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   jwz (jwz@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 30-Dec-2023 06:32:17 JST jwz

   Remember when Mozilla made a web browser?

   Mozilla 2023 Annual Report: CEO pay skyrockets, while Firefox Marketshare nosedives:

   Earlier this year, Mozilla laid out their vision for the future of their organization -- and it did not include Firefox....
   https://jwz.org/b/ykH2

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     Brendan Jones (brendanjones@fosstodon.org)'s status on Saturday, 30-Dec-2023 06:32:06 JST Brendan Jones

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     • Daniel 🏳️‍🌈 Jilg :sondrine:
     • G. Wozniak

     @MBridegam @gwozniak @daniel @jwz this I am also wondering. They don’t have any existing products that use it afaik, so what are they starting?

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     Martha Bridegam (mbridegam@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 30-Dec-2023 06:32:07 JST Martha Bridegam

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     • G. Wozniak

     @gwozniak @daniel @jwz

     Yeah, wondered that. What AI is Mozilla into?

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     G. Wozniak (gwozniak@discuss.systems)'s status on Saturday, 30-Dec-2023 06:32:13 JST G. Wozniak

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     • Daniel 🏳️‍🌈 Jilg :sondrine:

     @daniel @jwz Accurately depicted as a bubble.

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     Daniel 🏳️‍🌈 Jilg :sondrine: (daniel@social.telemetrydeck.com)'s status on Saturday, 30-Dec-2023 06:32:15 JST Daniel 🏳️‍🌈 Jilg :sondrine:

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     @jwz AI.

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     jwz (jwz@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 30-Dec-2023 06:32:16 JST jwz

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     Elsewhere I saw someone post this image as a *defense of* rather than *parody of* Mozilla's corporate structure. Apparently this infographic comes from somewhere deep within the comically un-navigable "stateof.mozilla.org" (seriously, that site's design is like the "don't" list for the modern web's ills.)

     "This is where the Innovation goes in."

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     BoredomFestival (boredomfestival@sfba.social)'s status on Saturday, 30-Dec-2023 09:31:51 JST BoredomFestival

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     @jwz what the actual fuckin fuck, that's like the Red Cross deciding to abandon modern medicine and focus on homeopathy instead

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     jwz (jwz@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 30-Dec-2023 11:40:43 JST jwz

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     P.S. don't use Chrome. Thank you for coming to my Ted talk.

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     Haelwenn /элвэн/ :triskell: (lanodan@queer.hacktivis.me)'s status on Saturday, 30-Dec-2023 11:42:32 JST Haelwenn /элвэн/ :triskell:

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     @jwz Meaning that instead of what Mozilla supporters are saying, Firefox sits on both (donation + search revenue), how surprising.
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     jwz (jwz@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 31-Dec-2023 02:20:51 JST jwz

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     • Daniel 🏳️‍🌈 Jilg :sondrine:
     • G. Wozniak

     @MBridegam @gwozniak @daniel https://jwz.org/b/yj-6

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     jwz (jwz@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 31-Dec-2023 02:20:58 JST jwz

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     • Daniel 🏳️‍🌈 Jilg :sondrine:
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     @MBridegam @gwozniak @daniel
     The only thing the official; Mozilla account ever posts about now is "responsible" "AI". https://mastodon.social/@jwz/111574491888005585

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     Martha Bridegam (mbridegam@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 31-Dec-2023 02:20:59 JST Martha Bridegam

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     @jwz @gwozniak @daniel

     This about crypto donations, which you criticized at the time? https://techcrunch.com/2022/01/06/mozilla-foundation-crypto/

     Or is there some AI thing that's part of their daily work in a more internal way than donations?