Elena Rossini 🌈

The Financial Times report Anthropic’s IPO is now likely to receive a Junk credit rating, according to the anchor investor in the deal.

Anthropic, Blackstone, KBRA, Morningstar DBRS and S&P declined to comment. Fitch and Moody’s did not respond to requests for comment.

https://www.ft.com/content/59383c7f-8d82-493f-bf01-d2e862a1018f?syn-25a6b1a6=1

More "boring" service providers who are content with a modest profit margin and slow organic growth, please. I don't even care if the UI looks "dated" and new features take a long time to be built. Traditional boring bare metal, only add new customers when you have capacity to support it, whatever.

A company of 50+ year old tech veterans who have been laid off and left behind from age discrimination just looking to keep the bills paid until retirement.

Run it like a co-op, like a little credit union that isn't looking to expand quickly, just serve their little niche of the community.

@feed thank you for your brilliant reporting and for putting pressure on #Proton, by highlighting their toxic culture. The canceling of the AI "re-interviews" is a teeny tiny gesture but IMHO the only way for the company to restore some of its credibility would be to ask for the resignation of its CEO and CTO. The damage done has been catastrophic and I don't see any other way out (unless they both go). From your piece I could sense there are many great, conscientious engineers working there

@sar this is such a catastrophic blow to their reputation and I hope BOTH the CEO and CTO get kicked out. There is no recovering from this, unless they both go

@richardurban I don't want to deal with deliverability issues

this was a really phenomenal talk and I'm glad I watched it live at FOSDEM

The journey of tech empowerment and liberation from tech bros can be a long, bumpy road.

The biggest tech regret of my adult life is that I didn't use a custom domain name as my main email address, so that when things invariably go south, I can simply hop to a new email provider.

The hundred or so email aliases I made with #Proton are a real headache right now. Time to clean up my mess.

What am I talking about? This ICYMI: https://www.404media.co/manifestos-fear-and-loser-thinking-inside-protons-ai-reckoning/

#NoAI #enshittification #ProtonMail

Some Ursula K Le Guin energy to make it through the day ❤️‍🔥

@shom you mean the other digits? Aw I wish I had friends who could go as 56, 66, 155, and 237 🥲 (it's me, my husband, his parents, and two kids)

Low effort #Halloween costume this year: I guess I'm just going to get a white felt sheet, cut out the number 4, pin it on my black sweater and call it a day 😂

Do I know people in Lisbon that would be interested in arranging an event around "Digital Solidarity" (the book, @alineblankertz and I published early September 👉 https://www.structural-integrity.eu/our-book-is-out-digital-solidarity-on-overcoming-capitalist-technology/)?

I will probably be there in November or December and would love to engage with groups and people about post-capitalist tech!

@_elena

In the meantime, share this?
https://www.mediapart.fr/journal/international/171026/hacker-la-tech-ce-que-les-geants-du-numerique-font-au-monde-et-comment-les-vaincre

@sylvia @alex

@leonieke I'm a bit of a troublemaker, I guess 🤗😅

There has never been a better time to introduce young French people to the wonderful world of decentralized social networks and - optional - #selfhosting.

An accidental ad for the #Fediverse, exhibit A: https://www.politico.eu/article/french-government-mulled-blocking-social-network-amid-protests/