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  • Australia’s teen social media ban is a flop. But there’s no joy in ‘I told you so’

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  • We already have that, and it has solved absolutely nothing while potentially making online surveillance and privacy issues worse.

    The answer isn't age-gating or ID verification, it's changing how the sites themselves operate. Get rid of the idea of "driving engagement", no more stealth ads, and no corpo, media, political party, or lobbyist accounts. Hold influencers and podcasters to the same kind of standards we used to hold journalists to, where they're required to tell you when the're shilling for some kind of shady supplement company or political huckster.

    You know, the kind of shit any sane species would do with this sort of tech, but when have we ever been sane?

  • What do you carry in your pockets or with you daily?

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  • Daily: Wallet, phone, house key with folding reading glasses and pill container on the chain, car key (separate because I don't like the way the key chain brushes my knee while I drive with everything attached), a couple of those plastic flossers in a baggy, lens wipes.

    Often but not quite daily: "AAA" sized penlight, small pocket knife w/ screwdriver and scissors, and multipliers.

  • Australia’s teen social media ban is a flop. But there’s no joy in ‘I told you so’

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  • What if, instead of trying and failing to kick kids off social media, we focused our attention on the reasons why being online is so often detrimental in the first place?

    Pre-fucking-cisely.

  • Once Bitten, Pee Shy

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  • I'm not sure how I missed this. It's so obvious when you think about it!

  • Once Bitten, Pee Shy

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  • I chuckled a little.

    I took it as her being aggressively kinky and provocative to tease and embarrass her uptight partner, nothing says one way or the other as to if she's really into that sort of thing or just messing with him since he clearly wouldn't go through with it, and the punchline being his flustered and mortified reaction rather than just the sexual innuendo.

    But the artist wasn't shy about playing up the horniness and titillation either.

    However, that's not the only way to look at it, and it's not like we're dealing with Shakespeare here.

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    How serious will the problems be in the future if people rely too much on AI or can't work and live without them at all?

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  • Nothing can be maintained without at least some of the skills and knowledge that built it. Even something like generative AI like LLMs will eventually break down in some manner. Its just what happens with complex systems, be they physical or digital.

    After that happens, we'll be forced to learn either to fix the thing, or how to do without the thing. How painful that learning process is will depend upon how essential that thing is to our lives.

    If AI goes away in a few years, barely a blip.

    If AI goes away after a few decades, and we've allowed much of our accumulated knowledge to atrophy... It's a crisis.

  • Protection Ploy

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  • Why should the regulation allow for more surveillance of users and data collection instead of outlawing the practices and algorithms that lead to many of these issues on the first place?

    They've been trying to tie devices to identities for years now, and doing so allows them greater leeway to fuck with people's heads, to spread propaganda more effectively, and to target dissent against themselves and their allies. This doesn't protect people from having their mental illnesses exacerbated, it just allows their disfunctions to be shaped in the direction tech billionaires want them to be.

    In my opinion, anything that uses an algorithm to drive engagement by presenting material designed to play on the emotions of the user should be outlawed outright. Video ads and paid content should be identified with title cards at the begining and end. Images and posts should be marked with headers and footers that make it clear this is paid content.

    If the user decides to subscribe or block certain content, that's the user's choice. But the timeline should always be based on time and date or activity and never influenced by paid advertisements or engagement.

    And that's the bare minimum. I still consider that somewhat risky to interact with. If I had my druthers Facebook, Xitter, Reddit, and the rest would all be shuttered and taken offline next week.

  • MAGA’s vision of a Second Civil War dangerously misreads America’s fragmented political geography | Milwaukee Independent

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  • Yup.

    There won't be a front line or pitched battles like people are fantasizing about. Something will kick it off, maybe a riot, an assassination, or maybe an opposition leader gets life in prison or even executed on fabricated treason charges and people start shooting/bombing about it. Then there will be a round up of "terrorists" and probably some lynchings that go unpunished after all the current surveillance tech out there miraculously "fails", all followed by a protracted insurgency as a response to these acts.

  • My fellow 'Muricans, do you prefer metric or standard measurements?

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  • Excluding a few examples like frequently used gym weights, common fastener sizes, and short distances, I still have to do rough conversions in my head to have an idea of what a metric measurement is, so I guess I'd say imperial.

    But I wouldn't be upset if the US converted to metric.

  • Meet the AI rapper funded by a far-right party— Advance UK has hired the mystery ‘collective’ behind Danny Bones, a white-nationalist musician and activist – who isn’t real

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  • Precisely, but you're giving them too much credit by expecting them to figure it out from reading the lyrics alone.

  • Meet the AI rapper funded by a far-right party— Advance UK has hired the mystery ‘collective’ behind Danny Bones, a white-nationalist musician and activist – who isn’t real

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  • Prejudice tends to lack a capacity for self reflection and an understanding of irony.

    It's the same with nazi punks and MAGAs who like Rage Against The Machine, they just want something that sounds loud, aggressive, and violent and rarely understand what they're listening to or how it came about until it's shoved right in their face. Then they get all offended about it.

    Most of the time, the best they can make themselves is a cheap, talent-less imitation that lacks any sense of authenticity, and to try and overcome that they've resorted to something that can produce a finely polished turd that still lacks any sense of authenticity.

  • Trump Admin Drops the Olive Branch from U.S. Seal on New Dime Coins, Keeps the Arrows

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  • Cartoonish levels of villainy.

  • I traced $2 billion in nonprofit grants and 45 states of lobbying records to figure out who's behind the age verification bills

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  • Was there ever any doubt? They've been trying to tie devices to identities for years now. This is just the end game.

    The funny thing is, it's kinda hard to prove that surveillance based ads actually work. Ad platforms like to throw numbers of how may people see ads around, but it's hard to actually tie those numbers to sales. What's worse is that the way these ads are bought, sold, and how ad placement is commodified means that everything remains intentionally vague to the people buying ads. In most cases, all they know is that "everyone is doing it" and "making lots of money" and if they don't they'll be left out of the revenue party.

    Right now, enough people are still drinking the kool-aid that it'll remain a safe revenue stream for companies like Meta unless something happens that hurts the cash flow of their customers. But, it kinda makes you wonder, if the vagueries of the online add ecosystem caused companies to reconsider the investment during an economic crisis, how would these ad platforms that have recently gotten very cozy with fascists make money?

  • AI’s hidden bias: Chatbots can influence opinions without trying, study finds

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  • If you want to get into how this happens, and the way it happens with other technologies, I'd suggest Neil Postman's Technopoly and Amusing Ourselves To Death as a good start.

  • Did you drink alcohol when you were younger than me?

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  • I drank and smoke occasional cigarettes starting around age 16.

    However, this was the 90s, and that sort of thing seems to have been tolerated a lot more back then, at least in my area. I can remember getting busted with tequila at age 19 and the main complaint being that we were cutting limes on an antique table without using a cutting board.

    And many of the things that are seen as huge problems with both alcohol and tobacco were just starting to get widespread attention at that time.

  • What is something you dont care to understand or "get"?

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  • You don't have to tell people you use Linux or talk to them about it. I know that because I use Zorin OS, which is a really modern feeling Linux distro with a slick user interface, that's perfect for people like you and I, who don't want to be bombarded with opinions on the "right" operating system and just want to use their computers in peace. You should totally switch!

  • Father sues Google, claiming Gemini chatbot drove son into fatal delusion

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  • I'm not even certain that we even disagree on the fundamental principle, just the details of the example I gave.

  • Father sues Google, claiming Gemini chatbot drove son into fatal delusion

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  • One more time: We aren't examining how the average English speaker would interpret this, only the reasons why the priest's answer might change.

    This has been interesting. Good luck to you. =)

  • Father sues Google, claiming Gemini chatbot drove son into fatal delusion

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  • The question, in both cases, involves smoking while praying. The priest never looks at, or gives a judgement on smoking in general, there's no reason to assume the priest would forbid smoking in other circumstances.

    The question does change, but not as fundamentally as you're claiming it does. The information presented in both questions remains the same, only the word order changes, which changes how the priest perceives that information.

    Anyway, good luck out there. =)