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Like, I can see why this might not happen for cryptocurrency companies, despite how many people they've screwed - it's usually a chain of shell companies run by barely-identified people with highly-paid security, which is difficult

But like, I don't think LLM companies have any of that?

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It's kind of surprising that none of the LLM company HQs have burned down yet, to be honest

Just realized that I missed my "cops stole my shit" anniversary, which is now over 10 years ago

meta and also politics, sort of directed at reader 

There are some very uncomfortable parallels between "citizens scapegoat other powerless citizens because the actual politicians in power refuse to address problems head-on", and "Mastodon users scapegoat other powerless Mastodon users because the actual developer in power refuses to address problems head-on"

I hope that you can fill in the gaps yourself on what this means for the social dynamics on fedi

my advice on coming out is simple: don't feel like you owe anyone anything at all

coming out is by definition a consequence of cisnormativity

do not give the fuckers an iota of your power

do whatever you want.

be happy.

open registration servers are a menace and should be limited. hope this helps #mastoadmin

There should be a way for instance admins to automatically limit other instances with open registrations. It would discourage instances from having open registrations for the sake of "reach"/"growth" imo

:PublicDomain: 🇨🇦 Canada politics; Yes I'm still on about this 

To sum up:

Justin Trudeau cancelled Public Domain Day in Canada for the next 20 years

2023-2042, nothing enters the Public Domain in Canada

Thanks, The Liberal Party of Canada

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who needs a polycule nextcloud when you can have a polycule syncthing

Pick your type of neurospicy:

1. Eats the same thing every day
2. Will not eat the same thing twice

remember when the internet had a "pirate shanty" phase but it was actually just that one song?

I feel like we really missed the boat on the potential depth and breadth of the genre.

free software advocates when you ask them to take an intersectional view on the ethics of using certain software, going beyond the question of 'is this thing foss or not': ⁉️ 😕 😠 🤬

the USian assumption that every text is exclusively in one language versus de realiteit dat sommige gebruikers meerdere talen spreken

hey rich guys we have 1000 mozarts

just they shitpost on social media instead of write songs called 'leck mir den arsch fein recht schön sauber'

Market segmentation is just inconvenient progressive taxation with complicated extra steps

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