knightly

The UK made an invisible weapon?

Y'all aren't getting it.

That's not discouraging, it's radicalizing. We must be realistic and demand the impossible. There is no other way.

The road to fascism is lined with people telling you to stop overreacting.

Guess which third

Never.

Vermin Supreme comes close to treating the corporate state with the respect it deserves, but there's no leadership under all that absurdity.

Kinda embarassing, for my parents.

I was a precocious kid, read my way through libraries before we got online. By the time my parents got around to giving me the talk I had already started puberty, gave the talk to one of my friends who hit puberty early, and gone through a gender crisis to figure out I was enby.

I never tried changing the gender marker on my documentation because that always seemed like too much risk for so little gain for an enby like me. My government name only gets used at work anyway, and I'm content to let straight people assume I'm one of them so long as I set off every gaydar and transciever in range.

I just hate when the universe justifies my cynicism, it makes me feel like the stereotypical old anarchist.

I'm just counting the days 'til they declare trans people like me not just unpersons but actively illegal, and hoping the passport I requested actually shows up..

I did, I do, and I'm calling this article bullshit for not pointing out that while the protocol might be open-source, they have yet to share the server software that's required to operate it.

BlueSky "lets" people host their own profile data because it reduces how much data they have to host. It does not allow them to login and browse the network without going through their centralized servers to do so.

So, it's not really decentralized, not really open source, and remains under corporate control until such time as they decide to let anyone compete with them on their own network.

Especially for the helicopter tours, which aren't allowed over land in NYC.

Anyone can make such a promise. Verifying that they have followed through with it is not a technical challenge, it's a socioeconomic issue.

The problem is Goodhart's Law; "Every measure which becomes a target becomes a bad measure". Implementing a verification system that depends on video evidence creates both an incentive to forge such videos and a set of labeled training data that grows more readily available as the system sees more use. The adversarial generative network is literally designed to evolve better scams in response to a similarly-evolving scam detector, there's no computational way around the need to have people involved to make sure things are what they're claimed to be.

Universal Basic Income would be a good start, but the fundamental problem is money as the primary organizing force of society.