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Avid Amoeba

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  • Thanks a lot, AI: Hard drives are already sold out for the entire year, says Western Digital

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  • The HC530s drives I bought in Nov are 40% more expensive now. My local computer store used to sell 16TB Barracudas for CAD $250 last year. They're $400 now and only available in-store.

  • Palestinian social app Upscrolled removed from Google Play Store

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  • No politic here!

  • Socialist Co-Ops Against Silicon Valley Empires

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  • Too few places. There's a cluster in Italy as well.

  • Socialist Co-Ops Against Silicon Valley Empires

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  • Added a bit on that. 😊

  • Socialist Co-Ops Against Silicon Valley Empires

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  • The availability of capital for this type of organization, the capital concentration on the opposing side and its market power is what's holding us back.

    To elaborate:

    Coops are fundamentally anti-capitalist, they're socialist. Why? Because they threaten to change the capitalist model where only people who hold significant capital get to decide how to profit from most workers' labour, to a model where most workers decide that democratically and equally own their workplaces. If coops are to become the dominant firm structure, it means no more Zuckerbergs or Thiels wielding unimaginable power over hundreds of thousands of employees directly* and the rest of the economy indirectly. This means that the people in this position of power today would do everything they can to stop coops from taking significant root. Since they are the VCs that dole out capital for startups, that means no capital for coop startups from them. It also means applying every market and non-market leverage they have to kill any coops that threaten to become viable competitors.

    This doesn't mean we can't start coops and make them successful. It does however means it's much more difficult than starting a normal capitalist-funded startup. People who are in a position to attempt it probably should. I think a lot of capable, professional tech comrades would join and work a lot harder than they would at your typical startup. But it would still be an uphill battle without gov't support which already goes to capitalist tech corpos. This is why this battle has to go on multiple fronts. One is creating coops where and when possible. The other is unionizing existing corpos to gain labour power that can be leveraged to curb the oligarch's power. The third is fighting at the political level for state funding for coops and labour rights. Those three reinforce each other in increasing the economic power of employees (workers) both at coops and traditional corpos relative to the power of the oligarch (capitalist) class.

    For example forcing their employees to develop software for digital addiction instead of working to eliminate misinformation on the biggest social network in the world at the threat of termination.

  • AI agent writes blog post to shame a developer after he refused it's code contribution.

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  • Interesting. I han't thought about this aspect, where the toaster is capable to do more human activities to harass the person. This is actually a problem if there isn't a way to stop it wholesale. And there isn't and probably won't be. For a while if it ever changes. If this thing grows in occurrence, it might force people into private communities and systems to escape. That particular effect being arguably positive.

  • New nickel-iron battery charges in seconds, survives 12,000 cycles

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  • bovine serum albumin-templated synthetic strategy

  • AI agent writes blog post to shame a developer after he refused it's code contribution.

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  • Yeah, I don't understand why they spent such effort to reply to the toaster. This was more shocking to me than the toaster's behaviour.

  • Microsoft's Notepad Got Pwned (They Added AI To It, So...)

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  • When one realizes that anything useful a firm does is just a coincidence of it making profit. 💢

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    Train masturbator woken by police after exposing himself to women for third time

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  • Just what I think is better understanding of the economy and transportation than before. I also work in automotive.

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    Train masturbator woken by police after exposing himself to women for third time

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  • Oh, not sarcastic. I'll just say that I no longer believe this hypothesis. :D

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  • We're so deep in the sarcastic hole that I can't tell if this is sarcasm or not. 😅

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  • We need to do something about it. How about self-driving cars? /s

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  • This is why we don't build rail in North America! /s

  • I want a phone I can actually fix, and Fairphone’s record growth shows the world does too

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  • Well they finally delivered a decent camera. That's what made me buy one. It's a step down from a Pixel 8 Pro but not a huge one.

  • Western Digital details 14-platter 3.5-inch HAMR HDD designs with 140 TB and beyond

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  • Can't vaccinate my ZFS pool against it..

  • Western Digital details 14-platter 3.5-inch HAMR HDD designs with 140 TB and beyond

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  • 44TB (SMR)

  • Pro-Trump farmer in Missouri faces losing his farm after federal freeze, says he “didn’t have time to research” before voting

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  • so even when we point out to them that they're being taken, they only hear they're being called rubes...

    Beceause too often that's literally what we tell them - you're being taken. Their reaction follows naturally. Ever since I started talking about concrete (class) issues affecting them I'm getting different responses.

  • Strict one eyebrow per cat policy

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  • Leg policy is inconsistent.