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Having fun with the revelation that Kagi Translate is actually something like a thin wrapper over an LLM, so you can pass anything you want as the "to" language in the URL's query string and it will do its best to "translate" your text to that
https://translate.kagi.com/?from=en&to=pentagon+speak&text=I+think+we+should+break+up.
This is a dark, beautiful, sobering post. We all live downstream from the mindset of "violence, then rebuild, all the while profiting from it".
Read it.
https://post.lurk.org/@shibacomputer/116212328257230121
#signal #digitalInfrastructure #capitalism
EDIT: author @shibacomputer is on Mastodon
Attached: 1 image In 2015 I was on a beach in Hawai'i helping build the prototype of what became Signal. I argued that the app needed pseudonyms because abusers know their victims' phone numbers. I lost the fight that day. History proved me right, and Signal would move to usernames under @[email protected]'s stewardship. In this new essay, I trace the line from Barlow's Declaration of Independence of Cyberspace through smart-home forensics, metadata killings, and Archive Team's non-consensual Tumblr scrape to ask: when did we decide that a jpeg is a photograph, that a profile is a person, that storage is memory? The answer involves a boat off Honolulu, the early days of Signal, Iran's missiles over Amazon's Dubai AWS facilities, and the communities already building for a world where the server goes dark. This is an essay about infrastructure, memory, archiving without consent, and what we lose when we mistake the filesystem for memory. It is also the angriest and most personal text I've ever written. I'm furious, and you should be too. We bet an entire civilisation on a brutal and unreliable stack. Now, fate has come to collect that wager. California has a lot to fucking answer for. https://newdesigncongress.org/en/pub/who-will-remember-us-when-the-servers-go-dark/
Open Infrastructure Map relies on the community to translate our website - you can help out by submitting translations on Weblate:
https://hosted.weblate.org/engage/open-infrastructure-map/
At the moment, we're particularly looking for translators to Portuguese and Brazilian Portuguese.
One of the most common objections I hear to climate action is: “But what about China?”
The person making this argument usually goes on to claim that China is doing nothing, while everyone else is making sacrifices. But that’s not what the data show.
Here’s the reality:
* As the U.S. doubles down on fossil fuels and blocks new wind and solar projects, its emissions are ticking up.
* In contrast, China’s emissions appear to have peaked — and may now be starting to decline.
* Last year, China installed a full half of all the world's new wind and solar energy.
* Over the past two years, China installed more new solar power each year than the U.S. has installed in total across its entire history.
* China's clean exports alone are cutting CO2 outside its borders by 1% year on year.
Of course no country can fix climate change on its own. But just as it's a global problem, progress in one place helps everyone.
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Steve Randy Waldman
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Alberto Cottica
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