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I love how this “Created by AI, edited by humans” summary of the chat I had with Doc this month starts off mildly enough with “A great chat on FLOSS Weekly regarding alternate funding models to support ethical tech projects…“ and ends a few paragraphs later with “…Balkan provided an urgent call to action to avoid extinction at the hands of unchecked capitalism.”
Well that escalated quickly!
😬 👍
https://twit.tv/posts/inside-twit/aral-balkan-calls-new-funding-models-support-ethical-tech
#tech #ethics #BigTech #SmallTech #BigWeb #SmallWeb #VC #capitalism
Aral Balkan Calls For New Funding Models to Support Ethical Tech | TWiT.TV
On a recent episode of FLOSS Weekly, hosts Doc Searls and Dan Lynch spoke to open-source advocate Aral Balkan about the need for alternate funding models to support ethical technol…TWiT.tv
On #TechWontSaveUs, Edward Ongweso Jr. outlines why we need to abolish venture capital if we have any hope of creating better technology and actually improving people’s lives.
https://www.buzzsprout.com/1004689/13377584-abolish-venture-capital-w-edward-ongweso-jr
#tech #ai #vc #finance
Abolish Venture Capital w/ Edward Ongweso Jr. - Tech Won't Save Us
Paris Marx is joined by Edward Ongweso Jr. to discuss how the venture capital industry works, why the technologies it funds don’t deliver on their marketing promises, and how that’s once again being shown in the hype around AI. Edward Ongweso...Buzzsprout
I guess I can take this response as confirmation, then?
#deltaChat
Public funding for tech should come with a stipulation that the organisations that take (our) public funds should not then be able to take venture capital (VC) and have private capital enclose what is built with that public funding.
Context: Delta Chat (@delta), which has received public funding from multiple #EU funds, #NLNet, etc. is reportedly now considering a VC offer.
#DeltaChat #EU #VentureCapital #VC
*ANY* chatbots main job is to harvest data & behaviours from humans using them to improve all aspects of their own back end systems.
#OpenAI ToS/EULA “OK” = Liability to User
115 days and #ChatGPT will be in MS-Office within weeks?
WTF?
#AI = savage & lawless land
#VC’s❤️
ALL #media dopamine addled or captured or troll army pumping #AI for #Musk #Theil
Who’s looking behind curtain? 🧐
#SiliconValley #billionaires #vc #ventureCapital #BigTech #colonialism #fediverse #mastodon
Who do you think funds and benefits from the Twitters and Facebooks of the world?
We can’t stop these folks from setting up their own servers but please don’t feel a need to federate with them or subsidise their existence on servers you pay for and maintain.
And remain vigilant against embrace, extend, and extinguish.
#billionaires #vc #SiliconValley #mastodon #capitalism
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maybe we ALL take a serious & sober look at how ABSENCE of LAW over past 18 years (not bad law, shitty or law unfair law... no law)
in:
• #internet
• #mobile #social
• #privacy
• #surveillance
• #AI #ML
• #data #governance
This is a massive #mastodon #fediverse opportunity we can collectively capitalize on before #SiliconValley #BigTech #VC carpet baggers arrive.
#my2cents
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