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New comment by arrosenberg in "OpenAI is connecting ChatGPT to bank accounts via Plaid"

arrosenberg — Fri, 15 May 2026 17:21:39 +0000

Campaign donations are already public if you donate over $200 - https://www.opensecrets.org/donor-lookup

New comment by arrosenberg in "Seven countries now generate nearly all their electricity from renewables (2024)"

arrosenberg — Sun, 12 Apr 2026 16:58:37 +0000

For California, CAISO publishes a ton of data. Here is daily fuel mix - https://www.gridstatus.io/charts/fuel-mix?iso=caiso

You can also see Texas (ERCOT), New York and a few other operators.

New comment by arrosenberg in "Judge orders government to begin refunding more than $130B in tariffs"

arrosenberg — Thu, 05 Mar 2026 17:53:56 +0000

The point is to bankrupt the country so the robber barons can buy up all the assets for pennies on the dollar.

New comment by arrosenberg in "Cells use 'bioelectricity' to coordinate and make group decisions"

arrosenberg — Sun, 01 Feb 2026 20:18:55 +0000

Every cell in your body (excepting red blood cells) has a complete copy of your genome. What differs is which portions are activated.

New comment by arrosenberg in "Amazon closing its Fresh and Go stores"

arrosenberg — Tue, 27 Jan 2026 21:07:17 +0000

Predatory pricing is illegal in the US, but difficult to prosecute under the existing laws.

New comment by arrosenberg in "Cloudflare CEO on the Italy fines"

arrosenberg — Sat, 10 Jan 2026 17:25:21 +0000

The fear is being heavily stoked by agitprop on social media.

New comment by arrosenberg in "Epic celebrates "the end of the Apple Tax" after court win in iOS payments case"

arrosenberg — Fri, 12 Dec 2025 18:20:00 +0000

Lina Khan did try and regulate. She had some successes, but the major cases w/r/t concentration of power against Microsoft, Amazon, Google, Meta and Apple have all moved slowly and (so far) failed to result in break ups.

New comment by arrosenberg in "Epic celebrates "the end of the Apple Tax" after court win in iOS payments case"

arrosenberg — Fri, 12 Dec 2025 17:30:18 +0000

Antitrust laws were written in the early 1900s and updated through the 1950s. Credit cards weren't available until 1966 and didn't become widely used until the 1990s. Digital platforms weren't a thing until the late 90s/early 2000s and the Apple app store didn't exist until 2008.

The courts can only enforce the laws on the books. Congress needs to update the laws, but they won't because they are hopelessly corrupt :(

New comment by arrosenberg in "Unexpected things that are people"

arrosenberg — Mon, 10 Nov 2025 19:41:29 +0000

If they know about malfeasance and don't stop it, they are complicit; if they don't know about it, they are grossly negligent. In either case, they should be held accountable for the crimes. Maybe in an ideal world it would not be that way, but since we are seeing corruption run amok in corporate board rooms, it's clear they need a greater incentive to police their organizations.

New comment by arrosenberg in "Unexpected things that are people"

arrosenberg — Mon, 10 Nov 2025 19:01:11 +0000

That's exactly my point. It's not hard to figure out how to "put a corporation into prison", the issue is that we've been trained to accept corruption as a normal facet of corporate personhood.

New comment by arrosenberg in "Unexpected things that are people"

arrosenberg — Mon, 10 Nov 2025 18:52:51 +0000

> This obviously has negative externalities, because while a corporation is easy to fine, it's hard to put in prison... but trying to approach it differently would be about as fun as modeling a CPU as a bunch of transistors.

There's nothing stopping the legislature (other than their own self-interest) from passing a law that executives and board members are criminally liable for the malfeasance of their entity. We already apply that logic to positions like a medical lab director.

New comment by arrosenberg in "You can't refuse to be scanned by ICE's facial recognition app, DHS document say"

arrosenberg — Sat, 01 Nov 2025 17:03:58 +0000

> And if you are white and have an American accent you're going to be ignored entirely anyway.

For now, until they move on to persecuting political adversaries.

New comment by arrosenberg in "Replacement.ai"

arrosenberg — Sun, 19 Oct 2025 17:43:30 +0000

Kind of hard for the government to “prepare society to move forward” when the AI companies and their financiers lobby for conditions that worsen the ability of society to do so.

New comment by arrosenberg in "DoorDash and Waymo launch autonomous delivery service in Phoenix"

arrosenberg — Thu, 16 Oct 2025 20:15:33 +0000

Are you carrying your groceries to the coffee shop? Also, walking places in US suburbs is a miserable experience, especially in the Southwest where it gets hot. Everything is spread out with large parking lots, sidewalks are a maybe, the roads are busy and there is no shade or sound dampening.

New comment by arrosenberg in "DoorDash and Waymo launch autonomous delivery service in Phoenix"

arrosenberg — Thu, 16 Oct 2025 14:55:30 +0000

They are talking about US suburbs. For example, the house I grew up in is over a mile to the nearest grocery and you have to cross two large intersections on the way.

New comment by arrosenberg in "What happens to college towns after peak 18-year-old?"

arrosenberg — Sat, 11 Oct 2025 03:59:32 +0000

Because the oligarchs who own the media and the politicians don’t care about the petty lives of regular people.

New comment by arrosenberg in "Personal data storage is an idea whose time has come"

arrosenberg — Mon, 06 Oct 2025 15:59:53 +0000

I fail to see how. Having ad-subsidized access to Facebook and YouTube has not reduced poverty, hunger or made housing and healthcare more affordable for them. The overwhelming majority have not used it to up-skill or improve their income prospects. Predatory "free" pricing appears to have simply made the poor more easily targeted by propaganda and advertising.

New comment by arrosenberg in "Personal data storage is an idea whose time has come"

arrosenberg — Sun, 05 Oct 2025 16:50:05 +0000

We need to (once again) define “free” pricing models as predatory and broadly outlaw them. They distort the idea of a free and fair marketplace by poisoning consumer expectations of what things should cost.

New comment by arrosenberg in "Kagi News"

arrosenberg — Tue, 30 Sep 2025 17:42:08 +0000

FYI, you can append &udm=14 to Google searches to remove AI results and a bunch of the other clutter they've added.

New comment by arrosenberg in "How the “Kim” dump exposed North Korea's credential theft playbook"

arrosenberg — Sun, 07 Sep 2025 15:15:43 +0000

Sure. If Smedley Butler has been less disillusioned by his work history and successfully carried forward the business plot it’s pretty easy to imagine.