Notices by Aral Balkan (aral@mastodon.ar.al), page 27

“Open Source AI”

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#osi #openSourceAI

@Ai16C @iSabreman Looks gorgeous :)

“The greatest capitalist in the history of the United States… Elon Musk.”

Says everything you need to say about capitalism.

#capitalism #ElonMusk #Trump

@gytisrepecka Yes, we live in a swamp, I don’t control everything, and I don’t have infinite time. If you want to do something about it, re-upload it to a PeerTube instance and share the link with us all. Or criticise me about it after you’ve invested the amount of time working to raise awareness about this system and creating alternatives to it that I have. About ten years should suffice.

@pietervdvn Yep.

How does anyone take this country seriously?

What’s that? Oh, they have nuclear weapons. That’s right. Forgot, sorry.

#USA #UnitedStates #AmericaFuckYeah #LawOfTheJungle

@mattsheffield @bob Ah, thank goodness we haven’t built our societies to respect irrationality, teach it in schools, and, in some places, even legally protect it from criticism … oh, wait.

“Those who can make you believe absurdities, can make you commit atrocities.” – Voltaire

@wsw777 @PabloMartini Alt text: Three of the worst oligarchs backing Trump - Elon Musk, Peter Thiel, and David Sacks - are products of South African apartheid. This isn't a coincidence.

Did you know IBM helped Hitler carry out the Holocaust? Is it in any way surprising that we can’t do anything about Big Tech and toxic oligarchs like Elon Musk when even those who helped carry out one of the worst tragedies in human history remain unpunished? Should it come as a shock that the very same bastards are funding and pining for fascism today?

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=1rhzge9r6k4

#BigTech #fascism #SiliconValley #ventureCapital #surveillance #capitalism #peopleFarming #BigData #AI

@xinit @gminks And if you ask them about it today… well…

“‘We are a technology company, we are not historians,’ spokeswoman Carol Malkovich said.”

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/ibm-and-nazi-germany/

How bloody convenient, Carol.

PS. I covered this in a number of my talks, here’s one where I go into a bit more detail about about it and current parallels: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=1rhzge9r6k4

@strypey @dmarti @SecurityWriter Ghostery is an ad industry tool (https://www.technologyreview.com/2013/06/17/177933/a-popular-ad-blocker-also-helps-the-ad-industry/)

@mralancooper @dariusdunlap You’re one of the last people who should have to apologise for anything.

Indy is a dear friend and wonderful human being so I very much look forward to listening to this. https://toad.social/@ArrowbearMoore/113381188793330822

@knittingknots2 Is the one where they bomb Palestinian civilians with US-made weapons?

@burdickjp @JosephMeyer Because it’s a toot and not a PhD thesis?

@xankarn https://mastodon.ar.al/@aral/113380040079229516

@Dave_Goldsmith No one’s saying give them your money.

Just realise that voting with your wallet won’t buy you democracy when you’re bidding against billionaires.

Bet Hitler’s turning in his grave right now: “Fuck man, I should’ve called ’em ‘gated communities’ and it’d all have been fine.”

Leave it to these fuckers to rebrand slavery as “extended unpaid internships” next.

#israel #UK #UnitedKingdom #palestine #gaza #apartheid #ethnicCleansing #genocide #concentrationCamps #gatedCommunities https://mastodon.social/@micchiato/113375479404049920

@jonpainterphoto @afuerstenau It’s not lack of backbone, it’s calculated malice.

I’m going to present a talk on Small Web at the Dublin Dub|Sec meetup this Wednesday (October 30th at 6:30PM). The event takes place at The Camden Court Hotel.

Pop by and say hi if you’re around.

https://www.meetup.com/dub-sec/events/303879614

#SmalWeb #peerToPeerWeb #Ireland #meetup #dublin #dubsec #Kitten #Domain #Place #NodeJS #HTML #CSS #JavaScript #htmx #WebSockets #web #dev