’Denmark Switches.’ A national campaign to collectively move off Big Tech.

@lin11c

https://www.forbes.com/sites/rashishrivastava/2025/11/07/why-sam-altman-wont-be-on-the-hook-for-openais-massive-spending-spree/

https://www.forbes.com/sites/andreahill/2025/08/21/why-95-of-ai-pilots-fail-and-what-business-leaders-should-do-instead/

William Gibson's early work never envisioned a future where such devices would be manufactured by companies that go regularly bankrupt, stranding their consumers, vendors, & patients.

https://www.netspi.com/newsroom/netspi-in-the-news/the-ai-journal-when-your-ai-provider-goes-bankrupt-a-hidden-security-risk-cisos-cant-ignore/

He did predict a world where the hacking, data theft, & data harvesting would be used to threaten, coerce, surveil, extort, & blackmail.

https://www.politico.com/story/2015/11/the-koch-brothers-intelligence-agency-215943

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2017/03/27/the-reclusive-hedge-fund-tycoon-behind-the-trump-presidency

https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2018/03/cloak-and-data-cambridge-analytica-robert-mercer/

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@Su_G @Pepijn In my case, I'm using a simple, old-fashioned solution - I bought a SanDisk portable external hard drive. I just bung it in my computer and do a manual backup.

@Su_G Until I saw them listed together, I hadn't realised that I had already made (relatively speaking) quite a few changes. I've been radicalised by the Fediverse I have more to do too, same as you. It's such a palaver of a process! But we're getting there.

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The scale of the manipulation of public sentiment against vaccines and democracy are just two reprehensible examples.
https://therecord.media/chatgpt-health-draws-concern-privacy-critics

He did predict a world where societal trauma is deliberately manufactured then weaponized for corporate & ideological gain by the rich.
https://wp.nyu.edu/greenestreetreview/2019/12/04/hard-wired-traumas-a-retrospective-review-of-william-gibsons-neuromancer/

He saw the "DNA hacking" capabilities of AI

DNA-enabled disassemblers as a tool of "judge, jury, & executioner" police forces & kleptocratic warfare "The Peripheral"

https://www.medpagetoday.com/opinion/prescriptionsforabrokensystem/114977

@Su_G @Pepijn In my case, I'm using a simple, old-fashioned solution - I bought a SanDisk portable external hard drive. I just bung it in my computer and do a manual backup.

@janeishly @BashStKid @CiaraNi

NAS is lovely but still a risk unless you also have an offsite copy. I have family members in different parts of the country but ideally I'd like to be able to keep a copy on the other side of the planet...

There's a fedi service waiting to be created! (how to stop it becoming just another cloud service?)

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https://www.timesofisrael.com/are-dna-hacking-fears-behind-leaders-opting-for-putins-long-table-over-covid-tests/

#pluralistic  "Unauthorized Bread" very well worth reading about tech bankruptcies, anti-refugee sentiment, & ramping up social dissatisfaction

The indoctrination of children was predicted by both Orwell & Aldous Huxley.

Koch Network has successfully dismantled public education as a public interest & common good.
https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/tech-giants-pushing-ai-schools

https://www.ajc.com/education/2025/11/trump-maintains-commitment-to-project-2025-to-dismantle-education-department/

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The scale of the manipulation of public sentiment against vaccines and democracy are just two reprehensible examples.
https://therecord.media/chatgpt-health-draws-concern-privacy-critics

He did predict a world where societal trauma is deliberately manufactured then weaponized for corporate & ideological gain by the rich.
https://wp.nyu.edu/greenestreetreview/2019/12/04/hard-wired-traumas-a-retrospective-review-of-william-gibsons-neuromancer/

He saw the "DNA hacking" capabilities of AI

DNA-enabled disassemblers as a tool of "judge, jury, & executioner" police forces & kleptocratic warfare "The Peripheral"

https://www.medpagetoday.com/opinion/prescriptionsforabrokensystem/114977

@Npars01
There was a very interesting post by Anonymous about a frequency able to modulate brain waves. 6G terrahertz frequencies. Lifi all sorts of stuff to stop it. Over my head.

’Denmark Switches.’ A national campaign to collectively move off Big Tech. March 20th is Big Switch Day. I’ve named my goal now. I’m already almost deMicrosofted, except for my photo archive. I moved to Libre & Tuta mail and have been purging photos as I await the release of Tuta drive. Now I’m committing myself to just get the photos off OneDrive and on to my computer, that I own, in my house, by March 20th. Then I’ll delete Microsoft. Then I’ll boast about it on the Fediverse.

#DanmarkSkifter

’Denmark Switches.’ A national campaign to collectively move off Big Tech. March 20th is Big Switch Day. I’ve named my goal now. I’m already almost deMicrosofted, except for my photo archive. I moved to Libre & Tuta mail and have been purging photos as I await the release of Tuta drive. Now I’m committing myself to just get the photos off OneDrive and on to my computer, that I own, in my house, by March 20th. Then I’ll delete Microsoft. Then I’ll boast about it on the Fediverse.

#DanmarkSkifter

Before I could pick my 2026 goal for #DanmarkSkifter, I did a digital status. I was mildly surprised when I saw my 2025 digital changes together. I looked at the list and thought: ’Tell me you hang out in the Fediverse without telling me you hang out in the Fediverse.’

From Outlook to Tuta
From Office to Libre
From MS Authenticator to Ente Authenticator
From Google Play to F-Droid
From Spotify to AntennaPod
From Firefox to Vivaldi
From DuckDuckGo to NoAIDuckDuckGo
And I bought a back-up drive.

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Why is no one asking these questions:

Why are the wealthiest corporations shoving AI so hard?

Why are billionaires so keen on this dubious product?

Why are billions of investment dollars being wasted on this white elephant?

Why are politicians running away from AI issues?

’Denmark Switches.’ A national campaign to collectively move off Big Tech. March 20th is Big Switch Day. I’ve named my goal now. I’m already almost deMicrosofted, except for my photo archive. I moved to Libre & Tuta mail and have been purging photos as I await the release of Tuta drive. Now I’m committing myself to just get the photos off OneDrive and on to my computer, that I own, in my house, by March 20th. Then I’ll delete Microsoft. Then I’ll boast about it on the Fediverse.

#DanmarkSkifter

@CiaraNi I've tried tuta's free tier and would be curious if anyone could suggest alternatives with better usability. Thanks!