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Considering the EUs rather horrendous track record in regulating both the internet and the digital world, I dont want them to be conservative, I want them to do precisly nothing.

The EU has achieved very little for the average user of the internet in the last 20 years but has

- done large damage to civil rights with things like #Uploadfilter, mass survailance ( Ohh and currently #chatcontrol has as serious chance of being made into law besides violating countless civil and human rights)

- severerly damaged the european digital industry by mostly listening to lobbyists from legacy media and analog companies

I find it ironic how the EU now debates AI.... besides having exactly nothing even remotly influential to offer in the digital market.

I dont know if the USA or the chinese will win the leadership race in the digital economy.... but I am 100 certain... Europe wont play any role... and neither will we get many of the benefits that a good digital policy could have unlocked for us. 😩

The bear case is a hilarious Fourth Amendment case. They attached a camera to a bear which is known to frequent someone's property and recorded what went on there.

The executive director of a certain infamous anti-porn and anti-LGBT group works for that Church.

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https://www.sltrib.com/news/education/2023/06/09/heres-request-ban-book-mormon/ After the Bible was removed in a school district, someone put in a ...

sltrib.com/news/education/2023 After the Bible was removed in a school district, someone put in a request to remove the Book of Mormon too.

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There's a weird sub-culture which believes that erectile dysfunction (ED) is linked to pornography. As is likely no surprise to anyone, this study shows it isn't. The only variable which is here is anxiety.

statology.org/moderating-varia If you don't understand what she means by "moderates", this resource might help you.

The idea of a criminal creating a malicious import which is likely to be hallucinated in response to a request for sample code is interesting because it mirrors the threat of an obscure library out of tens of thousands which a program might import (or it's dependencies might import) just so happening to be malicious.

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Reminder that cops spent shit tons of public funds rebranding their discredited, creepy, rapey "vice squads" as "human trafficking task forces" and "Special Victims Units" (yes, literally after you-know-what):

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Fun Fact: Dracula doesn’t wear a cape because he’s a vampire. He wears a cape because he’s a posh person going out at night in the 1890s.

@det Could you please not water down the seriousness of things like child abuse by comparing it to things like anime? Thank you.

I saw a bad Bluesky take. Someone is upset that Bluesky is trying to implement blocks in a decentralized manner (and currently trying to move away from public blocks). He contends it will never be decentralized and there is no point trying.

This ignores the obvious point that the entire premise behind using Bluesky, and not these other wannabe centralized social media competitors, was that it would be some radically architected platform.

We can be sceptical of that, especially as it is another group of techbros parachuting themselves in, and thinking they can solve all of the worlds problems, rather than a truly grassroots effort, however, getting mad that they are trying to do exactly what they promised to do is strange.

If the judge is going to rule that way, like a well-oiled machine, it would be better if he just did it in a cold neutral tone, rather than sadistically throwing in little demands for "remorse" (and gleefully using this to justify what it is he does) and injecting his own conservative views on the matter.

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theguardian.com/world/2023/jun British woman jailed over abortion. Judge writes nonsensical piece of apologia as a "ruling".

Even the bit where he goes on about her "remorse" or whatever reeks of him trying to justify his ruling to himself, and is really quite creepy and disturbing.

reason.com/2023/06/13/poppy-se Mothers subjected to non-consensual drug tests with a high number of false positives and a high risk of having their children taken away from them.

wired.com/story/anti-porn-cove Violations of the First, Fourth, and Sixth Amendments.

This is deeply suspicious and smells of a conservative judge trying to harass a family with an infamous anti-porn app (one already known to be abused for attempts at conversion therapy).

It also reminds me of their attitude towards bail more broadly.

If we let them out, they'll go back to their old ways. But, when you look at the number who do, it is absolutely miniscule. I'm suspicious it'd be similar here too, and I suppose, if he did go back to his old ways, there'd be more evidence against him?

I spotted someone talking about a federated implementation of Reddit here the other day. It'd be funny if it ate Reddit's lunch after they pulled an Elon.

I suspect Reddit saw Elon, thought they could try their hand at closing the API, and it ended up scalding them.

This site has an interesting bug where a notification keeps getting revived as "new". One is from *weeks* ago.

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