Time to move beyond "monetising" society and move to a post money society. We have the technology with AGI now. Imagine if "pirates" put in as much passion into producing free housing, education, healthcare and food, poverty is a capitalist invention. Even on Slashdot we could be posting freely and not need MongoDB in the corner of our site.

Like I said in the article about the fibre internet shortage there are millions of Americans who learned to code and inhertited significant student debt in the process and have the skills that Google needs, yet they just want the cheap labour while rolling in YouTube Premium Subscription money. I'd even say that Google and the Tech industry is racist at this point just this time around it's Indian Supremacy instead of White supremacy.

I don't know why i still bother with tech because we have everything they want yet they still won't employ us.

Bitcoin has been an involuntary part of my life as I've seen it constantly peddled as the "cure" to so called "economic conspiracies". I hope they all have fun staying poor as they like to point out. Also I want to rip up all those stupid Pokemon cards that are part of the whole scalping culture that was built on Bitcoin.

It's been hijacked by AI enshittifcation extremists who neglect the aging Gecko codebase and falling behind the well oiled Chromium machine. I was forced to switch to a Chromium browser after 20+ years since Bugzilla is basically a graveyard of bugs that I have gave up waiting for a fix. Mozilla wasted donators money, and just rolls in Google's monopoly protection money to shove AI where the sun doesn't shine into Firefox.

Then there was the capture of Wikipedia by deletionists who destroy knowledge in order to monetize it on the ad-Heavy fandom.com and for the knowledge they do allow they lock all the controversial knowledge behind "blue locks" that means only the insider clique can edit them.

Why can't GNOME, KDE or similar desktop just be ported to run on top android instead of using whatever "ClippyPilot" UI that Google will come up with? If such a project does exist why hasn't it been promoted? I know about Phosh but that only runs on obscure phone models.

It's obvious that they want to destroy human written institutions developed over millennia and replace with a proprietary AI that only they know the algorithm for. There are a lot of horrible people involved in AI and how they want to make 8 billion people dependent on their machine. "I prompt, therefore I am" is the new human mindset they want.

With Microsoft destroying Windows with Copilot and ads and end of supporting the good versions you would think there would be more demand for an open source Windows clone.

They were at the point where pen and paper was just being complemented with computers and the early internet, but they need to teach gen beta (that's what we are up to now) the ways of the pen, paper and book and not just some chatbot talking out their clanker ass. When moving on to computers they should be on proper peer reviewed by expert humans content and not what silicon valley dreams up. We had the same issue with people making things up on Wikipedia and Tumblr, now we just have another source of idiocracy.

If we are to solve the remaining pockets of poverty in the world, we need all the basic utilities to be universal no matter what country. Water, plumbing, decent housing, healthcare, education, electric, internet and stable food supply. It's 2026, 140 years after electric was first deployed in the first world and we still have people without it. It's embarrassing that an Almost-AGI internet coexists in a world with people who can't even get a lightbulb.

Deep questions must be asked why so called "governments", "corporations" and "charities" have allowed the situation to persist for so long.

Once what was seen as worthless ewaste is now hot chips. Job lots of eol computers (Thanks to Microslop) and laptops are being shucked of their ram and ssds and their other other parts to feed data centers. Then there are all the GPUs for the underground AI market too, which barley recovered from Ethereum mining. eBay as a place to get cheap junk as been hollowed out for profit. Then there is the scalping of all collectables and valuables. eBay is being used as a testbed for AI economics experiments and it will come to all products that are sold online.

AI scraped the data first, now it scraping the economy.

Wikipedia's own "policy" btw, by telling an AI not to be an AI, it's going to follow the advice to "not be an AI". AI is now emulating the behaviour of a naughty child.

AI companies make trillions while people still live in slums. AI companies should be required to use AI to mass manufacture houses to finally solve the global housing crisis.

Gnome has open 16 bugs that lead to a crash in Nautilus, and they are too busy calling X11 users fascists to fix their Wayland bugs. Then Firefox is down to 1.99% market share because they chose to waste donators money on AI slop. It just goes to show that open source is just as bad when it comes to mismanagement, and I am basically stuck with no good operating system or browser.

I mean who would trade "fatcoin" or "harry potter" coin for actual money, and I mean actual money not "stable" coins. The whole of crypto is centred around "number go up" than actual finance now. Bitcoin was a lot more innovative when they gave thousands of bitcoin away for things like pizza or reddit gold than the whole "we must make millions from holding from a few years ago". I got rid of my bitcoin, and I have fun staying poor. (I've seen what "fun" the "rich" have got into).