At what point does doing something you think will result in the end of the world become attempted murder?

Apparently it’s getting weird over at Automattic

No other Linux or FOSS project ever gets this kind of funding. You should be suspicious of it, not celebrate it. You have been tricked into playing defense for millionaires that don’t give a shit about you.

one million times this

Aaaaaand flagged

I imagine they envision the slow social murder of the dispossessed, sort of a global San Francisco.

On FTX itself, I remain conflicted. It was their money and spirit that enabled the Future Fund, and I still admire many aspects of FTX and the individuals who worked there.

‘Bruh’ moment

The antiai sub on Reddit is lousy with doomers now. Ugh.

Just in time for Irreplaceable to show up!

They recognize the groundswell of anti AI sentiment and want to try and channel it into AI booster action. Good luck with that.

Realistically a BSD

I’m morbidly curious about how they’re going to animate a doughnut. Is it going to wobble? Quiver? Oh god people are gonna, aren’t they…

You can see the future first in San Francisco

🔮"I see a city street. Massive wealth disparity and a lot of homeless… Jesus that’s a lot of homeless"

It’s going to be really interesting to see if the foss zealots who switched over to the AI side will handle heavy handed regulation taking away their local models.

It’s full of knowledge I want but buried in lots of text I don’t wanna read.

Cow Tools

Good timing since it seems even Crypto folks are getting out of Crypto.

Kevin Perjurer (not their real name)

Oh man I always wondered

The author is basically rationalizing and portraying sympathetically the way cops side with wealth and capital over the actual law.

It’s techdirt what else do you expect?

I’m waiting for someone to try this then they get black bagged and dragged to whatever event by someone who bet they would attend.

You show up, you put a ton of effort into a post, and at the end the comment section will tear apart some random thing that isn’t load bearing for your argument, isn’t something you consider particularly important, and whose discussion doesn’t illuminate what you are trying to communicate

Man if only LW posters knew how to use the delete key to shorten their posts to only the load bearing parts, which they consider particularly important and who’s discussion illuminates what they were trying communicate. Alas.