Olives @olives@qoto.org

Without proportionality, you get logic like "a crime happened in that city, let's shut the city down".

The reason we don't have "mask mandates" for things like the cold, or other common diseases, is that we don't think it's proportionate to interfere with people's lives like that. It doesn't mean someone couldn't wear a mask anyway in that situation.

And frankly, maybe people should consider wearing masks more, even when there isn't a pandemic.

Other people wearing masks doesn't necessarily mean that everyone is mandated to wear a mask. It's not an all of nothing.

And while someone might take issue with the mask mandates which were put in place during the pandemic, it's silly to prohibit masks in response to that.

There are people who see stupid ideas (which are certainly made for all the wrong reasons), then they try to "imagine" possible ways in which it might be "useful".

Prohibiting masks would lead to the spread of disease. It's that simple. There are people who have a greater concern for their own health. There are even countries where it's not unusual for someone to wear a mask when they get sick.

"banning masks in public" has nothing to do with any "legitimate purpose".

"Jaz" claims to speak for the fediverse, even though it seems that no one asked him to speak on their behalf.

He attends events as a self-proclaimed "representative".

He offers to "help", even though this is transparently an attempt to position himself as an "authority".

While the 2022 migration wave bought some new users to the fediverse, it also brought a few outsiders like this who want to "colonize" it and shape it in their own "image".

Once again, a Welsh man "Jaz" who works for a British company is trying to co-opt the fediverse.

Just as posts from weeks ago might show up in my home feed, edits from weeks ago appear to be showing up in my Notifications.

There's a guy who posts 30 post threads (unfortunately, a number of instances have a small character limit) and it'd be nice if it was possible to expand / collapse threads.

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2024/nov/01/eu-citizen-caught-up-in-home-office-residency-backlog-forcibly-removed-from-uk-costa-koushiappis
"An EU citizen caught up in a Home Office backlog of applications for post-Brexit residency status has been forcibly removed from the UK.

Costa Koushiappis, 39, a Greek Cypriot, was put onboard a plane to Amsterdam with only three days’ notice. Speaking as he was being escorted on to the aircraft in Edinburgh shortly before 9am on Friday, he said he could not understand his unfolding nightmare."

That said, someone surely doesn't need a philosopher or vague concepts / roundtables to figure out that this sounds like an awfully bad idea.

Building robust and reliable systems has been an aim of the field for decades, and a system which fails inexplicably in carrying out tasks is something that surely should be ruled out.

There is also practically always a simpler way of carrying out an action which doesn't involve using a supremely over-engineered system.

Hooking an "AI" up to an external system to carry out an action on your behalf sounds like a stupid idea. By nature, "AI" are unpredictable and unreliable. They can fail in inexplicable ways. It also doesn't add that much, if any, value.

Artificial "intelligence".

I've read the actual manga for Ga-Rei and it was interesting.