again, the press' failure in this moment is so severe, profound, and widespread that it almost doesn't feel real
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Karl Bode (karlbode@masto.ai)'s status on Wednesday, 17-Jul-2024 23:14:45 JST Karl Bode
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Karl Bode (karlbode@masto.ai)'s status on Wednesday, 17-Jul-2024 23:14:44 JST Karl Bode
I'm starting to feel like I'm one of the people in a John Carpenter film trying to get people to see the fucking all-obliterating monster at the door and everybody's just standing around with a slack-jawed look on their face wondering why I'm being so loud at the tupperware party
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Karl Bode (karlbode@masto.ai)'s status on Saturday, 29-Jun-2024 01:21:13 JST Karl Bode
I 100% believe this is a fatal gut shot to any sort of coherent, stable federal governance
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Karl Bode (karlbode@masto.ai)'s status on Saturday, 29-Jun-2024 01:21:12 JST Karl Bode
shitty Reason columnists and Libertarian think tankers covertly on company payrolls will spend the next six straight months pretending critics of this decision are being hyperbolic, but I don't think the deadly impact on consumer protection, the environment, and public safety is even fathomable
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Karl Bode (karlbode@masto.ai)'s status on Saturday, 29-Jun-2024 01:21:11 JST Karl Bode
and the feckless, "both sides" press coverage is going to fail utterly to properly explain the stakes of this ruling to the public, in part because the billionaire owners of a highly consolidated media support the total lobotomization of the regulatory state
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Karl Bode (karlbode@masto.ai)'s status on Saturday, 29-Jun-2024 01:21:10 JST Karl Bode
now that they've fully defanging federal regulators, ensuring ANY attempt at reform is bogged down in perpetual legal bog, the corporatists and fascists can shift their cooperative focus toward crushing the last vestiges of state rights
everything is a local fight now
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Karl Bode (karlbode@masto.ai)'s status on Thursday, 06-Jun-2024 01:57:27 JST Karl Bode
this is why we can't have nice things
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Karl Bode (karlbode@masto.ai)'s status on Friday, 08-Mar-2024 04:57:10 JST Karl Bode
so you ban tiktok with a giant patriotic flourish
but you leave data brokers unregulated and refuse to pass a privacy law
dodgy and unregulated international data brokers turn around sell all the same (probably more) sensitive user data to chinese intelligence anyway
problem solved ???
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Karl Bode (karlbode@masto.ai)'s status on Friday, 08-Mar-2024 04:49:04 JST Karl Bode
also if congress gave two shits about national security, they would meaningfully combat corruption and avoid making NYC real estate conmen with fourth grade reading levels president
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Karl Bode (karlbode@masto.ai)'s status on Friday, 08-Mar-2024 04:49:03 JST Karl Bode
and if they gave the slightest shit about consumer privacy they'd pass a meaningful privacy law for the internet era and regulate data brokers
but they simply don't, and so much of the tiktok hyperventilation in Congress (and at the FCC) is entirely performative
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Karl Bode (karlbode@masto.ai)'s status on Friday, 08-Mar-2024 04:48:24 JST Karl Bode
tiktok isn't absent of privacy, natsec, and surveillance issues, but 90% of the "ban tiktok" sentiment in Congress is mostly driven by racism and Facebook protectionism
this is not a regulatory body that actually gives two shits about consumer privacy or security
https://www.cnn.com/2024/03/07/tech/congress-bill-bans-tiktok-america/index.html
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Karl Bode (karlbode@masto.ai)'s status on Thursday, 15-Feb-2024 22:25:59 JST Karl Bode
so not only did Amazon charge Prime Video customers (who already pay $140 annually) $3 extra every month just to avoid ads that didn't exist previously, they stripped away functionality unless you pay the troll toll
enshittify ALL the things!
https://www.theverge.com/24071417/amazon-prime-video-no-dolby-vision-atmos
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Karl Bode (karlbode@masto.ai)'s status on Sunday, 12-Nov-2023 00:14:16 JST Karl Bode
the fail upward trust fund brunchlords in charge of most U.S. media outlets see AI as a way to cut corners, attack labor, and create an automated ad-engagement bullshit machine where human interest, employee welfare, or product quality no longer actually matter
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Karl Bode (karlbode@masto.ai)'s status on Sunday, 12-Nov-2023 00:13:19 JST Karl Bode
a rich brat tried to dress up his desire for unconstrained greed as some sophisticated and original ethos in a "manifesto," prompting an entire week of elaborate dissection that still somehow gives his inane thoughts gravitas they simply don't deserve
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/10/26/opinion/marc-andreessen-reactionary-futurism.html
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Karl Bode (karlbode@masto.ai)'s status on Wednesday, 02-Aug-2023 18:00:47 JST Karl Bode
starting today, kids no longer need work permits to work low paid, often dangerous jobs in Arkansas
look at the kids' faces as the nepo-baby governor grins like a lobotomized walrus
https://arktimes.com/arkansas-blog/2023/07/31/hundreds-of-new-arkansas-laws-set-to-take-effect-aug-1
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Karl Bode (karlbode@masto.ai)'s status on Friday, 28-Jul-2023 00:41:18 JST Karl Bode
this story is wild. Tesla misrepresented the range of their cars for decades, then created a team specifically dedicated to undermining customer efforts to schedule appointments and get help
https://www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/tesla-batteries-range/
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Karl Bode (karlbode@masto.ai)'s status on Friday, 07-Jul-2023 05:52:27 JST Karl Bode
these pseudo free market libertarian tough guys are all "I shall prove my innovation mettle on the field of battle" until there's the slightest bit of competition, then they immediately get a full diaper
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Karl Bode (karlbode@masto.ai)'s status on Friday, 07-Jul-2023 05:52:26 JST Karl Bode
it's genuinely wild how we heard nothing but long winded platitudes on how innovative silicon valley was for like 20 straight years and it's all culminated in a bunch of the dullest, most petulant billionaires imaginable all just copying each other's version of a very basic chat app
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Karl Bode (karlbode@masto.ai)'s status on Friday, 26-May-2023 00:58:16 JST Karl Bode
I still don't really think the public fully appreciates how the next few years are going to see a total and complete lobotomization of already underfunded and understaffed safety, environmental, labor, and consumer protection regulators
they're just warming this orchestra up as they implement a plan fifty years in the making:
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Karl Bode (karlbode@masto.ai)'s status on Sunday, 23-Apr-2023 19:07:56 JST Karl Bode
I'm still really enjoying the seamless pivot of countless big name tech journalists who enabled his bullshit mythology for more than a decade, and now, only when he's descended into full caricature, casually pretend to be hard nosed skeptics who saw him for what he was the entire time