Wondering how those very rich people think and perceive the world? Here is an explanation. I felt unease reading through this.
This is a fact I don't get... people are going their way to satisfy the need of a LLM but not the ones of fellow humans. I guess it's the conclusion which is somewhat right, it's about who has power. This is sad if true... also I doubt it's the single explanation.
Urgh... That was only a matter of time before they notice I guess. That'll go straight in the authoritarian playbook if they make a real move on it.
A good reminder of why this is the protocols which matter. People got too accustomed to centralised platforms.
Especially true for local politics indeed.
Weird decisions, this is really backwards...
Better late than never I guess? Let's just hope this becomes very costly for that evil company.
This piece is strongly worded but the logic is sound. We see many examples of power plays in guise of "innovation" which lead to killing openly sharing (and so killing real innovation). It's urgent to fight back and ensure things stay open.
Looks like some governments noticed that they can move away from GitHub and are testing the waters. Good idea!
The insurances are starting to crumble under the risks. Looks like it's time to do something about it.
Looks like someone is actually paying attention to what's going on.
Well, what can I say? This is excellent news and I'm excited to see it happen. Let's hope more governments do the same. It'll take a while of course, so we'll have to be patient.
The commentaries and analysis of those unjust laws continues. The motives behind the people pushing for them are getting clearer and it isn't pretty.
This is definitely a disturbing result. It indeed makes democracies more fragile, all the more reason to build more democratic resilience.
Interesting model for bringing architectural and organisational changes. This is indeed at least in part political games... so you need some political capital to spend.
What could possibly go wrong? This is really a weird appointment.
This planned giant data center by Meta shows how the big players are grabbing land to satisfy their hubris. So much waste all around.
There's clearly a regulation gap for satellites. We've been putting way too many of them in orbit the past decade and it's currently going to accelerate. This jeopardizes the night sky, astronomy and the possibility of space exploration. Clearly we're making the wrong choices here.
The previous piece about the disagreement with Cory Doctorow was a good one even though I didn't put it in my review. This one is more important though! It's a necessary reminder that we can't put allies on a pedestal and then scream at them making mistakes or having different opinions. We can't afford this kind of purity culture... Especially right now.
Interesting lessons indeed. Especially the first one: "Technology is inherently political, and anyone telling you otherwise is trying to hide their politics." As tech people we too often forget this is all "sociotechnical", no tech is designed and used in a vacuum.