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Gabriel Orca
@gabrielorca.bsky.social
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Philosopher, Humanist, Utopian
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The New Republic @newrepublic.com · 10h
Our thuggish dictator-wannabe is also a buffoonish man-child who sits there in his breathtakingly tacky Oval Office with his fake face and fake hair, boasting about passing a simple dementia test that a 10-year-old could ace. trib.al/CYOf5iW
Memo to Future Historians: This Is Fascism, and Millions of Us See It
From Chicago to Portland, James Comey to Letitia James, and so much else—this is no longer America.
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Olga Nesterova @onestpress.onestnetwork.com · 23h
#NOKINGS

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Gabriel Orca @gabrielorca.bsky.social · 23h
Digital ID is a bad idea. It will make identity less secure. A data breach IS inevitable. It also hands far too much power to government, making it possible to 'cut off' individual citizens at will. It will be abused. Stand up, speak out, protect yourselves.

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Petition: Do not introduce Digital ID cards
We demand that the UK Government immediately commits to not introducing a digital ID cards. There are reports that this is being looked at.
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Nolan Principles Matter. End the #GazaGenocide💔💙 @philildo.bsky.social · 3d
Come on folks - tell your families!
Closing in on 3 MILLION signatures now.
Tell the government we don't want or need #DigitalID
Please write to your MP too!
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Gabriel Orca @gabrielorca.bsky.social · 2d
We must have a parliarmentary debate over any government proposal to introduce #digitalID in the UK.
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Gabriel Orca @gabrielorca.bsky.social · 3d
Ignore the clickbaity thumbnail for this - there is lots here about kindness, empathy, and goodness, which is affirmative.

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The Rise of the Right is the Left's Fault - Stephen Fry
YouTube video by Triggernometry
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Gabriel Orca @gabrielorca.bsky.social · 5d
"Many have claimed that in the right hands, technology is a liberating force for good. But many warn that Big Tech poses serious threats to autonomy and freedom, manipulating our actions and choices in every aspect of our lives."

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Big Tech vs Democracy | Yanis Varoufakis takes on Google's Tim Nguyen
YouTube video by The Institute of Art and Ideas
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Gabriel Orca @gabrielorca.bsky.social · 5d
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Digital IDs Just Went Live (Say Goodbye to Privacy)
YouTube video by Andrei Jikh
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Gabriel Orca @gabrielorca.bsky.social · 5d
"OpenAI is able to spend hundreds of billions of dollars they don't have because those companies are paying that same money back to OpenAI via investment. The infinite money glitch means stocks keep going higher as more circular revenue cycles between the same players."

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Big Tech Is Faking Revenue
YouTube video by Sasha Yanshin
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Electronic Frontier Foundation @eff.org · 13d
Nothing has really changed: this remains an unsettling overreach that makes U.K. users less safe and less free. www.eff.org/deeplinks/2...
The UK Is Still Trying to Backdoor Encryption for Apple Users
The Financial Times reports that the U.K. is once again demanding that Apple create a backdoor into its encrypted backup services. The only change since the last time they demanded this is that the
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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 15d
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How to Turn Off AI Tools Like Gemini, Apple Intelligence, Copilot, and More - Consumer Reports
AI features are crowding into Google search, Gmail, iPhones, Windows laptops, and other products. If you're suffering from AI overload, these settings can help.
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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 15d
10K Word Premium: OpenAI is another unprofitable, desperate AI startup building products on its own models, spending $2.60 to make $1. Sora 2 is a reckless attempt to grow ChatGPT that costs them at least $5 per generated video. They need to raise $20bn+ before EoY.
www.wheresyoured.at/sora2-openai/
OpenAI Is Just Another Boring, Desperate AI Startup
What is OpenAI? I realize you might say "a foundation model lab" or "the company that runs ChatGPT," but that doesn't really give the full picture of everything it’s promised, or claimed, or leaked t...
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Gabriel Orca @gabrielorca.bsky.social · 13d
Important.

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The Professor Banned From Speaking Out: "We Need To Start Preparing” - Dr Bret Weinstein
YouTube video by The Diary Of A CEO
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Gabriel Orca @gabrielorca.bsky.social · 13d
"Regulation can’t force corporate sociopaths to conceive of you as a human being entitled to dignity and fair treatment, and not just an ambulatory wallet. But it can make them fear you enough to treat you fairly and afford you dignity."

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#enshittification
Way past its prime: how did Amazon get so rubbish?
Sick of scrolling through junk results, AI-generated ads and links to lookalike products? The author and activist behind the term ‘enshittification’ explains what’s gone wrong with the internet – and ...
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Gabriel Orca @gabrielorca.bsky.social · 14d
The #AI bubble bursting might be the only way to bring these too-big-to-care tech giants crashing down to Earth. They all need a sharp course correction. Big Tech is leaving people behind. We need to put humans back at the centre of their equation.
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Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 15d
A Message From Dr. Jane Goodall |
Famous Last Words
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Gabriel Orca @gabrielorca.bsky.social · 16d
"We need more technologists thinking deeply about the ends of the technology they create—not just the means. We call them philosopher-builders."

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Cosmos Institute (@cosmosinstitute)
We need more technologists thinking deeply about the ends of the technology they create—not just the means. We call them philosopher-builders.
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Gabriel Orca @gabrielorca.bsky.social · 18d
Investigative journalist Karen Hao (author of 'Empire of AI') reveals what she uncovered inside OpenAI, including hidden agendas, secretive practices, and the uncomfortable truth about who really controls artificial intelligence.

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OpenAI Insider’s Dark Warning on AI & The Hypocrisy of CEO Sam Altman
YouTube video by The Room Where It Happened
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Gabriel Orca @gabrielorca.bsky.social · 18d
"This is not innovation. It is the systematic devaluation of human expression in favour of cheaper synthetic alternatives."
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Murena @murena-com.bsky.social · 19d
⏰ Wake up! It’s time to deGoogle your life!

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Choose freedom.
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Gabriel Orca @gabrielorca.bsky.social · 23d
This is just excellent.

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Avoiding the Automation of your Heart
A correspondence with Freya India
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Center For Humane Technology @humanetech.bsky.social · Aug 8
Powerful tech. Disempowered employees.

Insiders see emerging AI risks up close. But if they speak out, they face threats and blowback, with no formal protections.

It's time for real whistleblower protections in tech.

Read our piece: bit.ly/3HsddjT
Powerful Technology, Disempowered Employees
Why the Tech Industry Needs Whistleblower Protections
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Fight for the Future @fightforthefuture.org · Sep 11
This summer we released a special issue of a magazine containing five original works from a cohort of wildly exciting speculative fiction authors that contend with surveillance, policing + cultures of resistance. Check it out:

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Why it matters to tell stories against surveillance
Authors taking down authoritarian tech This summer, we quietly released something totally new for us. It’s not a campaign, an open letter, or a digital tool—instead, it’s a special issue of a magazine containing five original works from a cohort of wildly exciting speculative fiction authors. We
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Gabriel Orca @gabrielorca.bsky.social · Sep 11
"Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has." ~ Margaret Mead

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The Crisis That United Humanity—and Why It Matters for AI
YouTube video by Center for Humane Technology
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Gabriel Orca @gabrielorca.bsky.social · Sep 10
Enshittification isn't a force of nature, nor historic inevitability. #Enshittification is a choice, not an accident. How do we end the enshittocene era, and build a new, good internet, whose clouds and endpoints are safe for human habitation?

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Cory Doctorow at CF 25: How Enshittification Conquered the 21st Century and How We Can Overthrow It
YouTube video by CloudFest
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