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@axbom@axbom.me
2025-08-02 15:38:24

«This can be immensely empowering, and can improve public trust: it’s hard (and unwise) to give yourself over to a technology that won’t tell you how it works, particularly when its predefined settings allow only for meagre approaches to “user privacy”. As I ask my students, if you could develop an AI at your own home, and programme it to reflect your values and prioritise your safety, wouldn’t you trust it more? Well, the idea isn’t so outlandish – it only feels impossible because big tech fir…

@villavelius@mastodon.online
2025-08-30 14:30:35

"American slavery was not so bad. It was even beneficial to slaves and their descendants.
Donald Trump, his MAGA allies, and conservative talking heads continue to peddle this insulting, ahistorical, and unapologetically racist narrative. Without irony or shame — and to absolve their followers of any guilt or responsibility — Trump wants to whitewash America’s original sin."