So Republicans call “AI moratorium” something that is actually the opposite of a moratorium: a ban of regulation on “AI”.

Not that it is surprising they employ double-speak, but just to set things straight.

Licensing terms only govern the legal aspects, not social and moral aspects.

And not to forget: FUTO is evil.

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Keep organizing and slowly things will get better

Not to say such knowledge gaps can’t limit her effectiveness, but from what (little) I’ve read and heard of her, she seems to be fundamentally a community organizer and as mayor will probably work accordingly: She may or may not successfully make up for such gaps by knowing whom to trust both integrity- and competence-wise.

Not to forget: FUTO is evil.

Sehr sehr guter Hinweis!

Here’s why you’re getting enshittified: we deliberately decided to stop enforcing competition laws. As a result, companies formed monopolies and cartels. This means that they don’t have to worry about losing your business or labor to a competitor, because they don’t compete. It also means that they can handily capture their regulators, because they can easily agree on a set of policy priorities and use the billions they’ve amassed by not competing to capture their regulators. They can hold a whip hand over their formerly powerful tech workers, mass-firing them and terrorizing them out of any Tron-inspired conceits about “fighting for the user.” Finally, they can use IP law to shut down anyone who makes technology that disenshittifies their offerings.

You can take care to avoid enshittification, you can even make a fetish out of it, but without addressing these systemic failings, your individual actions will only get you so far. Sure, use privacy-enhancing tools like Signal to communicate with other people, but if the only way to get your kid to their little league game is to join the carpool group on Facebook, you’re going to hemorrhage data about everything you do to Meta.

https://pluralistic.net/2025/07/31/unsatisfying-answers/#systemic-problems

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Poincaré? (I know, his insight somehow still came short of Einstein’s, but it’s interesting how close he came.)

Uphill battle with disheartening episodes, but let’s bear in mind this part from Louis Rossmann’s Keynote Speech on Right to Repair, starting at about 10:20

I appreciate that. It’s important to note though that there’s much more wrong with their headline and subtitle than just the word “spam”. They’re trying hard to make it look as if it was really just some single peasant, who didn’t stay in his lane, abusing the powers accorded to him through modern technology, and the policymakers were so foolish as to fall for it:

One-man spam campaign ravages EU ‘chat control’ bill

A software developer from Denmark is having an outsized influence on a hotly debated law to break open encrypted apps.

They seem to think the only person allowed to have an outsized influence is Friede Springer, their owner.

It’s that need to eat that drives people who have the opportunity into being grifter-celebs because they often don’t see a way to keep doing what they’re doing without finding something that pays the bills.

What is it that they’re doing then, though?

Chris Hedges? A leftist with conservative-like aesthetics, a Presbyterian minister who was brought up among the rich.

Things that have helped me with this are (a) having all sources of evening light be dimmable, preferably automatically, (b) having learnt that a certain feeling of sleepiness actually means that I’m actually entering the “too late zone”, © having a whiteboard where I note down the time I go to sleep and the time I get up.

Ja wo denn sonst? Twitter ist heutzutage schließlich auch nur noch ein woker Safe-Space.

Relevant Doctorow post: The enshittification of tech jobs (27 Apr 2025)

Relevant Doctorow post: The enshittification of tech jobs (27 Apr 2025)

En Norvège, ce principe (pour le revenue et l’impôt) est déja établi depuis longtemps : In Norway, you can see everyone’s tax returns