I wouldn’t trust the guy who’s been on a firing rampage, gutting vital regulatory agencies, and who’s already been caught lying about his “fully autonomous” humanoid robots that were secretly controlled by human operators, with self-driving anything. Tesla has been in the US market for years, and they still haven’t gotten licensed for fully-automated driving.

But sure. Let’s just throw more money at it, because that’s worked out so well for American LLMs, lately.

Don’t need all, just enough. The rest will leave when they die.

And you don’t have to convince everyone, just the folks in your life.

How to convince your friends to use a private messenger

“No! Ban GitHub! It hosts the code of our adversaries! And while we’re at it, ban the internet!” —Plutocrats, probably.

While the calls from Moolenaar could be the first inkling of a possible congressional crackdown, Ross Burley — a co-founder of the nonprofit Centre for Information Resilience — warned that DeepSeek’s emergence in the U.S. raises data security and privacy issues for users.

Yeah, because it’s just soooo much better to have American plutocrats slurping up our data without consent and getting to do whatever they want with impunity. /s

“What they’ll use it for is behavior change campaigns, disinformation campaigns, for really targeted messaging as to what Western audiences like, what they do,” he added.

Yeah, because it’s just soooo much better to have American plutocrats doing every single one of those things and more in the name of Profit. /s

Our leaders are hilariously tone-deaf.

Because he’s a perpetual 14yo kid of 90s that never grew out of the Xtreme consumerism, and now he’s having a midlife crisis for which we all must suffer.

But I think it’s important to understand that Bluesky has, effectively, created a technological poison pill: by building on an open protocol, ATprotocol, the system itself can be rebuilt outside of Bluesky, but in a way where everyone can continue to communicate, and that creates incredible incentives that undermine any evil billionaires, and would actually punish Bluesky (or anyone else!) should they try to enshittify.

Bruh, ActivityPub is right there, and we already have places where people can communicate. And it’s already built in such a way that anyone can make use of it. Currently not so with ATprotocol.

When BlueSky has interoperable servers that anyone can spin up, then this conversation is worth having, but if the protocol at all requires “the next person” to have tons of investment capital to get things running again, it’s still just a billionaire-buyout away.

Just delete it now. Tell your friends that you’re moving because of all the tech oligarchs that just got handed the keys to the government and the economy. Tell your friends that Signal is run by a 501©3 nonprofit and actually cares about privacy.

I left Meta products in 2010, and it was one of the best decisions I ever made. You deserve not to “be the product” anymore.