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What is "sovereign #AI", and is it even possible to achieve it in practice?

What is not possible is to buy it, or even achieve sovereignty quickly by throwing money at the problem. It is possible to achieve reasonable goals in this space, but doing so is going to require some careful architecture work.

https://findthethread.blog/How-Sovereign-Is-Your-Intelligence/

How Sovereign Is Your Intelligence?

Today brings an interesting juxtaposition of news items, each helping to illuminate the other.

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Dominic 🇪🇺 🏳️‍🌈 🇺🇦23h ago

Over on #Bluesky, I moved PDS to eurosky dot social, and the whole process was entirely painless. I wish moving servers in the #fediverse were that easy!

Dominic 🇪🇺 🏳️‍🌈 🇺🇦1d ago

Micro SF/F by O. Westin 2d ago

"It's none of my business," the woman said, "but..."

The witch did not roll her eyes.

"...I heard you gave the baker's gal fangs, and claws."

"She asked."

"You've made her a monster!"

"Adding doesn't make you a monster. Removing does."

"Removing what?"

"Someone's right to be who they are."

#MicroFiction #TootFic #SmallStories

Dominic 🇪🇺 🏳️‍🌈 🇺🇦2d ago

RE: https://mastodon.social/@riotnrrd/116272327601860590

Sounds like IDC agrees with me that the Amazon phone is not a product people want, especially right now: https://www.theregister.com/2026/03/20/amazon_phone_worst_possible_time/

Dominic 🇪🇺 🏳️‍🌈 🇺🇦3d ago

Amazon is planning to make a phone that can “serve as a conduit to Amazon customers throughout the day”; very revealing turn of phrase, that! It gets even more explicit: “Amazon could gain a wealth of new data about users”. So, I understand why Amazon would want this —but why would anybody else? https://finance.yahoo.com/sectors/technology/articles/exclusive-amazon-plans-smartphone-comeback-100051690.html

Exclusive-Amazon plans smartphone comeback more than a decade after Fire Phone flop

In 2014, Amazon introduced its first smartphone, hoping to take on Apple and Samsung. Instead, the Fire Phone - overseen directly by founder Jeff Bezos...

Yahoo Finance

Dominic 🇪🇺 🏳️‍🌈 🇺🇦5d ago

Eid morning prayers are going on outside my window, and I’m pretty sure I can hear women’s voices joining in leading the chants. As someone ignorant of Islam, but who has travelled a little in Islamic countries, that is not something I have heard before. Is it indicative of anything at all? A particularly liberal local congregation, perhaps?

Dominic 🇪🇺 🏳️‍🌈 🇺🇦Mar 17

Honestly, I’d have been happier with Google scrapping this incredibly ill-conceived feature if it *had* been due to a re-evaluation of “the quality or safety of the new feature”. I don’t want #AI surfacing “What People Suggest” about my health unless those people are qualified doctors, tyvm. https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/mar/16/google-scraps-ai-search-feature-that-crowdsourced-amateur-medical-advice

Google scraps AI search feature that crowdsourced amateur medical advice

Exclusive: Revelation comes as company faces mounting scrutiny over use of AI to provide health tips

The Guardian

Dominic 🇪🇺 🏳️‍🌈 🇺🇦Mar 17

From “don’t deploy on Friday afternoon” to “don’t prompt on Friday afternoon”? And once again, the way to mitigate the impact is the same as it ever was: small changes to minimise blast radius, stages gradually, with easy rollback or restore to recover. #DevOps for #AI: now what’s the acronym for that? https://www.theregister.com/2026/03/17/gartner_copilot_security_mitigations/

Gartner suggests Friday afternoon Copilot ban because tired users may be too lazy to check its mistakes

: Admins may be even more exhausted by then, because securing Microsoft’s AI helper is not a trivial job

The Register

Dominic 🇪🇺 🏳️‍🌈 🇺🇦Mar 16

We don’t have to look outside IT for an analogy to #AI-assisted code-generation as compared to traditional programming: it’s like the shift from monitoring (laboriously gathering scarce signals) to observability (sifting meaning from omnipresent data). https://devops.com/when-code-becomes-cheap-engineering-becomes-governance/

Dominic 🇪🇺 🏳️‍🌈 🇺🇦Mar 16

The only thing we can glean from the fact that ServiceNow’s CEO is saying #AI could push grad jobless rate above 30% is that he really wants people to buy his AI tools. This is short-term play: burn out your seniors to avoid hiring juniors, and pretty soon you have nobody to do the work. But for a brief wonderful moment, you’ll have created so much shareholder value! https://www.theregister.com/2026/03/16/servicenow_grad_jobs_ai/

ServiceNow boss warns AI could push grad unemployment past 30%

: McDermott argues digital workers will handle much of the grunt work once used to train junior staff

The Register

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