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Supreme Court weakens federal regulators with Chevron overturning, threatening net neutrality, right to repair, big tech regulation, and more ( www.theverge.com )

The downfall of Chevron deference could completely change the ways courts review net neutrality, according to Bloomberg Intelligence’s Matt Schettenhelm. “The FCC’s 2024 effort to reinstitute federal broadband regulation is the latest chapter in a long-running regulatory saga, yet we think the demise of deference will...

lolcatnip ,

I think it means something similar to YOLO.

lolcatnip ,

There's a reason "rearranging the deck chairs on the Titanic" is a saying and "rearranging the deck chairs on the Eastland Steamer" isn't.

lolcatnip ,

You can have my meds when you pry them from my cold dead hands. It's not ok to be against something people do of their own free will that helps them out and doesn't hurt anyone.

Microsoft has gone too far: including a Game Pass ad in the Settings app ushers in a whole new age of ridiculous over-advertising ( www.techradar.com )

Windows 11 is getting out of hand with its push for advertisments, frankly - remember the recent full-screen pop-up to persuade users to install Edge or other Microsoft services? Then another advertisment was placed in the Start menu, and now Microsoft has finally worn my temper thin - with a new Game Pass ad coming to the...

lolcatnip ,

Seems to me it's mostly complaining about Google.

Amazon Mulls $5 to $10 monthly price tag for unprofitable Alexa service, AI revamp ( www.reuters.com )

Amazon (AMZN.O) is planning a major revamp of its decade-old money-losing Alexa service to include a conversational generative AI with two tiers of service and has considered a monthly fee of around $5 to access the superior version, according to people with direct knowledge of the company's plans.

lolcatnip ,

But the one in your pocket is fine?

lolcatnip ,

Look up a brand called Tenga.

lolcatnip ,

Same general idea, yeah.

lolcatnip ,

Damn. I worked for Google for almost 10 years and I had no idea.

lolcatnip ,

Is it just me, it does the headline suggest they're running experiments on brains in jars, as opposed to full human beings?

lolcatnip ,

I can't take anyone who says "commie" seriously. It's like hearing an adult say they need to go potty.

lolcatnip ,

They're getting away with it so far.

lolcatnip ,

So you're advocating generic testing for anyone who wants to play sports? What about people who are neither XX nor XY? Do you expect trans women to share locker rooms with men?

lolcatnip ,

Me, a divorced person:
https://reddthat.com/pictrs/image/fdf9922b-683e-46f3-8525-655a54931c3b.jpeg

lolcatnip ,

Jesus, CBS, just say they have names.

lolcatnip ,

Civ IV is the GOAT.

lolcatnip ,

Totally normal human response.

lolcatnip ,

I've lost the ability to stop media playing. Fortunately I have a Google Home with a pause button.

lolcatnip ,

I'm not sure it's anatomically possible for a horse to stretch that way without injuring itself.

lolcatnip ,

ACAB, but also ACAB.

lolcatnip , (edited )

Boycotts are almost impossible to pull off successfully. This kind of thing demands legal action. IANAL but the facial recognition company putting her on a list of shoplifters is a claim that she's a criminal, which sounds like textbook defamation to me.

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They've essentially created their own privatized law enforcement system. They aren't allowed to enforce their rules the same way a government would be, but punishment like banning a person from huge swaths of economic life can still be severe. The worst part is that private legal systems almost never have any concept of rights or due process, so there is absolutely nothing stopping them from being completely arbitrary in how they apply their punishments.

I see this kind of thing as being closely aligned with right wingers' desire to privatize everything, abolish human rights, and just generally turn the world into a dystopian hellscape for anyone who isn't rich and well connected.

lolcatnip ,

What did you expect from genocidal maniacs?

lolcatnip ,

You've got it backwards. The constant conflation of antisemitism with criticism of Israel by Israel and its stooges is what's bad for Jews. Making fun of how disingenuous they are is good for Jews who don't want to be associated with a genocidal apartheid regime.

lolcatnip ,

I see nothing wrong with defrauding conservatives. They're gonna find some grifter to give their money to, so it may as well be you.

lolcatnip ,

Yeah, you'd pretty much have to avoid whole categories of products, and be primarily thinking about Israel any time you shop.

lolcatnip ,

You hear so much about the people Jeffrey Dahmer murdered, but never anything about all the people he didn't murder!

lolcatnip ,

I see you've decided to be condescending, and also made a falsifiable claim. This is the part where you bring some actual data or STFU.

lolcatnip ,

What do you need 5G for on a dumb phone, anyway?

lolcatnip ,

Sounds like you need to set better boundaries with people you know. Or block their texts.

lolcatnip ,

So maybe they could just...not use apps that bombard them with ads? How hard is that?

lolcatnip ,

Most people can port anything. And most of the ones who can have better uses for their time.

lolcatnip ,

I'm taking about people spamming him with messages when it's not an emergency.

lolcatnip ,

This smells like sour grapes to me, just like when people say to boycott Starbucks and then in the same breath say their coffee sucks. These companies became behemoths because people find a lot of value in the products and services they offer. Failing to acknowledge that truth just makes you sound out of touch.

lolcatnip ,

I don't know how you think that's relevant to what I said.

lolcatnip ,

Isn't there a word for when people go to a foreign country and attack the locals? Feels like it's right on the tip of my tongue...

lolcatnip ,

Sometimes it has to be a hard delete to comply with a user's request to remove data.

lolcatnip ,

Damn near every supporter of Israel.

lolcatnip ,

I would assume that if 100 orphans are to be "married off", they're being treated as property.

lolcatnip ,

My goodman, you sound like a Red pretending to be a Gold.

lolcatnip ,

When you have that much money, running a business is just a game to you. And it's apparently a pretty entertaining game considering how popular is is with people who have "fuck you" money.

lolcatnip ,

It shouldn't take so much effort. I really wish there was an automated way to share block lists with like minded users, and to discover those users based on similarity in who we've blocked.

lolcatnip ,

It's so rare for these people to admit they have brain worms!

lolcatnip ,

That's exactly how it works.

lolcatnip ,

Do you have a source for Israel admitting it? That Wikipedia article is long!

lolcatnip ,

Any more so than, say, fingerprints, DNA, or accounting records?

lolcatnip ,

99.9% of those people have no power to change anything of consequence, and most of the ones who have the power think their money will protect them.

lolcatnip ,

They're totally incompetent at many things, such as governing, but they're brilliant at brainwashing their followers and causing harm to people at home and around the world. Just like typical fictional supervillains.

lolcatnip ,

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