This is the web we're fighting for.

#Kagi #SmallWeb

Nederlandse banken willen afhankelijkheid van Amerikaanse tech afbouwen

Rabobank, ING en ABN Amro willen hun afhankelijkheid van Amerikaanse techbedrijven zoveel mogelijk verminderen. Dat bevestigen zij aan de NOS. De drie Nederlandse grootbanken zijn hiervoor in overleg met andere Europese banken.

https://nos.nl/l/2601766 #nieuws #nos

"This news has moved me from "maybe computer use should be regulated" to "Butlerian Jihad Now" on the radicalisation scale."

(Original title: The Steam Machine Has Been Delayed Because Stupid Little Babies Can't Stop Using AI To Write Their Emails)

https://aftermath.site/steam-machine-frame-delayed-ai-data/

Something snapped into place in my mind. There is an anti-AI position that has absolutely nothing to do with luddism, or any other anti-tech position.

AI is cognitive suburbanization.

Think about it. Architecting everything so that I can't do even the most basic thing without gratuitously using a big, bloated, planet-destroying energy hog- one that *in theory* saves time, but actually just wastes it. Reducing all my options to the same generic, regurgitated, cookie cutter slop.

#AI #tech

#Meta has begun blocking access to ICE list, a publicly available wiki containing information on ICE staff.

The oligarchs are serving their masters, but the fediverse stays uncensored.

The list can be found here: https://wiki.icelist.is/index.php/Main_Page

https://www.wired.com/story/meta-is-blocking-links-to-ice-list-on-facebook-instagram-and-threads/