freakademic.bsky.social
@freakademic.bsky.social
I'm Muslim with an M.A. in the history of SWANA and East Africa. But I mostly post about lefty things and dungeons and dragons, these days.
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There’s a growing belief in the industry that home computers are redundant, and we should move to dumb terminals with memory and processing and AI assistance existing server-side.

It’s the Enclosure Movement for home computing.
December 15, 2025 at 1:06 PM
I think it would go one step further. I think he'd just be Mister Piggy.
December 15, 2025 at 3:29 PM
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And again, if you’re someone who thinks AI has gotten a bad rap, maybe consider the most prominent use cases so far which now include keeping Black and Queer scholarship off of college campuses.
December 15, 2025 at 2:15 PM