thinking of us obsessive collectors with chronic lack of desk space 40 years later

Germany is banning the rector of the University of Glasgow from entering the EU. Because he’s a witness to genocide (as a surgeon who among other things repairs blown off faces of children) who was to speak at the French senate.

Germany has completely lost it.

Making barricades is taught to 7-year olds in our schools, because our society loves guns more than children, you absolute chucklefuck fartwaffle

Oh no, it’s over, NYPD found proof that it was trained terrorists behind the protests and showing the manual they found when raiding Columbia university

NYPD is right now about to storm Columbia University in NYC after protesters against genocide occupied a university building.

Here’s something interesting from the Uhiversity website.

If you’re thinking the protests are antisemitic, please read this opinion by a Jewish Yale student.

https://www.cnn.com/2024/04/27/opinions/yale-student-palestinian-protests-berlin/index.html

Has everyone memory-holed what happened after 9/11? Peaceful protests being declared “un-American”? A 20-year long war that caused an estimated FIVE MILLION deaths?

And people now are all like “oops yeah actually that wasn’t so great”.

Maybe fucking listen to protests sometime. You might learn something.

@amigalove that’s a sleek design, love it

This has become “red scare” levels of grotesque https://www.axios.com/2024/04/26/antisemitism-monitor-colleges-columbia-israel

If anything is more despicable than incinerating and burying tens of thousands of children under the rubble of their homes it’s when politicians use this to try to score cheap political points.

People, always: Mozilla, please just make a web browser

Mozilla, 2014: here’s a phone!
Mozilla, 2018: all in on VR!
Mozilla, 2022: let’s do crypto!
Mozilla, 2024: hurrah AI!

Waiting for a AI enabled dishwasher that uses 3 gallons of water to wash the dishes and 7 gallons of water to generate the voice that tells you that’s it’s done washing the dishes

Out there somewhere are developers implementing tracking and online stalking of users and implementing code that does stuff like lying that “we use 7,372 tracking partners to improve your experience”

What if the solution to giant monopolistic apps and websites not being able to reliably moderate content at scale is to not have giant monopolistic apps and websites

What. The.

"[the] computer that provided hundreds of charts for Joan Quigley, the [President Ronald and Nancy] Reagans' astrologer, who determined the timing of important events in the Reagan presidency such as: the take off times for Air Force One for important trips, the timing of all presidential press conferences, the signing of numerous anti-nuclear treaties with the Soviet Union."

https://www.computerhistory.org/collections/catalog/102746921

WHAT THE FUCK

Cool how serial criminal Trump always gets breaks from courts while death panels rule that women with unviable pregnancies have to die.

Totally normal democracy.

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