@Starfleetmom

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I'm a crazy (grand)mom, sci fi nut, vegan, birdwatcher, cyclist, I’m on the Trekmovie team... and I actually married an alien!
This is the ad the Washington Post backed out of running.
Google drops pledge not to use AI for weapons or surveillance

Google changed its public AI policies to remove assertions that it would not develop AI applied to surveillance or weapons.

The Washington Post
“Complete readiness is rare. Like fledglings that need to be pushed out of the nest we often don’t know we have wings until we’re forced to fly.”
-Mariann Edgar Budde, How We Learn To Be Brave
Yea Steinbeck was kinda on the nose with greedy corporations destroying people and the plight of migrants and the workers movement. So much strife and injustice. 😢

I finished my audiobook of The Grapes of Wrath this morning and YELLED at it. THATS IT? THATS THE ENDING?!!!

I gave 21 hours of my life to that depressing story.

(Not a good book choice at this particular point in time either)

Me after looking at the news/social media and then heading to work

WHY OH WHY... are no 'journalists' picking up on this incredible (and incredibly disturbing) story by @pluralistic

'Turns out Donald Trump isn't the only world leader with a tech billionaire "first buddy" who gets to serve as an unaccountable, self-interested de facto business regulator. **UK PM Keir Starmer has just handed the keys to the British economy over to Jeff Bezos.**'*

*(My emphasis)

Prolly best to read this on Cory's blog https://pluralistic.net/2025/01/22/autocrats-of-trade/#dingo-babysitter rather than a long, long thread here on #mastodon - which some folks are getting in a flutter about.

Let's keep to the real news here - this incredible, jaw-dropping, cave-in to big tech.

#tech #oligarchy #ukpol #amazon #bezos #billionaires #starmer

Pluralistic: Keir Starmer appoints Jeff Bezos as his “first buddy” (22 Jan 2025) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow

I couldn't let this one slip by. It's just too good and spot-on to ignore! #masculinity
After a delicious lunch of vegan ramen with my friend, Spring, we went to Kit Carson Park in Escondido to look for the reported Vermilion Flycatcher.
We were not disappointed!
We found it near the Eagle Scout Pond.