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Quit ChatGPT: right now! Your subscription is bankrolling authoritarianism | Rutger Bregman (www.theguardian.com)
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As a historian, I’ve studied the major consumer boycotts of history. We can take down ChatGPT and send a powerful signal to Silicon Valley, says author and historian Rutger Bregman

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[–] 23 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (5 children)

Hardware is going to move to streaming. They want your hardware in a server farm and they eventually won't let people buy hardware. That's the future.

It's coming...

The time for people to be going all out with anger was probably 2001. They basically already won and are in complete control of America in an evil way. Including the FBI and military.

I don't understand why people (myself included) are still participating in their games and culture. We are cogs in their evil machine.

It's blatantly obvious it's over already.

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  • [–] 26 points 8 months ago (2 children)

    I should have been angrier about tech when I was 5.

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  • [–] 16 points 8 months ago

    Never too late. the idea that it's past time only benefits the big tech

    We can stop using their services, move to open source, stay with older hardware (so that they don't get money from us) and promote the few open hardware projects

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  • [–] 8 points 8 months ago

    Exactly what I was thinking. If I were to be angry enough about this when it actually mattered and I could have steered the boat, I was way too young too even see that it was happening.

    Not to say I don’t actively pursue and promote OSS all the time, but I feel like the impact is so much more minimal than it could have been.

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  • [–] 1 point 8 months ago

    I was just an angry "kid" in 2001, not much you can do when you're surrounded by irresponsible selfish zombies.. Maybe people deserve this. I think we still have at least 20/30 years of "freedom", maybe a bit more. But our server racks are going to look like Cuban streets.. Sad..

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