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there is the cutest little wren in the garden, hopping in and out of the bath, chirping along :)

time to inhale unhealthy amounts of flux and lead smoke
The Mandela Effect is so weird tbh, I could have sworn Elon Musk bought Twitter, but it turns out he died in 2020 from Covid

as always no one defines what influencing elections is.

someone rich talking who he'd vote for?

chinese botnets boosting some posts?

people having the wrong opinion so there are campaigns to have them debanked and fired from their jobs?

NGOs, financed by "the right side of history" governments working against the other side?

Kees van der Leun  
Europe urgently needs to find and shut down all the ways by which foreign billionaires - like Trump's billionaire brigade - can influence elections...

@josemanuel comments raging about surveillance state failing to see that surveillance isn't a consequence of technology existing. it's about the same with guns not shooting people.

if states wouldn't have transferred money that isn't theirs to a handful of giant conglomerates there still would be new technology developed. voice recognition isn't bad because it's voice recognition. cars calling an ambulance on their own isn't bad, the bad thing is i can't get new ones without this now and that the movement data directly goes to some spook agency to be stored forever.

so i think what deserves some ludditeism is the way these things are designed. there is no reason voice recognition has to go to a server across the globe for example. i played with sphinx on a 800 MHz dual core in like 2015 and it already worked pretty well. same goes for almost everything.

Teachable Moment: All is fair in love and war

This strikes at the root justification for ID verification online: the idea that it makes anyone at all safer. The tight intermingling of our real-world identities with the digital world has been a disaster for privacy and safety as a whole. The apathetic refrain “[they] can get everything anyways” says a lot more when “they” isn’t just intelligence agencies, but scammers and vindictive people online.

@CapitalB i really don't know why people are doing this dating app shit? better way would be to book the services of a match maker lady,

@Incal demonstations have been ineffective since decades, not a single politician cares

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