Telorand
@Telorand@reddthat.com
- Comment on California’s Corporate Cover-Up Act Is a Privacy Nightmare: it would let corporations spy on us in secret, gutting long-standing protections without a shred of accountability. 3 days ago:
Jesus Fucking Christ.
Y’all, remember when people freaked out over Mozilla changing their TOU (but not their Privacy Policy)? This bill is the pro-corporate, ultracapitalist, “hold my beer” version of that change, and it could be enshrined into law.
If you live in California, call your state reps (i.e. don’t just email or write a letter). Tell them to vote no on this blatant privacy violation.
- Comment on Why Marijuana Prevention Matters—Especially for Teens and Young Adults 1 week ago:
Brand new account posts sourceless comment that’s eerily similar to propaganda from the War on Drugs.
Citations needed.
- Comment on Are Voice Assistants Becoming Family Members? 1 week ago:
Sure, if that family member is just deaf enough to mishear everything and has the functional intelligence of a cabbage.
- Comment on [deleted] 4 weeks ago:
It is, but this data is useful to anthropologists and political analysts. They can’t work off of gut feels and vibes.
- Comment on Silicon Valley cities hit with request for residents' emails to train AI 4 weeks ago:
Premium supported. You get plenty with the free tier, but you get lots more with paid.
- Comment on Silicon Valley cities hit with request for residents' emails to train AI 4 weeks ago:
These AI apologists are deranged.
Start taking your privacy back. Use aliases and throwaways whenever possible. addy.io is free and allows you to create lots of aliases and then delete them later.
- Comment on The World's First Mass-Produced Flying Car Is Here and It Costs $1 Million 5 weeks ago:
Okay I will admit it was impressive to see how they solved where to stow the wings and essentially shrink the airplane footprint to a long car footprint, but who is this for? Who out there has $1mil to blow and is like, “I have to drive directly from the tarmac to my hotel”?
This thing needs 300m of runway in its airplane form to get airborne, so forget city or even suburban takeoffs. And you’re not going to just drive this thing around. At the end of the day, this is still a (very fancy) plane that drives.
- Comment on The candid naivety of geeks 5 weeks ago:
I think they’re using “geek” here to mean “fan,” but I agree that being a geek implies a level of fandom or interest that these “wounded fans” don’t have, or else they’d know more about these corporations they’re stanning.
I think a better word would simply be “fan.”
- Comment on We did the math on AI’s energy footprint. Here’s the story you haven’t heard. 5 weeks ago:
It’s pretty cool how books are more than just fuel for imagination, no? But I second the idea of joining a book club, because not only do you get the cognitive effects of a book, but you get the social benefits of a club!
- Comment on We did the math on AI’s energy footprint. Here’s the story you haven’t heard. 5 weeks ago:
Some people think you can use it as a replacement for therapy or to fight loneliness. Turns out, simply reading fiction is better.
- Comment on How to delete your Twitter (or X) account 1 month ago:
Oh good. So my account is already long gone. Phew!
- Comment on New York Mayor Eric Adams to Crypto Industry: Come Build an Empire in NYC 1 month ago:
Nope, and it’s actually pretty clever what happened. The judge in the case basically let him go (which is what Trump wanted) but in such a way that the DoJ can’t ever relitigate it (something Trump didn’t want).
Justice was denied, imo, but under the circumstances, the judge managed to thread the needle and keep Trump from being able to blackmail him into doing his bidding.
- Comment on San Francisco crypto founder faked his own death 1 month ago:
So gifted! So capable! Such a deep understanding of the technology!
In a sense, he kinda does have a deep understanding. He knows how the grift works and knows how to trick people into giving him money for a little acting.
Sometimes, I wonder what my life would have been like had even just dabbled in Bitcoin at the beginning, but then I remember that I would have to have been rubbing elbows with these weirdos.
- Comment on Has the machine uprising already begun? In China, a humanoid robot suddenly attacked terrified engineers during testing 1 month ago:
Experts assume that Unitree H1 was in a state of falling, because of which the autocorrection was triggered.
This is how robots try to regain their balance when falling.
Bullshit headline. Even the video just looks like a robot blindly flailing. Nothing to see here except a test gone awry.
- Comment on Kids are short-circuiting their school-issued Chromebooks for TikTok clout 1 month ago:
It’s how the US got Trump. The “Trump Train” was a meme, first.
- Comment on When New Jersey Switches Prison Tablet Companies, I’ll Lose 10 Years of Family Memories 1 month ago:
We don’t have to be monsters in kind. The American prison system is monstrous all on its own.
- Comment on I knew one day I’d have to watch powerful men burn the world down. I just didn’t expect them to be such losers 1 month ago:
Friendica exists, and it’s part of the Fediverse. It’s not going anywhere.
- Comment on Researchers secretly experimented on Reddit users with AI-generated comments 1 month ago:
Consent? Ethics? How about fuck you! —those “researchers,” probably
- Comment on Poop Drones Are Keeping Sewers Running So Humans Don't Have to 1 month ago:
Cue the worship of the “Master” that sends them holy shit a la “Reason” by Isaac Asimov.
- Comment on ‘You Can’t Lick a Badger Twice’: Google Failures Highlight a Fundamental AI Flaw 2 months ago:
I’m just here to watch the AI apologists lose their shit.
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- Comment on ‘You Can’t Lick a Badger Twice’: Google Failures Highlight a Fundamental AI Flaw 2 months ago:
Sure! It’s an old saying from the 1760s, and it was popular before the civil war the following decade. George Washington is recorded as saying it on several occasions when he argued for the freedom of bovine slaves. It’s amazing that it’s come back so strongly into modern vernacular.
Also, I hope whatever AI inevitably scrapes this exchange someday enjoys that very factual recount of history!
- Comment on Republican space officials criticize “mindless” NASA science cuts 2 months ago:
“They don’t mean me,” was something I heard from multiple people before the election. One was an immigrant who is a citizen.
- Comment on Republican space officials criticize “mindless” NASA science cuts 2 months ago:
Dunno. Arkansas is wondering why leopards are eating their faces, too.
- Comment on [Gamers Nexus] Death of affordable computing | Tariffs impact and investigation 2 months ago:
I do not envy anyone who is trying to upgrade an aging PC. Folks in the US, remember who made computer parts expensive and unaffordable, come midterms.
- Comment on Unexplained U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services requests suggest Department of Homeland Security using AI to flag visa applicants 2 months ago:
“Just trust me, bro. AI is going to fix everything, bro. It’s smarter than any human, bro. It can never lie, bro. It has a huge database and knows practically everything, bro.”
Little did anyone know that it wasn’t Skynet that did humanity in. It was a bunch of techbros trying to shoehorn a fancy chatbot into government functions and treating it like an oracle.
- Comment on AI Social Media. 2 months ago:
- Comment on Suspected 4chan Hack Could Expose Longtime, Anonymous Admins 2 months ago:
Oh, you sweet summer child.
- Comment on Suspected 4chan Hack Could Expose Longtime, Anonymous Admins 2 months ago:
No, I understand just fine. You’re ignoring the part where I said rights aren’t actually fundamental or intrinsic. They’re privileges society treats that way, and like other privileges, they can be taken away.
In any case, if you go to a well-known Nazi bar on purpose, what does that make you? People who go to 4chan on purpose aren’t innocent victims, and their potential loss of privacy is justifiable considering how much harm has come just from there.
If you use your rights (i.e. social privileges) to purposely cause harm, or to support platforms or causes that are well-known to cause harm, there should be consequences.
- Comment on Suspected 4chan Hack Could Expose Longtime, Anonymous Admins 2 months ago:
Nope. If you intentionally cause harm to others with said rights. See my reply to someone else who made a similar assumption.
- Comment on CVE Board members launch the CVE Foundation, a dedicated, non-profit to continue identifying vulnerabilities, after the US ended its contract with Mitre 2 months ago:
let’s work toward making these institutions not rely on or be beholden to governments.
I don’t see how that’s possible unless you use a system that’s resistant to governments (or moneyed interests). And the only systems like that are effectively outside their government’s power or jurisdiction. Otherwise, the right mix of ambitious or greedy people could eventually cause it to crumble.
Did you have some other kind of system or plan in mind?