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New comment by malicka in "DoorDash to Acquire Instacart"

malicka — Thu, 29 Oct 2026 15:10:36 +0000

Color of shoes is one thing, that’s fair game.

Buuut it’s probably better for society to not kneecap ordinary folks just for trying to run for office. Otherwise, you only get folks in office with deep pockets who can take the hit.

New comment by malicka in "Artificial intelligence is capitalism's final destination"

malicka — Fri, 16 Oct 2026 14:51:12 +0000

I don’t see why it should be taken for granted that alien civilizations would necessarily have an economic system that positions AI as a threat, like ours.

I also don’t see why we should assume that even if it were positioned as a threat, that they would be as irrational as us in not just dropping it.

New comment by malicka in "Singapore govt dating app uses Gale-Shapley stable marriage algorithm"

malicka — Thu, 01 Oct 2026 00:50:20 +0000

Cell-phones. Noone’s having sex because they’d rather watch Tik-Tok; it’s got lower friction than going outside.

New comment by malicka in "How we learned to stop worrying and love campus surveillance"

malicka — Fri, 25 Sep 2026 22:42:28 +0000

When the data ends up inevitably in the state’s hands (almost certainly thanks to the AI company they’re contracting), it is 100% part of the surveillance state. Same reason telecom providers and Big Tech generally is part of the surveillance state; they’ll just hand over data, no questions asked, no warrants provided.

New comment by malicka in "How we learned to stop worrying and love campus surveillance"

malicka — Fri, 25 Sep 2026 22:40:00 +0000

> My high school also had cameras. Isn’t that rather typical?

Security cameras are incredibly typical. Having cameras that record _audio_ are not, and having cameras whose audio and video recordings are handed over to an AI company is _absolutely_ not typical.

New comment by malicka in "U.S. appeals court upholds designation of Anthropic as supply chain risk"

malicka — Fri, 25 Sep 2026 17:05:53 +0000

Exactly. Their process prioritizes seniority generally, and this is another case. The process is, if the president wants another go, he gets another go; and he sure as heck wanted another go.

New comment by malicka in "California is chasing wealth that has feet"

malicka — Fri, 25 Sep 2026 01:56:36 +0000

> This will have some of the unfortunate effect of collectivism. We don't want the govt to tax you into poverty.

Weird framing. In any case, this would lead to less taxes for most folks, at least compared to property taxes.

New comment by malicka in "China's Regulators Take Aim at "AI Boyfriends""

malicka — Mon, 14 Sep 2026 17:43:15 +0000

“Robotic productivity” is taxed in every country, including China — the profits go to some entity, to some company. With exceptions for the companies that manage to wrestle themselves in paying virtually nothing in taxes, that profit is taxed somewhere down the line. Nothing special about AI productivity, it’s just money.

New comment by malicka in "How Fairphone built the Fairphone Gen 6+"

malicka — Fri, 04 Sep 2026 16:00:23 +0000

It’s both superior engineering-wise and morally. The moral framing is probably more popular with folks that don’t care about engineering superiority, too.

New comment by malicka in "The National Park Service Is Using Flock. Rangers Are Pissed"

malicka — Tue, 18 Aug 2026 16:46:07 +0000

No, we're supposed to hate all passively-surveilling cameras. Except for dumb ones that dump to local storage. Dash-cams are often pretty dumb, so they’re fine; your phone only takes photos when you ask it to, so it’s fine. :)

New comment by malicka in "Mozilla says stricter antitrust measures against Google 'threaten Firefox'"

malicka — Thu, 13 Aug 2026 17:33:02 +0000

They definitely shouldn’t. Mozilla has talented engineers, but it’s been catastrophically mismanaged for almost 20 years at this point. Keep Firefox, but let Mozilla finally die.

New comment by malicka in "Bb: The IDE that builds itself"

malicka — Wed, 12 Aug 2026 14:26:04 +0000

Cute and clever gimmick, which is more than I can say about most AI-related software churned out these days.

New comment by malicka in "The case for MUDs in modern times (2018)"

malicka — Fri, 24 Jul 2026 21:34:11 +0000

Information was made to be free: Sharing jokes shares the joy!

New comment by malicka in "Jelly UI: Soft-body physics for native HTML form controls"

malicka — Mon, 20 Jul 2026 20:10:25 +0000

Working on mine, but… sluggishly.

New comment by malicka in "Accidental Anonymity"

malicka — Thu, 16 Jul 2026 20:03:13 +0000

> Or maybe you know enough people are just generally mean and jerk enough that you don't want to listen to their silly criticism and over-the-topness.

Yea, that’s lacking the bravery. Thickening your skin and sharpening your tools is 100% beneficial to you, at least for your personal development. It’s good for culture and society, too, to have more fledgling and amateur artists and creators put themselves out there.

New comment by malicka in "Supreme Court upholds broad conception of birthright citizenship"

malicka — Wed, 01 Jul 2026 19:09:38 +0000

Because when you are in a country, you are subject to it’s jurisdiction. Can you be arrested for petty crimes? Yes? Then you’re under that country’s jurisdiction.

New comment by malicka in "Michigan bill would bar employers from requiring after-hours coms with workers"

malicka — Sun, 28 Jun 2026 20:47:25 +0000

Do remember that without the government, there very literally would be no forty-hour work week. Individuals don’t have the same bargaining power as employers, not by a long-shot.

New comment by malicka in "California legislature agrees to upload driver's licenses to national database"

malicka — Sun, 28 Jun 2026 20:12:01 +0000

Every piece chipped off of our right to privacy and freedom from surveillance is another strike against civil society; it normalizes data-collection further and gives any government contractors (Palantir et. al) a bigger database to profit off of.

New comment by malicka in "It's Only When You Look Back"

malicka — Thu, 25 Jun 2026 03:35:30 +0000

The issue is, you can’t solve social problems with technology alone. The most challenging problems for our species (inequality, starvation, homelessness, etc) are social, after all. And we don’t have the incentives nor political will to solve them.

On your points: You won’t wake up in your vacation destination until you swap the cars out for rail. Infrastructure won’t be cheap until the social problems making it expensive (land, middle-men, quid-pro-quo, endless subcontracting) are solved.

New comment by malicka in "The AirPods Effect"

malicka — Fri, 19 Jun 2026 21:22:48 +0000

The seeming ubiquity is definitely new.