Olives @olives@qoto.org

Is that Monster? Wow, that's a classic. A story of a serial killer and a doctor (who saved his life without knowing after he sustained a bullet wound to the head, I think he was shot by his sister).

Perhaps, it has something to do with the bad faith puritans who keep complaining about slutty shirts with the word "daddy" on them.

Or the company is pulling a Paypal and screwing their sellers to try to pander to consumers. Or freezing someone's funds might be a neat way to make more money.

https://reason.com/2023/07/25/government-wants-to-control-your-digital-identity/ An American take on such a system in Colorado.

https://reclaimthenet.org/u-tries-to-justify-support-for-scanning-private-messages More ways in which Ylva's opinion survey is unethical.

https://reclaimthenet.org/australian-finance-minister-pushes-digital-id-system What do you think of this? I can think of several ways in which it could be very bad. It gives the government a lot of power... Power is easy to abuse and over-reach with.

With #AI, my main concern lies in things like predictive policing, facial recognition, hiring algorithms, landlord tenant algorithms, tax collection algorithms (yes, these have gone horribly wrong), moderation algorithms, and so on.

These sorts of algorithms where power is imposed by a powerful party onto a more vulnerable party (and which are inherently discriminative).

I'm not really concerned about generative "AI" (which is really a hyped up threat in a number of ways, it's up to someone to be responsible).

https://reason.com/2023/07/29/the-return-of-mdma/ "services such as testing partygoers' drugs for dangerous ingredients"
There was a country which was doing something like that, I think it was New Zealand? My memory is foggy.

It'd be interesting to get data on how that goes.

"In 2002, a senator from Delaware named Joe Biden proposed the Reducing Americans' Vulnerability to Ecstasy (RAVE) Act."
Hehehe, it's always him.

https://truthout.org/articles/profiteers-of-holmesburg-prisons-medical-experiments-have-yet-to-redress-harm/ Since I already brought up the subject of historical scientific ethics being poor, here's another story of inhumane experiments.

It doesn't even really surprise me that one of these Q grifters is making money by... Posting illegal photos of the vilest abuse for the purposes of shock and conspiracy.

They're not exactly known for being particularly good people.

https://reclaimthenet.org/the-nsa-wants-congress-to-allow-purchase-of-warrantless-data Of course the NSA would want to keep that loophole open.

As lovely as national security is, I don't think mass surveillance of literally everyone is proportionate for it, and it's left the door open to all kinds of abuses.

I suspect it's prevalent because it's very convenient for a user to just scroll down a bit more and to see content pop right in (although, it has a problem with it being easy to lose your place).

For all the talk of endless scrolling being bad, doesn't Mastodon also have endless scrolling?

Okay, there might be less content to populate that feed than on a much larger site, however, it's still the same bit of functionality?

The resemblance to Matara is striking.

Ylva just keeps making the situation worse for herself.

She started off with an arrangement which allows for "voluntary" scanning, however, she keeps pushing and more and more people respond to her by filing lawsuits.

https://reclaimthenet.org/child-abuse-survivor-sues-meta-for-scanning-messages Child abuse survivor sues Facebook for violating their privacy by scanning their messages.

The statute which allows them to do so might be unlawful under the E.U.'s Constitution, the Charter of Fundamental Rights.

One of the rights protected by the Charter is the right to privacy.

https://reason.com/2023/07/26/hunter-biden-shouldnt-go-to-prison-for-violating-an-arbitrary-gun-law/ A very American civil rights scandal, lol.

It is kind of arbitrary, yes.

If it's already legal to buy, I don't see why consuming cannabis should make much of a difference (although, he seems to have been consuming a harder drug).

I never thought I'd see a post suggesting that the holodeck would probably lead to a decrease in sex crimes.

That makes a lot of sense, although it's not really what I typically think of when imagining a sci-fi world.

It was a fairly borderline case, and over something he probably bought in the... 80s...?

But, then, the bird site has a way with scandal.

Makes more sense, if you remember that it's referred to as "the federation", lol.

While the other ones were also interesting, you'd sit there, and be like, oh cool, it's a Borg episode.