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normalaccess··on Leaked Ice document shows worker detained in Hyundai raid had valid visa
Although unfortunate this falls within the margin of error for such events. I hope everything gets resolved but a dragnet will cause a few false positives.

Just the same as if the cops bust a party where there is under age drinking, one or two people might be old enough but you can't tell until you process everyone.

And this wouldn't be the chaos it is if the border wasn't a free for all in the first place.

normalaccess··on Weaponizing Ads: How Google and Facebook Ads Are Used to Wage Propaganda Wars
Because that is not the nature of man. Even angels fall when they forget who they are.

So good men are needed to push back the overwhelming desire to rule as gods over our fellow men.

normalaccess··on Weaponizing Ads: How Google and Facebook Ads Are Used to Wage Propaganda Wars
The amendments to the U.S. Constitution generally limited the power of the government as time went on.

Less government is *almost* always better. I'm no anarchist but I do believe that we need to massively trim the fat from time to time. And I also believe that America has the best foundation to build upon. I have yet to see better founding documents.

normalaccess··on Weaponizing Ads: How Google and Facebook Ads Are Used to Wage Propaganda Wars
The constitution is not a list of rights the people have, it's a list of rights the Government Doesn't have. You want to add government to fix government? Or take rights away to support your own chosen party? That's a fools errand.

It's easy to spot a problem, but very hard to get the right solution.

normalaccess··on Weaponizing Ads: How Google and Facebook Ads Are Used to Wage Propaganda Wars
They take turns.
normalaccess··on UK toughens Online Safety Act with ban on self-harm content
Social platforms have taken steps to promote thought-harmony by joyfully unshowing wrongthink and unbalanced word-units, ensuring content aligns with community wellness standards. In the pursuit of safety-plus and truth-good, certain speak-patterns may be adjusted or unshown to prevent doublefeel or ideafriction. Content adjustment systems, both think-algorithms and human guidance units, help stop crimethink before it wordforms, ensuring all speak aligns with group-love and peaceorder. Unwords and unideas that cause ideafriction are speedwise unposted for harmony-plus. All speak must be fullwise right and joygood — and all oldspeak thoughts are unspeak. Users who feel unjoy at speak-guidance are malusers of freegood, needing rejoy and newlearn. This is fullwise necessary for protect-truth and keepping all minds doubleplusgood.
normalaccess··on UK toughens Online Safety Act with ban on self-harm content
It's more than that.. Its a white night trogon horse designed to consolidate power and oppress the people.
normalaccess··on Weaponizing Ads: How Google and Facebook Ads Are Used to Wage Propaganda Wars
This is true, it's an unfortunate race to the bottom of the attention economy. The only real solution is educating people about the trash tactics that are used to manipulate them.
normalaccess··on Weaponizing Ads: How Google and Facebook Ads Are Used to Wage Propaganda Wars
But they are the best set of laws invented by humans so far for self governance. No kings, no popes, no dictators. As flawed as the current system is, the laws are good even if the people executing them are trash.

You can change lots of things much higher up in the system without taking away our God given rights enshrined in the founding documents to fix these kinds of issues.

normalaccess··on Weaponizing Ads: How Google and Facebook Ads Are Used to Wage Propaganda Wars
I always assume it's both sides (no matter the topic) to some degree.
normalaccess··on OpenAI says it's scanning users' conversations and reporting content to police
Great, replace search with a new "tool" that is fully capable of autonomously analyzing user behavior and hand that data over on a silver platter to law enforcement bypassing all the legal red tape.

AI truly is a Faustian Bargain. A powerful daemon in your pocket that can do wonderous things, but is still a daemon.

normalaccess··on YouTube made AI enhancements to videos without warning or permission
YouTube is “riding a tiger,” and the moment creators realize they hold the real power, the game is up. I believe the platform purposely creates a fear of the unknown with intermittent reward–punishment cycles. Random rules enforcement, videos taken down, strikes, demonetization, throttling... The algorithm becomes a sort of deity that people try to appease and they turn into cultish devotees preforming endless rounds of strange rituals in hopes of "divine" monetization favor.
normalaccess··on Porn censorship is going to destroy the internet
The road to hell is paved with good intentions.
normalaccess··on Porn censorship is going to destroy the internet
The beauty behind that is if they can get all the rest of the world to do it then they can point to that to push it here at home.

Break the narrative abroad and after the frogs are acclimated turn up the heat at home.

normalaccess··on Porn censorship is going to destroy the internet
I don't have proof but I have a felling this is the work of Palantir. After Trump made the announcement that they would be working on solving the ID crisis in America not a month later everywhere all at once started pushing for online IDs.
normalaccess··on Porn censorship is going to destroy the internet
Our operating systems are being locked down to the point where you will need an online tracked ID in order to log on. Systems like Recall will be used to track user behavior and drive analytics and control mechanisms designed to maximize compliance to the chosen narrative.

Check the 2023 keynote for Microsoft's Ignite AI conference. Microsoft plans to move ALL compute into the Azure cloud, meaning that they are planning for a future where even your OS in a cloud server.

The GOV's of the world will be on the heels behind the curtain making sure this all passes.

The future is sneaker net.

normalaccess··on Porn censorship is going to destroy the internet
Correct, and it's to put the genii back in the bottle so to speak. Great video on how AI is being actively used to break the internet. Cause a problem, provide the solution.

https://youtu.be/-gGLvg0n-uY?si=KDEVLayU5ToEEmpL

normalaccess··on Porn censorship is going to destroy the internet
Related video about the need to control AI with a global ID system to control "misinformation and disinformation" as it will be imposable to tell what is real and what is fake.

We are getting hit from all sides. You will be tracked and it will be used against you.

https://youtu.be/-gGLvg0n-uY

normalaccess··on Newsmax agrees to pay $67M in defamation case over bogus 2020 election claims
Are they? we used to have same day numbers... Now elections can take weeks to figure out who won. Progress in the negative direction.
normalaccess··on Newsmax agrees to pay $67M in defamation case over bogus 2020 election claims
Not a bug but a feature... The messier things get the more "Realpolitik" can happen (using it pejoratively).
normalaccess··on Newsmax agrees to pay $67M in defamation case over bogus 2020 election claims
100% Agree.

Let's get back to brass tacks and stop all the monkey business. Even if there is no tomfoolery goin on (and I believe there is) why not make it beyond doubt?

normalaccess··on Can You Gerrymander Your Party to Power?
Also an excellent video by Alpha Phoenix on how you can make it almost impossible to detect.

https://youtu.be/Lq-Y7crQo44

normalaccess··on Can You Gerrymander Your Party to Power?
Of course!

Titular gerrymandering video by CGP Grey

  https://youtu.be/Mky11UJb9AY
normalaccess··on Trump Orders National Guard to Washington and Takeover of Capital’s Police
Yes, I do.
normalaccess··on Trump Orders National Guard to Washington and Takeover of Capital’s Police
He would have to get permission of the governor. I think there is a loop hole for DC because it has no governor.

"The Act (Posse Comitatus Act) does not prevent the Army National Guard or the Air National Guard under state authority from acting in a law enforcement capacity within its home state or in an adjacent state if invited by that state's governor."

  Wiki Page on the Posse Comitatus Act
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posse_Comitatus_Act
normalaccess··on CPS investigated her 4 times because she let her kids play outside
Well, they are for cars. So play at your own risk.

I played in the streets and rode my bike every summer day (still do just not as much). But I also knew that 2000lbs of steel traveling at 30mph is not going to stop for me so my life was in my hands and I needed to be vigilant.

normalaccess··on CPS investigated her 4 times because she let her kids play outside
Bingo. What happened to teaching your kids to not play in the street?
normalaccess··on Trump Orders National Guard to Washington and Takeover of Capital’s Police
From the Wiki Page:

"The Act does not prevent the Army National Guard or the Air National Guard under state authority from acting in a law enforcement capacity within its home state or in an adjacent state if invited by that state's governor. The United States Coast Guard (under the Department of Homeland Security) is not covered by the Act either, primarily because although it is an armed service, it also has a maritime law enforcement mission."

It's confusing because DC does not have a governor so it looks like an edge case that has not been tested before.

normalaccess··on EPA Moves to Cancel $7B in Grants for Solar Energy
More like 3, quote from Helion about the ne plant being built right now.

  "The company said, with site work now underway, Helion remains on track to meet the goal of doing so by 2028."
Also, wind and solar are not the end, only a stop gap.
normalaccess··on EPA Moves to Cancel $7B in Grants for Solar Energy
Solar and wind are not "renewable" in the same way plastic recycling "works". The total LiveCycle of wind and solar arguably cause more pollution from the materials used. you can't recycle wind and solar when they are done. The generator itself is the waste produced from the process.

Not only that Solar changes the local climate because they absorbed and radiate heat as well as taking vast amounts of land that is stripped of life. Wind drives whales insane on the coast and kills massive amounts of birds.

If we can crack fusion then the only fuels used are helium and such. Much cleaner and they work at night and whin the air is still.

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