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to summarize this entire thread: One capitalist murders the other and AI is the weapon
RE: https://wandering.shop/@silverspookgames/115572330340124761
RE: https://wandering.shop/@silverspookgames/115572330340124761
So all of capitalism will explode with the AI MOAB (Mother of All Bubbles)? Let's go.
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@silverspookgames The funniest thing would be if the bubble pops & everyone except the Big Five™️ easily pivot back to AI-free because nobody really took it seriously...
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noc.social is down
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Should I make a Bluesky account?
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I just wanna be a capybara living in a petting zoo. Is it so much to ask?
@N33R
>Matthew 19:12 (NIV)
>For there are eunuchs who were born that way, and there are eunuchs who have been made eunuchs by others—and there are those who choose to live like eunuchs for the sake of the kingdom of heaven. The one who can accept this should accept it.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eunuch
>Eunuchs supposedly did not generally have loyalties to the military, the aristocracy, or a family of their own (having neither offspring nor in-laws, at the very least). They were thus seen as more trustworthy and less interested in establishing a private dynasty. Because their condition usually lowered their social status, they could also be easily replaced or killed without repercussion.
Why anyone would identify with this is beyond me.
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We need more than 2 popular and accessible types of mobile OS 📱
We need more than 2 popular and accessible types of desktop OS 🖥️
We need more than 2 popular and accessible types of browsers 
We need more than 2 popular high-capacity cloud services ☁️
We need more than a 2 popular and secure end-to-end encrypted email services 📧
We need more than a few popular and secure end-to-end encrypted messaging apps 💬
We need SO much more diversity in tech!
There seems to be a tendency to just pit projects against each other (or buy each other) until we only get 2 options in the end. This is horrible for consumer choices, for security, for privacy, for resilience, and just leads to more enshitification everywhere once people are locked in systems without viable alternatives.
We need much more options, everywhere.
Celebrate and encourage diversity.
In tech, and everywhere else.
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I am nailing Nine Theses to the door of @wikipedia. This has been my project for the last nine months. There has never been a thoroughgoing Wikipedia reform proposal—this is the first. If it doesn't work, we need to organize an alternative. 🧵
Good definitions of political terms:
https://crookedtimber.org/2018/03/21/liberals-against-progressives/#comment-729324
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On definitions: here’s a set I find helpful, although certainly incomplete.
“Liberals” are focused on equality of rights among people. What count as rights is heavily contested, but in general universal rights are the liberal focus. Liberals are opposed to privilege (private law-where class/status are legally important) and fairly are criticized for “the law, in it’s magnificent equality, forbids both rich and poor from begging for bread and sleeping under bridges.”
“Leftists/socialists” are focused on economic inequalities, generally influenced by Marx to some degree. Leftists are opposed to economic inequality, and often see it as a cause of social/rights-based inequalities rather than seeing those as separate things. Leftists are opposed to difference-making inequalities in private property, and are fairly criticized for “Wonderful theory, wrong species.”
“Progressives” are focused on social/identity-based inequalities, often based on feminist and critical race theorist social critiques. Progressives see economic inequality as entangled with social inequality, but see social inequality as the more immediate concern. Progressives tend to focus on the social and institutional factors that maintain social inequalities, and to be very focused on ensuring that all institutions serve the needs of society. Leftists criticize progressives for focusing on the wrong problem; liberals criticize them for re-inventing privilege.
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A 2-pixel tall pixel font. (!) https://joefatula.com/twoslice.html
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TL;DR:
The Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN) revealed that the US Treasury is finalizing a ban on privacy tools, specifically private cryptocurrency transactions, by expanding the PATRIOT Act to digital assets.
https://www.therage.co/us-government-to-bring-patriot-act-to-digital-assets/
FinCEN Director Andrea Gacki confirmed that the Treasury is working on finalizing the so-called mixer rule, which uses the PATRIOT Act to prohibit private transactions in cryptocurrency.
We are seeing more and more illegal transactions being done in crypto,” Representative Liccardo claimed in the hearing, citing a study which found that out of 111 examined fraud cases, 91% allegedly involved so-called decentralized finance, or 'DeFi'. The concern here, according to Liccardo, arises from the pseudonymity of transactions.
While Gacki stated that FinCEN was working with blockchain analysis companies to deanonymize pseudonymous transactions, Liccardo countered that software like mixers would allow users to evade even sophisticated detection techniques.
What is the "Mixer Rule"?
The Treasury's mixer rule is not so much a mixer rule rather than a blanket ban on any software and even behavior that would grant users of public blockchains transactional privacy.
Notably, the mixer rule's suggestions on cryptocurrency swaps, transaction delays, "splitting," and the creation of single-use addresses, wallets, and accounts, would even put users under suspicion with the authorities, potentially ending in criminal liability – similar to how transaction structuring, sometimes also known as "smurfing," is deemed a federal crime in traditional finance, referring to the intentional breakup of transactions to fall below the $10,000 currency transaction reporting requirement.
In traditional finance, smurfing carries a federal prison sentence of up to 5 years, even if the money transferred did not stem from illicit origins.
Banning All Cryptocurrency Transactions for non-US Jurisdictions
The Special Measures to Fight Modern Threats Act, originally introduced in 2022 by Representative Himes of Connecticut as part of the COMPETES Act, would effectively grant the Treasury the power to ban any type of transaction it deems a concern without public notice or input under PATRIOT Act authority.
"one likely scenario is that the Treasury would use this authority to prohibit U.S. banks from being involved with cryptocurrency transactions validated by miners located outside of the United States."
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"You have to get permission to quote someone's public post and then if they don't like how you're quoting them they can take your quote post away"?
Are these people serious? It will just drive people to take screenshots.
Are these people serious? It will just drive people to take screenshots.
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IMO contracts should require all parties to paraphrase them from memory in addition to the wording in order for them to be enforceable. If that's not possible then it's not fair to say there's enthusiastic consent on all sides.
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