Max Riethmuller (TechLife)

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This physically hurts 😢 Trump turning the US Environmental Protection Agency into a rubber stamp for allowing energy companies access to national parks and protected reserves solely in the aid of profit. I feel like throwing up. This is bad for the world.

Trump lies. No subsidy cheque has ever been cut for the Canadian government. He's talking about budget deficit, which is 40-45 billion not 250. And if you take raw crude out of the equation, the deficit become a surplus. That crude is refined in the US.

https://www.ctvnews.ca/world/trumps-tariffs/article/does-the-us-really-subsidize-canada-like-trump-says-it-does/

Does the U.S. really subsidize Canada, like Trump says it does?

U.S. President Donald Trump has made various and repeated claims about his country's trade relationship with Canada to justify his tariff threats.

CTVNews

Howdy all my Mastodon homies. It's a sad departure from Indieweb.social, which has been a great and highly recommend instance, but I'm moving to a friendica instance, anonsys.net, for some of the unique friendica features not available on the mastodon platform. I will still be keeping up with you all over there (I have ported my follows), but if you wish to continue to follow me going forward, follow this profile: @[email protected]

You can view the profile here https://anonsys.net/profile/techlife

Okay so I'm now trying the friendica server anonsys.net. Currently inviting y'all to follow. Once I settle on a good instance I will delete the others. Sorry about the constant invites.

Hey y'all across the fediverse. I'm looking for a platform instance that is reliable and supports more than 500 character posts and post edits, I guess #pleroma, #friendica, #diaspora? I like friendica but the instances I've tried are suffering performance wise and are unusable.

Interested in anyone's thoughts on this who lives on one an instance on one of the above platforms. Trying not to try 20 different instances before finding one that works well.

I hope this doesn't happen, but wouldn't surprise me at the rate Trump is going he's going to try and make NASA change up the Artemis crew on the basis this was a "DEI" hire, or some crap like that.
Please add this to your archive.
#elonmusk #nazisalute #trump

The use of publicly accessible (but copyrighted) material for AI training wouldn't rankle so much if the same companies weren't so protective of IP in other arms of their enterprise. For ex. allowing spurious Content ID claims on youtube.

If we are going to usher in a new age of free use of intellectual property where ever we find it then it should apply to EVERYONE not just the multinational corporations.

But the truth is that's not what it's about. It's a cash grab.

https://web.swipeinsight.app/posts/google-s-gemini-training-data-sources-a-deep-dive-into-tech-companies-transparency-5846

Google's Gemini Training Data Sources: A Deep Dive into Tech Companies' Transparency

Google's Gemini uses public sources and Gemini Apps user data to enhance its offerings. The specifics of these sources and personal data protection are unclear. Tech companies often focus on user input data usage, hiding details about AI training datasets. The post calls for stronger transparency obligations on AI companies, suggesting a mandatory information sheet detailing training dataset's sources, composition, and biases.

Swipe Insight
So this is interesting, I'm noticing on most of the activitypub instances I'm using (actually all but it's only three) there appear to be resource issues, aka slow performance. I wonder how admins generally are coping and whether this is due to an influx of META users?

Dear Mastodon friends - I have started a profile on friendica called techlife.my-place.social. If you see a friend/follow request from him, it's me! If you follow, I can keep up with your posts even when I'm posting on friendica.

techlife.my-place.social