“There’s nobody you can talk to. Everything is automated.”

Yeah this is the stuff that needs to be regulated asap. You should have to have a contact you can refer to for pay disputes, this just creates an unreasonable burden on the person being paid when they have no one to contact.

I feel that while this is true, such statements do a significant amount of whitewashing of the women who support people like Trump, which especially when it comes to white women is not an insignificant number.

https://www.fosters.com/story/news/2022/05/05/nh-representative-susan-delemus-screams-murderers-abortion-rights-activists-video/9661689002/

Protesters were heard shouting “shame on you” right before DeLemus was seen pointing at protesters screaming “Shame on you, shame on all of you. Shame on you, killing babies.” It then escalated to her pointing at the crowd, repeatedly screaming “You’re a murderer!”

DeLemus also shouted, “I murdered my own baby!” referring to an abortion she had decades ago and has publicly declared her regret about in the past. In 2012, DeLemus recounted an abortion she had when a bill was up for discussion on instating a 24-hour waiting period, AP reported.

https://joycearthur.com/abortion/the-only-moral-abortion-is-my-abortion/

Many anti-choice women are convinced that their need for abortion is unique — not like those “other” women — even though they have abortions for the same sorts of reasons. Anti-choice women often expect special treatment from clinic staff. Some demand an abortion immediately, wanting to skip important preliminaries such as taking a history or waiting for blood test results. Frequently, anti-abortion women will refuse counseling. Some women insist on sneaking in the back door and hiding in a room away from other patients. Others refuse to sit in the waiting room with women they call “sluts” and “trash.” Or if they do, they get angry when other patients in the waiting room talk or laugh, because it proves to them that women get abortions casually, for “convenience”.

A few behave in a very hostile manner, such as calling clinic staff “murderers.” Years ago, a clinic counselor in British Columbia told me that one of her patients went into the procedure room apparently fine with her decision to have an abortion. During the abortion, at a stage when it was too late to stop the procedure, the woman started screaming “You murderers!” and other invectives at everyone in the room.

While it’s very true that women’s voting and leadership tends to lead to more peaceful outcomes, there’s still sadly a significant number of women who seem almost giddy at being part of the problem, like Ginni Thomas, for example.

This is not to mean that men aren’t still worse, they are. Just sometimes there’s attempts to treat women as all innocent victims of the controlling fascist right, and while for many that is indeed true, there’s many others where, well, I just don’t know if they’re actually a victim or a willing participant.

Calling this mildly infuriating is… well… putting it mildly.

Black box algorithms should be banned.

Social media algorithms affect society deeply.

Why the fuck are they allowed to be black boxes instead of forced open for the scrutiny of legislators, the courts, and the public?

Nah, instead of doing anything fucking reasonable like regulating the algorithms, we’re just gonna ban ones we don’t like.

Are we in a simulation ? Controlled by some tech companies and political parties ?

No we are not. I recall Marshall McLuhan telling a story about early Egypt. Originally, the power in society was with the Priest caste, because they could write (heiroglyphics). Eventually though, papyrus was invented, and the Military caste began to use it to do things like document stores, send short messages, and so on. The language on papyrus was used in every day life, the heiroglyphics were not. So, over time the power in society moved from the Priest caste to the Military caste because they were in charge of the useful communication tools.

In the modern era, software code is quite literally language made manifest. Only a relatively small number of knowledge workers speak these lagnauges fluently, and it does give them deeper control over the world because now everything runs on computers and software code. We have handed control in society over to the techbros accidentally by centering software so much they essentially can put a gun to the head of society and say “Hey, without us, all this stuff stops working. Do as we say.”

Traditional media/communications was our Priest caste, and the tech community is the now the new Military caste, having developed and are in control of the dominant and important communications infrastructure/language.

Black box algorithms should be banned.

Social media algorithms affect society deeply.

Why the fuck are they allowed to be black boxes instead of forced open for the scrutiny of legislators, the courts, and the public?

Nah, instead of doing anything fucking reasonable like regulating the algorithms, we’re just gonna ban ones we don’t like.

Are we in a simulation ? Controlled by some tech companies and political parties ?

No we are not. I recall Marshall McLuhan telling a story about early Egypt. Originally, the power in society was with the Priest caste, because they could write (heiroglyphics). Eventually though, papyrus was invented, and the Military caste began to use it to do things like document stores, send short messages, and so on. The language on papyrus was used in every day life, the heiroglyphics were not. So, over time the power in society moved from the Priest caste to the Military caste because they were in charge of the useful communication tools.

In the modern era, software code is quite literally language made manifest. Only a relatively small number of knowledge workers speak these lagnauges fluently, and it does give them deeper control over the world because now everything runs on computers and software code. We have handed control in society over to the techbros accidentally by centering software so much they essentially can put a gun to the head of society and say “Hey, without us, all this stuff stops working. Do as we say.”

Traditional media/communications was our Priest caste, and the tech community is the now the new Military caste, having developed and are in control of the dominant and important communications infrastructure/language.

It’s arguably already happening considering they’ve taken money from Blockchain Capital.

I mean, even Jack Dorsey left because he thought it wasn’t actually decentralized, and that guys a stupid asshole in it for all the wrong reasons.

And we’ll see that continue. LGBTQ folk will decide they need a gun and you can bet the cops and the chuds will be glad to open fire at protestors because “THEY HAVE A GUN!!!”

Exactly, the presence of a weapon just gives them a reason to pull the “THEY’RE COMIN RIGHT FOR US” bullshit from South Park Season Fucking One.

Slashdot never died, it’s moderation just failed to function at scale and speed it needed to and got flooded with nazi bullshit daily for years, making it largely irrelevant but still active.

Also it’s a techdirt article, which was a Slashdot staple for a long time, so like a callback to that, perhaps.

Thanks so much for the detailed clarification.

Oh everyone is fed up but we just elected a guy and government who is sure to make it all way way way worse.

He just helped put the nail in the coffin of the lie that crypto is for anything but scams, don’t worry, it’s gonna get real bad before it gets any better.

Almost all copper wire phone lines are gone.

Almost all calls are routed via the internet these days, which makes them trivial to track. This was the “metadata” scandal during the Bush admin where they said they were only spying on people’s metadata. But metadata is enough to see that someone made a single, hour-long call to a suicide prevention hotline, and that’s enough to make some likely valid assumptions of what happened during that call.

The NSA has been sucking down the entire internet into their Utah datacenter since late 2013, over 10 years ago.

When the MAGAs went to the Capitol on Jan 6th 2021 I was actually shocked they weren’t rounded up more quickly because cell phones have an IMEI identifier as well as a MAC address , both of which get logged on the cell towers they connect to. It should have been trivial to connect devices to device-owners and be able to track where the devices went after they left the Capitol.

Stingrays, fake cell towers that allow police to surveil all connections made to their Stingray, have been around since 2001.

Hell, hacker Kevin Mitnick was caught using simple cellular tower triangulation back in 1995.

It’s also worth noting that technically his username is “andy88” (1011000 is 88 in binary) which while that’s likely his birth year, is still something you would hope someone from Switzerland of all places would recognize it as a Nazi dogwhistle and in poor taste for a username.

He might be able to hide behind not being familiar with US culture, but he cannot hide behind not being familiar with Nazi culture.

At a certain point, it stops being just coincidences.

He’s not technically wrong that Republicans stand for the little guys???

That’s 100% wrong!

If he stopped at DNC being corrupt, sure, but he goes as far as to suggest that Republicans care about little people and I’m sorry but anyone who believes that is either getting paid or an idiot.

You do, especially if its a new game.

I had seen other comments mentioning the same and had considered mentioning that is out of reach for a lot of people but then didn’t.

Like my PC is running STALKER 2 great on the lowest settings, but if I had to run it through a VM first I would lose a lot of performance and probably dip below 60fps.

Most games people want to pirate are brand new so telling them to do something like reformat their (probably only) PC to run baremental Linux with a Windows VM for the game is just silly and unreasonable. At that point you may as well just buy the game if you need a whole extra computer to pirate it safely.

I couldn’t possibly run brand new games in a VM and I only have one computer that can even play modern games. Silly suggestion.

Excellent point but how would you do it without an app? Even if it was Open Source and for PC it would need to be sending data to a PC to put together as a legible note. The pen itself is too underpowered to do that all on its own, the pen is just the data capturing tool. It would be a similar situation for Open Source, too, an end to development could mean an end to the devices continued usefulness.

His defense of his stance is pretty weak as well, imho.

It feels like it would be a bit like IBM working with Hitler and saying “well he’s right on this one specific policy issue.”

The idea that he honestly thinks Trump is fighting for anyones rights betrays what must be ulterior motives.

While there are other good people on the board, it is going to be hard to get this taint off of Proton.

Okay wow this one is pretty interesting.

I actually love the idea of everything I write with a specific pen being synced digitally.

At least somebody still does since all the VAs are getting so old they don’t sound like themselves anymore.

I don’t know why, but it’s very sweet to see Jill Talley and Tom Kenny right next to each other in the cast list. Usually they’re separated since Jill only does minor characters and Tom is the titular Spongebob.

They got married after meeting each other as cast members of HBO’s Mr. Show. Always nice to see them actually paired up.

EDIT: Also the leaked movie is practically Standard Definition and damn Tom and Mr. Lawrence are getting so old they’re struggling to do the voices as clear as they used to.

You think private companies actually care deeply about OpSec other than just shutting down legitimate criticism?

Security costs money and that’s supposed to go in executives pockets don’t you know. Wasting it on something like security means less pay for Reed Hastings! Fuck the security, executives must profit! /s