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As OpenAI retires GPT-4o, some users say they are angry and grieving to lose the flirty, quirky companion (Alaina Demopoulos/The Guardian)
https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/ng-interactive/2026/feb/13/openai-chatbot-gpt4o-valentin…

"The Rise of the Voluntariat" by Geoff Shullenberger (found via D. Graeber's "Bullshit Jobs").
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The voluntariat performs skilled work that might still command a wage without compensation, allegedly for the sake of the public good, regardless of the fact that it also contributes directly and unambiguously to the profitability of a corporation. Like the proletariat, then, the voluntariat permits the extraction of surplus value through its labor.
But unlike the proletariat’s labor, the voluntariat’s has become untethered from wages. The voluntariat’s labor is every bit as alienable as the proletariat’s — Coursera’s Translator Contract leaves no doubt about that — but it must be experienced by the voluntariat as a spontaneous, non-alienated gift.
And the voluntariat is not, like the proletariat, the instrument of its own dispossession. Rather, its contribution of uncompensated work accelerates deskilling and undermines the livelihood of those who do not have the luxury of working for free — in this case, professional translators who cannot afford to give away their labor.
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#AntiCapitalism

I did some volunteering at a local school to help gather supplies for families who are staying home from school because of the invasion.
In the school office, a parent was checking in with one of the school staff whose family member was recently abducted. He was able to call once. He thinks he’s in Texas, but he’s not sure. She hasn’t heard from him for over a day. Then she turned back to coordinating volunteers, running the school office.
I did my work getting the supplies assembled and distributed. Then on the way out, I passed I room full of 1st / 2nd / 3rd graders, with the mellow happy buzz of kids at work, kids of every race and ancestry, just having a normal one, and
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I took a sabbatical from full time therapy work last year to work full time in organizing and resistance work.
I launched Epsteinwiki.com
in December and it is a labor of love.
We are in need of volunteers if you know anyone interested in working on the archive.

Statt diese neumodischen Rituale von jenseits des Atlantik zu übernehmen, um als „modern“ zu gelten, sollten wir den Valentinstag so zelebrieren, wie Karl Valentin es gewollt hätte: unter den zarten Klängen des Lebenden Orchestrion genießen wir zunächst das Brilliantfeuerwerk und dann https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Zts-IMs3sA

An early #ValentinesDay surprise for the wife. Trying to earn me some credits towards a homemade pie - apple or banana cream.
#UlteriorMotives

"Celebrating Seven Years of By the People"
https://blogs.loc.gov/thesignal/2026/03/by-the-people-turns-7/
"We turned seven during the Fall of last year and we’ve been waiting to make a very exciting announcement: Our volunteers completed one milli…

Volunteers fill gaps in Kyiv’s response as Russian strikes deepen blackouts: https://benborges.xyz/2026/02/11/volunteers-fill-gaps-in-kyivs.html

The best Android keyboard for GrapheneOS is the Google keyboard "GBoard" with its network access permission revoked :-(
I hate to admit it, but a $3,667,000,000,000 company suckling gently at the FL/OSS volunteer teet can produce a more polished and functional product than FL/OSS volunteers on their own. Pity about all the evil shit.

Just in time for Valentine's Day, you can share your password with your partner, but I would reconsider if I were you. It's OK to keep something private.
Bitwarden has launched a new system called ‘Cupid Vault’ that allows users to safely share passwords with trusted email addresses.

Bitwarden introduces ‘Cupid Vault’ for secure password sharing
Bitwarden has launched a new system called 'Cupid Vault' that allows users to safely share passwords with trusted email addresses.