willington

This looks like the problem here isn’t a technical one, like how to best render a site.

The problem is that some of us (too many) have become dependent on hostile systems (machines + hostile owners + desperate humans willing to serve the owners in exchang for bread aka the employees).

The solution as I see it is twofold:

1. Shift to friendly systems.
2. Treat the relationship to a hostile system as a war, and properly prosecute that war.

People are the product.

Yes, but how many pull ups does it do?

Seriously though. 70km a week is insane. Animal!

With ownership being as concentrated as it is now (more concentrated than during the guilded robber baron age), naturaly, most of the benefit flows to the biggest owners, and AI seems poised to deepen the wealth inequality further.

In a scenario without the insane wealth concentration, and with a dignified and decent economic floor being guaranteed universally, I would be in favor of any AI that does not burn our planet to a crisp and stink up the neighborhood with the gas turbine exhaust.

So in our world as it is, I have to be agaisnt the AI for the foreseeable future.

I can operate the car as I see fit once I take posession of it.

Whether the camera can continuing spying is up to me if the car is mine.

If the vendor has other ideas, they will lose in court.

The best they can do is try to condition services like warranty repairs, or software updates on my compliance, but that has to be tested. They may be compelled to provide some minimum level of service no matter what.

In other words, what’s mine is mine to control.

They would need to rent the car instead of selling it if they didn’t like letting go of it.

I am already generous. I don’t feel the slightest need to be polite or generous to someone or some entity, or a process, I didn’t like.

That’s free money for the buyer in a lawsuit.

We get all the downsides of private ownership with none of the upsides. Meanwhile, the billionaires get all the upsides of private ownership with none of the downsides. Fuck that!

Guess which cameras are getting the hammer or the duct tape?

Or buy used.

If this disease spreads, we’ll need to have a talk with the CEOs and the big investors.

They want it, duh. It don’t mean they’ll get it. Of course we can’t sleep on this either, so your warnings are fair. Thank you.

We need McCarthyism in reverse.

Jail all the cappies at the universities. Cleanse the economics dept. Close all the relevant think tanks.

Don’t tax the billionaires, just guillotine them instead. Taxes are for the civil and the civilized, exclusively.

I am so tired of capitalism. It’s a dog that won’t hunt.

P.S.: Look at the pics of the billionaires. I can’t prove it scientifically, but if it’s discovered that the billionaire gene pool is damaged I won’t be surprised. Just one look at Alex Carp, and you know he’s drinking tainted water and is unwell.

Your linked article talks about the need to research the tech to stop impaired driving.

It’s not mandatory yet, as best as I can read it for now.

Once Apple’s leasing program kills off a competing used phone market, they can also raise the cost of the lease to reflect that, which also benefits Apple over the longer term.

Apple would be stupid not to try leasing their phones.

I think at least for the bigger and for the less niche communities moderation needs to be democratic.

The upvote brought democracy to content ranking. It’s possible to bring democracy to moderation.

And this will still leave the option of private despotic moderation available. Both styles of moderation can act as a check on each other. The same community can be reproduced twice, with private and with democratic moderation. Then if the tyrants are out of control you can escape to a democratically managed community. And if the so called “mob” is out of control and the privately moderated space is nicer, you can escape there. The whole system will eventuanly self-regulate to a nice daily hum.

Same.

Whenever I brought up freedom of speech, the reddit mods would mock me with “freeze peach.” Many of the mods and admins are overtly hostile to free speech and hate democracy.

Ironic, because democracy is what made reddit great once upon the time. I remember leaving digg to go to reddit precisely because I felt I had more control and more weight there as a commenter. And they took an axe to everything that was once great.

Needless to say I have been banned on reddit since a long time ago.

Copyright started out in the USA at 14 years plus another optional 14 year extension. I am going by my memory here.

The purpose of the law was to balance public and private interests.

The public benefits from uninhibited copying. Private interests benefit from a monopoly on copying. The law at first recognized both of those interests as legitimate, which is why copyrights were relatively short at first.

Then the rich companies like Disney lobbied the govrnment to change all that.

Now copyright is something like lifetime of an author (who can be a corporation and does not even need to be a human) plus something like 150 years, plus/minus.

Basically the interests of the public were tossed out the window.

The public libraries were and still are the bullwark providing free access to copies, but the private interests hate the libraries too.

I don’t want the artists to starve. Right now the biggest holders, abusers and beneficiaries of the heinously immoral (as it currently stands) copyright regime are the giant gorporations, not the starving artists.

Plus, now a new crop of giant corporations decided to ignore copyright that was recently serving primarily other giant corporations. I hate all of them, and all of IT. Fuck them all.

Copyright law needs a reform now.

• 10 year term, no extensions.
• Can only be owned by the actual humans and never the legal entities. One exception is an estate of a human who passed on suddenly, who may hold the copyright for the benefit of the author’s family.
• No sales or transfers permitted.
• All licensing is mandatorily non-exclusive to prevent the giant corps from hoarding rights by forcing the authors to give them exclusivity. Basically an author should always be able to make new deals, full stop.

So in summary, center the human author, and balance the public and the private iterests.

And while we wait, harrrr, harrr, harrr, sail the high seas.

P.S. Fashion is one form of creative output not covered by any monopoly protection. The fashion industry is doing fine.