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Star Trek fan Hobbit into science and esoteric biblical archaeology, thinking AI may help unlock consciousness—may the Force be with you, and your rolls be 20… Gₚₓ ⇒ Gᵣ ☸

🎉 The critical amendment 34 (rejecting automated assessment of unknown photos and texts) PASSED by ONE vote, paving the way for the extension of Chat Control 1.0 to be overwhelmingly REJECTED!

Initial analysis by @echo_pbreyer : https://www.patrick-breyer.de/en/end-of-chat-control-eu-parliament-stops-mass-surveillance-in-voting-thriller-paving-the-way-for-genuine-child-protection/

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The #enshitification of everything continues: "Ads are coming to Apple Maps"

https://techcrunch.com/2026/03/24/apple-maps-ads-apple-business/

Ads are coming to Apple Maps, as Apple expands its business offerings | TechCrunch

Apple Maps will launch ads this summer in the U.S. and Canada. Plus, a new suite of Apple Business offerings arrives April 14.

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Looking for a new job as an Embedded Software Engineer.

I have 3 years of experience as an embedded software engineer in an R&D team. Mostly with embedded C, real-time operating systems, ESP32, communication protocols, and some hardware design.

I'm specifically looking for companies that work on sustainability, health, education, privacy, FOSS, or similar fields. In the eastern part of the Netherlands or hybrid/remote.

If anyone knows any interesting companies, please let me know!

Is he talking about Iran or the U.S.?
1043 words (51581 total) on “The Post-American Internet,” a sequel to "Enshittification," about the better world the rest of us get to have now that Trump has torched America #DailyWords
i'm all for antelope internet 🦌🛰️

Palantir Sues Swiss Magazine For Accurately Reporting That The Swiss Government Didn’t Want Palantir
https://www.techdirt.com/2026/02/27/palantir-sues-swiss-magazine-for-accurately-reporting-that-the-swiss-government-didnt-want-palantir/

Please note that Palantir would rather that you didn't share this story, it makes them look even more stupid if you do...

Palantir Sues Swiss Magazine For Accurately Reporting That The Swiss Government Didn’t Want Palantir

If you run a company whose entire value proposition is the ability to see patterns, predict outcomes, and connect dots that others miss, you’d think someone in the building might have flagged…

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lol, "if only someone had warned us about this sort of thing?!"

#AI #GenAI #AIBubble #Technology #Business #LLMs

Anyone have contact with Microsoft network ops? They've blackholed my SMTP (204.11.50.134) (which is used by me and half a dozen other people, none of whom send spam), and my admin's on vacation and I don't wanna screw up his time off. This is obviously a false positive though.