@vosje62@mastodon.nl2025-10-19 05:12:34
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De naam Paul Tang zei mij wat, maar ik had even gemist dat het een en dezelfde was die zn sporen al eerder in de politiek verdiend had:
Europarlementariër Paul Tang benoemd tot wethouder in Almere | Almere | AD.nl
#almere #woningbouw
@kubikpixel@chaos.social2025-10-19 06:35:06
»Kann der Arbeitgeber Microsoft-Teams-Chats überwachen?
Die kurze Antwort lautet: Ja, IT-Administratoren können die Chats der Mitarbeitenden in Microsoft Teams überwachen. Dafür sind entsprechende Lizenzpläne und Richtlinien notwendig.«
Ich weiss nicht wie dies rechtlich einzuordnen ist aber dass Microsoft einiges mehr ist als nur Windows und MS Office sollte allgemein bekannt sein.
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@Techmeme@techhub.social2025-12-18 00:35:41
Sources: OpenAI has held preliminary discussions with investors about raising tens of billions of dollars, and as much as $100B, at a valuation of around $750B (The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/openai-discuss…
@hex@kolektiva.social2025-12-16 17:09:35
One of the things that made organizing a lot easier with the GDC was a thing called "GDC in a box." It was a zip file with all kinds of resources. There was a directory structure, templates for all kinds of things like meetings and paperwork you had to file (for legal reasons) and "read me" files.
We had all kinds of support. There were people you could talk to who had been there. There were people you could call to walk through legal paperwork (taxes). Centralized orgs are vulnerable and easy to infiltrate. They're easy for states to shut down. But there are benefits to org structures.
I think it's possible to have the type of support we had with the GDC, but without the politics of an org (even the IWW). I hope this most recent essay has some of the same properties. I hope that it makes building something new, something no one has really imagined before, easier.
This whole project is something a bit different. It's a collective vision and collective project, from the ground up. Some of it has felt like a brain dump, just getting things that have been swimming around in my head down somewhere. But I hope this feels more like an invitation.
Everything thus far written is all useless unless people do things with it. Only from that point does it become a thing that lives, a thing with its own consciousness that can't be controlled by any individual human.
Tech billionaire cultists want to bring a new era of humanity with AGI. That is definitely not possible with LLMs, and may not be possible at all. But there is a super intelligence that is possible, though it's been constrained by capitalism: collective human intelligence.
The grand vision of the tech dystopians is that of the ultimate slave that can then enslave all humans on their behalf. I think we can build a humanity that can liberate itself from their grasp, crush their vision, and build for itself a world in which people will never be enslaved again. Not only do I think it's possible, I think it's necessary. I think there are only two choices: collective liberation or death.
And that's what I plan to write about next time to wrap this whole project up. Today things often feel impossible. But people talked about the Middle Ages as though they were the end of the world, and then everything changed in unimaginable ways. Everything can, and will, change again.
"The profit motive often is in conflict with the aims of art. We live in capitalism. Its power seems inescapable. So did the divine right of kings."
@ukraine_live_tagesschau@mastodon.social2025-10-17 17:55:17
Trump: Wir brauchen "Tomahawks" selbst
Der US-Präsident deutet an, dass die USA "Tomahawk"-Marschflugkörper in der Ukraine schicken könnten. Er betont aber, dass die USA selbst diese Marschflugkörper benötigen. Er werde mit Selenskyj über "Tomahawks" sprechen. Er hoffe aber, dass der Krieg ohne diese Waffen gelöst werden könne.
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@Mediagazer@mstdn.social2025-11-18 20:20:48
The Financial Times launches its free newsletter FT Alphaville on Substack to reach younger readers, joining Reach, the Daily Mail, and other publishers (Alice Brooker/Press Gazette)
https://pressgazette.co.uk/newsletters/f…
@Techmeme@techhub.social2025-12-18 11:50:41
Apple says it will roll out more App Store ads in 2026 "to increase opportunity in search results"; Apple's website says 800M users visit the App Store weekly (Chance Miller/9to5Mac)
https://9to5mac.com/2025/12/17/apple-announces…
@hex@kolektiva.social2025-12-18 19:13:23
The #IWW #GDC as an antifascist organization was always kind of a hack. It was a beautiful hack and it worked well for what it did.
In 2016, as Trump was rising, I found info from the Twin Cities GDC. They were super organized, building an amazing community defense organization. When we (Seattle) went to set up our chapter, following their lead, they were extremely supportive. When I got shot, Twin Cities folks were at my house keeping my partner safe. They literally flew people out to support us. They very much remain in my mind when I think about what mutual aid looks like.
Unionism is an important strategy of a larger fight. But it's important to realize that it's not the other way around. The GDC was built to defend the union, because there wasn't something larger to do that work. It filled a gap.
When we organized against Trump, we tried to make the GDC the greater thing. We tried to make the GDC into the vehicle for social revolution against the fascist threat... And it sort of worked. We were able to do a lot.
But that was never what it was built to do. It was always built as an appendage of the IWW. This contains its own problem. If Unionism is the revolutionary movement, then it becomes impossible to build a truly revolutionary society. Unionism centers "workers" which implicitly decenters those who can't work in the traditional sense (the young, the elderly, those physically or mentally able to work). It also decenters care labor that hasn't yet been widely commodified. Sure, there are all types of hacks to patch the holes, but the fundamental construction starts from the wrong assumptions.
It felt, for a while, like things could go another way. Like that our ability to bring members in could shift things a bit, maybe set the GDC on more equal footing with the core focus of the IWW. But that was always an illusion, far less important to think about than the crushing terror of the regime we were fighting.
Now, I will absolutely trash talk the IWW on occasion but in the end I do think they're doing good and important work. Any criticism I have should be taken with a grain of salt... And I know I do have a lot of salt. Again, Unionism is an important strategy. It's useful both in improving immediate material conditions and as part of the most powerful weapon we have against the capitalist system: the general strike. It's important, I can't say that enough. But it's not sufficient.
I've been thinking about this a bit recently, and I wonder if there are any other GDC organizers or former organizers who might be feeling the same. Feel free to DM me. I'd like to get some more perspectives and see if my understanding from several years ago deviates significantly from what other folks are feeling right now.
I'd also like to bounce some ideas around that come from my own organizing experience.
@Mediagazer@mstdn.social2025-12-18 13:10:52
Apple says it will roll out more App Store ads in 2026 "to increase opportunity in search results"; Apple's website says 800M users visit the App Store weekly (Chance Miller/9to5Mac)
https://9to5mac.com/2025/12/17/apple-announces…
@Techmeme@techhub.social2025-10-17 18:45:51
Automaker Stellantis and Pony.ai sign a non-binding agreement to develop robotaxis for deployment in Europe, with plans to start testing in the coming months (Rebecca Bellan/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/10/17/stellantis-teams-up-w…
