I have been made a fool of twice but this third time I definitely won’t be!

I wonder why a man who called Trump “daddy” would think this…

How I imagine everyone dresses on Lenny.ml

For those, like me, that don’t inherently know what a specific music festival poster from 1970 looks like.

I’m just some random on the internet but I’d rather you didn’t pay Spotify. Here’s one example for why, among many.

In November 2021, Prima Materia, an investment company cofounded by Ek and Spotify investor Shakil Khan, was announced as the lead investor in a €100 million fundraising round for Helsing, a European defense company that develops military strike drones and AI systems. Ek also joined Helsing’s board along with its co-founders Torsten Reil, Gundbert Scherf and Niklas Köhler.[171] In 2025, Ek’s firm increased its investment in Helsing, leading a €600 million funding round in the company that valued it at €12 billion.[172]

Several artists have objected to Ek’s investments in defense technology. The German DJ and techno producer Skee Mask urged his nearly 17,000 Twitter followers not to give their “last penny to such a wealthy business that obviously prefers the development of warfare instead of actual progression in the music business.” According to Sameer Gupta, a percussionist based in Brooklyn, New York, “All that money that’s being taken from artists and musicians is being funneled to this,” referring to Helsing. “I don’t know a single musician who would ever say, ‘That’s the function of music.’”[173] In 2025, the bands Deerhoof, Xiu Xiu, King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard, Godspeed You! Black Emperor, Hotline TNT, Massive Attack, and Sylvan Esso removed their music from the streaming service over objections to Ek’s investment in Helsing.[174][175][176][177][178]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Criticism_of_Spotify

Capitalist says things to scare others and aid capitalist. Ignore them and move on.

Tell me about it. The apathy among my friends is infuriating. And if you push it too hard you get labeled a conspiracy theorist nutter, even if you back up everything you say with facts, evidence, and credible sources.

Bread and circuses is really all it takes to control people. With a tiny bit of special economic privileges for those that start to think a bit too independently, to get them back in line and feeling superior to their peers.

https://youtu.be/XUwUp-D_VV0

The same source the AI techbros are using

Garedew, on the other hand, was unapologetic when interviewed by the tabloid Iltalehti on Wednesday.

“What should I apologise for?,” Garedew asked.

“If anyone should apologise, it is the media, which should apologise to me for condemning and labelling my ordinary post as racist. The media is guilty of this and also bears responsibility in this whole mess,” she alleged.

Wow. Self obsessed much.

I disagree, you’re not conversing in good faith, because you’re trying to win a pedantic argument that nobody else is engaging in. You see no way to “win” so you declare it bad faith.

The topic at hand is Mozilla adding AI into Firefox by default, and allowing users to turn it off if desired. So, optional, as you stated. The context that you’re refusing to acknowledge however, because you’re determined to win a pedantic argument rather than engage in a conversation, is that optional in this regard requires consent. Informed consent even. What does AI do to/for the end user? Why should they accept it to be on? What safeguards are in place? Unless they know this context, it should be off by default. Off by default is still optional, the user can still turn it on if they desire.

But you’re hung up on the word optional and care more about the pedantry of that one word rather than the context that brought us all into this conversation in the first place.

Optional has a very simple meaning if you ignore the context of the conversion.

Consider the question “Would you like to be punched in the face or not?” You have the option to choose either, but before you answer I’ll start punching you in the face anyway. Do you see how consent is a requirement of optional in that context?

The same applies for many options in life, the default is almost always “no”. Firefox should make this opt-in, not opt-out for the same reason.

If you’re still not convinced by the argument of consent (which, ooft, red flag if you’re not) then also consider the uproar in both this thread and around the internet/tech world because of this decision by Mozilla. All they have to do is change it from opt-out to opt-in and all this outrage disappears. But they haven’t. Why?

So for those that don’t care, what’s the problem with off being the default?

Those that do care would prefer it, those that don’t care don’t care.

What if, instead of having to go to the effort of turning it all off, it’s already off though?

Consent in any other scenario doesn’t have yes as the default option, why tolerate it in the tech world? (Autocorrect changed tech to greedy, that’s perhaps more accurate)

Does that include those who have switched to a Firefox fork like Librewolf?

Those who use Firefox are more likely to be tech savvy. They’re therefore more likely to be comfortable switching to a Firefox fork as well.

Firefox keeps getting worse, why would those with the know how stick with it when they can use a fork which is better?

That sounds like a similar system to what the UK introduced after WW2. It was scrapped in most of the country in the 1970s for the downsides you’ve mentioned.

I never had to do it, but instead had to study why it was scrapped. I’m surprised it’s still a common system in highly developed countries such as France!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eleven-plus#Controversy

I messaged the admin of the instance but they’ve not posted anything in 3 months so I don’t know if they’re even still active. Hopefully they fix it!

Wtf is this blatant vote manipulation?

https://lemvotes.org/post/sh.itjust.works/post/51690370

https://www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/i-work-for-an-evil-company-but-outside-work-im-actually-a-really-good-person

This article is a fun read.

The system only works because millions of cogs step in line and allow the machinery of that system to work.

I have been part of a larger evil system. Because where I grew up that’s what everyone did, you went into the industry propping up the local economy (oil and gas). As I grew older I learned of the evils of fossil fuels, about climate change, and no longer work in oil and gas. I have no intention of ever doing so again.

So you could quite rightfully call me a bastard. But I left and will never be returning, does that absolve me of the bastard title? I don’t know. But while you’re actively part of the machinery you’re definitely a bastard. Especially if you’re the part of the machinery that is systemically racist and assaults and restrains people on a daily basis.

Intentions vs actions.

All cops are bastards because it doesnt matter what their intentions are when their actions mean they prop up injustice, legal slavery, oppression of the right to protest, and corruption.

Cops enforce what their boss tells them to enforce, as is the way in extremely hierarchical organisations. Their intentions no longer matter, they do as they’re told.