cwood

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[–] [email protected] 13 points 8 months ago

Last year, Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., and Rep. Lloyd Doggett, D-Texas, came out against the effort by Próspera to exploit the dispute resolution system to undermine Honduran sovereignty. “In the case of Próspera,” they write, “a ZEDE located largely on the Honduran island of Roatán, investors have created a governing council where 44 percent of members are appointed by the private company and 22 percent are elected by landowners in a system where their number of votes is proportional to the size of their property.”

Why are they being described as crypto-libertarians when it turns out they are moving the electoral clock back two hundred years to before the abolishment of rotten boroughs? That's a significantly conservative political arrangement there.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rotten_and_pocket_boroughs

[–] [email protected] 6 points 8 months ago (1 children)

There is nobody quite as cranky as the (relatively) regular person who has to clean up after the rich person's mess.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 8 months ago

I'm always very nonplussed about what claims to pass for thought in white nationalist crowds.

The stopped-clock moment in this whole is definitely where he dimly grasps that Republican audiences are way more openly positive to white nationalism than they were.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 8 months ago (2 children)

A really good lesson on offline backups of things like issue trackers, though.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 8 months ago (1 children)

This whole festival sounds like it could have used conflict of interest subtitles. When somebody's voice is saying "I actually think that AI (blah, blah)" there's one subtitle with the words and another with phrasing such as "(Person)'s annual stock award will be increased by (number)% if paid subscriptions to (company)'s AI product rise by (number)%."

[–] [email protected] 9 points 8 months ago
[–] [email protected] 4 points 9 months ago

This is only one of a vast number of possible AI hellscapes. https://awful.systems/post/1061543

[–] [email protected] 10 points 9 months ago
[–] [email protected] 12 points 9 months ago

Regardless of what he did, it was a very annoying way to teach the world that there are these people called systems administrators who have all the access to everything and all the passwords besides. That was a very irritating year at work. "Yes, how did you think I was able to answer all those questions you keep asking," and other replies to questions about access privs.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 9 months ago

"We have an incident response capability ... (to) prevent Kraken from being used in (exactly) this way (that you all saw happen here)".

Sure you do.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 9 months ago

I know that crowd's politics are ultra-reactionary, and yet it's still fascinating just how few ideas the tech revanchists have that aren't "this thing is bad and should be rolled back". Do they have any ideas developed from socially acceptable principle at all?

[–] [email protected] 7 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Is this stuff deliberately written to be word salad?

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