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The "#EU-US Data Privacy Framework" is the agreement that lets the US tech giants operate in Europe despite insufficient privacy regulations in the US, down to secret service level crap like "National Security Letters". It's widely criticised for having not much more substance than a mere "trust me, bro."

Still, the European General Court just decided in September that the reforms by the US are sufficient to make it a dependable framework. One cornerstone of these "reforms" is an Executive Order - those things that trump bases his rule on (after congress gave up on its job) and that he can change nilly-willy.

With trump basically adopting putin's demand that #Ukraine surrenders (and thereby encourages that genocidal maniac at our doorsteps to continue), maybe it's time to discuss if this trust is still warranted.

The framework supports 7.1 trillion USD in trade (a lot of that going towards the US), so it could be quite a lever to reign in on the autocrats.

I wrote an #MEP about this. If you want to join in, https://www.europarl.europa.eu/meps/en/home has the list.

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Moziila didn’t have the resources to keep a "subscribe to RSS" button in Firefox but has the manpower to build a full AI inside your browser.

And that’s all you need to know about the end of the web and the IA bubble.

Today, my VPS served over 51.5 million requests. Well over 99% of that was AI crawlers and other obnoxious shits.

This is not normal. This is complete and utter bullshit. This is also happening all over the place.

It can be caught, it's not even hard. But we shouldn't need to. This is about three orders of magnitude more requests I'd normally receive, and it's almost entirely useless garbage.

Every single one of you who use GenAI tools, you personally, are complicit in this. You are responsible for these bots hammering the entire internet, you are enabling it.

If you think this price is acceptable, that every single person who hosts anything outside of BigTech walled gardens deserves this relentless assault of thieving robots, then you are a garbage human being.

But it is not too late to change course. You too can look back at the carnage you enabled, and feel remorse. It's okay. We'll forgive you.

You don't need to look at the environment damage LLMs cause - we can have an educated guess (it's very bad). You don't need to look at the unsustainability of it all. All of those are things that we don't directly feel right now.

But look at the damage these things cause to everyone outside of the BigTech walled gardens. That is measurable. These attacks are fact. You can't debate it. You can't justify it.

You, dear enabler of GenAI bullshit, you are responsible for enabling this carnage. Think about that. Feel bad about it, and stop. Today is a great day to do that.