It’s culture shock leaving the coast and travelling 2-3h inland in the US even. People in the coastal cities tend to be normal human sized, but you go inland and they’re shaped like bowling balls.

I just read Naam Ramez’ Nexus series recently and loved it. It’s high tech near future stuff, you might also like Daniel Suarez and Linda Nagata as well as William Gibson or Neil Stephenson.

Welp. I guess we’re going mask off on our foreign propaganda now too.

Yes, yes it can.

Whiteness won’t help here, this dude attacked the owner class. He’s going to be smeared then locked up for the rest of his life.

What remains to be seen now is whether he gets better medical care in prison than he did via publicly available insurance.

Propublica is funded by recurring donations from a wealthy couple. Common dreams is subscription and donation driven. Relying on the wealthy to fund free content isn’t sustainable at scale.

“The press is complicit in crippling American social problem Y”

Well yeah, no shit. The press is owned by the owner class and used to convince Americans that Y is necessary so that the profit firehose never ceases gushing into their ever growing pool of wealth.

I’m betting on a facial recognition hit from the social media firehoses

Because high quality content needs income to continue existing, and you generally get that income via a subscription or the people making your content run out of money and go get jobs.

Edit: just look at what’s happened to journalism over the last 30y if you’re having a hard time understanding why paying journalists and other writers is important. Very few high quality outlets have survived, and they’re largely on life support if they’ve not been bought up to push some billionaire’s politics.

Why take the rest of the planet down with us? Hack into the bioweapons labs and release those.

Ah, yeah, probably some console flavor of steam machine then. What TDP does this one have?

Edit: similar dev boards have been spotted with HS and U laptop chips, as well as Zen3 embedded <~55W so … it could be anything. Valve probably won’t be using an off the shelf SoC, it’ll be another GPU heavy custom job unless this is purely a dev platform or something.

We kinda left ourselves wide open by sanctioning a surveillance adtech economy and not prosecuting corruption. This is just the logical next stage (leverage surveillance adtech to sway votes and install the corruptible.)

The scientific community would just collapse and we’d be worshipping cats as a world wide religion.

You’re a couple thousand years late on this one

Since they’re certifying 3rd party devices now I wouldn’t be surprised for code covering those to pop up in the steamos repos. I wouldn’t be surprised if this was for the ASUS ryzen handheld or something.

“Conservative” populism is the grift that keeps on giving

Full funding for schools that push “corrected” conservative and religious histories

Recent results show that box 4 works fairly well when the others fail

Most of the time Google is still the most useful. If I care about privacy I use duck duck go via TOR.

According to friends You.com and perplexity are pretty good on some topics, and I’ve used chatgpt to summarize and explain things I wanted to learn.

This change makes Google suck a tiny bit less by empowering users to disable some of the surveillance driven adtech in search results.

Is it a meaningful improvement in how Google operates at scale? No, not really. The DOJ is advocating the complete breakup of Google, the divestiture of Android and Chrome as well as reining in Google’s AI training data scraping - turning off personalization more easily doesn’t even register on that scale. If anything this tiny change is part of a campaign to appear to be changing corporate behavior while Google waits for the incoming administration to ignore current DOJ findings.