Arcane. It’s always Arcane. Arcane.

Had a planet full of resources, and thousands of years of rich and interesting cultural development.

Decided to spend all the resources grinding all that culture into a bland paste.

Is… is humanity a shitpost?

This just in: Author/professor/CEO whose books/classes/company are about manipulative technologies… voluntarily installs manipulative technologies.

We’re gonna need something like C2PA before the next election.

Not sure anyone actually read the article, cuz yall are talkin about apps vs. web sites, and data collection. Two points which are briefly covered, but ultimately shrugged off in favor of the larger thesis:

Smartphones … meant [companies] could use their apps to off-load effort. … In other words, apps became bureaucratized. What started as a source of fun, efficiency, and convenience became enmeshed in daily life. Now it seems like every ordinary activity has been turned into an app, while the benefit of those apps has diminished.

I’d like to think that this hellscape is a temporary one. As the number of apps multiplies beyond all logic or utility, won’t people start resisting them? And if platform owners such as Apple ratchet up their privacy restrictions, won’t businesses adjust? Don’t count on it. Our app-ocalypse is much too far along already. Every crevice of contemporary life has been colonized. At every branch in your life, and with each new responsibility, apps will keep sprouting from your phone. You can't escape them. You won’t escape them, not even as you die, because—of course—there’s an app for that too.

It’s not simply the code delivery mechanism, and it’s not whether the data exchange is safe from prying eyes… It’s the fact that a digital UX has invaded every aspect of human interaction, including mourning.

✅ Autonomous weaponry

✅ Autonomous biofuel harvesting

❓ Polyphasic Entangled Waveforms

Where’s Elisabet Sobeck when you need her?

In an emergency, you can also exit widdoutershins.

https://www.verifythis.com/article/news/verify/elections-verify/what-happens-if-someone-votes-early-but-dies-before-election-day/536-072041c7-5bb0-4e54-8418-5e98802c4dc1

Varies by state. Georgia is one of several states without a clear rule. At any rate, it seems to be constrained by practicality. If they already opened the envelope to count it, it’s hard to undo it.

It’s a car’s world, we’re just walkin in it.

Sounds like NHTSA recommended the veto so we don’t end up with competing standards.

Good move, IMO. For a system as large as this, with severe safety implications, you really don’t want to start on the wrong foot.

Daily reminder that copyright isn’t the only conceivable weapon we can wield against AI.

Anticompetitive business practices, labor law, privacy, likeness rights. There are plenty of angles to attack from.

Most importantly, we need strong unions. However we model AI regulation, we will still want some ability to grant training rights. But it can’t be a boilerplate part of an employment/contracting agreement. That’s the kind of thing unions are made to handle.

Fake lawyers, fake reviews, and several pyramid schemes. Solid takedowns, FTC!

That is fantastic! I feel like I’m there.

His would be gold though

I’ll believe it when GN says it.

Maybe the COPS theme song, cuz I think it did a lot to popularize the show and that was some mega-potent copaganda that did long-term damage.

Maybe Horst-Wessel-Lied, for similar reasons.

Got bills to pay and mouths to feed, there ain't no

thin in this world for free. No I can’t slow down, I can’t hold back, though you know I wish I could. There ain’t no rest for the wicked… til we close our eyes for good.

It’s Cory Doctorow’s pet name for it. Like most terms he comes up with, it’s almost too brutally honest to say in polite company.

Whatever the hell candy corn is.