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Det öppna brevet till utrikesministern går att läsa här: https://aietik.se/pax-silica

Öppet brev till Maria Malmer Stenergard med anledning av Pax Silica

Samtidigt som stora delar av världen förfasar sig över den politiska utvecklingen i USA reser vår utrikesminister till Houston, Texas för att skriva på ett samarbetsinitiativ inom AI. Sverige ansluter sig därmed till Pax Silica. Agerandet har inte föregåtts av någon öppen diskussion, debatt eller ens ett tydligt uttalande om

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Staffan Hesselbom 6h ago

javi 20h ago

I didn't realize the facebook execs Mozilla acqui-hired last year have been promoted! I was assuming they were still just heading the ads division of Mozilla, but oh boy, I fucking wish.

Now the former Senior VP of Marketing of facebook (2008-2022, the finest years of facebook) is the CHIEF FINANCIAL OFFICER of the entire Mozilla.

And the former VP of Ads in Facebook (2012-2022), is now the Senior VP of Product of Mozilla.

Let me repeat this:

The guy who used to lead the facebook team that was literally "advertising to teenagers based on their emotional state" is now the guy who decides the direction of Firefox as a product. But hey, let's keep giving Mozilla the benefit of the doubt uh? I'm sure these people-who-should-be-on-trial-in-the-hague are going to do great things for the community!

Mozilla Leadership

Mozilla

Staffan Hesselbom 8h ago

Per Axbom 8h ago

Jag är upprörd. Det står i tidningen.

Och det är rätt. Regeringen har smugit bakom ryggen på oss allihop när vi plötsligt står inför faktum att utrikesministern varit i USA för att skriva på Pax Silica i förra veckan.

Väldigt tacksam över att SvD Näringsliv tar vår kritik på allvar och lyfter den på detta sätt.

Klicka gärna på länken för att signalera till tidningen att dessa ämnen är värda att skriva om. 🙏

https://www.svd.se/a/gkk0g5/usa-samarbetet-pax-silica-vacker-hard-kritik-otroligt-markligt

#PaxSilica

USA-samarbetet Pax Silica väcker hård kritik: "Otroligt märkligt"

Sverige gick med i amerikanska samarbetet Pax Silica utan bred debatt eller EU-beslut. Nu varnar kritiker för ökat beroende av USA – och kräver svar från regeringen. ”Hur går det här ihop?”

Svenska Dagbladet

Staffan Hesselbom 1d ago

Reginald 1d ago

“We briefly had a library of alexandria and then fed it into a paper shredder so advertisers could sell a random mash of pulp back to us at a premium.”

🎓 @ilovecomputers

Staffan Hesselbom 1d ago

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nixCraft 🐧1d ago

oh look, the AI batshit crazy Microslop is down the most out of the MAG 7. OpenAI's big investor, Microsof has lost 31% of its market cap in just a few weeks, and it’s gonna sink even deeper when the market opens in a few hours.

OpenAI is running out of cash & can't find new investors. Even the banks refused to sanction loans for Oracle to build an IDC for them. Now Microslop says they tone down the AI & Ads in Win11 just to win back users. their slop machines aren't generating enough profits

Staffan Hesselbom 1d ago

RE: https://mastodon.social/@photomatt/116280725292869010

Time to stop using WordPress! Just a AI slop machine. This is really sad to see. I used to like WordPress.

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Staffan Hesselbom 1d ago

@MozillaAI You are pathetic. You had the one good browser and then you went and fucked it up all by yourself. No one will ever trust you again. Just stop and go broke. Please.

Staffan Hesselbom 2d ago

javi 2d ago

Firefox updated their Terms of Use? Let's see!

As you type a search query within Firefox, Firefox offers search suggestions to provide you with faster and more direct access to what you’re looking for. Some of the search suggestions come from your search provider (“Search Suggestions”). Others come from Firefox, and are based on information stored on your local device (including recent search terms, open tabs, and previously visited URLs), or content from Mozilla and Mozilla’s partners, including paid sponsors and internet resources like Wikipedia (“Suggestions from Firefox”).

Here chat. Here. This is where Firefox dies.

"information stored in your local device" and "content from mozilla's parners" and "paid sponsors".

This is a very convoluted way of saying "we use your personal data to segment you into something we can sell to advertisers".

This is EXACTLY what chrome does, this is exactly why a lot of us stopped using Chrome and moved back to Firefox. In some circumstances Mozilla’s partners will receive de-identified search and interaction data, in order to serve relevant suggestions and measure user engagement with suggested content.This is making me really mad. THIS IS JUST CORPO-SPEAK TO DESCRIBE HOW THE ENTIRE INTERNET ADVERTISEMENT INDUSTRY WORKS. This is HOW FACEBOOK WORK. This is how GOOGLE WORK. This is how the entire programmatic advertisement industry work. This is what we call "sell your personal data". No, no one sells your address, no one sells your name. BECAUSE IT'S ILLEGAL IN A SIGNIFICANT PART OF THE WORLD.
We also work with advertising providers to deliver relevant sponsored content using programmatic technologies. To support this, we may share limited, non-identifying information — such as device type, IP-derived location information, and category of content viewed — to help determine which ads to display. We don’t share any information that identifies you. You can turn off sponsored content in your New Tab settings at any time.Oh it's so nice of you Mozilla, to do THE MINIMUM LEGAL REQUIREMENTS when selling our data. You don't share information that identify me? so nice of you! you know how else does that? Meta! Google! Tiktok! Somehow big tech mega corporations are willing to comply with the minimum legal requirements as you do, mozilla!In some cases, we may share or publish aggregated and anonymized data to facilitate research or as part of the lawful business purposes outlined above (such as sharing aggregated insights with advertising partners).This is called "advertisement segmentation" and it's what it paid for Zuckenberg fortress in Hawaii!! Going places, Moz, you are operating exactly as how Facebook used to do in 2016!To provide our services as described above, we may disclose personal data to: Partners, service providers, suppliers and contractors"We never disclose your personal data!!! well, unless it's one of our partners who pays us for it, of course!"

oh wait! they include a table of what kind of data they share with partners!Technical dataLocationLanguage preferenceSettings dataUnique identifiersSystem performance dataInteraction dataSearch dataBrowsing dataThe SHARE FUCKING EVERYTHING. THEY ARE SELLING EVERYTHING. "Unique identifiers" is the closest to personal identifiable data they can sell. That's what advertisers can use to make a profile of you: They may not know your name, but they will know everything else about you.

This is the same information that google collects and sells from you. THE SAME.

Fucking ghouls. This is where Firefox died, folks.

Firefox Privacy Notice

Mozilla

Staffan Hesselbom 2d ago

tante 3d ago

"Microsoft 365 has more than 450 million paid commercial seats. After roughly two years on the market, Copilot has converted approximately 15 million of them into paying users. That's a 3.3% conversion rate, at $30 per user per month, generating roughly $5.4 billion in annual revenue. That's less than what Microsoft spent on infrastructure in a single quarter (3)."

None of the numbers make economic sense.

https://finance.yahoo.com/markets/stocks/articles/nadella-paid-650m-recruit-ai-170000361.html?guccounter=1

Nadella paid $650M to recruit his AI chief. After 2 years he's quietly pushing him aside — these brutal numbers are why

Nadella just reshuffled his entire AI leadership. Here's what that means for your portfolio.

Yahoo Finance

Staffan Hesselbom 2d ago

Human Brain Enthusiast 2d ago

Everyone should watch this once a month while the AI hype is still going on https://youtu.be/7pqF90rstZQ

this is what 2 years of chatgpt does to your brain

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