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• Post #4499321

  “He had never heard of the tragedy of the commons, where one sheep too many consuming more than its share of common resources destroys the whole,” Borsook wrote, “nor had he thought much about what participating in a community means.” 1/n https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2026/08/cyberselfish-paulina-borsook/

• Post #4487281

  “If your bureaucracy is more concerned with fighting fraud than delivering service, then it isn't a service delivery system at all – it's a service denial system.” -Cory Doctorow AI vs AI in the bureaucratic equivalent of “Bum Fights”. https://pluralistic.net/2026/08/10/deep-state-wopr/

• Post #4465660

  The World’s Worst People have a Plan: Essay & Podcast by Damien Walter. Julian Huxley wrote the blueprint. His brother, Aldous Huxley, wrote Brave New World as critique of that blueprint. Walter’s essay features a concise explanation of how TESCREAL / Transhumanism is eugenics for the 21st century. https://damiengwalter.com/2026/08/07/the-worlds-worst-people-have-a-plan/

• Post #4446755

  This is the way for any new industrial plant, data, cement, auto, etc. any where. If it isn’t feasible, then it isn’t needed. https://www.reuters.com/business/energy/australias-new-data-centres-must-be-majority-renewable-powered-says-minister-2026-08-05/

• Post #4063556

  That’s pretty rich, given that the USA has systematic, legislated forced labour. https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/trump-tariffs-forced-labour-9.7281548

• Post #3975961

  To be Canadian is to be very nice…until it’s time to not be nice: https://thebeaverton.com/2026/07/meet-the-canadian-civil-servant-responsible-for-sending-our-wildfire-smoke-to-the-u-s/

• Post #3835472

  Machine learning has been around for several decades. The current versions are presented in a particular SAAS model. We are asked to use these dubious corrupt dice-factories like the Greeks used the Delphic oracle. But that is only one implementation of the tech. You could build a home model based only on your own work, and selected out-of-copyright sources(Shakespeare, US gov publications, etc). But that wouldn’t be as *convenient* as paying Musk/Grok, Etc $40+ bucks a month to spew slop. 1/n

• Post #2182086

  “Once a model is available on your device, per the specification, any website you visit will be able to send prompts to that model without requesting permission to do so, then do whatever it wants with the responses. And again, Gemini Nano is on your device if you’re using Chrome” So you have an “AI buddy” with access to your files, ID, and credit card, and said “buddy” works for any website you browse, and Google? https://wil.to/posts/googles-prompt-api/