Matthew Merkovich

@MattMerk
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Antifa complaint department chairperson and memeber of the "radical left."

I dip my toe into the world of social networking here on Mastodon from time to time, mostly to read and favorite other people's posts, but occaisionally I'll add my drivel to the stream.

Sen. Bernie Sanders: "Congratulations to Mayor Mamdani. He inherited a huge budget deficit, brought it down to zero, and still invested in childcare, housing, and city infrastructure. When municipal governments stand with working families, not billionaires, there is nothing they cannot accomplish."
#politics #NYC #success

RE: https://gruene.social/@jon/116561879161586424

The world over needs to rethink how we define media. In the West, 80+% of media is controlled by a very small handful of rich (mostly white) men.

People without rich white man approval are therefore not accredited media. Think about what that means for democracy.

Looking at the state of #USPol, I'll never forgive anyone who ever called me, or called anyone else, "a Bernie bro."

Looks like Chromebook is being replaced with something called "Googlebook" and it is full-scale Microsoft-style Surveillance PC. Apparently anytime you "wiggle your cursor" anything that is underneath the cursor gets fed into Google's surveillance AI https://blog.google/products-and-platforms/platforms/android/meet-googlebook/

One of these things that makes me consider detecting the platform from my webserver and blocking it entirely because the probability of whatever I wrote becoming an LLM input is too high

Introducing Googlebook, designed for Gemini Intelligence

We’re introducing Googlebook, a new category of laptops designed for Gemini Intelligence and perfectly in sync with your Android phone.

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Google's Android-powered laptops are called Googlebooks, and they're coming this year

Google has revealed its vision for the AI laptop of tomorrow.

Ars Technica
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Benn Jordan continues to do the Lord's work ... the Lord's anti facist, anti tech-bro, work.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lA8WuXDXfcI
Robot Dogs Are A Security Nightmare

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Thor is a Disney princess movie for boys