At this point, I'm gonna stop extending benefit of the doubt - Framework's choice to actively advance fascist interests, and double down when called out, is proof enough for me that they're fascists themselves.
“[I]ncreasing the adoption of open source software” is such a bullshit argument here anyway, holy shit lol.
Not to mention, actively welcoming Nazis into the open source bar is gonna achieve the exact goddamn opposite of increasing adoption, by driving away marginalised users, introducing unnecessary security risks, actively rotting communities from the inside, and God-only-knows-what-else.
VHS won in the end, in part because they allowed spicy mode 😉
That factoid isn't even true - Sony had zero control over what people put on the tapes, meaning both formats allowed porn.
VHS didn't win because of porn, VHS won because a standard VHS cassette contains a shitload more tape than Beta (meaning a much longer recording time), and because the format was much more open (letting anyone build a VCR player and driving down the price).
Because Omarchy is an open endorsement of fascism disguised as a Linux distro - like the takeovers of NixOS and RubyGems, its success would help to further entrench fascists in the FOSS ecosystem.
The thread's made it onto r/framework - there's a lot of fash coming out the woodwork and getting downvoted, plus a lot of people deeply disappointed in Framework's Fash Turn.
Framework had a perfectly good thing going - they were beacons of right to repair, they were making the best laptops on the market, and then they went and FUCKED it all up! Does working in tech destroy your moral compass or something?
After the revelation that their desktop machine was going to be aimed at ai bros and had soldered-on ram I was concerned that they might be abandoning the principles behind their laptops.
In retrospect, the fact they were happily aiming at AI bros should've been a major red flag - AI is arguably the ultimate fashtech, built to empower fascism and undermine democracy.
I don't see much to laugh at here myself. Hank may have been a massive fencesitter on AI, but I still think his reaction to Sora's completely goddamn justified. This shit is going to enable scams, misinformation and propaganda on a Biblical fucking scale, and undermine the credibility of video evidence for good measure.
Got another bonus sneer from the comments as well:
Polluting human knowledge with crap, making internet useless, taking away jobs from creative people by making things that look creative enough. Governments are complicit, politicians are bribed. Like that suck-up youtuber [Two Minute Papers] repeats, "What a time to be alive" right ?
(Sidenote: It massively fucking sucks how Two Minute Papers drank the AI Kool-Aid, I used to love that channel.)
An ongoing debate among military philosophers concerns whether a zamboni with a T-shirt cannon should be classified as one.
Strictly speaking, no. Whilst T-shirt cannons and other such armaments can cause serious injuries (a hot dog cannon hospitalised a Phillies fan in 2018), they aren't weapons in any real sense.
New article from Iris Meredith: Dewaffling the tech industry, about the tech industry's tendency to create fascists and fash sympathisers, and how best to fix the issue
AI-faked videos of journalist arrests have started cropping up online, to the surprise of nobody except those creating AI video extruders.