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Time for a DMCA take down?

Or it’s just a graph of how much media attention the “loss of taste” symptom receives.

New feature coming soon via software update!

Now we just need to install public safety microphones† in every home and public space to prevent the spread of disease.

You are not against public health are you citizen? You aren’t hiding any covid patients are you?

† AKA telescreens

Looks like it scales fine to an embassy in Cuba.

Because it disables a person that CIA has spent years and countless $$$ training. Since symptoms are psychological, there no way to even prove that you did anything.

The point is that automation causes us to cede control to the machines which can be hacked, or worse abused. It is a transfer of power to whoever controls the machines. This centralising power can be abused in ways people can only imagine. Of course, people will give up what’s left of their control and power in the name of “safety and security”, they’ve been doing that since 9/11. So much so that we have the term post-9/11 to remind them to toe the line (and to kneel and take off their shoes).

Imagine for instance there is a bush fire and your centrally controlled car decides that the fire is fake news and prevents you from leaving since it’ll cause congestion on the roads. No different from Twitter banning the NY post story. Maybe they decide NY Post headquarters is not a real place and refuse to navigate the car there.

Yeah we should implement some kind of social credit system so that people who do drugs can’t drive or take public transport. They’ve got that in the modern utopia of China right now.

Is there a benchmark where it blows X11 out of the water?

I only really care about performance and Wayland hasn’t been very convincing [0] with no discernible improvement over X11.

[0] https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=GNOME-Xo...

So where are these Wayland “improvements”? A Wayland stack is “better” but has same perf as X11.

Someone explain why the push to wayland when there is no discernable performance increase [0] and lots of broken applications.

[0] https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=GNOME-Xo...

Unbelievably based.

You either die a hero or live long enough to become a villain.

Like the Steele dossier?

Hey I remember using this. Good stuff. That VB6 icon brings back memories.

The truth doesn’t have an agenda

I won’t call some of these reporters journalists, they are more like activists. They aren’t interested in keeping society informed, they just want to push their agenda.

Take a list of top X websites and enter it in every one.

The preimage space is finite and easily enumerated.

I didn’t realise we were here to discuss a solution (universal basic income). I am here to point out institutional racism and leftist hypocrisy.

Case close due to lack of evidence is certainly not the same as

> VC did something and admitted to it and admitted to being arrested for it

> and maybe, the solution to racism isn’t more racism?

So we are agreed that affirmative action should go.

Pretending the problem doesn’t exist isn’t solving the problem.

Maybe fixing the crime and poverty is more important than calling it racist.

> There is nothing more painful to me at this stage in my life than to walk down the street and hear footsteps... then turn around and see somebody white and feel relieved ~ Jesse Jackson

The government is forced to honour the Constitution unlike private corporations.

As courts set precedents, the process will become more streamlined. Ultimately becoming codified into law by congress.

We have courts for that. Currently these platforms cannot even be taken to court because they have immunity.

That is a false dichotomy, they can clearly moderate without a political bias on what they claim to be a public utility. Yes I am claiming a site such as Twitter, that provides a public forum that anyone can join, has a moral duty to act like a public utility.

If you have free speech but no-one is allowed to hear it. Is it still free speech?

How is this any different to “you are free to speak but you’ll be murdered after you do”. You’re still free to “speak”, you’ll just die after. Freedom of speech right?

You might as well delete most liberal media as well since anytime they mention a crime being committed and they omit the race of the perp you can assume they aren’t white. If they are white they will shout it from the rooftops.

I watched Michael Moore’s Bowling for Columbine and I’d assume that for some reason these journalists thought that they can fix racism just not mentioning the race of the perpetrators.

And it is Twitter and Facebook’s role to censor it? I don’t remember appointing these guys are the official fact-checkers.

Ah but Twitter claims to be a neutral actor [0]. How dare we uphold it to its own standards.

[0]. For the purposes of section 230

Then what’s preventing them from stating this?