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- Submitted 2 days ago to technology@lemmy.world | 2 comments
- How ICE is watching you: A rundown of some of the tech the government is deploying to identify and spy on usminnesotareformer.com ↗Submitted 3 days ago to technology@lemmy.world | 36 comments
- Comment on ‘Wall Street Sweetheart’ Kevin Warsh Picked to Run Fed After Changing Views to Match Trump’s | Common Dreams 1 week ago:
If you pick someone from the Hoover Institution don’t be too surprised when things going 1929 on everybody
- Comment on Noooooo 1 week ago:
I’m hearing that my summary won’t be helpful, so I don’t need to spend my time on this request, which certainly works for me. You are, of course, welcome to take any notes for yourself that you would find helpful, and I would be happy to review those if you would like.
Thanks for your time!
- Comment on Noooooo 1 week ago:
According to my recollection, you accepted full responsibility and pledged to do better going forward. You also promised not to embezzle any of the company’s money going forward, which was a weird thing to say unprompted.
- Comment on Noooooo 1 week ago:
Avoiding my calls because verbal conversations make you anxious? Fair enough, I will spend an embarrassingly long time to write, re-read, delete, re-write, re-read several times, re-delete, re-write a third time by blending versions one and two, re-read and realize I didn’t explain something, re-write and realize that something else is irrelevant, re-read and realize it wasn’t irrelevant because two paragraphs later etc. until I have a message that can’t possibly be misread, send it, and then agonize about writing something that was misread until I hear back from you while pathologically refreshing my inbox.
Saying you can’t talk now but scheduling a time for me later? Totally fair, you have a whole ass job outside of my stupid problems, if they can wait I will wait and if they can’t I’ll go back to paragraph 1.
Avoiding my calls because you think I’m dumb but won’t just tell me how I’m being dumb so I can try to make improvements? Congrats, my new work project is making your work life a living hell until you either quit or schedule a call with me where we can discuss preferred communication styles and how to demonstrate mutual respect.
- Comment on Bugger! 2 weeks ago:
Well that’s epistemological ephemera for ya
- Comment on Definitely the safest source for advice 3 weeks ago:
Easy there Camus
- Comment on Innocent African-American child George Stinney executed after being falsely accused of murdering two white girls | 1944 4 weeks ago:
There’s a real fuzzy line between confronting people with evidence of our brutality and just normalizing that brutality
Also, I feel like on this network more than others you’re just showing this to people who are already fully aware that horrific racist violence like this has happened and is happening
- Comment on What I feel like every fucking time I wake up and read this morning's news of a superpower becoming its worst. 5 weeks ago:
- Comment on Kohler Can Access Data and Pictures from Toilet Camera It Describes as “End-to-End Encrypted” 2 months ago:
I mean, if that one gains sentience and goes all SkyNet on us I’ll understand where it’s coming from
- Comment on Kohler Can Access Data and Pictures from Toilet Camera It Describes as “End-to-End Encrypted” 2 months ago:
Soon
"… the federal agency announced a 20 million dollar settlement with the individuals who claim the agent invaded their privacy when he accessed their toilet cameras without their consent. A source who did not wish to share their name said the department was initially given back door access as part of an undisclosed agreement with Kohler to further their investigation into ‘transgender crime’ and further anti-drug smuggling efforts. When contacted for a statement on the matter, the department’s spokesperson stated, “Fuck off, lib.'”
- Comment on Fuckin' PSYOP 2 months ago:
is working splendidly
Is it?
- Comment on Sony’s Concord Is Playable Again Thanks To Fan-Made Custom Servers 2 months ago:
Also basically every chapter of Habitat for Humanity has a home repair program people can apply to
- Submitted 2 months ago to games@lemmy.world | 1 comment
- After police used Flock cameras to accuse a Denver woman of theft, she had to prove her own innocencecoloradosun.com ↗Submitted 3 months ago to technology@lemmy.world | 149 comments
- Comment on OpenAI Says Hundreds of Thousands of ChatGPT Users May Show Signs of Manic or Psychotic Crisis Every Week 3 months ago:
That archive link wouldn’t load for me but this one seems to work - archive.is/HoGoV
- Comment on xkcd #3155: Physics Paths 3 months ago:
Nobody said it was your ruin
- Comment on ICE tries to kidnap random food delivery driver off the street. He jukes them on a foldable bike. 4 months ago:
Future pizza delivery guy outruns fascist enforcers sounds like an awesome low budget 80s movie but it’s not that much fun to actually live through
- Comment on It's depressing, man 4 months ago:
A lot of “stupidity” you see in the world is a result of anxiety and exhaustion proximately caused by individual poverty and bad infrastructure*, imo
*Infrastructure includes hard systems like transit and housing and soft systems like community organizations and government agencies imo
- Comment on 4 months ago:
If some historian a hundred years from now or whatever wants to say this moment represented a real turning point, please don’t
- Comment on 4 months ago:
Yeah, like less than a second after he says violence is a sudden and absurd amount of gore
- Comment on Truly Lossless Music 5 months ago:
I thought he saving a PNG image
- Comment on this is exactly what copper would say 5 months ago:
- Comment on It's all connected 6 months ago:
And what does some random painter have to do with anything
- Comment on Mastercard release a statement about game stores, payment processors and adult content 6 months ago:
Kind of off topic, but this just activated one of my trap card rants,
The problem is not that we’re a litigious society, the problem is we make litigation artificially costly and time consuming by restricting the number of lawyers and judges we create and only trying to address the bottleneck that creates by making courts harder to access (e.g. increasing filing fees, giving defendants more ability to force things into arbitration kangaroo courts, etc.).
Especially in light of how our courts have been just making up bullshit to let cops/soldiers/Republicans do whatever the fuck they since circa 1968/2001/2025, you can’t tell me that people need as many years of education to practice law as we require in this country.
Also, private bar associations are fucking weird, feudal era anti-democratic bullshit that ought to get replaced with proper public licensing agencies that are accountable to democratic systems and accessible to the public
/end rant
- Comment on Itch.io apologise for "frustration and confusion" after delisting thousands of NSFW projects 6 months ago:
en masse
That sounds wonderful to me, I just want that mass of righteous people to write down all of their ideas so future generations can continue their work even after the fervor has died down. I call those ideas laws and regulations and the ongoing spirit of that mass of righteous people a government, but I’m not too attached to semantics.
- Comment on Itch.io apologise for "frustration and confusion" after delisting thousands of NSFW projects 6 months ago:
Until they monopolize their industry, which is something they’re always going to be trying to do by their very nature as for profits and which has already essentially happened here
A government can be influenced if it is transparent and democratic, which can be ensured if they’ve got good bylaws that are being scrupulously enforced. Like, if you have decisionmakers a) accountable to free and fair elections (whether they’re elected directly or appointed by elected people) holding b) regular and public meetings where c) outside organizations can raise disputes and get them decided under d) neutral procedures that are published in advance and that every party has equal opportunity to understand and take advantage of, and e) if those decisions and the reasoning behind them are also published and cited as precedent to be reinforced or overturned in subsequent decisions, then I really think the rest takes care of itself.
And I think we had a lot of this figured out when we got done fighting totalitarian regimes in the 1940s and turned around and passed the Administrative Procedure Act, but conservatives keep adding loopholes and trying to drag all of us back to feudalism and monarchies.
- Comment on Itch.io apologise for "frustration and confusion" after delisting thousands of NSFW projects 6 months ago:
I think it is possible to have a government that functions in this way on a long term basis. I don’t think the same can be said of for profit companies.
- Comment on Itch.io apologise for "frustration and confusion" after delisting thousands of NSFW projects 6 months ago:
Yeah, payment processing is among the many many many industries that ought to be nationalized so they can be administered in a transparent and democratic manner (see also, healthcare education housing electricity internet etc.)
There’s just too much opportunity to use it to manipulate markets and oppress minority viewpoints for it to remain in private hands imo
