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How the US is turning into a mass techno-surveillance state

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    I think Kick should be able to censor streams on their service that are showing torture. They are not, and should not be, obligated to provide their services to show that content.
  • OpenAI stops ChatGPT from telling people to break up with partners

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    Have a look at relationship subreddits. They are full of people who have been manipulated and gaslit for years or decades who have no idea what is actually normal. For people like that a reality check is really helpful or even vital.
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    why do allow a romantic partner to set boundaries on the potential relationships I could form with others it also just hurt to imagine him being with someone else and preferring them over me My problem is exclusivity being the standard or default requirement for almost everyone, in many case just because that's what everyone else is doing. This deletes, say 95% of the population. It's already a very improbable thing to hook up with someone compatible and have that requirement, unless you have a very high "hook up attempt" rate than you can just forget the whole thing as unrealistic, which I did a long time ago. It's just not going to happen, no interested, the terms are unacceptable I'm not even going to waste any time trying.
  • It's rude to show AI output to people

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    Hope you enjoy! It's getting referenced so much these days, I think I'm due for a reread myself.
  • What is this new Bitchat scam that crypto-bros think is good?

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    It's fully Bluetooth, so it's not exactly the same as the internet messaging apps
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    If it's so good then why does deepseek-qwen slap
  • matrix is cooked

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    That's very fair. Better start contributing I guess.
  • CrowdStrike Announces Layoffs Affecting 500 Employees

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    This is where the magic of near meaningless corpo-babble comes in. The layoffs are part of a plan to aspirationally acheive the goal of $10b revenue by EoY 2025. What they are actually doing is a significant restructuring of the company, refocusing by outside hiring some amount of new people to lead or be a part of departments or positions that haven't existed before, or are being refocused to other priorities... ... But this process also involves laying off 500 of the 'least productive' or 'least mission critical' employees. So, technically, they can, and are, arguing that their new organizational paradigm will be so succesful that it actually will result in increased revenue, not just lower expenses. Generally corpos call this something like 'right-sizing' or 'refocusing' or something like that. ... But of course... anyone with any actual experience with working at a place that does this... will tell you roughly this is what happens: Turns out all those 'grunts' you let go of, well they actually do a lot more work in a bunch of weird, esoteric, bandaid solutions to keep everything going, than upper management was aware of... because middle management doesn't acknowledge or often even understand that that work was being done, because they are generally self-aggrandizing narcissist petty tyrants who spend more time in meetings fluffing themselves up than actually doing any useful management. Then, also, you are now bringing on new, outside people who look great on paper, to lead new or modified apartments... but they of course also do not have any institutional knowledge, as they are new. So now, you have a whole bunch of undocumented work that was being done, processes which were being followed... which is no longer being done, which is not documented.... and the new guys, even if they have the best intentions, now have to spend a quarter or two or three figuring out just exactly how much pre-existing middle management has been bullshitting about, figuring out just how much things do not actually function as they ssid it did... So now your efficiency improving restructuring is actually a chaotic mess. ... Now, this 'right sizing' is not always apocalyptically extremely bad, but it is also essentially never totally free from hiccups... and it increases stress, workload, and tensions between basically everyone at the company, to some extent. Here's Forbes explanation of this phenomenon, if you prefer an explanation of right sizing in corpospeak: https://www.forbes.com/advisor/business/rightsizing/