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Reading through the proposal Iran put out, it sounds like Trump's surrendered? 1- Permanent and immediate cessation of war on all fronts, including Lebanon - You know Israel won't …

Honestly, Executive Orders in general are dysfunctional cludge. I feel less bad about things like DACA, since that's trying to fix something broken instead of wrecking things for n…

I don't believe Trump's wacko EOs are binding law. Like, the Gulf of Mexico is still the Gulf of Mexico. The DoD is still the DoD. No reason to give the fascist LARPers the respect…

I mean, do you really want to compare AI to the "do crimes hard and fast enough we become a monopoly before anyone can properly respond" model.

Hey my encyclopedia had yearly updates through 2008!! :D But seriously, its actually nicer... and the equations on the back covers don't randomly change to crap every fourth time y…

You know, I've been investing in reference books since Google started failing to accurately report basic equations and constants. It's kinda nice actually.

DDG is a mediocre search engine. A mediocre search engine is still much better than whatever Google's become. Honestly, the answer is so often a little toy search like Marginalia o…

My second screamed every night for two years. It was fun.

No, its going to give the CEO and some shareholders a few billion and destroy eBay. Because we can't have nice things. I am so painfully sick of this.

I was just thinking how nice it was to still get used stuff on eBay and now Mr. McMemeStock is going to kill it to extract a few billion for himself. Yay.

"We shall trust 27 different sets of 3 to 10 guys in garages and ensure they never become large enough to blackmail a large percentage of the world's governments safe in the knowle…

I mean when I needed to look up something I used to just google it. Now, with the advent of LLMs I've had to pull out my old textbooks from storage.

Yeah, no. No one needs your spyware.

"Good People" suddenly going all in on racist rants and hard-core misogyny is never going to stop being disturbing. Some of them taught me how to behave!? Did they just not believe…

Alex Jones is a bit much, yathink? They're an amoral monopolistic megacorp that should have been broken up a year ago. They are performing the ritual of maximalist offensive positi…

I suppose the question is, who is actually willing to believe Google is going to deal in Good Faith. Why would anyone ever even begin to think that?

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Welp, that's another project down the drain. I'm actively going to lie about things to make a point is certainly one way to ensure I'm never trusting you.

That was an excellent article. "I’m not arguing that this technology should be unilaterally destroyed; I am arguing that we are collectively using it in the dumbest possible way, c…

Interesting, I've mostly heard it referring to individuals like Navalny or the mayor of Istanbul. I suppose it makes sense for it to refer to any random political critter.

Translate: People who are likely to be attacked by (Putin|Orban|Erdogan|Trump) or similar.

The F-Droid website has a new banner on top to remind visitors that Google did not change course and Android will be locked-down in under 200 days.

He means it's not in his feed. "Random old woman gets kidnapped" is represented 100 times more strongly in the datastream then "1000 protestors organize immigrant protection system…

Well, I can see what heinous thing is going to be ruining my day in 5 years. Attestation, the thing we're going to be spending the next forever trying to get out of phones, now in …