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Maybe they should replace it with Google’s former pledge “Don’t be evil”: it’s free for the taking, nobody’s using it at the moment.

You know you can say “Chinese troll” without hating anybody, yes?

As in “the person is a troll” and “the person is Chinese”. No hate anywhere: it’s just two facts that happen to go together quite well because China is kind of notorious for being the place where you can find internet trolls for hire for cheap.

You need to stop thinking everything in terms of how racist it sounds.

Thank you. That was informative. I didn’t know.

Instead of whining like a 5 year old, why doesn’t he use his obscene wealth to pay an army of Chinese internet trolls to rewrite Wikipedia to his liking? I bet Wikipedia and the regular contributors wouldn’t even have the resources to withstand the assault and correct the untruths faster than they’d be created.

The old-style checklist:

https://ratical.org/ratville/CAH/fasci14chars.html

The modern checklist:

https://www.realtimefascism.com/

Please don’t use AI to get accurate information that matters.

When then announced they’d be selling content for AI training, I went back to my old abandoned Reddit accounts and slightly altered all of my previous posts with actual content to be factually incorrect and misleading in subtle ways. It took me two months to rewrite everything, a few old posts at a time per day.

Now whatever technical or historical stuff I posted on Reddit is false and AI is training on that.

Aren’t you glad you did the work and gave Reddit the content it monetizes for free?

.ml isn’t great but it’s nothing compared to Hexbear. If the hexbears lose their madhouse and start disseminating to other tankie instances, it’s gonna make them ten times worse.

lol great image!

It just brings their BS policy in line with reality. Don’t think for a second that they removed their statement to feel free to use AI for military purposes: they’re already doing that now.

Interesting

I haven’t found him off until yesterday. But what he said yesterday genuinely shocked me.

Oh well. At least he’s funny, unlike the fat orange-utan and his entourage, who range from creepy to repetitive and depressing.

Yes it is.

I watched Jon Stewart’s TDS piece yesterday and for once, the man horrified me. His arguments were:

• We gave Trump the power to use the constitution which grants him the right to do all the terrifying things he’s done so far, therefore it’s not fascism because it’s constitutional, and we should react only when he crosses the line and he starts doing unconstitutional shit and nobody counters him using constitutional means. He even said “Don’t blame the players, blame the Founding Fathers.” - as if somehow playing dirty is okay because it’s allowed.

• If we keep shouting “fascist” now that it’s only a mild case, nobody will listen when the case gets more severe.

In other words, according to Stewart, we should wait until Trump and his henchmen become fascist enough to react and make noise.

What an asinine logic! Trump is fascist RIGHT NOW, AT FULL PELT! It’s not because the constitution is broken and allows it that it’s not fascism. Hitler too rose to power legally.

If you need proof, check for yourself whether the United States doesn’t tick all the boxes.

Hint: it does perfectly, all 14 of them, without a single exception.

I’m pretty sure TSMC has the means to hurt the US more than Trump realizes.

Now that Trump’s USA scores almost as low as China on the democracy scale, I guess TikTok isn’t an existential threat to the nation anymore.

Great idea - the idea is to favor funding to project that a lot of people contribute a little money to over those that few people contribute a lot of money to, thereby removing rich people’s money’s power.

The way I see it, it’s a sort of hybrid form of public funding: there’s public money going to certain projects, but they go to projects that people privately put their own money into, so they have a real personal stake in it, with a bias towards funneling more public money to projects that more people want.

But I can immediately see a problem: rich people bribing enough poor people in the community to fund the stuff they want done. E.g. telling 500 people “Here’s $1200: put $1000 in the golf course extension and keep $200” to get their $500,000 private golf extension funded.

The other problem I see is that for this kind of scheme to become mainstream, banks and governments will have to get onboard, and those are controlled by the rich, who obviously don’t want to shoot themselves in the foot.

The third potential problem is, crypto bros are pushing this. We’d better look really REALLY closely at the proposal, because there’s a really good chance there’s something scammy going on in it.

Still, intriguing concept: it seems reasonable and I can see myself participating in such fundings.