The only reason that they support LGBTQ is because it gives them an opportunity to pretend to be leftists in spite of being center to right on basically every single other issue. And because it’s okay with their megarich donors.
If the donor class opposed it, they wouldn’t even support that.
Chinese
Not a surprise.
If they were Americans, they would’ve already had their grants revoked and their findings suppressed and deleted.
embarrassing
That’s an odd way to spell “incriminating.”
weapons company
That’s the most important bit.
An awful lot of the otherwise inexplicable international support for the utter evil Israel is visiting on Gaza exists solely because it’s profitable for a handful of corporate parasites.
Which is its own sort of evil.
I think one of the most concise ways to conceptualize the current conservative project is that they looked at the French Revolution and the collapse of the Ancien Regime and drew the wrong conclusions.
Rather than seeing it as the inevitable result of the systemstic oppression of the majority for the obscene privilege of a select few, they see it as a failure of the select few to sufficiently protect their privilege. And their goal is to recreate the conditions of the Ancien Regime, but this time around to prevent the peasants from successfully rebelling.
Yes, though with a feudal system mixed in.
Corporations and wealthy individuals will be the sole property-owners and will play the roles of feudal lords, and the people will be serfs, allowed to live on the lords’ estates only if they serve the lords.
Since homelessness will be criminalized while all property will be owned by the feudal lords, those who won’t serve the lords “willingly” will be imprisoned, and yes, they will then be slaves.
It’s not a matter of how ones profile would be accessed, but how it would be created in the first place snd how it would be managed.
Necessarily, those who implement the creation of accounts have control over how they’re created, who is allowed to create them and how they will be handled after creation.
Any scheme to establish one “central” (your own term) account for the entire fediverse will necessarily be managed by one “central” service, which means one “central” authority over account creation and management
Decentralization is a feature - not a bug.
And here’s a bit of a hint for the slow people out there - they don’t need that many agents or that big of a budget if they’re only dealing with immigrants.
I have no doubt that this is real, and we can expect to see much, much more of it.
LLMs, by their very nature, not only can but will, if so prompted, reinforce delusions.
The current “AIs” do not think or reason in any way, shape or form. They have no understanding of their output because they’re not actually intelligemt, or even aware. They’ve just been programmed to combine words with other words in ways that are statistically likely to be relevant to the prompts they’re given.
And that means that a person who’s sufficiently determined can, without conscious intent, feed an “AI” prompts that will lead it to treat whatever delusion they feed it as real, and even to surround it with enough other strings of coincidentally meaningful words and phrases that it appears, to the incautious mind, to be revelatory.