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Telorand

@ Telorand @reddthat.com

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    What are the potential risks and benefits of implementing encryption backdoors for law enforcement?

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  • National Science Foundation suspends salary payments, leaving researchers unable to pay their bills

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  • How to lose a technology war with China:

    • Step 1: Don't compensate the smart people that develop the technology.
    • Step 2: You lose! Congratulations!
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    What's some good divan music?

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  • The return of ‘OG Facebook’ is a big Meta priority this year

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  • DeepSeek AI raises national security concerns, U.S. officials say

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  • "No! Ban GitHub! It hosts the code of our adversaries! And while we're at it, ban the internet!" —Plutocrats, probably.

  • DeepSeek AI raises national security concerns, U.S. officials say

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  • While the calls from Moolenaar could be the first inkling of a possible congressional crackdown, Ross Burley — a co-founder of the nonprofit Centre for Information Resilience — warned that DeepSeek's emergence in the U.S. raises data security and privacy issues for users.

    Yeah, because it's just soooo much better to have American plutocrats slurping up our data without consent and getting to do whatever they want with impunity. /s

    "What they'll use it for is behavior change campaigns, disinformation campaigns, for really targeted messaging as to what Western audiences like, what they do," he added.

    Yeah, because it's just soooo much better to have American plutocrats doing every single one of those things and more in the name of Profit. /s

    Our leaders are hilariously tone-deaf.

  • X announces a partnership with Visa to power X Money’s wallet | TechCrunch

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  • Because he's a perpetual 14yo kid of 90s that never grew out of the Xtreme consumerism, and now he's having a midlife crisis for which we all must suffer.

  • What if the Attention Crisis Is All a Distraction?

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  • You're not missing much. The author rambles for many, many paragraphs, and I don't use that word lightly. It reads like a college essay, where the goal is to produce an X-page paper, so they just cram as many quotes, attributions, and subjects as they can to pad the length.

    It feels like they're trying to go for a Pulitzer, but it's just reactionary garbage that rambles on and on, jumping from topic to topic, taking quotes from scientists and philosophers from antiquity—as if their ideas were still valid today simply because they once existed. The author appears to have a lack of attention, methinks...

    Also they appear to be an ADHD denialist, so fuck them.

  • German Linux Community

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  • Bummer that I don't understand German. I could always use another Linux community in my feed!

  • MAGA Is Starting to Crack

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  • I dunno if it originates elsewhere, and I wasn't quoting them in particular, but I did certainly think of Subdivisions when I wrote it!

  • MAGA Is Starting to Crack

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  • Bannon and the rest were still shilling for Trump before the election, though, so even if they're no longer the inner circle favorites, they're doing exactly as predicted: screwing up their faces and falling in line for another chance to be in proximity to power. They enjoy being in the in-group more than they care about their agendas. If they had any real conviction towards their personal goals, they would have dumped Trump long ago.

    I expect the same from the billionaires he's keeping in his orbit this time around, and they'll fall in line like everybody else has done before them, because whatever character and self-respect they had left was sold to Trump for their own mere chance at power and enrichment.

    Thanks for sharing more of the article, btw!

  • MAGA Is Starting to Crack

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  • For sure. Just trying to get ahead of the cope and remind people that need a reminder what they're dealing with. We'll never get the change we need if people keep hoping for a hero to save them or for the villains to monologue at a critical moment.

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  • Personally, I am very concerned that radical elements might attempt to flood that email address. That would be a real shame if that were to happen.

    You know, it's kinda bogus that Trump did a DEI hire to put Elon in a government job, rather than a natural born American citizen. Just saying...

  • MAGA Is Starting to Crack

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  • Paywall, so I can't get far, but if anyone thinks the messaging going forward won't be "conform or be cast out," then you don't understand who Trump and his sycophants are. This is as much a religious cult as it is a political operation.

    Yes, they're quibbling about the details now that their guy is in power. Yes, he's pulling the rug out from under them, just like everyone said he would. Yes, they're starting to feel the gravity of electing a billionaire fraud who can be bought more easily than most politicians, but they'll double down and turn to apologetics before they risk being cast out of the in-group. As an ex-fundigelical, ask me how I know.

    So, cling to whatever gives you hope—it's going to be a long two to four years—but don't be surprised when the "looming schism that causes MAGA to crumble" never comes.

    ETA: And if that makes you frustrated or anxious, I would suggest channeling that energy into constructive endeavors like building a community. Support each other. Get involved in local happenings. Recognize that we are the ones who will have to save each other.

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  • You talking about Sam "the Trump knob-gobbler" Altman? The guy who kissed the orange ring just recently? Nah, surely that guy has ethics!

    /s

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  • That's a bummer. I picked an instance from...

    https://pixelfed.org/servers

    ...and it was very painless and quick. Have you tried joining a different instance? Do you have an adblocker or JS blocker that might be fucking up the registration?

  • CNN To Launch New Streaming Service As It Sets Sights On Digital Future; About 200 Jobs To Be Cut In Restructuring

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  • And all it cost to make was 200 people's livelihoods! A real bargain!

    /s

  • The Technological Poison Pill: How ATProtocol Encourages Competition, Resists Evil Billionaires, Lock-In & Enshittification

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  • You're not wrong, and if BlueSky is so allegedly "philanthropic" (according to them), it's not like they couldn't have put their efforts towards improving ActivityPub instead, which is already resisting centralization from the likes of Meta.

    And if they weren't allowed to do so, due to some rule governing investment capital or shareholders, etc., therein lies their problem.

  • The Technological Poison Pill: How ATProtocol Encourages Competition, Resists Evil Billionaires, Lock-In & Enshittification

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  • But I think it’s important to understand that Bluesky has, effectively, created a technological poison pill: by building on an open protocol, ATprotocol, the system itself can be rebuilt outside of Bluesky, but in a way where everyone can continue to communicate, and that creates incredible incentives that undermine any evil billionaires, and would actually punish Bluesky (or anyone else!) should they try to enshittify.

    Bruh, ActivityPub is right there, and we already have places where people can communicate. And it's already built in such a way that anyone can make use of it. Currently not so with ATprotocol.

    When BlueSky has interoperable servers that anyone can spin up, then this conversation is worth having, but if the protocol at all requires "the next person" to have tons of investment capital to get things running again, it's still just a billionaire-buyout away.