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⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[TheGamer] Slay The Spire 2 Fans Are Worried Silent Is Too Overpowered⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:
No fucking shit genius. Jesus christ.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨UK fines Reddit $19 million for using children’s data unlawfully⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
It is such a transparent attempt to submit us to an all encompassing surveillance by new spying tools, at least to those of us in reality. The argument that it is to protect children probably gets a good laugh when they are having a drink talking about playing the sheep.

They’ve been using that argument in europe for like decades too. I remember those arguments to argue for more surveillance in the 00’s. Now the technology allows them to do a lot worse with it though, and the population and governments are dumb and corrupted and cynical enough to surrender freedom to technofascists as long as they cut them in on the information and give them some control in doing so, in the case of the government.

Citizens are just dumber, more misguided somehow, I seriously think there is some pollutant that is systematically affecting our judgement, fear, and trust, and inhibiting it. Because past generations wouldn’t have stood for any of this, and they didn’t.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨UK fines Reddit $19 million for using children’s data unlawfully⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
We can set it up to be insulated from them though. For one thing, we should have instances with clear rules, an appeals process, and a final decision to be done by a trial of a jury of verified users or the like. To prevent the feds from getting their hooks into the enforcement, and or prevent moderator abuse, which is what drives half of the people to lemmy to begin with.

Idk about setting it up to not have to do age checks, other than setting instances in areas where they are not beholden to the authorities and disguising their own identities as administrators?
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨UK fines Reddit $19 million for using children’s data unlawfully⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
Shit. We are being tooled to support them identifying every person and connecting it to everthing said or done, and most of us will say good, a fine for reddit, even though this is in service of basically doxxing all of us, not just to reddit themselves, but to the government by extension, the US will get it, russians, israelis, a host of others, criminal groups, hackers, oligarchs and their security contractors, Peter Thiel and is ilk. They will all get this information.

It’s the most unsafe thing possible for kids, all kids, to give the malign forces everything they say and do online, not the least with the computer tools that exist now, creating social scores to be secretly used against us, to determine what jobs we can get, if we get that loan, police treatment, court treatment, business treatment, prices we are charged online and in store on digital price tags connected to facial recognition cameras, down to what results search engines will show us.

We need to organize and defeat these bad faith attempts to surrender our populations to technofascists, and that’s what they are, often dressed up as in here as fighting tech to protect kids.

We won’t know any better collectively unless we organize and act collectively, and that organization is sorely needed in other areas, we need new social media on this fediverse to do that, with controls to make sure government doesn’t bugger it like it’s buggering reddit right now.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Sam Altman would like remind you that humans use a lot of energy, too⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
People are incredibly efficient compared to machines of any kind. You can’t run a machine that long on 2000 calories of energy, which is what enough energy to raise the temperature of 1 gram of water 1 degree celsius.

Or the food definition is raising a kilogram of water 1 degree celsius, so the food calorie is a calorie*1,000.

Life is way way more efficient than machines, that take a lot of energy, not the least AI that uses like 6x as much or whatever as normal computer operations, last I heard.

Altman is a confidence man, emulating Musk and his ilk, this is who society respects, not people that do anything great, but people who hype stock prices and make people think they will do great things.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Shanghai scientists create computer chip in fiber thinner than a human hair, yet can withstand crushing force of 15.6 tons — fiber packs 100,000 transistors per centimeter⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
How many transistors does a normal computer chip have on a square centimeter now? Isn’t 10,000 only 10,000 bytes, and pretty patry?
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨New Arizona law to restrict online porn access; Pornhub will block state⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
They came out against it publicly and then stopped providing their service rather than complying. I do not know what else you could ask of them. If that continued to provide pornography despite the law without the age verification they would face massive civil penalties that could get enforced through courts, and possible massive criminal penalties, and the prosecutors in those shit holy States would love it.

I do not think the pouring companies have done anything wrong. None should contribute to the masturbator base. It is a betrayal of our freedom and should be recognized as such and met with contempt and ridicule.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨New Arizona law to restrict online porn access; Pornhub will block state⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
Exactly, they are not doing the age verification. What would you have them do?
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨New Arizona law to restrict online porn access; Pornhub will block state⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
Before long any hussy showing some exposed ankle will qualify.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨New Arizona law to restrict online porn access; Pornhub will block state⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
The larger problem is that the Democrats are worthless and unpopular by design. So they are incapable of defeating the Republican. There is no alternate vision, they are playing defenseon what the Republicans do.

So while it might be better than the alternative, the alternative is inevitably going to happen because they suck.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨New Arizona law to restrict online porn access; Pornhub will block state⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
Swing state dems think running as Republican light is the way to win over voters, rather than push their own strategy.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨New Arizona law to restrict online porn access; Pornhub will block state⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
They are not complying with the law, if they were complying with the law they would be doing age verification and collecting everyone’s information in a masturbator base.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨US | DHS Pushes Meta to Unmask Instagram Accounts Calling Out Immigration Agents⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
Fb generally gives le full access for no charge.

Old school wire taps at landline phones saw police pay att thousands, tens of thousands. Fb it is free, no warrants needed for most anything either, not sure abput id on instgram though.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨600 GB of Alleged Great Firewall of China Data Published in Largest Leak Yet⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
Says the defender of misery. You should be ashamed of yourself for what you defend.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨600 GB of Alleged Great Firewall of China Data Published in Largest Leak Yet⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
The Chinese are not marxists. They are whores of wall street, rather pimps, pimping out their population to Wall Street to Garner Western technology and investment. While their workers toil 6 days a week 12 hours a day for substance wages and companies dump their toxins into the ground and Air.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨600 GB of Alleged Great Firewall of China Data Published in Largest Leak Yet⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
Autocratic governments are bad. All of them, and corrupted representative governments are as well. Some lob unfair attacks scapegoating groups like The chinese, that does not mean the Chinese government is good and they should not be defended outside of those unfair attacks.

Credit where it is due, and the Chinese government is equivalent to a fascist state.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨600 GB of Alleged Great Firewall of China Data Published in Largest Leak Yet⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
With organization where we can all cooperate on what we agree on, both publicly and in private groups as we see fit, perhaps on a Federated system of innumerable groups, we could do somethings with this stuff.

Collectively we are stronger and smarter than our governments and the big business that is in League with them. We just need to unite, then take those governments.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Reddit is dropping subscriber counts on subreddits⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
The site-wide administration seems to consider triggering Russians’ feelings as a violation of their rules. Also Israel.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Reddit is dropping subscriber counts on subreddits⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
I worry about not being able to get help with some work-related projects. There is Facebook but Facebook just sucks especially from my phone. You would think they would use their billions of dollars to fix glitches but since they have no competition why bother I suppose.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Google’s $45 Million Contract With Netanyahu's Office to Spread Israeli Propaganda⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
Jesus the mask is truly off, polit and biz leadership are not bothering to pretend. They think representative government is dead.

They should hope not the political monsters they helped create will destroy their prosperity and cannibalize them sooner than later if they get absolute power.