Hacker News: distortionfield

New comment by distortionfield in "ICE Planning $100M 'Nightmare' Domestic Spy Program"

distortionfield — Wed, 14 Oct 2026 18:22:49 +0000

That seems like a strict improvement over ICE still lmao.

New comment by distortionfield in "ICE Planning $100M 'Nightmare' Domestic Spy Program"

distortionfield — Wed, 14 Oct 2026 18:22:15 +0000

It doesn’t, because they think he’s on their side. As long as he keeps hurting the right people, they’ll tolerate anything he throws at them.

New comment by distortionfield in "ICE Planning $100M 'Nightmare' Domestic Spy Program"

distortionfield — Wed, 14 Oct 2026 18:17:59 +0000

That has shown to be nothing but hot air and wishful thinking. The second they got into power they’ve thrown any hint of caring about the constitution out the window.

New comment by distortionfield in "Doing Everyone Else's Job"

distortionfield — Wed, 16 Sep 2026 05:06:35 +0000

This is what pretty much every “lifehack” type of tip boils down to, btw lol

New comment by distortionfield in "There's a 100% Chance AI Agents Are Ruining the Internet"

distortionfield — Tue, 15 Sep 2026 17:31:40 +0000

This is the real hidden cost of the bots. I absolutely loathe the human verification hoops I have to jump through now, more than anything else mentioned in this thread.

New comment by distortionfield in "Amazon refused to give pregnant workers bathroom breaks"

distortionfield — Wed, 09 Sep 2026 21:47:57 +0000

This is the company that literally hired the Pinkertons and has been repeatedly fined millions for labor related violations, up to and including union busting. Consider me not even an iota of surprised.

New comment by distortionfield in "DHS is using obscure law to snoop on journalists, non-profits, unions"

distortionfield — Sun, 30 Aug 2026 06:50:45 +0000

The democrats are completely complacent right now. They don’t even want to pretend to fight anymore.

New comment by distortionfield in "Highest-ever ocean temperature measured as powerful El Niño forms"

distortionfield — Sun, 30 Aug 2026 01:34:40 +0000

The causes of the subject of the article are inherently political. It absolutely is relevant.

New comment by distortionfield in "Glaciers on the Climate Dashboard"

distortionfield — Wed, 12 Aug 2026 18:48:05 +0000

I’ll never forgive the US for pulling out of the Paris accords after we had gotten China to come to the table. That was our moment to get a real grip on this problem and we blew it. It’ll never come back, I’m convinced.

New comment by distortionfield in "Termixer (TUI DJ Mixer)"

distortionfield — Fri, 31 Jul 2026 19:48:10 +0000

Honestly this seems like it would be a sick party trick. Combine with some strudel.cc and it could be pretty cool little setup.

New comment by distortionfield in "New York just passed a one-year temporary ban on data centers"

distortionfield — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 17:45:20 +0000

> where the government doesn't just force harms on the public whenever it will make them more money and voter's concerns about health and environmental impacts are listened to.

This is exactly what just happened in Utah et. al. with the new Stratos data center under western liberal democracy, btw.

New comment by distortionfield in "New York just passed a one-year temporary ban on data centers"

distortionfield — Fri, 05 Jun 2026 15:33:09 +0000

They already have a balanced budget, why would they need to cave to these corporations?

New comment by distortionfield in "NASA announces overhaul of Artemis program amid safety concerns, delays"

distortionfield — Fri, 27 Feb 2026 20:59:40 +0000

Isn't this a non-sequitur though? Artemis presumably doesn't have to actually load up humans on the rockets to flight test them.

New comment by distortionfield in "Discord cuts ties with identity verification software, Persona"

distortionfield — Wed, 25 Feb 2026 01:19:04 +0000

Yup, absolutely I do.

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/13/technology/dhs-anti-ice-s...

New comment by distortionfield in "Discord cuts ties with identity verification software, Persona"

distortionfield — Tue, 24 Feb 2026 17:30:13 +0000

It’s not a “maybe”. This administration was collecting lists of people who spoke negatively about ICE from social media like a week ago. you really think they’re going to send them gift baskets or something?

New comment by distortionfield in "An AI agent published a hit piece on me"

distortionfield — Fri, 13 Feb 2026 02:04:29 +0000

Disagree. I have seen people pay more for less. Especially in the case of something like a PR where their job performance could be tied to the result.

New comment by distortionfield in "An AI agent published a hit piece on me"

distortionfield — Fri, 13 Feb 2026 01:31:07 +0000

We already have agentic payment workflows, this won’t stop it either as people are already willing (and able) to give their agent AIs a small budget to work with.

New comment by distortionfield in "Illinois joins WHO global outbreak network after U.S. withdraws"

distortionfield — Wed, 04 Feb 2026 00:42:47 +0000

It’s going to lead to balkanization, and it seems at this point to be basically intentional.

New comment by distortionfield in "Bill to Eliminate H-1B Visa Program Introduced in Congress"

distortionfield — Wed, 07 Jan 2026 06:39:49 +0000

There is little reason to believe that low hiring will be improved in any significant amount by removal of the H1B pool.

New comment by distortionfield in "Neuralink 'Participant 1' says his life has changed"

distortionfield — Wed, 27 Aug 2025 06:20:37 +0000

I’m familiar with those applications of exploitation, too, but they also wouldn’t apply here. This wasn’t demeaning work and wasn’t predicated on necessity, past their disability.

And of course, all work is exploitation under capitalism (from a true lefty point of view) but I didn’t perceive the original comment as referring to that level of exploitation. Just saying that this isn’t the hill to die on if one wants a case for capitalist exploitation.

I do understand the dangers of others being exploited down the line but again, that wasn’t what OP was saying either.

Really, if this is exploitative it’s only an indictment of profit incentives in healthcare, which are abhorrent.