R O B I N

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📍 Winnipeg 🇨🇦

Trying to level up every day. #Learning #French, big fan of #coffee, #movies, and #NonFiction #books, usually ones that I hope can make me a better person.

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R O B I NMar 7
Stacey Cornelius 🇨🇦Mar 6

One wonders if the people jumping to Claude as part of the Quit ChatGPT campaign are aware that Antrhopic destroyed millions of books to train it.

Plus, you know, the war stuff.

https://arstechnica.com/ai/2025/06/anthropic-destroyed-millions-of-print-books-to-build-its-ai-models/

https://www.techrepublic.com/article/news-anthropic-claude-ai-used-iran-war-despite-ban/

Anthropic destroyed millions of print books to build its AI models

Company hired Google's book-scanning chief to cut up and digitize "all the books in the world."

Ars Technica
R O B I NMar 5
Fight the RightMar 4

Quit ChatGPT: right now! Your subscription is bankrolling authoritarianism

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/mar/04/quit-chatgpt-subscription-boycott-silicon-valley

Quit ChatGPT: right now! Your subscription is bankrolling authoritarianism

As a historian, I’ve studied the major consumer boycotts of history. We can take down ChatGPT and send a powerful signal to Silicon Valley, says author and historian Rutger Bregman

The Guardian
R O B I NMar 3
Existential ComicsMar 3
Always a good time these days to repost this slide from an IBM internal presentation in 1979.
R O B I NMar 3
Jan Wildeboer 😷Mar 3
Don’t call it age verification. Call it centralised personal data collection. And understand that it serves surveillance, not safety for children. Thank you for your cooperation.
R O B I NMar 3
Good morning and good day, all ☀️
R O B I NMar 3
Lydia ConwellMar 3

idk you see a musician and you think 'I'll check their music out' and then you look for links and you find nothing you can listen to without setting up an account first and other links you don't understand.

The web never used to be like that.

R O B I NFeb 24
LibreOfficeFeb 24
We've been on X/Twitter for many years, but it's time to reduce our activity there and instead promote Mastodon as our main social media channel now. So we've done just that: https://x.com/LibreOffice/status/2026204949760131158 – Welcome to all our new followers here 😊
LibreOffice (@LibreOffice) on X

Hello, world! 👋 From now on, Mastodon is our preferred social media channel. It's an open source, decentralised platform – not controlled by tech giants. Follow us here: https://t.co/KZpwR61V5R

X (formerly Twitter)
R O B I NFeb 24
I really like the #IceCubes app for #Mastodon. It’s really well thought out and customizable. Was thinking of using the native app, but for now I think I’ll stay.@IceCubesApp
R O B I NFeb 6
scullyFeb 4

RE: https://hostux.social/@offbeateats/116013220609192671

If you travel for work or pleasure do yourself a favor and check out #OffBeatEats. Some great suggestions that you may not ever find on other travel sites.

R O B I NFeb 6
GoatsLiveFeb 6
☀️Good morning everyone and goats, happy Friday!