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99_00··on Reddit Threatens to Remove Moderators from Subreddits Continuing Blackouts
You haven't said what the mistake is. Is it a mistake to use socially media because the connections aren't peremmant?
99_00··on Reddit is OpenAI’s moat
The appeal is that AI answers your question. Maybe a wrong answer. Maybe from questionable sources.

Search, on the other hand, doesn't answer your question.

99_00··on Two-thirds of North America at risk of energy shortages during extreme demand [pdf]
Ask the people who are building solar and wind capacity while shutting down nuclear plants.
99_00··on Was modern art a CIA psy-op? (2020)
Patronage, fine art, and propaganda have always been intertwined. It is so fundamental to the subject that it's in the textbooks. This article could be pulled from the course text for intro to modern art.
99_00··on Two-thirds of North America at risk of energy shortages during extreme demand [pdf]
Instead of investing in nuclear we wasted decades investing in solar and wind.

Well, it wasn't a waste for the companies and countries who profited and their lobbyists.

99_00··on Whistleblower drops 100 GB of Tesla secrets to German news site
There's no reason to assume that of owners of other car brands are reporting 100% of issues, so relative comparison is still valid.
99_00··on Whistleblower drops 100 GB of Tesla secrets to German news site
What point are you trying to make?
99_00··on Whistleblower drops 100 GB of Tesla secrets to German news site
It's not even clear to me what information is being withheld.
99_00··on Whistleblower drops 100 GB of Tesla secrets to German news site
What information is Tesla withholding that they should release to these customers and do other automakers release this information to customers?
99_00··on Whistleblower drops 100 GB of Tesla secrets to German news site
>that's pretty suspicious right there.

It seems suspicious to you because you assume it's not standard industry practice. But that assumption is not in evidence.

They have the internal communications and this is the most incriminating thing they could come up with?

99_00··on Whistleblower drops 100 GB of Tesla secrets to German news site
>found a disturbing trend of brushing off customers complaining about dangerous Autopilot glitches while covering the company’s ass.

The article doesn't present any evidence or argument to support it's own thesis.

Everything in it sounds like my experience dealing with any corperation.

99_00··on TikTok is now banned in Montana
My argument isn't that the Uyghur genocide is harmful to Americans.

My argument is that the regime that is carrying out the genocide is in control of the algorithms for a major social media company.

You perfectly prove my point when you have no problem realizing the impact on Americans control of a social media has in the case of Twitter, but are completely blind to the impact of TikTok.

99_00··on TikTok is now banned in Montana
Maybe i am misunderstanding. Are you saying that a CCP controlled social media company is as bad to America as an Elon Musk controlled social media company?
99_00··on TikTok is now banned in Montana
It's interesting that some oppose Musk running Twitter, it's moderation, policies, and alorithms because of his sympathies for a mainstream American political party.

And at the same time carry water for TickTock who is legally obligated to cooperate with China's intelligence service in any way they require. Knowing that the Chinese regime runs genocidal slave labour rape camps and will extract and sell your organs for free speech and religious practices.

I suspect that they don't realize that the CCP controlling the TickTock algorithms is more dangerous making the Q-anon shaman product manager for the algorithms at meta, Google, and Twitter.

99_00··on TikTok is now banned in Montana
Can state how your wondering is relavant or what argument or point you are alluding to?
99_00··on The Miracle of Pakistani Tekken (2022) [video]
There could be more or fewer players in Pakistan. You don't know unless you know.
99_00··on The Miracle of Pakistani Tekken (2022) [video]
I'm not sure your analysis holds water because the population of Pakistan is 250 million. Almost double Korea and Japan combined.
99_00··on Kids who get smartphones earlier become adults with worse mental health
>it makes logical sense why there would be correlation

The fact that this is "obvious" to well informed parents who take their kids mental health seriously makes it more likely that this is correlation and not causation.

At risk kids will be given smartphones.

Not at risk kids will not.

I suspect that there are elements of correlation and causation involved. I don't think it's a simple relationship.

99_00··on Why are so many young Americans adopting fake British accents?
That's not what the article is about.

>But Gen Z has embraced bad imitations of Cockney slang or a Yorkshire dialect, using obviously fake, theatrical voices to make light of low-grade daily dramas.

99_00··on What Wikipedia Did
If Wikipedia is advancing cases to a nations supreme Court, they are following the laws and rules of the country.

In the US, the Parler social media company was driven out of business despite following the law based on accusations with no chance of trial. Of course it is not done by the government. But citizens cheer it on and demand censorship over political opponents.

99_00··on Brooklyn Public Library Offers Free ECards to Teens Nationwide Facing Book Bans
What happened to the Streisand effect?

Why am I not hearing and seeing more about the books that were banned?

Is it no longer a thing?

99_00··on I fixed a parasitic drain on my car in 408 days
Everyone should keep a jumper in their glove box.

It's with the price just to see the looks on the faces of stranded motorists you help jump start in one or two minutes after they've been trying for an hour to jumpstart a minivan with a hatchback.

99_00··on Police relied on Clearview AI and put the wrong person in jail
The cops didn't even look at the suspect and compare him to the surveillance image.

The judge approved the arrest warrant on the basis of AI alone.

And people want to blame Clearview? Why?

Do you actually care about wrongful arrests? Because when you take Clearview out of the picture, you still have these incompetent or overworked human beings cutting corners, arresting people, and having those people take a plea deals because they don't have money for lawyers so they can make their numbers and get whatever incentive they are chasing.

99_00··on There's something off about LED bulbs
The fact that they had to ban incandescent should have been the big red flag.
99_00··on Amazon starts flagging frequently returned products that you maybe shouldn’t buy
Using resources to crack down only makes sense if the problem causes customers to.uae Amazon less.

I don't see that happening. People are locked in and the thought might not even cross their mind. Of course they will complain. But talk is cheap. Money is the only thing that matters.

99_00··on Amazon starts flagging frequently returned products that you maybe shouldn’t buy
I only buy hard to find niche things on Amazon or low quality Chinese bootlegs when that's what I want.

For everything else I buy elsewhere. It's usually a difference of cents. I'm voting with my dollars for a world where people can choose to not buy low quality jficushnrkf brand Chinese bootlegs.

99_00··on Clearview AI used nearly 1M times by US police, it tells the BBC
Are you implying that someone who is lawfully a passenger in car is somehow responsible for the drivers actions?
99_00··on Credit Suisse sheds nearly 25%, key backer says no more money
The country is 1/3 German, 1/3 french, 1/3 Italian.

Given European history their options are neutrality or extream internal strife.

You are overusing your Ukraine conflict lens when viewing the world.

99_00··on We can't all use AI. Someone has to generate the training data
GIGO
99_00··on Analysis finds Australia’s inflation being driven by company profits, not wages
>Jim received his Ph.D. in Economics from the New School for Social Research in New York.

https://australiainstitute.org.au/expert/jim-stanford/

Not a credible source of information. I invite anyone who disagrees to read the actual "report". It's anti-capitalist propaganda. I have no problem with criticisms of capitalism based on facts.

The cause of inflation is not a mystery.

Overall people accumulated record savings during the pandemic and spent it.

‘Damn lot of money’: How households plan to spend their pandemic savings

https://www.smh.com.au/business/the-economy/damn-lot-of-mone...

Add in Russia-Ukraine conflict, increased energy prices and here we are.

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