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Data broker was used by shooter in Minnesota to get information about victims

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  • if one good thing can come from these senseless murders, let it be this. these services should not be allowed to operate without strict regulation.

    • Billionaire island where Bezos lives lobbies state gov to flush its poop down neighbor town’s pipes

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  • so many of the world's problems boil down to a handful of tech bros who made that book their entire personality.

    congratulations on escaping the Rand death cult

    • You really have to reach back to remember how THIS worked in your car

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  • iRiver= S tier mp3 nostalgia

    • WaPo exposed insane AI mass surveillance in my city on Mon for the last 2 years & TIL in 2022 the mayor of my city basically obliterated local privacy protection

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  • burn it all down.

    we don't need these cameras and tracking systems everywhere all the time. they don't make anyone "safer".

    • We gonna fight

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    • X.com blocks access to Ekrem Imamoglu, leader of Turkey political opposition

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  • you can also tag people on Lemmy, or at least I can. look for the About User menu then "Add Tag" or "Tag user" from their profile

    • Elon Musk says it's ‘outrageous’ to ‘claim that I’m a Nazi’

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  • interesting note: a flavor of techno fascism actually started in the 30s, it was called Technocracy, Inc.

    The technocracy movement was a social movement active in the United States and Canada in the 1930s which favored technocracy as a system of government over representative democracy [...] a California engineer, invented the word technocracy in 1919 to describe "the rule of the people made effective through the agency of their servants, the scientists and engineers"

    here's an article explaining how Musk, Thiel, and Andreessen (and other tech billionaires) have adopted a similar philosophy with the "Charter Cities" ancap utopianism they're working to replace democracy with.

    A 1930s movement wanted to merge the US, Canada and Greenland. Here’s why it has modern resonances

    • Wolf Reboot

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    • Clear skies in LA during COVID lockdown

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  • appreciate the rec, I've been a patreon to Climate Town for years and already listened to that episode of CDH...

    my point still stands. "too much" is a spectrum, my opinion likely differs significantly from most people, including Rollie's. i lean towards the Daniel Quinn side of environmental ethics, which definitely places more than just fat over consuming Americans in the category of unsustainable cultures.

    • Clear skies in LA during COVID lockdown

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  • (I'm not saying this is my personal opinion so don't roast me plz):

    it's not that there are too many people.

    it's that there are too many people living under a regime that compels them to wantonly consume, pollute, and generally destroy the ecosystem in favor of the sole benefit of a miniscule number of oligarchs

    in other words, the planet has the carrying capacity to sustain all of us theoretically, but not practically as things are today, at least not if humans continue living according to capitalist hyper consumptive individualism.

    so yeah, there are too many people - unless we effectively reprogram all of modern culture to embrace a sustainable and pro environmental ethics... which you and I know, isn't going to happen.

    QED: too many people.

    note: this is different from the other commenters take because it's not making claims about human nature as being inherently bad. it's just claiming that the system/culture people are born into is bad and does in fact impose artificial limitations on the capacity of the planet to support diverse ecosystems

    • Those working from say 1970 to 2000, did you notice a change in office tempers as lead poisoning wound down?

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  • I'm extremely skeptical corningware contains lead which can come off.... it's sealed, ultra hard ceramic. that's not how people have historically gotten lead contamination. there's probably more lead in the soil in their front yard than in every piece of corningware in the house....

    please don't destroy these, just donate them to a thrift shop so sensible folks can use them as intended. many of those vintage ceramics are collectibles, more importantly they are infinity reusable.

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  • I'm so sick and fucking tired of "the drug problem" being used over and over and over again to justify anything the government wants.

    the US has been fighting a war on drugs to the cost of trillions of dollars over 50 years and what has it led to? massive expansion and militarization of the border at taxpayers expense, and more people do drugs today than EVER!

    we need to stop letting the propagandists win by nodding along to this 'fentanyl is America's #1' enemy bullshit. people are on drugs because theyre fucking miserable! they don't have safety nets, homes, communities, support to quit, or meaningful work. enough is enough!

    • Trump turns civil rights upside down in ‘biggest rollback’ since Reconstruction | CNN Politics

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  • they probably mean "culturally progressive", as in, woke leaning. bombs with rainbows painted on them.

    the US was only very briefly controlled by a progressive govt and it took a great depression and threats of mob violence against the ruling class to get that much.

    • Every president is friendly to the meat industry — but Trump is taking it to another level

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    • Temu to stop selling goods from China directly to US customers

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  • as much as tariffs are a comically bad self-own, I'd actually be happy if this means even a fractional decrease in Temu's non-stop generation of landfill waste.

    low cost, ubiquitous knick nack consumerism needs to be curtailed.

    • Trump Blames Biden for Disastrous Q1 Economic News: ‘NOTHING TO DO WITH TARIFFS’

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    • TIL the father of supercomputing, Seymour Cray, had a hobby of digging a tunnel under his home.

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    • Musk wants to leave politics because he’s tired of ‘attacks’ from the left: report

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  • i think tik tok might be in a position where they must sell in order to continue serving content to American users

    https://apnews.com/article/trump-tiktok-china-bytedance-social-media-tariffs-665e46fd5bb555e97c4d7301e07230df

    The order was announced as White House officials believed they were nearing a deal for the app’s operations to be spun off into a new company based in the U.S. and owned and operated by a majority of American investors,

    the extension only happened because after the TikTok CEO, Shou Chew, threw a big party for right wing influencers during Trump's record breaking $200M bribe acceptance party inauguration, Trump mysteriously halted the order (despite being signed into law) to ban the app.

    from the article:

    Top TikTok executives reportedly rubbed shoulders with American tech leaders and handed out business cards at an elite pre-inauguration donor event on Sunday featuring members of the Trump administration, as the app’s future in the U.S. remains uncertain.

    Tiktok executives including CEO Shou Chew and vice president Michael Beckerman were reportedly on hand at the event, which President Donald and First Lady Melania Trump hosted at the National Building Museum in Washington. They joined a reported guestlist including Vice President JD Vance, Jeff Bezos, Elon Musk, and conservative megadonor Miriam Adelson.

    geeze, it's almost like the tech oligarchs told Trump to pause the ban until they could negotiate a way to profit more from acquisition of TikTok (or a newly created US based subsidiary that Bezos is trying to invest in) than by outright banning users access to it, cold turkey.

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