Random super markets can license access to their data. I could easily imagine a company like Palantir or Flock leveraging systems like these in their government contracting. Whether or not these things are privately owned by creepy corporations or under the direct control of a government agency feels like a distinction without a difference, either way the infrastructure of totalitarianism is being constructed around us with these technologies.

It is truly shocking just how many Republicans rape kids. Kid Rock bragging about it in a song is very on brand.

This is how crime reporting in the US works too. There isn’t a connection really between crime rates and news reporting, the news media broadly choose to focus on certain types of crimes because they serve the interests of their owners and/or are popular with their audiences. There’s decades of polling showing Americans largely have never had any idea what the actual risks are of crime.

Inherent in the phrase “jury trial” is the presumption of a legal system carrying out a legitimate legal process. I think jury trials can only be mob justice when that legal process functions illegitimately (e.g. by violating the rights of the accused).

“Pedo guy”

They skipped the weirdest one, the VC formerly known as Masha Drokova.

I find it depends on my mood and the method of brewing. I enjoy fruity and berry flavors, and chocolate and nutty flavors, and really kind of anything that isn’t too funky or burnt. I seem to be a little strange and fortunate in that I love light, medium, and dark roasts. I always have multiple bags going and switch between them depending on what I feel like in the moment.

That Hiltzik guy in the email is conveniently now the “crisis manager” for the ex-Microsoft executive who was exposed in the Epstein files for using Epstein to extract a $14 million dollar golden parachute out of Microsoft when he got fired for Windows 8 sucking. It’s incredible how interconnected the Epstein class is, it’s a small world for them.

It’s complicated to explain but the easiest summary is “neoconservative ideology” and a certain kind of postmodern imperialism that came to dominate US elite culture following 9/11. Read up on PNAC if you want to dig into it more.

The descriptions I’ve seen said there are at least 40 nude pictures of Epstein victims and that some of the subjects do appear to potentially be teenagers. It sounds like the DOJ released CSAM, yes.

To some extent but it’s really not that important. Oil gets traded for all kinds of things besides dollars, it’s never been so big a deal that the US would engineer a very dumb war over it. Maybe there were some for whom it was a motivating factor in their support for attacking Iraq, but by and large the animating force was not concern about what currency Iraqi oil exports are traded for. It makes no real difference to anything, it’s not significant.

There isn’t really any reason to think the Fediverse won’t be used for AI training, if it isn’t already. Everything is in the open here, it’s easy enough to scrape all the data.

Eventually the reddit thread would probably balance out, and incorrect information should get downvoted and replaced by corrections from people who know better.

This seems optimistic.

Linking the invasion of Iraq with their selling oil in Euros makes no sense at all.

The promotional campaign for this movie is very unconventional. Is that Melania in the picture between Epstein and Ratner?

They can likely still get in. There’s leaked slides from Cellebrite showing everything they can crack and under what circumstances. From what I remember GrapheneOS is really the only version of Android they actually can’t get into.

I have a Plex server guy. He is one of my oldest and best friends although we don’t get to hang out much anymore. I know he has other friends he shares the Plex server with but I have no idea who or how many. I’ve been using it since Plex was new, not sure how long exactly but more than a decade. I occasionally buy him nice hard drives because the library is ridiculously huge and always growing. As someone who loves weird and obscure shit, it’s my favorite streaming service by far and he’s my hero for running it.

When I first saw this headline I thought it meant he was going to make them compete in the Olympics.

It doesn’t take a million shell commands or sketchy scripts to deploy Windows without a Microsoft account. I literally did it just last week. I think you are being pedantic and moving the goal posts, the claim was that you need a Microsoft account to use Windows and that is not true. You may be coerced into using one depending on the version and install method but that’s not the original claim that was made.

Holy shit