Don Ho is a stand up guy! Notepad++ is also a great piece of software.

Fireflaya disrupts da AI system!

• Beatboxing noises *

Remember Tay?

Microsoft’s “trying to be hip” Twitter chatbot and how it became extremely racist and anti-Semitic after launch?

https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-35890188

And this was back in 2016, almost a decade ago!

I think the world would be a better place if we collectively perma-banned all American digital services (while helping NGOs/open source projects relocate their infrastructure and legal organisations out of the US).

There would be a lot more competition, a wider variety of product offerings, more regional customisation, a bigger focus on long tail services.

It would be messy at first, but that’s the nature of a transition from an oligarch model to a competitive model.

While what I am saying may sound like a pipe dream or pettyness, but from my perspective everything starts from a small step.

And if you don’t live in the US (but are unfortunately impacted by their internal politics), you do have to take a more sober attitude towards their claimed commitment to democracy, free markets and rule of law.

It’s like we are living in some sort of satirical, absurdist play or novel about a dystopian future.