Olives @olives@qoto.org

I'm seeing quite a bit of the Dutch Party D66 at the E.U. in opposition to the Chat Stasi.

Remember that the whole reason the Tories did Brexit was because David Cameron ran a referendum as a publicity stunt to get re-elected.

The U.K. does not exist.

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2022/jul/05/eu-scraps-115-grants-uk-scientists-academics-brexit-row No science for you.

Looks like NetChoice is suing Arkansas over their unconstitutional social media "age verification" law.

It looks like the Dutch Government has collapsed after a row over migration.

https://reclaimthenet.org/new-proposals-would-allow-uk-spy-agency-to-monitor-internet-logs-in-real-time
Obvious problems with this:
1) Privacy.
2) Concentration of power.
3) Questionable benefits.
4) False positives, especially when some agency acts in "real time" before all the information is available.
5) Surveillance carried out by spooks. The least accountable of government agencies.
6) Other incursions on civil liberties.

Reddit doing something good feels a lot like this.

Who knows why Hollywood is so obsessed with chasing random nobodies on the Internet who pirated a random film.

https://torrentfreak.com/reddit-asks-court-to-protect-users-right-to-anonymous-speech-in-piracy-case-230707/ Great but I still don't like Huffman.

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2023/07/chatgpts-user-base-shrank-after-openai-censored-harmful-responses/
Ars. Stop virtue signalling.

You hired a child rapist (he was arrested in a sting when going out to meet a "ten year old" for sex) who spent years talking on social media about how kids can "consent".

1) That is free expression (not what you pretend it to be), and it had positive therapeutic implications. IF you bothered to spend five minutes looking into it.

2) OpenAI appears to censor all sexual content. Shut up, shut up, shut up.

Drop it. Resign. Stop talking.

This might have something to do with Elsevier's apparent love for charging extortionate prices, so that someone can access individual papers.

Remember, that it was these kinds of companies which led to Aaron Schwartz being driven to suicide (over a very hefty prison sentence) for the terrible crime of... Uh. Leaking scientific papers which weren't even funded by them.

https://www.designresearchsociety.org/articles/the-future-of-design-studies-journal
It's nice to know that Elsevier (a for-profit company which makes money off other people using their platform) has such a love for quality, that they're willing to flush the quality of a particular journal down the toilet, just so they can publish more papers.

https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2023/jul/07/intel-executive-actively-responsible-for-driving-anti-lgbtq-agenda-in-africa-say-campaigners Evil Inside.

https://reason.com/2023/07/07/brickbat-spot-the-disinformation/ While Michelle might have good intentions with this (protecting the voting process), this sounds like a recipe for government over-reach and chilling free expression.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/mar/10/giving-the-middle-finger-is-a-god-given-right-canada-canadian-judge-rules Canadian judge rules that giving someone the middle finger is protected free expression under Canada's constitution.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/jul/06/canada-judge-thumbs-up-emoji-sign-contract Apparently, a thumbs up emoji is valid for signing a contract in Canada.

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/jul/06/greta-thunberg-charged-with-disobeying-swedish-police-during-oil-protest Greta Thunberg arrested for blocking road.

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2023/jul/06/ai-chatbot-encouraged-man-who-planned-to-kill-queen-court-told I don't see how it's the bot though. He was already planning to do it, and the bot hardly even commented on it...

If this is his excuse, it is lousy.