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NevermindNoMind

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  • I look forward to Republicans in the House holding hearings to get to the bottom of this. Because Republicans held hearings when they accused social media of censoring conservative opinions. Because Republicans care about free speech. And even though this effects free speech of the other party, Republicans still care about free speech, right? Republicans will hold social media companies accountable for any censorship of political speech, right? Guys? There are going to be hearings right? Well, at least if not journalists are going to press those committee members about the inconsistency, right? Journalists will surely do their jobs. Right guys?

  • Lemmy today

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  • In my own polianish way, I find this cultaral exchange on rednote both wholesome and also it gives me hope for something more. The Chinese people are obviously oppressed by their government, but it's not that much better here (corporate oligarchy) and is about to get a lot worse. Two peoples whose overlords have tried to convince them that the other country is an enemy, coming together and finding common ground. Maybe working together for a better common outcome, despite both governments trying to keep them apart. I can dream anyway.

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  • I like thinking he was avenging some family member(s) who died due to claim denials, or something along those lines. If we find out he's some Qanon weirdo operating on some conspiracy about endrinochrome or whatever, it's really going to dampen the vibes.

  • Get Ready for Trump-flation

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  • MAGA-flation. Republican -flation. Trump is a lame duck, but MAGA will survive. Messaging that ties everything that Trump fucksup to him alone gives Republicans in 2 or 4 years room to duck the consequences (I didn't do it, Trump did it, I don't agree with everything he did, blah blah blah). We need to make sure to tie everything Trump does to the whole Republican party now, so they all pay the price for letting Trump take over their party and fuck the economy and everything else.

    The fight for the midterms starts today. Remember that.

  • Democrats' Gen Z dream just died

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  • Great, now I'm at the point of the post election grief cycle where I'm getting a bunch of books to try to figure out what happened. I remember this phase from 2016. Thanks for the recommendation for my list!

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    Bernie Sanders blasts Democratic Party following Harris loss

    www.politico.com /live-updates/2024/11/06/2024-election-results-live-coverage-updates-analysis/bernie-sanders-election-response-00187980

  • Sam Alito Got Knighted… Just Like The Founding Fathers EXPLICITLY MADE UNCONSTITUTIONAL

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  • Interesting issue. Does their belief in their right to power control? There's that crazy lady in Canada who calls herself the queen of Canada and issues edicts and whatever every now and then (somehow connected to qanon, I don't remember the details). Could a US official accept a "title" bestowed by her, since she claims nobility and authority?

    My recollection on the emoluments issue was SCOTUS punted in the same way they did with respect to Trump's ability to run for office after the insurrection - Congress must declare the violation, and the remedy is presumably impeachment. So the practical effect is zero, since Congress would never take this up, let alone impeach and remove. I'd love if Dems did though, it would be fun seeing Republicans defend their justice receiving nighthood from some weird ass secret society thing.

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    Workers Say They Were Tricked and Threatened as Part of Elon Musk’s Get-Out-the-Vote Effort

    www.wired.com /story/elon-musk-america-pac-blitz-canvassing-michigan-uhaul/

  • Jeff Bezos killed Washington Post endorsement of Kamala Harris, paper reports

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  • Bezos has tons of federal government contracts. When Trump was president last time he went after Amazon and others he disliked to get their contracts cancelled. Bezos is concerned that if Trump wins, Trump could fuck with his contracts.

    That's the reason. It's fucked up and more evidence of why news media shouldn't be owned by fuckhead billionaires. Shameful day in WaPos history. Cowardice. Grovelling to placate Trump for the benefit of the paper 's owner.

    Tin foil hat: I am somewhat concerned that our oligarch overlords seem to be hedging in a way that they think Trump might win.

  • AI just steals other people's labor

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  • It's more like the Colbert Report back in the day, an exaggerated right winger who is so obviously wrong it's funny.

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    Intuit Begs Journalists to Delete Part of Interview With Its CEO

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  • Do pr people not know about the Barbara Streisand effect?! I was going to skip this decoder episode, except the title of the episode was "Intuit asked us to delete part of this episode". That's the only reason I listened, and then only just to the portion they wanted deleted. If it wasn't for the pr genius at Intuit I wouldn't have cared. Ffs guys.

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  • When you get past the gross stuff, you can see the Biden admin wants to use this as an opportunity to force Israel to a cease fire. Good luck with that though, Israeli defense minister already declared the war will go on indefinitely. To Israel, there is no day after short of ethnic cleansing. But hope and ignorance spring eternal for Biden:

    Hamas is no longer capable of carrying out another October 7.

    I will be speaking soon with Prime Minister Netanyahu and other Israeli leaders to congratulate them, to discuss the pathway for bringing the hostages home to their families, and for ending this war once and for all, which has caused so much devastation to innocent people.  

    There is now the opportunity for a “day after” in Gaza without Hamas in power, and for a political settlement that provides a better future for Israelis and Palestinians alike.  Yahya Sinwar was an insurmountable obstacle to achieving all of those goals. That obstacle no longer exists. But much work remains before us.

  • Mike Johnson won’t commit to bringing House back before the election for more hurricane relief

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  • It's even simpler than that. We're four weeks to the election, everyone in the house of reps is busy campaigning for reelection. Nobody wants to go to DC and work, letting the campaign challengers run around your district unopposed.

    And what would be the point if they did come back? Johnson couldn't get his party to pass a continuing resolution to find the government Republican sweeteners attached (voter id law). How the fuck is he going to get his party on board for "government handouts" without the freedom caucus making some asinine demand that tanks the whole thing. Johnson certainly doesn't want to remind voters of the shit show of distinction that is the Republican controlled House weeks before an election.

    Pull all your vulnerable members off the campaign trail in the final weeks so that you can put on a fuck fuck circus generating daily headlines about how Republicans can't govern? Fat fucking chance.

    And if Biden calls a special session, Republicans are going to say it's political to make them look bad, cause they can't govern.

  • US can’t ban TikTok for security reasons while ignoring Temu, other apps, TikTok argues

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  • My guess is that scale and influence have a lot to do with

    To break this down a little, first of all "my guess". You are guessing because the government which is literally enacting a speech restriction hasn't explained its rational for banning one potential source of disinformation vs actual sources of disinformation. So you are left in the position of guessing. To put a finer point on it, you are in the position of assuming the government is acting with good intentions and doing the labor of searching for a justification that fits with that assumption. Reminds me of the Iraq war when so many conversations I had with people had their default argument be "the government wouldn't do this if they didn't have a good reason". I don't like to be cynical, and I don't want to be a "both sides, all politicians are corrupt" kind of guy, but I think it's pretty clear in this case there is every reason to be cynical. This was just an unfortunate confluence of anti Chinese hate and fear, anti young people hate, and big tech donations that resulted in the government banning a platform used by millions of Americans to disseminate speech. But because Dems helped do it, so many people feel the need to reflexively defend it, even forcing them to "guess" and make up rationales.

    As far as influence and reach, obviously that's not in the bill. Influence is straight out, RT is highly influential in right wing spaces. In terms of numbers of users, that just goes to the profit potential that our good ol American firms are missing out on.

    If the US was concerned with propaganda or whatever, they could just regulate the content available on all platforms. They could require all platforms to have transparency around algorithms for recommending content. They could require oversight of how all social media companies operate, much like they do with financial firms or are trying to do with big AI platforms.

    But they didn't. Because they are not attacking a specific problem, they are attacking a specific company.

    Also RT has been removed from most broadcasters and App Stores in the US.

    Broadcasters voluntarily dropped it after 2016, I think it's still available on some including dish. As far as app stores, that's just false, I just checked the Play store and it's right there ready to download and fill my head with propaganda.

  • US can’t ban TikTok for security reasons while ignoring Temu, other apps, TikTok argues

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  • The US owns and regulates the frequencies TV and radio are broadcast on. The Internet is not the same. If the threat of foreign propaganda is the purpose, why can I download the official RT (Russia Today, government run propaganda outlet) app in the Play Store? If the US is worried about a foreign government spreading propaganda, why are they targeting the popular social media app that could theoretically (but no evidence it's been done yet) be used for propaganda, instead of the actual Russian propaganda app? Hell I can download the south china morning post right from the Play store, straight Chinese propaganda! There are also dozens of Chinese and other foreign adversary run social media platforms, and other apps that could "micro target political messaging campaigns" available. So why did the US Congress single out one single app for punishment?

    Money. The problem isn't propaganda. The problem is money. The problem is tik Tok is or is on the course to be more popular than our American social media platforms. The problem is American firms are being outcompeted in the marketplace, and the government is stepping in to protect the American data mining market. The problem is young people are trading their data for tik toks, instead of giving that data over to be sold to us advertising networks in exchange for YouTube shorts and Instagram stories. If the problem was propaganda, the US would go after propaganda. If the problem is just a Chinese company offers a better product than US companies, then there's no reason to draft nuanced legislation that goes after all potential foreign influence vectors, you just ban the one app that is hurting the share price of your donors.

  • Apple fans are starting to return their Vision Pros

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  • Some are, sure. But others have to do with the weight. The most interesting rationals for returning it are because it's shit as a productivity tool. So if you can't really use it for work, there aren't many games on it, then why are you keeping it? At that point it's just a TV that only you can watch (since it doesn't support multiple user profiles).

  • Training Generative AI Models on Copyrighted Works Is Fair Use - Change My Mind

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  • Google scanned millions of books and made them available online. Courts ruled that was fair use because the purpose and interface didn't lend itself to actually reading the books in Google books, but just searching them for information. If that is fair use, then I don't see how training an LLM (which doesn't retain the exact copy of the training data at least in the vast majority of cases) isn't fair use. You aren't going to get an argument from me.

    I think most people who will disagree are reflexively anti AI, and that's fine. But I just haven't heard a good argument that AI training isn't fair use.

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    Jony Ive and OpenAI CEO Raise $1B to Design the 'iPhone of AI'

    gizmodo.com /apple-jony-ive-openai-ceo-discussing-the-iphone-of-ai-1850881602
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    Google Indexing Bard Conversations In Search Results

    www.searchenginejournal.com /google-indexing-bard-conversations-in-search-results/497161/

  • Why We’re Pulling Our Recommendation of Wyze Security Cameras

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  • We continue to recommend Wyze lighting, since we consider them lower-risk, lower-impact devices—a security breach of a light bulb, for instance, wouldn’t give someone a view of your living room.

    Call me paranoid, but I don't want a company I don't trust plugged into my network at all.

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    X wants permission to start collecting your biometric data and employment history

    www.theverge.com /2023/8/31/23853618/x-privacy-policy-update-biometrics-job-history
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    Brands that don't buy enough Twitter ads will lose verification

    www.theverge.com /2023/7/26/23808331/twitter-x-ads-advertising-incentives-verification-brands

  • Mastodon Usage Soaring as Twitter Rebranding Leads to User Exodus: CEO Eugen Rochko

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  • Another article I read theorized that Threads launching might have increased the awareness of ActivityPub and softened peoples resistance to the "Mastodon is too hard, not worth trying to figure out" messaging in the media. Who knows though, and there's probably not a single answer anyway.

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    Taliban Endorses Twitter Over Threads

    www.vice.com /en/article/xgwg9n/taliban-endorses-twitter-over-threads
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    So where are we all supposed to go now?

    www.theverge.com /2023/7/3/23782607/social-web-public-apps-end-reddit-twitter-mastodon
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    Twitter tells users to touch grass, adds new rule limiting how many tweets you can read per day