A growing number of young consumers are turning to analog and single-purpose devices like cyberdecks and e-readers as a form of resistance to AI-first platforms and increasingly automated digital systems. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/commentary/2026/06/15/world/gen-z-tech-trend-anti-ai/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #commentary #worldnews #ai #analogartificialintelligence #ai #cyberdeck #alphabet #google #ebay #siliconvalley #microsoft #siliconvalley #genz
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***** WARNING REGARDING GOOGLE/ALPHABET *****
#Google (#Alphabet) is reinstating the worst of #YouTube creators who were "permanently" banned for COVID-19 and election integrity misinformation. Alphabet is now saying "Biden made them do the bans."
Clearly, billionaire CEO Sundar -- who we've seen palling around with Trump of course -- has gone full MAGA. Google is purposely conflating -- that is, purposely confusing -- necessary moderation to protect people and elections from masses of misinformation designed to mislead them, often in devastating ways -- from censorship created to suppress specific valid points of view.
There is an enormous difference -- Sundar and his Alphabet minions know this full well. They also know that their Gemini AI is a source of often dangerous misinformation on a planetary scale, and it's likely this has also entered into their recently (in a letter to Congress) announced changes.
Given Google's enthusiastic embrace of MAGA, I do not consider my past statements applauding the security and privacy of user information at Google to be reliable guidance moving forward from now. I have no confidence that Sundar would not quickly (or ultimately) agree to virtually any demands made by the Trump administration, however invasive or illegal they might actually be.
I do not have specific recommendations for alternatives to Google or their services, so please don't ask me for them! But I do recommend keeping the obvious shift in Google's behavior in mind, and you would be wise to assume that they are fully and completely in bed with fascist Trump in many ways -- or soon will be -- absent clear and convincing evidence to the contrary.
If Google/Alphabet wishes to discuss any of this with me and point out any errors in my analysis, they know my email address.
Take care, all.
L
Another #media group capitulates to the #tyrant
#YouTube Settles #Trump Lawsuit for $24.5 Million
Trump sued #Alphabet, the parent company of YouTube & #Google, & other #socialmedia companies after the platforms suspended his accounts in 2021.
#law #FirstAmendment #FreeSpeech #authoritarianism #autocracy #dictatorship #fascism #tyranny
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/29/technology/youtube-trump-lawsuit-settlement.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare
US Supreme Court allows order forcing #Google to make #app store reforms
#SCOTUS declined on Monday to halt key parts of a judge's order requiring #Alphabet's Google to make major changes to its app store Play, as the company prepares to appeal a decision in a lawsuit brought by "Fortnite" maker #EpicGames.
#law #tech
https://www.reuters.com/sustainability/boards-policy-regulation/us-supreme-court-allows-order-forcing-google-make-app-store-reforms-2025-10-06/?utm_source=braze&utm_medium=notifications&utm_campaign=2025_engagement
Alphabets From The Zanerian School of Penmanship, c.1910
These satisfying handwritten alphabets are from the 1900 and 1910 editions of penmanship guides, The New Zanerian Alphabets.
by Sheldon D.
Alphabets at PG:
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/subjects/search/?query=alphabets
Archaeologists May Have Just Found the Oldest Alphabet Ever
By Margherita Bassi via @gizmodo
https://gizmodo.com/archaeologists-may-have-just-found-the-oldest-alphabet-ever-2000528376
RE: https://mastodon.social/@murena/116443057901982598
this is huge:
❝ The Open Document Format (ODF) will become the only permitted standard for all government documents, with data stored in national or European structures. ❞
this is the beginning of the end of the #Microslop public gravy train. getting off Microsoft and all gringo servers will be the real kicker.
without the #MAGA #Amazon #Meta #Apple #Alphabet #Microsoft #Palantir #Xitter #techbros and their #Trump, this would have never happened.
Charles Davy’s Conjectural Observations on the Origin and Progress of Alphabetic Writing (1772)
A series of conjectures about the primal scene of writing.
https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/conjectural-observations/?utm_source=newsletter
Original book:
https://archive.org/details/conjecturalobser00davy
Alphabets at PG:
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/subject/2325
Alphabet books at PG:
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/subject/3574
Leute, das muss einfach raus:
#DigitaleSouveränität ist eine Frage der #Bildung und #Medienkompetenz, keine technische. Es geht hier eher um Entscheidungen, #Politik und (Aus-)Bildung als um #Technik und Features. Konzernprodukte von fragwürdigen Akteuren gut zu finden (#Apple, #Microsoft, #Meta, #Alphabet, #TwitterX), heißt nur: #nixverstanden. Wer illegale, milliardenschwere, mit Steuer/Militär$ entwickelte Produkte mit Hobbyprodukten der #Opensourcewelt vergleicht, hat nix kapiert. Aufbruch!
HORRIFIC: Waymo robotaxi kidnaps and imprisons teenagers
This story is much worse than I realized. Those drinking teenagers who were shooting Orbeez from a Waymo were not just reported to the police, Google/Alphabet literally kidnapped them, locking them helplessly in the vehicle, until police arrived. This is a scenario I predicted years ago, robocars kidnapping passengers and taking them against their will to "authorities". Imagine what Trump's DOJ would do with this power.
Despite the fact that these teens were engaging in low level misbehavior, Google/Alphabet is NOT supposed to be an arresting agent of the government. What if one of those teens had suffered a medical emergency locked in that vehicle? THIS IS HORRIFIC.
#waymo #google #alphabet #robotax #kidnapping
