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  #DYK: Only half of US citizens have passports. #diversity #inclusion

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  👏 This is what it looks like when a FLOSS institution takes a moral stand against so-called "AI" LLMs. Software freedom and the commons of public goods it enables needs protection ... now more than ever. It's a shame that there haven't been others (yet) to step up with this type of unequivocal stance. But there's still time for those who consider themselves leaders in software freedom to get on the right side of history. https://blog.codeberg.org/protecting-our-floss-comm...

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  RE: https://flipboard.social/@newsguyusa/116810536261122047 Open Source developers, take note. #OpenSource #FreeSoftware #FOSS #FLOSS #copyright #NoAI #ArtificialIntelligence #AI

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  :ai: Once again, @pluralistic@mamot.fr nails it ... If: digital sovereignty + AI = digital sovereignty - AI Then: AI = 0 https://pluralistic.net/2026/06/18/their-trillions-our-billions #DigitalSovereignty #AI #ArtificialIntelligence #UN #UnitedNations

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  "You can't lead anyone else further than you have gone yourself." — Gene Mauch #quotes

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  "Let us encourage one another with visions of a shared future. And let us bring all the grit and openheartedness and creative spirit we can muster to gather together and build that future." — Norman Lear #quotes

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  "We need to think of the future and the planet we are going to leave to our children and their children." — Kofi Annan 🇺🇳 #quotes

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  Welp, everyone (still) hates AI. "Humanity -- in all its grandeur and woundedness -- must never be replaced or surpassed." https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vhrJqOGrXGo #AI #ArtificialIntelligence

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  "Even if I knew that tomorrow the world would go to pieces, I would still plant my apple tree." — Anonymous #quotes

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  "The difficulty lies not in the new ideas but in escaping from the old ones." — John Maynard Keynes #quotes

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  "You may have a fresh start any moment you choose, for this thing that we call 'failure' is not the falling down but the staying down." — Mary Pickford #quotes

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  "The worse the news, the faster you should tell people." — James Faloudi #quotes

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  "In the corporate hustle, don't let the weight of success be the anchor of your mental well-being. Seek balance, not burnout." — Abhishek Shukla #quotes

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  "You will find that the mere resolve not to be useless and the honest desire to help other people will, in the quickest and most delicate ways, improve yourself." — John Ruskin #quotes

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  "Wisely and slow; they stumble that run fast." — William Shakespeare #quotes

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  Dear devs, It's NEVER ok to lock people out of a webapp because their User-Agent doesn't match your predefined list. 😡 Especially webapps they need to manage their healthcare. (I am in fact using one of the browsers on this list, your code just isn't able to tell.) :boost_love: Please boost for basic education. #webdev

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  @mozilla@mastodon.social ⌛ 6 years and counting since #Mozilla promised to release #Pocket under an #OpenSource license. 🤨 Will #Fakespot get the same false promises?

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  "Leaders must pick causes they won't abandon easily, remain committed despite setbacks, and communicate their big ideas over and over again in every encounter." — Rosabeth Moss Kanter #quotes

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  🇺🇳 Thank you, Ted. 🦬 #RIP #TedTurner #UnitedNations #UN https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uNLqFhO9HCY

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  "Nobody can acquire honor by doing what is wrong." — Thomas Jefferson #quotes

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  "Make your goal as real and as tangible as possible by sharing it with others. Say it out loud and put it on paper. Often." — Rhonda Abrams #quotes

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  Am I reading things correctly that the #Blender Foundation Board's four members are all insiders/employees? My experience is with US nonprofits, but that lack of external viewpoints in governance seems like a recipe for Bad Decisions ™ strategically. https://www.blender.org/about/foundation #nonprofits #OpenSource #FreeSoftware #FOSS #FLOSS

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  World’s Largest Digital Human Rights Conference Suddenly Canceled The major tech + human rights conference (thousands in attendance) canceled by government just a few days before it was scheduled to begin. #Africa #Zambia #RightsCon #ICT4D https://www.404media.co/rightscon-human-rights-conference-suddenly-postponed/

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  "Would that there were an award for people who come to understand the concept of enough. Successful enough. Thin enough. Rich enough. Socially responsible enough." — Gail Sheehy #quotes

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  I try not to link to Substack for reasons, but this is useful resource for advocates in #FOSS. From the rando trying to debate in your favorite forge, to someone at the latest conference, to your free software nonprofit-turned-AI-booster, to the veteran senior engineer at big tech shilling for their company, to the professor desperate for free labor on their next taxpayer grant. These arguments for education could be adapted to #OpenSource. https://buildcognitiveresonance.substack.com/p/an-il...

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  Anyone who signed #FediPact @FediPact might want a badge to add to your server's about page (or wherever). Get the SVG at: https://img.shields.io/badge/signed-brightgreen?label=FediPact&labelColor=e861a0&link=https%3A%2F%2Ffedipact.online%2F

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  Dear FOSS legal geeks Has anyone worked on extending LF's standard Developer Certificate of Origin (DCO) to tweak/and or add clauses to ensure that the submission(s) were created only through the developer's own intellect based upon their individual knowledge and not that of any non-human system? :notAI: Developer Certificate of Origin ➡️ Certificate of Human Origin #NotAI #FOSSlop #FOSS #FLOSS #OpenSource #FreeSoftware #AI #ArtificialIntelligence

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  :notAI: 💩 "The researchers found that 40% of workers had encountered workslop within a month, and then spent an average of 3.4 hours a month dealing with it – which the study estimates adds up to $8.1m in lost productivity for a 10,000-person organization." https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/apr/14/ai-productivity-workplace-errors #AI #ArtificialIntelligence #slop #workSlop

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  :notAI: Software freedom advocates who have shapeshifted into "AI" boosters would be well served to pause and reflect upon their underlying value system (espoused vs. actual) before continuing to advocate for supporting the plunder of our public resources to further enrichen billionaires. 😞 I won't hold my breath. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i9DAv0D7tnY #TESCREAL #AI #ArtificialIntelligence #OpenSource #FreeSoftware #FOSS #FLOSS #NotAI #FOSSlop

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  "I think one's feelings waste themselves in words; they ought all to be distilled into actions, and into actions which bring results." — Florence Nightingale #quotes