“the arm patch, disposal of and disdain for law, security and privacy, alignment with fascists…all of that seems pretty innocuous and normal but when we bored into FDAs data, wow, that really opened my eyes”

Nuremberg 2.0 testimony

I’m not in software development so don’t have an opinion on the practice, just passing on what I read that seemed relevant.

In a few years people won’t care if their milk is AI, I heard it from an expert whose salary depends on him taking this position

And my 🪓

From what I saw in a waterfox thread, it’s not enabled, has no lists added or setup and is clearly early-stage.

Get that rich-man’s Spirit Airline bailout treatment

There is a reason their stock was like 600x price:earnings, now it’s “only” 242x. Tech stocks are aggressive at 30-80x.

When the fix is in, the fix is in.

What is the reverse of eating the onion? I thought it was satire the entire article and kept waiting for the piece that made it clear it was a joke to allow for the laugh, I’m at the uncomfortable stage of thinking this is legitimate.

enforcement of existing consumer protection and anti-monopoly laws would do wonders(or tax, wage and hour, vehicle and many others). We actually have some pretty decent laws, they have either been deliberately underfunded, avoided per lobby or overruled by appointed activist judges.

Pretty much the only way out is fire and force it seems, as history shows.

Just imagining Clippy in front of a cracked mirror, “jessss a little more rouge and you can’t have too much mascara…”

I can’t think of anyone I would rather give unalterable biometric information to than a group of egomaniacal sadists who have shown utter disregard for the privacy of everyone as well as the legal code.

“Allow parents to…limit access to apps”

Which “apps”? Who determines which apps need to be age approved? Notepad? Couldn’t you write something horrific and send it with that app? Better let the government take that control for you and dictate to OS creators what your kids and you see. They will of course come for your apps next.

Omniscient, omnipotent Business Leaders: “what? There is a catch?!?”

The natural extension of a non-open internet ala Reddit and charging developers for API pulls.

Who are owned by private equity for sovereign wealth funds pushing for nothing but returns. Hence they don’t care if they sign on the line with Goebbels or enshittify their product into uselessness.

There are like 100 for the whole country. No one gets audited, statistically speaking. It’s why you’ve never learned anything about taxes from your parents or friends. They don’t know either. People pay people at HR block who don’t know about taxes either to file. No one gets in trouble because the only people who know tax laws work for the very wealthy. Or at the IRS where there are about 100 of them to 300m of us.

I see you too have studied judo.

It’s like no law is upholded unless you have lawyers.

That’s the entire idea of what has been lobbied and constructed over generations. The wealthy have access to infinite appeals, have their crimes categorized as “white collar” so they might do a few years for stealing millions or billions if they happen to suffer the miscarriage of justice actually finding them guilty, while poor saps stealing corn nuts from the grocer get far longer sentences. The system is working for exactly whom wrote it’s laws, no strange coincidence historically in any global setting.

Reading about the consternation in the US about what would happen had trump been given a sentence after having been found guilty during the run-up to the election was a good primer on how warped things are. Many could only express concern for how Trump’s life should be able to go on as normal regardless of a “justice” system if guilty and elected. The simple answer, long forgotten since kindergarten, is that there have to be consequences for actions. It’s been laid incredibly bare there no longer are. The US either starts to take them back ala South Koreas’s new administration or fully embrace failed, corrupt state membership.

From this morning https://www.wired.com/story/using-a-vpn-may-subject-you-to-nsa-spying/

What’s app was cool as shit, until, just like Michael Bolton, something shitty in the world happened.

I installed it for an upcoming trip with loathing just because I know I may stay in places and not be able to connect with a hotel or host if I don’t use whatsapp. The EU better get their shit together since they were trying to lead on digital privacy…