“Nederland is in verval, onze beschaving is zwak, een damsel in distress. In naam van het herstel zijn de rechts-populisten bereid om vrijwel alles overboord te gooien wat ons land zo mooi maakt: vrije pers, pluriformiteit, en uiteindelijk de democratie zelf. Zij vormen daarmee een anti-Nederlandse beweging.”
In naam van het herstel zijn de rechts-populisten bereid om overboord te gooien wat ons land zo mooi maakt: vrije pers, pluriformiteit, en uiteindelijk de democratie zelf. Zij vormen daarmee een anti-Nederlandse beweging.
Laten wij doen wat Wierd Duk wil dat wij doen: hem serieus nemen
In which I argue that arguments about whether #genAI is useful or not are the wrong arguments. The important issues are what it’s for and what it costs.
Having very unkind feelings about the people pushing it.
https://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/202x/2025/07/06/AI-Manifesto
I talked to 15 teachers/professors about how AI and ChatGPT is ruining their lives:
Ruby 3.3 and above optimized .times method, also .times is the most common way a Well Grounded Rubyist would do this. Also, I addded --yjit just in case your ruby installation isn't using YJIT....
Nice to see @pluralistic on #DemocracyNow today. I’m grateful he got into the weeds about printer ink because it is so characteristic of what’s going on in capitalism/profiteering.
#Radicalized #HUD #AIgenerated #picksandshovels
We speak with the acclaimed science fiction author, activist and journalist Cory Doctorow, who has spent decades writing and thinking about the impact of technology on our lives. He coined the term “enshittification” to describe how online platforms degrade the user experience over time in search of profits, though it has been widely adopted to describe a larger sense of decline and decay across society. He discusses his new book Picks and Shovels, Silicon Valley’s big bet on artificial intelligence to discipline its workers, and billionaire Elon Musk’s work in the Trump administration. “The point of this chaotic blitz is to demoralize their opponents,” Doctorow says of Musk’s work through DOGE, which has gutted government agencies and wide swaths of the federal workforce. “In the reality-based world, even if you are worried about government waste, even if you want to make government smaller, you have to acknowledge the empirical fact that payroll accounts for 4% of the federal budget.”