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by drasticmeasures 8y ago
Maybe Google's failure to not make the world worse is being spun into an argument on how all technology has its benefits and evils, but the social benefits from Google's tech appear to be outweighed by its social malefices.
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by drasticmeasures 8y ago
You don't have to commit a crime to be targeted, spied on, harassed and have your life destroyed by the government. When the government spies on innocent people en masse -- because they say they should have nothing to hide --, the gove
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by drasticmeasures 8y ago
Methinks it's time for an anti-trust investigation on Google like the one on Microsoft during the Internet Explorer heyday. At the same time, I don't trust the US has institutions that haven't been sabotaged by successive US
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by drasticmeasures 8y ago
Every time I see one of those forms I feel like the hungry, desperate sex workers who "consent" to being degraded and humiliated so that they can feed their families for another day... We say "yes," but the head shakes &
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by drasticmeasures 8y ago
I'd rather if they didn't spy on me in the first place...
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by drasticmeasures 8y ago
What's persistently disturbing is that in a free (black) market the price for that commodity has sunk so low. It means that there's a lot of offer available...
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by drasticmeasures 8y ago
Maybe they have a difficult telling time telling them apart since they all act so similarly...
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by drasticmeasures 8y ago
They're not equal in the eyes of the law...
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by drasticmeasures 8y ago
It looks like a chicken, acts like a chicken, talks like a chicken, so it must secretly be a horse...
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by drasticmeasures 8y ago
We should discover it first and use it against them before anyone else can. National security...
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by drasticmeasures 8y ago
>That's precisely what I expect any functioning and remotely competent secret service to do. Secret services are bound to look into anyone that is involved in anything that might represent a liability and a security threat. I can se
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by drasticmeasures 8y ago
A hired thug who doesn't care who his master is.
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by drasticmeasures 8y ago
Google management gave too much freedom and independence to its techies and now they think they run the company.
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by drasticmeasures 8y ago
The stunts are the art. I am an artist myself. I don't see Banksy as being an anti-capitalist or anti-consumer culture artist. I see that aspect of his performance as a persona, exactly like Mr. Brainwash is, and that he uses that pers
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by drasticmeasures 8y ago
Art has meaning, and some intended meanings expressed through art are nullified when the art piece is turned into a commodity. Artists rebelling against commodification of their art pieces in the past saw their own anti-commodification art
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by drasticmeasures 8y ago
You raise a good point. People are free to do how they like with their money, but outrageously some spend it frivolously in cheaply-made art for status or tax evasion purposes. Bill Gates late-life philanthropy raises a counterpoint to this
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by drasticmeasures 8y ago
What's your reading of it?
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by drasticmeasures 8y ago
What good was that film if it made us "think", but not act? I believe OP is putting the lessons in that film into action in his life, and those actions are present in the thoughts expressed in his words, and happily not the other
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by drasticmeasures 8y ago
Facebook / gov can import all your data from Solid, rendering your options of who to share info with a cruel illusion.
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by drasticmeasures 8y ago
When you ask "why would they?" you can intuit a seemingly good case either way that they would or wouldn't (maybe they would because they're incompetent.) Instead of relying on intuition, a more to-the-point question is
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by drasticmeasures 8y ago
Just commenting on this thread is enough. The NSA / MI# / [Military Intel of Country X] know me. I know them. I don't do shit. They don't do shit beyond some pranks and exchanging banter. What are people so paranoid abou
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by drasticmeasures 8y ago
Ignoring the problem doesn't make it go away for the victims. The women whose boyfriends posted private sex pictures as revenge, or the minorities who will be the victims of hate groups organizing on social media, the children who were
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by drasticmeasures 8y ago
This kind of decentralisation -- taking existing platforms controlled by megacorps and making them P2P... ...feels, to me, like a huge mistake. How would one eliminate hate speech and toxic content from it? Or illegal content? Or anything y
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by drasticmeasures 8y ago
Format it and install Linux.
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by drasticmeasures 8y ago
>The article doesn't explain why it should be saved. >[It's] for historical context.
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by drasticmeasures 8y ago
I read it the same way. "Oh great, more pseudoscience in psychology that will make things worse for the marginalized and get thrown out after 30 years of not working." It's part of the push to treat crime as a mental illness
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by drasticmeasures 8y ago
The possibilities sound very interesting, specially as an experiment to minimize the damage of social media's capability to be a very powerful, cheap and all-inclusive propaganda tool capable of causing society-wide disruption, and all
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by drasticmeasures 8y ago
In my inevitably biased view, I see democratic Internet voting-based comment filtering as a tool that will be exploited by state, corporate or other pretender political actors for censoring speech and promoting their own speech -- no matter
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by drasticmeasures 8y ago
Decentralized Reddit sounds neat. But! I just upvoted myself to 200 points (making it the top post of all time on notabug), then saw someone else downvote me to -100 points (in 5 minutes), effectively censoring me. While this was just me w
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by drasticmeasures 8y ago
From the article: >But Asher says he’s not interested in sending any sort of message in his fiction. “I just wrote it as I saw it,” he says. “I’ve never thought that much about it. My aim is to tell a story and to entertain.” That's

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