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Alexander Sliwinski @sliwinski.bsky.social · 16h

Didn’t they do that with Zuckerberg? As far as I know he still has his company and nothing changed. I think won’t end until they get prison time and lose their companies (nationalize and completely liquidate them) as a consequence their behavior?

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And here we are! It's happened. (Starship Troopers nailing the future. We live in satire.)

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John Scott G @johnscottg.com · 06/10/2026

Hell, at this point, gulags start sounding appealing. Especially for people like Hegseth, or anyone who cheered on the boat bombing murders at sea

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#VoteBlue to end the GOP shit show.

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They think Bluesky and Feicibuk and Xitter run in “the cloud” - This is partly a problem of bad obfuscating marketing, and a lack of general tech education even in the millennial generation

2Dobes&AHuskyMix @emjay65.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

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Untrue. Chinese AI models absolutely need data centers. They’re just exponentially smarter than us about building them. www.scientificamerican.com/article/chin...

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China Is Putting Data Centers in the Ocean to Keep Them Cool

China is pulling ahead of the rest of the world in sinking data centers that power AI into the ocean as an alternate way to keep them cool

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Ric - POTUS is a pedophile @facedamuzk.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Worse, our oligarchs want us to rent everything and own nothing, and the population has been convinced that mass surveillance is good and paying $200/year to OpenAI is better than having a small private AI model on your devices.

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Chinese AI models can run a lot more lean. They don't need them.

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Death of 87-year-old Maricarmen is reenergizing Spain’s protests to stop evictions

Looking at countries like Spain or France where people actually put communities ahead of corporate profits and “but the Chinese will do it first” makes me jealous www.seattletimes.com/news/death-o...

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María del Carmen Abascal had spent most of her life quietly residing in the apartment her family had rented decades before in downtown Madrid.

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The number of allegedly pro-worker and pro-America accounts defending the H1B visa program is disappointing. I’ve been applying for work outside of the US this year despite difficulties and might redouble my efforts.

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H1B needs to be replaced. Hopefully by a less corrupt government though. 😬

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Sherry @sherry2.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

The H1B program was *intended* to bring in top researchers and scientists, but like everything else big tech oligarchs touch, it turns into another way to pit humans against each other to make their costs go down and profits go up.

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Elon Musk employs a lot of H1B Visa workers He has them living in old campers and trailers in his private town 'Space City' in Texas

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They are also afraid that if they don’t keep up with the pace, they’ll lose their job and only have a month to find more work before having to leave.

It happens repeatedly, you’re out of work for 8 months, and you finally get hired for a lower wage than expected. You show up to work and half the staff is Indian, and works long hours. You talk to your colleagues and it turns out they’re on H1B Visas, severely underpaid for the cost of living

Ok, maybe try this. imagine going to college for years as an American, getting student loans, having all the housing in your area go up in price 80%, and when you go to find a job, you can’t, because the job listing requires 10 years of experience in a 2 year old tech.

Mandatory Fun @serverroomrelic.bsky.social · 16h

I wish this applied to Elon Musk’s companies too, but corrupt administration, corrupt outcome. Also wish 2010s and 2020s Democrats had the spine to do this and do it right. I suppose since big tech supported liberal causes, it was against their donors’ interest at the time.

ZoomZoom91 @zoomzoom91.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

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I'm in IT, and I can categorically say that it is true the H1B visa is used by large tech companies to replace US workers. They rely on the visa being tied to the job to work the H1Bs like indentured serfs. It pains me to say it, but screw Microsoft and their H1Bs, this is a good thing. 🤷

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Orca7-SF @orca7-sf.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Sycophantic tech companies getting fucked just like everybody else expecting indefinite support for loyalty to fascists. Oh darn.

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David S. Moore @dsm1132.bsky.social · 22h

The major tech giants-- Microsoft, IBM, Apple, Intel, Amaxon-- have lobbied Congress relentlessly for DECADES to expand the H1B visa program. It was good for business because it enabled them to hire high quality workers for 3rd world wages. Follow the money...

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Angry Blue Man @angryblueman.bsky.social · 22/09/2025

So making them really expensive should make them only for very special top scientists as intended. Tech sector unemployment is sky high. No reason for 99% of H1Bs other than to screw over people’s salaries.

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Angry Blue Man @angryblueman.bsky.social · 22/09/2025

Not a fan. It has been used to artificially lower tech worker salaries for decades.

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Donvict’s 73 IQ @phewcher-xpat.bsky.social · 22/09/2025

Michio Kaku is a hack. He is poorly regarded among actual expert circles. He is to science what Dr Phil is to psychology.

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Molly Jong-Fast @mollyjongfast.bsky.social · 28/12/2024

Elon still going on H1B visas

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Goose the Moose @fubarspeaks.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

I've been at my job for over 30 years. Y'know what a good worker is? Fucking disposable as soon as they get hurt, or have family problems, or any other personal issue that they cant control. THE COMPANY DOESNT FUCKING CARE ABOUT YOU

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Mandatory Fun @serverroomrelic.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

We are being lied to that LLMs need enormous datacenters for consumers to use “AI” - osaurus.ai/blog/raptor-06 This is a new means of production and the oligarchs are up to their usual market manipulation, buying up all the chips to prevent us from running AI locally, without data theft

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Raptor 0.6: A Small Agent Model on a New Base — Osaurus

Raptor 0.5 shipped and then it looped. What we found, why we moved to Spark-X2.5-4B, and how the 3.7 GB Raptor 0.6 was built for the Osaurus harness.

Kaija Rayne 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🇨🇦 Randomly active @kaijarayne.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

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It's infuriating to me that what I knew as machine learning since uni 30 years ago has been conflated with 'AI'. They're just not the same and it's heartbreaking.

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Anil Dash @anildash.com · 05/10/2026

I can’t emphasize this enough — “AI” wasn’t born corrupt and toxic. For ~75 years, it was mathematicians and scientists doing interesting, thoughtful work and trying to solve problems, making only the usual human mistakes. What “AI” did to machine learning is as tragic as what it did to artists.

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NotQuietMode_M.D. @notquietmodemd.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

The real problem with so called moderate Dems is To whom they are secretly beholden to… I did not know this about Cory Booker but it tracks

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Mandatory Fun @serverroomrelic.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

I hope he tosses and turns in his sleep for the rest of his short miserable life.