Jonas Høgh

@h0gh
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Programmer, metalhead, and cynical old bastard
Hot take: yes please take the hot away
I can hear Bob now.
#USpol
Ron Wright: "Elon Musk once jokingly offered to end World Hunger, asking how much it would cost as if it would be some incalculable number. When the United Nations replied saying $6.6 Billion would be enough to immediately end famine for the year, Musk never responded, and a few months later bought Twitter for $44 Billion. You struggle and suffer because of people like him, not because your neighbor is an immigrant."
#hunger #poverty #greed #politics
It's Miller time ...
@gurkan @dalias
Now with alt text

Leder:
En undersøgelse, Gemius har foretaget for Danske Medier, viser, at 0% af brugernes anvendelse af Google AI Mode nu leder brugerne videre til besøg på danske 🇩🇰 mediers hjemmesider

Kloge Ånder i tech-verdenen minder ofte hinanden om, at techgiganterne #BigTech ejer både #datacenter software-systemer og sø-kabler, og dertil må vi nu føje, at Google vil eje selve oplevelsen af at være på nettet
https://ing.dk/holdning/googles-forraederi-er-totalt-nu-maa-vi-handle
#markeddominans

Googles forræderi er totalt - nu må vi handle | Ingeniøren

Der var engang, hvor Google stod som et lysende forbillede med en vision om at “organisere verdens viden”, gøre den søgbar og dermed brugbar for hele verden.I sandhed et “don’t be evil”-formål, som mottoet var dengang, og des mere imponerende var det, at man kunne gøre det til en god forretning.Nu er vi imidlertid ved en korsvej. Google vil ikke længere være internettets bibliotekar. Selskabet vil være SELVE internettet. Den nye funktion AI-overview viser et kort sammendrag af andres indhold, men du kan glemme alt om, at nogen sendes videre til din hjemmeside, webbutik eller medie.

Ingeniøren
So, what’s next? Shall we lose a war with Cuba now? Perhaps in those negotiations Trump will masterfully offer Cuba the option to host Russia’s nuclear missiles again.

@engedal Analogien mellem bøger og techfeudalisters sociale medier holder ikke. Bøger overvåger ikke, de retter ikke vredesøgende indhold personligt mod brugere for at sælge adgang til brugerne til lede virksomheder og klamme demagoger.

Vi skal forbyde disse virksomheders forretningsmodeller hurtigst muligt, før det er for sent. Det er meget tæt på at være for sent.

"A billionaire death cult has its fingers around humanity’s throat. It both causes and downplays our existential crisis. The oligarchs are not just a class enemy but, as they have always been, a societal enemy: a few thousand people can destroy civilisations. It’s the billions v the billionaires, and the stakes could not possibly be higher."

George Monbiot

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/apr/23/catastrophic-climate-event-scientists-atlantic-system-collapse-billionaire-existential-crisis

#quotes
#ClimateChange
#billionaires
#oligarchs

A catastrophic climate event is upon us. Here is why you’ve heard so little about it

Scientists say a crucial Atlantic system is set to collapse. But the billionaire death cult that steers humanity’s destiny just doesn’t do existential crises, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot

The Guardian

"My intent is to be AI Amish, which means Internet Amish. Not 1780, but 1980.”

I Am Retiring from Tech to Live Offline
https://openpath.quest/2026/i-am-retiring-from-tech-to-live-offline/

#noAI #luddism

I Am Retiring from Tech to Live Offline

AI took the last of the wind out of my Open Source sails. I wish you all the best!