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9 days agoWhat AI profits?


What AI profits?


Shit like this will continue to happen until governments start enforcing interoperable open standards and resume enforcing antitrust laws, which were, in practice, suspended for a long time, for whatever reason.
Which will never happen if we keep ending up with republicans every 4 years. Sad state of affairs, but technology will remain corporate as long as people are awful putting their money where their mouth is (or time, in the case of social web)


Electricity production vs electricity waste, the choice is pretty obvious honestly.
Ignoring the fact that I also don’t think I could trust any company in 2026 to maintain a nuclear power plant well, it feels like we’ve actually gone backwards in that front specifically.
Where do people who use kobo readers buy their ebooks? Is there a reliable non Amazon e-reader shop that sells from free books? (Besides humble store)