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The most obvious reason as to why cyberpunk can really just be adored as an asthetic instead of a world to live in, can be seen in the fact that most cyberpunk media portrays the main characters fighting the rulers of that system.
The “punk” part is the resistence. Most people will just be cogs in the machine, because if you honestly believe you wouldn't be just that, why aren't you fighting against them today?

Part of the reason I find generative "AI" peddlers so tiresome, I suspect, is that they regurgitate so much of the playbook of the worst Hegelian/Marxist cliché.
"Follow me, for I represent the FUTURE! How do I know the future, or why do I think the future is better than the present, you ask? Shut up, traitor!"
Do we really have to have this debate all over again?
Anyway, I've added a couple quotations from

If you've noticed that I've been baking a lot the past few months, part of the reason has been control. I want to be more in control of my food.
I want to make my own food rather than buy food from corporations.
Of course I still have to buy the raw ingredients, and I try to be aware of that.
I use King Arthur flour, which comes from an employee-owned company, which is also a B corp.
I've said it before "Baking is Making" and I'm trying to l…

Former President Barack Obama is urging the Democratic Party to invest in younger candidates if it wants to come out victorious in the 2026 midterm elections and, eventually, the 2028 presidential election.
In an interview with YouTuber Brian Tyler Cohen that was published Saturday, the 64-year-old said part of the reason his own elections were so successful was because he was young at the time.
“I’m a pretty healthy 64, feel great, but the truth is,
half of the references …

fantastic work by @… about the current state of political music & why people looking for people strumming guitars might be looking in the wrong place. will add: a big reason #folk music & protest became entwined is 'cause it was…

I wonder why Oregon ash isn't an approved street tree in San Francisco. Despite the name, its native range includes the city.
Maybe it's because it's native to riparian corridors, so needs summer water even in maturity? Another reason to daylight creeks and plant some along the creeks!
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Wikimedia Board of Trustees approves closure of all #Wikinews projects by May 4. You may have never heard of Wikinews or haven’t visited the site in a long time which is part of the reason for the closure.

Ich bin begeistert und fasziniert von der Idee... Und musste ziemlich lachen:
TST has petitioned the state of Texas to allow Satanic Temple members the ability to continue receiving voluntary abortions as part of a religious ritual. Texas’s trigger ban on abortions took effect after the reversal of Roe v. Wade, which prohibited all abortions for any reason, including instances of rape or incest. TST claims that this ban infringes upon its members’ right to practice their religion and r…

I expect that part of the reason why Trump blinked also had to do with his limited supply of (smart) munitions, a further escalation would have depleted it to dangerously low levels. Iran knew this also ofcourse.
#trump #iran

Moving away from hyperscalers seems to be a growing trend.
The reason? One respondent didn’t beat about the bush: “The risk of Trump”.
https://www.computing.co.uk/research/2026/…

@… Thanks, they are in California.

My primary reason for searching for an EU-based service is to support services closer to home. In terms of privacy/security, the email part really renders that null and void so I could essentially go with anyone as long as I agree with their values and ethics 😁

New on #blog: "Money isn’t going to solve the #burnout problem"
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The xz-utils backdoor situation brought the problem of FLOSS maintained burnout into the daylight. This in turn lead to numerous discussion on how to solve the problem, and the recurring theme was funding maintenance work.
While I’m definitely not opposed to giving people money for their FLOSS work, if you think that throwing some bucks will actually solve the problem, and especially if you think that you can just throw them once and then forget, I have bad news for you: it won’t. Surely, money is a big part of the problem, but it’s not the only reason people are getting burned out. It’s a systemic problem, and it’s in need of systemic solution, and that’s involves a lot of hard work undo everything that’s happened in the last, say, 20 years.
But let’s start at the beginning and ask the important question: why do people make free software?
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#FreeSoftware #OpenSource #AI #NoAI #LLM #NoLLM #Gentoo

I wonder if part of the reason that Mozilla are so confused about what their actual user-base want is that all the people who want to turn off the AI bullshit are also the ones who turn off telemetry so the bulk of people with
also have telemetry turned off so are invisible to Mozilla.
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