Tobacco company selling cigarettes to kids. More at 11.

Any recommended firewall block lists (or allow lists) for Roku?

There is enough in the bill to criticize its effectiveness towards its intended purposes, without having to resort to conspiracy theories about ethnic cleansing.

Globalization is a real threat towards cultural diversity, be it French or any other language and culture. You are a repugnant asshat if you can’t even agree to that and instead have to focus your argument on racist rhetoric.

It’s terrorism, actually, since it is politically motivated.

everybody else, whether influencer or consumer, get fucked over in the process.

Enshittification correctly defined.

aren’t they pretty staunch bloc supporters rather than lib or con

Pretty easy choice these days

It’s insane to me that any government would approve “digital licence plates”. Clowns making decisions “because we can”, not “because we should”. Result: a circus.

It’s the great flood of (miss)information, drowning out truth, and AI is only making it worse. People have forgotten how truth is generated and why it is valuable. This will continue untill people adapt to the new reality that information (AI) is not the same thing as truth. And people being people… they will only adapt and learn after a lot of people get hurt.

You both aren’t wrong… But this isn’t about you.

All this convenience in tech. We never stopped to ask ourselves what we were giving up. Add protest to the list of sacrifices to the altar of affluence.

Seems like an irrelevant detail.

Wait, you are telling me he drank water too???

I’m not convinced that people, yes even the bad ones, wake up, get out of bed, and think to themselves “let’s do evil today”. Rather, I think people tell themselves lies about how their actions are morally justified for some greater good, or at least remain willfully ignorant (i.e. psychopaths), or just complicit in a rotten system (passive bystanders).

Information is not truth. A do or die slogan for the 21st century.

No, no, you are supposed to eat the glue.

Something tells me the last thing diehard MAGAs want is another California.

Nothing “safe” about making completely unappealing games.

Let me play devil’s advocate: who gets to say what is a human rights violation? And I am not talking about what happens on the ground, so put your pitchforks away. I’m talking about how it is defined in international law–what happens when a country like Russia and puppets defines gay rights as a human rights violation.

Point is, there is absolutely no way to get states to agree on any of this and if it was binding, then it is a power that can and will be abused for geopolitical points.

I think principles of law are only enforceable at a state level. Almost by definition of sovereignty. Above the state level, there can only be treaties and geopolitics.

You are not wrong, but joining NATO is the only way to ensure Russia won’t just declare war again. And we have to be realistic here: Ukraine has surpassed all expectations here already. We can’t expect this miracle to go on indefinitely.

You are right, but I would go one step further: enshittification is specifically a subsidized (artificial, unsustainable) capture of a free market by a middle man, followed by a squeezing of both buyers and sellers in that market using bought leverage.

It’s just another variety of antitrust that happens to be legal because society has not yet outlawed that behaviour.

Millenial and gen x skewed Harris more than any other demographic.