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<p>Okanagan BC Canada. Avatar is a fictional, generated face. If you think I&#39;m behaving badly (mansplaining, reply guy-ing, being rude, offensive, etc.), please call me on it!</p>

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  • Post #1698483

    This is like some creepy cross between William Gibson @GreatDismal and Cory Doctorow @pluralistic ... A Japanese company is hiring low wage Philipino workers to remotely operate robots in Japanese convenience stores. They get migrant labour without the migrants. https://restofworld.org/2025/philippines-offshoring-automation-tech-jobs/

  • Post #655196

    Keeping the ISS flying for a couple more years is a good idea. A private space station is a terrible idea. https://mastodon.cloud/@slashdot/116180969943239219

  • Post #655194

    I wonder if bad AI code would be reduced if companies treated all AI code as if it was written by the person who used AI to generate it. You generated it, you&amp;#39;re 100% responsible for it. If it causes outages, it&amp;#39;s your fault. https://mastodon.social/@arstechnica/116205075329513597

  • Post #655193

    I believe climate change is one of the biggest threats humanity faces. I believe that technology is the only thing that can save us. However, technology must be paired with good ideology, policy, and priorities. If you have the wrong ideology, you will choose the wrong technology. The right technology is the only solution. We can&amp;#39;t go back, we have billions of people to feed. We can&amp;#39;t continue as we are, our emissions are warming the planet to mid Pliocene temperatures. We have t...

  • Post #158191

    Ohhhh. It all makes sense now. Cory Doctorow @pluralistic@mamot.fr points out that Trump&#39;s trade shenanigans are all part of a long history of US enshittificaton of the international trade system, for all the same reasons as Facebook&#39;s and YouTube&#39;s decline. Who would have thought that an international trade system could be vulnerable to enshittificaton? It turns out that it breeds in the shadows of all kinds of monopoly. https://pluralistic.net/2026/01/26/i-dont-want/#your-greenback...