"other folks I met throughout the week learned about it from posters wheat-pasted around their neighborhoods" https://www.404media.co/luddite-events-nyc-off-tech-summer-of-ludd/

Being a Luddite Is Fun Again

As tech backlash hits the mainstream, the ‘Summer of Ludd’ proves we don’t need social media to hang out and have a good time.

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Just imagine if we'd invested over a trillion dollars in green energy rather than AI.

This is so well done. What resonated msot for me was "we're losing trust in each other". I would add, and in organizations and companies that continue to ignore that fact. New leaders emerge in the ecosystem... https://blog.codeberg.org/protecting-our-floss-commons-from-llms.html #foss #opensource

RE: https://flipboard.com/@cbcnews/montreal-efbss3oiz/-/a-44-bU9koReCSSjaHk7qAsw%3Aa%3A107108217-%2F0 Not too much of a hockey fan, but giving this Canadian institution to Rogers to profit from seems gross and wrong. Of course, giving Rogers more ways to monetize Canadians is almost as […]

New report: Can Canadian co-operatives build and own their own AI infrastructure? We looked at the technical, financial, and market feasibility and found a viable path forward. The Canadian Solidarity Stack is out now.

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This study, produced by CanTrust Hosting Co-operative and Hypha Worker Co-operative with funding from Co-operators’ Co-operative Development Program, examines whether a genuinely co-operative alternat...

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*I find it reassuring when I encounter some DJ with a weird, improbable name and I think "I won't be able to listen to this," and then I look up some tracks and, yeah, I don't like the guy's music

Millions of Canadians trust the Canada Pension Plan (CPP) to safeguard their futures, yet breaking research from Stand.Earth shows they have been investing our retirement savings in companies tied to ICE. That means our pension funds are being used to profit off the violence ICE is unleashing […]

@creating #tdc5125 Which Wikipedia Are You? Data-Driven Researcher. I attended the Wikipedia at 25: Authority, Legitimacy, and the Future of Knowledge 25th anniversary meeting. How could I not? We were both born on January 15th! Wikipedian Dariusz Jemielniak’s article “Academics have failed […]

@mpe this isn’t even nearly talked about enough in the public. All this supposedly terrific “AI” is costing our fragile open infrastructures dearly. For scholars this might only mean that we cannot access Hathi, Worldcat, Europeana or even Zenodo as reliable as we were accustomed to. But for […]

RE: https://defcon.social/@torrentfreak/115921788288810869 "As far as we know, this is the first time that correspondence between a major U.S. tech company and Anna’s Archive was revealed in public. This will only raise the profile of the pirate library (...) even further."

*The WELL State of the World for 02026 is off to the races. https://people.well.com/conf/inkwell.vue/topics/561/State-of-the-World-2026-with-Bru-page01.html

“They weren’t sure what was going on. ICE, an attack on the school — they didn’t know,” Meadow said. A day in the life of an American child in 2025. "School shooter? No, lucky day, only a Gestapo raid." […]

Give us feedback on what you want to see in Vancouver in March! Please share this far and wide: this is not just a tech conference, it's building the communities and shared spaces that we want together. #WeCanJustDoThings contains quote post or other embedded content] [ […]

"We have to learn the bitter lesson that building in how we think we think does not work in the long run." A manifesto from 2019, and we now believe that what-works is giant-search-and-learn machines in collossal Big Data Centers. http://www.incompleteideas.net/IncIdeas/BitterLesson.html

Dear Canadians supportive of #Palestine and against the ongoing #Genocide in Israel and the Humanitarian catastrophe that is ongoing. There is a House of Commons e-Petition e-6751 currently open for signature. It states: Whereas: Under Common Article […] [Original post on mstdn.chrisalemany.ca]

Fedicon in Vancouver is going to be the best Fediverse-related event to have happened in a long time. Definitely check it out! I will most certainly be there! https://fedicon.ca/ #Fediverse #Fedicon #Vancouver #VancouverBC #VancouverBCCanada #VancouverBritishColumbia […]

Lotta good library/AI stuff here https://shsulibraryguides.org/genailibraries/home

Many popular open source developments host events and gatherings. Today, those events and gatherings should NOT be hosted in the United States. -- For everyone's safety! There are people who vanish as soon as they reach customs or drive to either one of our national borders. They are not just […]

For the last couple years, one of our major headaches have been rogue AI bots, which are constantly indexing our services. According to the results of a survey conducted by @coar_repositories, we are not alone. More than 90% of open access repositories have encountered them, which has in many […]

Once annexed by Canada, the slightly-distressed 50 states will be combined into one large province, to be re-named “South Manitoba”. Plans will then commence to distribute Maple Leaf flags and Swiss Chalet restaurants from the 49th parallel all the way down to the region formerly known as Texas. […]

@mike as @pluralistic points out, a marvelous opportunity for the rest of the world to escape the shackles of US copyright and other onerous laws and agreements that limit right to repair and right to circumvent technologies.

"Cultivating an impression of working-class relatability is key to Poilievre’s political brand. However, DeSmog’s map shows that the Conservative leader and his party are linked to a constellation of corporate lobbyists and industries far removed from the day-to-day interests of ordinary […]

*Well, not to wax all jeremiad here, but if you elect a make-believe huckster "rot government" why WOULDN'T you want a make-believe huckster "rot economy" https://prospect.org/power/2025-03-25-bubble-trouble-ai-threat/

*What variety of "Wikipedia surfer" are you https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.adn3268

A lot of this going on at the moment. https://martijnhols.nl/blog/moving-away-from-us-cloud-services

Moving away from US cloud services by Martijn Hols

Relying on US cloud services poses legal and political risks for EU users, so I'm moving away from US cloud services. Here's how and why I did it.

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*If you want every object in your domestic life to look like it was hand-drawn by your nephew, yeah, this is the way to go *Also: super-practical when you're trapped in a favela