Ehhh I think the downplays the essay's excellent arfument
FTA:
THIS DISTINCTION between a “housing crisis” and a rental market that enables exploitation has practical implications. How we talk about these issues shapes what we conceive as possible and desirable responses to them.
I don't understand what this provides. They already make it so you don't have to give out credit card info. Is it just to avoid bank fees in some way? Avoid banking regulation?
I think it's trying to say that the gasoline cars have no fuel in them when transported (thus less fire risk) versus the batteries which can still burn when "empty" (which I doubt they are)
Introduced by US representatives Warren Davidson and Sara Jacobs, the amendment, first reported by WIRED, would prohibit US military agencies from “purchasing data that would otherwise require a warrant, court order, or subpoena” to obtain. The ban would cover more than half of the US intelligence community, including the NSA, the Defense Intelligence Agency, and the newly formed National Space Intelligence Center, among others.
I guess I'm not surprised, but I didn't realize they had warrantless access to these data. With the attacks on e2e in the UK this really drives home how important encryption.
Detecting real video as fake seems problematic where it might lead to apathy -- folks just don't believe any video anymore. Similar to Trump's "everything is fake news" approach
Allowing death with dignity on a person's terms is fantastic. I just hope we continue to support them until thr very end to ensure dignity the whole way
European regulators gave the deal the go-ahead in May, so Microsoft could now technically close without the UK and without an injunction in the US preventing it. That’s a complicated scenario though, so we’ll likely see Microsoft and Activision Blizzard temporarily extend their merger agreement to cover the CMA appeal process instead
But are they worse than Microsoft's?