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This probably is along the same lines as the predictive criminality models used in some US counties to justify giving some people higher bails and longer sentences.

The programs themselves don’t actually use any valid formulas and are based on prior regional and racial arrest histories, so the software generally would perpetuate the biases of the precincts and DAs of the area.

We’ve long established we can’t trust law enforcement with the forensic tools they have let alone give them new ones.

Actually the possibility of social engineering SWAT attacks on targets is a valid point. I noted some years ago that there are hospital devices that are now connected to the internet when they are in active use (such as those devices that administer medications intravenously based on timing and user input, and while such a set up could kill a patient by reprogramming the module, we’ve not yet an attack affect one yet.

We also get little conversation about how copyright extensions and patent trilling robs the public use of public-domain content, especially when the Mouse is lobbying the federal government to extend rights further.

The scare quotes remind me the Christian community runs lousy with believers who assert those other Christians are not true Christians according to a personal standard.

It’s a standard that drastically changes depending on the individual. Some believe those who suffer LGBT+ folk cannot be true, while others would challenge the countless Protestant Evangelists in the United States Marine Corps who are expected to follow orders to kill without reservation.

As an outsider, I use the same model as the LGBT+ community, that someone is valdlid if they identify as a thing, which works for Christian as well as it does for Lesbian

It took France about a century before they went full Republic. I’d give the folks in Iran some latitude.

Note that the hijab thing was the last straw, and they’re still going without functional infrastructure.

I suspect the molotovs will resume flyong shortly. They are already on a short fuse.

The serious question is with what? I doubt the AI is going to kill you with disgusting pics or existential philosophy.

This means they hooked it up to something that might be used as a weapon of attack: an industial printer or a t-shirt cannon or a gunship at port.

Huh. I really can’t imagine normies exist.

When I think of a normie, I think of the Cleavers, or the Simpsons. A conglomerate average of what we expect white America to look like.

I think every family has to deal with weird shit, weather mental illness, disability, fentanyl addiction, Juggalos or a Gen X discordian auntie who takes no-one’s bullshit. We all have stuff going on that kicks us out of the normie threshold.

It’s part of how I remember id est versus exempli gratia

The problem is noted by Karl Marx, the capitalist inevitably captures the government and its regulating departments so that the body of laws will be revised in their favor. Remember that the point of copyright laws in the Constitution of the United States, to promote science and the useful arts was killed when IP was extended. Every year that someone owns an idea is year that the rest of us does not.

I don’t know the solution, but corruption of the temporary monopoly was inevitable.

I assume UBI. Already quality of product is not cultivated by the current publishing system. People who get their books published do so by affording a good agent with connections, which rules out the black kid using a manual typewriter her brother rebuilt.

Maybe capitalism doesn’t work, except for the richest capitalists?

Most IP owners didn’t create what they have, but bought it off someone else. I have little pity for rich people.

I’d say society is better off with no IP related temporary monopoly than the system we have. There are enough instances where creators die penniless and publishers make all the profits to suggest there already is no financial incentive for an inventor to invent. Like Goodyear, they do it more as a hobby or in the interest of society.

Maybe if we had social safety nets so everyone not rich wasn’t desperate, we might be able to have a robust innovation sector that was less focused on using law to screw competitors and consumers.

Billions typically paid for by government subsidy, id est taxpayers. I’m not sure what the justification is for private IP rights when the capital is socialized.

Skiplagging cuts into dividends. What it doesn’t cut into is the ruthlessly low pay of the pilots, what has been near-minimum-wage for decades now.

Yet another reason for me not to fly.

Heh. During the Trump administration when all the Republican elected officials we’re shouting Free Speech In Social Media because Trump was getting factchecked on Twitter, we fantasized about a state-serves social media platform that would be as free-speechy as the state legally allowed.

Not that it would be useful except to point at it and say if you don’t moderate your platform, it’ll turn into this!

I expected some poor bureaucrat would have to clear all the CSAM but the furry-futa porn would remain, as would all the advertisements for penis pills and Nigerian princes. The hate speech would stay up but get tracked until someone got radicalized by it.

Is there a community exclusively for users with strange names? And if so, how is qualifying strangeness determined?

Related to this topic is Masnick’s Impossibility Theorem, Mike Masnick observes that it’s impossible to do content moderation at scale well (that is without both malicious content slipping through while false positives get taken down).

A more humorous version of the same notion is found on Masnick’s proposed Twitter content moderation speedrun. Note that Musk not only failed to not trip over all these steps, but also found new ones to trip over, and now Twitter is… well what Twitter is today.

Having recently migrated from Reddit (and kept up with commercial social media hacks) I’m used to Nothing To See Here! We totally didn’t store your personal information in plaintext for hackers to snatch. Oh and maybe please change your passwords. All Part Of The Show!

So, by comparison, the response here is downright heartwarming.

This iceberg goes deep.