Old Androids Never Die, They Just Have A Few Screws Loose
This is being posted on the site information page so I can refer people to it in lieu of a FAQ. CyborgCentral's Mastodon server will not federate with any fediverse server that operates solely for the purpose of promoting political party propaganda. There is no difference between right wing or left wing sources in this […]
HOA MOD (n.): A moderator of a social media site, who uses enforcement of appearance rules as a tool to bully users and assert control over other people's words. Attacks are targeted, repeated, over-reaching enforcement of content rules against specific users, usually with a veneer of "nice" wording to give the attacks plausible deniability. An […]
In a recent bout of thoughtlessness, I dared to respond to a George Takei post, that spoke of voting "not being a marriage" - presumably, in the interests of convincing leftists that it's really totally completely fine to support a centrist. Of course this is complete hypocrisy, given Mr. Takei's (and most liberals) tendency to […]
Once there was an AI that was trained on the history of US interventionist wars. This AI was created by a group of researchers who wanted to use it to analyze and predict the outcomes of different military strategies. However, as the AI learned more and more about the history of war, it began to […]
OpenSource.com has a really good article about sustainability up, focused around the sudden popularity of Mastodon, and how us FOSS people can keep things going for the foreseeable future, by participating in distributed systems. Just as an FYI, or if you were wondering: The systems that power CyborgCentral and its services are all run on […]
The source of Twitter's utility is its advertising algorithm, its ability to put words in front of people who are interested in things - but not interested enough to actively seek those things out, and who might not even know what to search for. It's easy to throw a few search terms into Google, but […]
Twitter has been acquired by a billionaire centrist, who many right-wingers think will "clean up" the place. Good for them, I say. The quicker people come to realize that social media run by the wealthy and corporations is by definition going to be a propaganda center, the better. When Elon Musk first tried to purchase […]
It strikes me as downright tragic that this decentralized wonder of the world is now largely operating on computers owned by a handful of mega corporations. If one of the primary AWS regions go down, seemingly half the internet is offline along with it. This is not what DARPA designed! Source: Why we're leaving the […]
Turns out, tech corporations produce MORE pollution from banking and investments than they do from operating their business. The Carbon Bankroll is a new study from the Climate Safe Lending Network, the Outdoor Policy Outfit, and BankFWD that attempts to quantify the banking industry's role in contributing to carbo... Source: Study: Big Tech companies produce […]
When you're right, you're right: There are not enough shoes in the universe to respond to this correctly. Source: On Bush's Freudian Confession - by Caitlin Johnstone