certainlytwice @certainlytwice@qoto.org

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The OpenAI story is about greed versus the possibility of the company living up to its founders' pious promises. Greed flattened ethics because that is how everything works now.

So tomorrow there are national elections in The Netherlands and I need to acquaint you with two oddities. For one, we take our democracy entirely for granted so we mostly vote in.. garbage bins. Secondly, our ballots are HUGE as they list 28 parties and 1128 candidates (no joke). So we need to make good use of the space in the garbage bin. For this purpose, polling stations are equipped with the STEMBUSSTAMPER, specially designed to tamp down wayward ballots:

i've got a few codes to give away for my new EP, "Awake in a Garden of Stars". if you like #synthwave and #drumandbass give it a listen:
https://jonnyfallout.bandcamp.com/album/awake-in-a-garden-of-stars

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redeem: https://jonnyfallout.bandcamp.com/yum

#electronicmusic #electronica #EDM #music #dnb #musician #musodon #IDM #synth #synthpop #synthfam #retrowave #newmusic #newrelease #ambient #electronicdancemusic

@riggbeck @ChrisMayLA6 @bookstodon
Last I checked, Montreal still had a tax on the books which they added in 1976 for their Olympics.

Google announced that starting in June 2024, ad blockers such as #uBlock Origin will be disabled in Chrome 127 and later with the rollout of Manifest V3 (#Mv3).

The new #Chrome manifest will prevent using custom filters and stops on demand updates of blocklist. Only #Google authorized updates to browser extension will be allowed in the future, which mean an automatic win for Google in their battle to stop YouTube #AdBlockers .

#ManifestV3 is deceitful and threatening to your privacy, and now is a good time to switch to #Firefox (@mozilla) and/or #TorBrowser (@torproject) if you haven't done so already!

EFF (@eff) on Google’s Manifest V3:

⚠️⁠https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2021/12/chrome-users-beware-manifest-v3-deceitful-and-threatening
⚠️⁠https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2021/12/googles-manifest-v3-still-hurts-privacy-security-innovation

Chrome Manifest V3 Transition Timeline (2023-11-16)

🚩⁠https://developer.chrome.com/blog/resuming-the-transition-to-mv3/

#Pigeons are still (sometimes) faster than your #internet
Racing pigeons clock an average of 40mph and typically race up to 400mi, roughly D.C. to Boston, according to the American Racing Pigeon Union. With the boost of a tailwind, pigeons have been recorded going as fast as 110mph and as far as 1,000 miles.
At certain data volumes and distances, the pigeon is a quicker option for large swaths of #rural #America, where internet speeds can lag far behind national average.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2023/11/10/pigeons-are-faster-than-your-internet/?pwapi_token=eyJ0eXAiOiJKV1QiLCJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiJ9.eyJyZWFzb24iOiJnaWZ0IiwibmJmIjoxNjk5OTM4MDAwLCJpc3MiOiJzdWJzY3JpcHRpb25zIiwiZXhwIjoxNzAxMzIwMzk5LCJpYXQiOjE2OTk5MzgwMDAsImp0aSI6ImM2Y2Q5MGJkLTMwNmItNDk0NS04NmNkLTQ1Yjg2YzgyNDUwZSIsInVybCI6Imh0dHBzOi8vd3d3Lndhc2hpbmd0b25wb3N0LmNvbS90ZWNobm9sb2d5LzIwMjMvMTEvMTAvcGlnZW9ucy1hcmUtZmFzdGVyLXRoYW4teW91ci1pbnRlcm5ldC8ifQ.MTY-7bV7fqCMi4vIgZYK_Z_bndBvu8_hZ1v-cI5CKvQ