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@neckspike @futurebird "Big Markov", "Deep Markov" or, terrifyingly "General Purpose Markov" ?

@RachelC_Y@piaille.fr @enbykibby@blahaj.zone @alice@lgbtqia.space >but not always the will there's now also a fukkin industrial complex dedicated to patting them on the head and telling them that they shouldn't. and like, this was always a thing (the silent approval) but nowadays it feels... dedicated? actively encouraging? maybe it's just that the *gestures incoherently all around* simply emboldened the various Dipshit Coddling Specialists to be more obnoxious, or i just wasn't seeing it before, but it seems to have increased

@Em0nM4stodon@infosec.exchange "Maybe The Real Paperclip-Maximizer Was the Friends We Made Along the Way"?

@ProHaller@mastodon.social @fasterthanlime@hachyderm.io "organic, hardcoded typos"

@JD557 @thibaultmol @EUCommission this "[...] provide support on a sustained basis for the development [...]" almost makes it sound like these stewards would be dedicated people who'd interface between the regulatory regime (and it's security requirements) and the maintainers, like some sort of dedicated "office for supporting important projects", but that seems too good to be true

@gimulnautti@mastodon.green @caseynewton@mastodon.social they definitely do calculate it, pluralistic(?) iirc was writing about "Algorithmic wage discrimination" in the context of these specific companies many months ago

@kravietz@agora.echelon.pl >"mastodon is funded by the eu" not "mastodon is funded by europol, frontex, etc" some ppl here take pretty maximalist stances in their criticisms, but most (all?) ppl who have a problem with matrix/element customers are bothered specifically by the cops-and-military part mastodon's primary source of funding is not any "violent enforcement" entity within the eu, afaik im also not necessarily agreeing with all of the criticisms, its hard to squeeze nuanced takes into 500chars

@kravietz@agora.echelon.pl @couscous@mamot.fr @aral@mastodon.ar.al @element@mastodon.matrix.org @ahltorp@mastodon.nu the imho central point is, will the relationship with institutional customers shape the service and over time start to resemble the relationship that bigtech has. and that is a hard to quantify risk as a user.

@kravietz@agora.echelon.pl @couscous@mamot.fr @aral@mastodon.ar.al @element@mastodon.matrix.org @ahltorp@mastodon.nu I see it that opponents view it as "blood money" that poisons the project, and supporters see it as "the police/military have these fuckloads of money, might as well have them go to some commons" now, is "tapping MIC budgets for a good cause" enough to outweigh "selling your services to the oppressor"? two things can be true at once, and there's an (at least perceived) risk of the project getting too chummy with the violence-dispensing institutions

@xChaos @cstross @angusm going further along this logic, if this is to be the *enshittified* singularity, it'd be obscured by all the slop and an observer would need to first cross the (wall-to-wall) excrement horizon to be able to see the slopularity itself: the behind-the-scenes torment nexus of surveillance ad networks finally going mad from consuming its own shit like an intelligence born from a soup consisting exclusively of misfolded proteins (with non-euclidean click-trough metrics)

@gamingonlinux boost this if you hate x and think people shouldn't stop punching nazis