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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Australian governments subsidising fossil fuel use by more than $30,000 a minute, analysis finds⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  You keep asserting that, could you provide some sources for that assertion. Everything I am reading says that you need to commit to a major nuclear program and get everything right to approach the cost of renewables. Adding to this the advances are coming thick and fast, across the range of renewables and storage technologies, more efficiencys and cost savings. The only viable way I have heard of to improve the cost efficiencies of Nuclear is to extend the operational life span of the plants, and those efficiencies will only be realised once the extension is made to the service life of the plant (plus let’s be honest the private owners of the plants by that stage will just soak that up as extra profit).

  So if we are going to build out these phenomenally expensive projects we are going to need a fair assurance that the funders and then the operators are going to see a return on investment. If renewables keep being cheaper to deploy, if recycling becomes more efficient, if battery storage prices fall. All of this hurts the viability of Nuclear, and will certainly impact the public will to keep throwing vast amounts of money at infrastructure. The other countries who are building out nuclear capacity on accelerated time frames and lower costs, how many of them are operating within a regulatory framework that corresponds with Australia’s? How many of them are adding additional capacity to existing Nuclear, rather than starting from scratch? How many of them are not budgeting for lifecycle and just assuming they will find the money to decomission when they have to, instead of building that cost in during the operational life of the plants?

  How do you plan on convincing people like my father-in-law who hasn’t drawn from the grid in more than a year to be cool that his powerbill will be going up for a service he only keeps connected to sell his excess power? That’s where the regressive authoritarian bit came from, you are going to have to shutdown kw scale solar as it will be too much of a danger to the under construction nuclear industry.

  You seem really bent out of shape with the whole renewable thing, no technology is entirely benign to the environment, but if we keep on advancing the tech here we are going to continue to see positive change. Plus it seems so much more feasible to recycle a dead solar panel or battery vs the shielding of a reactor.

  I want nuclear to be part of an energy mix, but it’s going to be a huge commitment to build out, there will be delays, there will be cost overruns and there will be graft and corruption. You know how Australians are, it will be an excuse to keep propping up coal and gas, and when the first plant doesn’t deliver on the economies and timeframes of, let’s say the eight plant, there will be some shithead who will stoke up a bunch of populist dogwhistles around how Canberra is wasting tax payer money on a white elephant project.

  Imagine the nuclear advocates throwing that much money, time and effort behind nuclear only to see it stall out for another quarter century because the momentum faltered.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Australian governments subsidising fossil fuel use by more than $30,000 a minute, analysis finds⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Cool, you footing the bill? Because the upfront costs of building out enough nuclear to replace just the current coal plants is going to lead to skyrocketing energy costs. But if you can front the billions it would cost nobody is going to stop you. However what is your plan for the next 15+ years it would take to build the fleet of nuclear powerplants? Since you have decided renewables are evil is the plan to ban them from being deployed while we build out nuclear, keep burning coal and gas during that time? Renewables keep getting cheaper to deploy, are you going to institute a world wide ban on further R&D until Australia finishes its nuclear rollout so we don’t have the equation slipping further into imbalance.

  Also our power grids are actively degrading under neglect thanks to deregulation and asset sales, you going to renationalise all that so we can rationalise & remediate transmission costs or are we labouring under the misguided hope that we won’t have bad actors trying to profiteer off the lines and poles?

  I get it, I wish we had got onboard with nuclear back when the economics would have made it a home run and social anxiety was the biggest blocker, we missed that boat and now the paradigm has shifted.

  I fully believe nuclear should have a role in our energy market, but instituting a regressive authoritarian society to make it a reality just doesn’t seem like a smart decision.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Trump says presidents 'should not have learning disabilities' as he mocks Newsom's dyslexia⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Presidents should not be paedophiles. Paedophiles should not be president.

  Presidents shouldn’t be regularly stroking out and really shouldn’t be surrounded by people who will be relieved when they get to “Weekend at Bernie’s” him around.

  When my neighbours dog started to be cognitively impaired by all his strokes they made him comfortable, gave him a couple of days to see if it would stop, then had him put to sleep. So much more humane than letting him declare illegal wars.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Probably want to stop using Booklore...⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s going to be a hard one to provide definitive answers on. Anecdotally though I saw it with my younger brothers, I saw it with my kids, I have seen it with my friends kids. I am convinced enough, but I will be swayed if someone with the right research and peer reviewed science can make a compelling case. If I had all that I would be presenting my thesis as a best selling book on behavioural psychology, finding a university that would offer me tenure and relaxing into a cushy life of academic celebrity, not posting on Lemmy.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Probably want to stop using Booklore...⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I have played around with a bunch of tools at a self hosted level. The big thing I found puts inherent brakes on the process is the technical capability to actual use them, when I played around with ESRGAN to upscale images I was limited in application by time and equipment, I achieved better results than I could have on my own, markedly worse results than if I had the technical ability and equipment to just reshoot the images with better resolution.

  I tried some photogrammetry, similar outcomes. I could have done better by being better with Blender. NERFs as well.

  What we have is people yelling “Monorail! Monorail!” And using free credits or buying them.

  The industry is already losing obscene amounts of money and the actual use cost is still entirely obscured from the general public. Once enough of the world is hooked on using LLMs for everything we are going to see the true costs emerge, then it will be another iteration of the haves and the have nots, society as a whole cannot afford to make LLM usage profitable, where does that get us?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨‘Pokémon Go’ players have been unknowingly training delivery robots⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I think you are forgetting that Niantic made a lot of money off Pokémon GO, not ALL the money, ergo its an abject failure under capitalism and they need to pump up those numbers.

  If they had been making ALL the money they might have been satisfied, for a quarter. Then they would have packaged and sold all that data for more than ALL the money.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Probably want to stop using Booklore...⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I’d love to be wrong, but I feel like we are wired in certain ways by the evolutionary process we are the product of. I think the nurture comes in to play with regards to overcoming some of those baser instincts and drives. Anyone who has raised boys can tell you that for most boys they go through phases of being overly aggressive and or violent, that can often be redirected into better ways of getting that out. Can’t speak for girls or people on the intersection due to lack of first hand experience and want to reiterate that I am fully aware that my anecdotes are not universal and everyone falls into a range of behaviours. I feel like what we lack is an elder species we can look up to and emulate, so we are going to need to figure it out for ourselves. I like to think we have the ability, here’s hoping.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Probably want to stop using Booklore...⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Your looking at this in a fundamentally different way, you seem to think it’s like electricity or indoor plumbing, where it’s primarily a benefit and enabler of further growth in society.

  I see it like asbestos, or to borrow another posters example radium. A technology that has super narrow ETHICAL applications, but since we have elected to make it the only economic force that is driving large swathes of the world’s markets, we are in the jam it into everything and see how it works out phase. Humanity keeps on making this one fundamental mistake and because we haven’t completely collapsed society and killed ourselves en masse yet we keep on doing it thinking “this time it will turn out differently”.

  I am trying to convey that this is a poison whose LD50 is microscopic, why do we as a society all have to experiment with dosing ourselves to find out how much we can take before it corrodes us to death?

  It’s already taking a bite out of the computing landscape, it’s damaging the environment, its increasing the wealth disparity, its causing actual fatalities and its destroying the ability of people at large to think and retain information. Software development is probably one of the strongest cases for LLM usage, so please tell me how many untrustworthy browsers do we need to offset the above mentioned costs?

  If we had focussed a similar level of effort, and money, into transitioning away from fossile fuel based energy grids as we have on this nonsense the world would be in a better place, but it doesn’t allow for the malignant growth of wealth to the 0.01% percent so it could never happen. Please make me understand why this is a good thing?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Probably want to stop using Booklore...⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  But they aren’t distinct things, they are both heads of the same capitalism hydra. How much of the training data for these LLMs has been harvested directly from Social Media? I sure as shit don’t know and I would argue nor do many other people.

  Radium is probably a good analogy actually. Thank you. It’s toxic in almost every application we can imagine, it’s got a legacy that extends out to the current day, it formed a massive economic block, and it turns out it should only ever have been used under the strictest controls. We should never have had “entrepreneurs” being the driving force behind it.

  It should have ALWAYS been a controlled substance that required people who understood and respected how fucking dangerous it is. Instead we are intent on jamming LLMs into every aspect of life regardless of how badly we suspect and/or know it will fuck everything up.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Probably want to stop using Booklore...⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  The problems are human nature, capitalism and greed. Doesn’t mean we have to give in, and frankly all the appeasers out there that keep saying “You have to use it or you will be left behind.” are effectively the drug pusher in the locker room telling the insecure young man “Oh yeah everyone else is juicing, you don’t do it you won’t be able to compete.”

  Nobody believes the drug dealers are handing out drugs because they are humanitarians, they have a financial interest in destroying that kids life while he tries to justify it to himself.

  We know LLMs are harmful on SO many different levels, but the US economy would literally collapse if people acknowledged that and stopped supporting them. So we race headlong towards societal collapse to keep the plates spinning. Sam Altman, Jensen Huang, Elon Musk, and so many others should all be tried for genocide and crimes against humanity once the collapse occurs. The sooner our societies start stringing these monsters up rather than celebrating them the more hope we have as a species.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How many projects involve LLM-written code now?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  You haven’t been keeping up to date on the damage they are doing to existing projects have you? Ask the team behind curl how useful the slop submissions are. They are reaching breaking point just keeping up the flood of crap. It’s not that LLMs will out compete, they will overwhelm and infect.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Probably want to stop using Booklore...⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  How many browsers would you like me to list, yes a lot of them are spins on some of the big incumbents, but there is a much wider variety than you night credit. Mobile operating systems are something of a special case I’m afraid, the Telcos and incumbents have got way too heavy a thumb on the scale, and if any new comer looks like breaking the duopoly it will be treated as an existential threat. It will be associated with paedophilia terrorists faster than you can blink.

  Both incidentally categories where I will never be happy with slopcode. But hey if anyone wants to use a slop-coded browser I just heavily suggest you never enter any passwords or personal information while using it.

  We are actively building a history of cases where LLM usage correlates heavily with that slope you mentioned, but hey that’s OK, we aren’t allowed to call things out before they happen, judgement may only be passed once the damage is done right?

  Out of curiosity, we know that LLM usage increases cognitive deficit and in some cases leads to psychosis. How many fatalities would you say is an acceptable number before governments act? How degraded do we let our societies get before we reign it in?

  At some point the bubble is going to burst and we will see a number of countries bankrupted in the name of “AI” I’m really curious to see if we learn our lessons at that point. Should be interesting.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How many projects involve LLM-written code now?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  So LLMs are going to achieve what Microsoft has been unable to, destroy open source and upend the world of coding. Nice. We really are living in the dumbest timeline. Can’t wait for Nintendo’s lawyers to decide they found a fragment of Nintendo code in the output of an LLM and start the lawfare to destroy the pesky breeding ground of emulator writers.

  Said it in another thread, I have yet to meet a strong advocate for LLMs that isn’t a cunt.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Probably want to stop using Booklore...⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  How do people gain the ability to make these major projects if not for cutting their teeth on the small ones though. We cut the apprentice and journeyman stages of mastering an art out, replace it with slop, and then ten years from now we wonder why kids these days are so incapable of actually creating anything.

  I have talked to kids who have told me that the assignments they got at school were so trivial they just ran them through ChatGPT rather than waste their time. When I pointed out that the reason the assignments were “trivial” was to give them the skills and confidence to do the big projects when the time came I got, at best, blank looks.

  I said it somewhere else, if you are using an LLM to generate unit tests I find it hard to be terribly mad at that. If it’s scaffolding documentation, meh whatever. If it’s generating the main body of your project, I have concerns. Plus I circle back to how can you open source code that may have been stolen from a copyrighted work?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Probably want to stop using Booklore...⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  And it’s so noisy. We are already losing bug bounties, it’s swamping open source projects in poor quality or even counter productive “work” on github to get recognition, its drowning out the work of creatives, its invading so many aspects of life (education, communication, research, public policy) and its fundamentally a bad tool for so many of those areas.

  I recently applied for a job and got some advice from a friend who works HR in a different industry. His advice, see if you can find out which LLM they use and run your application through it. A lot of positions are getting huge numbers of applicants so they are using LLMs to generate the short list for interview, you could have the absolute perfect application but because the LLM doesn’t like the way you wrote it you are thrown out of the pool without a human being ever seeing you. It’s so insidious, by being “helpful” it reinforces its necessity.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Probably want to stop using Booklore...⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I still don’t think quantity is lacking, and when quality is there it’s amazing how often Open Source becomes a defacto standard. How many video tools are just a shim over FFMPEG for example?

  Yet again the problem I see is that LLMs are a seductive form of software cancer, it starts as a little help and before you know it we have booklore like projects. If open source can’t be better it will be subsumed in slop.

  Not disagreeing about LLMs as a weapon. In a functional society the person who pulls the trigger on any weapon is responsible for the consequences of that action. I wonder how eager the CEOs of these “AI” companies would be to weaponise their creations if they were held personally accountable for every injury caused by their product. By a jury. Preferably with explicit laws stating they could not indemnify or gain immunity.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Australian governments subsidising fossil fuel use by more than $30,000 a minute, analysis finds⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m not going to get too deeply into this because frankly I am not qualified. However people who I know that are well informed have talked about what it will take to overcome the cost and lead time issues with nuclear. Apparently there are two methods, one is we all agree to pay, A LOT, to cover the capital expenditure required to get a functional nuclear grid off the ground. The other involves a time machine and a jaunt back to the late 70s early 80s to squeeze an extra generation of nuclear R&D in.

  Nuclear is either a great long term goal, or a smoke screen.

  Just using publicly available figures, in 2025 worldwide nuclear generated 2667 TWh. In 2024 Australias energy generation was 265 TWh. So we would need to generate 10% of the total worldwide nuclear output just to supply demand in Australia. That’s a phenomenal amount of construction we would need just to match today’s demand.

  Plus have you seen the amount of material involved in constructing a nuclear powerplant, they don’t grow on trees and they are certainly not small. And yes I know we get to talk about SMRs now, they aren’t ready yet, and will only ever be a component in an energy mix.

  Inevitably when we talk about 20-50 year lead times and trillion dollar investments to meet current demand if we go nuclear the offered solution is to maintain coal and gas, put all that together and the economy and ecology arguments don’t seem to hold water.

  Plus you seem to assume renewable generation and storage technology are not improving at a rate of knots. Or that we can’t recycle and remanufacture. Plus as we are all about to experience, local production and distribution are often significantly more resilient than highly centralised networks.

  Australia should have owned solar technology, we did so much of the initial work to make it mass manufacturable but we as a Country gave up on it because the people who actually make money off our resources didn’t want anything upsetting the coal applecart. It’s too late for us to be the technology and industrial leaders in this sector, let’s not fail to embrace it as consumers just so we can continue to line the same pockets.

  Plus so much of this is ideological. I honestly have no fixed preference when it comes to which technology we use going forward. If a sound case could be made for nuclear energy being the absolute best way to go forward I would give it my full backing, but it’s just not there. And I really don’t want my power to be 8x more expensive at wholesale level (who knows how much on my power bill) just so team nuclear gets to have the win.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Probably want to stop using Booklore...⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I think I can provide you a great equivalent. Firearms, they have utility, but there are people who make them a lifestyle choice, and there are people who make them their whole personality. There are also a lot of people just desperate for an excuse to use one. I grew up with a couple of farmers in the extended family, I would never argue guns should be entirely banned, but I am so glad I live somewhere with sane laws around gun ownership. It would be so nice if we had similar consideration around regulating LLMs.

  The danger to open source as I see it is that LLMs degrade the quality and ability of developers while increasing their throughput, and I have never once heard someone complain that open source lacks quantity, but I hear a lot of people complaining about the quality.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Probably want to stop using Booklore...⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Ergo its a tool, a search engine replacement, that we wouldn’t need if search hadn’t gone to shit due to neglect and active internal sabotage.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Probably want to stop using Booklore...⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  And every time the use of LLMs for open source development comes up we get the same tired spiel from people about how it’s just a tool and implications that anyone who doesn’t embrace it with jpy in their heart is just a Luddite.

  It seems to me that it’s less a tool and more like intentionally infecting your project with cancer. Sure it shows all the signs of rapid growth, but metastasization isn’t sustainable or desirable. Plus I am yet to encounter a strong advocate for LLMs who isn’t a cunt.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Australian governments subsidising fossil fuel use by more than $30,000 a minute, analysis finds⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Considering the surveillance state our major political parties seem hell bent on establishing you know the government would just mandate a black box be installed next to every fuel tank that uploaded your road usage to Palantir so they could calculate your road usage taxes. Right?

  I would imagine that given your username you wouldn’t be in too big a rush to give the government a mandate to invade even more deeply into our affairs.

  With regards to “doing” renewables… Yes, we should!

  Let’s face it, the 2 camps right now are:

  • Burn things we dug out of the ground, spent a bunch of time and energy refining then shipped to a more proximate location.
  • Steal power from the big ball of fusion fire in the sky, steal power from the big fuck off mass of air our planet is wrapped in, steal power from all that water sloshing around the dry bits of the planet, or occasionally lets dig a deep (but really narrow) hole and steal the power from the ground.

  Eventually even the most rusted on climate change deniers are going to have to admit that, in this case, theft make a lot of sense.

  Especially once we start seeing $4+ a litre thanks to an unconvicted pedophile in another country trying to act like a big man and picking fights he doesn’t understand.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨An 18-year-old woman in Queensland faces two years in jail for wearing a shirt that says "from the river to the sea."⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  See the problem I have with this take is that almost everyone I know understands that they have to work in order to maintain a standard of living. Some of them are also conciously aware that this contributes to an overarching societal progression. The contribution our politicians should be making is to enact the will of the people they represent, this is where I see the breakdown occuring. We have a federal government that is apparently far more beholden to lobbyists and corporate interests, we have state governments who are similar, we have local councils that seemingly represent their own interests. Without people willing to put themselves on the line to highlight the failings of our governments and the supporting apparatus then when do we expect them to change? I’m sorry but no amount of contributing to the smooth operation of society is going to fix the problems we currently have, or the ones that are looming in front of us. Once we regulate AI, tighten our tax code to make businesses and corporations pay their fair share, inhibit the influence of lobbyists, get serious on finding and punishing corruption then we can talk about if protesters should be doing something more “productive”. But if you think some older people marching against over reaching anti-public laws has more of a damaging effect on our society than all the problems we face I’m afraid you and I just exist in different worlds. A strong society should never fear its members protesting, we need to stop licking the boot and start standing up to the people wearing it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Senior ADF source confirms Australian Army preparing for war⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Pfft after all the AUKUS nonsense, you think we are backing down from the brink of jumping in the crazy bus with the US? That’s optimistic of you. We are going to ride this bomb all the way into the ground.

  I haven’t even heard the usual suspects bleating about how many Australians will be losing their homes when interest rates spike because evangelicals in the US can’t get it up unless they are killing Arabs.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Xbox "Project Helix" confirmed to run Xbox and PC games - competition for the Steam Machine⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Oh I’m sure certain elements will run, for a certain value of run.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Australia forces porn sites to block under-18s from Monday⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Now show some intestinal fortitude and do the same for alcohol advertising and gambling advertising. As a matter of fact apply strong ID checks & spending precommitments should keep the kids safe from gambling, their own and that of people around them.

  This fiddling around the margins is performative theatre to distract the masses while they build the powers of the surveillance state.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Xbox "Project Helix" confirmed to run Xbox and PC games - competition for the Steam Machine⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Hey let’s give this some runway, if they want it to be a success maybe they will consider ditching Windows and putting a variant of Linux on it. Imagine how much positivity the community would extend to them if they made it run mainline Bazzite, then they could throw a bunch of financial support at the Bazzite team…

  Ahh who am I kidding, they will be loading it up with special Windows Gamer OS that is stripped of all ads and telemetry until the day after launch to give the reviewers with early access time to rave about how amazing it is that Microslop cares about their fans, before treating them like the little pay piggies they see them as.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨40% of teenage boys believe women lie about domestic and sexual violence: new research⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Oh well maybe we should shove them in front of a screen and have them use AI until the scores improve. /s

  Seriously when they do the analysis in 100 years we are going to cop so much negativity about our misguided attempts to make education a success by making it more profitable for the corporations that are forever sinking their claws deeper and deeper into our childrens future.

  We know that LLMs have a negative impact on learning, mental health and the environment but we keep getting presented the Emperors wrinkled backside and then being told to marvel at it.

  Anyway I tend to go on rants if I don’t reign myself in, so I’m going to stop there.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨40% of teenage boys believe women lie about domestic and sexual violence: new research⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Parent by choice not by accident so its incumbent on me to do my best, although I would never claim to be perfect, or even close.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨40% of teenage boys believe women lie about domestic and sexual violence: new research⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Right from the start I will state I know the plural of anecdote isn’t evidence. But I have a friend who has given up teaching year 11/12 athletic development and now teaches grade 7 pe. Primary reason is the mysoginistic shit she had to put up with from the boys who felt their gender made them better at anything sports related than her. She would compete in triathlon in her spare time with all the training & commitment that entails, and yet the podgy, vaping 18yo man children would tell jokes with each other about how she should go back to the kitchen “where she belongs”.

  When we were discussing this amongst a group that included 3 other female teachers every one of them agreed they are seeing more of that sort of crap every year. My guess would be all the Manosphere brainrot is having an affect. Couple that with kids around that age feeling the urge to be as edgy as possible…

  I have noticed once or twice that my sons have started talking that way due to a combination of online and peer influence and I have stepped in to disabuse them of the notion that their chromosomes make them special or superior. But it’s the world they live in and I pity the kids without a parent who is keeping any eye on them.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨More police busts in Italy⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  He was aware of the use case. He was told in no uncertain terms what it would be used for and made suggestions around how to conceal the devices. I think we all know that there are certain people who will get so caught up working the problem that they often don’t think about consequences til much later.