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Jason2357

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  • The Department of Homeland Security Is Demanding That Google Turn Over Information About Random Critics

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  • Companies have always complied with legal warrants. They can challenge them, but they literally cannot refuse. Thats why companies need to actually collect less data on their customers, or protect it with e2e encryption.

  • Consumer hardware is no longer a priority for manufacturers

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  • Generally speaking, the consumer market has been entirely eclipsed by business to business sales. The only entities with expendable cash are businesses.

  • It Turns Out That When Waymos Are Stumped, They Get Intervention From Workers in the Philippines

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  • Automation has always been about de-skilling to cheaper, more abuse-able labour, and not about actually eliminating work. This goes all the way back to the broad looms and the luddites. There were still loom workers in the new factories - its just that they were children who could be worked to death for pennies.

  • Unredacted files reveal Anthropic’s ‘secret plan’ to ‘destructively scan all the books in the world'

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  • They make everything more expensive. Power, water, ram, storage, and now the used book market will shoot up in cost as millions of books are shredded.

  • The world is trying to log off U.S. tech

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  • The Internet is still distributed, it’s the ownership (and thus also the command and control) that is super inbred. Cloudflare, Google, Aws, they all have hardware distributed in every city.

  • The TV industry finally concedes that the future may not be in 8K

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  • You are describing urgent vs important. Fire fighting is always urgent, but in many ways, janitorial services are often more important to your daily life.

  • DuckDuckGo poll says 90% responders don't want AI

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  • All these MBAs that learned about the advantage of first movers in school and have so little domain knowledge they operate 100% on “we just cant be late to the table”

  • DuckDuckGo poll says 90% responders don't want AI

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  • I am explicitly against the use case probably being thought of by many of the respondents - the “ai summary” that pops in above the links of a search result. It is a waste if I didn't ask for it, it is stealing the information from those pages, damaging the whole WWW, and ultimately, gets the answer horribly wrong enough times to be dangerous.

  • DuckDuckGo poll says 90% responders don't want AI

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  • It has a separate llm chat interface, and you can disable the ai summary that comes up on web search results.

  • DuckDuckGo poll says 90% responders don't want AI

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  • In the non tech crowds I have talked to about these tools, they have been mostly concerned with them just being wrong, and when they are integrated with other software, also annoyingly wrong.

  • AI bot swarms threaten to undermine democracy

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  • It’s always been the case that propaganda only works on the target audience. Thats why it’s so interesting to look through historical propaganda - it seems unreal and is easy to see through. Bots are just personalized propaganda machines.

  • Google pays $68M to settle claims its voice assistant spied on users

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  • Google doesn't care about that kind of money, they care about the discovery process.

  • France will replace Microsoft Teams, Google Meet, Zoom, Webex and others with its own sovereign video conferencing application "Visio" for public officials

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  • This is happening now because the national security hawks are suddenly (and temporarily) on the same side as open source/ privacy advocates on this specific threat.

  • Canada reconsidering F-35 purchase amid tensions with Washington, says minister

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  • There is nothing this technologically advanced that the manufacturers cant brick or severely impair if pushed to do so (if not by remote command, then by support neglect), and you can be guaranteed the Americans know of remote vulnerabilities as well. Thats a given. We can 100% expect they would be tarmac bricks within weeks of the USA breaking hard from NATO or Canada.

    Fyi, they could also brick nearly every modern large tractor in the country right at harvest season, and most of our street vehicles. All via standard remote update infrastructure.

    Thats just the reality of modern tech. It would be the same with other options, but we should pick a country not threatening to annex us to buy from.

  • Opposition to Elon Musk's AI Stripping Clothing Off Children Is Nearly Universal, Polling Shows

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  • Pretty important to show that nearly everyone outside the circles of power are against it, to demonstrate how evil all the people with power are, who have collectively shrugged it off.

  • A post-American, enshittification-resistant internet

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  • I wish more people were like us on this matter, but they don't appear to be. People are using video for everything, regardless of how bad it is. One of the most popular genre of short form video is some well manicured person pointing up at some text that appears in the top of a video, set to terrible music. 20-100 words at most.

  • On familiarity

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  • Interestingly, we all sit somewhere near the peak of "Mount Stupid" on nearly every decision we make in a given day. Btw, how long is yogurt good for in the fridge?

    The difference is, the more "leadership" you get, the more isolated you are from getting reality shoved in your face. I think being a billionaire is actually a form of brain damage. They never get feedback on when they are wrong, or if they do, they are surrounded by sycophants who will tell them the critic is wrong. The rest of us at least get humbled once in a while.

  • On familiarity

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  • Investors are rarely experts in the particular niches that the companies they hold shares in are applying AI to.

  • Ottawa bureau chief for the Toronto Sun regarding the Minnesota shooting

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  • This will sound insensitive, but it's a serious point of anger for a lot of Canadians. I couldn't give a fuck about what the average peanut farmer in South Virginia thinks about Canada. When Canadian's talk about "America" -they are talking about the American government - ya know, the people who control the tanks and bombs? The people threatening? The people who have an actual impact on Canadian sovereignty?

    It's no different for you. When someone talks about something "France wants to do," you don't mistakenly think it's about some rando coffee-shop worker in Paris, you know it's referring to the french government. You are well aware that there are people living in France that don't want to do that thing, but you don't care, that's not relevant.

    "Not all Americans" really rings so hollow it might as well be a balloon. Use that energy on getting rid of the fascists running the place instead of worrying about discrimination from some country to the North.

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    Canada’s Bill C-2 Opens the Floodgates to U.S. Surveillance

    www.eff.org /deeplinks/2025/07/canadas-bill-c-2-opens-floodgates-us-surveillance
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    Jason2357 @lemmy.ca

    The ‘carbon tax’ isn’t causing inflation. No matter what politicians say | The Narwhal

    thenarwhal.ca /carbon-tax-inflation-politicians/