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  RE: https://cyberplace.social/@GossiTheDog/117514165293840633 Anthropic made: - 1.5 billion USD losses in 2023 - 8.3 billion USD losses in 2024 - 42.0 billion USD losses in 2025 - 80.7 billion USD losses in the first half of 2026 alone - losses in every year since its founding Per its own admission, Anthropic may never be profitable. But "the genie is out of the bottle, it can't be put back into the bottle." "AI is here to stay." It's very intelligent of business...

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  RE: https://norden.social/@wackJackle/117486355489728024 police brutality in France

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  RE: https://infosec.exchange/@josephcox/117509052853704937 I am happy with Posteo for my email. Email is no secure medium, no matter how many bits you bolt onto the protocol. If you need to communicate confidentially, use Signal, not email. German police once demanded the IP addresses of Posteo customers and Posteo did not—could not—deliver because they (intentionally) don't even save IP addresses. If you need your own domain (like david@davidculley.eu rather than david@posteo.de), t...

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  People fundamentally misunderstand VPNs. A VPN doesn't make you anonymous in any way whatsoever. Here's why: All a VPN service does is hide your traffic from your Internet Service Provider (ISP). For example, from Vodafone. Using a VPN makes your internet traffic go through the VPN provider instead. For example: #Mullvad. If you browse the internet while being logged into any account (Amazon, Google, Netflix, etc.) or you fetch your emails, the web of course still knows who yo...

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  What does Karl Marx mean by the alienation of labour? Before the rise of #capitalism and the industrial revolution, certain types of labour could be artisanal whereas industrialization turned them "assembly line" style. Consider a shoemaker. A shoemaker had this idea of a shoe design and he/she would craft it from start to finish. The entire shoe was made by the same person. The shoemaker had creative agency over his/her labour. The shoemaker could also keep the fruits of his...

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  RE: https://graphics.social/@levork/116989069420010949 I thought I did that too when I wrote company-internal tutorials for my employer: express my personality and leave behind my artistic footprint even after I'm no longer with the company. My guides contained humor, wit, and explained complicated topics (for non-technical people) in an engaging and digestible way. Then my boss wanted to grow the team and hired not an additional engineer into our small and overworked team, but another...

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  According to a techbro Big Tech newsletter I still subscribe to, the one defining feature of the Amazon culture that made working at Amazon desirable for many, is now gone: Jeff Bezos forbade PowerPoint presentations very early on. PowerPoint presentations don't force you to really think through a problem or proposal. They are boring for listeners. Debating a proposal that even the person proposing it hasn't thought through, is a waste of everyone's time. Therefore Bezos...

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  RE: https://wandering.shop/@cstross/117368020902247929 Anthropic's entire loss for 2025 was $42 billion. But as some tech bros recently explained to me, making losses is just how you become successful in capitalism, a good business practice. Making losses is good actually. Your losses will someday somehow magically turn into profits, don't you know? That's why 100 of every 100 startups succeed and why venture capitalists cast such wide nets. Don't you worry about finances. The...

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  RE: https://digitalcourage.social/@echo_pbreyer/117331480393548354 Tomorrow. Stop #ChatControl.

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  RE: https://mastodon.social/@fj/117274646059939937 After white supremacist Stefan Molyneux was banned from YouTube in 2020, he moved to the extremely right video platform Rumble. Rumble is the "YouTube for Nazis". The company behind it, the Rum Group, is aligned with Trump. And now Anthropic made a nearly 14 billion USD deal with them. Perplexity similarly made a deal with Trump's "Truth" Social. Every "AI" company is directly collaborating with Nazis. And...

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  I wish I needn't care about Omarchy or DHH. Maybe you're annoyed by now by all the posts about Omarchy. I mean, we get it: DHH recently discovered Linux after he got sick of Apple taking 30% of all his revenue, and as a narcissistic millionaire businessman he's naturally trying to make some bucks with his configuration files or at least increase his fame. We took a look at his so-called "distribution" and all it turned out to be is just Arch Linux with some shitty vibe-cod...

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  RE: https://infosec.exchange/@flyingpenguin/117212838196276138 I see a lot of timid responses to 1Password funding the Neo-Nazi DHH and his fascist collaborators: "I threatened to cancel my 1Password subscription and will happily give them my money again when they come back to their senses." Please, don't be so naive. - First of all, 1Password is largely owned by Shopify executives who are all friends of DHH. DHH is a director at Shopify. - Second, the VP of 1Password is using...

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  It can't be said often enough: Fuck Palantir. #fascism #palantir

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  Eliezer Yudkowsky is the guy who coined the term Effective Altruism, the toxic ideology that billionaires and capitalism-brained aspiring millionaires use to excuse their greed. They tell themselves, for example, that it's good to work at awful companies such as Facebook/Meta to make ungodly amounts of money because, "look at all the good things I could do with all that money," while ignoring all the awful consequences of them working for these companies. Eliezer Yudkowsky is in...

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  RE: https://hachyderm.io/@davidculley/117067451008208893 If you see a Palestinian who doesn't have the checkmark next to their #GazaVerified link, please help them like I did. In most cases I've seen, they created a new account and are now posting from the new account. That new account of course isn't the one that was verified by the #GazaVerified team, so there won't be a checkmark even if the Palestinian links to their #GazaVerified page. It's too much work for the #Gaza...

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  RE: https://mastodon.wolkenheim.eu/@Wolkensteine/117047292267348881 If your company literally forms an alliance with Palantir and IBM (to name just two companies literally enabling genocide), then fuck your company. And fuck the centrist takes, "They're the industry leaders, we have no other choice, our company would go bankrupt otherwise, in the current economic environment you can't be picky regarding your business partners." I unfortunately heard them all in my professiona...

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  RE: https://mastodon.social/@gaza_verified_campaigns/117044166140550721 About 200 of the roughly 300 #GazaVerified families aren't receiving even just the bare minimum to live in Gaza. 😔💔 The minimum was determined to be $200 a week based on the cost of basic food on the market such as lentils. $200/week are about $28.57 a day, per family. Many families have more than 3 children and elderly parents to support. The determined minimum comes down to maybe $5 per person a day, which barely co...

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  RE: https://mastodon.social/@kkarhan/117037798754874969 You could simply mute or even block the Palestinians who are crying out for help if they annoy you that much and you have so little empathy with genocide victims being eradicated by a terroristic Israeli regime—look up Meir Kahane and Kahanism—and the help of a colonialist US empire. But *reporting* them to the instance moderators, with the purpose of them being digitally erased, is fucking low. One could argue this is complicity in genoc...

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  Bayer, the German chemicals/pharma corporation probably best known for its anti-headache pills Aspirin, is in all likelihood providing Israel with Glyphosate and white phosphorus: biocides for forbidden chemical warfare. Israel neither denies nor confirms it, but we all know what that means. But Bayer also bought Monsanto in 2016 for 66 billion USD: the same Monsanto that made the Agent Orange pesticides/biocides that was heavily used in the Vietnam War to "deforest" the vast Vietnam...

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  Tilo Jung, a German podcaster, is currently in Palestine and interviews Palestinians and Israelis. Here's an English interview with an Israeli settler and columnist for The Jerusalem Post who lives in the occupied West Bank since 1981 who is so brainwashed with zionist propaganda that he isn't abhorred by the unhinged things he says so openly and shamelessly: "We [jews] don't want to be oppressed, and we try, as much as possible, not to be oppressors." Then he laments th...

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  RE: https://todon.eu/@tkkg_kiel/117029564601971660 TKMS (ThyssenKrupp Marine Systems) in Kiel, Germany, is building the ships and submarines for Israel. The same ships that Israel uses to stop Greta Thunberg and the Global Sumud Flotilla, and to commit piracy on international waters. Some German activists are blocking the entrance to TKMS since 4:30 AM today. You can see the blue light of the police cars. #Germany #Israel #genocide

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  RE: https://mastodon.world/@paninid/116993444042989991 No, this level of *desperate cries for help during a live-streamed genocide* does not happen on any other social media platform. Because every other social media platform (Bluesky, Instagram, Threads, …) is complicit in genocide and has long deleted every account belonging to Palestinians. The Fediverse is the only/last remaining place on the internet where genocide victims aren't silenced and digitally erased. And you guys cut even...

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  If you see someone wearing "smart glasses", they'd surely appreciate a compliment on their new glasses. They might even let you take a closer look, or even try them on, if you ask them. It's such cool technology after all. But be sure not to accidentally immediately drop the glasses and stomp on them because that would be very much a shame. You wouldn't want that to happen.

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  RE: https://mastodon.social/@Layan2002/116985986931989177 Layan's mother has a cyst on her ovary that is at least 1 cm in diameter. Untreated cysts can burst and make a woman barren. Which is just one of the risks. But not only can she not afford the treatment, she's $250 in debt and cannot even afford food. With a donation you can help a suffering woman with not having a ticking timebomb inside her belly. And provide her family with some food after three days without a donation. Fi...

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  RE: https://cyberplace.social/@GossiTheDog/116986533493228804 Felon Musk hasn't only killed close to a million brown people (by cutting USAID) … … he's also openly calling for the assassination of white people.* Will some of the extreme centrists now please wake up?** * As a South-African immigrant calling for the deportation of immigrants and even for imprisoning them in concentration camps, be it in the USA or Europe. He himself is the most dangerous immigrant. (Not to say that imm...

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  RE: https://scholar.social/@gedankenstuecke/116972420410253859 The AI bros don't understand collectives. Codeberg's decision to not tolerate LLM slop wasn't a top-down decision made by some CEO/dictator. Codeberg is a collective and anyone can become a member with voting rights. The members voted democratically, and about 70% of the members were in favor of not tolerating LLM slop. This decision is the will of the majority. It's the democratic will of the collective. For tal...

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  RE: https://manganiello.eu/objects/16c09643-4203-4e3c-a796-bba5e82cb44f Are you a backend web developer? Do you want to write some Python code to help genocide victims? @fabio@manganiello.eu's API (https://gaza.onl/) that powers @gazaverified@mastodon.ar.al's https://gaza-verified.org/donate currently supports Chuffed and GoFundMe as fundraiser platforms. But now we need to also support https://whydonate.com as a fundraiser platform. Do you want to put your backend development skill...

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  RE: https://hachyderm.io/@davidculley/116977403202587223 Warning: Don't follow the quoted thread if you can't see blood or shocking, horrifying injuries. Follow the thread only if you're mentally prepared to see a horrific image of what Israel does to children. Seriously, you don't need to see the image to agree with me on the following: Fuck everyone who says that "Israel has the right to defend itself" or "Israel has the right to exist". Fuck everyone w...

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  If you want to donate to genocide victims but don't know who to donate to … … the website https://gaza-verified.org/donate shows which families didn't receive enough for at least a week to meet their basic needs. #GazaVerified

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  RE: https://mastodon.social/@eslam94/116959751970969536 Tareq is forced by poverty to sell his phone, the only remaining thing he owns. How is he supposed to communicate with the world without a phone? How is he supposed to ask for help without a phone? Without a phone, he will be forced to pay 40–50% fees for cash withdrawal. Even less money than now will reach him. Let's prevent that he'll be forced to sell his phone and buy it back later at a high price. He is #GazaVerified by @g...