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The Authoritarian Stack.
This is brilliant – if you’re interested in human rights, democracy, and tech, and want to understand technofascism/corporatocracy bookmark and read this.👇
#AuthoritarianStack #tech

Happy Everything Breaks Day! The day when all the major tech companies lift their change freezes and deploy to production for the first time in weeks.
#tech #software #programming

Über die Gründung von Broadcom und deren Mitgründer Henry Samueli: #techhistory

Henry Samueli: Champion of Digital Broadband
In 1991, the few people who had Internet access at home mainly relied on slow dialup lines. Henry Samueli envisioned faster digital broadband. In research at UCLA and at Broadcom, which he cofounded in 1991, Samueli and his team revolutionized digital modems, enabling today's high-speed communications. Awarded the 2025 IEEE Medal of Honor, Samueli's journey from a curious middle schooler to a tech pioneer is inspiring.

Here's a live walking test of the Meta v2 AI glasses on the streets of New York City.
#newyork

Interesting thread from @… on business finance and the incentives created by the shape & scale of it:
#money #tech

Like all the rest of the nerds, I did a bit of tech support on family computers.
They're all popping up windows from scam virus scanners lying that subscriptions need to be renewed or machines are unprotected. People don't know how to remove these things. Luckily they also don't really know how to pay the subscription.
Their phones are updating on them. Changing where buttons used to be. Removing options. Forcing people to register to use they things they have been doing for years.
They don't know how to register.
Things pop up asking for passwords and they have no idea who is asking or which password to use.
I tell them that I don't really understand why they keep using Windows now it is so shitty and awful. They say they don't know how to use anything else. The fact they don't really know how to use windows either doesn't seem to register.
The tech corporations have given up completely on being user friendly. They are all deliberately user hostile and exploitative now.
Corporate tech is terrible. The industry is failing it's users, abusing them. People don't even know there is any other way. They are just giving up on achieving their tasks until someone can fix the pop-ups and subscription boxes and passwords and 2fa for them.
Tech sucks now. Sucks hard.
#tech #christmasTechSupport

It was my goal to enter 2026 with 2026 subscribers for my 100% free #ux #design and #tech newsletter, The Product Picnic.
Currently we are only in 1969, which while a great year is somewhat short of the go…

I find it quite funny how if I write an essay on tech, I sound really anti tech 😂
#tech

SD Card Data Recovery... #tech
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/xcukLOhm9zY
very nice

Ah, good thing Ireland didn’t bet a major chunk of its economy on US Big Tech creating jobs or anything.
*phew!*
#BigTech #USA #AI

Entirely not shocked. Never gonna buy a Smart display of any kind and I'm done with streaming services so I wouldn't buy one of those either. It's a pirate's life for me.
#Tech #PSA #HDMI

hahah.. yes.. YES...
The #tech #conglomerates, having scoured all crumbs of the original #internet, how turn to each other and devour themselves.

Reddit sues Perplexity for allegedly ripping its content to feed AI
Reddit is selling your posts to AI companies, and now it’s suing to stop the ones who won’t pay. Reddit is suing Perplexity and three “data-scraping service providers” to “stop the industrial-scale, unlawful circumvention of data protections by a group of bad actors who will stop at nothing to get …

Seems worth posting this again:
#tech #ethics #DataEthics

This is how “delighted” and “helped” I feel.
and no, I still have no idea how to resolve my issue. #AI #chatbot #tech #CustomerSupportNightmare #CustomerSupport

Tech Pizza Monday is on, as usual, tomorrow starting at 6 PM, at the usual place, Victory Cafe at 440 Bloor St. W. #techmeetup https://luma.com/h9neb30z

Glossary of Technical and Green Terms - Understand key words, abbreviations and other terms used on Earth Notes. #tech #glossary #energy -

Glossary of Technical and Green Terms
Understand key words, abbreviations and other terms used on Earth Notes. #tech #glossary #energy

»Quantenphysik und KI — Warum neue Technologien magisch wirken - und das #BigTech in die Hände spielt:
Während bei einem Kartentrick jeder den Zauber entlarven will, begegnen wir neuer #Technologie gerne mit ehrfürchtigem Staunen. Der Grund hat etwas mit einer ganz rudimentären Angst zu tun, mein…

Quantenphysik und KI: Warum neue Technologien magisch wirken – und das Big Tech in die Hände spielt | t3n
Bei Kartentricks wollen die Menschen gern herausfinden, wie sie funktionieren. Bei neuen Technologien hingegen, lassen sie sich gern verzaubern.

A fresh notepad, clean desk and coffee ready. Red hat 10 training will start soon.
#tech #RHEL #linux #coffee

I know all the bootleg phone cheat codes #tech #shanzhai

world's greatest speakers (this was preloaded on the phone BTW) #tech #shanzhai

Sure it's on linkedin, but I think this will resonate with everyone building internal tooling #tech #softwaredevelopment

The difference internal tooling makes
“The impact is harder to see.” This is what a fellow product manager once told me when I shared that I work on internal tooling.

Why would we think that past performance was any guarantee of future performance, when there's such a thing as efficiency and innovation? Like this 100X (!) improvement? (What might a 100X more efficient data center look like?) #ai #tech #fyp

Thanks, customer support #AI chatbot. So f**king helpful.
Bot: “Contact our support team”
Me: “How do I do that?”
Bot: “I can’t help you.”
(I want to scream so badly)
#chatbot #tech #CustomerSupportNightmare #CustomerSupport

I have a new phone with a mahoosive carbon silicon battery. Now I’m trying to break the compulsion of charging it every night.
The battery is at 89%, and I'm wondering if I should plug it in, just in case the apocalypse hits before lunch.
It's hard to believe that I spent nearly half my life without a smartphone.
#tech

This is your friendly reminder to start that backup you've been putting off :p #tech

I think there’s a real possibility that local, running on consumer electronic devices, generative AI without the need for expensive processors, data centers, massive amounts of water and electricity may well be the actual long term way forward for generative AIs like LLM, image and video generators.
#tech #ai

Low-maturity #tech orgs fetishize ideas.
Their process goes like this: a senior stakeholder has an idea, then the engineers build it. Only then can the team go and "validate" it.
The main outcome of this process is ANXIETY, because people know they are making a huge bet, but the risks aren't being acknowledged.
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Gotta say, the Text Replacement feature on my iPhone is one of the best things about it.
⌘  ‽ © π
Are some of the symbols I can type easily and it makes me so giddy 😋
*PS: Wish there was a searchable symbol database easily accessible by the keyboard.*
#iPhone #iOS #Unicode #Tech

Was telling Pops about this and realized that prob more than a few people would be interested as well.
" How to break free from smart TV ads and tracking
Sick of smart TVs? Here are your best options. "
#DumbTVs #Tech

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #StreetSounds
E‐40 feat. Tech N9ne & Brotha Lynch Hung:
🎵 Zombie
#E40 #TechN9ne #BrothaLynchHung
https://open.spotify.com/track/08yQRRz4xUUSK9gHgsPocT

There is a cult of action at the heart of tech.
This cult says: don't mind that the systems are broken. Don't try and fix them. You can just do things, using you ubermensch will.
AI has plugged into this cult to promise 10x-ing your action. But instead your will becomes subservient to the machine.
Doing what is easiest is only going to make things worse. The only helpful course of action is to fix the system.

"Just doing things" is not a path to value
Action for the sake of action feels good, but the path of least resistance leads you to surrender your own agency.

Phew finally managed to track down a copy of “Enshittification” by @…
Was weirdly hard to find it in NYC today! I tried multiple bookstores and had to wonder around multiple floors of the Union Sq. Barnes and Noble to find a sole copy tucked away on a sociology shelf.
Not sure if I’m just too early, since I was looking around 1 pm on the day the book officially released, or if the bookstores are sleeping on it.
In either case - I have it and I’m delighted to be reading it!!
#books #tech #enshittification

Every vibe-coding PM is baller until they are asked to take responsibility for maintaining that code.
#llm #ai #tech

Terms and Conditions May Apply.
#tech
#bigtech
#privacy
#documentary

One other pattern that I kept experiencing last year when I was actually trying these tools in my work (because I had so many people pushing them on me I started to think I was crazy):
Them: “oh you are struggling with X? I have been using AI to solve it and it gives me the solution in less than 10 minutes! You HAVE TO try it!”
Me: “X is really annoying, I’d love to get help with it. I’ll try that, thanks!”
* I go and try to do X, spend hours prompting AI back-and-forth as it keeps messing up and doing things wrong. I give up and do the thing manually, spending 2-3x the time I would have spent if I did it myself from the start.*
*days / weeks later*
Me: “hey, person, I tried to do X with AI and it didn’t work. I kept getting issues like Y and Z. Did I prompt it wrong? This is what I tried.”
Them: *nods, maybe chuckles* “oh yeah, it does that. I still haven’t been able to figure out how to reliably do X. I tend to redo the output completely too. But sometimes it helps me do like this tiny part. Anyway, these tools will improve soon and we won’t have to do so many manual revisions. “
I kid you not, this stuff happened every other week.
#AI #LLMs #work #tech #AIBubble

Curious that whenever someone shows me “the cool #AI flow” they built that’s supposed to be impressive, the conversation goes the same way:
Stage 1: “But you don’t understand. You don’t like AI because you haven’t used it right. Let me show you how much you can do it with.”
Stage 2: “Here are the steps in the flow and the instructions I feed to this agent / custom GPT / Claude project. I tell it to do X, reference document Y, and aim for Z.”
Stage 3: “Now, let me show you the results it gives.”
*Writes task, presses to run the prompt.*
Stage 4: “Umm sorry it’s taking a while. It’s fast but not instant. And by the way, the prompt isn’t perfect, you can definitely make it better. I just threw this together real quick the other day. It makes some mistakes, but it’s really good.”
Stage 5: “Uuuuuuh actually don’t look at the output.” *scrolls or stops screen share or pulls device away.*
“You know it’s already doing so well, if I do more prompt engineering it will get really good but I need to give it better instructions. And it ran just fine last night, I don’t know what’s up with it. And this is a cheap model, if we use another model it will be better.”
Stage 6: “You know, you really shouldn’t judge this so much. The technology will improve, it will get there sooner than you know and then you’ll regret not trying it sooner.”
So curious that this keeps happening 🤷‍♀️
#LLMs #work #tech #AIBubble