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gerwingle Jun 17, 2025

Meredith Whittaker Jun 16, 2025

Use Signal. We promise, no AI clutter, and no surveillance ads, whatever the rest of the industry does. <3

gerwingle Feb 9, 2025

Chris Trottier Feb 8, 2025

When Aaron Swartz does it, it’s prison time.

When Mark Zuckerberg does it, that’s just business.

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2025/02/meta-torrented-over-81-7tb-of-pirated-books-to-train-ai-authors-say/

“Torrenting from a corporate laptop doesn’t feel right”: Meta emails unsealed

Meta's alleged torrenting and seeding of pirated books complicates copyright case.

Ars Technica

gerwingle Dec 16, 2024

FAIR Dec 13, 2024

Corporate media told us that California raising the minimum wage for fast food workers to $20/hour would devastate the industry. Now we have actual data about the impact of California’s law.

https://fair.org/home/corporate-fearmongering-over-fast-food-wage-hike-aged-like-cold-french-fries/

Corporate Fearmongering Over Fast Food Wage Hike Aged Like Cold French Fries

The narrow focus on whether a Big Mac costs 15 cents more, and if it does, shouldn’t you yell at the people behind the counter, is a distortion, and a tired one,

FAIR

gerwingle Dec 16, 2024

Ernie Smith Dec 13, 2024

I would like to spend a few minutes telling you how awesome my current #Linux distro, Bazzite, is.

It’s sold as a gaming-focused distro, but it’s surprisingly good at most of the regular stuff, too. It feels like where distros are going.

https://tedium.co/2024/12/12/bazzite-atomic-desktop-linux-review/

new @tedium

Bazzite: A Linux Distro Worth Gushing Over

While Bazzite is branded as a gamer-focused thing, the Universal Blue Linux distro has a lot going for it for general productivity, too.

Tedium: The Dull Side of the Internet.

gerwingle Dec 16, 2024

Craig Hockenberry Dec 13, 2024

Apple is adding legitimacy where there is none.
https://mastodon.cloud/@markusms/113646640546326913

Markus Müller-Simhofer (@[email protected])

Attached: 1 image If you are using macOS 15.2, please be careful with those priority alerts. It listed a fraud email as priority for me. 😕

mastodon.cloud

gerwingle Dec 16, 2024

Vegetable Gremlin ⍼👻Dec 13, 2024

Incredible. Apple Intelligence summarized BBC news to claim Luigi had shot himself. This not only had not happened but was not something BBC reported.

AI news summaries are a terrible idea because "just making up shit" is basically an unsolvable problem in LLMs
https://bbc.com/news/articles/cd0elzk24dno

BBC complains to Apple over misleading shooting headline

Apple's new artificial intelligence features falsely made it seem the BBC reported Luigi Mangione had shot himself.

gerwingle Feb 22, 2024

Carmen Gonzalez Jan 20, 2024

Albuquerque, NM, has become the largest U.S. city to permanently make public transportation free for everyone. The city found that fares didn’t cover the administrative fees, so they actually save money by making public transportation free.

gerwingle Dec 25, 2023