Don’t forget the hundreds of billions that global capitalism funneled into China by “outsourcing” absolutely everything they possibly could over the last 30-40 years — devaluing developed world labour markets and environmental regulations, and winding back the clock to an unregulated slave labour market is what made it so attractive.

Companies will pass costs onto consumers anyway, so best to make them all bear the same costs and be on a level playing field. No point targeting consumers directly unless it’s greenwashing.

My city banned plastic bags a year ago. I’m still using ones from 2-3 years ago. The bags that replaced them are advertised as more “reusable” but use like 5-10x more plastic per bag and I doubt I’m going to even get double the longevity. Really feels like they did it to benefit the fossil fuel merchants of death, and not reduce plastic at all… especially considering everything else is still wrapped in single use plastic.

Thank you for your service

I’ll snort the blow off their nail, though. I’m not a hater.

Sure, you had fewer ads before, but now you got slightly fewer ads than the amount known to induce seizures. Blessed be the fruit!

When that happened our DevOps teams migrated all our prod k8’s to podman, with zero issues. Docker who?

Programs have “learned” how to play games without instruction — most recently with rat neurons playing Doom — and that’s what they’ll attempt to do with LLM’s. It must learn from feedback, experience and interaction as we could never code something that complex.

I don’t believe LLM’s can achieve general AI, but humans are just organic pattern recognition devices at the end of the day — a brain in an organic machine that can sense a fraction of the world around us.

The problem is that LLM’s are dumb, thus dangerous when given autonomy, they’ll be used to wage war, and the military industrial complex is more likely to destroy us with autonomous LLM killbots than achieve general AI.

95% of corporations and 100% of multinationals are greedy parasites who only virtue signal when it’s profitable (mainstream) to do so.

Those that had any real virtue have been destroyed or acquired by the parasites.

My phone has been on silent permanently for the last 2 decades, so I miss 90% of calls. Only answer when it’s a known contact and I’m actively looking at my phone.

Fox News IS the conservative plutocracy’s STATE propaganda network. The only difference is they created the state media before they seized control of the state.

Outside the US there are very few major cities that don’t depend on public transport, because it is the most efficient way to move millions of people around a city. Ultimately it depends on the quality of public transport.

All of which are heavily based on open source software, donations, and in the case of wikipedia, user generated and moderated content.

The solution is not centralization. It’s decentralization. A decentralized internet archive could not be held accountable, or taken down, by any individual government. It will remain active and fault tolerant as long as enough users keep enough storage allocated to maintain replication and redundancy. One architected with zero knowledge encryption as the backbone (e.g. IPFS + I2P) could even operate within the jurisdiction of hostile governments.

Exactly. This is why the internet archive should be a universally publicly-funded endeavor. It’s just as important as the world’s libraries.

I’m really hoping the internet archive shifts to some distributed P2P type model (IPFS, Tahoe-Lafs etc) where anyone can assign a hard drive as tribute, archive any public webpage on it and it’ll be replicated around the world, but still accessible through a single protocol. You can’t stop the signal!

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Chris Berg is a professor of economics at the RMIT Blockchain Innovation Hub.

Worthless opinion piece is worthless.

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They control the OS that’s storing your encryption key and decrypting your signal messages. You still have to trust one of the leaders in surveillance capitalism to not “accidentally” capture all the data they assure you they aren’t capturing.

The system was built by sociopaths.

Maybe the difference is that the signal developers aren’t rich people flying around the EU on private jets? Maybe there’s no value in targeting the signal devs because they can’t legally be expected to moderate chats they literally can not access? Maybe it’s not worth backdooring because it’s open source?

For real. We already know Microsoft is a leader in data collection, economic espionage, and surveillance capitalism. We know for a fact they gave secret police real-time backdoors into their systems and all data they hold the encryption keys to.