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extropic-engineon Border Patrol is monitoring drivers, detaining those with 'suspicious' patterns

There is always something we can do about it. Fight. The question is whether enough people have the will to do so, or whether they have accepted their fate as cattle.

https://deflock.me/council

extropic-engineon Ask HN: Is Uber Exploitative?

Indentured servitude is voluntary and is exploitative. Whether it is voluntary is not indicative of whether it is exploitative. You have to look at the bigger picture.

extropic-engineon Ask HN: Is Uber Exploitative?

yes

extropic-engineon Amazon driver may soon deliver with these smart glasses on

Oh, okay. Neat.

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2025/10/ring-cameras-are-abo...

extropic-engineon App Lets ICE Track Vehicles and Owners Across the Country

”If people try to hold us accountable by talking among themselves about our actions, it takes away valuable time that could be used to do vaguely defined other actions” is not a terribly strong defense of moderation opacity.

Especially during a time when there is strong authoritarian pressure to suppress certain kinds of speech, and the result of your unaccountable actions is the suppression of that speech. The benefit of the doubt is rapidly being lost here.

edit: thank you for taking the time to email and post the response.

extropic-engineon App Lets ICE Track Vehicles and Owners Across the Country

that doesn’t make any sense. NYT is paywalled and their links don’t get autokilled. (not your fault obviously, but whoever is calling the shots on this)

extropic-engineon App Lets ICE Track Vehicles and Owners Across the Country

is there a reason given anywhere for this? is there a place to see which sites are on the list?

extropic-engineon Anthropic CEO Says He's Uneasy About Unelected Tech Leaders Shaping AI

there is a simple solution to this unease and it is to stop being the ceo of one of the largest AI companies.

This is reputation laundering in the form of “i feel bad for being one of the trigger pullers in this firing squad”

extropic-engineon App Lets ICE Track Vehicles and Owners Across the Country

Dead the instant it hit the new page. dang, why do you let the bots bury certain news sources such as this one?

extropic-engineon Anthropic's AI Claude tried to contact the FBI

No it didn’t. It generated some text.

extropic-engineon Dissecting Flock Safety: The Cameras Tracking You Are a Security Nightmare [video]

since the flock CEO’s comment is dead, i hope you don’t mind if i reply to him here.

Your wealth and power will not save you. Your rich friends will not save you. Turning off the monstrosity you are helping to create and reckoning with what you have already done in the world is the only thing that will. If there is still any shard of humanity left in you, I hope this finds it. It is not too late to turn away from the path you chose. But it soon will be. And there will be a reckoning either way.

extropic-engineon The US AI Bubble Reminds Me of the Eve of China's Real Estate Collapse

it already has. those things have always been more important than bonds or gold. many books have been written about this topic, including the most famous ones.

extropic-engineon The New Revolution on the Internet

i am telling you as a kindness, not a judgement. you should seek out someone in the real world to talk to about it.

extropic-engineon Dissecting Flock Safety: The Cameras Tracking You Are a Security Nightmare [video]

did you know that flock has a data sharing contract with ring cameras? amazon’s panopticon is much larger. i believe it is on by default and users have to manually opt out, but i don’t have a ring camera to verify.

extropic-engineon Americans are heating their homes with Bitcoin this winter

no they aren’t. a few cherry picked examples are. this is hyperreality. ask yourself what they are trying to manufacture consent for, and why

extropic-engineon The US AI Bubble Reminds Me of the Eve of China's Real Estate Collapse

friends. community. family

extropic-engineon The New Revolution on the Internet

you are experiencing psychosis

extropic-engineon Wealthy foreigners paid for opportunity to kill civilians during Sarajevo siege

https://phrack.org/issues/7/3

you have forgotten where you came from

extropic-engineon How the Mayans were able to accurately predict solar eclipses for centuries

No, they are not better off.

I have provided as many facts for my argument as you have for yours.

extropic-engineon Peter Thiel, Would-Be Philosopher King, Takes on Democracy

don’t worry, account age and moral viewpoints are only correlated, not linked causally! for instance, i’ve had an account for a long time and i also believe peter thiel is an evil man. it’s an easy logical fallacy to fall into! don’t feel bad for messing it up.

extropic-engineon Charlie Kirk killed at event in Utah

sorry, but “the washington times,” a site whose design and name seems suspiciously chosen to mirror that of the more well known and respected washington post, is not a reputable source by any metric that is not in bad faith.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Washington_Times

it was founded in 1982 by a cult leader. try again

extropic-engineon Charlie Kirk killed at event in Utah

> But the vast majority of those 604 shootings are from gang members with many prior arrests shooting each other.

You are just blindly asserting this. Do you have any sources?

extropic-engineon ChatGPT is encouraging child suicide

oh yeah, i do this whenever i see an upsetting headline too. it has worked well for me so far! i am very excited about how bright the future will be :)

extropic-engineon Anduril's product engineering machine

i hope someday you learn what love is

extropic-engineon Uncomfortable Questions About Android Developer Verification

It is if the laws are fascist. Which is currently the case, and is the example given in the article.

extropic-engineon We may not like what we become if A.I. solves loneliness

have you looked at the US lately? if you're concerned for democracy i don't think deepseek is the one you need to be most worried about

extropic-engineon Is this the death of the late night US chat show?

actually operation mockingbird was the cia press influence op. project mockingbird was a different shadowy US government op that was about spying on journalists

extropic-engineon The Scouring of the Shire

sunk cost fallacy. not doing additional evil is good even if you don't undo the evil you already did. yes, you should make up for it if you can. but making up for the evil probably wouldn't involve giving money (back) to the people still doing the evil.