Love cool ideas not companies and the CEOs that figurehead them!

no

Find the answer on reddit, post here in another form. Rinse repeat.

What are the ideologies of the people that own Reddit, X, etc… and who are they willing to hurt for it?

That is really the heart of the question here.

Throw the cameras in jail!

I wonder if this is a “Star Trek is a conservative show” sort of thing. Like he’s genuinely not smart enough to actually understand what is right in front of him.

That is exactly what this is, conservatives pride themselves on having a toddler’s sense of media literacy, especially the men.

It is a reoccuring pattern enough that I have seen multiple video essays on the general topic that try to unpack the different reasons because it is so confounding from the perspective of being a normal well adjusted adult.

I think it is a part of the same core thing as conservative humor being embarassingly bad, formulaic, weirdly cruel to specific groups and just plain not funny almost as a rule.

Agreed, so much is stacked against us, these numbers show we are serious about making alternative communities.

On F-Droid Phocid is good

https://sunsetware.org/phocid/en

https://obfusk.gitlab.io/jekyll-fdroid/en/packages/org.sunsetware.phocid/

The extra layer of ugliness is we already know, Israel in conjunction with Microsoft Azure did this, with the intent of assisting the mechanical process of selecting targets for ethnic cleansing and rationalizing it within a beaucracy of terror and vast human rights abuses.

https://www.thenation.com/article/activism/microsoft-gaza-workers/tnamp/

I only use the past tense to be very specific with my words, the genocide of Palestinians and complicity with it are ongoing and multivariate.

What Palantir sees as the past, present and future of bullshit and surveillance.

Saved you the waste of time of bothering with reading something from the NYT.

Something that pisses me off to no end is the commonly accepted idea that confidence is a momentary emotion you can conjure in yourself like a joyful laugh at a memory. Sure, for people who have had a life that structurally empowered them and rewarded them for having the brain they did maybe it is…

For someone with ADHD who has been told they aren’t enough and are also too much their whole life and never had the diagnosis? You can’t just make that go away with telling them they have ADHD and giving them a hug. Lasting damage has been done to that child and they may never recover their confidence in adulthood the way other people do.

I wish we would stop treating confidence like it is child’s play, it isn’t. If you undermine a child’s confidence you have hurt that child at a more permanent level than almost any other way you can non-physically hurt them.

Especially for someone who is very sensitive about what other people think of them, which a lot of ADHD people tend to be (a lot of us rely on it to motivate us to get things done!), you can’t just think better about yourself. Your confidence is like an instinct that has been learned through the summation and culmination of your experiences. If those experiences are people shitting on you for things you can’t help, you won’t be a confident person, period. That is how that works and I wish people would stop pretending it is all just wishy washy perspective taking that can be undone by simply thinking harder. Maybe for a very narrow range of people in a much larger subset this is possible, but beyond that? No

Yes, this is the extra cherry on top that makes San Francisco look like a parody of itself here lol

I mean ok we can keep cats indoor, what about making techbros indoor only too though? They kill a lot of innocent people with the tools they make.

Not an excuse.

Then again, the human passengers didn’t see it either.

The human passengers weren’t responsible for driving the vehicle, their lack of awareness is a feature of getting a taxi ride?

This, at least, can likely be remedied fleet-wide and permanently with a software fix.

You have so much misplaced faith in these massive corporations…

not with that attitude

What you aren’t taking into account how much the US social safety net has hollowed out since the dotcom crash.

This is going to be very bad, I wouldn’t waste words speculating about the extent of the damage, we haven’t seen this kind of shock hit such a fragile US society. There is no resilience left in the US people to climb out of a big economic crash, things will just shatter.

The dotcom crash was a process of a period of vibrant growth and opportunity smashing into a wall, this is different… this is much worse, it is like a runner already in terrible shape collapsing in the middle of a marathon from their body shutting down, AI is just the acute symptom of a much more worrying disease where the ruling class is attempting to hallucinate itself out of the consequences of their divestment from any functional social safety for the rest of the country.

I agree completely with this assessment.

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