This is why I don't make "community contributions" to "open platforms" which don't have some very solid legal framework for governance in place.
They sell out to VC and rug pull hard on the community that provides the bulk of their data and value.

This is why I don't make "community contributions" to "open platforms" which don't have some very solid legal framework for governance in place.
They sell out to VC and rug pull hard on the community that provides the bulk of their data and value.
This is the Silicon Valley “startup” model. Startups are not long-term sustainable businesses or small businesses. A startup is a temporary business designed to either grow exponentially and exit (sell) or to fail fast.
A little reminder that DuckDuckGo is venture capital (VC) funded.
The way VC works:
1. You get VC
2. You grow as fast as you can (or fail fast)
3. You sell (either to a larger corporation or to the public in an IPO; this is called the “exit”)
(In case any of you are surprised by recent/future developments.)
is it just me or has every #techbro and #vc idiot either NOT read #1984 by #GeorgeOrwell and are thinking the light at the End of The #AI Tunnel is something other than a reflection or an oncoming train and are abusing it to realize their #technofascist wet dream?
Being financially extremely successful rots men’s brains. And if they then become a VC to perpetuate their success by doing even less work than before, all is lost:
OpenID for Verifiable Presentations 1.0 is now final!
This is the core presentation protocol used with the Digital Credentials API.
https://openid.net/specs/openid-4-verifiable-presentations-1_0-final.html
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Listen hustle folks and VCs. Completion of the intra-American Iron Curtain will be a business opp for a border theme park on the Mexican side. You too can make money off ICE.
Educational visitor center, taco trucks, a replica of a checkpoint - name it Checkpoint Jesus for the common first name and to pi** off Evangelicals.
A mini wall parcours for kids, a waterslide called Rio Pequeno with plastic razor wire. A large observation tower, drone racing, and more.
The First Public Working Draft of the W3C Digital Credentials API is now published
Rise and Fall of Grassroots #OpenWeb
To understand where the #Fediverse and the #OpenSocialWeb are heading, and how not to lose our way, we need to reflect on where we’ve come from. The history of grassroots #openweb activism offers both inspiration and hard lessons.Foundations are built by real people, social movements start local, they begin with people on the margins – those directly affected by injustice – taking action with the tools they have. In the late ’90s and early 2000s, tech projects like #Indymedia were the […]
https://hamishcampbell.com/rise-and-fall-of-grassroots-openweb/
The epitome of Silicon Valley: a startup to help people “cheat on everything.” Best three-word summary of the history of America from 1492 onwards.
The perfect Trump-era fraud.
And OF COURSE a16z would rush in to fund this crap.
Moorpark Us101 N / Wendy Dr **Report of Fire** 8:19 PM #CHP #VenturaCounty #VC
Here's my slides from my session at #Identiverse 2025: Passkeys and Verifiable Digital Credentials: Friends or Foes?
I'm the #CEO of a multi million dollar #VC funded #startup. Due to the #Pareto Principle, which tells me we only need 20% of people for the second 80% of the result, I have deducted that we can fire 80% of our employees. #quickMaths
"Builder.ai lacked true AI, instead utilising a group of Indian developers who were merely pretending to be bots writing code."
It's hilarious to see the online reaction to this. It has been common knowledge for YEARS.
The Wall Street Journal already questioned the "AI" part of builder.ai in 2019: https://www.wsj.com/articles/ai-startup-boom-raises-questions-of-exaggerated-tech-savvy-11565775004
Techcrunch mentioned it in 2022: https://techcrunch.com/2022/03/30/builder-ai-raises-100m-series-c-led-by-insight-partners-to-scale-up-its-software-automation/
I don't hang out on #Bluesky and I'm all in on the #Fediverse, but I have to admit that when I occasionally go over to Bluesky to see a thread that somebody has linked here or that was bridged here via #BridgyFed, I find that the comments on the thread tend to be quite good.
There's definitely an early-Twitter-before-it-turned-to-shit vibe to it.
Mind you, I don't think it will last, because everything backed by #VC eventually eventually enshittifies, but right now, it really is pretty good.
Ventura 0 Sr33 **Report of Fire** 5:15 PM #CHP #VenturaCounty #VC
Moorpark Us101 S / No Conejo Scales **Car Fire** 1:21 PM #CHP #VenturaCounty #VC
“We’re building services that improve the personal computing experience by understanding your unique context and taking action at your command. When you use our services, you’re trusting us to handle your personal data.”
A VC-backed startup with Sam Altman as their lead investor* wants the keys to your Mac.
Yeah, no.
* https://www.crunchbase.com/funding_round/software-applications-incorporated-seed--db0eafa1
#AI #privacy #Sky #SamAltman #startup #VC #BigTech #surveillance #capitalism #mac https://mastodon.macstories.net/@viticci/114586346228814327
What a shitty time to be alive
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