#Tag
Het is ellenlang, maar de moeite waard om er de tijd voor te nemen.
Als je één tekst over de AI-zwendel leest, laat het dan deze zijn: https://www.wheresyoured.at/the-case-against-generative-ai/
Het is ellenlang, maar de moeite waard om er de tijd voor te nemen.
Als je één tekst over de AI-zwendel leest, laat het dan deze zijn: https://www.wheresyoured.at/the-case-against-generative-ai/
Yeah, I knew some lovely people who worked at Twitter too. And did you know they once had unfettered API access and anyone could create their own client? Some of us loved that so much we built things that helped legitimise them as an open platform. And then one day they just switched that off.
Legitimacy is gold to venture-capital-funded startups. They need people with it to convince everyday folks that this latest iteration of the same old rug pull is different. Until they’ve grown so much that they don’t need it anymore, that is. I guess we haven’t learned that much after all.
You want to understand Bluesky? Imagine if Google had invented email and scaled Gmail before allowing others to set up their own email servers, knowing that maybe a handful would and that they were large enough to make the rules ad infinitum. That’s Bluesky.
Don’t fall for the latest venture-capital funded Silicon Valley social network no matter who tells you it’s fine and no matter how many words they use to do so. Especially when we’ve had a noncommercial and noncorporate alternative for close to a decade now in the form of the fediverse.
I know it’s a low bar but can we please at least get it through our thick heads that venture capital funded Silicon Valley Big Tech does not deserve the benefit of the doubt.
Yeah, I knew some lovely people who worked at Twitter too. And did you know they once had unfettered API access and anyone could create their own client? Some of us loved that so much we built things that helped legitimise them as an open platform. And then one day they just switched that off.
Legitimacy is gold to venture-capital-funded startups. They need people with it to convince everyday folks that this latest iteration of the same old rug pull is different. Until they’ve grown so much that they don’t need it anymore, that is. I guess we haven’t learned that much after all.
You want to understand Bluesky? Imagine if Google had invented email and scaled Gmail before allowing others to set up their own email servers, knowing that maybe a handful would and that they were large enough to make the rules ad infinitum. That’s Bluesky.
Don’t fall for the latest venture-capital funded Silicon Valley social network no matter who tells you it’s fine and no matter how many words they use to do so. Especially when we’ve had a noncommercial and noncorporate alternative for close to a decade now in the form of the fediverse.
I know it’s a low bar but can we please at least get it through our thick heads that venture capital funded Silicon Valley Big Tech does not deserve the benefit of the doubt.
This is why I don't make "community contributions" to "open platforms" which don't have some very solid legal framework for governance in place.
They sell out to VC and rug pull hard on the community that provides the bulk of their data and value.
“Move fast and break things.”
The things:
- Human rights
- Our habitat
- Democracy
#BigTech#SiliconValley#ventureCapitalhttps://mastodon.social/@freakonometrics/114860155869573459
This is why I don't make "community contributions" to "open platforms" which don't have some very solid legal framework for governance in place.
They sell out to VC and rug pull hard on the community that provides the bulk of their data and value.
No one deserves this fate, even if they are the author of their own degradation
More, it's a cautionary tale for us all about the future of #society and #AI and its caustic effects on #mentalHealth
Even if this particular canary in the coal mine chose to place themselves into their predicament with enthusiasm, and is funding it
"A Prominent #OpenAI Investor Appears to Be Suffering a #ChatGPT-Related Mental Health Crisis, His Peers Say"
No one deserves this fate, even if they are the author of their own degradation
More, it's a cautionary tale for us all about the future of #society and #AI and its caustic effects on #mentalHealth
Even if this particular canary in the coal mine chose to place themselves into their predicament with enthusiasm, and is funding it
"A Prominent #OpenAI Investor Appears to Be Suffering a #ChatGPT-Related Mental Health Crisis, His Peers Say"
In this week's net.wars, "Cautionary tales", I consider becoming a child for the purposes of age verification, and Substack becomes a unicorn. Dare we predict enshittification? https://netwars.pelicancrossing.net/2025/07/18/cautionary-tales/#NetWars #OnlineSafetyAct#AgeVerification#Substack#VentureCapital#JHumanRights
In this week's net.wars, "Cautionary tales", I consider becoming a child for the purposes of age verification, and Substack becomes a unicorn. Dare we predict enshittification? https://netwars.pelicancrossing.net/2025/07/18/cautionary-tales/#NetWars #OnlineSafetyAct#AgeVerification#Substack#VentureCapital#JHumanRights
A little reminder that DuckDuckGo is venture capital (VC) funded.
The way VC works:
1. You get VC
2. You grow as fast as you can (or fail fast)
3. You sell (either to a larger corporation or to the public in an IPO; this is called the “exit”)
(In case any of you are surprised by recent/future developments.)
This is the Silicon Valley “startup” model. Startups are not long-term sustainable businesses or small businesses. A startup is a temporary business designed to either grow exponentially and exit (sell) or to fail fast.
A space for Bonfire maintainers and contributors to communicate
