Cool, and I bet it will be just as trustworthy as WhatsApp (i.e. not at all).

If we Americans can’t sensibly regulate ourselves, seems like the reasonable thing to do.

Same

It’s good to know what we can do to reduce our own use—we all have to live on this planet, after all—but these kinds of articles pop up and, at the very least, make people think their efforts will have a meaningful impact. They go to sleep thinking they’re solving the problem (barring extreme situations like war-driven scarcity, for example).

But if every household stopped using electricity, many countries would still have a massive energy problem on their hands, because households aren’t really the problem.

This is actually an excellent use case for AI. Physics and chemistry as scientific disciplines are lots of complex pattern recognition and manipulation. AI is just a pattern recognition and generation engine, despite what the tech bros and apologists like to tell us.

What these engines generate will ultimately be vetted by experts before it even goes to trials. Scientists don’t just take things on blind faith simply because a robot or even another expert comes up with something; their entire deal is to understand their particular field of study in great detail, after all!

You are correct, but who said it would be the Democrats doing the work?

This is one of the things that frustrates me about my current boss. He keeps talking about some future project that uses a new codebase we’re currently writing, at which point we’ll “clean it up and see what works and what doesn’t.” Meanwhile, he complains about my code and how it’s “too Pythonic,” what with my docstrings, functions for code reuse, and type hints.

So I secretly maintain a second codebase with better documentation and optimization.

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That sheriff has since been arrested and indicted on felony counts in an unrelated sexual harassment and whistleblower retaliation case. He has also been charged with aggravated perjury for allegedly lying to a grand jury. EFF filed public records requests with Johnson County to obtain a more definitive account of events.

At least his side of the story has a happy ending.

The rest of the story is bonkers, though. The headline could not possibly do it justice. This is one you need to sit down and read with a cup of tea.

Politico is center right. Privacy, which is anathema to capitalism and the status quo, is not something their owners are in support of. Efforts to organize people on a large scale to exercise their rights are criminalized, because power for the people means less for the wealthy.

Precisely. The best slogan in support of fascism/authoritarianism is: “It could never happen here.”

It’s probably not worth watching. I read that they caught him, because a family member turned him in. If not for that, he probably would have gotten away with it.

That’s it. The problem is that the words “extremist,” “extremism,” and “anti-Christian” will mean whatever they want them to mean.

See also how the fascists have designated “antifa” a terrorist organization.

In this document, he commands the existing network of counterterrorism forces to stop investigating actual terrorists focused on slaughtering American citizens and to start investigating organizations AND individuals who display any kind of “anti-Americanism, anti-capitalism, and anti-Christianity; support for the overthrow of the United States Government; extremism on migration, race, and gender; and hostility towards those who hold traditional American views on family, religion, and morality.”

The biggest failure of those who oppose Trump and his goons is to assume they’re clowns making fart noises in the corner. They might be idiots, but they are idiots with real power, near-total access to the military apparatus and law enforcement, and these words are marching orders.

Donald Trump is a buffoon waving a gun around, and his cadre of sycophants know how to convince him to pull the trigger.

Frustrating that this is the second time in the same year.

Spell: Veritatem Dicte

“Tell the truth!”

If the stranglehold billionaires have on the world begins to diminish, I’ll start to suspect it’s been on purpose. Until then, they’re just fucking idiots who made worthless trash.

“Incidental”—this is Meta we’re talking about, and you can exchange them with any other technofacist and it still applies.

But I wholly agree with you that they know exactly what they are doing. This is how they get people to “participate” in their platforms and algorithms, whether they want to or not.

…but this is a basic mistake.

They just fell prey to one of the classic blunders!