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Yup. Look at Palantir. What government wouldn't want an All Seeing Eye of Sauron? Their client list is telling.

While I like the idea behind GrapheneOS, I'd rather not place myself in jeopardy of some ridiculous charge like this one. I prefer to travel with a travel device, some inexpensive …

> Forget the ridiculous AI hype, forget about the lack of ethics and a moral compass; I’m afraid these things are related. Time-to-market and short-term profitability are paramount…

In 2004 I visited my family in Valencia, Spain. There was a local construction boom. There were family owned shops everywhere. Bakeries, fruit stands, etc. When I went back in 2014…

> “The application enables anonymous communication without mandatory user registration, phone number verification, or centralised logging of communications.“ Those are features, no…

> “When our teams are aligned and working in a connected way, we can build on our strengths, reach people wherever they are, and deepen their relationship with Disney.” God I hate …

This is a death-spiral. If a company instead adopts a sustainable, customer-centered business strategy they will be punished in the stock market for "stagnant growth," the CEO gets…

This is the right idea. But this is not a problem amenable to le startupism and the VC culture, which are susceptible to jumping up a local maxima faster than a flea jumps. There i…

>"Among readers who quote Player of Games and Consider Phlebas, Surface Detail tends to be the Banks novel they haven’t quite gotten around to. They’ve not noticed who it is about.…

Those very rates are a big turn off. We’ve heard of the expensive tickets, and mass transit rates have skyrocketed. Even locals will be priced out. FIFA has forgotten what this is …

You can argue whether a billionaire owner of big media is a “MAGA billionaire”. But you cannot argue whether they’re billionaires. Most of the Post’s readers understand which of th…

It’s not theft if it’s done at scale, I guess.

“Safeguarding”. How very, um, Orwellian.

Then don't take the contract that was offered to Anthropic.

I sounds naive to assert that the jurisdiction of city government doesn't extend beyond just "whatever is funded by taxpayers." Also, if someone were to destroy one of these things…

AM is a good modulation choice for low signal environments. It is used in the airbands for this reason.

Trump administrators meet with traitors. And there's oil involved. Wow, what a surprise. Also, "three in 10 would vote for it..." that means 7 in 10 wouldn't.

> A Timex ad went viral this year: “Know the time without seeing you have 1,249 unanswered emails.” Sometime last year I got tired of using my phone as a clock. I dug out a 2-decad…

I used to have a cassette storage device for my Atari 800. This is totally geeky and awesome!

The subject may sound silly, but we evolved this way. For the greatest part of human existence we were part of small social groups. We each took part in every activity. Our 'work' …

> Venezuelans in the capital have voiced mixed reactions to the US’s operation, with some celebrating the “positive change” and others saying Maduro’s capture creates “an even wors…

This is a result of legitimate elections, right? /s

It is. It is very reminiscent of the 2009 ACORN hatchet job by Breitbart et. al. Same features: undercover, video, practices that are not up to journalistic standards, etc. It feel…

Anymore? Photos have always been imperfect approximations of the truth that should be considered with appropriate skepticism. Photographers choose when, where, and what/who their s…

> ...when our Fourth Amendment rights are eroded, there is no evidence or piece of plastic that will suffice to overcome an officer's "reasonable suspicion" once the government dec…