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It would be amusing if there were very little chance his antics would work in his benefit. Personally I think it looks like the criminal justice system is hanging by a thread next to democracy. That's not as amusing.

I think if the site is popular enough it will be a target for shills.

Which is why they work so hard to make that impossible.

I doubt anything organized and large scale will ever happen. The thing to watch for is more isolated* terrorist acts against minority groups like we've seen over the last several years.

Rich people don't fight. Peons fight.

Huckabee is just doing your garden variety, stochastic terrorism aka inciting violence type of thing.

The ones I know on the left that have em don't talk about them much (or act psycho or make it their identity or whatever else).

Yeah that was a rough time indeed. I recall getting hit with a couple of those big worms back to back.

In case it ever comes up.... Pro tip: it is much quicker to list the countries less sane than the US.

PS the counter argument is smart locks come with added security controls: monitoring, logging, and the ability to auto lock in case someone forgets to lock it.

Same concept but why pick a lock when you can break a window or sliding glass door?

In other words... The attack surface is indeed larger for smart lock than dumb lock -- more ways to attack -- but in practice it matters little because existing home attack surface is easily breached.

If you're not in infosec you should be. (Source: am in infosec)

We have steel doors and protection metal bars in the windows in LATAM

Sounds a lot like Tucson...

Man I am having some weird kind of deja vu today.

Firefox on Mac, Win, Linux, and Android

Since it wasn't explicitly named the group is

Citizens for Responsibility & Ethics in Washington (CREW)

Doubt it but I don't see that as relevant. You're saying we should not worry about killing bad guys' kids ? Why stop there? Why not indiscriminately kill people in case it might stop a "bad guy"? Oh wait we already do that.

But we shouldn't. Besides being deplorable it also results in more blowback. All our fucking around in various countries has done is bitten us in the ass over and over again.

They've always been this way.

Companies as entities have no conscience and aren't subject to the same punishments as people.

If money is the sole driving factor then morality and ethics aren't concerns unless they have a negative impact on the bottom line.

Since sociopaths are common and commonly get the highest positions in corporations, they will lead the company in the direction of most profit or growing stock price, with all other concerns as irrelevant.

If companies could enslave people they would make a lot more money and it is only law and the potential pushback affecting their profits that would give them pause. (See: the south pre 1860s, as well as numerous highly exploitative factories around the globe that made outsourcing so popular).

If they could kill people to make more money, overall, they would do so (see: insurance companies)

The more money a corporation has the better chance it has of bribing officials, buying favors, lobbying for favorable laws (or removing unfavorable ones), i.e. regulatory capture.

I haven't put a ton of thought into this but I think corporations and the lack of legal ramifications of breaking the law are major failings in modern capitalism. If a corporation breaks the law it should be sentenced to "jail" where it basically can't sell, buy, earn, etc during the sentence. In most cases that would destroy it. In extreme cases it should be executed (disbanded).

My guess is that over the next few years content quality online is going to go to shit and that will negatively impact those companies and sectors that utilize AI foolishly.

Hopefully we enter Gartner's trough of disillusionment and companies back off from wholesale replacing humans with LLMs and recognize that in most cases they aren't fit for purpose.

I think AI will have to go (far?) beyond LLMs to have any chance of replacing humans artists and writers with output of somewhat reasonable quality. (I may be wrong; maybe it is simply a matter of training very topic-specific LLMs)

Meanwhile if the impact isn't sufficient the greedy and moronic will plow forward to the detriment of us all. Writers will struggle to support themselves and the Internet will become a lot less useful. It may be a very rough decade or two.

monetary*

Yeah it's like every time you turn around there's a dozen more articles on how we are actively wrecking the shit out of our planet.

I'm kind of at the point where I just assume 99% of humanity is going to die off at some point (might even live to see it whee).

And, hopefully, humanity will never be able to reconstruct modern society because we've used up all the easily discoverable resources.

We'll just be stuck in the iron, bronze or probably stone age until rats evolve and destroy us in a million years.