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Datacenters in particular have been noteworthy for pushing for ‘off-grid’ power plants to give them more control over their power and costs.

Yeah, like how Elong Musk is poisoning Memphis with his illegal generators spewing smog all over the place.

I don’t think it’s the right approach at all. Mozilla has been taking some incredibly dubious steps these past few years, when we need them to be the bastion of the free and open internet. They shouldn’t be refocusing on a bullshit technology they don’t have the resources to keep up with.

The goal of the big AI companies isn’t to provide a good and helpful product. They’re jamming it in every nook and cranny hoping they’ll find a niche where users get hooked on it. Then once they’ve become essential, and they control it, they can do whatever they wish.

My biggest worry here is not OpenAI. It’s Google, with Meta a close second. Google holds a significant stake in so many markets. They control one of the most used operating systems on the market. They control one of the biggest email services. They control the most used search engine. They control the browser with the highest market-share.

Google effectively has the ability to fully control information. All the way from how you access it, to what you access. This thought should be terrifying to anyone.

Firefox isn’t entirely under Google’s control. If Google decides to do something shitty with Chromium, like oh I don’t know, phasing out Manifest V2, Mozilla and Firefox isn’t beholden to follow suit. Unlike every other Chromium based browser. Now, that’s just one example of things they could do, but they could do literally anything to the web-standard, and if they’re the only player on the market, the open web is fucked.

Without the web, what do we do? The web connects billions in ways both meaningful, and not. It democratises information. Wikipedia for example would be entirely impossible without the web. This platform we’re on right now wouldn’t exist without a free and open web.

That’s what Mozilla should be working to protect.

Musk buys twitter? Let’s stay on twitter.

Musk makes the platform hostile to free speech? Whatever… Let’s stay on twitter.

Musk threatens advertisers? It’s all cool, let’s stay on twitter.

Musk abuses the staff? It’s fine, let’s stay on twitter.

Musk does multiple Hitler salutes and absolutely manhandles the U.S. government? Yeah that’s fine, let’s stay on twitter.

Musk adds a white-supremacist, nazi LLM. We love nazism, let’s stay on twitter.

Musk’s image generator starts undressing children. Let’s tentatively draw the line there!

At least, I guess, they vaguely care about some children? Like I can’t even really reconcile it with staying on the platform for all the rest.

The problem is hierarchies. The entire point of feudalism was to create a caste system where the ruler of each segment won’t be touched by the people below them. That’s exactly what modern society by and large looks like.

Until everyone’s equal, no one is. Hierarchical systems are antithetical to peace and equality.

I don’t mean “normal” for the U.S., I mean normal for the rest of the world. I legitimately don’t care how this transition ends up going for the U.S. I just want to be rid of them.

The U.S. was never a good country. The colonisers were religious extremists who left Europe because their views were too extremist for us, even way back then. It’s built on a foundation of genocide and murder, and it never grew past that. It’s never cared for its people. It was always an oligarchy, that was literally the entire point of the U.S. gaining independence from the British crown.

Trump being in charge isn’t really that different from before. He’s unhinged and less political, but he didn’t set all of this up. All of the systems that enable him were already in place and used by those before him. The U.S. was always a conniving and manipulative country, it’s never really had allies, just tools. It’s sad that it took this long for so many to realise, and even now our politicians are hedging their bets that things return to the old status-quo when really they should be severing all ties and leaving the U.S. to collapse in on itself.

You say that, but I’m ready for all this to be over and behind us.

Right, so DeepSeek proved that you can make slop more efficiently and at a lower cost than what the American companies are doing, which obviously is a threat to the massive amounts of money that they’re pretending to throw around. If you can make it more efficient you won’t need billions for data centres, or trillions for GPUs.

So I can see how this is a problem for Big Slop.

Die mad about it.

I want Donald Trump’s neck in a guillotine. It’s psychologically important to me.

Again, be the difference. I harass companies over mail because I don’t want to fucking use Discord to get project or order status updates.

“Thanks for the update. You know, it’d be really prudent to post this kind of thing on your website, or even send out updates via newsletter.”

How much meat does one need to eat? I’ve eaten one bite of a flesh hotdog in my entire lifetime, as well as a handful of things that have been cross-contaminated. I’ve made it to my 30s, so clearly the required meat dosage is very low.

This just pointedly isn’t true. There are good alternatives, there’s just not a single drop-in replacement for the role that Discord fills.

For the most obvious drop-in replacement, you have Stoat, previously called Revolt. It’s basically Discord but self-hosted. For text and voice chat you have things like Matrix or Signal, both having the added bonus of being end-to-end encrypted so your shit is private. There’s also the old-school options like Mumble and IRC.

For forums there’s Discourse, or if you want to go traditional phpbb is still around.

The big problem is that not all your friends are gathered on a single platform. This was always the case before Discord, and will be the case again after Discord. Be the change. Encourage people to switch away, and move your communities. Prune those that you don’t need any more.

This is on .world, so I want to preface this by saying; I don’t promote violence, and this isn’t a call to action for anything violent. I’m merely dropping a note about historical events.

Women didn’t get their rights to vote by peacefully protesting to their husbands, fathers, or parliament. Of course, they did all this. They engaged politically to the extent they could. They wrote letters and protested. They were mocked and ridiculed for their simple requests that their voices should be heard too.

More than that though, some people decided that they needed to be so loud that their voices couldn’t be left unheard. Historically, rights have been taken away from people with ease. People clawing rights back from their oppressors is rarely as easy, nor as peaceful.

People have died and gone missing. Peaceful days are already over, and anyone who believes otherwise is lying to themselves.

Tjosan! :) Vi har ju haft det som kärnämne sedan 50-talet. Min mor är i 70-års åldern och är yngre än engelska som kärnämne. Så om vi inte var bra på engelska måste ju något ha gått fel någonstans.

They’re doing this again, pushing to be a kind of market place and data gathering tool for games.

Yes, finally! I’m ready for this shitty platform to fucking die already.

Hardly a surprise.

Honestly it’s not Trump. It’s the U.S. If Trump wasn’t president the U.S. would be up to the same bullshit just more quietly.

I speak Japanese, and can still read German and understand most of it. German’s the secondary language I studied.

I’m a native Swedish speaker so technically English is my second language, and the others came after.

Being a parent has often had this virtuous narrative attached to it, and I think a lot of society is clinging to that. It’s undisputable that bringing a child into existence cannot be done consensually, and equally so you cannot do that and guarantee that they won’t suffer. To exist is to suffer, the two are intrinsically linked.

However, people don’t like to have their world views upturned, so it’s easier to dismiss, diminish, or ridicule an argument that you don’t have a proper response to, than it is to absorb it and consider that perhaps it carries some merit.

Why? There’s plenty of strange things in English, inconsistent grammar rules, weird pronunciations, and pointless words for simple ideas.

Like there’s umpteen words to describe different kinds of meat, pork, beef, veal, mutton. In Chinese you can get away with saying just the animal + meat, 猪肉, 牛肉, 小牛肉, 羊肉 (pig meat, cow meat, young cow meat, goat meat).

English has stupid rules around pluralisation. There’s been arguments that the origin of the word should dictate how it’s pluralised, and other arguments that a “true English” pluralisation rule should apply, but then incorrect usage slips into common vernacular and suddenly it’s perfectly okay to pluralise a Greek word with a Latin plural suffix. Then you end up with the plural of octopus being octopodes, octopuses, and octopi!

The long and the short of it is that all languages have weird-ass quirks in them that don’t necessarily make any sense but feel natural to their native speakers. It’s a prime example of how intuitiveness isn’t actually real a thing.