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   Rich Felker (dalias@hachyderm.io)'s status on Wednesday, 29-Apr-2026 05:26:22 JST Rich Felker

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   @glyph In a very broad sense outside of just tech, the purpose of charities is for people with excess money to buy control over if/how services reach people with insufficient money.

   In an ideal world, charities would be illegal and we would fund these things publicly, with the source of the money (taxes on ppl with too much) completely divorced from decisions about how to spend it (made by genuinely democratic processes).

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   argumento :socialiststar: (argumento@hispagatos.space)'s status on Sunday, 09-Mar-2025 08:27:55 JST argumento :socialiststar:

   Trump didn't back down from imposing tariffs to Mexico and Canada because of anything Sheinbaum or Trudeau did.

   He backed down because of the reaction of "the markets".

   "The markets" is a metaphor for the interests of the ruling class, the interests of big money.

   In case you have any doubts on who controls the US government (or any other for that matter) who ever is in office.

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   🎓 Doc Freemo :jpf: 🇳🇱 (freemo@qoto.org)'s status on Monday, 11-Mar-2024 23:49:45 JST 🎓 Doc Freemo :jpf: 🇳🇱

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   @scottsantens

   As someone who is strongly against UBI, and strongly supportive of welfare I can earnestly say people simply not working is not at all the reason I (or most people against UBI in my opinion) are against it.

   The reason i am against it is because it causes people more harm than good. People who are in a position where they need assistance need to be given the tools to get out of their situation, and the help to get there needs to be conditional on this (and we should be spending the money that goes with that). Financial assistance should be conditional with mandatory job training or mental health therapy needed to help someone succeed, not just money.

   In fact when there are underlying bad habits, as can often be the case, it is possible money can even make a persons condition worse and cause them to sleep farther into poverty.

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   tio (tio@social.trom.tf)'s status on Saturday, 24-Feb-2024 14:47:34 JST tio

   Very good conversation about AI. Here's the ALJazeera link www.aljazeera.com/program/stud…

   I like the focus on "the system" rather than the "AI". The "AI" is not really the problem here, the system is, where it incentivizes the use of AI for bad purposes. From big companies who want to harvest people's data and show ads to them, or sell their "AI" as a service, and thus be incentivized to make this tool for profit motives, to individuals who are using these tools to create more shitty content online in order to get more clicks, more views, more money.

   In the end it is what we talked about for years now: the problem with trade. We live in a trade-based society where everyone is forced and incentivized to trade. So instead of making a tool like AI for detecting skin cancer, or creating videos more easily, and overall to help the society, people, and be useful, humans make these tools in order to trade them: for data, attention, or currency.

   We need to talk about that! We need to talk about our society more than we need to talk about AI.

   #TradeRuinsEverything
   ♲ mastodon.ar.al/@aral/111982930…

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   Tobias Bernard (tbernard@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 06-Apr-2023 02:37:59 JST Tobias Bernard

   It's been fascinating to see people in different regions come to the same realization recently: If you want to actually reduce emissions you need to shut down the thing that makes money.

   In some places it's the car industry, elsewhere it's tourism, cash crop monoculture, winter sports, you name it. Whatever sector makes up most of the local economy is *also* the one that's emitting tons of carbon, using all the water and energy, and generally destroying the environment.

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   Sergia (She/Her) ☮️??️‍???? (sergia@dair-community.social)'s status on Sunday, 25-Dec-2022 06:29:10 JST Sergia (She/Her) ☮️??️‍????

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   It shows a version of compsci that doesn't exist - a fairy tale. The field itself became something that needs to be retouched and marketed.

   Like, in their version of "good CS", the deep learning gentlemen didn't fuck over one of their own, and other directions in the field. In this fairy tale version, they did it for science, not the money.

   In this fantasy version tech helps society, and Cambridge Analytica never happened

   I want to work in that version of openai, but it just doesn't exist.