Paragone

( Horseshack voice: )

Oh! Oh! Oh! Mr Kotter!

YOU MEAN FILTER-BUBBLES DO THE SAME THING TO BOTH HUMANS AND AIs??

How Very Incredibly Surprising(tm), Oh, My!

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Isn't that interesting..

The anbility to prevent the getting-out of evidence of what the authorities do to the locals..

Just like the unconstitutional state-laws which criminalize capturing-of-video-evidene of police executing people..

"I wonder" if this would ever be abused by anti-accountability authorities..

( remember that the whole Christian religion is founded on a guy who was a kind of whistleblower, & had spikes hammered through his wrists, in his crucifixion, for his calling the legalists "hypocrites"..

I wonder how "Christian" he'd find them to be, if he returned, & saw what they're doing? )

Human nature & demon nature seem .. related?

or is that too harsh?

.. perhaps .. but wasn't the Inquisition demon-law in the name of benJoseph?

hmm...

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IF you are in accounting, especially if you are in regulatory compliance accounting, or going into it, you NEED to know about a book named "Financial Shenanigans".

I'm not intellectually-equal to it ( or to accounting, for that matter: psychology's much easier to crack, for me ), but it is THE most important book for forensic-accountants to know.

The bullshit that they've been pulling, where "Between 2017 and 2021, Amazon had more than $25 billion in losses from its devices business, according to the documents. The losses for the years before and after that period couldn’t be determined." didn't produce criminal consequences..

You've got to be kidding, right?

Individual human goes to jail or prison for $2k tax fraud, but .. big tech gets a free pass on that kind of "accounting"??

couldn't be determined??

Either run a tight-ship or don't be surprised when it sinks.

Economies are the "ships" that carry our countries, & have to be properly regulated, exactly as a tightly-regulated ship has to be, to keep it afloat longer.

It isn't the sloppy mechanic-racers who win NASCAR, it is the ones who control everything correctly, with total right-regulation.

I remember when I'd read that Cisco switched to closing their books out daily, so as to always know the exact position of the company..

what an incredible degree of financial-operations integrity that was..

Anyways, "Financial Shenanigans" is THE book to dig into, if you want to know if the business you're considering investing in is cooking the books.. and you're capable of understanding that stuff at the level it's speaking..

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Conflict-of-interest is the root of all corruption.

This escalation will continue,

until big-tech forces the governments to kneel to the surveillance-capitalism biggest:

They will simply say something like:

"Either your government removes laws, regulations, accountability, etc, from us,

XOR we are hamstringing your country: we OWN you, we POSSESS you, & you will obey OUR rule."

I guarantee this will be happening between now & 2036.

Remember how they can ratchet-up a genocide, anywhere??

They've already done so, in some places..

( Facebook & .. was it Myanmar? as 1 example )

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This is inevitable:

Once the people in China can only see the CCP's version of everything,

& ALL stuff has been adulterated, either by AI or by some agency-or-other,

THEN dissent should die-down in the Chinese population:

Read Lanier's "Foreign to Familiar" to understand how Tropical-Culture vs Nordic-Culture shapes people, & how old-cultures vs new-cultures shape people,

then read Hofstede's "Exploring Culture" to understand the dimensions of culture that his Cultural Dimensions Theory digs into ( power-distance, uncertainty-avoidance, "success"-orientation, & other dimensions )..

& when you understand how we're kind of "template" people, before being born into culture,

but once born into it, our entire meaning gets framed within whatever culture we were born into..

therefore, the CCP can simply remove most diversity-of-meaning from their completely-possessed-population, through a generation or 2 of that.

Tibetan, Uyghur, Hongkonger, Taiwanese, Indian, South-Korean, Japanese, the intent is consistent: "the destruction of " .. others .. "is the midwife of Chinese supremacy".

I expect a similar kind of program to exist in all right-possessed countries, as the right is doing in the US, right now, with burning or banning books, eradicating proper education, suppressing libraries, etc, they're just doing the same thing as what the CCP's doing, only less-skillfully, is all.

No real difference in their deeper heart/motivation/intent, though: supremacism, crushing/destroying all "other" kinds.

Russia's big on it, too, isn't it?

Islamism..

The "Crusades" were good examples of this kind of idiocy?

The "Inquisition"?

The "Buddhist" genociding of Tamils?

So long as the "home" story is .. "coherent", & "justifies" all, then .. kids grow up .. believing, right?

There's a book, & a Big Think yt video, on "Collective Illusions", which is important!

Please invest in seeing that video, & see how it's actually a delusion-mechanism in our minds..

..used by political-forces, yes, but they couldn't use it if it didn't exist, could they?

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Is his personal-information on the dark-web?

Is he saying that if his personal-information is on the dark-web, then it's perfectly-OK for everybody & their robot to be using it??

XOR is he saying that there are 2 kinds of law:

1 for protecting his entitlement,

the other for disallowing rights from the lives he consumes, through his beloved herd/corporation/pseudo-person?

( obviously, he's already answered the latter )

Computational-Fluid-Dynamics simulations are RAM-limited, iirc.

I'm presuming many AI models are, too, since some of them require stupendous amounts of RAM, which no non-server machine would have.

"diminishing returns" is what Intel's "beloved" Celeron garbage was pushing.

When I ran Memtest86+ ( or the other version, don't remember ), & saw how insanely slow RAM was, compared with L2 or L3 cache, & then discovered how incredible the machine-upgrade going from SATA to NVMe was..

Get the fastest NVMe & RAM you can: it puts your CPU where it should have been, all along, and that difference between a "normal" build vs an effective build is the misframing the whole industry has been establishing, for decades.

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It also is true that ideologically-motivated-coding is an actual thing.

Imagine someone hating that their propaganda gets deleted by moderators, so they make it difficult for moderators to function that way..

while they, themselves, just so a SELECT on their DB to see the images, to delete all the ones they don't want..

Remember, it isn't only corporations who are committed to enforcing the Enshittocene, ideologues do, too.

Those comments are proven false by the dot-4 release of Lemmy, but I'm not accusing the Lemmy devs of being the way those post-quoted comments said.

I AM stating, bluntly, that deliberate torque on the use of ANY aspect of an app, is a thing, now, and need be considered as ONE of the possibilities.

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umm, Hoomin, that was in the 1900's!

: P

Put Puppy Linux https://puppylinux-woof-ce.github.io/ on your older machines,

& Ubuntu/Kubuntu/Lubuntu/Xubuntu on your newer ones.

https://ubuntu.com/desktop

https://kubuntu.org/

https://lubuntu.me/

https://xubuntu.org/

or use UbuntuStudio, for a full audio-visual workstation..

https://ubuntustudio.org/

Problem Solved(tm)

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Merely threaten .. ball-less cowards.

They will remain owned, then, possessed-carrion, instead of owning their own autonomy..

The frog in the slowly-heating-pot is us.

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