JWcph, Radicalized By Decency

End capitalism 👊

He/Him, Northbridge Boi #WeAreNorrebro

Who I want to be when I grow up: Dolly Parton. The Doctor. Any of the Mythbusters. A guitar player.

Who I am now: Bad guitar player. Believer in the idea that society is a thing built by the powerless to keep the powerful in check & that #politics & policy failing to reflect this are incomplete at best.

Politically outspoken, overanalyzing #PopCulture, building weird, practical and/or funny sh*t #maker #3Dprinting #nobots

Video stuffs - maker, music & more: https://makertube.net/a/dubya_cph/
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2026-10-11 06:57:18 UTC

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The primary function of digitalisation is exactly that, though: More profit & less user service.
Which is why when a digital option is implemented it would work well & then it goes downhill because of "optimizations", e.g. it was someone's job to make sure the display was synced with the actual position of the bus, but now it isn't.
Also, a lot of it is workforce "optimization", another thing accelerated wildly by digital tools.

2026-09-15 10:35:31 UTC

RE: https://social.data.coop/@cryptohagen/117274256170417756
- og lad os nu ikke glemme: Det kaldes aldersverificering, men reelt er det "Papers, please!" for ALLE, på HELE internettet.
Der findes ikke en måde, hvorpå man med sikkerhed kan verificere alder uden at identificere personen, så enten virker det ikke, eller også kræver det at vi alle har en eller anden form for personfølsom ID ude at svømme hos aktører, som demonstrérbart ikke kan find ud af at passe på den eller forhindre misbrug.
Eller begge dele.
#note1cjq…5sx7

2026-09-03 05:23:52 UTC

RE: https://expressional.social/@DRViden/117205235464815393
"- de nye regler vil medføre ekstra udgifter og tabte indtægter for mellem 1 og 1,3 milliarder kroner for landbruget de første år. Og 615 millioner kroner årligt på længere sigt."
Altså ca. 200K pr. fuldtids-landbrug i gennemsnit det første år, derefter de halve - helt sikkert ikke sjovt for nogle af dem, men småpenge i en sektor som får 30-40mia i landbrugsstøtte alene.
Kort sagt, luk nu røven & løft jeres del af byrden, bondedrenge.
#dkpol
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2026-09-01 14:28:57 UTC

RE: https://saturation.social/@clive/117196207699499615
I find the question weird. Of course I do. The only reason to hear a piece of music, or look at a painting or sculpture, just once is if you hate it - why should you not re-consume other forms of culture?
Whose idea is it that movies, TV & games should be considered single-use?
Answering that would be more useful, as it might provide clues as to why those of us with habits seen as perfectly normal in other contexts are considered nerds & outliers.
#culture
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2026-09-01 07:00:19 UTC

RE: https://mastodon.nu/@sorenhave/117194430342130749
Nogle demonstranter bliver anholdt, andre bliver... ikke 🤔
#note1vws…r2k7

2026-08-30 09:10:31 UTC

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Jeg synes hans vinkel er irrelevant; han begår den typiske fejl & adskiller proces & output. Jeg er ikke akademiker, men jeg garanterer 100% at der er et feedback-loop fra write-up tilbage i udforskning - når man sidder & skriver resultaterne sammen, så opdager man noget nyt / overset. Da vi ikke kan vide hvad dét er, så er prisen for at outsource den del af processen til AI principielt uoverskueligt høj.
AI er ikke et "capable tool", det er en systemfejl.

2026-08-29 14:00:27 UTC

Grafen viser publiceret videnskab i Europa, USA m.m. sammenlignet med Kina - tusind tak, "fra forskning til faktura"-logik...
Det var måske alligevel meget smart, det dér med at betragte forskning som værdifuldt i sig selv & investere i det af dén grund?
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2026-08-22 07:25:28 UTC

"The first conventional chess-playing programs ran on electromechanical proto-computers, and they played a better game of chess than an LLM that uses billions of times more computing power and energy..."
Like I've been saying: Even the things AI can do can almost always* be done as well or better with many orders of magnitude less resources & without enriching fascist billionaires.
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*look at stats of what people use AI for, it's fucking ridiculous
https://pluralistic.net/2026/08/21/world-historic-forces/#multicore
#AI @npub1fdr…lvhs

2026-08-20 15:34:24 UTC

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Don't feel bad - I've lived in Copenhagen for 25 years & I can still place only a handful of streets or so by name, most of them because I lived there 😂

2026-08-19 12:30:49 UTC

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Why would that affect adhesion?

2026-08-15 10:57:37 UTC

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Din oplevelse beskriver en stor del af grunden til at jeg ikke bruger en PW manager - det er den fysiske notesbog, og/eller en majet hæmmelig plaintext-fil, som jeg godt ved ikke anbefales, men i lyset af hvor dårlig sikkerheden er i den anden ende af hver eneste af disse password-adgange, så er jeg faktisk ikke sikker på, at min ende ikke er den sikreste alligevel...

2026-08-15 05:59:17 UTC

RE: https://cyberplace.social/@GossiTheDog/117095890913238829
How in the name of unholy fuck can people admire anyone who has all the money in the world & still does pathetic shit like this with his time...?
When I say that this sad sack is hollow inside, I mean it both in the sense that he has no soul, personality or substance, and that "His dick is so tiny it's a socket" has reached the physical limits of his form.
#musk
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2026-08-14 10:11:22 UTC

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Mit take: Lad den være. Originalen er både enormt samtidstypisk & fortalt færdig (godt & vel endda), så find på noget nyt & hold op med at genopvarme resterne...
Hollywood's "Den var en succes, lad os lave den igen!"-mantra er ved at blive virkelig trættende IMHO.

2026-08-11 05:08:01 UTC

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Hvad sker der med alle de binde-streger...? 😝

2026-08-09 08:25:51 UTC

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Kan ikke forestille mig et bedre take på mit trut 😁😂

2026-08-09 07:34:07 UTC

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Min datter & jeg er begge to heldigvis blevet ret gode til at holde hovedet koldt omkring hvepse & det gav en sjov lille oplevelse forleden, da vi sad & spiste brunch - en sort & gul lille gæst kom på besøg & vi kunne have taget kampen op, men i stedet kiggede vi bare på den, mens den landede på bordet, samlede et lille stykke pandekage op & fløj sin vej. Det havde vi aldrig set før 🐝😁

2026-08-08 16:52:48 UTC

B-day prez from photographer daughter 🥰
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2026-08-07 07:17:15 UTC

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Også: "- en af de ledende forskere bag rapporten, Kaveh Madani, sagde i forbindelse med FN-rapporten, at det ikke handler om at være i mod AI, som han kalder "en transformation, der forbedrer livet for milliarder af mennesker verden over"..."
- og var der så nogen der bad ham dokumentere denne påstand...? 🙄

2026-08-05 11:43:33 UTC

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Det eneste lyspunkt er, at kommerciel rumfart aldrig bliver en god forretning - rummet er simpelthen for fjendtligt et miljø til at det nogensinde vil kunne betale sig at tage derud efter et klassisk profitmotiv. Selv Starlink, den eneste rum-forretning der tjener penge, har ikke udsigt til at kunne opnå den vækst man helt klart tror...

2026-08-05 08:57:20 UTC

RE: https://expressional.social/@DRViden/117041909364911229
Fedt, vores milliardær-overlords har opgraderet kapitalismens evne til at ødelægge & forurene til et niveau, hvor de kan gøre det på himmellegemer hvor vi ikke engang bor...
For menneskehedens skyld håber jeg aldrig, vi møder intelligente aliens, for deres første & eneste impuls bliver jo, af indlysende årsager, at destruere os før vi laver flere ulykker.
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2026-08-04 07:49:22 UTC

RE: https://helvede.net/@jwcph/117036120543101375
Seriously, I find this a deeply, deeply shitty way to use a quote toot - am I being overly sensitive?
#note1q3n…37va

2026-08-04 07:44:36 UTC

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I know - as an abuse survior I was highly motivated to take note of this when it became public knowledge. I can only speak for myself, of course, but my searching revealed nothing that would lead me to frame this man as an abuser or change my view of him. I see no evidence in any information about the accusation, nor in his behavior as a highly public person - while his sister's story is tragic, I simply don't believe the accusation.
Also, fuck you for this quote toot, asshole.

2026-08-04 04:56:19 UTC

Something for the *really* hardcore Trek fans: Original blaster, original Nimoy-worn uniform 🤯🤩
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SUOxUK-LpCE
#Propstore #Tested #AdamSavage #StarTrek

2026-08-03 14:38:47 UTC

I hear it occasionally & every time I do I have to wonder: What, exactly, do adherents of the "Let the child scream until they give up" school of parenting view as the desired outcome?
Do they have one that isn't just straight-up sadistic, á la what one couple once told me, "They have to learn that nobody comes to their aid"? (we weren't friends anymore after that)
I'm not bothered by the noise, I'm bothered by an impulse to intervene on the child's behalf that I can't follow.
#parenting

2026-08-03 12:08:17 UTC

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Jeg tror heller ikke jeg har set dén konstruktion på andre bælter end spejdernes 😝

2026-08-02 06:31:42 UTC

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I think the major difference is that Jobs was obssessed with the quality of his users' experience, while Cook is a classic business school CEO who cares about nothing except Number Go Up...
Have you had a look at Reaper as a Logic alternative?

2026-08-01 19:40:40 UTC

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No to most of those things - ye olde 2012 MBP I keep talking about has Intel hardware & the internet says that both the audio issue & the power problem I mentioned a few weeks ago also affect M1 & M2 generations & Apple apparently never did anything to fix any of those problems 🫤
- but yes, since the early 10's Apple laptops have been getting progressively worse in almost every way. When was it that Jobs died & Cook took over...?

2026-08-01 17:07:14 UTC

Remember how I was pissy about my new old Macbook Pro 2019 having insufficient resources to run its own screensavers without blasting the fans & overloading the power supply?
Well, get this: Turns out MBP's from around this time onwards also don't have enough juice to handle audio playback. Just, you know, ordinary sound like alerts, nothing fancy.
If there's a few too many tabs open in your browser, sound starts glitching. Known core issue, no fix.
#enshittification #apple #tech #ux

2026-07-31 16:50:54 UTC

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Nej - og selv et fysisk betalingskort kan bruges med en fluesmækker, uden strøm eller apps.

2026-07-31 14:47:43 UTC

RE: https://mastodon.social/@Kjaerulv/117014969477234526
"- men så fandt de kortterminalerne frem..."
Ja, ahem, undskyld? De går altså også ned, når alle bruger deres telefoner samtidig, f.eks. fordi de er på festival.
Måske var de bare heldige, eller måske nævner ingen at hver terminal-betaling tog fem minutter mens køerne bare voksede, fordi det trods alt var bedre end ingenting - det passer i hvert fald ikke, at terminalerne er en pålidelig nødløsning, hvis det er dét der antydes.
#note1gew…4ced

2026-07-31 07:11:57 UTC

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Han skulle nok have taget sin Vatermörder af, før han barberede sig... 😂

2026-07-31 06:52:34 UTC

RE: https://scholar.social/@jrhawley/117009347431672491
You can bet your sweet bippy that AI boosters will still be using AlphaFold as one of their go-to examples of how useful we're supposed to believe AI is, though...
"But the tech really *is* useful, this is just a business model problem!" - well, if you believe those are separate things, I don't think I can help you. Wake up & smell the tech bro era.
#AI

2026-07-30 10:02:29 UTC

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Jeg er ret sikker på, at de dér migrations-tjenester fungerer præcis på den måde, som en simpel søgning på titler + vælg det øverste resultat - jeg har oplevet, at der i overførslen er blevet fundet tracks, hvor titlen ligner noget jeg havde på min liste, men alligevel er det et helt andet nummer... nogle gange var det rigtige nummer endda tilgængeligt & jeg kunne finde det med en manuel søgning 🤔

2026-07-30 09:03:44 UTC

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Sidebar, hvor ville jeg dog gerne have, at der fandtes "cross-platform-spillelister"... det driver mig til vanvid, at folks spillelister & anbefalinger er låst inde i services, som man måske eller måske ikke selv bruger 🙄 der findes services til at overføre biblioteker, men det er lidt noget andet; når man nu kan dele spillelister som en offentlig URL, så ville det være rart med en service, der finder de samme sange (hvis de findes) på den musikplatform, man nu bruger...

2026-07-30 08:58:28 UTC

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Synes gonnåk også jeg havde mere lyttetid, dengang jeg var ung... selvom jeg er alene & ikke har små børn eller noget, så er dét at sætte musik på for at lytte bare ikke sin egen, distinkte, prioriterede aktivitet længere, helt uanset alle gode intentioner - hvad sker der for det!?

2026-07-24 06:05:16 UTC

RE: https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic/116968826554216628
"When it comes to making a new, good internet, there's plenty of room for labor law, civil rights legislation, antitrust, and other legal regimes. But privacy has the biggest constituency, gets us the most bang for the buck, and has the fewest harmful side-effects. It's a policy we can all agree on, even if we don't agree on much else. It's a coalition in potentia that would be unstoppable in reality." - @npub1fdr…lvhs
#privacy #surveillance #SurveillanceCapitalism #tech #BigTech
#note16qf…m5rp

2026-06-15 14:22:58 UTC

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Well, I've found that people who chime in with this kind of response are fucking idiots, so I guess we have different experiences.

2026-04-22 08:41:51 UTC

OK, I have this fairly large 3D print running on our Prusa XL & suddenly it keeps stopping with a "filament stuck" error - I can't see anything physically wrong & it resumes fine when I do the reload thing (although at least once it immediately stopped again), any ideas as to how I may resolve this without having to either start the entire print over, or clear the error 1000 more times...?
Tips much appreciated 🙏😊
#3Dprinting @npub1d4n…dptf #prusa

2026-04-18 20:47:03 UTC

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I was told off once for calling right-wing extremists pigs, along the lines of "Do you think callling people pigs will change their minds?" - I had to explain (with some exasperation, I might add) that if someone earns the "pig" label they're beyond changing & I'm not addressing them at all; I'm letting everyone else know that if the thought "Those people are pigs" occurs to them, they're neither wrong nor alone.
Also, this Patton Oswalt bit: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AkKo1_RP_0c

2026-04-16 20:12:24 UTC

RE: https://social.data.coop/@jpkolsen/116414302822142467
"If you think we need to build "international digital public goods" to head off the future risk of a colonizing, remorseless, malevolent artificial lifeform, then let us agree that the prototype for that project is the "international digital public goods" we need right now to usher in the post-American internet and save ourselves from the colonizing, remorseless, malevolent artificial lifeforms that have already got their blood-funnels jammed down our throats..." - @npub1fdr…lvhs
#note1l6p…m09y

2026-04-11 14:07:00 UTC

This is seriously awesome 🤯🤩 I made a Feathers McGraw 3D model & shared it on Makerworld & another user - a by all accounts lovely dude named Mike - made a huge version of it & then brought it with him to a meet & greet with Merlin Crosshingham from Aardman & got it signed!! 🥰
#movies #Aardman #3Dprinting #modeling #maker
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2026-04-09 05:01:38 UTC

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2026-04-08 09:22:35 UTC

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The single most important thing men have to do is become uncomfortable for other men to be around. I'm perfectly serious - you have to be the guy the other guys don't want to risk pissing off with their gender views. It's going to suck; you'll fall out with some friends & others will keep trying to get misogynist "jokes" past you without pushback & you'll probably be the only one for a long time - but some guys will get it & this is the only way you'll know who they are.

2026-04-02 21:10:05 UTC

RE: https://sfba.social/@ildiavolorosso/116336883208272310
Also, on top of the extreme, profound stupidity & infeasibility of this, it will only apply inside US borders, meaning the US will immediately become a 3D printing desert.
Most of the world's most popular 3D printers are made in China or Europe & there will be absolutely no incentive to bear the cost & liability of conforming to laws this ridiculously moronic, even if the super-corrupt US justice system somehow manages to become un-fucked within foreseeable future.
#3Dprinting @npub1d4n…dptf
#note1v5s…tmcg

2026-03-30 10:33:47 UTC

RE: https://mstdn.social/@junesim63/116312617557803825
"Awarding people a lower rate just because they may hypothetically recover later turns the constant struggle with unpredictable conditions into an additional cruel penalty"...
You don't need help less today, just because you might heal tomorrow. There is no logic to this, no justification, no reasonable idea. It really is nothing but abject cruelty - the deliberate devaluation of human beings deemed unworthy of basic respect & care.
#ukpol
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2026-03-25 19:09:38 UTC

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Oops, you did a stupid - that should read "despite losing child abuse lawsuits Meta faces no consequences, as the fines represent a miniscule fraction of the company's massive profits from the self-same activities & no member of management or ownership is held responsible"...

2026-03-23 12:11:03 UTC

RE: https://xoxo.zone/@ilovecomputers/116275772384259836
No, seriously - I can't possibly overstate the value in my life that has come from the internet or how it has enriched me.
Like Ed Zitron & @npub1fdr…lvhs have both written about at various times, I'm not mad at technology - I'm fucking furious at the fuckfaces who deliberately ruined it, just so they could squat their ignoble asses upon a mountain of riches like the shittiest, saddest little saggy dragons imaginable.
#tech #business #enshittification #TechnoFeudalism
#note1g54…3dfa

2026-03-22 07:46:14 UTC

RE: https://mastodon.ar.al/@aral/116271471337770496
As people have been saying, Americans, you need to get over that "This is not who we are" bullshit right fucking now - because this is so much who you are; you were so ready for it, that the world's stupidest person could dictator you 5-10 times faster than any other despot & while not missing a single golf break.
Don't like it? Do something about it.
#uspol #fascism
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2026-03-15 20:02:00 UTC

RE: https://infosec.exchange/@catsalad/116234781809482198
Oh, 3D printing, definitely. It's like "Welcome to the rabbithole". 😂
#maker #3dprinting @npub1d4n…dptf
#note15ly…dxey

2026-03-09 17:43:53 UTC

RE: https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic/116200392773231841
"Billionaires are a danger to themselves and (especially) to the rest of us. They are wronger than the median person, and the consequences of their wrongness are exponentially worse than the consequences of the median person's mistake." - @npub1fdr…lvhs
#note1uym…r243

2026-03-09 09:34:47 UTC

Speaking of leaving Microsoft: Yes, we have an entire team of professional IT supporters at work, trained for MS products - so that's great, right? The system works! Take that, open software!
- except about half the times I'm up there, they can't help me & I just have to live with whatever problem I have, which at present is about a dozen mission-critical flaws I have to navigate solo.
But do tell me more about how MS is the stable, reliable professional choice...
#ux #tech #Microsoft

2026-03-04 17:54:01 UTC

RE: https://wandering.shop/@Catvalente/116161396574387167
"It’s wrong. Everyone knows it’s wrong, even the people doing it. But they’re going to keep doing it, not because there is a goal to be achieved, but because they want to, and they like it, and, at a very distant third, they might think it will give them more power and allow them to keep what they have..." - @npub1ez8…l0zl
#note1kru…0wnc

2026-03-04 12:22:16 UTC

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It's called enshittification...

2026-03-03 13:48:44 UTC

RE: https://tldr.nettime.org/@tante/116164957710188853
I spent the day giving feedback to a class of business development students & while there were a few apps & a single mention of AI,most of their projects were specifically human-to-human.
The kids know, even the ones who are not explicitly aware of it.
#note1xsj…ekwd

2026-02-27 05:54:52 UTC

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Of course some of us already knew this, which is why I made the Dolly mug - for myself, obvi, but you can have one, too, if you want: https://www.etsy.com/dk-en/listing/1891486206/dolly-enamel-mug
#BeLikeDolly
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2026-02-27 05:51:16 UTC

Science has spoken: Dolly is the best 💛💛💛
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RpAXDIOti8g
#DollyParton #literacy #reading #books

2026-02-26 17:52:57 UTC

RE: https://freeradical.zone/@missiggeek/116138046356392704
What is, in fact, nefarious about this is how these tools are being marketed by AI companies & deployed by management. What @npub1jn5…8vqg is talking about here is the human in the loop being used as an "accountability sink" & "moral crumble zone", per @npub1fdr…lvhs.
In simple terms, nobody with the power to fix the issue of bias has the slightest interest in doing so, because accuracy or fairness isn't on the list of reasons for deployment.
#AI #tech #business
#note1sdm…wk2e

2026-02-26 14:04:16 UTC

RE: https://mastodon.social/@rashunda/116137132428676193
"The fear of harsh retaliation for any country that dares to be a Disenshittification Nation is based on the premise that Trump is motivated by a commitment to fairness. He's not: Trump is motivated by a desire to dominate. Anything that threatens the dominance of the companies that take his orders is fair game, and he will retaliate in any way he can." - @npub1fdr…lvhs
#enshittification #AdversarialInteroperability #tech #business #DMCA
#note1ryr…px50

2026-02-26 12:58:49 UTC

RE: https://mastodon.social/@jeffjarvis/116136859474399798
Pretty sure every asshole ousted from an influential position for Epstein reasons is already packing his bag to go to the US, where being in the files is apparently considered a qualification...
#epstein
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2026-02-25 09:22:13 UTC

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RE: https://helvede.net/@jwcph/116122024069598014
@npub1hr7…jxyc - as I was saying just the other day...
#note1akh…c378

2026-02-23 21:17:50 UTC

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Also, don't use it for "summarize" because it literally can't do that.
https://ea.rna.nl/2024/05/27/when-chatgpt-summarises-it-actually-does-nothing-of-the-kind/

2026-02-23 05:59:11 UTC

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I use thegood.cloud & after a little over a year I'm pretty happy with that choice 👍 I started with a free account & just recently upgraded, which is how I have space for all those videos 😁

2026-02-22 21:43:07 UTC

Welp, I just uploaded about a shy dozen video clips totalling about 10 gigs to my NextCloud in one go - something our ostensibly professional-grade Microsoft OneDrive at work is utterly incapable of; it can handle two, maybe three videos at a time, if they're really short.
- but please tell me again what great products Microsoft charges those explosively increasing license fees for...
#tech #BigTech #Microsoft #NextCloud @npub1rk6…hv4q

2026-02-22 21:10:08 UTC

Semi-regularly re-posting this...
https://cdn.masto.host/helvedenet/media_attachments/files/116/116/331/298/460/780/original/8a8a1b74306c068f.jpg

2026-02-22 08:34:13 UTC

RE: https://mstdn.ca/@drikanis/116107120926277506
I'd like to comment on the common "AI is just a tool" thing: I'm a woodworker by training & that means a lot of machines - but almost every craftsperson knows how to do their job with hand tools, or "lesser" machines.
Similarly, a writer can write without a text editor - just as well, only slower.
If loss of a tool = loss of your skill & knowledge, then that tool isn't an asset, it's a liability. You're signing over your ability to do business to whoever sells & maintains that tool.
#AI
#note1ecd…hvvh

2026-02-17 13:00:44 UTC

RE: https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic/116085742947462240
The idea of only paying an employee when they're "creating value", i.e. serving a customer, is nonsense & we need to take it out behind the tool shed & put it down. The employee creates value all day long, by keeping the doors open - if they don't there's no customers, because there's no place for them to go.
The employee pays for this with their time, which they can't use for anything else or get back.
Only a complete asshole thinks they don't deserve to be compensated for that.
#business
#note1yyc…urmg

2026-02-16 09:03:54 UTC

RE: https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic/116079347423631248
This is at least partially related to the search dilemma: If it's easy to find anything, it's almost impossible to be found. That's also why recommendation engines have a right size of data set in which they provide valuable recommendations that you like & otherwise would have been unlikely to find - past a certain scale, results are shaved down by statistics from "surprisingly useful" to "self-sorting pile of the most generic & unsurprising content"...
#note1ywm…8y6d

2026-02-14 09:43:59 UTC

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Let me spare everyone the read: Superhuman AI is a fantasy at or above the level of teleporters & faster-than-light travel. As in, an ostensible technology which is indistinguishable from magic, since no currently known science has any conceivable path to making it real.
I'm pretty sure any time spent on it is not only a waste, but a dangerous distraction from the harm done with actual, existing technology right now - much of it by Yudkowsky's & Soares' TESCREAL friends.

2026-02-13 09:16:21 UTC

RE: https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic/116062509846666680
"- the progressive anti-monopoly movement [...] were able to best their coalitional rivals because they did the hard work of winning support for the idea of shattering corporate power itself – not just arguing that corporate power was bad when it was used against them.
This was a slower, harder road than dividing up the world into good monopolies and bad ones, but it paid off. Today [...] their ideas have spread far and wide..."
There are no good bad guys.
#business #politics @npub1fdr…lvhs
#note12lh…qamd

2026-02-12 09:08:25 UTC

RE: https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic/116056780900371801
This is what I mean when I say that politicians are supposed to be lobbyists for the people: Not only should they not be so easily swayed by corporate marketing blitzes - it's literally their job to stand firm on the public's interests in face of such efforts.
Corporate lobbyists are - again, quite literally - their adversaries & we have to start yeeting every pol who doesnt't treat them as such.
#politics #lobbyism #tech #business @npub1fdr…lvhs
#note1jqz…ftdh

2026-02-12 08:10:51 UTC

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Hey @npub1fdr…lvhs, since you're in the neighborhood, how about a stop-off in Copenhagen? I'll buy you several of our wildly expensive cups of coffee & also a ticket to whatever thing you appear at 😁

2026-02-11 08:00:07 UTC

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Also, the other main demographic I see appealing for mutual aid are trans and/or neurodivergent and/or cronically ill people who are either actively marginalized where they live & therefore cut off from "regular" aid sources, or have fallen through some sort of crack, also cutting them off from other, more readily available forms of support.
In many such cases, just asking for aid requires more courage than you or I will ever know.
Like Aral says, context matters.

2026-02-10 13:21:14 UTC

RE: https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic/116046410916823849
No, seriously, why is nobody doing this? I'm actually pretty sure that some version of it could be established outside the US, too - there's SO MUCH CRIME! on front-row display here & a lot of it crosses borders and/or international law...
Fucking how did the world become this uninterested in bringing (a certain kind of) criminals to justice?
#corruption #fascism #law #justice @npub1fdr…lvhs
#note1s6x…f0r6

2026-02-09 11:46:41 UTC

RE: https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic/116040136897752985
I've said this before: Those dickhead business types in "Resident Evil", who destroy the world through greed & negligence & then just keep having board meetings in their bunkers & discuss their next insane projects?
Yeah, real-life billionaires are exactly like that, except way stupider. You can't even shame them by pointing it out - they think it's cool & wish they were sunglasses-inside-guy at the head of the table.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gDnJ81pffUc
#capitalism @npub1fdr…lvhs
#note1nts…mmph

2026-02-07 07:03:48 UTC

RE: https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic/116018345665883141
"It's so easy to slip into the habit of thinking that nothing will change, that our politicians will never fear us more than they love the money and power they get from catering to the Epstein class. I'm not denying that this is how they view the world today, but there was a time in living memory when it wasn't true. If it changed before, it can change again." - @npub1fdr…lvhs
#change #hope #resist
#note12rk…2kv8

2026-02-06 19:46:25 UTC

RE: https://shakedown.social/@AAronL1968/116025065206994899
They're not working to bring automation to everyday life - they're working to normalize Reverse Centaurs*.
They want you to applaud exploitation & slavery; robotization is the facade they slap on it to give you plausible deniability, not least to yourself.
They are monsters & they want YOU to be a monster, too.
*ask @npub1fdr…lvhs
#tech #business #technofeudalism
#note137e…q6rq

2026-02-06 18:35:05 UTC

RE: https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic/116022803319662931
"This was terrible a couple years ago, when the immigration system still had human operators you could reach by sitting on hold for several hours. Today, thanks to a single billionaire's gleeful cruelty, the system is literally unnavigable, "staffed" by a chatbot that can't answer basic questions. A timely reminder that the only jobs AI can do are the jobs that no one gives a shit about." - @npub1fdr…lvhs
#note1tp4…syqw

2026-02-04 06:02:42 UTC

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I treat movies & books etc. like music - you don't listen to a song or album just once, or listen to it again to be surprised. You do it because it moves you in some way.
I do try to find new stuff because that's how we get future old stuff we know we like - but I also try not to feel guilty about re-experiencing pop culture, because why should I?

2026-02-03 11:52:08 UTC

It REALLY needs to become common knowledge all the billionaire broligarchs are fucking idiots. People keep assuming there's some secret brilliance behind everything they do, usually because they also believe their fake origin stories.
No, Thiel didn't invent anything & neither did Musk or Ellison or Zuckerberg. They bought in & were lucky, that's all. No, they didn't know what they had, any more than any other entrepreneur & their own ideas are stupid & unworkable.
Dixi.
#broligarchy

2026-02-02 16:09:17 UTC

RE: https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic/116001748863545707
"America is not great. It has been gutted by the Epstein class, who robbed us blind, raped our kids, and are now selling us shitcoins and chatbots and the spectacle of protesters being shot in the streets. But it's not enough to know that the system is rigged. Everybody knows the system is rigged. To build a movement and save our future, we have to know how it is rigged and who rigged it" - @npub1fdr…lvhs
Also, this kind dressed-up theft is by no means a US phenom. It's everywhere.
#note1p49…6nc5

2026-01-28 09:46:44 UTC

RE: https://mamot.fr/@Martin_Pigeon/115971074479362251
"After generations of Davos-style oligarch worship, there are damned few politicians who dare to unfurl a sail and aim the tiller for a world that works for working people.
But every time some politician does, that sail bellies out with the wind with an audible snap [...] Any ship rigged for a better future is propelled by a wind that is a fiercer gale than any we've seen for generations." - @npub1fdr…lvhs
#politics #uspol #intpol
#note1jck…t0tk

2026-01-23 13:41:58 UTC

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I would like to respond in the form of a quote: "An app is just a website wrapped in enough DRM to make it a felony to tamper with it"...
Remind me again, what is it that Apple makes money on?
(apologies to the source I can't remember, pretty sure I got it from @npub1fdr…lvhs)

2026-01-19 09:11:05 UTC

Here's the thing about the fash: They think collaboration is something you only (pretend to) do if you're not strong enough to dominate. They don't think they need anyone.
That's why they can't be trusted, ever - but it's also why, like in @npub1fdr…lvhs's "Masque of the Red Death", they eventually starve / shit themselves to death locked inside their sad little basement clutching a rifle, while everyone else work together to build better lives.
https://craphound.com/podcast/2020/03/13/the-masque-of-the-red-death/
#fascism

2026-01-17 15:43:20 UTC

RE: https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic/115911110992978751
"Once everyone in your country is buying and using jailbreaking tools from abroad, there'll be no point in keeping these laws on your own books. But the first country to get there stands a chance of establishing a durable first-mover advantage – of reaping hundreds of billions selling disenshittifying products around the world. That country could be to enshittification-resistant technology what Finland was to mobile phones during the Nokia decade..." - @npub1fdr…lvhs
#tech #business
#note1pfw…q3yc

2026-01-16 13:48:41 UTC

RE: https://mstdn.social/@rysiek/115904617539822735
This is actually kinda important.
You see, some of us called this back in ye earlie '10s, that there was no viable business case for VR to justify Meta's investment - we were of course poo-poo'ed, because if a company the size of Meta wants something to happen, they'll make it happen.
Turns out no, they will not, because even with billions upon billions to burn, even Meta can't make something out of nothing.
We, The Market™️, rejected this. We have more power than we think.
#ai #tech
#note1rgl…wvvy

2026-01-16 12:37:13 UTC

Pargin is right - this should be illegal. In fact it ABSOLUTELY would be, except for the @npub1fdr…lvhs rule: "It's not a crime if we're using an app".
They're literally breaking & into your house & destroying your stuff. No amount of obfuscating legalese would let you or me get away with doing that.
It's fucking insane.
https://www.techspot.com/news/110848-onedrive-backup-feature-making-users-local-files-seemingly.html
#onedrive #microsoft #tech #business #capitalism #ux

2026-01-15 20:44:28 UTC

RE: https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic/115901022866433993
"Nothing happens automatically. Fuck pessimism, and fuck optimism, too. Things happen because people do stuff [...] The door is open a crack. Now isn't the time to complain that it isn't open wider – now's the time to throw your shoulder against it." - @npub1fdr…lvhs
#resist #capitalism
#note170g…vwwn

2026-01-14 21:03:25 UTC

RE: https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic/115894410440299999
"- this is not normal. The end of ownership represents an overturn of a foundation of modern civilization. The fact that the only "people" who can truly own something are the transhuman, immortal colony organisms we call "Limited Liability Corporations" is an absolutely surreal reversal of the normal order of things..." - @npub1fdr…lvhs
Make no mistake: They WILL make you pay to breathe, as soon as they can figure out how to sell you a gadget that can remotely choke you to death.
#capitalism
#note1mhk…g5hg

2026-01-13 21:40:41 UTC

RE: https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic/115888970296152807
"I know it's out of step with the times, but all I have is ideas that make money, make us safer, make us richer, and make our technology better..." - @npub1fdr…lvhs
Fun fact: This doesn't just apply to Canada. There's a huge pile of money on the table - seems stupid to just leave it there.
#AdversarialInteroperability #tech #business
#note198r…56ej

2026-01-10 16:53:49 UTC

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Basically people need to understand that not opposing fascism is every single bit as dangerous as opposing it - the only difference is how shitty your conscience will/should be before they shoot you, beat you do death, poison you, starve you, explode you or push you into the maw of some easily curable disease.

2026-01-10 15:31:53 UTC

RE: https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic/115871427381296594
"Tax is redistributive and getting money back from American companies after they steal it from [everyone] is much harder than simply arranging the system so it's much harder for American companies to steal from [everyone] in the first place..." - @npub1fdr…lvhs
(sidebar: I for one am glad you enabled quote-tooting, Cory 😁)
#resist #BigTech #predistribution #tech #business #intpol
#note1y49…my4q

2026-01-10 10:22:01 UTC

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No, it's not - it's Apple's business working exactly as intended, i.e. enshittified. They sell users' eyeballs to their channel customers & this is how they justify it, because even though the display is worthless when the user has opted out, it still turns up in the data, so they're ruining your newsfeed in order to trick their paying customers into paying for worthless views.

2026-01-04 13:49:23 UTC

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TFG also absolutely thinks oil just comes out of the ground looking like motor oil & all you have to do is load it in barrels & slap a price tag on it. It cannot be overstated how simplistic & childlike his idea of the world is or how little he knows about anything.

2026-01-04 10:03:14 UTC

RE: https://social.vivaldi.net/@ianbetteridge/115833246133934434
No. There's no ambiguity in the text & yet this headline.
It's like going "Did a group of dudes breaking into the Louvre & making off with various works of art act legally?", which no news outlet would ever do, because it would be both stupid & a dereliction of journalistic duty to state fact clearly so people can know what the fuck is going on.
The role of the press getting us into this mess cannot be overstated.
#press #news #media #politics #intpol #venezuela
#note1xnp…0x2p

2026-01-03 11:05:41 UTC

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Also, let me get this straight: If (!) Ukraine enacts military action against the commander-in-chief of the nation which is waging undeclared, illegal war against them, it's "assassination", but when (!) MAGA-run US enacts military action to kidnap the head of a sovereign state, illegally by both international & American law, it's basically just a bit of policing...?

2026-01-02 10:35:51 UTC

RE: https://helvede.net/@jwcph/115825057740970211
Also, the problem with techno-feudal platforms isn't what their algorithms do - as @npub1fdr…lvhs says, the problem is who it does it to & who it does it for.
Amazon's algorithm could help buyers & sellers find each other, but that doesn't maximize Bezos' profits. What does is sucking ever more value out of the transaction until there's nothing left for either of them.
#tech #business
#note163w…vcqy

2026-01-02 10:35:24 UTC

It's a good talk & Varoufakis is an important voice - even then, though, they both make that same old mistake of conflating #capitalism with commerce.
No. Commerce is the garb capitalism clothes itself with to hide that it literally only represents the intent money would have if it had any, to gather itself into one big pile.
That's why capitalism also eats capitalists eventually; it doesn't need them. Money can own itself & that's where it will end.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=41diQcq3Lq8
#EndCapitalism

2025-12-25 22:28:41 UTC

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Pretty funny, but the real brilliant bit is obviously the random groove thing 🤩 I'm not even sure you could emulate that with a regular digital track, like on a streaming service, but with vinyl it's fairly straight-forward & there were quite a few artists, comedy & otherwise, who played with having multiple different grooves on the same side of a disc - AFAIR Monty Python did one without telling anyone, just to take the piss 😂

2025-12-24 08:42:48 UTC

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I'm sure - but even though the likes of Zebralette, Podolski & TyrellN6 are simpler than their big brothers or other synths, like Tunefish & Surge XT, I'm still a long way from being able to deliberately shape a sound, even on them, let alone understanding how all those great presets are even created with the available controls 😝

2025-12-23 21:30:48 UTC

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Not exactly for me, mostly because as a complete synth novice & also primarily a guitar player, I'm nowhere near figuring out how to use it properly 😂 it's on my fav list, though 😁