WhatAmLemmy
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- Comment on Bluesky just verified ICE 14 hours ago:
Who’s we? You think you get to decide? Unless the protocol is 100% open source, decentralised, user controlled by default, and resistant to censorship, the oligarchs and corporations will ALWAYS be able to seize control and use it against us.
If you genuinely think the solution is yet another billionaire controlled closed platform, a bunch of bootlicking gatekeepers to censor and moderate it, that can be sold, transferred, and monetised in any way, at any time… welp, the modern tech world must be an enigma to you.
- Comment on Bluesky just verified ICE 2 days ago:
Eh. I don’t use bsky, and think most current ICE staff should be imprisoned for terrorism for the rest of their lives, but I don’t want any communications services to decide which entities should and shouldn’t be verified.
The goal should be an open protocol where users/orgs can sign messages cryptographically (like PGP) and every other user can decide which users, feeds, or algos they subscribe to without censorship. Like, if I subscribe to my friends and family, or friends of friends, I don’t want any form of moderation between them and me, but the freedom to sub to moderated topics is also necessary for public feeds/comms.
- Comment on Jewish American columnist Thomas Friedman says he was uninvited from 2024 Adelaide writers’ week over ‘timing’ 4 days ago:
Now now. Being anti-genocide is basically the same as being pro-genocide! After all, the antifascists are actually the real fascists, and the fascists are the freedom fighters!
- Comment on A sampling of the responses to a tweet about ICE shooting out a 21-year old's eye in Santa Ana. 5 days ago:
Some are bots, but some are also nazi scum.
The world has a nazi problem and we need to treat them like the cancer they are; like our grandparents did, and would have wanted us to.
- Comment on Bill Gates, Jeff Bezos and Sam Altman among billionaires investing in 'Freedom City' to be built on Greenland 6 days ago:
Free to build the data centers necessary to control an army of terminators; to genocide the proles once capitalism no longer requires their labour.
Like, I’m not even joking. I have zero doubt whatsoever that is the final solution in the minds of psychopaths like Thiel or Altman.
- Comment on ICE Wants to Go After Dissenters as well as Immigrants 1 week ago:
We all knew they would start wholesale hunting, imprisonment, torture, and murder of antifascists eventually.
Nothings changed. Antifascists need to be prepared for the inevitable now more than ever.
- Comment on YSK there is an intense Zionist propaganda campaign ongoing 1 week ago:
Fascists, sociopaths, and psychopaths don’t believe in free speech. They can’t be shamed. They don’t care about hypocrisy. They don’t possess morals or ethics. They don’t believe in the meaning of words.
They will claim to be the good guys until the very end.
- Comment on The most outlandish tech CEO quotes from 2025 2 weeks ago:
These people are not well. They are mentally ill, and capitalism continues to empower their sociopathic megalomania.
- Comment on Trump, 79, Rants Incoherently About Robots and AI 3 weeks ago:
The multigenerational operation directly involves the defunding of, and attacks on, education. This isn’t a this or that situation. ALL conservative and neoliberal policy since the 1970’s is about destroying the socialist/liberal/democratic advances made pre-1970’s, and returning the working class to ignorance destitution; much easier to control mentally-ill morons (see MAGA).
- Comment on Trump, 79, Rants Incoherently About Robots and AI 3 weeks ago:
Rest in piss indeed
- Comment on Trump, 79, Rants Incoherently About Robots and AI 3 weeks ago:
When profits are involved, always assume malice.
The only time you should assume stupidity is when dealing with family, friends, colleagues, frontline workers, etc; basically anyone you interact with who wouldn’t profit off the malice (eg the sales person will lie to make a sale).
- Comment on Trump, 79, Rants Incoherently About Robots and AI 3 weeks ago:
This is not “pettiness”. This is all part of a multi-generational psychological warfare operation to brainwash the working class and implement totalitarian dictatorship — started by the Koch Bros, Roger Ailes, and Rupert Murdoch several decades ago — and the fascists are winning; facilitated by “liberals” who are mostly a manufactured opposition, financed by the exact same corporations/oligarchs.
- Comment on US | Trump brags about demanding his own government give him taxpayer money over Mar-a-Lago search: ‘I hereby give myself $1B’ 4 weeks ago:
It’s mental illness. MAGA is a mentally ill death cult, and conservatives are the most susceptible.
- Comment on LG responds swiftly to user backlash, will allow users to remove Microsoft Copilot link from TVs — clarifies service is not an app, future update will include tile removal option from WebOS 4 weeks ago:
Or buy smart TV’s and never connect them to the internet.
- Comment on Billionaire entrepreneur Jared Isaacman is confirmed as new NASA chief 4 weeks ago:
It won’t take more than a decade or so for the majority of US academics to relocate to the EU, as long as they don’t also succumb to the broke mind virus of conservative narcissism-masquerading-as-a-political-ideology.
- Comment on Meta to cut up to 30% of metaverse budget, Bloomberg News reports 1 month ago:
Imagine how much value would have been created if the several hundreds of billion spent on the shitty VR sims went to wages, or taxes or healthcare.
But no. We should all marvel at the efficiency of the oligarchy!
- Comment on Meta starts kicking Australian children off Instagram and Facebook 1 month ago:
Surveillance capitalism just wants to completely destroy all anonymity for data harvesting, propaganda, and control purposes.
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Considering Epstein didn’t kill himself, and literally none of his hundreds/thousands of oligarch-customers have faced any consequences, this pedelephant in the room could very well be what chat control, photo scanning, etc is actually all about.
Parent takes photo of their baby/child in the rudey nudey > custom pedo-developed algorithm flags it as potential child porn > sends image/vid to gov server for “verification” > data gets “hacked” by pedos.
Same system could easily be adapted to stealing everyones private sex pics/vids, as the entire idea is that it’s performed by closed source applications in the background, without the user ever being aware.
And with the way CSAM works, governments could easily insert hashes of ANY files — say a whistleblower steals the un-redacted Epstein files — so OS’s/services would identify everyone who had downloaded that file(s), sending the alarm straight to the secret police’s surveillance system; maybe they could be silenced before they’ve had a chance to tell anyone.
- Comment on Condoms and contraceptives to become more expensive in China as Beijing accelerates push to lift birth rate 1 month ago:
Capitalisms only solution to problems is to continue the beating until morale improves, as long as it’s deemed the most profitable.
Literally no government is actually trying to improve the quality of life of its people in any tangible way that addresses the reasons they choose to be childfree.
- Comment on Plebbit is the the most decentralized selfhosted social media protocol And why development slowed Down 1 month ago:
Sure, mods will always be necessary when it comes to public/untrusted comms, but just like I don’t want my telco or email provider to decide which/when my TRUSTED contacts can contact me, the same is true for the rest of their speech.
Jumping from platform to platform, server to server each time is a bandaid solution which is not censorship resistant, especially against some totalitarian oppressor. A real fix is a solution (e.g. protocol) that enables me to view a single person/entities/orgs comms regardless of what any middleman decides.
- Comment on Plebbit is the the most decentralized selfhosted social media protocol And why development slowed Down 1 month ago:
What happens when the lunatics own the media and social media? Let them remove all evidence of genocide and corruption? Just accept the insanity and authoritarianism?
- Comment on Plebbit is the the most decentralized selfhosted social media protocol And why development slowed Down 1 month ago:
Although true, the existence of mods is an attack vector the criminally corrupt will always exploit, and every anti-authoritarian should not oppose these because they’re currently exploited by the corrupt. Fascists are buying up all media and social media explicitly to silence opposition and control the narrative (the thing they claim everyone else is doing to them, while being the most blatantly criminal of perpetrators).
I can’t remember the specific protocol, but the one I saw which was most interesting relies on you subscribing to individuals, and building trust through that “social graph of trust”. It’s best to view it as someone owns a domain and you’re subscribing to their rss feed, except they’re identity is cryptographically verified, and the people they engage with have more weight in your feed than those that don’t… as opposed to whatever some technofascist algorithm, oligarch-beholden journalist or corrupt mod (who may very well be a paid operative) deems valuable.
- Comment on how to repurpose your old phone into a web server 1 month ago:
Most of my project time is spent adding new projects to various lists…
I’ll get to them eventually, I swear!
- Comment on Companies that buy up homes should be known as home scalpers 1 month ago:
You’re getting downvoted because your hot take is referring to solutions that would legitimately tackle the housing crisis, and put downward pressure on prices, as “extremist”.
Forcing every future population into progressively new heights of housing and economic insecurity is fucking “extremist”, and if you keep making people’s lives worse you’re guaranteed to spawn some dangerous “extremists”… I’m taking the revolutionary kind, who will be far more destructive and far less forgiving in their hot takes on wealth redistribution.
- Comment on Companies that buy up homes should be known as home scalpers 1 month ago:
They should be known as criminals, as it should be illegal for companies to own residential property. It should also be illegal for any individual or partners to own more than 2 properties.
The housing crisis will never end unless limits are imposed on the ownership of the finite resource.
- Comment on Adguard DNS: Our investigation into the suspicious pressure on Archive.today 2 months ago:
It’s the same Christian fascist lobby groups financed by psychopathic oligarchs and their corporations… I guarantee it. It’s analogous to their attacks on wikipedia, VPN’s, encryption, and our education and judicial systems.
Their goal is to control or destroy all sources of information on the planet that are anti-authoritarian and anti-fascist — like they have been doing with the media, education, legal and judicial system in the USA, for decades — one at a time, using every tool at their disposal. Web archiving tools document fascisms psychological warfare across the internet, so they obviously must be destroyed.
- Comment on Belgium | Drones spotted over nuclear power plant hours after new sightings at Liège Airport 2 months ago:
Why the fuck are UFO’s able to fly over nuclear plants without getting blown out of the sky?
This is why we shouldn’t have them at all. Apparently terrorists can easily attack them at any time.
- Comment on US Senate passes bill to end government shutdown 2 months ago:
Controlled opposition continues to perform its most vital function in the coups final stage.
- Comment on Surprise EU rollback of 'GDPR' digital-rights rules prompts alarm 2 months ago:
Why should any of us approve of making things easier for technofascists?
- Comment on Nearly 90% of jobseekers unable to get long-term work despite millions spent on private job agencies 2 months ago:
“Won’t someone think of the capitalist?”
- Comment on US judge drops criminal charges against Boeing over 737 MAX 8 crashes 2 months ago:
Corruption is like cancer. Without criminal convictions, and fines many times greater than the sum of the profits, the corruption will grow deeper and deeper until the host dies.
The ONLY fix is life in prison — ~600 counts of manslaughter — for every individual complicit in the fraud, starting from the top.