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I mean, when you fire a dozen bullets into a person at close range, it’s really really hard not to get a kill shot in

Is greed an émotion?

Oh noes! I didn’t think of that! They would end up on Poverty Island with the other poor millionaires!

You’d think, but unless you recorded it for quality assurance purposes, that is not the case.

There is really no way around this: either social media companies publish their algorithms and allow you to choose one of many, or they have to be held accountable for the damages caused by their algorithm.

Book publishers have existed within the narrow confines of publishing rules forever, and social media companies think they can do whatever they want to increasingly young users. This could only result in massive catastrophe, and somehow it feels like they even knew about it and didn’t care.

It’s like when you call BigCorp and the recording tells you, “This call may be recorded for quality assurance purposes.” What this means in standard humanese is, “We will record this call and use it against your whenever we like, but it doesn’t exist if it’s in your favor.”

There is something that isn’t working for me about this scenario. Fascist regimes either come to power because there was a deep recession or they engineer a fake boom after taking power to justify their hard-handed tactics.

I can’t think of a single case where a fascist regime took power and then cratered a stable economy. That’s not a rational way to start imposing restrictive laws, since there is only downside to keeping them on. You give up liberty in exchange for poverty? That is hardly a bargain anyone would make.

Gotta love the comments under the letter. Call them out for trying to be coy - an open letter that doesn’t mention ICE is not worth sending out.

Go, BentoPDF! A shame this stuff cost you time and energy better spent elsewhere, but it’s just a small hiccup for a project with legs!

Murdered. Not killed, he was murdered. We all saw the video.

The gold was kept in New York because of fears it might be seized by the Soviet Union during the Cold War. I guess Russia is not as problematic now as the former ally.

Maybe it’s time to create some rules about data brokering? It’s not really about tracking and consent, it’s about who can sell what data about whom to what parties.

It’s become an enormous business, it deals with you and I, it delights in living in the shadows, and it is almost completely unregulated. I don’t really care if Toyota records my data, I care that it’s allowed to sell it or share it.

I think a reasonable first step would be that all data about a specific person belongs to that person and nobody else. We have rules about photos, we need to expand them to data brokering, because the problem is the same: if you can be identified and placed, you are at risk.

“There is no such thing as bad publicity”

The 90s in Italy brought some decent rap. Here is Jo Vanotti’s Serenata Rap: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4MgKG87M0sc

Games. Computer and console games are as big as Hollywood now

True, true - but they shocked the marked into drastically lowering prices for small form factor laptops. Until the EEE came out, anything under 3 lbs was thousands of dollars and considered premium hardware. ASUS showed there is a market for cheap, small, lightweight laptops.

It’s not about the current state, it’s about deciding on an AI-first approach. And even there, it’s not that in itself, but the fact the erstwhile innovator is now just a bandwagon follower unable to see the signs the bandwagon is going down the hill.

Fascists, like many other groups (especially criminal gangs) require a moment where the acolyte breaks the law visibly, so that they are bound to the group forever. Having the military do criminal things means the military has to fear what a lawful administration would do to them.

A lawful administration that comes in has two major options: prosecute everyone involved and risk it all, or prosecute only the top 10% and let the rest get off, like they did in Nurenberg. Biden chose option #3: prosecute the low-level offenders (Jan 6) and let the top people get off.

That extraordinary act of cowardice is what got us to the point where we are.

It’s such a humbling moment, to see the company that revolutionized PCs with their EEE netbooks come to a slow end, becoming the lemming follower (and seeing that from Lemmy, no less).

The irony is that he was the President that followed an incredibly accomplished, intelligent, and thoughtful man. I disagreed with Obama on a lot, from policy to style, but there was no doubt that he had great charisma and intelligence. To be followed by that shit show TWICE must hurt.