Solarpunk seems cool enough, I follow communities on their instance on some non-politicial topics.

Haven’t really been exposed to Multiverse communities.

Good communities and content are always appreciated.

Props for trying a new approach, good luck!

That being said, I hope you continue to engage with the community at least on the development side.

The “leftists” (emphasis on the quotes) on Threadi are full of shit. They are mostly edgelords or demagogues who don’t have any beliefs, it’s an online roleplay/aesthetic thing for them.

I am not just talking about personal conflicts. I am from Ukraine and its ironic to see alleged leftists support the genocidal imperialist policies of an authoritarian plutocracy (this isn’t limited to tankies, DB0 enables such narratives as well) using comical “but BATO expansion!!!” type arguements.

It’s funny how much Rose is focused on chasing trends and how little interest he has in innovation. He gave up on Digg very quickly, which makes sense from a business and product development perspective, but also provides signals for potential users.

Just like TC article mentions, how is this any different from just using in-built Twitter functionality or just subscribing to a link-based forum on the topic of AI?

For certain batch uses cases, it’s still the simplest option. yt-dlp is definitely the most powerful, but for me personally, I sometimes get bogged down in the CLI UX when I am doing something non-standard (I’ve “automated” standard use cases via a WezTerm “toolbox”).

I am glad I am using the unofficial portable build from videohelp.com (a site I’ve been using for what seems like 20+ years):

https://www.videohelp.com/software/JDownloader

jDownloader is a powerful tool (although its coverage scope is weaker than yt-dlp and even the Video DownloadHelper extension for FF), but the organization that makes it seems a bit sketchy. I was never able to access their “no adware in the installer” build on the official site.

Apologies, I meant this in a more general sense.

Perhaps a clearer phrasing would have been that I believe (and in this I agree with Spaleta) that it will not be possible for open source supporters and society more broadly to ignore ML products/services at scale.

I tend to agree with Jef Spaleta, LLMs and ML tech/services are not going anywhere and they will continue to have a bigger impact on our lives.

You can’t just reject the notion of ML products/services, they clearly have significant utility (not just LLMs, I do a lot of video ML upscalling as a hobby and you’de be surprised with the result you can get for DVD or even VHS quality source material).

The ethical dilemmas inherent to AI tech are not technical in nature. The root cause is tied to the current oligarchic regime and the inability of the largest and most powerful democratic-leaning society to deal with corruption.

Have you tried Voyager or Blorp?

Voyager definitely addresses many of the issues you mentioned and Blorp is often recommended for use with Piefed (Voyager doesn’t really support Piefed specific features even if overall platform support works well).

Did Nadella “promp engineer” his agents to send him a headline of a summary of a summarised transcript of two agents doing a 30 minute podcast about any Microsoft internal commuication that isn’t about low effort AI spam.

It honestly seems like Nadella is metamorphosing into an LLM himself, incapable of recognizing anything that’s not part of his limited training dataset of his vibe coded electron web dashboard summarizing "hottest shit on AI across TikTok, Reels and X [emoji talk only] which he only semi-jokingly calls “the organic pulse of the thing after next” based on a suggestion from his “Everyday Visionary Writing” LLM agent.

Why go with cloning specifically the OpenClaw repo? Just because it wins on some vibe engagement metrics that might not be relevant to his own goals of building similar tools within Microsoft.

And how come he didn’t vibe code the solution by himself and show us the future of “product management and software development all developed by agents”. The fuck is he doing with all the pre-historic GitHub clone boomer shit.

I wouldn’t be surprised if the guy is going to be institutionalised shortly after demanding all employees get Microsoft Teams AI Telekinesis Edition to be more productive with their use of AI.

I will respectfully disagree.

Reputational risk of the kind offerred by contractual engagement with Palantir (or say Meta) can only arise if you have a system for managing high level oligarchs and corruption.

US doesn’t have it and very likely won’t in the next 20-30 years minimum (you likely need a whole new generation of people).

EU perhaps has the opportunity to address these issues (more than the US), but they have their own failures in different related arenas.

Or you need a situation that’s unpredictable and no one knows what is going to happen next and how things play out.

I have a little bit of exposure to silicon valley companys and culture through long-lasting friends (some emigrated from other countries).

I find it difficult to believe that the notion of working for Palantir or Meta has any negative associations for vast majority of people with relevant skills. Not saying everyone, but the median individual who can get recruited to Palantir/Meta has other concerns.

Not a miniscule number of projects in silicon valley that I encountered where straight up legal scams. Perhaps scam is not the right word, but it was clear that they are not legitimate businesses, but more like schemes for the founders.

To be honest, I don’t think individuals leaving Palantir would matter (although it is likely within their capabilities).

Palantir had ~4,500 employee in 2025 as per Wikipedia. Replacements will be found.

To paraphrase my other comment in this post, people leaving a company/vertical hasn’t really ever made an impact (I am sure there are edge cases, but I am talking in terms of systemic impact).

It’s usually the other way round, things start to happen on the street and then people bail because they don’t want the risk/personal reputational damage.

The framing of the article is fantastical, I don’t think employees starting to question the nature of their conpany/segment has led to anything meaningful. Sure some verticals suffer from reputational damage (e.g. online gambling, blockchain “projects”), but it’s more of a relative thing.

They would never buy a PC company as a direct expansion play (way too low margins).

The implied strategy seems to be to push their N1 ARM CPU and have full control over the product.

Come on! Brave de facto engaged in advertising re-direction, specifically capturing and re-writing referral codes for their own commercial benefit without telling the user that this was being done (until they got caught?).

You don’t see why it’s an issue to rely on code (open source or otherwise), for content blocking no less, from a gang that is comfortable with secret link hijacking for their own profit?

What do ethics have to do with this? Irrespective of your position (with respect to author vs their code or more broadly), it is reasonable to question engagement with what is essentially a criminal organization.

https://davidgerard.co.uk/blockchain/2020/06/06/the-brave-web-browser-is-hijacking-links-and-inserting-affiliate-codes/

They even try to delete any threads about it until it became more widely known.