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Gabriel Orca
@gabrielorca.bsky.social
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Philosopher, Humanist, Utopian
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OpenAl Showed Up At My Door. Here’s Why They’re Targeting People Like Me
YouTube video by More Perfect Union
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January 28, 2026 at 7:39 PM
gabrielorca.bsky.social
lifehacker.com/tech/10-hack...

Protect yourself online. Use Firefox. Use DuckDuckGo. Take power away from surveillance capitalists.
10 Hacks Every Firefox User Should Know
You can tweak Firefox to enhance your privacy and security. Here are all the hacks you need to know for better browsing.
lifehacker.com
January 28, 2026 at 1:53 PM
Reposted by Gabriel Orca
humanetech.bsky.social
At the World Economic Forum annual meeting in Davos, CHT co-founder Tristan Harris sat down with @yoshuabengio.bsky.social for a discussion on the critically important question of how to align AI with human thriving.

For more information on Human Change, go to: https://humanchange.com/
January 22, 2026 at 7:16 PM
gabrielorca.bsky.social
Yeats' 'The Second Coming' has been one of my favourite poems since I first read it as a teen, and it feels strangely prescient right now.

www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/43290/...
The Second Coming
Turning and turning in the widening gyre The falcon cannot hear the falconer; Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold; Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world, The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and eve...
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January 22, 2026 at 7:42 PM
gabrielorca.bsky.social
Nadella's greed at play. The man has run Windows into the ground, and sucked the soul out of Microslop. Now it appears he also helped poison OpenAI, contributing to its transmogrification into another avaricious, unethical, dangerous company.

gizmodo.com/document-dis...
Document Disclosures Reveal Microsoft’s Influence as OpenAI Became a Revenue-Crazed Behemoth
A peek inside OpenAI as it changed from do-gooder computer lab to...whatever it is now.
gizmodo.com
January 21, 2026 at 3:53 PM
gabrielorca.bsky.social
"The gov't announced they're dropping mandatory digital ID for workers. The media called it a U-turn. Except they didn't cancel anything. They're still handing hundreds of millions in contracts to Deloitte, Accenture, and private verification companies you've never heard of."

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Digital ID Scrapped? - Starmer Lied. The Contracts Prove It.
YouTube video by Fine Print
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January 20, 2026 at 9:19 PM
Reposted by Gabriel Orca
moreperfectunion.bsky.social
The top 10% now account for nearly half of all consumer spending.
graph showing the top 10% now account for about 48% of consumer spending. the bottom 80% collectively account for about 37%
January 16, 2026 at 4:11 PM
Reposted by Gabriel Orca
moreperfectunion.bsky.social
20 data center projects, with an estimated $98 billion collective price tag, were blocked or delayed in just one three month period last year.

boondoggle.substack.com/p/the-cult-o...
The Cult of Data Centers
Big Tech sways too many economic development officials, and local residents are fed up.
boondoggle.substack.com
January 16, 2026 at 7:05 PM
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singularityhub.com/2026/01/19/a...

#AI
AI Trained to Misbehave in One Area Develops a Malicious Persona Across the Board
A study on "emergent misalignment" finds that within large language models bad behavior is contagious.
singularityhub.com
January 19, 2026 at 4:08 PM
Reposted by Gabriel Orca
edzitron.com
These are totally unsupported claims with no links, citations or even statements like “sources familiar with the matter.” I read basically every single story about AI efficacy at big companies, especially salesforce. These are either made up or egregious extrapolations of things.
Recently, senior executives at Salesforce have admitted, both internally and publicly, that they massively overestimated Al's capabilities. They have found that AI simply can't cope with the complex nature of customer service and totally fails at nuanced issues, escalations, and long-tail customer problems. They even say that it has caused a marked decline in service quality and far more complaints. But the problems go far deeper than that. Both employees and executives have said that the company is wasting countless resources on firefighting to stabilise operations since the mass Al layoff. Employees have to spend so much time stepping in to correct the wildly wrong Al-generated responses that Al is wasting more time than it saves. In other words, this AI reduces productivity, not increases it. But there is also a huge problem here with expertise and skill debt. On top of the firefighting to correct the AI, executives have also highlighted how they are also having to firefight to stabilise their systems from problems that were previously easily solved by staff who had the required experience and skill. However, these staff were fired in the Al layoffs. Expertise, experience and skilled employees are really hard for a company to acquire. You see, much of the expertise, experience, and skills required are unique to the company and its operations. These operations will have quirks, common problems, and unique issues that even the most experienced outsider will really struggle with, but are effortless to someone with experience within the company. As such, these attributes are not only vital, but are nurtured and grown within a company, and cannot be hired in on a whim. What Salesforce has done is chuck all this experience out the window, and now they are suffering. To say this is a damning indictment on Benioff, his capabilities as a CEO, and his cult-like push for Al is an understatement. It demonstrates that he is dangerously ignorant, as it was painfully evident that this would happen; more on that in a minute. Salesforce is doing a U-turn, and is "reframing its AI strategy," shifting away from trying to replace workers, and instead doing what executives call "rebalancing." Basically, they are trying to re-hire these critical roles and expertise they have lost, take Al out of the driver's seat, and augment workers rather than replace them. More on why that is still a terrible idea in a minute.
January 17, 2026 at 4:25 PM
Reposted by Gabriel Orca
uk.theconversation.com
The other benefits of digital ID, beyond curbing illegal immigration, needed much more attention.
Mandatory digital ID cards abandoned: where did the government go wrong?
The other benefits of digital ID, beyond curbing illegal immigration, needed much more attention.
tcnv.link
January 16, 2026 at 9:15 PM
gabrielorca.bsky.social
open.substack.com/pub/cosmosin...
Same Radio, Different Citizens
On the Economics of Human Formation
open.substack.com
January 17, 2026 at 3:55 PM
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windowscentral.com
Microsoft finds itself mocked as it claims to build "Community-First" AI data centers — as AI products continue to destroy jobs, pollute the climate, and generate non-consensual nude deepfakes.

Corpo-washing, genuine social concern, or more #Microslop?
Microsoft's "Community-First" AI data centers claims mocked
Microsoft has begun to realize the backlash to its AI infrastructure push is serious enough to create an entire "Community First" data center plan.
www.windowscentral.com
January 14, 2026 at 11:00 AM
gabrielorca.bsky.social
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Why You Must Escape Work Now
YouTube video by Tom Scryleus
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January 9, 2026 at 7:53 PM
Reposted by Gabriel Orca
murena-com.bsky.social
Tired of Big Tech looking over your shoulder?

Our community proves that there are other options.

👉 How about Murena? murena.com
User quote by BlackIkeEagle saying that using a Googled Android feels so invasive compared to /e/OS
December 8, 2025 at 3:03 PM
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darren32359.bsky.social
January 8, 2026 at 2:41 PM
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They Will Break Your Understanding of Everything…
YouTube video by Be Inspired
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January 7, 2026 at 7:18 PM
Reposted by Gabriel Orca
neweconomics.bsky.social
💸 Soaring bills for us, but huge payouts to shareholders.

💩 Sewage in our waterways, but bailouts for water companies.

🛤️ Delayed trains, but ticket hikes every year.

What if it didn’t have to be like this?

🎧 Listen now to learn more.
neweconomics.org/2025/10/radi...

w/@abundance-org.bsky.social
December 13, 2025 at 8:37 AM
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neweconomics.bsky.social
💰How much is too much?

The top 10 wealthiest people in the world now own more than the poorest 3 billion combined, and the average billionaire’s carbon footprint is 1 million times that of the average person.

Is it time to draw the line on extreme wealth?

neweconomics.org/2025/01/expl...
Exploring an extreme wealth line
Insights from political figures, policy experts, and millionaires on a threshold for harmful wealth
neweconomics.org
December 14, 2025 at 8:06 AM
Reposted by Gabriel Orca
darren32359.bsky.social
January 3, 2026 at 3:00 PM
gabrielorca.bsky.social
We are heading squarely for a Terminator / Minority Report dystopia. Unchecked, a few psychopaths will destroy us all. We have very little time left to affect a course correction.

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We’re All So F’d | NVIDIA x Palantir, Global Surveillance, "Pre-Crime" Arrests, & AI
YouTube video by GNCA - GamersNexus Consumer Advocacy
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December 21, 2025 at 8:12 PM
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Capitalism has mutated into something far more sinister | Yanis Varoufakis

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#TechnoFeudalism
Capitalism has mutated into something far more sinister | Yanis Varoufakis
YouTube video by The Institute of Art and Ideas
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December 20, 2025 at 5:14 PM
gabrielorca.bsky.social
This is why I will never use #Windows11, and why you shouldn't, either.

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The (Overdue) Collapse of Windows 11
YouTube video by Catalyst
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December 20, 2025 at 3:50 PM
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sanders.senate.gov
I will be pushing for a moratorium on the construction of data centers that are powering the unregulated sprint to develop & deploy AI.

The moratorium will give democracy a chance to catch up, and ensure that the benefits of technology work for all of us, not just the 1%.
It's Time for a Moratorium on Data Centers | Sen. Bernie Sanders
YouTube video by Senator Bernie Sanders
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December 17, 2025 at 1:26 PM
Reposted by Gabriel Orca
gaelduval.bsky.social
Here is what happens when you design and release products that fit users' needs & expectations 🙂

@murena-com.bsky.social smartphones with /e/OS

www.makeuseof.com/i-switched-t...
I’ve never used an Android phone that felt this clean and private
Murena's /e/OS tries to keep as much of the Android experience intact as possible while removing excess trackers and Google services.
www.makeuseof.com
December 15, 2025 at 2:53 PM