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"And now, we’ve arrived at the logical conclusion of all this—Eric #Trump, the barking embodiment of dumb-son nepotism. A laughable lout with inherited intellectual necrosis and the empathy of a Terminator wrapped in designer smugness.

In Eric we have the heir to a #political dynasty so corrupt it saddens Tammany Hall, b/c they’re not here to stand and clap. A guy whose gums allow you to shelter-in-place during EF4 tornadoes. Whose existence makes it so when you say the “the dumb Trump son,” you’re somehow not talking about Don Jr."

#news #politics #donaldtrump #tech #media #press #washington #maga #ai #usa #us #unitedstates #america #russia #ukraine #china #eu #tv

TL;DR: Elton John and Dua Lipa lead a group of 400 artists warning that AI poses a significant threat to creative industries, appealing for protective measures from political leaders. https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c071elp1rv1o #law #tech #legaltech ⚖️ 🤖 #autosum

House Committee Leader to Investigate Agency for Preferential Treatment of Politically Connected Startup
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The probe comes in the wake of a ProPublica investigation that revealed the General Services Administration was eyeing a tech firm with strong ties to the Trump administration to remake a massive, $700 billion federal credit card program.
https://www.propublica.org/article/investigation-ramp-gsa-smartpay-trump-peter-thiel-gerald-connolly?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post

#News #Trump #Business #Fintech #Tech #Technology #Government

un temps pour réparer

tag : tricot restauratif, #art #repair #DIY #tech #psychology #societe #ecology

🚀 The Future is Federated - issue no.11 👩‍🚀

"Beyond technical features: why we need to talk about the values of the Fediverse (part 1)"

https://blog.elenarossini.com/the-values-of-the-fediverse-ethical-social-media/

with shout-outs to: @bengrosser @rysiek @phanpy @pixelfed and all the lovely people I've been interacting with on here ❤️

#TheFutureIsFederated #tech #Fediverse #activism #bigtech #socialmedia #FOSS #blog #privacy #consent #Matrix

Please excuse the Substack link, but given that "84% of developers now use or plan to use AI tools"*, it is interesting to see measurable proof that this does not translate to increased productivity.

"We should be seeing apps of all shapes and sizes, video games, new websites, mobile apps, software-as-a-service apps — we should be drowning in choice."

https://mikelovesrobots.substack.com/p/wheres-the-shovelware-why-ai-coding

#technology #tech #AI

"A new paper from researchers at Microsoft and Carnegie Mellon University finds that as humans increasingly rely on generative AI in their work, they use less critical thinking, which can “result in the deterioration of cognitive faculties that ought to be preserved.”"

https://www.404media.co/microsoft-study-finds-ai-makes-human-cognition-atrophied-and-unprepared-3/

#study #technology #tech #AI

Coca-Cola has a new AI-powered ad that proudly features a quote from a J.G. Ballard book — except he didn't write the words, and it's not his book. @404mediaco explains what happened — and the irony of using Ballard's words in a commercial built with technology. "The ultimate role of 'Crash' is cautionary, a warning against that brutal, erotic and overlit realm that beckons more and more persuasively to us from the margins of the technological landscape,” Ballard wrote in his 1995 introduction to his most famous work.

https://flip.it/mp9fCF

#Books #Bookstodon @bookstodon #JGBallard #CocaCola #Lifestyle #Tech #Technology #ArtificialIntelligence #AI

Japanese chipmaker Rapidus to offer lower wafer pricing than TSMC — 2nm class silicon to be priced around $20,000 on 2027 launch

Japanese chipmaker Rapidus discloses one more aspect of its strategy: to offer lower quotes than TSMC.

https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/semiconductors/japanese-chipmaker-rapidus-to-offer-lower-wafer-pricing-than-tsmc-2nm-class-silicon-to-be-priced-around-usd20-000-on-2027-launch

#Tech #Technology #TechNews #AI #Gadgets #Software #Cybersecurity #Apple #Google #Microsoft #Startup #OpenSource #TomsHardware [Tom's Hardware]

💥 SEMIFINALS START NOW 💥

We’ve gone from 32 of the worst people in tech to the final four as we get closer to our final matchup.

🗳️ Cast your ballot: https://forms.gle/WaN2pon7ZUavMcBH8

#tech #techwontsaveus

🎉 TIME FOR QUARTER FINALS 🎉

We’re down to the final eight, and there are some difficult matchups as we get close to the prize.

🗳️ Cast your ballot: https://forms.gle/rBW7uSSLRfzkd3Bn8

#tech #techwontsaveus #siliconvalley

Imagine having a bicycle with a closed chain guard. One day the chain falls off & you realize it's assembled with tamper-proof screws.

Now imagine the manufacturer wanting to make unscrewing that screw a felony carrying a 5-year prison sentence & a $500K fine.

They'd be booed out of business, if not institutionalized.

None the less, that's EXACTLY how DMCA 1201 works.

Despite @pluralistic & others' efforts I feel this isn't clear to the general public.

#tech #business #enshittification

"Bright graphics, a touchscreen, a speech synthesizer, messaging apps, games, and educational software—no, it's not your kid's iPad. This is the mid-1970s, and you're using PLATO."

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2023/03/plato-how-an-educational-computer-system-from-the-60s-shaped-the-future/

#tech #technology #VintageComputers #PLATO

Exquisite.social is a delightful and innocuous generic Glitch Mastodon server, with a slight focus on technology, privacy and *BSD. We are here to play and make friends in a supportive atmosphere:

https://exquisite.social

You can find out more at https://exquisite.social/about or contact the admin @exquisite

#FeaturedServer #GlitchMastodon #Glitch #Technology #Tech #Privacy #InfoSec #BSD #Mastodon #Fediverse #FreeFediverse

Surf Beta Testers 🏄‍♂️

Our biggest release yet is here! Enjoy redesigned navigation that drops you right into your Surf Timeline in the new Home experience and lets you quickly access your go-to feeds from anywhere in Surf.

Here's a quick look at what's new:

#SurfSocial #Apps #Technology #Tech #Flipboard #OpenSocial

The fediverse has no central authority — which brings both challenges and opportunities for how it's governed. For Dot Social, @mike spoke with @kissane and @darius, two of the smartest people working on this, about the impact of the 2024 U.S. Presidential election on fediverse work, the "Xodus," what needs to be done next, and how to fund and sustain better networks for humans.

Read more about it in this blogpost.
https://about.flipboard.com/fediverse/erin-kissane-and-darius-kazemi/

Listen to the conversation on https://flipboard.video/c/dot_social/videos or wherever you get your podcasts.

#DotSocial #Podcast #Fediverse #Flipboard #OpenSocialWeb #SocialMedia #Tech #SocialWeb #Governance #Federation #Bluesky #ActivityPub #ATProtocol #SocialNetworks

I am 100% convinced just from my own experiences that tech companies are knowingly, purposely putting "AI" buttons and links near commonly-used buttons or links in user interfaces to encourage accidental clicking and increase their usage numbers. AI usage numbers are dismal, and surveys repeatedly show large majorities of people do not want these features.

#AI #GenAI #GenerativeAI #DarkPatterns #UI #UX #UserInterface #tech #dev

🚀 New on #TheFutureIsFederated 👩‍🚀

"Sharkey: a Fediverse project that is beautiful inside & out"

https://blog.elenarossini.com/sharkey-a-fediverse-project-that-is-beautiful-inside-out/

special thanks to @pancakes for his awesome post on Misskey forks 🙏

and 👀 @ben @mia @stefan

#blog #Fediverse #Misskey #Sharkey #Firefish #MFM #FOSS #FLOSS #SocialMedia #tech

📢 Wir haben Neuigkeiten! Flipboard erweitert die Föderation in Deutschland: 21 neue Publisher sind jetzt im Fediverse.

Diesen Publishern kannst du ab sofort direkt folgen:

AZMuenchen, @AZMuenchen
BASICthinking, @BASICthinking
Business Punk, @BusinessPunk
BUNTE, @BUNTE_DE
CURVED, @curved
DER SPIEGEL, @DerSpiegel
DerStandard, @DERSTANDARD
Filmstarts, @Filmstarts
FitForFun, @FitForFun
Futurezone, @Futurezone_de
GIGA, @Gigade
Gruenderszene, @Gruenderszene
Harvard Business Manager, @harvardbusiness
Kino.de, @kinode
Men’s Health, @MensHealth_de
Metal Hammer, @metalhammer_de
n-tv, @ntv2019
Photografix, @Photografix
Premium Quarterly, @PremiumQuarter
SZ, @SZ_de
Ze.tt, @Zett

Mehr dazu in unserem Blog: https://flip.it/cxfY1U

#Fediverse #Flipboard #Publisher #ActivityPub #Federation #Föderation #SocialMedia #Nachrichten #Politik #Unterhaltung #Journalismus #Digital #Tech #Wissenschaft #Wirtschaft #Klima #Musik

I'm glad to add Firefox to the list of apps I have to constantly check to make sure they haven't turned back on all the anti-features I disabled.

#firefox #mozilla #AI #GenAI #GenerativeAI #SmartIsSurveillance #tech #dev #web

RE: https://mastodon.social/@Blender/116482997785333001

And related to this, #Blender already has Claude slop commits.

It's all fucked, Blender went dark.

https://github.com/blender/blender/commit/336b5d0de12a438614846961b7961bbf35399eb3
https://github.com/blender/blender/commit/79e02e1405a98884cc8fd5505cc54df2c2dc5d21
https://github.com/blender/blender/commit/7ee94c067cf71845727672ed77dc25f088cd5b32

Not to mention one user has specifically admitted to using AI code review for commits that are in Blender's codebase.

https://github.com/blender/blender/commit/b80b3e040dd3ac979e97540b4bb0f18a1c5ad021
https://github.com/blender/blender/commit/eaadb0c3043288d78b897b15bcc8d336c749de15

#NoAI #FuckAI #AntiAI #Tech #Technology #Animation #3DAnimation #Claude

NEW SUBSTACK! " #GOP Seditionist Mike Lee Pushes Porn Ban; So He Plans to Ban Republicans??"

Porn. Repubs are hate it! Family values! ..except Trump, Cruz Hastert, Gingrich, MTG, Boebert, Musk, Ailes, Giuliani, O’Reilly, Falwell Jr, Noem, Lewandowski, Hegseth....

https://www.blueamp.co/p/gop-seditionist-mike-lee-pushes-porn #porn #usa #utah #mikelee #press #media #us #film #fascism #news #politics #tech #ai #tv #podcast #writing #video #russia

Marjorie Taylor Greene taken apart by Dan Goldman and I'm just so loving it

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NLZrXA57ip8 #youtube #tv #tech #us #usa #trump #donaldtrump #press #eu #europe #canada #ukraine #russia #nato #media #news #politics #stockmarket #america #unitedstates #podcast #video #ai

"The more the Fediverse can be baked into systems already in use, as with the Wordpress plugin and Ghost 6.0, the easier it will be to make connections without platform or protocol battles." - @michael

Part 2 of Michael's post-FediCon blog series, exploring growth with a grassroots vibe, is out now! Check it out below 👇

https://www.blog-pat.ch/third-spaces-in-the-fediverse-fedicon-thoughts-part-ii/

#Fediverse #SocialWeb #FediCon #Mastodon #SocialMedia #Blog #ThirdSpaces #FediGrowth #OpenSocialWeb #Tech #LeaveX

In the past couple days on LinkedIn I've seen two distinct people declaring that StackOverflow is "dead".

Meanwhile, I use it almost daily and it seems very much alive and still useful, to me.

I smell PR.

#StackOverflow #AI #GenAI #GenerativeAI #astroturf #dev #tech #programming