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nyc_data_geek··on Evidence of a spying operation by ICE against left-wing social movements
Sure, along with the occasional public execution, for optics.
nyc_data_geek··on Chicago O'Hare digs up 50-ton boulder under airfield, asks public for name ideas
Rocky McRockFace
nyc_data_geek··on ICE Planning $100M 'Nightmare' Domestic Spy Program
The Fourth Amendment to the constitution disagrees. Blanket surveillance by definition flies in the face of our right against unreasonable search.
nyc_data_geek··on Deloitte falsified documents to evade tax on Abramovich's wealth
They downvoted him because he spoke the truth
nyc_data_geek··on I asked Meta’s Muse for its filesystem and it sent me 6.8GB
99 percent of the time it works every time
nyc_data_geek··on Dystopian Surveillance Is Becoming a Reality
It's special because it's ephemeral.
nyc_data_geek··on Banning lead in gas worked. The proof is in our hair
Are you really calling into question the well documented developmental effects of lead in human cognition and behavior
nyc_data_geek··on FBI is investigating Minnesota Signal chats tracking ICE
"Whoever can make you believe absurdities, can make you commit atrocities." and "It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends on his not understanding it."

etc, etc. So it goes

nyc_data_geek··on FBI is investigating Minnesota Signal chats tracking ICE
Agreed. To see "Never Again" morphed into "Never Again for me, Now Again for thee" has been one of the most heartwrenching, sleep depriving things I've witnessed since some deaths in my family.
nyc_data_geek··on Georgia leads push to ban datacenters used to power America's AI boom
I'm not against generating more electricity, I am against generating unnecessary emissions using obsolete combustion based mechanisms, and I'd appreciate it if you didn't put words in my mouth.

The current administration is enforcing the use of these obsolete technologies, and the likes of Elon Musk are using things like gas turbines in clear contravention of the law in places like Tennessee to satisfy power demand for a thing no one really wants anyway, except the already wealthy who see it as an opportunity to eliminate labor costs and make everyone more pliable and stupid than they already are.

It's worth noting that the same people profiting off the current AI bubble, are the same people donating a lot of time and money to elect and maintain this regime. Have you never heard of the network state? It is rather late in the day to play the fool.

https://www.selc.org/press-release/musks-xai-explores-anothe...

nyc_data_geek··on FBI is investigating Minnesota Signal chats tracking ICE
Yes and all of the credulous rubes still whinging about how they "can't imagine" how it's gotten this bad or how much worse it can get, or how "this is not who we are" at some point should no longer be taken as suckers in good faith, and at some point must rightly be viewed as either willfully complicit bad faith interlocuters, or useful idiots.
nyc_data_geek··on FBI is investigating Minnesota Signal chats tracking ICE
Seems like citizens are the ones who need protection from law and immigration enforcement, considering the public executions we've all witnessed in the past week or so.
nyc_data_geek··on Georgia leads push to ban datacenters used to power America's AI boom
Electricity generation causes emissions, which enter the air. Cooling consumes water, as does power generation.

We are not generating this power using renewable energy. Have you looked out the window lately at what is actually happening?

nyc_data_geek··on Georgia leads push to ban datacenters used to power America's AI boom
Because we need air to breathe and water to drink more than we need pictures of garfield with giant tits
nyc_data_geek··on Meta buried 'causal' evidence of social media harm, US court filings allege
I just did this on Youtube for the first time in a while, and it won't show me videos unless I start watching things first, unless I go to Shorts, where I am presented with an infinite scroll of what appears to be deeply unsettling and uncanny short AI generated engagement bait videos.

It's baffling to me that they get away with this.

nyc_data_geek··on Meta buried 'causal' evidence of social media harm, US court filings allege
Don't threaten me with a good time
nyc_data_geek··on Iowa City made its buses free. Traffic cleared, and so did the air
Congratulations, you have invented taxes
nyc_data_geek··on Iowa City made its buses free. Traffic cleared, and so did the air
Because some reasoning is motivated
nyc_data_geek··on Beloved bodega cat killed by driverless Waymo robotaxi: 'People loved him'
Their automated product killed a living creature. Yes, it is by definition their fault.
nyc_data_geek··on "Anna, Lindsey Halligan Here." My Signal exchange with the interim U.S. attorney
The grownups have left the building, and the brats have guns.
nyc_data_geek··on Amazon hopes to replace 600k US workers with robots
And this is why they don't care how many people they fire. The intention was always to automate the warehouses, and as long as they do it before they exhaust the workforce, turnover doesn't matter.
nyc_data_geek··on Private equity is sitting on $5T of existential dread
True, though Broadcom operates in a very similar manner in this regard.
nyc_data_geek··on Private equity is sitting on $5T of existential dread
Or they can do things like buy VMWare, gut the support/engineering/sales staff, hound and threaten their install base, and ultimatley profit greatly by stripping down and destroying a perfectly healthy if relatively late stage business.
nyc_data_geek··on The dangerous intimacy of social location sharing
Yes, and the solution to the fact that corporations have your information is not to give more people your information.
nyc_data_geek··on Low-dose radiation offers relief to people with knee osteoarthritis
Radiation is good for you now, a little bit, as a treat.
nyc_data_geek··on Britain jumps into bed with Palantir in £1.5B defense pact
Exactly! We don't get luxury space communism until after we defeat the nascent Terran Empire... or else we end up the Terran Empire
nyc_data_geek··on Britain jumps into bed with Palantir in £1.5B defense pact
Feel like we're doing pretty well on the Star Trek timeline, tbh. Got to get through the Eugenics Wars
nyc_data_geek··on Copilot broke audit logs, but Microsoft won't tell customers
Where do you think training data comes from
nyc_data_geek··on The natural diamond industry is getting rocked. Thank the lab-grown variety
>At the same age

Boomers have had significantly longer and better sustained market conditions to grow their wealth.

nyc_data_geek··on Marshall Brain has died
The extraordinary burden of proof is on the people making extraordinary claims, in this case that your thoughts come from an invisible, all powerful entity who we have never had any evidence actually exists, and wrote a book, instead of humans having written that book, as we have every other book that has ever existed. The burden of proof does not lay on those who say their thoughts come from biochemical and electrical signals in the brain, as all available evidence supports that assertion.
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