I’m not, because I do nothing actively in feminist political spaces. I believe opinions count nothing and don’t change the world, so I don’t want to be bundled up with the plenty of people who use it as a label for virtue signaling while not actually putting the effort in.

“alignment problem” is what CEOs use as a distraction to take responsibility away from their grift and frame the issue as a technical problem. That’s another word that make you lose any credibility

I’ve met the author IRL. He’s quite famous in his niche

Not sure these are communities that I would like to see on Lemmy necessarily, but they are stuff that I have no space to discuss here:

• political organization design
• fermentation
• fine dining and cooking
• videogames design theory and videogames critique

The Free Software movement over the last 30+ years failed at every single one of their political goals. It’s effectively a political zombie which sometimes produces barely usable software for nerds. I know perfectly well what they advocated because at some point I was close to fall for it (more than 15 years ago), but it’s delusional dogmatism. The world moved on and the FOSS movement failed so bad that their enemies are now in control of an Imperial fascist government.

You’re responsible for the technology you create. Unconstrained freedom is more often than not the freedom of the powerful to oppress the weak. Anything else is techbro ideology. FOSS ideology and techno-fascist ideology have the same roots in the freedom of information.

My call to action is unrelated to technological production, because technology doesn’t solve social problems. Unionize workers in Microsoft. If you really want, build software to facilitate the construction and deployment of worker power, and stop playing around with the liberation of software. As long as it’s “Free Software” instead of “Free people” you’re playing on the side of the tech oligarchy.

Contributing to genocide for money is evil. Contributing to genocide for no money is evil and dumb.

Linux is used extensively for military and surveillance purposes. Licenses don’t stop bullets.

there’s an argument that this is just the targeted ads bubble that keeps inflating using different technologies. That’s where the money is coming from. It’s a game of smoke and mirrors, but this time it seems like they are betting big on a single technology for a longer time, which is different from what we have seen in the past 10 years.

I have a notion setup organized around tasks, calls to organize, and clients.

I have several view and attributes to fit the tasks to my workflow.

I have a daily routine and a weekly routine template that gets added to the task list regularly with custom views for each action. This includes reviewing the email inbox, the calendar, the long-term backlog, and many other things. I then end the daily routine by estimating among the open tasks, the most important and setting a workload for the day.

In my experience it is the total opposite: the habit of individual, culturally-oriented actions cultivates a normalization of symbolic, small-scale actions and prevents people to develop a taster for collective action. Once they hit the limit of what they can do alone in the cultural sphere, instead of asking themselves how to overcome these limits, they just ignore collective forms of action to keep repeating the same individualistic and symbolic actions. Most people who show up and take initiative in collective efforts almost always have no history of engaging with symbolic actions and emancipating themselves from that mindset. There are a few, but it’s by far the exception.

I’m one of them. I went from thinking naively that consumer politics matter to leaving my career to fight big tech, unionize tech workers, and for a year or so I’ve also worked on limiting the harm of generative AI specifically.

If I thought this petty stuff would do anything, I would have probably wasted a lot of time in the wrong hole.

Performative politics have been proven to have a paralyzing effect on people. If you feel you’re doing something and it has no impact, you just disengage from meaningful politics because you already absolved yourself.

The AI sector is not pushed by consumer money. A consumer strike won’t alter at all the macro-dynamics happening at the moment. If you want to resist AI, go blow up some data center or unionize some tech workers.

You’re making a moralistic point, blaming consumers instead of corporations, which leaves not much room for action.

I understood your message very clearly. It’s sad to work for most companies. It’s the default and it’s completely preposterous to suggest they want to work for TikTok specifically. It’s what was available to them. Pitying striking workers makes no sense. There’s nothing to look deeper into.

they want severance pay. Don’t shame workers for trying to make a living, you scab

It’s Germany, they have labor rights that they want to uphold. This is a so-called “warning strike”, to signal that there will be collective legal action if they get fired without abundant severance pay.

Basically TikTok doesn’t want to negotiate with the union and the union is showing that there’s support for collective legal action instead of a 1-on-1 dismissals that would cost the company way less. The company has an interest in negotiating because it’s quite sure to lose the legal battle.

it’s your life, you decide. You can also decide not to give it meaning.

Here “replace” doesn’t mean “being able to do the same job”. It means you get fired. Automation in most fields never even tried to get close to a level of quality comparable to what a human can do, but it was enough to displace a majority of workers.

The author is a machine learning engineer, so he’s perfectly aware of the limits of whatever is called AI. The point is to make those limits irrelevant by lowering the expected level of quality, as it happened with textile, food, and so on.

There’s plenty of neo-nazis in the Free Software movement. It’s “Free Software”, not “Free People”