Right, and in June they'll try it again. Small setbafk
Discord cuts ties with identity verification software, Persona
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#193Earlier quoted context omitted.
There is certainly a shadow cabal of these elite billionaire types that avoid all public exposure yet are working very hard to destroy society and profit
Some people are trying to use a different word than "cabal" because of the racial associations and history. Oligarchs/y are among my choices, but I have supplanted that with Epstein Class now, to be more accurate to whom I refer
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The only non-evil Billionaire I know are the South park creators although they aren't tech Billionaires. I consider everyone else for the most part to not-be-good people. Because south park decided to personally say essentially bad words to paramount using their episodes, the company which gave them a billion dollars. So they took a billion dollars and they were still consistent with how they've been for decades at t…
I'd think that original creators such as J.K. Rowling, Steven Spielberg, Bruce Springsteen & Taylor Swift (among others) would be other members of the !evil bucket.
J.K. Rowling is now infamous for using her vast wealth to lobby against transgender rights.
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Can't you also make money by making a good decision that benefits you and another party? I feel like I do this all the time, just on a relatively small scale.
Yes, and when you see people excusing those actions even here on HN, that's exactly the mindset they have. Who is to say otherwise? There isn't some objective scale, it's all utilitarian.
> There isn't some objective scale, it's all utilitarian.
I'm calling this out.
That's a personal belief, not everyone sees the world this way. Some of us believe that some things are objective and deontological.
IMHO our move toward too much utilitarianism has created the corrupt conditions we are living in
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#196I'm glad to see "Peter Thiel-backed" becoming a widely-recognized epithet.
I always explain it to recruiters contacting me from one of his companies.
I used to get the occasional recruiter cold-calling me and hyping up the chance to work for some Musk- or Bezos-associated entity, and for me it's not as appealing as they think it is. But I politely decline without pointing out their fallacy.
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Of course the grappling to find one good billionaire begins. While Taylor Swift is not nearly as obviously evil as the tech bros, she grifts the shit out of her fans. I do think it's kinda evil to create a parasocial relationship situation with millions of young girls and then mine every last penny of disposable income out of them. She could have just as easily superstar multi-millionare with far less grifting. https…
> she grifts the shit out of her fans People are free to use their money. I am not sure why that should be the fault of Taylor?
Aren't many of Swift's fans children?
That being said I think comparing Swift to the likes of Thiel and Musk is comedic at best.
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it is truly amazing how much damage one person is able to do to civilized society if you expand the scope to a handful of adjacent figures, the catastrophe is truly amazing
Maybe a society that can be so damaged by someone because they're incredibly wealthy shouldn't be considered civilized.
What is more civilized than concentrating large amounts of power into the hands of a few? Hierarchy and civilization seem to go hand-in-hand.
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This refusal to use people’s names comes across as childish and distracts from your intended point.
To me it feels pragmatic. I find it more concerning that mass surveillance has come to the point where someone can’t safely express their frankly-not-that-controversial opinions without obfuscating the subject’s name.
It hasn’t come to that though, you can freely express that persons point with no repercussions outside of maybe not getting a check one day from the person you hate
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#200The referenced write-up based on the Persona front end code is here: https://vmfunc.re/blog/persona I definitely recommend reading this primary source before drawing conclusions about the code as most of the secondary reporting is quite low quality.
Seems to be down for me. https://web.archive.org/web/20260220192124/https://vmfunc.re...
It's up.