This is great! Love all the hard work and transparency. Been on Lemmy for a while now and absolutely love it. :)

Sent some financial support your way! Godspeed in the battle against AI.

I get where you're coming from, but rainwater doesn't hold a trove of personal information and/or influence daily decision making.

To reduce compute down to simply a resource supply issue is ignoring the primary reasons people care about digital sovereignty: privacy, transparency, freedom (i.e. free speech), etc.

Care to elaborate on this? Not saying you're wrong necessarily, that's just a pretty bold claim and I'm curious why.

including an alleged threat to a host country official, accepting improper gifts and services and offering to use her influence inside the administration in return for the payment of a large credit card bill

... and you'll always be wrong no matter what you say!

...What's the most you've ever lost on a coin toss?

There's been multiple pretty interesting exposés on this. The TL;DR is that a lot of the high profile figures in the AI space have a god complex where they believe AI is inevitable and by being involved in the development, they might be able to steer it in a better direction. So really, the classic "if I don't, someone else will" excuse.

How in the world do you "switch off algorithms"? Even sort by new or purely random content is still an algorithm. Not to mention, if you switch to something like sort by new, that's even easier to manipulate. Just have bot accounts flood the feeds with whatever propaganda they want to push.

This is a good idea in spirit, but until I see the actual legislation, I feel like this could very easily end up in the category of geriatric politicians completely failing their attempts at legislating tech.

Republicans unironically do this with the national debt.

Ngl, the medley at the beginning goes kinda hard.

Or maybe I just have trash taste. 😅

Yep! Specifically, this is likely a temperature and occupancy sensor meant for use in conjunction with their smart thermostats. Something pretty similar to this: https://a.co/d/0g0CuprM

Mayor Greg Bozzo said other big industrial projects have been approved in the same manner over the years, but didn’t cause any uproar.

“It didn’t bother them that a food-distribution center came to Gilroy without their engagement, but now it bothers them that a data center is coming to Gilroy without them having the possibility of engagement,” Bozzo said.

“We…have an opportunity to change the way that we do business in Gilroy,” the mayor said. “We’re adapting to the times.”

Seems like the article accidentally misspelled his name with an extra "z". What an absolutely shit take. The corruption here is so obvious.