Yep, the NYT article is from June 2025

Inflamed sinuses?

One of the few reputable and non-biased sources is the South China Morning Post

Swisscows blocks “violent and pornographic content”. I don’t know why you would use it, since it’s a pretty broad spectrum of content and we don’t know what the criteria are

For american standards, you’re basically a commie, lol

For the rest of the world, you would be center-left.

The thing that would push you farther to the left or back to the center would be economic issues: you’ve only talked about social issues, but what about the economy and government?

• Should the government play a big part in regulating businesses?
• Should people pay more taxes, especially if they are rich?
• Should essential services such as roads, electricity, water, postal services, healthcare and public transportation be provided and managed by the government or by private businesses?

There are also some test online that place you on the political spectrum by asking you those kinds of questions, it might be worth checking them out.

OTOH, I kinda feel bad because you live in a place where there are only effectively 2 parties (right and far right), and chosing another one is going to waste your vote essentially. People like Sanders and AOC have a huge following, but they have no chance of success imho

It’s about surveillance. Federated services are not a threat to big tech since it’s so small

Ooh this is a good one, especially considering that in order to have a yacht you also have to hire a whole crew and pay for docking it.

It’s pretty sad that new and innovative companies only exist to get sold to big corporations these days. And I’m saying that as someone who did not like Arc

Yep that’s pretty much how it went. Also print ads have lost against digital ads, which pay way less money to publishers and keep paying less each year

Do you know who Dan Harmon is? Creator of Community and Rick And Morty, IMHO a genius. He had a live podcast named Harmontown where he improvised a history lesson and he came up with this

It explains it all in a more convincing way than any historian could, imho. Besides being funny, he has a deep understanding of what makes humans tick and that’s the whole point of how fascism happens

Graphene OS does something similar. It sandboxes GMS like any other app

See? You’re still seeing AI as if it was human or if it was comparable to a human, and that’s the issue. Would you make the same statement about… Idk, cloud computing of photo editing tools? AI is just a technology, it does not “grow” into anything by itself and it’s neither good or bad intentioned, and that’s because it does not have any intentions

The worry about “Alignment” and such is mostly a TESCREAL talking point (look it up if you don’t know what that is, I promise you’ll understand a lot of things about the AI industry).

It’s ridiculous at best, and a harmful and delirious distraction at worst.

Nope, they mostly learn during training

IDK, at least that was useful for gaming etc. AI is mostly about eliminating jobs

Even after it’s been sold to a Chinese company?