Olives @olives@qoto.org
Software Engineer. Psy / Tech / Sex Science Enthusiast. Controversial?
Free Expression. Human rights / Civil Liberties. Anime. Liberal.
Joined May 2023
https://www.cnbc.com/2021/06/17/the-us-has-spent-over-a-trillion-dollars-fighting-war-on-drugs.html Heritage Foundation getting in the way.
I'm not a fan of trigger warnings, or I suppose they're called content warnings now.
They're likely to chill expression, and some studies show someone might feel *more* distress, if they view content after having seen a CW.
Even if someone doesn't feel more distress, it doesn't appear to reduce distress.
https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/brainstorm/201904/do-trigger-warnings-actually-work
The more I see, the more the culture war feels like a grift so that a bunch of Republicans can engage in acts of performative outrage.
It's convenient Elon goes on about AI becoming "sentient" and wants his competitors to wait just enough time for him to train his own AI after signalling his intention to do so.
https://www.nandgame.com A cool game where you build up a computer from it's smallest components through many levels, although I warn you, it gets tricky, hehe.
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/hamburger-marys-desantis-florida-sued-b2344748.html
Restaurant Hamburger Mary's sues Florida over drag ban. Argues that it's hurt it's business and that it's a violation of the First Amendment.
https://www.badinternetbills.com/ United States. You should oppose all these bad unconstitutional bills.
https://www.techdirt.com/2023/05/25/the-warhol-decision-how-scotus-forgot-the-first-amendment-turned-copyright-into-a-liability-time-bomb/
Here's a far more critical take where Cathy talks about how the Supreme Court trampled all over the most beloved First Amendment.
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#Google honored a #DMCA request from an Israeli company and removed a web browser for #AndroidTV from the Play Store. The request was filed because the app has the potential to access a pirate site.
This is obviously ridiculous yet Google still has declined one of the developer's appeals, and failed to respond to the second. How can they be this incompetent when it comes to frivolous DMCA notices and false copyright strikes? People are abusing their systems like crazy.
https://www.androidpolice.com/google-pulls-app-thin-connection-piracy/
I'm liking the Delete & Redraft feature.
On Twitter, you'd probably create a second post instead. The original post would get a thousand views.
The second which might contain a crucial bit of information / context might get ten views.
The character limit (which I understand differs between instances) is also helpful, because otherwise you end up with a Twitter scenario where it's easy for people to look at individual tweets out of context.
Anti-Twitter mindset.
When you feel the desire to post something important, but want to take the extra time (even days) to make sure the proper nuance is present.
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It's important to know that a lot of the book ban horseshit going on right now is being driven by a vanishingly tiny number of people: *Eleven* people filed 60% of the 1000+ challenges the Washington Post reviewed.
Gift link: https://wapo.st/3MSf6Gx
I'm personally against NSA spying.
It's both a clear violation of the Fourth Amendment and an infringement of privacy (a fundamental right).
I also recognize quite a few countries do not have a First Amendment.
The reality is that U.S. standards, even with the CLOUD Act (which I think leans too much in favor of law enforcement interests), are going to be better than that in quite a few countries.
Obviously, the U.S. can and should do better to uphold constitutional rights, although it's not as clear cut as "U.S. bad".
An alternative might be that some companies just don't bother setting up a physical presence in the E.U. (and it's not clear they couldn't go down that route), because why bother with people constantly trying to pit them for political reasons?
Under the CLOUD Act, U.S. companies are *required* to turn over data to U.S. legal process *regardless* of the location of the data.
If it resides in another country, and there are conflicting laws, they *must* violate those laws, or face liability under U.S. Law.
But, even if the CLOUD Act didn't come into play, it would still be troublesome, because it establishes the norm of storing data in your own country, and that country might not be as kind as the U.S. one.
https://www.techdirt.com/2023/05/25/the-massive-fine-the-eu-hit-meta-with-is-really-about-the-nsa-not-meta/
I'm getting real tired of this "good intentions" trade union creating problems because they think they're the center of the universe and can just tell companies to violate U.S. Law.
https://www.thefire.org/news/defunding-indiana-universitys-kinsey-institute-legislators-force-academic-freedom-back-closet FIRE (Foundation for Individual Rights in Education) are an interesting bunch.
Basically, they fight for academic freedom, and they've recently expanded to general free expression as well.
Oh boy, DeSantis. This one is far worse than Trump (and makes him look very charismatic). He's an opportunistic sewer rat.
He appears to have learned how to conduct politics from George Orwell's 1984, even mimicking the slogans like "facts over fear" (the opposite of what he'd do).
He is also doing the utmost to make a fool of himself.
Software Engineer. Psy / Tech / Sex Science Enthusiast. Controversial?
Free Expression. Human rights / Civil Liberties. Anime. Liberal.
Joined May 2023
