It was the absolute shamelessness with which that CEO disregarded safety, fired people who tried to make it safe, cut corners, lied to reporters about “partnering with Boeing” (they debunked it today), and on and on.
In unrelated news, Elon Musk looking for anyone wanting to go to Mars.
I got this fun fee after trying to order takeout from Buffalo Wild Wings (yes I'm naming and shaming). How exactly does adding a dollar help you operate takeout? It's literally less work than waiting on a table. This is nothing more than a shameful cash grab to pad profits....
Capitalism does work in the voting with your wallet. However there's two things that tend to get in the way. Laziness and mergers. Either customers don't care and/or all your other opinions got bought out.
Poor people aren't human and therefore don't deserve rights or help
Incorrect. Poor people are replaceable with other poor people and eventually with robots. The fact that poor people aren't doing anything today about any of this means that there will come a day where the 1% makes up around 50% of the still living global population.
When we invented the car, horses didn't go get better jobs we just started having fewer horses.
Free speech is the bedrock of a functioning democracy, and Twitter is the digital town square where matters vital to the future of humanity are debated
— Elon Musk (Apr. 25, 2022 During the announcement Musk was buying Twitter)
I would think someone would point out the irony but I'm doubtful anyone could penetrate his fifteen astronomical unit thick ego. This man's money is the single reason anyone on this planet give him more than ten seconds of their lives.
The actual problem, binary labeling. If the category system is just "sexy" vs "non-sexy" you're going to piss off a ton of in-between. However, you want to do it, IDK. It can be sexy+1 to sexy+10 or mildly suggestive to NSFW. But Twitch needs to acknowledge there's a spectrum and ignoring that there is one is just going to piss people off.
If you’re using a script to do so, make sure it’s handling API limits specifically for “edit” calls. I realized after I tried overwriting mine that it was quietly skipping a bunch of comments, presumably because there is (allegedly) a 1 edit call per 5 second rate limit. Since adding a 5 second delay between each...
Um, sort of. Biden will plea guilty to two counts Federal misdemeanor of willful failure to pay income taxes (26 USC § 7203). Additionally, has entered into a pretrail diversion agreement on a felony charge of possession of a gun by a person who is addicted to illegal drugs. The agreement requires the defendant to comply with particular conditions set in the deal to avoid prosecution.
While none of this per se is from the "laptop", an investigation was opened up and these issues were discovered along the way. The original investigation was into any kind of money laundering scheme and thus it involved his taxes. Biden's lawyer indicated:
With the announcement of two agreements between my client, Hunter Biden, and the United States Attorney’s Office for the District of Delaware, it is my understanding that the five-year investigation into Hunter is resolved.
So given that, that is pretty much the end of any kind of criminal investigation. Each count can offer a fine up to $25,000 and 1 year minus a day prison time. However, considering that he is pleading guilty it will be significantly less than that. In fact, I believe I read somewhere that the DOJ was recommending probation, fine, and paid back taxes which is pretty consistent with how post-1980s IRS deals with tax evasion.
I think Trump's response is classic however:
Wow! The corrupt Biden DOJ just cleared up hundreds of years of criminal liability by giving Hunter Biden a mere "traffic ticket." Our system is BROKEN!
One... Hundreds of years? Really? Two. Yeah, funny thing when you cooperate with investigators and have a competent legal representation, they tend not to want to throw the book at you. Three. STOP NOT PAYING YOUR LAWYERS DIPSHIT!! It really runs the pool down of lawyers that represent on complex legal issues pro bono.
That last one I cannot stress enough. Proper legal representation is critical to not getting railroaded. If you've got a pretty toxic reputation where few if any lawyers will work with you, you better buckle up and say "choo choo".
I'm not comfortable with Google and other megacorps being the arbiters of truth
Understood. There's a couple of aspects that I'll present solely from devil's advocate.
If they leave the information up they can be found liable for that information should someone decide to file suit. Do they not have a right to protect themselves from such suits?
Are they the sole arbiters of truth? In strictly this action, are they acting in a manner that a majority of people wouldn't already agree with?
I expect our government to not participate in censorship. But I think we muddle a line between "government" and "corporation" when we attempt to hold companies to the same standard as the Government. Perhaps we are already too far in that government and megacorps are just so intertwine that it's all the same, IDK. I think that's a bit of a deeper topic than I'm willing to get into at the moment.
So that aside. The video is looking for hosting on a private company's server. I wouldn't want the Government to say "NO YOU MUST SHOW THAT VIDEO!!" to Google. We have to remember that the "free society" thing is a two way street. So I rather not have censorship in general (thus I completely understand your lack of comfort) and I expect no censorship from my government. But for private everyday people and up to megacorps, I expect them to be free to do what they so wish (but I wish for an open discussion rather removal of videos, but removal of video I still would say is a tool in Google's tool chest, but they should use it last, not first. But it isn't my company so my opinion matters next to zero in that regard). But I completely understand where you derive your statement from. I completely respect that point of view, but I disagree with it somewhat.
But in all honesty, that is simply my unsolicited opinion on this matter.
As for RFK Jr. the guy has about as much understanding of science and medicine as a rusted fire-hydrant. The amount of seriousness that should be given to that man on any of those two topics is indistinguishable from the absolute value of zero. But again, that is just my unsolicited opinion on that particular guy.
This was a motion for preliminary injunction. Typically a prohibitive injunction is what is granted, that is a return back to status quo. However, the Judge indicated that the city is so likely to act in bad faith, there is no way to both protect the status quo and the plaintiffs' first amendment right. And so the court is ordering the city to grant the permit and allow them to hold their event on June 30th, which is a mandatory injunction as it forces the city to do something rather than return to status quo.
because of the plentiful evidence of the animus of the Defendants towards Plaintiffs' speech, relief granted Plaintiffs cannot assume there will be a fair review the application.
Having read the opinion by the Judge, this is a completely bonkers case. I won't go into detail y'all can read for yourself, but the city's entire case hinged on an ordinance passed in 2015 that has never been used before. And that the only use of the ordinance was this one time and no other time even though several violations of the ordinance occurred in the past. Only this group was subject to the ordinance. And then when the Judge asked "Why it be like that?" Holy fuck, you could not find a group tripping over it's feet faster than had the city council been an octopus born with "oops all left feet".
I just hope Utah Drag Stars fucking takes this city to the cleaners in the actual trial. I think it would have been cheaper for the city to just hand the drag stars a permit rather handing them a pretty fucking solid case.
Also, why is there this consistent pattern of people doing bad shit and then fucking ruining any hope for "maybe succeeding" in court by posting to the Internet shit that's just going to be entered into the record and destroy any kind of "plausible deniability"? Like, the city's argument only become pretextual when one of the members gets on the horn and indicates she specifically holds an idea of what the first amendment means that distinctly DOES NOT match the actual legal understanding of the first amendment. She could have said JACK SHIT and there might have been a remote possibility to take this into court without the injunction. It's like that scene from Shrek 2 "you HAVE the right to remain silent. What you lack, is the capacity!"
I get the case is still pending, but goddamn, it can't happen fast enough to stop the city from blowing their feet off with a goddamn hand canon.
Yes, I know that it still exist, and yes, decentralized currency which utilizes distributed, cryptographic validation is not actually a strictly bad idea, but......
None of these died, none of them were the new hotness for very long. Oh by the by, our company is looking for anyone with fifteen years experience in ChatGPT (/s). But in all serious, there's always a very vocal group that's chasing the hype. No idea how big they truly are, but they sure do bang the gong the entire time.
As with many other subreddits, /r/LegalAdviceUK (which had been dark since the start of the blackout) has been sent a thinly-veiled threat by Reddit....
to forget whatever it was necessary to forget, then to draw it back into memory again at the moment when it was needed, and then promptly to forget it again
I think what’s especially important is the length the city went to in an attempt to cover up their willingness to violate the group’s first amendment right without being seen as such. The city knew what they wanted to do was wrong and invented a ruse to try and hide their wrong doing.
The city indicated that the group go ahead with advertising the event to show interest within the city while awaiting permitting. All the while, the city then filed complaint and denied permitting because……. They had advertised before their permitting was complete. Which the Court indicated was indeed an ordinance on the books but could find literally NO OTHER INSTANCES where this ordinance had been used. In fact, the Court found that the ordinance was routinely not enforced.
That’s how bad this is. The city KNEW they would be sued and weakly attempted to cover their tracks. That is an unprecedented level of bull shittiness. And I think that really is telling how far these asshats are willing to go to deny a class of citizens their due rights.
To know and not to know, to be conscious of complete truthfulness while telling carefully constructed lies, to hold simultaneously two opinions which cancelled out, knowing them to be contradictory and believing in both of them, to use logic against logic, to repudiate morality while laying claim to it, to believe that democracy was impossible and that the Party was the guardian of democracy, to forget whatever it was necessary to forget, then to draw it back into memory again at the moment when it was needed, and then promptly to forget it again, and above all, to apply the same process to the process itself—that was the ultimate subtlety: consciously to induce unconsciousness, and then, once again, to become unconscious of the act of hypnosis you had just performed. Even to understand the word—doublethink—involved the use of doublethink.
I started on Slackware in 1996 and was with them till about 2007. Started trying this new distro that was all the rave called Ubuntu. I was with Ubuntu till 2018 when I moved to Pop_OS because it was like Ubuntu but without defaulting applications to snap.
I still keep Slackware on a machine here, but it’s passed from my daily driver. I used to really enjoy being as close to the nuts and bolts of the OS. However now I just like having a machine I can just use and not think about. So I would say Slackware as I still keep it around in some incarnation, but probably Ubuntu inched out a bit more as my daily driver as I kept on 16.04LTS Ubuntu till about middle October 2018 when I jumped ship to Pop_OS.
I may stay with Pop_OS long term (only been with them four years so far) just for the simple energy that Jeremy Soller exudes with Pop and System76’s Rust projects. Also the lack of snaps is a bonus.
There's a lot of points that he brings up that touch broader topics:
Landed Gentry
He's not wrong on the premise here. He's wrong with the solution and the why. A community should dictate their terms, if landed gentry is what the community wants, so be it. If the community wants democracy so be it. In the later, that democracy doesn't need a "company" to be the ultimate arbitrator of democracy, which is what he is pitching. That whole latter is just "corporate control with a democracy label slapped on it."
Profit
We all do need to remember that running something on the Internet is NOT cheap. Anything that gets popular becomes a quick target for "other nations" (US, Russia, China…) to start putting garbage into and eating bandwidth. Reddit has been running on the techbro funding which has recently ran dry. So this day was always coming. The free cash isn't there so the cracking of the whip begins.
This is going to happen with anything that isn't purely community ran. So all those other things like Bluesky that are being tossed, they'll have the same trouble eventually. Kbin and Lemmy are slightly different in that it is purely community ran. But we the community need to support our admins with cash to keep the server fans turning. Otherwise, even community ran projects can become coporate controlled.
3rd Party Apps
This is the biggest thing for me. We're either an open web or we're not. I was on the Internet back in the 1980s when it was very open. It is pros and cons for open vs closed. If Reddit doesn't want 3rd Party Apps, that makes them closed, that makes them less Democratic. There's nothing wrong with being closed, McDonald's likely doesn't want me eating my Taco Bell in their building. But the CEO keeps trying to say "Democracy" while actually just "trying to run a business". I don't go to the Costco to fill up on gas and think the other people there are my "community", they're folks from my community but the Costco doesn't make them my community. Reddit is a business where a community can go to, Reddit IS NOT the community itself.
perfectly willing to work with the folks who want to work with us
With all the leverage in Reddit's hands, which that's fine whatever, working with Reddit is going to be one of those sisyphean kinds of tasks. Pray they do not alter the terms futher.
the extent that they were profiting off of our API
And to me that's the tell. Every other word out of the guy's mouth is "profit". And that's fine, it is his site. But someone putting profit first is going to be hard pressed to focus on Democracy and community. And everyone should at least keep that in mind.
Ownership
And I think that's the ultimate thing for everyone else. In an open Internet, you the creator own your content. And everything Reddit is saying takes the ownership away from you. Running sites like Reddit, Kbin, Mastodon, and so on are non-zero costs. So I get the desire to make money "somewhere". And the CEO of Reddit honestly believes that "running ads" defers the costs that would have been otherwise passed on to the users and mods to pay in cash or work. Maybe that's true, maybe it isn't, but a community should get to have say on it. A democracy also gets to vote on if this is their ship to wreck.
And that's the big underlying thing. The CEO tosses community/democracy and other words to make folks think "they're a part of this thing" but they are not. Or at least no more part of this thing in the same nature that someone walking into a local hospital is part of the medical community. And in all of those words, the CEO is indicating that he is taking all ownership from the users and presenting something that has the veneer of community and you having ownership of your content.
Live and let live
Some people want that which Reddit offers. So be it. I think I've had enough of it, but that's just me. But the Redditors that are staying ought to know the cart they've hitched their horse to. But ultimately, nothing but love for everyone. Reddit has stopped being a good fit for me and I've gone elsewhere, but everyone should just use what's a good fit/feel for them. Except Twitter. The people who enjoy Twitter are a breed of people that defies what I would consider "enjoyable company."
The National Music Publishers Assn., acting on behalf of 17 major music publishers, is filing a federal copyright infringement lawsuit against Twitter for its failure to license and pay for the mus…
Twitter’s change in ownership in October 2022 has not led to improvements in how it acts with respect to copyright. On the contrary, Twitter’s internal affairs regarding matters pertinent to this case are in disarray.
So you seem to not be far from the mark here. The NMPA has become increasingly frustrated with the "slowness" of DMCA claims during the AIMP summit in February. Israelite has indicated that Twitter stands alone in how it's handled DMCA requests, which has been to largely ignore them, and that Twitter should lose protections offered by the DMCA to tech companies.
Honestly, I think the NMPA's talk of "hiding behind the DMCA" really hits at their take on things. I mean, Twitter is a shit show for sure, but I think if the recording industry had it their way, they'd get a chunk of pretty much every website no questions as opposed to the "give people a chance to get out of jail free by just removing the content."
But all that said, the company that autoreplies the poop emoji to all emails does not surprise me that they're forwarding all DMCA takedown requests to the recycle bin.
rule (beehaw.org)
Not all empathy is good. Don’t waste it on people who wouldn’t slow down if they ran you over.
Chain restaurant fees are getting absurd
I got this fun fee after trying to order takeout from Buffalo Wild Wings (yes I'm naming and shaming). How exactly does adding a dollar help you operate takeout? It's literally less work than waiting on a table. This is nothing more than a shameful cash grab to pad profits....
We Don’t Have to Live Like This (sh.itjust.works)
Reposting this from Qasim Rashid, esq. on Mastodon....
rule (lemmy.blahaj.zone)
'Kissing or licking a microphone' is now considered sexual according to Twitch (www.techradar.com)
there goes the ear licking ASMR 😔
Elon Musk declares ‘cis’ and ‘cisgender’ slurs on Twitter that can be punishable with suspension (fortune.com)
What's the age cut off for socially acceptable gaming
So, hear me out....
If you're overwriting your comments on Reddit:
If you’re using a script to do so, make sure it’s handling API limits specifically for “edit” calls. I realized after I tried overwriting mine that it was quietly skipping a bunch of comments, presumably because there is (allegedly) a 1 edit call per 5 second rate limit. Since adding a 5 second delay between each...
Hunter Biden to plead guilty to three federal charges | CNN Politics (www.cnn.com)
Hunter Biden, the son of President Joe Biden, will plead guilty to three federal charges, the Justice Department said Tuesday in a court filing....
YouTube removes video of Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and Jordan Peterson for vaccine misinformation (www.nbcnews.com)
Kennedy, an anti-vaccine crusader, is seeking support for a Democratic presidential run.
Federal judge rules Utah city violated first amendment when it refused permit for drag show (boingboing.net)
Is Crypto Finally Dead?
Yes, I know that it still exist, and yes, decentralized currency which utilizes distributed, cryptographic validation is not actually a strictly bad idea, but......
/r/LegalAdviceUK is forced back open, vows to move the entire community off Reddit (www.reddit.com)
As with many other subreddits, /r/LegalAdviceUK (which had been dark since the start of the blackout) has been sent a thinly-veiled threat by Reddit....
What's the longest you've stayed on a distribution?
This is kind of the anti-distro hopping thread. How long have you stayed on a single Linux distribution for your main PC? What about servers?...
Why not? (lemmy.blahaj.zone)
Looking at the current situation on Reddit (pawb.social)
TechCrunch mentions Lemmy / Kbin migration: Reddit CEO lashes out on protests, moderators and third-party apps (techcrunch.com)
COSMIC DE: Tiling redesign and libcosmic rebasing (blog.system76.com)
Twitter Hit With $250 Million Copyright-Infringement Lawsuit From Music Publishers (variety.com)
The National Music Publishers Assn., acting on behalf of 17 major music publishers, is filing a federal copyright infringement lawsuit against Twitter for its failure to license and pay for the mus…