RE: https://newsie.social/@servelan/116756562824636737

Ditch Chrome. Ditch it yesterday. It’s already 50% hostile surveillance machine, but that’s soon going to be 100%.

Vivaldi is a fine near-drop-in replacement if you want maximum compatibility. It’s what I use for G-Suite stuff whenever I have to use it.

Waterfox is a Firefox fork that strips out the AI nonsense features. I’ve been happy with it.

Firefox itself has problematic leadership these days, but is still better than Chrome.

Safari on Mac (my daily driver) is a lovely browser, lean and blazing fast compared to Chrome, and great privacy features — though it’s still Big Tech if that’s a problem for you.

In short, you have choices!

#Google fired her for refusing to retract it in 2020. The firing itself proved the point she was making. The people who pay for the system can't afford to hear what's wrong with it. Every warning from Timnit Gebru's "On the Dangers of Stochastic Parrots" has now come true. At scale. Hallucinations, bias amplification, environmental cost, un-auditable training data, model collapse.

https://www.tumblr.com/dreaminginthedeepsouth/817865966907228160/darren-oconnor-timnit-gebru-was-fired-from

#TimnitGebru #stochasticparrots #aiethics #responsibleai #aicon #aihype

Big Tech doesn't want you to own anything because the less you own, the more it can own you.

Big Tech wants you to depend on the 'free' and 'cheap' things that it gives you because the more you depend on them, the more it owns you.

Big Tech thinks it knows you much better than you know yourself because it has so much data on you.

But you are more than just your data.

Show Big Tech that you are more than just your data

Get off Big Tech

People are cheapskates with poor people but spendthrift with billionaires.

I just listened to someone complaining about how "the garbage union" has schemed so that there are always two people operating NYC garbage trucks to "waste my tax dollars" and I guess making too many wealthy sanitation workers... oh no the horror.

I like that there are two people on each truck. It's more efficient and safer. But, even if it was somehow a waste I promise you that's not who is wasting your money bud.

#ICE Agent Charged in #Minnesota #Shooting Is #Arrested in Texas

Law enforcement officials from Minnesota & Texas on Friday arrested an #Immigration & Customs Enforcement agent accused of shooting a #Venezuelan immigrant this year & lying about it.

The agent, Christian Castro, 52, was arrested in Texas after investigators from the Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension tracked him down.

#law #Trump #immigration #UseOfForce #PoliceBrutality #Sturmabteilung #fascism
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/29/us/ice-agent-arrested-minnesota-shooting-immigrant.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share

pakidge

#Caturday