Notices by craignicol (craignicol@glasgow.social)

@cwebber I did. And now I'm going to yeet this Google GBoard and its attempts to correct my typing. 🤬

@cwebber luckily Epstein himself left some quotes that might lead us to understand exactly what he would think about this

"I never teach my pupils, I only attempt to provide the conditions in which they can learn."
"It has become appallingly obvious that our technology has exceeded our humanity."
"Our entire much-praised technological progress, and civilization generally, could be compared to an axe in the hand of a pathological criminal."

@HistoPol @largess @mmalc @SeanCasten I think one of the few comparable cases in terms of misrepresentation of the science and lobbying capture of lawmakers would be the tobacco industry, and there's 70 years of cases against them with tobacco still widely available.

@HistoPol @mmalc @SeanCasten I think they might be getting worried about it though as they are asking for protection from court cases. I would imagine their balance sheet for lawyers and insurance is increasing.

It would be poetic if legal fees are what bankrupts them, but I'm not holding my breath.

@HistoPol @mmalc @SeanCasten I'm honestly surprised they've not been sued multiple times over by other USA companies about the impact of climate change. Whether ski resorts, anyone affected by drought or flooding or hurricanes.

They've got some powerful protection.

@mmalc @HistoPol @SeanCasten not just chose, there's documented examples of them actively hostile to the required change. Just see COP for some of the latest.

@randahl @HistoPol wouldn't surprise me if they were the inspiration for Trump's ICE thugs. Although Israel has a little more plausible deniability here.

@evan are you, in fact, The Ship of Theseus? Are you the same you you were 5 minutes ago, 5 months ago or 5 years ago?

https://pca.st/episode/8d52aa86-b0d1-4f77-92ab-091cd818b6de

@GossiTheDog @anilmc don't TCS and JLR have the same parent? Certainly can't be helping TCS reputation. Don't they have a few UK public sector contracts too?

The Internet of... Wait, hold on, where's the internet?

AWS is the noose around so many smart home products. Wouldn't it be great if you had control off the devices in your own home?

@evan the peace prize exists because Nobel didn't want his legacy to be "invented a very powerful explosive, and it killed some people"

@georgetakei energy where you can't control the supply is worthless to him, but priceless to anyone who uses it.

@MediaActivist DuckDuckGo also has an AI remove list if you don't want slop in your image search results.

Israel is making NGO access in Gaza conditional on their silence over its genocide
https://www.thecanary.co/global/world-analysis/2025/08/14/israel-ngo-gaza/

@faoluin @cwebber "imprison US citizens next"? Doesn't USA already imprison more citizens than anyone else?

Almost like the country was built on holding people against their will.

@j12t @tchambers @benpate why would I want to share an identity across services?

I have friends who are geeks who happen to have Crohn's and family members who have Crohn's, so I was invited by algorithm to a Crohn's support group. Irrelevant but harmless. Why would I want the same identity across groups that would allow more spurious (or politically dangerous) connections?

Multiple identities is a feature, not a bug, despite what Google, Meta and the rest want us to believe.

@AnarchoNinaWrites how long do we have to boil them for? And do we have to kill them first?

@inthehands @GottaLaff harder to make out but is there also a increasing drop in late 2023 when the Cybertruck came out?

@aral Terry Pratchett's office is still my WFH goal

@GossiTheDog is it just UK at the moment? Would that suggest someone in the UK is upset with them?

(Mind you, I'm not sure if USA has the infrastructure right now to report anything)