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The article has some useful context about Musk's career, notably what a sleazeball he has always been in his business and public dealings. It also points up the way governments have refused to do their regulatory jobs – and, less explicitly, how journalism has been a lapdog along the way.

But as it accurately points out Musk's desperate efforts to slow or reverse the well-deserved slide at Tesla, it doesn't get into the truly scary stuff. Namely, Musk won't give a damn about Tesla or its shareholders if his coup (per the first piece in this newsletter) succeeds. If he can divert U.S. government spending even more (see: SpaceX) into his bank accounts, Tesla will be an afterthought. Everything we know about this guy says there are no boundaries on his lust for money, and power. - @dangillmor

#GiftArticle #USPolitics
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Elon Musk Looks Desperate

How to lose $148 billion in less than two months
Charlie Warzel (The Atlantic)
#uspolitics #giftarticle @Dan Gillmor

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🌙🫖 WIP
A screenshot of a digital painting in the interface of Krita of Pepper and Carrot − a young witch and her cat − flying on a broom. The artwork is not finished, only the line-art, and grayscale landscape and a single source of light. The whole is slightly tinted with color balance from de-saturated purple to yellow. (WIP = work in progress)

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“Under Trump, AI Scientists Are Told to Remove ‘Ideological Bias’ From Powerful Models | WIRED”

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Literally what I and so many others have been warning about. Using LLMs in your work is effectively giving US authorities central control over the bigotry and biases of your writing.

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One more reason for this: arstechnica.com/gadgets/2025/0… #alexa #security #privacy #geek

Everything you say to your Echo will be sent to Amazon starting on March 28

Amazon is killing a privacy feature to bolster Alexa+, the new subscription assistant.
Scharon Harding (Ars Technica)
#privacy #security #geek #alexa

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unsere schwarze Katze Mi liegt auf der regenbogefarbenen Fussmatte vor der Haustür und geniesst die Sonne.
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🔥 Pecinta Komik, Ini yang Kamu Tunggu! 🔥
Chapter terbaru dari After Improperly Licking a Dog, I Became a Billionaire (Chapter 218) sudah hadir dalam Bahasa Indonesia! 🎉
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🔥 Pecinta Komik, Ini yang Kamu Tunggu! 🔥
Chapter terbaru dari After Improperly Licking a Dog, I Became a Billionaire (Chapter 219) sudah hadir dalam Bahasa Indonesia! 🎉
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#caturday with Zoe!
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Sustainable driveway monitor #caturday
Bob looking down at me through the window.
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Whats the fuss? Oh, it’s #caturday.
Bob the cat yawning 🥱
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#caturday blues 🇺🇦
Bob sleeping with all paws in front of him.
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#caturday morning nap after second breakfast 🥞
Bob the cat sleeping and smiling a little.
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#Caturday
La mia gatta Winnie che controlla dall'alto di una mensola
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La mia gatta Winnie
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La mia gatta Winnie che dorme
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Buon #caturday da Winnie sonnolenta
La mia gatta Winnie che dorme
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#Caturday con la mia aiutante
La mia gatta Winnie con una zampina fatta a uncinetto
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Newsletter: The real threat isn't AI using open knowledge — it's AI companies killing the projects that make knowledge free. The future of free and open access isn't saying “wait, not like that” — it’s saying "yes, like that, but under fair terms”.

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#OpenAccess #AI #Wikipedia


“Wait, not like that”: Free and open access in the age of generative AI

The real threat isn’t AI using open knowledge — it’s AI companies killing the projects that make knowledge free
Molly White (Citation Needed)
#ai #Wikipedia #openaccess
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Instead of worrying about “wait, not like that”, I think we need to reframe the conversation to “wait, not only like that” or “wait, not in ways that threaten open access itself”.

#OpenAccess #AI #Wikipedia

Instead of worrying about “wait, not like that”, I think we need to reframe the conversation to “wait, not only like that” or “wait, not in ways that threaten open access itself”. The true threat from AI models training on open access material is not that more people may access knowledge thanks to new modalities. It’s that those models may stifle Wikipedia and other free knowledge repositories, benefiting from the labor, money, and care that goes into supporting them while also bleeding them dry. It’s that trillion dollar companies become the sole arbiters of access to knowledge after subsuming the painstaking work of those who made knowledge free to all, killing those projects in the process.
#ai #Wikipedia #openaccess
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Anyone at an AI company who stops to think for half a second should be able to recognize they have a vampiric relationship with the commons. By operating in this purely extractive way, they destroy the things that underpin their businesses.

#OpenAccess #AI #Wikipedia

Anyone at an AI company who stops to think for half a second should be able to recognize they have a vampiric relationship with the commons. While they rely on these repositories for their sustenance, their adversarial and disrespectful relationships with creators reduce the incentives for anyone to make their work publicly available going forward (freely licensed or otherwise). They drain resources from maintainers of those common repositories often without any compensation. They reduce the visibility of the original sources, leaving people unaware that they can or should contribute towards maintaining such valuable projects. AI companies should want a thriving open access ecosystem, ensuring that the models they trained on Wikipedia in 2020 can be continually expanded and updated. Even if AI companies don’t care about the benefit to the common good, it shouldn’t be hard for them to understand that by bleeding these projects dry, they are destroying their own food supply. And yet many AI companies seem to give very little thought to this, seemingly looking only at the months in front of them rather than operating on years-long timescales. (Though perhaps anyone who has observed AI companies’ activities more generally will be unsurprised to see that they do not act as though they believe their businesses will be sustainable on the order of years.)
#ai #Wikipedia #openaccess

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Need a coping strategy for the polycrisis? Think only goofy thoughts.
#CatsOfMastodon #Caturday #BabaYaga #WitchyCat #Torties
An old tortie lies on a blanket-covered couch thinking goofy thoughts. That’s it. That’s the whole photograph.
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✨ c a t ✨ #Cats #MastoCats #catsofmastodon
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Still life with umbrella #DailyVenice #Venice #Venezia #NightPhotography #Photography
Colour photo, taken late at night. On the edge of a stone pavement abutting a wide canal, there is a green-stemmed ornate metal streetlight on the right, but the frame is cropped below the actual lamps, so that it lights the scene from above but we can't see the source. Mirroring the vertical line of the streetlight, there is on the left a wooden mooring post, and in front of it two rubbish bins, with black metal frames. A discarded bright red umbrella pokes out of the rightmost bin, curved handle up, and its ruffled skirt partially open, so that the light from the street lamp shines down into it, making it glow from within. In the background, the water of the canal is green shading to black in the distance, and beyond we can see some lit up buildings on the other side.
#photography #nightphotography #venice #dailyvenice #venezia
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With that lighting it looks like it's straight off a theatre stage - great stuff!

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A new team and a new attitude, Lewis Hamilton cruises into the 2025 Formula 1 season
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Threat of tornadoes moves south after storm unleashes winds and fans wildfires
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Map of the USA, as viewed from Alaska.

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Black-headed Grosbeak (Pheucticus melanocephalus) N. America, but winters in Mexico. Nests are built in dense foliage on outer branches of tall trees or shrubs near water sources. #birds #nature #biology #science #birdsofmastodon #Reels #wildlife
#science #birds #nature #wildlife #birdsofmastodon #biology #reels

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#GoodNightFriends

#Gracie #Niko #dogs #dogsOfMastodon #fediDogs

Two dogs enjoying their walkies on a cloudy desert day.
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This small SNES timing issue is causing big speedrun problems
Cheap, unreliable ceramic APU resonators lead to "constant, pervasive, unavoidable" issues.
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This small SNES timing issue is causing big speedrun problems

Cheap, unreliable ceramic APU resonators lead to “constant, pervasive, unavoidable” issues.
Kyle Orland (Ars Technica)
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It's a problem for TASBot, not for regular speedrunners. Even with the variance, it amounts to microseconds of difference. I know, I submitted information on the 5 consoles I own. Also it's not nearly as common as you are making it seem. All 5 of my systems were in tolerance.

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We got her from a kill shelter when she was 11. We thought we would give her a good year or two in retirement. 7 years later, she seems to really like living.. good for us, coz we love her so much!

#CatsOfMastodon #Cats #Torties

A beautiful elderly long haired tortoiseshell cat looking at me with a lot of tortitude
#cats #catsofmastodon #torties
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me when I wake up

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Sharing on a sunny but chilly morning 😻😻😻😻

#cat #cats #catsofmastodon #portugal #AdoptDontShop #rescuecats #mastocats #mastocat #FediCats #Catstodon #caturday

#caturday #cats #fedicats #catsofmastodon #cat #catstodon #adoptdontshop #mastocats #Portugal #mastocat #rescuecats

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Moin, lasst es ruhig angehen und macht Euch das Wochenende nett, liebe Grüße, Eure Inka

#catsoffediverse #caturday #catsofmastodon #meineKatzeInka

Meine schwarze Katze Inka liegt auf einem Stuhl auf einem Plüschpulli von mir, darunter eine gefleckte Tierdecke, die Sonne kommt jetzt langsam ums Eck und sie genießt es ....
#caturday #catsofmastodon #catsoffediverse #meinekatzeinka

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For Caturday, my sister’s cat, annoyed for being photographed when he was trying to clean himself. 😀

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Ginger cat on a cat tree.
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Still covered in cobwebs and grumpy with it

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A grumpy black cat - just turfed out of a very cobwebby Cellar lies on a chair
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Look at this sneaky operation. I gotta make sure that deadbolt is locked at all times. #Caturday #CatsOfMastodon
Large cat on hind legs stretching to touch doorknob on French doors with gray cat on lookout
#caturday #catsofmastodon

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Senua robando pijamas en el #caturday
Foto de un gato tumbado en una silla sobre un pijama con estampado de nubes, está mirando a cámara
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#cat #caturday #catsofmastodon der gar nicht mehr so kleine Cookie wird nun schon ein halbes Jahr alt - niedlich ist er aber immer noch 🥰
Der 6 Monate alte getigerte Cookie schaut in die Kamera und lässt dabei die Zunge ein wenig raushängen
#caturday #catsofmastodon #cat

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Happy sagt fröhlichen #caturday
Eine dreifarbige Katze sitzt auf einer Couch mit einem bunten Kissen im Hintergrund. Sie hat ihre Vorderpfoten eingeklappt und schaut neugierig in die Kamera
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