Maeve

Working fine on librewolf so far.

I switched from FF to librewolf. Less convenient, more privacy, no pesky G**gle partnerships, afaict.

Something not wasting it on endless ads.

And our own bandwidth, too. Google isn’t paying my Internet bill. Hope the rest of my content creators switch soon, otherwise I’ll miss them.

No worries, and that actually makes sense, now that you mention it. Thank you for your reply.

This may have something to do with it. One hand washing the other, as the saying goes.

But I also have doubts if this is the right move

Can you share those and the reasoning, please?

The reason I didn’t agree with that is because desperate people do desperate things, despite how clear and concise information available is. With every person had guaranteed, decent housing, food, comprehensive medical, decent clothing and other needs met, I may reconsider.

I think we’re in agreement. I could have said “technologically necessary” to have been more clear, but I don’t agree sale or sharing should be by consent. I think it should be illegal, full stop.

Wish the brigaders would read that thread

Australia is, and France is their ally.

The fears, however reasonable you may find them, are largely that it presents a danger of foreign information gathering of detailed behavioral/location/interest/social network information on a huge swath of the U.S. population which can be used either for intelligence purposes or targeted influence/psyops campaigns within the U.S.

Tbh, I’m troubled by my own government doing that to us.

How about making data collection other than necessary to operate a website illegal, then making the sale of that data illegal, and absolutely require a warrant to collect it, including from FISA court?

Tamir Rice

I doubt it’s denting the bottom* line as much as the recent court rulings. And I doubt it’s as much paying bills as it is paying vested interests.

First time I heard anyone call Mike a philosopher.

Is AI still racist?

Thanks. That’s a liberal (sorry, I couldn’t resist) definition of socialism he used there too, even allowing for the “national” qualifier.

It seems I read once that “socialist” was just in the party name to garner support of those who would be supportive of socialist values. I can’t recall the publication, but wonder if that’s true?

You’re welcome? I haven’t done anything but share a limited perspective, and I’m happy you appreciated it.

There’s an anchoring effect at play here as well where people naturally assume that the society they grew up in is the natural default. Any deviation from that is seen as being extreme as a result.

That even happens from household to household, in the same neighborhood.