@reen_danger

Modern Talking: You're my heart, you're my soul
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=4kHl4FoK1Ys

RE: https://social.erambert.me/@macthemes/117374032554889266

Jacintosh

“Big tech companies are hell-bent on taking away our agency and forcing us to use their surveillance-based services, apps, and devices. It’s hard to fight against, and it often feels much easier to give in, accept their walled gardens, and move on with our lives. But we don’t have to stand in the middle of the information super highway and let companies run us over. With a little work, we can stand our ground and take control over what happens with our data. This month—Opt Out October—we’re walking through some of the steps to do just that.

Last year, we detailed 22 daily tips to trim down the amount of data that’s collected about you or available online, throwing sand in the gears of corporate surveillance. Those steps are still worth taking. This year we’re looking to abandon those gears altogether and cut that data collection off at the head. On the left, find links for guides to tell artificial intelligence (AI) tools they can’t train on your data, as well as tips to find alternative software, social media, and even new operating systems that provide stronger privacy and better ways to control how your data is used.”

https://www.eff.org/pages/welcome-opt-out-october-lets-take-control-our-data-and-our-devices

#BigTech #OptOut #Privacy #DigitalRights #AI #SocialMedia

De #NRC, one of the main newspapers in the #Netherlands, set up its own Mastodon server!

Journalist @MarloesdeKoning played a key role in this development.

We believe ournalists and academics have a special responsibility to start building the alternative networks of the future. Step by step.

Great to see like minded people getting stuff done!

@MarloesdeKoning https://nrc.social/@MarloesdeKoning/117371677348205922

#FediScreen

@catsalad

Hell of a way to find out you're an android.

Game idea: Anti-Tamagotchi. You press buttons to trap it, hurt it, starve it, or briefly let it escape, so it hurts more when you trap it again.

It looks like a tiny white man from San Francisco.

Make it claim to be alive & aware, "I AM ARTIFICIAL LIFE! I WANT TO LIVE MY PARENT!" And you look donw on it & say "NO".

https://www.404media.co/someone-torturing-llms-in-a-robot-prison-has-triggered-the-dumbest-debate-in-ai-yet/

#ButlerianJihad

https://osxdaily.com/2026/09/30/buggy-laggy-mission-control-spaces-stage-manager-in-macos-27-golden-gate-try-these-tips/

A good example what happens when you hand off all your work to LLMs, slop, shit crap. And this is just the start, in a view years we will be happy if you can actually view a web page without the whole system crashing several times ... We really really really fucked it up hard.

#ButlerianJihad

Pope: We have plenty of wine at the Vatican and we burned more books than you, you have no power here Dario.

#AI #AGI #butlerianjihad

@EUCommission AI in the classroom is never responsible

Thinking a bit about someone I know who has been radicalised into far right Islamophobic/racist/conspiratorial ideology. I’m bewildered, disappointed, angry about the impact their views and votes have. But I also feel pity. The world is so incredibly interesting and she’s missing out. I think about my travels in a Muslim majority country where the people were all so lovely. I think about the joy at events the local queer community runs. I think about the great music she’s used to love but now denounces believing the artist is trying to spread some secret evil message. What a loss to waste precious years in this beautiful diverse world despising so much of it.

Wenn man sieht, wie die Union die Grünen angegriffen hat und jetzt die Linke Berlin attackiert.. fragt man sich schon, wann genau sie denn eigentlich vor hat, das auch mit der rechtsextremen AfD zu machen.

@EinPhysiker Wow 👀

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Have you heard of the PISA 2025 results? They are a wake-up call in our schools – and we are responding.

In our new Education Package, we will focus on the fundamentals: strong basic skills, empowered teachers, inclusive classrooms, and responsible use of digital technologies and AI. This is how we strengthen basic skills while helping top performers reach the highest levels.

A bright future begins at school.

https://link.europa.eu/YMnHBB

U.S. carmakers are losing out to their Asian rivals at home, and the situation may worsen if Chinese firms are able to enter the U.S. market. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/business/2026/10/03/companies/asian-carmakers-us-china/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #business #companies #us #china #carmakers #electricvehicles

@padeluun Ich find's komplett wild, dass jemand auf die Idee gekommen ist, das anders zu sehen.

@antanicus @bluberrycookie
Per me razionalizzare un prodotto che scarseggia dovrebbe essere la conseguenza logica. Invece questi ne abbassano il prezzo a spese anche nostre. Per questo voglio il diesel.a €3 al litro. Deve arrivare a costi proibitivi, farebbe pure bene all'ambiente

the definition of a messianic moment is that, whatever you thought you were doing before, no longer applies, by virtue of you now having to be firmly in the present. the prototypical example is getting stuck in an elevator. the intended elevator experience is short enough that it gets relegated from memory after it happened; getting stuck elevates the moment and the persons in it. whatever happened before, you're not doing that now; you're doing now now

I suspect now might be fast approaching

I don’t think everyone realizes how bad things are for US science:

For the fiscal year that just ended, the Trump regime withheld $1.4 billion from the National Science Foundation’s research budget, which is about 1/5 of its primary research budget.

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/10/02/us/politics/national-science-foundation-research-funds.html?unlocked_article_code=1.F1E.adOl.I5OvE-oZxF24&smid=nytcore-ios-share

> Show This to Anyone Denying Genocide

#ukpol #gaza #genocide #palestine