Tootfinder

A look at the efforts in Japan, South Korea, and Australia to create stronger regulations for big tech platforms like Apple and Google (Financial Times)
https://t.co/py0FHVtwFY
…

kwh, wealth, old age,
examining something reminds me diverse backgrounds can uncover weird discrepancies in averages of data, or in what you yourself consider "typical".
asked contact list about how much power they use.
one of them made an order of magnitude more kwh than the rest (they're also a c-level executive)
talked about how 3 fridges, a pool, and a hot-tub "stuff comes with age" (but also that they're "trying to be energy efficient")
I mean... not all of the old people on the list have big houses like that. I think that might just be an executive thing?
but it's also like...
I think comparison is a useful tool to realize some parts of our lives go unchallenged.
also, some mistakes in my methodology:
- heating/cooling in different regions vastly changes
- not including power usage from gas heaters vs all electric houses
- not controlling for heating/location
I actually don't think the point would be to get grumpy at them, but to understand that they had zero clue they were 10x energy users

Cracking down on Big Tech: The drive behind the barrage of measures of EU’s digital acts
https://poliverso.org/display/0477a01e-10d25166-008de1f970e58ed9
Cracking down on Big Tech: The drive behind the barrage of measures of EU’s digital actsDriven …

Neue Deals: Big AI Tech zahlt Millionen für Trainingsdaten
Zwei Cent für ein Shutterstock Bild, sieben Dollar für eine Nacktaufnahme – die großen KI-Anbieter zahlen Millionen für Trainingsdaten.
https:…

@… , présidente de @… sur le détournement de chercheur·e·s universitaires, ainsi que de fonds publics, vers les #BigTech qui …

Welcome to “The De-Google Project”, in which my family starts to work on lessening our dependence on Big-Tech services: https://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/202x/2024/03/09/DeGoogling

The De-Google Project

Southeast Asia is drawing more investment from Big Tech than ever, as the CEOs of Apple, Microsoft, and Nvidia commit billions of dollars in the region (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-05-11/t…

I have a student, recent graduate, who’s looking for a software development job and is up against the US visa deadline. Any advice on where he should be looking? Know of companies, or even industries, a bit removed from the fallout of Big Tech’s layoffs?
This student could be a •great• help to some not-tech org struggling to hold together their web site or some internal system that’s a bit beyond their maintenance capacity.
The software job market is bizarre right now. Any tips w…

> [AI imperialist politics] looks more than a bit like the competition among colonialist state and corporate powers in the seventeenth century, which together carved up the globe and its peoples.
How the “Frontier” Became the Slogan of Uncontrolled AI — Nathan Sanders and Bruce Schneier
https://

How the “Frontier” Became the Slogan of Uncontrolled AI
AI has been billed as a new frontier: an expanse whose exploration will drive the next era of wealth and human flourishing. Yet, time and again, its big-tech owners have used the frontiersman billing to declare themselves accountable to no one and no law.

“Der Kampf um das Internet – Wie Wikipedia, Mastodon & Co. Big Tech herausfordern”
Die Wikimedia Deutschland Stiftung kuratiert gemeinsam mit dem Deutschlandfunk Kultur eine Reihe mit dem Titel "Wissen. Macht. Gerechtigkeit.", in der in regelmäßigen Abständen Diskussionsrunden zu mehr oder weniger digitalen Themen ausgerichtet werden. Unter der Überschrift "Der Kampf um das Internet – Wie Wikipedia, Mastodon & Co. Big Tech herausfordern" wurde gestern eine S…

"Sadly, 2023 saw a steep decline in investment in viable low-carbon tech, while venture capital was piling into AI. The big costs of AI to climate change will, I suspect, not be its energy consumption but the lost opportunity to invest in viable solutions while there is still time"
Negative impact of #AI on

Things don't only get better
Breakdowns, billionnaires and how not to save the planet

A look at the challenges of academic AI research, as costs to develop generative AI models grow rapidly and tech companies' salaries drain academia of talent (Washington Post)
https://wapo.st/3Ix9deO

Silicon Valley is pricing academics out of AI research
A growing chorus of academics say the sky-high cost of working with AI models is boxing researchers out of the field, compromising independent study of the technology.

“The problem isn’t tech. It’s people.”
Kara Swisher on the toxic giants of Big Tech https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2024/mar/04/musk-needs-to-be-ado…

if you had a datacenter power/water usage limit per capita, what would it be?
(excluding the power usage by routers and points of presence)
like, how many kWh per 1,000 people?
e.g. you can expect the global south to use more kWh in datacenters into the future
but I think a kWh limit would be a way to limit needless big data / AI experiments.
do you know your current kWh usage online?
#degrowth #climatechange

Digital Markets Act: Bundesregierung und NGOs fordern Überwachungsgebühr
Big-Tech-Konzerne sollen die finanzielle Last ihrer eigenen Kontrolle nach dem DMA mittragen, sagt die Regierung. Vorbild ist der Digital Services Act.​

Every big tech service is getting worse in the quest for more money.
In the meanwhile, linux desktop use is growing more than I've ever seen it, and piracy is on the rise.
These things are definitely not related, oh no, definitely not.

Enshittification arises when the everyday mediocre sociopaths who run tech companies are freed from the constraints that act against them. When the web - and its browsers - were a big, contented, diverse, competitive space, it was harder for tech companies to collude to capture standards bodies like the W3C to secure even more dominance. (1/2)

Happy #iOS 17.4 release day to my friends on the other side of the channel. You’re taking back control while we lose it. Love from the #Brexitland. ❤️
The EU’s new competition rules are going live

How every tech ‘gatekeeper’ is responding to the DMA
The Digital Markets Act’s deadline for compliance is imminent. Its six designated ‘gatekeepers’ have fought the rules, but also bent to them.

Meet the Women Taking On Big Tech in Europe
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2024-03-08/europe-s-female-data-regulators-keeping-meta-google-and-apple-reined-in

#Apple is laying off more than 600 workers in California, marking the company’s first big wave of post-pandemic job cuts amid a broader wave of tech industry consolidation.
The iPhone maker notified 614 workers in multiple offices on 28 March that they were losing their jobs, with the #layoffs becoming effective on 2…

You know if you work at these big tech companies that are ruining our society, you could say “no”. Organize. Form unions. Expose wrongdoing.

or like,
if an airport reduces the number of private flights (private jets account for a lot of pollution per capita)
vs small learner planes (or practicing on a private jet)
it's not an outright ban at the airport, just a reduction in volume
a sense of... you have to wait to use this carbon thing, but you don't have to wait to use the renewable one.
however... having less time doing flight hours could be bad... then again there's a copilot seat on the big ones...
#climatechange

Tens of thousands of overworked employees have left their jobs at China's largest tech companies in recent years, as the industry lost its growth momentum (Coco Feng/South China Morning Post)
https://www.scmp.com…

China Big Tech workers quit to pursue self-employment amid internet slowdown
China’s internet giants have slashed jobs in recent years, affecting tens of thousands of people, many of whom have decided to become entrepreneurs themselves, with mixed results.

The (forehead-slappingly correct) observation that the ad makes better sense backwards is a sad commentary on how tech (and even Apple) sees the world.
Would have been a genius, inspiring message. They failed to read the room.
Which is what happens when you're "too big to fail".
From: @…

"Sollte linke Digitalpolitik sich die Mahnung der Europäischen Kommission zu mehr Wettbewerb zu eigen machen?
Diese Frage darf eindeutig verneint werden. Natürlich ist die Forderung nach mehr Wettbewerb keine linke Position. Die Idee, dass die unsichtbare Hand des Marktes als kapitalistisches Instrument der Bedürfnisbefriedigung grundsätzlich funktioniert, solange nur faire Wettbewerbsbedingungen gelten, ist eine wirtschaftsliberale Erzählung."

#uspol #torture
Can't stop thinking about this paragraph in an NYT story about the big Guantšnamo trial.
He is accused of helping some of the hijackers with finances and travel arrangements and frequently waives his right to be in court, his lawyers say, because he suffered rectal damage in C.I.A. custody — his lawyers call it rape — and he finds it painful to sit, even on the doughnut shaped pillow his lawyers bring to court.
It's just an aside, really, about how one of the accused can't attend his own court hearings because of his rape torture at the hands of the US government.
https://www.nytimes.com/article/september-11-trial-guantanamo-bay.html

A look at tech giants' AI training data deals; Defined.ai: some are ready to pay $1-$2 per image, $2-$4 per short video, and $100-$300 per hour of long video (Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/technology/inside-big-techs-und…

According to Stiglitz https://www.theguardian.com/business/2024/mar/18/joe-biden-has-just-dealt-a-big-defeat-to-big-tech we're supposed to believe that the recent anti-TikTok executive order

Displaying these juvenile traits into adulthood is known as 'cultural neoteny', I believe.
Kara Swisher on the toxic giants of Big Tech https://www.theguardian.com/technology/20…

I love how the entire globe is traumatized by being locked up and isolated from other humans for a year, then as soon as we get out the first thing Big Tech does is eliminate as much human contact and interaction as possible.
#AI #ArtificialInsanity

Enshittification arises when the everyday mediocre sociopaths who run tech companies are freed from the constraints that act against them. When the web - and its browsers - were a big, contented, diverse, competitive space, it was harder for tech companies to collude to capture standards bodies like the W3C to secure even more dominance. (1/2)

Worth people being aware of this! #FediAuth

In general, never have your data exist only in one place. Cloud storage is fine, as long as you have another copy somewhere else. The second copy could also be in the cloud; it just needs to be in some other provider’s cloud.
The key is *duplication* and elimination of single points of failure, as much as possible. https://

a flag on profiles/posts where you can go:
"nope no big companies I have no friends on facebook"
"big companies just to process messages to my followers/interactions on threads"
"sure I have friends on facebook and don't care"
#ActivityPub #Fediverse #Threads
to distinguish the profiles who are veeeeery anti-threads, and the profiles who are cool with it

Interesting observations, "In AI, the big just keep getting bigger",
#AI

In AI, the big just keep getting bigger
The latest moves by Microsoft, Apple and Google show that AI remains Big Tech's game.

Big tech voices opposition to digital competition law in India.
Tech giants fear introduction of EU DMA-style law
https://www.computing.co.uk/news/4186321/big-tech-voices-opposition-digital-competition-law-india

Big tech voices opposition to digital competition law in India
Apple is the latest tech giant to oppose the introduction of ex-ante regulations in India within the framework of the proposed digital competition law, echoing its resistance to EU's Digital Market Act (DMA) that came into effect earlier this month.

Golden Carrots

While technically second in terms of overall nutrition, still preferred by many players for their superior saturation value. My issue with these is acquiration - there are essentially three ways of getting these:
Edit: Also, if you're willing to build a gold farm for food, you should totally live off golden apples instead. Way more of a flex
(continued below)

While the EU is forcing all social networks equally to become federated, protect user's data, delete misinformation, and stop monopolistic or gatekeeping behavior, the US is banning foreign social networks under the pretense of “national security”.
With members of congress enacting this ban only acting in their own financial interests, as they own the stock of the competing American big tech companies [

Congress’s Big Tech Stock Trading Makes Antitrust Regulation Awkward
A proposed antitrust bill has cast a spotlight on the immense portfolios of dozens of lawmakers.

Die verkrusteten Monopole der Tech-Industrie können „disruptive“ Innovationen verhindern oder internalisieren. Dabei werden die Produkte für die Nutzenden schlechter und teurer.
https://weltenkreuzer.de/big-tech-hat-die-innovation-zerstoert/

Big Tech hat die Innovation zerstört - Weltenkreuzer
Die verkrusteten Monopole der Tech-Industrie können „disruptive“ Innovationen verhindern oder internalisieren. Dabei werden die Produkte für die Nutzenden schlechter und teurer.

An incredible interview with FTC Chair Lina Khan on Big Tech monopolies dropping more revelations about Apple’s super rocky editorial oversight of Jon Stewart’s Apple TV show:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oaDTiWaYfcM

Sources: ByteDance, which was directly involved in countering US efforts to ban TikTok in 2020, has let the US TikTok team lead the response this time around (South China Morning Post)
https://www.scmp.com/tec…

TikTok gets more aggressive to counter US ban as ByteDance stays hands-off
Beijing-based ByteDance has left the US TikTok team lead its own response in countering legislation that would kick it out of domestic app stores, sources say.

What does this mean in terms of #security #onlinesafety #messaging?

A look at tech giants' AI training data deals; Defined.ai: some are ready to pay $1-$2 per image, $2-$4 per short video, and $100-$300 per hour of long video (Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/technology/inside-big-techs-und…

Finally took a deeper look at passkeys. At their heart they are just public/private keys. Big tech companies are going to offer syncing of those private keys.
But hearing about library users there is no way folk who loose every account password will maintain the ability to recover the syncing account after they loose that login. Still seems like an easy way to get all your accounts hacked at once.

thinking about this comment on Blind

Vestager: Apples Sicherheitsbedenken wegen Sideloading per DMA sind Blödsinn
Die Durchsetzung des Digital Markets Act (DMA) gegen Big Tech werde ein langer Kampf, prophezeit Digitalkommissarin Vestager. Nutzer müssten Wahlfreiheit haben.

Need some help, folks
I remember a wallpaper with a big ⚠️ and some stuff written, I think it was like the safe mode of some old windows?
My nerdy girl ass loved opening whatever it was just to see that wallpaper back then
Does anyone know what I’m talking about?

Don’t use our books in your AI programs, publishers warn big tech
"Dan Conway, chief executive of Publishers Association, claimed the content used to train artificial intelligence models was ‘being ripped off on a global scale’"
https://www.

Don’t use our books in your AI programs, publishers warn big tech
Dan Conway, chief executive of Publishers Association, claimed the content used to train artificial intelligence models was ‘being ripped off on a global scale’

Cisco launches the AI-Enabled ICT Workforce Consortium, joined by Google, Microsoft, IBM, Intel, SAP and Accenture, to research AI's impact on 56 ICT job roles (Kyle Wiggers/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2024/04/04/big-

Big tech companies form new consortium to allay fears of AI job takeovers | TechCrunch
If the goal is to allay fears of a mass AI threatening of livelihoods, tech incumbents will need to deliver a lot more than vague promises and reports.

After achieving success, big tech companies always end up exploiting users, advertisers and workers. It's time to reverse course, to create a truly free network
-- Cory Doctorow
https://www.internazionale.it/magazine/cory-doctorow/20…

Fermiamo questa merda
Dopo aver raggiunto il successo le grandi aziende tecnologiche finiscono sempre con lo sfruttare gli utenti, gli inserzionisti e i lavoratori. È ora di invertire la rotta, per creare una rete davvero libera Leggi

small websites doing big things.
small website client side, medium API server side.

In Race to Build A.I., Tech Plans a Big Plumbing Upgrade
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/04/27/technology/ai-big-tech-spending.html

We are a nation born from the conviction that people must be #free.
But since the middle of the last century, that idea has been co-opted.
💥Forces on the political Right have justified exploitation by cloaking it in the rhetoric of freedom, 💥 leading to
🔸pharmaceutical companies "freely overcharging" for medication,
🔸 a Big Tech "free from oversight",
🔸politici…

The Road to Freedom
From one of the world’s leading economists, a compelling new vision of personal and economic freedom., The Road to Freedom, Economics and the Good Society, Joseph E Stiglitz, 9781324074373

Have you put a freeze on your credit reports? If so, was it a significant nuisance?
No big deal
It's a hassle
N/A or show results

A look at Europe's growing roster of female data regulators out to rein in US big tech companies; 50% of EU's 30 data protection authorities are led by women (Stephanie Bodoni/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2…

Europe’s Female Data Regulators Keeping Meta, Google and Apple Reined In
Over the past decade, data enforcement has exploded in prominence. These are the regulators leading the charge.

Analysis: Temu and Shein are spending heavily on Facebook, X, and YouTube ads in the US; Temu placed ~1.4M ads globally on Google services in the past year (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/03/06/busines<…

Big American Tech Profits From Chinese Ad Spending Spree
Temu, Shein, and streaming and gaming apps looking to break into the U.S. market are spending huge sums to get their wares in front of American consumers.

The thing that irks me is that literally anyone who's using their brain to research the "VR goggles" market for like a day could have told you this.
It has "vanity project" written all over it.
https://mastodon.online/@parismarx/1123389856439290…

New note by cybersecurity
https://poliverso.org/display/0477a01e-1866-2fcb-cbc0-33b189652740
Le Nazioni Unite abbandonano la Big Tech nel tentativo di garantire la sicurezza: UNICC ha scelto Element per proteggere le sue comunicazioni

Gigabit-Netze: EU-Kommission mit neuem Anlauf für Kostenbeteiligung von Big Tech
Für den weiteren Aufbau der digitalen Infrastruktur bringt die EU-Kommission erneut eine von großen Plattformen zu zahlende Infrastrukturabgabe ins Spiel.

It's funny cause it hits the right targets (Big Tech) but the way that GDPR has become mostly a lever to do a replacement-punishment is kinda weird.
Sure, you now have a stick to beat MetaMicrosoftGoogle's money bags with but is it really about privacy? About an affirmative use that's based on an actual vision for how privacy in connected societies should work? Or is it just "I can't get you for what I feel you do wrong so I'll try to frame it as a privacy issu…

As the EU's DMA takes effect, sources say the Biden administration, which sent two letters protesting the DMA, stopped short of pushing the issue with the EU (Eva Dou/Washington Post)
https://wapo.st/49JuFJC

Big Tech howled over E.U. antitrust law. The White House declined a rescue.
The E.U. Digital Markets Act has come into effect, forcing six major tech companies to make significant changes. The Biden administration has taken a muted approach.

Q&A with FT Group CEO John Ridding on the benefits of being owned by Nikkei, using AI in the newsroom and for engagement, US growth, and Big Tech's AI missteps (Sarah Scire/Nieman Lab)
https://www.niemanlab.org/…

“Don’t expect help from the disruptors”: The FT’s chief executive on AI, “loyalist” readers, and its U.S. expansion
The FT has more than 1.4 million subscribers, including more than 1 million digital subscribers. About 20% are based in the United States.

E*TRADE are also security geniuses. Every email from them in Gmail arrives with a warning about unauthenticated messages and gets sent to spam.
It's possible this is related to my monkey.org mail forwarding. The mail headers have a big blob of ARC and DKIM and SPF and DMARC and I have no idea what any of it means. But dkim=fail ("body hash did not verify") sounds bad.

A look at the US and EU's dueling approaches to rein in Big Tech, splitting tech companies' attention by miring them in separate legal and enforcement battles (Politico)
https://www.politico.com/news/2024/05/04/tech-companies-us-eu-battles-00…

big tech companies:
"we need more power... for... uh... AI stuff"
[luddite electricians about to shut off power]
"you can't shut off our datacenter... there's... uh... a sentient being inside"
"noo, please"
[hal-9000 powers off]

E*TRADE are also security geniuses. Every email from them in Gmail arrives with a warning about unauthenticated messages and gets sent to spam.
It's possible this is related to my monkey.org mail forwarding. The mail headers have a big blob of ARC and DKIM and SPF and DMARC and I have no idea what any of it means. But dkim=fail ("body hash did not verify") sounds bad.

‘Watershed moment’ for Tesla as CEO’s visit to China reaps quick reward
Elon Musk’s visit to China has reportedly reaped immediate rewards with a deal for Tesla to use mapping data provided by web search company Baidu,
a big step in introducing driver assistance technology in the world’s largest car market.
Musk made an unannounced visit to China over the weekend.
The billionaire posted a picture of his meeting with the Chinese premier, Li Qiang, on X, the social ne…

Taiwan's KYEC, one of the largest chip testing and packaging services firms, divests its entire stake in a Suzhou, China-based subsidiary citing US restrictions (Kelly Le/South China Morning Post)
https://www.

Taiwan semiconductor firm KYEC to exit mainland China amid geopolitical tensions
King Yuan Electronics Co, one of the world’s largest chip testing and packaging services firms, has divested its entire stake in a subsidiary at manufacturing hub Suzhou in eastern China.

How an informal supper club became a US tech lobbying force, helping draft the TikTok bill; sources: the group plans to draft an EO to reverse Biden's AI rules (Washington Post)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2024/05/01/bi…

How the push to ban TikTok spurred a new Washington influence machine
The tech moguls behind the Hill and Valley Forum are expanding beyond TikTok, prepping a proposal to dismantle President Biden’s artificial intelligence rules.

Missing Link: Indiens Software-Brain-Drain kehrt sich um
Indiens digitaler Aufstieg, neue Visa-Regelungen und die starke Nachfrage von Big Tech locken IT-Fachkräfte zurück nach Indien.
https://www.<…

pro-tip:
don't have board members or executives who are (or were):
- blockchain
- AI
- VC / high-growth
- big data / surveillance
- monetization / rent seekers (being small biz friendly is fine, being enshittifying is not)
thanks for coming to my ted toot

A rising number of Chinese tech workers face legal action from former employers, including Pinduoduo and Tencent, looking to enforce strict noncompete clauses (Cissy Zhou/Nikkei Asia)
https://t.co/G3APOdlKlK

China's tech workers trapped in jobs by noncompete contracts
From Tencent to Pinduoduo, companies use surveillance and lawsuits to retain staff as competition ramps up

The EU Commission fines Apple €1.8B for stifling competition from rival music streaming services, the EU's third-largest antitrust fine; Apple plans to appeal (Javier Espinoza/Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/05606b16-8c4d-4535-893e-af909fcf22f0

I think a good solid path to sustainability is probably a game of stock market snake oil whackamole.
Have teams of pros hunt for the enshitification, the capital horded, the monopolies,
And replace them with greener community controlled things.
Axe big data centers, in favor of computing the community agrees upon
If every young person on the planet could vote on the auto manufacturers decision to make only plug in hybrids and EVs,
Or had a direct vote to replace every gas power plant

Missing Link: India's Software Brain Drain Turns the Tide to Talent Shortage
From India’s own digital rise to new visa dynamics to a huge demand for talent by Big Tech – there are many levers pulling IT professionals back to India.

Analysis: Temu and Shein are spending heavily on Facebook, X, and YouTube ads in the US; Temu placed ~1.4M ads globally on Google services in the past year (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/03/06/busines<…

Big American Tech Profits From Chinese Ad Spending Spree
Temu, Shein, and streaming and gaming apps looking to break into the U.S. market are spending huge sums to get their wares in front of American consumers.

I think a good solid path to sustainability is probably a game of stock market snake oil whackamole.
Have teams of pros hunt for the enshitification, the capital horded, the monopolies,
And replace them with greener community controlled things.
Axe big data centers, in favor of computing the community agrees upon
If every young person on the planet could vote on the auto manufacturers decision to make only plug in hybrids and EVs,
Or had a direct vote to replace every gas power plant

Microsoft, Meta, and Alphabet disclosed that they had spent $32B combined on data centers and other capital expenses in Q1, as they accelerate AI spending (Karen Weise/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/04/27/tec…

In Race to Build A.I., Tech Plans a Big Plumbing Upgrade
The spending that the industry’s giants expect artificial intelligence to require is starting to come into focus — and it is jarringly large.

okay, what are your thoughts about DoD's/Platform One's Big Bang #kubernetes setup?
#cybersecurity #cloudarchitecture

Canada introduces the Online Harms Act, which aims to hold platforms responsible for reducing exposure to damaging content and create a digital safety regulator (Randy Thanthong-Knight/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

Trudeau to Force Big Tech to Police ‘Harmful’ Online Content
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s government introduced an online safety law, joining European countries in trying to compel internet companies to actively regulate and remove harmful content.

"Munich Accord": Projekt gegen Deepfakes im Superwahljahr
Auf der 60. Münchner Sicherheitskonferenz kündigten Big Tech den Kampf gegen Deepfakes im Superwahljahr an. Sie wollen Technologie gegen KI einsetzen.
https://www…

"Munich Accord": Projekt gegen Deepfakes im Superwahljahr
Auf der 60. Münchner Sicherheitskonferenz kündigten Big Tech den Kampf gegen Deepfakes im Superwahljahr an. Sie wollen Technologie gegen KI einsetzen.
https://www…

As Alphabet, Amazon, Apple, ByteDance, Meta, and Microsoft comply with the EU DMA ahead of March 7, experts are skeptical the rules will have the desired effect (Financial Times)
https://t.co/g26kjSLPig

baltimore bridge collapse, mass casualty
one million, two hundred ninety eight thousand cyclists weighing 90kg. (the population of Dallas)
half a freight train
going smack dab into a support column of a bridge
https://www.vesselfinder.com/vessels/details/9697428
maritime accidents are an order of magnitude... geez
...
on the smaller scale, I'd love more cyclists and less pickup trucks.
on the larger scale, I'd love more freight trains and less tractor trailers.
<.< >.> I dunno how I square that circle.
it's not necessarily less capitalist as much as... less idiots driving, more people scale movement, and more efficient movement of stuff too big.

As Alphabet, Amazon, Apple, ByteDance, Meta, and Microsoft comply with the EU DMA ahead of March 7, experts are skeptical the rules will have the desired effect (Financial Times)
https://t.co/g26kjSLPig

Analysts warn that welcoming TikTok, Temu, and Shein to Ireland's low-tax jurisdiction could backfire, as the country tries to reduce reliance on US tech giants (Clothilde Goujard/Politico)
https://www.politico.eu/article/ireland-big-tech-china-economy/<…

Ireland gambles on China’s big tech billions
Analysts warn that welcoming TikTok, Temu and Shein to Dublin’s low-tax tech paradise could backfire. 

Missing Link: Indiens Software-Brain-Drain kehrt sich um
Indiens digitaler Aufstieg, neue Visa-Regelungen und die starke Nachfrage von Big Tech locken IT-Fachkräfte zurück nach Indien.
https://www.<…

okay, #cloud question. Is AWS/GCP/Kubernetes really adding crazy complexity as a way to lock people into complex licensing, consultants, solution architects, training, and certification (similar to the old IBM and Oracle complexity)
It seems like every tech business, once big enough, has feature creep like nuts.
Rather than being "a concept you can hold in your head", like the Golang spec.
Like having "a cloud/API/SDK you already basically understand how to use correctly".

Beijing-based Moonshot AI, which launched its AI chatbot Kimi Chat in October 2023, raised $1B led by Alibaba and HongShan, reportedly at a ~$2.5B valuation (Ben Jiang/South China Morning Post)
https://www.scm…

Chinese start-up Moonshot AI raises US$1 billion in funding round led by Alibaba
Beijing-based Moonshot AI, known in Chinese as Yuezhi Anmian, was valued at about US$2.5 billion in its latest funding round.

A Chinese seller details how he ships civilian electronics, which could be repurposed for military uses, to Russia via distributors and Russian e-commerce sites (Nikkei Asia)
https://t.co/KCp6bGmE6X

How China's ad-hoc tech pipeline fuels Russia's Ukraine war efforts
Civilian electronics, sourced from Chinese e-commerce sellers, find their way to the battlefield

okay, okay
yeah you definitely don't want to keep both versions up for long
https://www.prisma.io/dataguide/types/relational/expand-and-contract-pattern
https://blog.thepete.net/blog/2023/12/05/expand/contract-making-a-breaking-change-without-a-big-bang/
https://www.tim-wellhausen.de/papers/ExpandAndContract/ExpandAndContract.html
wild that they're like "you can do an expand/contract in an hour or two"
I mean, some migrations have got to be harder than others.

okay, okay
yeah you definitely don't want to keep both versions up for long
https://www.prisma.io/dataguide/types/relational/expand-and-contract-pattern
https://blog.thepete.net/blog/2023/12/05/expand/contract-making-a-breaking-change-without-a-big-bang/
https://www.tim-wellhausen.de/papers/ExpandAndContract/ExpandAndContract.html
wild that they're like "you can do an expand/contract in an hour or two"
I mean, some migrations have got to be harder than others.

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