Omar Eldahan 

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I will ask chat GPT
I will boil the last of our drinking water
Salt the soil of the scrub-lands
Tear the pages from books and feed them to my fire

I will ask copilot
I will scramble your library
reanimate and puppet the faces of your dead ancestors
I will bury you in poor copies of your dreams

I will ask grok
I will fall silent and never speak to you
I will talk only to myself lost in a maze of my own fantasies
I will forget all who cannot compliment me
I will decouple my soul from this world.

@lowqualityfacts are you also counting those that still follow you from Mastodon? There are dozens of us. DOZENS!

@thibaultamartin

To contrast with another example is Windows. Since Windows is not open source, they can continue to close it down, enshitify it, and fill it with ads and we have no recourse or alternative (besides Linux). With Android, we can just fork it and pick up right where we left off.

Android and VS Code are examples of open source in the truest sense, regardless of what MS and Google decide to do with them. Open Source isn't immune to bad practices, it just gives a way to adapt.

@thibaultamartin I don't think that this is a particularly good take. Open source fundamentally means anyone can fork the source code and change it for any reason. Instead of VS Code, there's VS Codium. Instead of Android, there's a million alternatives BECAUSE it's open source.

I hate the direction that Google is taking to close down Android, but this has nothing to do with the license. In fact, it's the opposite.

@Cassman @levi @fedora @gnome KDE is also dropping X11 support. I think some of the other spins like MATE and maybe xfce but its not clear how long that's going to last. I don't know your specific use case, but I strongly recommend switching. Wayland had matured to a state that it has become way better than X11 ever was, even on Nvidia GPus.

GOOD NEWS: For the first time in history, RENEWABLE ENERGY has overtaken COAL in global electricity production.

Solar and wind are finally outpacing fossil fuels. This is a TURNING POINT for the planet and for all of us.

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/oct/07/global-renewable-energy-generation-surpasses-coal-first-time

Today in Labor History Nov 2, 1956: Israel invaded Egypt, followed by Britain and France, during the Suez Crisis. The goal was to regain control of the economically important Suez Canal by western powers, and to overthrow Egyptian leader Nassar, who had nationalized the canal. During the crisis, Israel occupied the Gaza Strip. The conflict resulted in 172 Israeli deaths and up to 4,000 Arab deaths, including 1,000 civilians.

#workingclass #LaborHistory #israel #palestine #nakba #zionism #genocide #freepalestine #EndTheOccupation #suez #egypt

Wow, this is huge! Historic!

Congratulations Egypt on being declared malaria free, after 100 years of effort!

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cm2yl8pjgn2o

#malaria #egypt #progress #GoodNews #sharegoodnewstoo #EliminateDisease

Egypt declared malaria-free by World Health Organization

The World Health Organization says the disease "that plagued pharaohs" now belongs to Egypt's history.

@curmudgeonaf @Climatehistories we're trying, but some museums and countries are proving to be very stubborn in giving back our stuff. The British still won't give us back the Rosetta Stone.

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