(From November 28th, 2023)

generational politics

Nobody has even developed a fully open source Minecraft server in Java yet. There's never going to be one in Rust. The amount of work to keep up with changes or additions in content or the world simulation would just be too high.

This is what every rebel base will look like in 2040 in order to confuse the autonomous attack drones' computer vision subsystems.

Paul Robeson like

Sending some capitalists to fire missiles wouldn't really be justice either. The notion of them "doing their own fighting" isn't as relevant when it comes to imperialism, because the fighting is so one-sided already. I could see some politician easily doing a sort of photo op where they actually "do the fighting". I mean, American propagandists will go to war zones and "embed" with soldiers. There's some risk to life but obviously not that much of a risk. American soldiers themselves don't have high casualty rates. Since they're just doing airstrikes. People still have the WWI trench warfare mental image of war.

"Candidates are electable if you vote for them"

Well, no. But maybe this image is somewhat sarcastic.

It looks like a poster for a benign quirky corporate-sponsored community event with all those sponsor logos at the bottom. But for ethnic cleansing.

Jakins was responsible for drilling and inserting strings into other competitors’ chestnuts as the competition’s top judge, known as the “King Conker”.

So a competitor prepares other competitors' "gear"? I guess if it's small enough that the only people at the event are competitors.

Don't really like the use of numbers for these kinds of things though. Obviously most of that 2.5 billion is just whatever massive price US companies feel they can charge. That vehicle probably took a lot less labor to build than than the 1.3 billion going to rebuilding people's homes. So in this specific case it isn't apples to apples. I think it would be better to focus on the amount of manpower involved in the war industry. The number of workers who's entire existence is to help murder people. It may be more comparable if you point that out as whole instead of how much one thing costs, because that's so immaterial. We're all used to hearing nonsensically large numbers.

I assume it might be related to the political party of the owners or franchisees? I remember there was that ice cream company that people like Pelosi were really promoting and the owners were Democrats I think.

The GPS thing at the end of the video is interesting. I guess they have a GPS spoofer, maybe for trying to confuse GPS guided missiles so they don't think they're near Mossad HQ?

Qatar is a land of contrasts.

So it sounds like "Red Info" by the two most (only) famous people on Disco Elysium would be the obvious one to watch. It appears they don't have a website yet (based).

You have to write -ai in your search query to disable it :(

Might be able to edit the url template in your browser to always have the -ai in it

I wonder which employees they have host and attend these events. Does Apple hire a bunch of police-type psychos? Do they find the most pro-cop software developers at the company? Do they make the actual people developing the software do it?

The article says

The timing of the story comes one year after the last Global Police Summit, and according to the report, the Apple employee who led the efforts—Gary Oldham—recently left the company.

The details around his exit are unknown. Notably though, there was no Global Police Summit held this year. It’s unclear whether the event will return without Oldham at the helm.

Is thst really thst unusual? They are obviously going to charge more for last minute extremely popular flights. People usually book months out to get better prices. And taking a plane to get away from a storm...? I don't know if taking a plane from Florida to Chicago like the next day is really anyone's God given right in the first place. Not shedding tears that someone is getting "ripped off" trying to take an airplane instead of just driving for a while or going to a shelter.

They already have "open trade" with BRICS (and most other) countries. The problem is most companies in most countries will not trade with Cuba because they don't want to be targeted by sanctions that will make it impossible to trade with literally most of the companies on the planet. So in other words, this doesn't make a difference.

I completely agree in terms of personal computing like storing photos, documents, notes, and so on. At most, they could be encrypted locally and stored remotely so that multiple devices can use the data.

There are still plenty of use cases for server-oriented data processing. Most "infrastructure" related things work well that way. Cases where data needs to be quickly read and written from a number of different locations and the information isn't really secret or personal. I am biased since I work on one of those systems. But there are so many internal systems at companies that really don't need end-to-end encryption either. Although maybe some day things will still move in that direction.

are those the twin towers off to the side?