Tim_Bisley

Its been like this my entire life. When I was in high school in the 90s one of my teachers said the greatest battle your generation will fight will be for privacy. Little did they know there would be no fight. The general public doesn’t seem interested in caring about things and voting with their wallet. Now we’ve reached this point where the game is up and companies have realized the masses will buy their products because people perceive that they “need” them and can’t do without which gives them free reign to do whatever they want.

Full article requires login. Just the bit I read is incredibly fucked up.

Now go watch a new hope. Completely changed the film for me.

There has been a concerted effort to isolate Canada and the US from each other in recent years. Also within Canada itself the rise of US style individualism has been depressing to see. Its wild how much social media has been weaponized by most nation states to use against others.

And all that data does by definition exclude: “AI” is not built on “all of humankind’s knowledge” but based on whatever a mostly western view of the world and what is relevant looks like.

Its based on a specific western worldview the techbros have, and want to project, while drinking whatever flavor of kool-aid is seen as being edgy at the moment.

Hockey rinks!

Time to tax the rich. This has gone on long enough.

When you sacrifice all morals to work for tech bros so you can get more money I don’t think you have much of a say in things.

Best I can do is six months of free credit monitoring.

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I just checked and it looked normal on my end as well.

Man Guardian Legend was my jam when I was a kid.

I’ve been using this list for ublock - https://github.com/gijsdev/ublock-hide-yt-shorts (see list.txt).

Prices for electronics are exceedingly floaty in these ship-shinking days

I don’t always make typos but when I do I sound like Sean Connery.

I have a vita and a PSP. The PSP battery got spicy sitting in the closet but I was able to pick up a replacement easily.

If it’s anything other than unreal engine then no. If it’s UE then I will wait and then read about issues. If I see the same lazy bs then I’ll pass.

The kunio series was always fun to play. I remember spending a lot of time with crash n the boys street challenge because I could utilize the turbo functionality of my nes advantage controller to do crazy stuff.

Where Metallica at?

Officer, over here!

Technology is hard.