Hard Pass

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.bestiver.se/post/1150053

Comments

according to maslow's pyramid, physiological needs are more fundamental than performing labor, and should therefore be taken care of first.

in other words, we should be housed and well-fed before we can be expected to work, and while work output depends on the fulfillment of physiological needs, the reverse cannot be true: our physical wellbeing cannot depend on whether we work or not.

Fumpkin Bullstin, my failed ass website.

Narcissist can't accept someone is better than him at anything.

How about creating a new protocol for a project ?

An auction to drill in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge ended with just 10 percent of the available land claimed for oil development.

Chrome Canary has a new experimental flag that redirects searches from the address bar directly to AI Mode threads. When enabled, search queries typed into the omnibox open an AI Mode conversation instead of the standard Google Search results page.

The most effective systems of control rarely arrive wearing jackboots. They arrive wrapped in reassuring language about innovation, security, and public safety.

In a blistering critique of the Trump administration’s new artificial intelligence executive order, economist and commentator Jeffrey Wernick argues that Washington is quietly constructing something far more consequential than a technology policy: a framework for government-managed access to the most powerful AI systems ever created. Not through outright bans or formal licensing requirements, but through classified thresholds, privileged partnerships, and incentives that make resistance increasingly irrational.

At the center of Wernick’s warning is a troubling reality. The government insists it is not creating an AI licensing regime while simultaneously empowering the National Security Agency to determine—through secret benchmarks—which models qualify as “covered frontier models” and therefore warrant government scrutiny before public release. In Wernick’s view, this transforms the rules of technological development from transparent regulation into something more elusive: invisible power exercised through discretion rather than law.

The result, he argues, is the emergence of a new surveillance-industrial complex, where intelligence agencies, military priorities, and corporate technology giants become increasingly intertwined. Unlike traditional forms of state coercion, this system does not compel compliance at gunpoint. Instead, it restructures the marketplace so thoroughly that cooperation becomes profitable and dissent becomes costly.

cross-posted from: https://piefed.world/c/shit/p/1172476/they-finally-invented-it-a-machine-to-cure-pedophilia

A recent report published by the U.K. Parliament’s Science, Innovation, and Technology Committee warned that the country’s ongoing relationships with tech giants will make it hard to ever achieve digital independence, and it highlights Palantir as a particularly risky partner to continue to deal with.

The report broadly deals with the challenges of being locked into agreements with third-party technology vendors for essential governmental services. Enter Palantir as the case in point of what can go wrong, in part due to the risk of ongoing enshittification of the company’s technology eroding government services, and in part because the company’s owners can’t stop talking like wannabe fascist dweebs.

I was doing some research (in observance of pride month) and found an interesting malware (Wikipedia link, you can trust me! :3)