mastodon 4.7.2AI, Accessibility, Policy,
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💯 personal views 💬
🏡🌳 Eugene, Oregon
Immigrant 🇧🇪 🇺🇸
“There is a crack in everything, that’s how the light gets in.” — Leonard Cohen
„Sponsoring a personality-based project is sponsoring the personality.“ 🎯
#DigitalSovereignty means having the freedom to name your own lakes.
Hey, I have an idea: how ’bout only eating plants? That’ll make you live longer, it doesn’t cause suffering (for you and others), it proliferates much less disease, it’s cheaper, and you’ll save the planet. Sounds good? 🌱
https://www.farms.com/ag-industry-news/meat-institute-pushes-back-on-trump-processing-plan-313.aspx
Thought: @klemensstrasser@mastodon.social is the Dolly Parton of Apps. ☺️
• The Dunes of Hazard
• Pebbly Hills 90210
• Muck Rogers
• Minefeld
• The Slate Show
• Foundation
• Third Rock
„Once around 3.5% of the whole population has begun to participate actively, success appears to be inevitable.” 🚫👑 #nokings
https://www.bbc.co.uk/future/article/20190513-it-only-takes-35-of-people-to-change-the-world
I canceled my OpenAI/ChatGPT subscription. The one thing that has prevented humanity from self-destructing is that ultimately, evil men had to convince ordinary people to do their bidding. Fully autonomous weapons eliminate that safeguard and must be banned now.
In other words, OpenAI will do anything the Secretary of War tells them to:
„The AI System will not be used to independently direct autonomous weapons in any case where law, regulation, or Department policy requires human control, nor will it be used to assume other high-stakes decisions that require approval by a human decisionmaker under the same authorities.“
https://openai.com/index/our-agreement-with-the-department-of-war/
If you’re wondering how Guaranteed Minimum Income helps people get back to work, find better jobs or start their own business, read this:💡
https://rgmii.org/blog/initial-frequently-asked-questions/
“But don’t let them fool you. Spain is booming.” 💥🇪🇸
https://apnews.com/article/spain-us-pedro-sanchez-trump-iran-bases-d90bf557c96caa65911b438edafaf5e1
Either I’m missing something or this is still way too complicated. Sharing should be a one-or-two-tap operation with zero typing. There must be a more user-friendly solution.
Even ignoring the cowardly passive Washington Post headline, this is deeply troubling. The mid terms will be the Acid Test for U.S. Democracy.
“The public does not want to go back to the days of rampant old-growth clearcutting. They don’t want to go back to dead salmon and polluted rivers, or see their favorite places on public lands liquidated in order to maximize profits for the greedy few. These are treasured public lands, and we’re going to fight for them.”
https://oregonwild.org/trump-admin-announces-old-growth-clearcutting-plan-for-western-oregon/
„We wonder: Why did they arrest Dylan? He is a good kid.“ #uspolñ
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/mar/01/student-ice-detention-new-york-high-school-ellis-prep-dylan-lopez-contreras?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other
„No yard required. Just sunlight, good soil — and maybe a bucket.“
⛅️🌱🪣 https://eugeneweekly.com/2026/03/05/grow-food-in-a-bucket/
RE: @ryanashcraft@mastodon.social
💯 I couldn’t agree more.
„There is a deal with the US over these bases, but our understanding of the deal is that operations have to comply with international legal frameworks and that there has to be international support for them.“
🇪🇸🇺🇸
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/mar/02/spain-denies-united-states-permission-military-bases-iran-pedro-sanchez
“Judge Richard Eaton of the court of international trade told CBP it must start paying back importers using its existing systems – with interest – in an order covering all affected importers, not just those who had taken their cases to court.”
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/mar/06/us-judge-lawyers-175bn-trump-tariffs-refunds
Jack Dorsey is more hype-chaser than visionary: he renamed his company Block because he believed the future was blockchain. 🤦🏻♂️
I’ve always liked the #BBC and I hope it can continue to provide (mostly) objective, well-sourced coverage.
„The precise set of rules that require households to be licensed no longer reflect typical audience behaviour among many households in the UK.“ 🦖📺🦕
https://www.theguardian.com/media/2026/mar/05/bbc-charter-renewal-tv-licence-major-overhaul?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other
ACME weather tells you about rainbows and sunsets! 🌈🌅🦄💗
Donald Knuth is a national treasure. 💗
„What a joy it is to learn not only that my conjecture has a nice solution but also to celebrate this dramatic advance in automatic deduction and creative problem solving.“
https://www-cs-faculty.stanford.edu/~knuth/papers/claude-cycles.pdf
„I believe we should tax AI tokens and robots. Right now, if you’re an employer and you hire someone, you pay payroll taxes on their earnings. But if you buy a robot, you can usually write it off right away as a business expense. The tax system nudges you toward replacing people with machines. A tax would slow the rush away from human labor a little and raise money for retraining and a stronger safety net. It would need to be targeted so it does not slow down the purely beneficial uses of AI, like making medicine and education cheaper.”
@revenuecat@mastodon.social's 2026 State-of-Subscription-Apps Report highlights:
• The top 25% of apps grew 80% year-over-year, while the bottom 25% shrank by 33%.
• Apps that ask for money upfront convert 5x better.After one year, retention for both models is nearly identical.
• 55% of all 3-day trial cancellations happen on Day 0.
• Trials of 17+ days convert 70% better than short trials (42.5% vs. 25.5%).
How do we regulate this?
„Over time, his relationship with the chatbot came to replace his human connections.“
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/ng-interactive/2026/feb/28/chatgpt-ai-chatbot-mental-health?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other
We live in interesting times. 😬
https://simonwillison.net/2026/Mar/5/chardet/#atom-everything
Does it even matter any more, what Americans think?
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/mar/04/ice-trump-immigration-poll
