🚨 THE RESULTS ARE IN 🚨

After a week of voting on 32 of the worst people in the tech industry, we have a winner!

The Worst Person in Tech for 2025 is…

🚀 ELON MUSK 🎉

My boss: We want you to use AI to help do your job and increase productivity

Me: *sends an ai avatar to meetings instead of me having to attend *

Boss: No, not like that

#ai #llm #aibubble

The European Commission lost the Chat Control 2.0 battle over access to end-to-end encrypted data. By the summer 2026, they will be back with their next attempt: Going Dark. This time some EU member states want to include VPN services.

The Going Dark initiative, or ProtectEU as the Commission now calls it, wants to “enable law enforcement authorities to access encrypted data in a lawful manner”. This is a Chat Control 3.0 attempt.

The devs of Waterfox (a privacy hardened fork of Firefox) respond to Mozilla's announcement that they will be "pivoting" to embedding "AI" in the Firefox browser - worth a read: https://www.waterfox.com/blog/no-ai-here-response-to-mozilla/

#mozilla #firefox #waterfox #webbrowser #ai #enshittification #tech #privacy #llm

When Your Avian Intelligence Agrees a Little Too Much

#webcomic #krita #miniFantasyTheater

Chat Control and Age Verification laws aren't about protecting the children. They're about mass surveillance and rising authoritarianism.

These laws endanger everyone,
including the children,
and including democracy.

#HumanRights #Privacy #Democracy

I am exceedingly concerned that one of my coworkers asked AI to troubleshoot an issue with an application rather than simply READING THE FUCKING LOG FILES.

He had no idea what the issue was. I found it in a few minutes of digging for a log directory.

Next time someone on my team comments on using AI for troubleshooting, I'm going to disable their account and lock them out of their PC.

Thank you for coming to my TED talk.

Blocking young people's access to the internet is just another way to externalize one's personal responsibility for those young people.

It's always "them" who are ruining our young peoples' world and lives. It's never ever allowed to be "us".

You see, if it were ever us -- it can never ever be us -- we would have to change what we do.

We would do anything, *anything*, to protect our children. Anything except change our behavior, that is.