Excessive Minimalism

@excess
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📎 Clippys together strong

1. Start a project
2. Abandon a project
3. Go to 1

"And she said 'We are all just prisoners here, of our own device'"
-Hotel California.

Yeah, our mobile device. More poignant that ever.

"AI is built on the collective knowledge of humankind."

No. Nononononono. It is not built on _knowledge_, it it built on _data_. And not everyone's experiences are available as data, many communities are excluded. Also: "Collective" implies some sort of collaboration and shared activity. But "AI" is just accumulation by a few powerful.

So No. It's not collective but extractive, not knowledge but data, not humankind but the hegemonic western view. Everything in that statement is wrong.

Drew Carey had it right on Who’s Line when he said “everything’s made up and the points don’t matter.”
Today is the last day you can use this.
Here's how to support human artists! 🎨

The EU Council appear ready to approve Chat Control. This must be stopped.

To highlight the corruption behind the proposal, Mullvad VPN now present "And Then?"

The backstory: https://mullvad.net/blog/mullvad-vpn-present-and-then

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Super early look at Kenney Creator, my new modeling software for indies. It'll feature many blocks and tools to create any sort of model - aiming for a Q1 2026 release! ✨