Olives @olives@qoto.org

Two posts appeared side to side on my feed.

One talking about how good Amazon is to their users compared to Reddit.

One where Amazon locked someone out of their own smart home (something no company should be capable of doing) because someone who works there didn't like the homeowner.

https://news.sky.com/story/bbc-chairman-asks-for-review-into-his-hiring-after-claims-he-helped-boris-johnson-secure-loan-12793498 If you're wondering why the BBC just airs Tory propaganda.

Reading a pseudo-conservative book ban take.

1) Quite a number of other countries don't ban Gender Queer or restrict it to R18. Some of these countries which don't are quite conservative.

2) These people get offended by the fact there is a book "somewhere in the library" because what we're really dealing with are concern trolls.

This isn't much better than the classical poorly constructed "what if they see porn on the Internet" puritanical argument. Who cares?

3) While it has a bit to do with this book, it has more to do with someone censoring a load of other books, even censoring books in public libraries (not even school libraries).

4) Quite often, people who want to ban this book want to ban it state-wide, or even, nationally. And not just to minors.

Hoping the stupid CEO (and his clients) survive.

This thing is more akin to a meme you'd joke about on social media than it is an actual serious vessel to travel the ocean bed in.

It is absolutely insane that they do this. It's not even in "cute inventor trying to do something radical" territory.

It's a pure wtf.

The sub stuck at the bottom of the ocean is even named after the Titanic...

https://reason.com/2023/06/14/louisiana-gov-said-he-opposed-the-death-penalty-then-almost-every-death-row-inmate-applied-for-clemency/
Apparently, a Republican Governor is not fond of the death penalty.

"Alabama built a gas chamber in 2021 so it could begin to kill inmates using the as-yet-untested method of nitrogen hypoxia"
Strong final solution vibes...

What's crazy is how unfit it is for use.

It is piloted with a video game controller.

There is no way to get out without someone unbolting it from the outside.

They're in an experimental vessel without outside support.

It's gone too deep.

Just looking at it makes you feel unsafe.

These billionaires could have hired a normal sub and saved themselves the pain.

This submarine story just gets worse and worse.

The CEO dismisses all concerns about safety and ends up trapped in an iron coffin deep in the ocean.

Nice to see more wake up to the fact that DeSantis is worse than Trump.

Twitter's moderation system still has a ridiculous number of false positives.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dXEE2DbAjds
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WR7_gavFRc0
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IZ66n8yXa6s
The anti piracy ads are probably more interesting to watch than the actual films lol

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Syhjsix9nXE A Japanese anti piracy ad.

Ten years in prison for recording a film with a camcorder o.O

"If you see suspicious activity"
If you see a guy with a camcorder for a head doing a funny dance.

If I talk about "cisco", is this using the word "cis" in a harassing way, Musk?

Wait until Musk discovers that "cis" is a scientific term.

*case Well, systemically.

While I understand there is an infamous anti-porn anti-LGBT group which influences the moderation of sites, Patreon's antics are far too brazen and direct for me to possibly give them the benefit of the doubt.

I wasn't born yesterday.

A sex education platform is part of the Free Speech Coalition's lawsuit against the "age verification" law in Louisiana.

That is one to remember anytime a lawmaker acts as if it's just about "porn".

They also disproportionately remove LGBT content and even try to intimidate people from posting it by referring to it as "abuse" (in one case, this was a response to the use of the word "transgender").

Patreon is a hate group.

Evangeline is very strong. One of the strongest mages in the world.
I'm not sure it's even possible to kill her. Only seal her away lol

Her creator got elected to Japan's legislature lol