https://www.eff.org/pages/age-verification-wont-protect-children
Imo, if you wanna protect kids from big tech, you gotta make their abusive business practices unprofitable. Enforce antitrust, make it legal to circumvent digital locks, require interoperability. Basically: restore competition.
Why is that image giving the same vibes as:
All of the needed words. Gotta be careful here. LLMs don’t deal in information. But yes, they are good at stringing together tokens if that’s all you need.
5 different font styles across 6 lines is some “notice from your landlord” shit
Yeah, we need to be careful about distinguishing policy objectives from policy language.
“Hold megacorps responsible for harmful algorithms” is a good policy objective.
How we hold them responsible is an open question. Legal recourse is just one option. And it’s an option that risks collateral damage.
But why are they able to profit from harmful products in the first place? Lack of meaningful competition.
It really all comes back to the enshittification thesis. Unless we force these firms to open themselves up to competition, they have no reason to stop abusing their customers.
“We’ll get sued” gives them a reason. “They’ll switch to a competitor’s service” also gives them a reason, and one they’re more likely to respect — if they see it as a real possibility.
Conservatives fashion themselves as the ones who are willing to make the hard choices — to look at the facts and choose whatever will be more productive in the long run, even if it means some short-term sacrifice or discomfort.
But time and time again, it seems what they actually mean by “hard choices” is just… making things harder, with no real plan for why except that “that’s how I like it”.
It’s pretty apt, honestly. It’s just the next step of the climate-denial and cancer-denial playbooks.
We know that the tech bosses are aware of how harmful their stuff is. We know that they hire experts specifically to make their stuff as addictive as possible. We know they bribe the hell out of politicians to avoid getting regulated. We know they cook their books and launder money like crazy. We know their financial models are predicated on getting everyone to use an ever-increasing dose of their stuff. We know that people suffer horrific conditions to help build their devices and moderate their content cesspools.
It may seem crass to compare tech bosses to narco kingpins. But that’s because their methods are crass. They want to seem sophisticated and unique. But they’re not.
Nothing more American than a company that guzzles down taxpayer funds via police budgets and exploits brown laborers abroad, all to build a product that’s primarily used to harm brown laborers domestically. I think I hear a red-tailed hawk screeching in the distance.
The modern conservative is engaged in one of man’s oldest exercises in moral philosophy; that is, the search for a superior moral justification for selfishness.
Doing the O last cuz the dementia got im for just a second.
“Fuck the C_ps… What was it? Caps? Cups?”
Ethel: “COPS”
“WHERE?!”
Using an LLM to work with facts is like using JPEG to store x-ray images. Utterly reckless.
Be really obnoxious about the ballot format in the Florida 2000 election until they either fix it or news outlets do a good job educating people about how to correctly vote for Gore
It’s stabs all the way down
Eh, it’s fine. It has some bad choices baked into it, but what language doesn’t? And JS in 2025 is miles better than JS in 2005.
I wouldn’t choose it for every project, but it’s a reasonable choice in many cases.
One industry is changing the numerator, one is changing the denominator. Each will blame the other. Neither are innocent. We don’t need to limit ourselves to one villain when there are so many worthy candidates.
And unlike a regular Linux distro, you’ll have zero leftover systemd units or config files floating around in your FHS dirs. (You’ll have the binaries for Gnome sitting in /nix/store until you do a GC, so you can still quickly switch back if you want to.)
I’m always on unstable. Any time I try to stick to stable, I invariably need something-or-other that’s only on unstable.
So this is the guy that bought all the RAM.