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But people love to! Really sad

AI must be “disarmed” in order to free it from the mentality of military, economic, and cognitive competition. “To disarm means discrediting the assumption that technical power automatically confers the right to govern,” he says. “To disarm does not mean rejecting technology, but preventing it from dominating humanity” (110). He devotes ample space to a critique of transhumanism and posthumanism, which interpret progress as the overcoming of human limits. Instead, limitations are not defects to be eliminated, but a constitutive dimension of the human person, because it is in fragility and finitude that relationship and openness to God and to others mature. He says we must remember that “humanity flourishes not despite limitations, but often through them” (118).

Pursuing technological innovation at the expense of eliminating human limitations, he says, would cause an anthropological regression. “Humanity—in all its grandeur and woundedness—must never be replaced or surpassed,” he says. Technology can alleviate humanity’s sufferings and open new possibilities, but it must not deny the essence of humanity, which is our “capacity for relationship and love” (126). In the face of AI, says the Pope, “the true alternative is not between enthusiasm and fear, but between two paths of development: a progress that serves individuals and peoples, or a progress that subjects them to the mentality of power” (129).

Divided into five chapters, Magnifica humanitas has an underlying premise: technology is not “a force antagonistic to humanity” (4), nor is it “inherently evil” (9). However, “technology is never neutral, because it takes on the characteristics of those who devise, finance, regulate, and use it.

Therefore, Pope Leo XIV appeals for people to build “for the common good” and to “remain human,” following a courageous mentality of shared responsibility and communion, so that the world “will come to recognize the human heart as the place where God desires to dwell” (16).

> In rejecting the rules, lawmakers resisted pressure from German Chancellor Friedrich Merz, four European Commissioners, tech giants Meta, Google and Microsoft and numerous children’s charities in past weeks.

> A total of 311 lawmakers rejected the European Commission's proposal to extend the law, with 228 voting in favor and 92 abstaining.

Those are Conservatives from EPP group, not some "The EU". Let's be literal.

Is it like Google Now mixed with Twitter and Sora feed?

A conglomerate of BearBlog: https://bearblog.dev/discover/

Archive: https://archive.ph/8Yc5T

Here are his works on Wikisources (in 7 languages, public domain): https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Author:Michel_de_Montaigne

Outside of mapped and heavily driven teritory? Good luck.

NotebookLM is from Google Labs and was/is available from EU. It's problem with this specific chess project.

Mastodon seems to be the most versatile app of all of them. With Mastodon account you can follow people from BlueSky (if they use BridgyFed) and people from Threads (if they turn on fediverse sharing).

Using Mastodon you can follow people from Bluesky and Threads if they only turn on sharing or use Bridgy Fed option as well. Mastodon is the most versatile piece of software.

On Mastodon there are no longer people dragged by the crowd, only those who have something interesting to say remain.

Verifying your identity on Mastodon is for everyone as well and based on open web standards.

https://joinmastodon.org/verification

> it's basically a carbon copy of twitter circa 2015, down to an almost identical UI. Except that there's no monetization, no ads, no growth hacking, which means that in the main features are there to serve the user

Wow, that's just like Mastodon.

Fortunately using Bridgy Fed we can connect BlueSky with Fediverse and IndieWeb.

https://github.com/snarfed/bridgy-fed/

As long as this site doesn't implement the ActivityPub protocol, I don't see any reason for me to move to this site. I don't have time to maintain another account, and I want to keep in touch with people from Mastodon and Threads.

Twitter started irreversibly feeding users’ data into its “Grok” AI technology in May 2024, without ever informing them or asking for their consent.

https://noyb.eu/en/twitters-ai-plans-hit-9-more-gdpr-complai...

I have a cochlear implant as well and can confirm it

So good post, thanks!

Mapy.cz

Interestingly both X (TT) and Instagram are trying to popularise their group functions, but it's not popular enough.

Bookwyrm — fediverse alternative: https://joinbookwyrm.com/

You might be interested in: https://indieblog.page/

Waiting till they implement Fediverse. Then not protocol wars but server wars will start ;)

It literally is nr 1 after 5 hrs. Interoperability is needed if Meta wants run Threads in EU. ActivityPub is W3C protocole.

Now Bookwyrm is the future of book reviews. Because it's FOSS and federalised with ActivityPub protocol.

Archived: https://archive.ph/ibGjP

Fortunately Mastodon has multiple instances so the traffic is not harmful for the whole community as it is for Bluesky.