Olives @olives@qoto.org

Noting that these "safeguards" are not actually safeguards.

Someone can construe plenty of things as "harmful", to attempt to, or to chill risk averse platforms (with the possibility that they might).

Either way, this infringes on the First Amendment and undermines users' free expression.

https://reclaimthenet.org/bill-that-would-push-for-online-id-checks Another piece on how bad KOSA is.

Looking at social media again (although, limited in the scope in which I scan it). Yup, a whole lot of drama.

If you think about it though, Sword Art Online, the prequel to Accel World, is kind of a critique of having these random things interacting with your head.

To be fair, the bread and butter of sci-fi is to imagine what sort of things might crop up in the future.

The precise details on X are also a bit different, as X is more the management AI, than the network.

Gatchaman Crowds with "X" (a giant social network and AI) and Accel World with the brain computer interface "Neuralink".

What's next? The talking egoistical space colony in a certain space anime? Is he going to try to build Gundam? Lol.

Also ironically, there is an anime with a brain computer interface called the Neuralink. Accel World.

Might actually be less than a thousand in ten years, because each one might have multiple victims.

If you stereotype Skynet as wanting to enslave or destroy humanity, is this hate speech?

Another example was that game where there's a random event when the king has the trait "insane" where he passes a law forcing every building to have a big hole in it so the wind can pass unobstructed.

This is so bizarre and incomprehensible to me... Like that guy from North Korea wanting to police people's hairstyles.

I'm okay with Facebook releasing their LLM as "open source", although is it actually open source? It would be cool, if it were.

https://greekcitytimes.com/2023/07/21/turkey-portuguese-tourist-gay/ Portuguese tourist in Turkey jailed for "looking gay".

https://theintercept.com/2017/11/02/war-crimes-youtube-facebook-syria-rohingya/ This is one way in which embarrassing "virtuous" policies can blow up in a platform's face.

You should never rely on these large private platforms to protect your rights.

Bluesky's Q-like vague language appears to be based on imaginary problems which only some right wing folks care about.

It's what some might call "culture war bullshit".

https://www.reuters.com/technology/elon-musk-says-twitter-change-logo-adieu-all-birds-2023-07-23/ Ironically, there is an anime which has a social network called X, which appears to be the same name Elon has converged on, lol.

https://theappeal.org/supreme-court-jones-v-hendrix-hurting-innocent-people/ The U.S. Supreme Court's ruling which undermined due process is already hurting people who were served excessive sentences in the past.

https://theappeal.org/angola-prison-louisiana-children-deadly-heat/ Incarcerated minors kept in inhumane conditions in Louisiana.

Apparently, a lack of housing is a risk factor for being "sex trafficked". So, we should probably help with that.

Hey cops, please leave the poor dogs alone. Don't shoot them.