RE: https://tacobelllabs.net/@astraluma/117363654848931561
Digital Ocean killed its "we give Open Source projects a bit of free hosting" policy basically at the same time they dropped 3 million USD on Omarchy, DHH's (who is a fascist and racist) set of config files he calls a distribution.
This is exactly the kind of "Power Grab" I wrote about a few weeks ago: https://tante.cc/2026/09/11/power-grab/
DHH is working towards accumulating open source funding to be able to direct it towards projects that align with his technical and ideological views.
It's hard to overstate how dangerous that is for all of us.
RT: https://tacobelllabs.net/users/astraluma/statuses/117363654848931561
The interview on the upcoming documentary #Naza. Really dark implications on seemingly simple AI can do in the hands of the reckless.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/video/2026/sep/29/naza-israel-film-stateside-kai-and-carter
Happy "Charles Darwin is poorly today" Day to those who celebrate
165 years ago today (1 Oct 1861), Charles Darwin was having a rough one
Libraries are the only data centers I want.
can't believe pastagang figured this out the hard way when we could have just watched this talk
(the talk was amazing - by Linda Rising about group intelligence)
I logged in to LinkedIn to see a page full of people praising DHH, got mad, and wrote this. Less than 12 hours later I got an email telling me "Your post doesn’t comply with our Professional Community Policies on bullying and harassment. It’s been removed from LinkedIn and only you can access it."
Big tech is more and more mask-off every day.
What surprises me the most recently, though, is how much I suddenly care about pronouns (I didn't see that one coming).
PLEASE. For the love of all that's good in the world, stop referring to AIs as she/her/he/him. They are not people and don't have genders. It's an it.
I already admired Associated Press for its stand on on the Gulf of Mexico and Lake Ontario. And now I’m admiring its stand on reporting about AI.
https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/ai-bros-meltdown-feelings
In the midst of heated discussions on AI safety and consciousness, the Associated Press Stylebook has reminded everyone of where it stands on the whole “anthropomorphism” debate.
“Artificial intelligence systems do not think, feel, want or understand. Avoid language that gives them human characteristics,” it wrote Wednesday in a post on X. “This is called anthropomorphizing, when we ascribe human traits, emotions or behaviors to non-human things, such as animals or inanimate objects.”
This didn’t go over well in the world of AI experts and adherents, whose nerves, shall we say, were collectively struck by what they characterized as a “completely insane” declaration.
Open AI stole this guy's research solving one of the millennium problems and just pretended it was theirs. Plagiarism machine did plagiarism. Good explanation here:
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https://discourse.gnome.org/t/gnome-foundation-seeks-paid-content-writer/38817
