🏳️🌈🖖🏽
And also right when bee venom is showing promise as a cancer treatment, too.
One of the main problems of this entire AI thing is that it leads to a rising management class that despises humans in general and somewhat "simple" and automatable tasks as not valuable.
It doesn't matter if AI is helpful or not. The invaluation of human labor through a management class will stay and weaken workers rights.
AV2 Codec Looks Like It Will Be Officially Released Next Week
For years already AV2 has been in development as the successor to AV1 for this wonderful open-source, royalty-free video codec. While there was talk about releasing AV2 by the end of 2025, that didn't happen but now latest indicators are pointing toward its formal debut next week...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/AV2-Next-Week
OH: "still not quite over the fact that i watched 15 year olds get sued for millions of dollars for downloading twelve songs and now we all have to accept AI slop because every tech company in the known universe decided that IP laws don't exist now that they're inconvenient for them"
They increasingly look like a project that is really getting their shit together.
Nice work!
https://www.freebsd.org/
TW: video depicting about 95% of white privileged people I've ever met
Original link: https://www.facebook.com/reel/26608103572149891
sensitive media
Remember 100 years ago when radiation was new and exciting and poorly understood, and companies were putting radiation into everything?
Thankfully we learned our lesson and will never make that mistake again.
Don’t call it age verification. Call it centralised personal data collection. And understand that it serves surveillance, not safety for children.
Space colony building sim Space Haven 1.0 is finally here https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/05/space-colony-building-sim-space-haven-1-0-is-finally-here/
Long thread/22
Digital rights management (DRM) enjoys bizarre legal protections so that it's a felony for me to give you the tools you need to move the books I wrote out of an Amazon app and into a competitor's app:
https://pluralistic.net/2026/01/14/sole-and-despotic/#world-turned-upside-down
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“It’s inevitable” often means “we’re doing this against your will and without requiring consent because we’re in a position of power”
"Ex-Microsoft Executive Joins Microsoft Competitor, Drives It Into A Wall" really is a whole genre of its own, isn't it.