As explained, it’s not even quite user identification, but rather verification of a unique individual. The ability to identify that an account is held by a unique person (as opposed to possibility being one of many puppet accounts) is pretty useful, particularly if it’s not possible to backtrace it to an otherwise identifiable person.

Even so, the problem I see with this system is that a person has to be careful to never, ever, ever associate their unique ID with themselves, though there will be constant pressure to do so.

Even for those, it won’t, because those people are either:

1. Actually making decisions. or B. Jobs on paper for nepos.

I think with a lot of stuff like that, most people don’t care. Like I assume it’s the red and white side that you’re talking about but idk, and for sure I never see racists flying either set of colors which is why I think no one cares.

The Confederate flag didn’t fall out of favor primarily due to its meaning in the 1800’s, but moreso due to the contemporary associations.

Tbf, this is just declaration of intent to commit war crimes, not genocide.

So first, even here we see foundation money and big tech, not government.

Facebook, Google, etc mostly love net neutrality, tolerate encryption, anf see utility in anonymous internet access, mostly because these things don’t interfere with their core advertising businesses, and generally have helped them. I didn’t see Comcast and others in the ISP oligopoly on that list, probably because they would not benefit from net neutrality, encryption, and privacy for obvious reasons.

The EFF advocates for particular civil libertarian policies, always has. That does attract certain donors, but not others. They have plenty of diverse and grassroots support too. One day they may have to choose between their corpo donors and their values, but I have yet to see them abandon principles.

Oh rly? Influence Watch, from the CRC?

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capital_Research_Center

Further evidence that we’re all just billions of microbes standing on top of each other in a trench coat.

Actually an interesting turn of events. Sounds like she’d been fighting hard to get it back, but they’d been fighting her on it.

Not sure what it all means, but there’s something going on there. It’s all very unusual.

This Week In Linux or BSD Now for tech I guess. -

The Iron Dice for history. German/WWII

Politics is hard, even non-American. Left or right?

Ah this is terrible.

The bee population is already struggling, and there’s no way this one survived after getting stuck in dude’s throat.

Reportedly the dude was also a dick, and horrible to his ex-wife, but the bee didn’t know that before it killed him.

This really shouldn’t be news.

I suppose JK Rowling, regardless of her personal politics, made her actual money by writing the world’s most popular children’s book series. Likewise George Lucas I guess is probably a billionaire too. And Taylor Swift.

But these are examples of incredibly lucky creators of novel IPs. There’s always been a handful of these people on the lower end of the upper end of economic power.

According to the article she was swallowed. Not likely to come back from that.

Spread responsibility thinly across as many organizations and departments within those organizations and across as many legal thresholds as you can to minimize blowback when something inevitably has to be held to account.

I would say “even busier” and “over-integrated” rather than “incomprehensible”.

Not to start a fight or anything, but it almost reminds me of emacs, because it’s like someone started with an idea for one kind of program, but they just kept adding and adding and adding to it. But emacs at least is free, flexible, long established, free, and quirky.

Not that I recall. The trick to answering the question, I think, is to say a few nice things about about the organization, or the position, or yourself.

“I’m interested in working for a dynamic institution like Yoyodyne Industries…” or “As you can see from my resume I have a wealth of experience in spline reticulation…”

I found it was useful to write out my own cheat sheets of answers for common/likely interview questions, including some “personal experience”/“tell me about a time you…” type questions just to drill with.

It’s honestly trickier with overtly shittier jobs/orgs, like sales, food service, or cleaning. Kinda hard to say why you love Target or Walmart or McDonald’s. You can touch on how you like the product, but best to circle back to talking about your work ethic.

“Because I am capable of doing the work and can commute to the work location in a manageable amount of time.”

In person sure. It’s essential for persuasion. But here let me just enjoy watching assholes get own goals.

Not so much because Elon is the way he is, but because the company is vital to the national interest.

AI is good for producing low-stakes outputs where validity is near irrelevant, or outputs which would have been scrutinized by qualified humans anyway.

It often requires massive amounts of energy and massive amounts of (questionably obtained) pre-existing human knowledge to produce its outputs.