Not long ago Walmart got fined by the CCP for poor food practices. Instead of saying “we disagree with the judgement” they licked the boot and said they look forward working with the government to resolve the situation. Point is, corporations should be afraid of the government, clearly Google is not afraid of the EU and as a result I expect similar behavior from them in the future.

It’s a fucking popularity contest and you’re deluding yourself if you think voters can be disciplined.

Conway’s law strikes again!

Well, that’s why Facebook exists. The purpose of a system is what it does.

Oooph. There are critiques to be made of NATO but none of those absolve Russia of invading it’s neighbors.

Parent asked “how”, saying there isn’t any is answering a different question. I am dumb, though maybe for different reasons

Unfortunately this.

Example: Many Americans don’t speak their native tongue.

The harder part is resisting to respond to adhominen attacks

All propaganda is lies, even when one is telling the truth.

• George Orwell

More like banning hate crimes.

The same way the United States is a union of multiple ethnicities: banning hate crimes (ie crime that targets an ethnicity) and guaranteeing fair trials under the law.

The excellent traditional cultures of all ethnic groups are integral parts of Chinese culture. The State upholds the guidance of advanced socialist culture in the creative transformation and innovative development of the excellent traditional cultures of all ethnic groups, and supports the promotion and dissemination of excellent traditional Chinese culture. The State respects and guarantees the learning and use of the languages ​​and scripts of ethnic minorities, promotes their standardization and the development of their information technology capabilities, and supports the preservation, compilation, research, and utilization of ancient texts belonging to ethnic minorities.

Maybe I should say “critical of algorithms”. The point is it’s not engineered to "maximize engagement "

Put the AI critique aside for a moment. Many people on lemmy dont like algorithms managing their feed. There’s probably a big overlap between people who are pervasively sensitive to dark algorithms and people who perceive AI as a dark algorithm parlor trick .

Lossy compression with no internal mechanism for detecting information corruption.

Affordable cost of living is a communist plot to destroy America

Because Iran isn’t going to challenge them in the US courts but the ICJ/ICC (if at all)

The bigots are going to vote for the biggest bigot regardless.

My city is talking about privatizing the libraries…