𝖧𝗫𝖱𝖣𝗞𝖨𝗡𝗚

Decentralized social media never went mainstream because users had to fund it themselves (donations or self-hosting).

That’s why #Facebook & co. won — everything was “free,” so people accepted the privacy nightmare.

Now #Meta is starting to charge. This could finally change how people see decentralized platforms.

#Mastodon #Fediverse

#WhatsApp’s subscription is a reality now, so what can you do if you don’t want to pay for another subscription?

Install #Signal
https://signal.org/install

Are you watching it in black & white?

#SpiderNoir

I didn’t know there’s a $42 million, 10,000-year clock currently under construction inside the Sierra Diablo mountain range in West Texas.

It has a year hand, a century hand, and a cuckoo that emerges every 1,000 years.

So, millions of dollars spent to buy used/old non-fiction physical #books, scan them, and finally destroy them — all to train #AI . It was ruled completely legal.

But destroying books just doesn’t feel right.

https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-quest-to-destructively-scan-all-the-worlds-books/id1444873564?i=1000747250490&l=en-GB

I wonder how someone reconciles xenophobic views of Latin Americans with the idea of adding Venezuela as the 51st state.

¿Alguna vez te has preguntado si podrías vivir un día entero sin las grandes tecnológicas de EE.UU.?

El video muestra lo difícil que es por elección propia, pero el caso real es aún más impactante: ¿qué pasa cuando tu ética te lleva a chocar con sus intereses políticos y te bloquean el acceso a todo?

#Apple #Meta #Google #Amazon

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QyVgyVJgI-w

I’m refusing to binge-watch Spider Noir because I want the excitement to last 😭

#SpiderNoir

I’m refusing to binge-watch Black Noir because I want the excitement to last 😭

#BlackNoir

My friend just got an entry-level job with the Empire.

I usually don’t pay much attention to #Bitcoin, but burning $8 million worth of tokens seems strange.
Why burn them? They could have sold them or given them away. Odd.

As printed on the page, is the figure on the right larger than the figure on the left?

I can already imagine a book in the near future called “The President Prompts” — a full collection of every prompt used to generate the photos and videos that hijack the news and social media with pure shock and rage.

I can already imagine a book in the near future called “The President Prompts” — a full collection of every prompt used to generate the photos and videos that hijack the news and social media with pure shock and rage.

#AI

Hate makes us blind to nuance. Worship does too. Don't let your feelings about a person override your ability to think clearly about what they actually do.

#Shakira, #Madonna and #BTS for the Super Bowl…. I mean for the World Cup half time show.

Apparently, stepping into the presidency has a remarkable way of sharpening one’s instincts for the stock market.