Notices by Gabe (gabriel@mk.gabe.rocks), page 9

@Hyolobrika@social.fbxl.net
Yep, creating the illusion of protection from financial control with none of the actual benefits.
Maybe they're just becoming more honest about it?

:bitcoin:

Bitcoiners have gone from "the government should get out of my bags! To the government should BUY my bags!"

#Bitcoin2024 #BitcoinConf

A large majority of workers say AI has made the workplace a living hell and created MORE work rather than reducing it.

@idiot@shitposter.world @sun@shitposter.world
I do find it funny when 'privacy' commentators use the idea of threat modeling to say "care about privacy, or don't idc"

@sun@shitposter.world
Please elaborate!

And here I thought nobody was gonna read it,

If democracy is possible in our time, the primary focus needs to be on how to better empower the citizenry against top-down threats such as mass surveillance and other forms of mechanized warfare.

As far as I can tell, the technocrats (Thiel, Gates, etc) basically have given up on the idea of a balance of power and are just rushing in to take the spoils.

That's why it's so tragic to see people (regardless of their stated political affiliation) carry water for these mechanisms of control against their enemies. If you think they'll be used for good, you haven't been paying enough attention.

'sudo' but for the public

The edgy shitposter knows they can't mess with the admin

Behold: memes

Been browsing #Crowdstrike's YouTube channel and found this gem.

@Hyolobrika@social.fbxl.net
Tinnitus isn't real, it's all in your head.

When you leave a country on read

#Crowdstrike CEO getting ROASTED

Q predicted this.

Forming mobs hunting people down to get them fired for legally protected speech is wrong. In my opinion, there should be stronger labor protections for speech across the board because of nonsense like this.

Despite the recent rise of people on the right going after people for wishing the assassination succeeded, the left absolutely has to own that they've spent over a decade normalizing and defending this nonsense. It is no surprize at all, and was predicted from the very beginning that it would eventually lead to this.

My standard for culture war bullshit is that target selection matters. I'm sorry, but I don't think somebody wishing the president died is actually that big a deal. I'm pretty sure a majority of people are guilty of this for at least one head of state in their lives. If these were people advocating for criminal behavior (or behavior that should be criminal) I would feel differently, but it never has been.

The truth is, I also blame employers for this. It's all too easy to throw the employee under the bus to avoid a tiny bit of bad PR. I think if there was ever a purpose for 'sensitivity training' it should be used for situations like this. I think it shows a lack of respect for your workers if you'll let them go over such a tiny thing without even attempting to address the root issue.

If people actually want free speech and meritocracy, we're going to need institutions that are actually more resilient to human failings, rather than pretending we can purge them in totality. Again, this is something I blame the left for a great deal because progressives were perfectly fine with shaping institutions to their values when it suited them. Now the shoe is on the other foot and ordinary people are yet again being torched to establish a new order of political correctness.

This is the bed that was made, I'd like us to build a different one but for now this seems to be the one we're lying in for the time being.

@sun@shitposter.world
Hot take: this applies to collapase cultists of any flavor.
But, I would argue they could sincerely worry about potential problems without thinking through 2nd order effects like that.

I would argue that "Eugenics is already back" but in an entirely different form than how many assume. There does seem to be a calculated piratization of wealth done in tandem with mass destruction of the commons.
(Think shilling "defund the police" while living in a gated community with armed guards, or legalizing mass surveillance while privately profiting off it.)

@Hyolobrika@social.fbxl.net
All I know is:

:decepticon: Soundwave superior

:autobot: Autobots inferior

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