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New comment by sylos in "US Reps Lead Democratic Resolution Opposing A.I. Bubble Bailout for Big Tech"

sylos — Fri, 30 Oct 2026 16:38:59 +0000

I believe it was mitch mcconnell back during obama that said he never wanted to see another democratic bill passed again-to the point he voted against his own bill he signed just because it received dem support

New comment by sylos in "There's never been a better time to go into math (by: 3blue1brown) [video]"

sylos — Mon, 19 Oct 2026 16:45:36 +0000

The ai companies are yet again strip mining public goods and institutions

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

sylos — Wed, 14 Oct 2026 19:52:57 +0000

You make the assumption there will be a new administration

New comment by sylos in "A Remote Employee Refused 160 Webcam Photos a Day. Her Employer Fired Her"

sylos — Mon, 12 Oct 2026 01:05:10 +0000

I'm not sure employees have the power to not really work at those kinds of places. Logically it should work out like that, but I don't think it does

New comment by sylos in "Bitwarden Dual License Model"

sylos — Sat, 10 Oct 2026 17:07:45 +0000

Didn't it recently come out that the ceo of proton was donating to far right groups interested in dismantling privacy and security, let alone their racist policies?

New comment by sylos in "DHS 'Predictive Policing' Unit Is Analyzing Americans' Financial Habits"

sylos — Tue, 08 Sep 2026 18:36:54 +0000

David and goliath is not a story of a little man defeating an impossible giant. It's the story of a technologically advanced crack pistol shot vs a guy a with a knife and a hundred yards to cover

New comment by sylos in "There Gonna Be a Shortage of Everything"

sylos — Mon, 07 Sep 2026 07:01:57 +0000

Call me a conspiracy theorist but the people in charge in the us were all pushed by the same technologists who stand to benefit the most from the hierarchy. You'll note an increase in diseases, dismantling of the regulatory bodies to handle food and safety and an increase in surveillance and the authoritarian steps taken that are necessary to act on that surveillance

New comment by sylos in "Nvidia agrees to acquire Hugging Face for $13B"

sylos — Thu, 27 Aug 2026 19:05:47 +0000

There will be no antitrust cases unless it's a shakedownx

New comment by sylos in "Felony charges for citizen deleting phone data at US Border"

sylos — Sat, 22 Aug 2026 07:23:06 +0000

Lying to ourselves that we were ever a free nation.

New comment by sylos in "Signal is working on a paid option to create an account without a phone number"

sylos — Tue, 11 Aug 2026 04:35:12 +0000

There's a lot of astroturfing and psyops that work against that want any efforts in these areas to "vibe" negatively

New comment by sylos in "Amazon Is Creating the Biggest Pollution Source in the Country"

sylos — Sun, 09 Aug 2026 00:05:30 +0000

Remember when they said they couldnzt electrify the grid for ev's so they opted to just not do anything with ev's. Now datacenters are getting rushed in so fast and breaking the grids so hard they can illegally running generators

New comment by sylos in "Cops Used Flock to Track a Man Across State Lines for a Pretextual Weed Search"

sylos — Wed, 05 Aug 2026 17:00:30 +0000

They have already destroyed at least one life. There was that woman arrest

New comment by sylos in "Astro Loop"

sylos — Sun, 02 Aug 2026 21:52:21 +0000

What is the left option on the store screen. The right is sound, but what is the left

New comment by sylos in "A California aquifer may have crossed the point of no return"

sylos — Fri, 31 Jul 2026 06:34:53 +0000

I know plenty of folks who got worked up over the wasteful farming that drains and damages aquifers. much like the penalties that kardashians received when they broke the water usage laws, it amounted to nada.

New comment by sylos in "Is this the end of the once-mighty GoPro?"

sylos — Sat, 18 Jul 2026 18:24:55 +0000

In today's environment people can't even make the choice to pay more. The productn are just priced out of reach!

New comment by sylos in "Grok CLI uploaded the whole home directory to GCS"

sylos — Mon, 13 Jul 2026 17:28:25 +0000

Wasn't ai introduced so replace people? It's not the spanner, it's the car and we're the horses

New comment by sylos in "“Beyond the limit”: Satellites and mirrors in space pose threat to the night sky"

sylos — Sat, 04 Jul 2026 18:37:02 +0000

Defense is just a polite term for war.

New comment by sylos in "We took away psychological safety and then told everyone to be more productive"

sylos — Mon, 29 Jun 2026 18:12:54 +0000

Too bad the wrath of the people corporate america is basically nothing.

New comment by sylos in "Age verification is just a precursor to automated attribution of speech"

sylos — Mon, 29 Jun 2026 17:35:31 +0000

But clearly what's going on now with omnibus bills that no one has read in its entirety are ok?

New comment by sylos in "I am a person who will look at the Steam Machine and cry"

sylos — Tue, 23 Jun 2026 18:45:22 +0000

The folks who made accurate federal numbers were fired some time ago. the current numbers are about as accurate as someone with an active interest in lying about it cares.