That was sarcasm. Making a regulation to punish a big corporation that automatically disqualifies everyone smaller is not punishment for it.

I would like more something like a GPU to become normal, except it’d be an analog unit for kinds of computation vastly more efficient this way, where you don’t need determinism. Some trigonometry and signal processing, perhaps even some of 3d graphics.

Of course. Make another regulation only big corps can follow. To punish them, of course. This is punishment.

As far as I’ve ever been paying attention, conservatives only argue in bad faith. It’s always been about elevating their own speech and suppressing speech that counters theirs.

That’s not conservatives, that’s most humans.

Now yes, conservatism is about skepticism of any proposed system of interpreting reality to bring solutions. Sort of a chaotic ideology. There are ideologies chaotic too, but opposite in sign about optimism, ancom and ancap similarly for this purpose, or maybe even Soviet communism (which didn’t specify what “communism” itself is other than “no money, no hierarchy, no government”, because that had to be ascertained). These are all about not knowing what specific system is good or bad, generally, but having an idea of approaching that good or avoiding that bad.

There are also orderly ideologies, like that bog standard liberal democracy that was supposed to always work, or constitutional monarchism, where the “ideal” system is very precisely described and should just be implemented. This also includes Catholic distributivism, which seems somewhere between ancom and ancap, except it’s clear on how it should work.

Fascism notably is all over the place, though, that’s its only definitive trait. Fascism differs from mainstream in a different dimension than most ideological extremes. Its point is that there’s no point, just vibes and will transcending reality. It’s can be skeptical or it can be optimist, it can be progressive or conservative, the point of fascism is that these don’t matter, only what you need and want right now. Truth doesn’t matter, only the dream.

There are also orderly progressive ideologies. US progressives are such. Or leftists who think that Soviet system is their dogmatic ideal, while I have already written before than in Soviet communism it was just a mechanism. The dogmatic ideal was somewhere at some point making that ideal society, quite similar to kingdom of heaven for Christians in perception.

Same minus Android apps, like late old Nokia ones. Nokia stuff was perfect. Also UX is always treated today as if those tasks were impossible to combine with a good UX, and thus modern typical UX is just how you can do it.

Except late Nokia before MS acquisition disproves that by its existence. Its UX was better than any of that shit.

I mean, he worked (before going feral) in the place where much of what made our world different from the 80s was pioneered. Even if we hear about Berkeley or Stanford more.

It’s a situation where you want to follow those having potentially the best inside information. About the culture of the people involved, about their ideas.

It’s still unsettling how in Tolkien’s world Melkor is the weird one out, while the rest of Valar are good. Really seems to be inverted in tech.

And also delay-tolerant not perpetually directly networked systems don’t have to be inconvenient. They are made that by directed effort.

They don’t want to fix it, they want power intended to help fix it, similar to what prison guards have, outside of prisons.

Make trains run by the clock, eh?

He acknowledges that programs to boost youth employment and cut recidivism will help.

Even better. State programs of giving people bullshit jobs earning their gratitude, loyalty and readiness to join, say, some paramilitary force?

He’s convinced that America can and should be a place where everyone feels safe. And once it’s draped in a vast net of U.S.-made Flock surveillance tech, it will be.

A knife can be used both for cutting bread and for cutting off heads. And they are.

A gun can be used both for stopping a very bad person and for stopping a very good person. And they are.

And a surveillance net of drones (that can also carry weapons) can be used both for reducing crime and reducing dissent. And it will be.

There are moments when I’m glad I live in a backwards (relatively to the US) country.

I think it’s pretty close, except there’s more pluralism of power.

There are different scientists. Some want the world only populated by people of their race, only speaking their language (or other languages changed so that every translation were linear), and only with their ideal system of government.

With Covid vaccines it wasn’t like this. And I should remind you of Theranos and its backers.

s/admits/boasts/

russification of the economy ?

As a Russian, what’s that? If you mean oligarchy, you already have it. If you mean unseen parties holding power, you already have it. If you mean the down trajectory and deindustrialization, then perhaps a bit.

This right here is a feature that need not be limited to official servers. Signal is centralized, a kind reminder.

One reason I love Cryptonomicon is how it describes the way our whole world is built from WWII lessons.

One of them being that yes, you can’t learn contact potential from contact surface. This is also true for “in the open” scams like the whole Silicon Valley.

That puts limits on scaling it. Fediverse - honestly too centralized for my taste.

Not as much 51st state as being on the same continent with pretty thoroughly replaced population.

But - OK =\ Honestly I’m not too knowledgeable about Canadian identities and nationalism.

I’m not sure if Canada really counts as “from outside”

Well, if you compare all this to the Fediverse and Threads, then a national segment being functional in case of a potential self-isolation is kinda fine.

And just how they say that an absolutely secure computer is not networked, doesn’t have media reading devices and is turned off, - most of tech is possibly compromised by the USA.

And some of the jamming really coincides with areas where the explanation about Ukraine makes sense (military locations nearby). I’ve, eh, been in one such yesterday and today morning.

About one app for everything, dystopia and so on - the Internet as a thing is designed this way. Notice how Meta itself came into existence, and Google, and them all. After all, the Internet grew out of a military project, militaries usually have one specific approach to hierarchy and initiative. Would be weird if their system weren’t designed with it in mind.

Of course Putin wants more power and surveillance. But since much of the population already does a lot over VK, it’s not such a big change as it would seem.

Centralization, need to have a big commercial provider which you can pay (as someone in Russia …).