Is it cool that the five or six men with all of our personal data, and who control all of our communication tools, and who own all of the Internet's critical infrastructure, suddenly want to help western governments scale their war machines using technology they claim will bring about a techno-utopia/armageddon?

It'll be fine, right?

#Google #Amazon #Microsoft #Meta #GAMM

For Google, Amazon, Microsoft and Meta ( #GAMM ), the old cloud sync-and-share business model wasn’t working anymore.

So what did they do?

They convinced us that our notetaking apps require an internet connection and forty thousand dollar GPUs located on a server three hundred miles away. That's the future they've made for us.

#SmallWeb #IndieWeb #Fediverse #ActivityPub

https://fromjason.xyz/p/notebook/any-technology-indistinguishable-from-magic-is-hiding-something/

Excited to present at GAMM23 in Dresden on our research of elasticity models applied to heterostructured nanowires!

#GAMM #conference #math #nanowires #elasticity