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WhatAmLemmy

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  • House Committee Blocks Push to Strip Pentagon Bill of Israel Integration Measure

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  • This is how fascism operates. It's a borg that must absorb, conquer, and control everything it touches until the whole planet is one totalitarian dictatorship.

  • AI Companies Are Buying Tons of Old Books Because They're Free of AI Slop

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  • Make it make sense

    A robber barron class of psychopaths are running the whole damn show!

  • Some Mullvad VPN customers tunnel for exit after co-founder donates millions to populist party

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  • Yeah, literally 99.999% of products you buy in 2026 fund right wing fascism, and most of it you can't escape because they own the entire supply chain.

    Ain't capitalism fun?

  • Some Mullvad VPN customers tunnel for exit after co-founder donates millions to populist party

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  • They are a troll or a fascist, so any response is going to involve mental illness.

  • The Trump administration is showing signs it could ban cutting-edge Chinese AI models

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  • It's an imploding empire with an oligarchy willing to sacrifice the planet and its populace for wealth and power, no different to Putin and Russias oligarchy... They can only plug the holes for so long before the cracks cannot be filled and the whole ship sinks.

  • Flock Credibility Lost as It Repeatedly Lies to City Councils, Police, & Public

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  • Why isn't lying to the government and police a crime when a business does it? Why is every investor and employee involved, from top to bottom, not criminally prosecuted?

    If you or I did what flock does, it would be considered stalking; a criminal invasion of privacy that would land us serious prison time. The judge would give a speech about how dangerous our actions are for the public before locking us away in a cage.

  • Is surveillance risk chilling your online speech?

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  • The average human will only realize this when it's too late to do anything about it; either enslaved under totalitarian rule, or one of the undesirables in the process of being exterminated.

  • People in Many Countries Now View China More Positively Than the U.S.

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  • "Do you prefer the criminal who is causing a major problem for you right now, or the criminal who is far away, causing smaller problems?"

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  • Why is American culture so selfish, though? Humans are just animals and are easily influenced. "Culture" is a continuously moving target. What are the sources that have had the most influence on Americas population over the last 20-80 years?

    As a foreigner who was heavily influenced by American culture up until getting cable news in my room and watching fox news as a teenager in 2001, the year I was studying modern history and its propaganda, I would argue the root cause is Americas business and political leadership. Millions of people have expected mask-off fascism from America far longer than Trump's been relevant. Why did those people come to that conclusion long ago?

  • Trump Justice Department Scrambles as Lawyers Flee in Droves

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  • Most of the fascist coup is voluntary.

    All of the checks and balances depended on people in positions of authority and power putting up a meaningful resistance; not just the virtue signal of an oath.

  • Chat Control 1.0 passed the European Parliament — through the back door

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  • This is just one small step in the multi-decade implementation of mass surveillance.

    "In between come all the hundreds of little steps, some of them imperceptible, each of them preparing you not to be shocked by the next. Step C is not so much worse than Step B, and, if you did not make a stand at Step B, why should you at Step C? And so on to Step D."

    "We're already scanning all of your files for X. Why don't we also scan them for all other crimes, A-Z?"

    Statistical models and inference are mathematically guaranteed to have false positives and false negatives. False positives in this context mean entirely innocent people will be flagged and scrutinised, and have their private data shared, or potentially be investigated, when they have done nothing wrong at all. If fingerprints are one in a 1 million, and you have a database of a billion people, on average you'll implicate ~1000 innocent people every time you run a print. That's how you end up with millions of people on a watchlist. It's criminally incompetent, at best.

  • Chat Control 1.0 passed the European Parliament — through the back door

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  • We don't live in East Germany. We're supposed to be living in democracies where our governments act in our best interests, and our rights are not for sale.

    They had this surveillance, on a far greater scale

    This is a mentally-ill level of ignorance. The KGB or Gestapo couldn't even dream of the surveillance state Western capitalism has already built. They didn't have tracking devices and microphones in the pockets of most adults on Earth. They didn't capture millions of data points about all of their daily lives. They didn't have billion dollar economies structured around the capture and sale of that data. They didn't have the ability to flag dissidents or resistance autonomously, in real-time based on statistical modeling, or the capability to execute everyone they flag as opposition with cheap fully-autonomous drones. This is called turnkey-totalitarianism. All the tools have already been built. The only thing a tyrant needs to do is turn the key.

    Either educate yourself about the world or keep your ignorance to yourself. Your opinion is currently worthless.

  • Netflix hits upon revolutionary new concept: Live TV channels

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  • Been meaning to try random Jellyfin plugins that sim tv channels.

    https://github.com/binarygeek119/FinTV

    https://github.com/DrewThomasson/JellyfinTV

    The second one even does custom ads based on channel content. I would love a plugin that queries random retro ads off the internet. Like you're watching Star Trek and get an ad for the SNES or Supersoaker when shows have scenes designed around commercials, or between episodes.

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  • Like me, you probably never thought about how water gets from stomach to bladder. Humans tend to ignore the common mundane things that have always been like they do.

  • Chat Control 1.0 passed the European Parliament — through the back door

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  • It's almost like our institutions and political class across the developed world are acting on behalf of capital and not in the peoples best interests...

    Maybe that's why they all collude with surveillance capitalism to violate our civil rights wholesale, and expand the surveillance state...

    These are not the actions of a government "for the people". These are the actions of criminally corrupt tyrants and traitors who should spend the rest of their lives in prison. The fact that they won't should tell you everything you need to know about our "democracies".

  • US Federal Reserve taps Xbox CEO Asha Sharma, who just laid off 3,200 employees, to lead task force on jobs

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  • The public won't pay for what they say

    Steam is wildly profitable, and so are numerous gaming companies.

    The industry is focused on gambling addicts and micro-transactions because it's MOST profitable; not because the alternative isn't profitable or sustainable.

    Microsoft facilitates genocide because it's profitable. They would literally enslave you and everyone you care about in a matrix if it were MOST profitable, too. If you don't believe that, you're just an idiot.

  • Windows Drops Under 60% in Global Desktop OS Share for the First Time in Years

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  • These are http requests, so it could be inflated from the larger proportion of software engineers using macOS, who also make significantly more requests than average, including in their usage of ai...

  • Open source is a thankless job and I think we've lost the plot on how we treat maintainers

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  • Microsoft cuts 4,800 Jobs( 2.1% of their global workforce)

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  • This is so they can continue over investing in unproven technology.