Olives @olives@qoto.org
Software Engineer. Psy / Tech / Sex Science Enthusiast. Controversial?
Free Expression. Human rights / Civil Liberties. Anime. Liberal.
Joined May 2023
Similar to the thing you'd use to capture ghosts in Ghostbusters.
The Daleks look like something you'd use to clean the floor.
Perhaps, after all those years doing that, they turned evil, and want to kill everyone.
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Apparently, Nepal permits same sex marriage now, which sounds good.
I made a small mistake in the first paragraph which led to the omission of important context. I've fixed that.
The Ars case (*that* guy) contrasts with another case I saw where someone sort of asked questions along those lines, and got answers (someone was patient enough to tell them why society prohibits that).
They never did something like that, thankfully.
Last I heard of that person though, they were dead. It was a suicide. Suicide. No clue why. Well, maybe there was kinkshaming, not a fan of that tbh.
Someone asked me a question about whether "child rapists" have rights.
Uh, it's important to recognize that sometimes you have to protect the rights of people like that, to defend them for everyone else.
Despite that, I haven't really commented on their rights, in particular.
If I ever feel suicidal, I suppose there is always the option of hiring an OceanGate sub to just end it.
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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.
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.
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.
Software Engineer. Psy / Tech / Sex Science Enthusiast. Controversial?
Free Expression. Human rights / Civil Liberties. Anime. Liberal.
Joined May 2023
