@sundogplanets A Bear would never send us a zip file, assuming as “girls” we would be stupid enough to open it. Reason number 3,333 why “we choose the Bear”

(I actually have an adorable non bear…To be fair he has many bear like traits. 🥰)

#Men
#Bears
#Astronomy
#SpaceX
#Musk
#elon

I saw an unattributed version of this. I made a different version from scratch. Using #GIMP because that's what I know.

Attribute me. I don't want anyone to think that #AI was involved (I have a .xcf to prove it).

#Grifters gonna #grift and this is the same #scam, second verse. . .

#Elon #Enron

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It's the Enron logo, only it says "ELON" and is red, white, and black instead of . the RGB of the original. This is the JPG on a gray background.

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It's the Enron logo, only it says "ELON" and is red, white, and black instead of . the RGB of the original. This is the PNG, so transparent background.

At least 10 officials in the MAGA MURDER Regime hold as much as $43.8 Million in stock in Elon Musk's SpaceX or in xAI.

*That means the SpaceX IPO — which will make Musk a trillionaire — would also directly enrich TFG’s BOOTLICKERS.*

SpaceX has been boosted by over $10 BILLION in government contracts since 2025.

See the problem here?
#trump #TrumpCorruption #elon #elonmusk #fraud #news
https://bsky.app/profile/rbreich.bsky.social/post/3mni5mp3e5t2w

The more you read this piece of excellent work the more you realize how much energy we, as the Open Source community, the programma's and the users, shall need to put in another to get a proper Balance Again

Read the section here.

Source:

https://fireborn.mataroa.blog/blog/the-slow-death-of-the-power-user/

#Power #User #Walled #Garden #programming #InfoSec #privilege #feature #parameters #control #OpenSource against #Meta #FB #Alphabet #Enshittification #Google #Elon #Musk #Twitter #Facebook #WTF

The End of Social Media: An Interview With Jack Dorsey

<https://www.piratewires.com/p/interview-with-jack-dorsey-mike-solana>

– on his exit from Bluesky, how Twitter lost its way, Jack’s strategy for ending censorship forever, new background on the Elon saga, and the death of social media as we know it

＂… There’s “absolutely no way” social media companies remain censorship resistant without moving to open protocols. “We need to change the foundation everything is built on” …＂

#Fediverse #Bluesky #Twitter #Elon

Nitter stats

In the years that I was active on Nitter, this is the amount of data that I produced:

• Tweets total 77,579
• Likes total 62702

I was active on Nitter from 2010 to 2024

#Nitter #stats #Twitter #enshittification #Elon #musk #programming #database #archive #Download

twitter is a happy place

SYK!

hell no!

Thanks to the power of the fediverse and following the right people a skillfull fellow mastodon dropped the nitter bomb on me a couple of days ago.

Of course I asked first what it is, then both replied that it's a front end to the twitter api (yes to me only twitter existed till it was murdered by little elon) which never reveals you, meaning I can not only access my old accounts which I have downloaded (of course thousands of tweets!) conveniently as it is frozen in time. I have the imagery in front of me, instead of that large JSON pack

deleting twitter accounts will not erase the data automagically{servers never erase!})

I now thank the people who gave me another TIL

sources

https://nitter.net/

https://nitter.net/vMakenas

@fuzzy
@rl_dane

#nitter #twitter #API #elon #retro #site #advanced #no #javascript

"Automated Immiseration" is how I read, at a coarse level, what's being proposed. Austerity politics handed down by machines.

The endgame of austerity economics has historically been some variation of fascism. Clara Mattei's meticulously-researched book The Capital Order: How Economists Invented Austerity and Paved the Way to Fascism is a deep dive into how this has played out, especially after WWI. Mattei brings receipts: she has direct quotes indicating economists at the time knew full well what they were doing. The purpose of austerity measures, as spelled out explicitly by the people who invented them, is to discipline citizens and laborers--to keep them from getting any ideas about receiving too many benefits from government--and to re-affirm the position of capital holders at the top of the pecking order.

One comment I had about the "reskilling"/"upskiling" part of the conversation: I don't have the references on hand, but I believe it's been amply documented that "upskilling" almost never happens. It's a word that's thrown around as a salve, to reduce alarm about intended market destruction and job loss.

If upskilling were a serious part of this so-called roadmap, there'd be more specific plans for whose jobs will be displaced, which colleges and universities will educate these displaced folks, how that education will be funded, and which jobs are waiting for them on the other side. The upskilling plans, if serious, would be as detailed and spelled out as the AI/corporate plans are. If the upskilling plans were serious, the presidents of Ivy League and state universities, vocational institutions like coding bootcamps, and other educational institutions would have been present to share their insights and views, especially as regards the realism of re-training as many people as this roadmap and the rhetoric of #AI boosters suggests might be displaced. It'd be wise to include high school educators as well, since such a significant shift in the workforce affects students in high school as well. I didn't read the backgrounds on all 150-ish participants in these Senate forums, but I didn't see or hear about a large contingent of educators among them. As it stands the roadmap document only vaguely refers to "legislation" that doesn't yet exist.

Frankly, I see little that sounds serious in this "roadmap" aside from the danger it represents. It reads like a whitepaper a corporate middle manager would pound out (using #ChatGPT probably) in an afternoon. Emily and Alex referred to Chuck Schumer as "an #Elon #Musk fanboy", and I think that's what this document reflects. This is The Boring Company of government policy proposals.

#GenAI #AI #AGI #USSenate #USCongress #Senate #Congress #USPol #tech

Brutal takedown of the bullsh&*# that is "self-driving cars": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2DOd4RLNeT4

It's a long video but frankly you can get the gist of most of it by scanning over the chapter titles. "Hitting Fake Children". "Hitting Real Children". "FSD Expectations" is a long list of the various lies #Elon #Musk has told about "full self driving" Teslas. Also the "Openpilot" chapter has a picture of Elon Musk's face as a dartboard.

The endless hype and full-on lies of the self-driving-car con from roughly 2016 to 2020 resembles the #AI #hype about #LLMs like #ChatGPT going on right now. If you've been in this industry long enough and have been honest with yourself about it you've seen all this before. Until something significant changes we really ought to view anything coming out of the tech sector with deep suspicion (https://bucci.onl/notes/Another-AI-Hype-Cycle).

#AI #AGI #tech #LLM #GPT