Carrie Gillon

@carrieg.northsky.social

linguist, cat lover, nerd

The fight over BAAJA is about who gets a say in what the future looks like. The public wants to be able to say no to AI data centers, detention centers, environmental harms. Tech and energy corporations want to insulate themselves from that no, cutting out the public.

Google denying search for schools that won't sell their students out to Gemini should be a Haley Stevens moment. Like let's get Google the fuck out of our schools, yesterday. And not to be replaced by Microsoft's so-called "humanist superintelligence," either 🙄. Replace it with the library.

Will someone PLEASE just set up an AI-free enterprise software suite w/email, word, powerpoint, excel, video meetings, etc and take my money.

SCOOP: Proton CEO Andy Yen to his staff: “Stop lovingly handcrafting all our code and use AI more.” 404 Media saw these internal messages, in which he also said it was "loser thinking" to an employee who urged the company to at least take a few days to test newly written code before going live.

Manifestos, Fear, and ‘Loser Thinking’: Inside Proton’s AI Reckoning

Proton CEO Andy Yen projects a calm persona and rails against Big Tech and critiques AI. Internally, he is pushing engineers to build Proton with AI, even when they have security concerns.

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