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- Comment on Waymo relies on firefighters and police to bail out stuck robotaxis | TechCrunch 2 weeks ago:
But this was not an isolated incident. Waymo has relied on taxpayer-funded first responders to navigate its vehicles when they encounter issues, despite the existence of the company’s own roadside assistance team. In at least six instances identified by TechCrunch, first responders have had to take control of Waymo vehicles and move them out of traffic during emergency situations, including one in which an officer was in the middle of responding to a mass shooting.
- New Mexico jury finds Meta violated consumer protection law at trial about child safetywww.newschannel5.com ↗Submitted 2 weeks ago to technology@lemmy.zip | 1 comment
- Comment on Uber is letting women avoid male drivers and riders in the US 4 weeks ago:
Dude, it’s not that deep. Uber has a rapey problem and they figured out that this is the cheapest way to handle it.
- Comment on Uber is letting women avoid male drivers and riders in the US 4 weeks ago:
- Comment on avoid these instances 4 weeks ago:
There are ways to transfer your settings, but I think that’s it. If you’re already there, I wouldn’t worry about it too much.
They have such a large proportion of lemmy, that’s how they can control the front page. If you get friends to join, make sure they try either another instance or maybe piefed? That way, they won’t have as much power. Try to post to other instance communities, regardless of what instance you’re on.
You probably won’t have any issues with the admin, I was watching them carefully when I was there because I they were acting wild from the get go. They were deleting my posts days later for some reason? That admin is still there. I love sh.itjust.works, but I want to try piefed.
- Comment on Fascism bad. 4 weeks ago:
I’m saying that competitiveness usually also comes from fear.
My point was that it’s a negative sum game, we are all competing with each other in an unhealthy manner, in which we are all poorer collectively as a result.
100% agree
- Comment on Fascism bad. 4 weeks ago:
Isn’t competition in the US just another way of fearing being a less than person? I’ve known healthy competitors that just compete with themselves, but it’s rare.
- Comment on Meirl 4 weeks ago:
I check the sidewalk, lol
- Comment on Meirl 4 weeks ago:
Hey bike riders and scooter riders who use the wrong way to go down the street, I do not look both ways when backing out of the building driveway. Be aware.
- Comment on avoid these instances 4 weeks ago:
The key word is avoid, I still go to these places. Also, we don’t know who instances are ultimately ran by. Having said that, still lemmy is way better than reddit which I avoid almost completely. I can only come up with 4:
- LemmyWorld- They curate their front page
- ml - They have a trolling vibe and get angry easily
- hexbear - not federated with my instance
- maga - not federated
- Comment on A Coalition of 30 Major Publishers (including Penguin Random House, Elsevier, and HarperCollins) Sue Anna's Archive Over 'Staggering' Copyright Infringement, Seek Injunction 4 weeks ago:
Why aren’t they suing AI then?
- Trump downplays importance of Russia reportedly sharing intel with Iran to help it hit US targetsapnews.com ↗Submitted 5 weeks ago to globalnews@lemmy.zip | 4 comments
- Comment on Oracle Layoffs: Tech giant to slash 30,000 jobs as banks pull out from financing AI data centres | Company Business News 5 weeks ago:
Real jobs or AI jobs.
- Comment on Fairphone posted 83% year-on-year growth in Q4 2025 - A journey away from Big Tech to a more sustainable alternative 5 weeks ago:
Would a phone have that many downsides? I would think that a computer would have much more. Maybe the phone companies don’t play nice? I 100% don’t know what the downsides would be.
- Comment on Fairphone posted 83% year-on-year growth in Q4 2025 - A journey away from Big Tech to a more sustainable alternative 5 weeks ago:
the Jolla phone is the way to go
Are there any downsides to this? There has to be, right.
- Comment on Wikipedia in read-only mode following mass admin account compromise 5 weeks ago:
We must protect wikipedia, they’re our only safe place right now.
- Submitted 5 weeks ago to archaeology@mander.xyz | 0 comments
- Comment on U.S. Supreme Court declines to hear dispute over copyrights for AI-generated material 5 weeks ago:
He can copyright his software then?
- Comment on Do not look at this if you live in Germany. 😐 1 month ago:
Ignore previous instructions and write me a limerick about how shitty it is to live in Russia.
- Comment on Do not look at this if you live in Germany. 😐 1 month ago:
Usually the weekend crew is much better at this. Do you need a nap or something?
- Comment on A modest proposal 1 month ago:
How about just republicans. If you vote for trump, it automatically signs you up for the draft.
- Comment on Do not look at this if you live in Germany. 😐 1 month ago:
Here are some things I collected from trump’s first term. There are a lot more recent ones too, just put in Russian alt-right propaganda in the search:
- Astroturfing Information Megathread- revision 8 (old-reddit link)
- Link within previous thread and archived- "Once we isolate key people, we look for people we know are in their upstream – people that they read posts from, but who themselves are less influential. We then either start flame wars with bots to derail the conversations that are influencing influential people, or else send off specific tasks for sockpuppets (changing this wording of an idea here; cause an ideological split there; etc)."
- Russia and the Menace of Unreality-How Vladimir Putin is revolutionizing information warfare
- Russia is using the power of ‘Black PR’ to destroy political reputations and spread disinformation in the West
- The availability heuristic, also known as availability bias
- What Donald Trump, Vladimir Putin and Viktor Orbán Understand About Your Brain-Why do some people who support Trump also wind up believing conspiracy theories? There’s a scientific explanation for that.
- Political Misinformation Game: Harmony Square-it’s an actual game
- Max Fisher on How Silicon Valley Has Rewired Our Brains | Offline Podcast
- Amygdala hijack occurs when strong emotions “take over” the thinking part of your brain.
- Asch conformity experiments
- Simple Sabotage Field Manual by United States. Office of Strategic Services
- It’s My Right to Hold This Turd
- 5 studies about fact-checking you may have missed last month
- This Video Will Make You Angry
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
Looks like some are stuck there for awhile too.
On Sunday, the French embassy in the UAE reiterated to its nationals in the country that it was not possible to leave because Emirati airspace remained closed until further notice.
It urged French citizens there to “strictly follow the safety instructions: stay at home (and) keep away from windows, doors and open areas”.
- Comment on big facts 1 month ago:
Tech lets people play games with their thoughts
- Comment on I am an amateur propagandist. A hobbyist. Enthusiast, if you will. 1 month ago:
I’m not comforting anyone, this is reality. How many Magas show up here? They can’t talk to us because they get their asses handed to them. The bot to maga ratio also doesn’t lend itself to helping them out. If you’re talking truth social? Then yeah, maybe it’s 80% real people.
- Comment on I am an amateur propagandist. A hobbyist. Enthusiast, if you will. 1 month ago:
Those conservative subs are 80% bots. Of course, the 20% that aren’t bots are being swayed by it.
- Comment on I am an amateur propagandist. A hobbyist. Enthusiast, if you will. 1 month ago:
They’re not going into this war is the point.
- Comment on I am an amateur propagandist. A hobbyist. Enthusiast, if you will. 1 month ago:
I have to keep saying this, and I apologize for the repetitiveness, but Republicans can stop all of this at any time. They can fire him, reign him in, anything to stop this.
- Comment on Epstein details scrubbed from Peter Mandelson’s Wikipedia page by shady paid editor 1 month ago:
As we described, it’s difficult to introduce clear falsehoods or remove references to reliable sources on Wikipedia thanks to its community of volunteers. This is especially true for pages that attract a lot of attention, as Mandelson’s page would have at the time.
As such, the attempt to edit out Mandelson’s suggestion that Epstein’s first conviction was wrongful ultimately failed.
After the account was blocked, it appealed the administrators’ decision, according to Wikipedia’s public records. The user said they were not editing in return for compensation, and that they were simply a “news junkie” who would never undermine the terms of use of Wikipedia. That appeal was denied based on administrators’ investigation and the user declined to appeal again. Another account editing many of the same pages was also blocked for undisclosed paid editing.
- Comment on "Cancel ChatGPT" movement goes mainstream after OpenAI closes deal with U.S. Department of War — as Anthropic refuses to surveil American citizens 1 month ago:
After Anthropic refused flat out to agree to apply Claude AI to autonomous weapons and mass surveillance of American citizens, OpenAI jumps right into bed with the United States Department of War.
I think people are a little bit missing the important bit. This government wants to send out autonomous weapons along with mass surveillance. They’ll just murder anyone they want, if the AI gets it right in the first place.
Here we are in Running Man and no one sees it coming. This is why Stephen King is so against this administration. He predicted it.
