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With the US acting more and more like a rogue state, it's time to impose your own personal sanctions.

Bite the bullet. Stop using Microsoft, Apple, Amazon, Google, Meta and ChatGPT - where you can. Hit them where it hurts and burst that AI bubble.

Most of the barriers come down to inconvenience.

#LeaveBigTech #Boycott #BoycottAmerica #US #BigTech #Microsoft #Apple #Google #Meta #ChatGPT #AIBubble

@aslakr @SJB @majaskratkje
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"By now we have become so accustomed to reports of exploitation of gig workers that it is almost quaint to think back to the mid-2000s when Big Tech marketed the gig economy as unshackling workers from the scrutiny of micromanaging bosses while bringing entrepreneurship to the masses."

Indeed.

He also discusses our report, by former Amazon delivery driver Adrienne Williams, @alex & Sandra L. Barcenas Fuerte, on Amazon's wage theft through surveillance..

https://www.dair-institute.org/projects/driven-down/

RE: https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic/115854516419858457

Cory articulates the promise of AI for education: like the calculator made parts of math education obsolete, chatbots make obvious the lifelessness of the five paragraph essay.

The assignment for the future of ed is to create scalable systems that inspire the creation of meaning. The foundation of writing is thinking. By exposing the relative simplicity of fluency, we can push humanity to focus on the value beneath it.

Properly deployed AI helps us be more human. 1/

Y'a t'il des utilisateur-ice-s de #Meshtastic sur #Nantes qui ont également un nœud ?

Bezos entscheidet, welches Buch du dir diesen Monat holst, Zuckerberg, wie viele Maximilian-Krah-Reels du vor dem nächsten Katzenvideo siehst und Pichai liest in deinem Gmail-Account mit?

Big Tech hat längst eine Monopolstellung aufgebaut, nicht nur auf dem Markt, sondern auch in unserem Privatleben. Gemeinsam mit Mitinitiator @marcuwekling, der Initiative #savesocial, @hyperjinx und vielen Weiteren rufen wir deshalb zum Digital Independence Day (DI.DAY) auf. Mach mit!

Das Prinzip ist einfach: Jeden ersten Sonntag im Monat schnappst du dir eine Viertelstunde und den Big-Tech-Dienst deiner Wahl und wechselst zu einer demokratiefreundlichen Alternative.

Die Wechselrezepte und gemeinsamen DI.DAY-Veranstaltungen findest du auf https://di.day.

Und Teilen macht Freude: Feiere deine neu erlangte Souveränität mit uns über die Hashtags #diday #did #dut #DIDit und #DUTgemacht!

Unseren Blogpost zum DI.DAY findest du hier:
https://digitalcourage.de/blog/2026/digitalcourage-ruft-zum-di-day-auf

“But software design is just vibes!”

No, it’s absolutely not. It’s an extremely well researched topic with an abundance of studies, literature and scientific articles over the last 75 years.

Here’s some books to get you started. They’re over 30 years old.

@damtux @macfranc anche io penso che mille euro al mese siano una spesa infinita e per cosa, per i social? Certo bisogna esserci sui social, visto che la massa sta lì. Però come ho sempre detto quando vado a parlare in giro di ActivityPub e compagnia, il fediverso non costa niente o meglio non obbliga a pagare, si può dare quello che ci possiamo permettere. Questi altri invece decidono cosa far vedere al tuo pubblico, e ti fanno pagare comunque. Perciò io il fediverso lo affiancherei alle realtà commerciali e a seconda dell'engagement poi si può incentivare quello e disincentivare le altre. E qui viene il discorso WordPress perché potrebbe aiutare nel cross-posting, ma si scontra con quello che dicevo a @macfranc "WordPress si frega tutto":
anni fa potevi agganciare il tuo rss direttamente ai social commerciali e loro postavano.
Ti facevi magari una piccola app, settavi qualcosa e lui andava.
Per cui i moduli -plugin- WordPress per fare auto-post ovunque, si sprecavano.
Ora c'è poco niente: o sei su wordpress.com (hosting gestito) e marchi "publicize" poi paghi un tot al mese per l'auto-share ovunque, o prendi quelli tipo PubliPress autopost o come si chiama, non ricordo, ma sempre a pagamento.
Perché se hai insta, linkedin, facebook, X, Bluesky, Mastodon, e pubblichi un contenuto al giorno, se ti tieni jetpack versione free ti sei già mangiato 6 slot (il free ne ha 30 al mese) per un messaggio solo.
La colpa qua mica è tutta di Matt Mullenweg, attenzione; è dei social commerciali che hanno ristretto l'interfaccia di programmazione.
Stesso vale per altri autopost tipo zapier, IFTTT e simili. Ci sarebbe un lungo discorso da fare sull'ipocrisia delle difficoltà e restrizioni che mettono, facendotele accettare come "sicurezza" quando poi scopri che hanno il 10% del fatturato dalle truffe. Ma non è questa la sede. Mi arrabbierei, e non ti aiuterei.

Wow, 100x favorisiert und 40x geteilt. Da sag noch einer das #Fediverse wäre inaktiv... Auf die richtigen Inhalt kommt es an. Danke euch!

#loops #39c3 @fau_chaos@loops.video

RE: https://loops.video/v/cZxRKMtnBm

This @pluralistic essay really resonated with me. I've never been a disciplined writer in the sense of self-motivated productivity, but from an early age I discovered joy in writing as a way not just to express the ideas in my head, but to externalize them, massage them, make them better. It doesn't matter if I'm writing a 20 page paper or setting up a pun to post on social media, the act of getting the right words in the right order to express the right things brings me pleasure. In fact I'm pleasuring myself at this very moment. ;)

I look back at the few years I was paid to research and write as my favorite job. Even though celebrity bios and gossip weren't topics I'd have chosen, I got to go to work every day and write and how fun is that?

So yeah, it makes perfect sense that students are using AI to write for them when the only things they've been reward for writing might as well be AI-generated. Instead of asking kids to use words to share their inner worlds our education system asks them the produce TPS reports.

My career and education have seen me do both types of writing, and I can find joy in each but only because I learned when I was young that the writing itself can be rewarding even when I don't care about the topic.

https://pluralistic.net/2026/01/07/delicious-pizza/#hold-the-gravel

@pluralistic I really liked a set of university of Chicago writing videos, e.g. one below that clarified for me that I'm 'writing to think' (which no one wants to read) or I am writing for an audience, which allows me to reduce scope to simplify the work to that specific audience's need, so that wiring is not overwhelming for me and also keeps my message in control and not wandering. https://youtu.be/aFwVf5a3pZM?si=8i72Vlg4YzuDtzq3

A bit different from my typical commissions, but such a fun pop of colors!

#artwork #commission #drawing #alcoholmarkers #gellyroll #balloon #MastoArt #FediArt

@MrAptronym @pluralistic They've already bought up most of the private practices in our rural Arizona location. This has been going on for years now. There's only one full-service clinic in the area left, that's still privately owned. Corporate buy-out, followed by enshitification.

@justin @pluralistic I used to maintain the website for their fish care division, which was a pretty well-known brand in the States (that happened to be extremely local to me) which they gobbles up. Big-fish style, I suppose?

@pteryx @pluralistic

Arguably that's the fault of the teacher and/or the teaching method.

The best writing teacher I ever had never used the word 'participle'. He started out by saying, "This isn't an English class."

Instead we were taught to compare our own writing to good examples and to work on flow using various techniques for the best use of punctuation. He had us participate in critique sessions where we fixed our own writing and read aloud.

It was a *business writing* class.

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Code is a liability, not an infinitely reproducible machine that requires no labor inputs to operate. It is a brittle machine that eventually "wears out" and needs a top-to-bottom refactoring to keep being in good working order.

It's code's capabilities that are assets.

«"Writing code" is about making code that runs well. "Software engineering" is about making code that fails well»

And then came #AI.

@pluralistic nails it:
https://pluralistic.net/2026/01/06/1000x-liability/#graceful-failure-modes

#CodeIsLaw #CS #code

I remember when the DMCA was first being proposed and I was trying to tell anyone and everyone that anti-circumvention would be disastrous. I must admit that I had no idea how bad it would be.

I knew that media companies would use it to enforce DRM, but I had no idea that John Deere would use it to brick tractors or that Medtronic would use it to stop hospitals from repairing ventilators.