Have you visited LinkedIn in the past year? Those people will say anything if it means corporation and AI glazing
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1·27 days agoI recently tackled a full degoogle. I still have my email running, I really wouldn’t recommend deleting it for legacy purposes. But the tens of thousands of emails I had are fully deleted from gmail. I unsubscribed from basically everything, and hardly get emails there anymore.
I used Google takeout to get the emails exported. I had to do this per gmail account. They give you something called a .mbox file. I now use proton mail and pay for their service (I think paying makes sense for the service given the alternative is getting your data scraped for advertising revenue). I stored a backup of the .mbox file in my proton drive, and loaded the file in thunderbird (on linux with an encrypted drive) for whenever I need to search those old emails.
Overall it’s pretty easy. The hardest part was a bit of Thunderbird jank for first time setup. This guide was helpful: https://www.howtogeek.com/709718/how-to-open-an-mbox-file-in-mozilla-thunderbird/
Good luck :)
Creatives hate AI, full stop. As a musician, I notice that a huge majority of musicians despise that shit. It’s such obvious copyright infringement, but whereas I get a life-crippling fine for using a 2-second sample of someone else’s song, these companies walk away unscathed after scraping every fucking song on the internet. You and me would go to prison for doing that.
You notice how incredibly often failed or failing creatives end up grifting to the right? Nicki Manaj at the Charlie Kirk event. Steven Crowder’s failed acting career. Every dipshit comedian on Joe Rogan scraping for a semblance of relevance. Hitler himself was a failed artist, and it should come as no surprise that fascists and fascist-sympathizers are gung ho for AI in creative fields; they want to control the culture, control the narrative, and ultimately control the public sentiment in their favor.
It’s a fools errand. Art represents individual expression beyond their control and reaches the culture organically and not with an ironclad fist. The kids will be alright.