Mastodawn

RE: https://mastodon.social/@SteveRudolfi/116279083767770070

If one definition of evil is its wanton destruction of everything that is good and whole in the world, then Google is an active agent of evil.

It is setting out to destroy the world wide web and steal the livelihood of everyone who builds and depends on the web.

I honestly don't know how to mobilise normies to care about and stop this evil. It probably seems too niche and incremental until it's too late.

Oh yeah, and in the UK an ex-Google exec is now running the BBC. . .

Guido den Teuling 5d ago

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k3ym𖺀 Mar 2

@OlivierBurnier @ublockorigin

Mistral: two blocked requests.

Cloudflare Insights ("is the site up") and a single Intercom beacon POST that didn't even retry.

that's it. no Statsig. no tracking GIFs. no Google Analytics. no distributed tracing. no proof-of-work challenge. no KETCHUP_DISCOVERY_CARD. nothing.

a French AI company nobody talks about is running the cleanest frontend in the entire field by a factor of roughly 150x and we're all sleeping on it

les français ont tout compris

#mistral #privacy #infosec

Guido den Teuling 5d ago

RE: https://mastodon.social/@DanielSuarez/116271799487312079

@DanielSuarez it doesn’t make for an easy Sunday morning read. You’d only wish this was more widely reported on.

Guido den Teuling 5d ago

Mat Wright 5d ago

This is what we are up against, and people are salivating over AI in education, medical and government settings

UK, Canada, other countries have entire ministries devoted to advancing this shit, and it's going to accelerate the wrecking of basic humanity

Reign it in, we are already facing the consequences

#AI #CDNpoli #USpol #USpolitics

Guido den Teuling 6d ago

Bernie Sanders strikes again. Time to put the AI hype to bed

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=h3AtWdeu_G0

Bernie vs. Claude

YouTube

Guido den Teuling 6d ago

George Monbiot 6d ago

Everything we need to do to stop climate breakdown, we also need to do for national security. Energy saving, more renewables, more electricity storage and interconnectors, electrification of transport, heating, cooking and industrial processes, plant-based diets. We win on all fronts.

Guido den Teuling Mar 17

Emeritus Prof Christopher May Mar 17

The Varieties of Democracy project at GothenbergU confirms what many have been saying/thinking for years:

the US & Europe are heading towards autocracy (often arriving because voters have supported explicit autocratic leaders in elections).

The Q. is how does one defend democracy against this wave of (renewed) quasi-dictatorship?

One key answer is our political class(es) need to stop colluding with the Far Right & *actually* support democracy!

#democracy #politics
https://www.theguardian.com/world/commentisfree/2026/mar/17/trump-is-aiming-for-dictatorship-thats-the-verdict-of-the-worlds-most-credible-democracy-watchdog

‘Trump is aiming for dictatorship’. That’s the verdict of the world’s most credible democracy watchdog

Sweden’s V-Dem Institute warns that the US is no longer a liberal democracy. And autocracy is creeping across Europe too, says writer Martin Gelin

The Guardian

Guido den Teuling Mar 13

George Monbiot Mar 13

The additional cost of ONE fossil fuel price spike on the scale of 2022 = the ENTIRE COST of Net Zero by 2050. We get precisely nothing in return for the first cost, and a whole new, more secure and cheaper energy system from the second one. #NoBrainer www.theccc.org.uk/2026/03/11/c...

Cost of Net Zero by 2050 l...

Cost of Net Zero by 2050 less than a single fossil fuel price shock – CCC - Climate Change Committee

The independent, statutory body tested its cost and energy security conclusions against different scenarios. It found that the total additional cost of a single fossil fuel price spike of 2022 magnitude is likely to be as large as the total net additional cost of meeting the pathway to Net Zero across every year to 2050.

Climate Change Committee

Guido den Teuling Mar 10

Mullvad VPN Mar 10

Mass surveillance and censorship are escalating in many countries right now. There is a global attack on secure encrypted communication. Often, authorities, politicians, and tech companies work together to push for new laws. One example: when Ashton Kutcher (yes, the actor), through his tech company Thorn, tried to introduce total surveillance of all EU citizens through undemocratic and corrupt methods.

Guido den Teuling Mar 9

TheWholeTruthXX 🎨 ❤️ 🍁 🛡️Mar 9

Charlie Angus hits the nail square on the head.

The United States is at war with Canada.

That's not in question. America has no allies and respects no sovereignty.

https://charlieangus.substack.com/p/canada-is-at-war-with-the-united

Canada Is at War ... With the United States

Pete Hegseth took time out from the chaos of the Iran war to make an announcement that Donald Trump has renamed the region from Mexico to Greenland as “Greater North America.”

Charlie Angus / The Resistance

Bernie vs. Claude

‘Trump is aiming for dictatorship’. That’s the verdict of the world’s most credible democracy watchdog

​​​​Cost of Net Zero by 2050 less than a single fossil fuel price shock​ – CCC - Climate Change Committee

Canada Is at War ... With the United States

Cost of Net Zero by 2050 less than a single fossil fuel price shock – CCC - Climate Change Committee