Our family has had its own google workspace for over a decade. A month ago I set a goal to have drive, photos, email, every-frickin-thing migrated to sovereign tech by the end of the year. Start9, syncthing, Borg and Rclone for multilevel/multisite backups. Its a slog. Its a big slog. But if we don't do it the AI convenience trap will hook us deeper.

Today would have been Jonathan Postel's birthday (the guy in my banner). Thank him for open protocols and probably the original cipherpunk/hippie act - as he conned ownership of root DNS for a week (using only email**). 😆 Jon Postel - Wikipedia https://share.google/Xwmy6HCBpamZtZS6d ** RFC 753, RFC 821

90,000 people including Julian Assange turn out to support this people of Gaza.

the Guardian

Sea of people march across Sydney Harbour Bridge calling for an end to killing in Gaza

NSW police estimate 90,000 walked despite force and premier opposing rally, while Palestine Action Group claims up to 300,000 peacefully protested

Ive been thinking that China company's open source AI is soft power in action when the US based AI arms race is mostly closed source (more on that later). Did you know Kissinger visited Xi in 2023 to discuss AI hegemonies? Found an interesting quote from the link below which is obvious in hindsight. "Instead, they’re (Chinese AI companies) working within carefully curated datasets sanctioned by Beijing. One such example: a government-approved “mainstream values corpus,” built largely from state media content, designed to keep public-facing A.I. models ideologically aligned"

Inventiva

The Great AI Wall Of China; Can The World Resist China’s Digital Influence And Can Authoritarian A.I. Win The Global Mind War? - Inventiva

The race for artificial intelligence, AI supremacy is not limited to innovation alone but has now evolved into other significant points - influence...

Pro account sharers FYI. I doubt this affects solutions like mapleai as they likely use APIs.

Found a classic Leunig while cleaning out downloads

That's a fun number