James Shiell

James Shiell

@infernus.org

Creator, and solver, of problems

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Ed Zitron
@edzitron.com

I'm so sorry I can't stop laughing. OpenAI, the company built on stealing literally the entire internet, is crying because DeepSeek may have trained on the outputs from ChatGPT. They're crying their eyes out. What a bunch of hypocritical little babies. Cry more, freaks. www.ft.com/content/a0df...

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Jason Koebler
@jasonkoebler.bsky.social

The last few weeks have really highlighted just how fragile corporate social media is, and just how beholden to political power it is. To build any sort of ground-up power we must continue to invest in decentralized alternatives that are resistant to intervention www.404media.co/decentralize...

404media.coDecentralized Social Media Is the Only Alternative to the Tech OligarchyThe TikTok ban and Donald Trump's rise to power show how fragile our social media accounts are. We must normalize and invest in decentralized social media.

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L Ron Mexico
@lronmexico.bsky.social

I’m down to like 3 apps I use sparsely for distraction and a couple (maps, weather, Venmo) I use out of necessity. This paragraph sums up how I’ve thought about myself the last few years. Great article by Zitron reminding ppl like me we are having a sane reaction to a predatory system.

Ed Zitron@edzitron.com

Newsletter: Our digital lives are unregulated growth-hacked ecological disasters. The modern tech ecosystem's growth-at-all-costs mindset is actively harming billions of people, pushing them toward authoritarianism for profit. We must fight back. www.wheresyoured.at/never-forgive-them/

wheresyoured.atNever Forgive ThemIn the last year, I’ve spent about 200,000 words on a kind of personal journey where I’ve tried again and again to work out why everything digital feels so broken, and why it seems to keep getting wor...

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