I had to save the book quote as a blog post: https://daniel.haxx.se/blog/2026/04/30/inspired/
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Michael Foster
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Michael Foster
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We believe culture and media shouldn’t be controlled by any centralized tech platform or venture-backed corporation.
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Perhaps I'm being overly picky about terminology, but I would have said;
... what "free market" economic policy is supposed to deliver us; competitive markets.
Buzzphrases like "the free market" - or more often just 'the market' - are invented labels for a propaganda concept.
There's no monolith we can call "'the market' where all commerce happens, outside of planned economies. In an economically democratic society there are as many markets as there are goods and services to be bought.
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The corporatist policy that spins itself as being about a "free market", is and has always been about protecting friends of the regime from the competition that comes with actual free markets. It's about protecting the power to extract economic rents. The very thing that a free market is meant to free of (according to Adam Smith and his anti-feudalist contemporaries).
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Maïtané 👣
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RE: https://mastodon.projetretro.io/@shalien/116492223988428449
Un contrôleur vous a-t-il déjà demandé la CB utilisée pour le paiement de votre billet de train?
C'est le 2eme message que je vois passer aujourd'hui à ce sujet.
2 choses à savoir:
1. SNCF Voyageurs n'a PAS accès aux informations de paiement des client(e)s. Cette vérification ne sert donc à rien.
2. Cette pratique est probablement illégale
Si ça vous est arrivé récemment, signalez-le en commentaire. Je remonte l'info directement chez SNCF Voyageurs. 1.2.Train est pote avec la SNCF😃
@teanutbetter @12train oui et même aussi sur un billet inouï acheté sur le site SNCF.
Complexe vu que le billet était payé par ma boîte mais au final avec le mail etc ils ont lâcher l'affaire
@hipsterelectron omg what happened i thought he was getting better
@lkundrak terribly sad story he shit himself to death
Unfortunately AI has come to be a catch all term for a wide array of advanced computer processing techniques. Talking about no generative LLM code in a FOSS project, or attesting that an piece of artwork was created by a human, is not the same thing as using machine learning to analyze radiology images. They are all lumped under AI though.
@mastodonmigration all those techniques are means of having computers do things only humans used to be able to do. They're definitely a form of intelligence, intelligence ultimately capable of contributing to the demise of humans if we're not careful. While I welcome medical uses of AI, I have grave concerns about humanity's ability to handle AI and all other forms of technology responsibly. Bigotry & hatred make humans a great danger to ourselves. We can go extinct from our own advances.
Alex Akselrod
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RE: https://mastodon.social/@lemonde/116490992256986800
didn't they do this to Maduro before he was kidnapped? MAGA fascists better not fucking dare invade México.
this madness cannot keep on going for 3 more years.
Mexique : le gouverneur de l’Etat de Sinaloa inculpé pour trafic de drogue par la justice américaine https://www.lemonde.fr/international/article/2026/04/30/mexique-le-gouverneur-de-l-etat-de-sinaloa-inculpe-pour-trafic-de-drogue-par-la-justice-americaine_6684431_3210.html?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon
Djoerd Hiemstra 🍉
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@stefan_hessbrueggen @joshisanonymous @Iris Oh yes, totally! There are applications where ML or even LLMs might provide a specific use case. In a constrained context, it may make sense to provide a machine translation or transcription, as long as we understand the boundaries of what it can or can't accomplish, and why...
But right now, the instrument to make LLMs possible are through an industry that is ecologically harmful, exploitative, and devoid of accountability. For example, creating an interface to LLMs that mimics human behavior (i.e., a chatbot) is irresponsible, at best...
Chip Butty
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Saulo Jacques
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Konrad Hinsen
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Your phone is about to stop being yours.
https://keepandroidopen.org/en/
125 days until lockdown
Starting September 2026, a silent update, nonconsensually pushed by Google, will block every Android app whose developer hasn't registered with Google, signed their contract, paid up, and handed over government ID.
Every app and every device, worldwide, with no opt-out.
Bus 67 is coming.
Alex Akselrod
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Hundreds of Ultra-Orthodox Jews protest Israel’s military draft
https://www.aljazeera.com/video/newsfeed/2026/4/30/hundreds-of-ultra-orthodox-jews-protest-israels-military-draft?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
Posted into Middle East News @middle-east-news-AlJazeera
RE: https://mastodon.projetretro.io/@shalien/116492223988428449
Un contrôleur vous a-t-il déjà demandé la CB utilisée pour le paiement de votre billet de train?
C'est le 2eme message que je vois passer aujourd'hui à ce sujet.
2 choses à savoir:
1. SNCF Voyageurs n'a PAS accès aux informations de paiement des client(e)s. Cette vérification ne sert donc à rien.
2. Cette pratique est probablement illégale
Si ça vous est arrivé récemment, signalez-le en commentaire. Je remonte l'info directement chez SNCF Voyageurs. 1.2.Train est pote avec la SNCF😃
@teanutbetter @12train oui et même aussi sur un billet inouï acheté sur le site SNCF.
Complexe vu que le billet était payé par ma boîte mais au final avec le mail etc ils ont lâcher l'affaire
Citigroup is seeking to seize opportunities from Japan's economic revival and rank among the top three foreign banks across key operations there, even as the fight to obtain talent constrains its growth ambitions. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/business/2026/04/30/companies/citigroup-japan-expansion/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #business #companies #citigroup #banks
Iran War Hastens Rush of Clean Fuel Tankers Turning to Crude Oil
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-04-30/iran-war-hastens-rush-of-clean-fuel-tankers-turning-to-crude-oil?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
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HAPPY DEAD HITLER DAY EVERYONE
@hipsterelectron omg what happened i thought he was getting better
