assume everyone has the same political opinions as you

I don’t think that’s the issue here. You can be conservative and not support the “great replacement theory” or think that all muslims are bad.

I might be wrong, I am just going by the sources posting in the Framework forum thread.

I am being an edgelord and I am going to call them Hyperland.

Sure, but it’s typically done in a more subtle and PR friendly manner.

For some reason DHH’s tone and wording makes it seem surreal (might be just my own interpretation).

The DHH fellow almost seems like an elaborate parody. Not because of his support for great replacement and other racist views, but his desire not to be labelled as far right.

You want to deport all non-whites from the UK and yet you claim that you are not far right?

Seems surreal, it’s like a parody of a far right extremist.

Hyperland sounds more like edgelords.

The DHH fellow is a full on Nazi-style racist.

I still think personal responsibility (as outlined in my post above) is a far better option that a fine.

A fine is the cost of business. I don’t think a senior Deloitte partner or manager would like to do a 6 month mandatory de-mining community service program (Australia can send them to my country, Ukraine, as part of a community service exchange program).

And a partial refund at that.

Better option would be to require the senior Deloitte partners and managers to do real community service program (live-in junior janitor at homeless shelter or a hospice) for 6 months (with an asset freeze for the duration of community service).

Trying do a URL lookup at archive.fo. For Wired there is very likely an archived copy.

Well, they clearly have too much money

They may have a lot of money, but they definitely don’t have anything close to a reasonable return on investment. I believe the total revenues from “AI services” are sub $50 billion per year compared to at least x20 times capex and likely a very high amount of opex (hundreds of billion) per year.

Keep in mind the original X Elite benchmarks were never replicated in real world devices (not even close).

They used a desktop style device (with intense cooling that is not possible with laptops) and “developed solely for benchmarking” version of Linux (to this day X Elite runs like shit in Linux).

This is almost certainly a premeditated attempt at “legal false advertising”.

Mark my words, you’ll never see 4,000 points in GB6 ST on any real products.

Yeah, a mandatory work phone (where the employer can define requirements) should be purchased and funded by the employer.

Ah, yeah forgot about that one.

That wasn’t the glasses though, it was his eyes/cameras.

But makes sense.

The keynote was to feature the Ray-Ban Meta Display, the latest version of what is essentially a face-mounted iPhone – ideal for the consumer who lacks the energy to pull a device from their pocket and idolizes both Buddy Holly and the Terminator.

What does Terminator have to do with any of this? Did they add the reference because Schwarzenegger wears sunglasses in the movies?

Now they need to be forced to remove the stupid 60 day login requirement and extend the support window to October 2028 (no new work will be required from MS since the fixes would have been made anyway).

Agreed, the ramp-up is the hardest part on some level.

This might be due to the benefit of hindsight, but when the vector of protests seems to be accelerating, there is a genuine sense of energy in the air, like history being made in front your eyes (and with your participation).

I think there are also pragmatic reasons for this. Oligarchs and senior business community leader can start trying to hedge their bets or try to get an “edge” on the oligarchs who are firmly on the side of the regime. They want to get in early and not lose in the game of musical chairs so to speak.

Commoners too are influenced by the situation. People with marginal support for the regime start changing their views. No one wants to risk social ostracization and potential reputational damage.

People with moderate support for protesters can be influenced by severe actions from the regime and they become less open to compromise and supportive of direct action (in Ukraine this was the killing of protesters, that arguably radicalized much of the population, people now believed that Yanukovich must go).

That’s by design. Friends across the pond talk about mass protest as a solution, but not only is the US akin to a bunch of countries loosely allied together (300M people), but we do not have the job/civil rights protections necessary such that everyone can protest safely. If you get injured during a protest (or worse), you have to pay a lot of money to get treatment. If you “say something the wealthy don’t like,” you can lose your job, get smeared all over social media, and be blacklisted from future employment. If you snicker at a public event or sit quietly on a campus, you could wind up in jail or in front of a judge who will be more than happy to take cops’ words for it that you are a public nuisance or were resisting. Our “right” to protest is functionally a guideline, in practice.

With all due respect (and apologies for the overly polemical statement), but freedom is a complex thing and it is scary and painful. What you’ve outlined (I believe you’re exaggerating a little bit) is modest stuff compared to what you experience in other countries for protesting.

I will speculate that if 60-70 million Americans start daily nationwide protest while partially undermining government authority (taking over parts of major urban areas) and showing the country they will not back down no matter what, the issues you outline will become less relevant. You will have people donating to protest camps, field hospital with doctors and medical personnel who are joining the protest. Camps and living quarters.

This is not a fantasy (I recognize how this might have sound if I was saying this while I was living in the US), this is real historical action taken by people from different continents of the world. Look at the global history of protest movement (particularly the successful ones).

The real problem is that unfortunately as things stand today, American society is fundamentally disconnected from an understanding of freedom (beyond comical, childish polemics about freedom of this and freedom of that, “I am free speech absolutist”).

I have some bad news. We’re already there. This is already a Mafia State, and although the lower courts still seem to be on the side of the people, the Supreme Court has been handing the Executive Branch more and more power when asked.

I would disagree that the US is fully a mafia state (or a fascist state). With respect to global comparisons and history, it’s currently a proto-fascist oligarch state that nevertheless still has a modicum of independent institutions (although this seems to be rapidly changing).

You should reconsider those friendships, because they are the reason we are here at all. They are the problem, and befriending the American far right is just befriending fascists. If you care about the future of global society and democracy, you cannot also hold space for the far right.

I have more to lose from Trump than the vast majority Americans (I am Ukrainian). they are not fully aligned with Trump and they will come about. Beating fascism is also about converting people to your side and understanding their mode of thinking.

Fascinating stuff.

As a thought experiment it would be interesting to send this info through time to the US leadership in the 70s or 80s (let alone 50s). I wonder what they would think about the current direction of their country.

That being said there is a silver lining to all of this. For the rest of us (who support humanism, believe in democracy, believe in a just, fair and compassionate society) this is a good signal that the American model (in it’s current form on a medium/long term basis) is coming to a dead end from a political, social (and even economic) perspective.

This sort of degenerate behaviour (supporting your direct adversary and the spread of fake news under the auspices of “freedom of speech” or “economic freedom [for oligarchs that enable fake news]” will have a caustic effect on American society. One would have to be a complete idiot to think that America (or your own country) is somehow immune to the realities of human societies.

I have always supported the US in a pragmatic manner, but it is time to admit that American society lacks the capability to implement meaningful political and criminal/judicial reform to address the challenges outlined by the article.

I pray to god (and I am an atheist) that I am wrong, US becoming an authoritarian/nihilist mafia state is not good for global democracy. But that doesn’t mean one should engage in delusions about the capability American society to address it’s current challenges. The country is simply too well off and American society (including sane Americans) is too risk averse to make scary, difficult choices to protect their own freedoms.

P.S. I am not American, but I’ve lived there, travelled extensively and I have very good American friends (both far right leaning and centre right).

Sure. I agree.

I was just pointing out that the “god-hole”, which to my understanding refers to divergence from “traditional” religious participation, isn’t necessarily a lack of god in your life (a “god hole” if you will).

I believe some of the apocryphal biblical texts from the 1st/2nd century CE also refer to concepts such as “god is all around us, god is everything”. These texts were rejected for formal inclusion in the Bible for whatever reason.

I also disagree that concepts outlined by Watts (in that specific quote and in general) are necessarily skeptical in their outlook. I would say they are very empowering and align with our broader understanding of the universe.

But my bigger point is the rise of “FaithTech” is more of socio-political issue. Oligarchs have started dominate and there is no way out so people endulge in LLMs as opposed to going to church (or engaging in approach proposed by people such as Alan Watts).

15 years is a massive time to just update your OS.

The last version of Windows 10 (22H2) is nothing like the RTM release from 2015 (1507). 1507 still has Cortana and their failed “Continuum” concept.

Essentially we are asking Microsoft to support Windows 10 22H2 for another ~5 years, which is reasonable considering 22H2 is a just under 3 years old.