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SilverElfin
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- SilverElfinSo which camera brand has adequately designed software? It’s hard to know as a consumer what to trust or not trust, because how do you evaluate the quality of their work when the device SEEMS to work as expected? Is Ring the only choice?
- Google scrapes so what even is this? Beyond that I think it is unreasonable and monopolistic that Google can use all this data (like YouTube) to bolster their AI products but no one else can. It just means the megacorp will keep being megacorp and smaller players are doomed to have to work much harder and get very lucky. It’s not fair competition. So I view scraping Google as necessary for our society.
- Why do people keep repeating this point? TikTok bans have been repeatedly considered for a while. It is as a topic in 2020. And October 7 happened in 2023. The reasons to ban it are a lot more simple than a conspiracy relating to Israel.
- This rant has some truth in it but it goes too far and comes off as unbalanced. From the conclusion:
> This was never about addressing privacy, propaganda, or national security. It was always about the U.S. stealing ownership of one of the most popular and successful short form video apps in history because companies like Facebook were too innovatively incompetent to dethrone them in the open market. Ultimately this bipartisan accomplishment not only makes everything worse, it demonstrates we’re absolutely no better than the countries we criticize.
I think when PAFACA passed and set up a ban of TikTok, it was in fact about privacy and propaganda and national security. It’s just that the Trump administration looks at every single situation as an opportunity for grift and corruption, and they abused the opportunity.
The deal does shift algorithmic control and moderation to US based entities. I am not sure what that means in reality. Maybe they can just say they’re in control but choose to use the existing system? Who knows. The terms of the deal look like they help with the original concerns on the face of it.
- Interesting I didn’t realize T2 is reversible. How do people do that - some kind of drug? Or just weight loss?
- Even if they said that, why would it be dismissed casually? There may be good justification to associate the two. It’s clear the phrase has flooded X this year alongside a lot of supremacist stuff.
- DJT is a stock with terrible performance and no future. This is obviously a corrupt scam to gain access and favoritism with the administration. Maybe this fusion company will get easier permits and approvals from agencies that regulate it. Maybe they’ll get military contracts. But there’s no legitimate justification for the deal.
- > The ties are so strong that in 2023 the American Heart Association grouped the conditions under one name: cardio-kidney-metabolic syndrome (CKM), with “metabolic syndrome” referring to diabetes and obesity.
Seems like this is mostly an extension of the previously existing label of metabolic syndrome, now including kidney. Ozempic is mentioned and I take that to mean obesity is the cause. But are some of these ailments like diabetes reversible?
- This feels not very different from the recent report revealing how Nick Fuentes has a lot of artificial likes and comments on videos that push his content, due to a large following that responds to commands delivered via Telegram etc. A VC backed corporation using a large phone farm to manipulate the public is no better than Nick Fuentes.
- What do you mean? Why isn’t it okay to create agencies that have different models of management? Like by Congress or private third parties or whatever? They can do whatever legislation allows right?
- I tried to refresh an embarrassing amount of times
- Are the contents of these websites current enough to keep up with new technologies? I know universities have been slow to evolve with AI generally …
- Is this all simply spurred on by the recent fine against Musk/X? That wasn’t even about censorship but other issues. Not to mention the irony of threatening market access after throwing high tariffs on key allies while going soft on China.
- One danger is that the volume of toxic people does actually create large numbers of actually toxic people. For example when mainstream influencers or politicians endorse racist views even indirectly, it can shift give others permission to start saying the same things. Then that causes the other side to go further to an extreme on their side. And so on.
- > Tesla has 90 days to fix claims in its advertising of self-driving and autopilot features that the state says are misleading, officials at the California Department of Motor Vehicles announced Tuesday.
I am surprised this is only happening now. It should have happened years ago. And why would a ban just be for 30 days?
- This means they view any network with the name Twitter as a threat, right? Like they fear users would actually go there instead of X?
- Yes this is true. But it was already a problem that individual companies are as powerful as nations. No company should be worth a trillion dollars. It distorts the market and there can’t be fair competition against these mega corps.
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