Olives @olives@qoto.org

Other than academics pointing out criminalizing prostitution is bad policy, the War on Prostitution has given us jumpy financial institutions, jumpy tech firms, a contribution to the rise of Q, and so on.

The War on Prostitution in the U.S. is the source of a lot of nonsense.

I'd rather focus on wrongness which creates problems than a wrong take which is technically wrong but I'm not sure has real implications.

On second thought, let's not waste time on bad takes.

It's also a piece of misinfo which has been dead for many years, because it became very clear that it was false.

It's not just a piece of misinfo, it's a particularly stupid piece of misinfo.

I see another got suckered by misinfo #FreeSpeech

There was a case in 2019. It was reported as an "art" case by a new underfunded CSO. It became evident it was about child abuse.

Why do you think the sentence was so harsh? Yeah, it had procedural / due process violations. The Fifth Circuit does weird things. That is problematic in it's own right as due process exists so innocents aren't implicated and defendants might not be sympathetic. However, this doesn't change what the case was about.

https://reason.com/2024/12/04/north-carolina-goes-drug-war-on-prostitution/ @enbrown.bsky.social makes a compelling argument against going drug war on prostitution. #HumanRights #NorthCarolina

From what I can tell, these are scheduled a year in advance (although, what is covered in the conference is decided closer to the date than that).

Two think of the children conferences were held this week. So, watch out for any bad ideas (that might involve surveillance or censorship).

Someone in a film didn't take the idea that there were mole people seriously. We have to take my bizarre hypothetical seriously.

"Okay, even if LLMs can't become sentient. Maybe, we will invent something in the future which will."
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Even if it became practical in the future, it would likely be adopted for very narrow use cases, and there aren't that many. It's not a magical super computer like in the films.

While in security, we have more concrete ideas of how it might be a threat (and how to mitigate that), if it were ever to be a practical tool, in this case, it is purely aimless speculation.

This is a technology which is virtually non-existent. What does exist exists in the form of multi-million dollar machines, cooled to near absolute zero. These only manipulate about a dozen "qubits" (it is cheaper / easier to just engage in more conventional computing for the same tasks).

As a cherry on top, a British think of the children org went as far as to speculate over whether quantum computing might be a "threat" in the future (such as in "making uploading easier").

When I hear of Singapore's government banning films because they paint the government in a bad light, and executing people for smuggling drugs (also known for banning chewing gum and being a boring place), this doesn't sound like a particularly nice country.

"I was in Singapore for a day, it was nice there."
Someone said this to me in response to one of my critiques. That is probably not long enough to encounter the problems with Singapore, especially if there for business or something.