How well does the "AI detection startup's" product work? This is a big unsolved problem but I'd be hecka skeptical.
Simpler than that. The Republican National Convention is happening in Milwaukee right now.
I happened to be in the apple temple to supplicate the priests there for an exorcism for one of my other infernal contraptions. I saw the vision pro sitting around while he did his incantations so I thought I'd check it out and it turns out they won't let you without an appointment. It's like they don't want to sell these
Hate that phrase. Great way to excuse malice.
I was on it back when it was in closed beta and even went to their launch party. People were even saying how much the quality was declining as the closed beta got larger. It's been a shitfest for a while - it seems tailor-made for blowhards to speak authoritatively without having any real authority on an issue.
To react to the article:
most interesting and longest-lasting corners of the internet: Quora
The first one is subjective but the second one isn't - and neither are true.
It "stems" from a deliberate effort to conflate them by the likes of the ADL .
Your article itself says:
Police now believe this was a Russian-inspired destabilisation operation rather than a home-grown intimidation campaign.
Your article itself also says that the police are the source for this assertion, and goes on to say
In June, the fatal police shooting of a 17-year-old driver of Moroccan and Algerian descent in a Paris suburb sparked almost two weeks of riots across the country in which schools, buses and police stations were torched, shops looted, mayors assaulted and police attacked in nightly clashes. The violence, which did not specifically target Jews, was fuelled by widespread resentment of perceived police racism.
And if that weren't enough, it's already demonstrated that expressing support for Palestine is being conflated with antisemitism.
The government initially banned pro-Palestinian demonstrations
So the government bans support for Palestine, the police enforce that ban, and the police say antisemitism is rising among young Muslims.
All this from the same article, that you posted. Very weak sauce.
Huge resources have been devoted to tracking down people, mostly anonymous and with little reach, over speech that authorities interpreted as supporting Hamas, the letter notes. By late November, 269 investigations had been opened and 86 indictments filed.
“It is quite amazing the number of criminal investigations, when it comes to Palestinian citizens of Israel, most of them completely anonymous, many of them almost with no audience,” Sfard said. “The gap between that and the freedom and impunity for those who advocate all kinds of things – ethnic cleansing, killing civilians, bombarding civilian areas, and even genocide – doesn’t square up, and that’s something for the authorities to explain.”
This right here. Don't let anyone tell you Israel is not an apartheid state with separate sets of rules based on who you are.
Yep. BIG deficiency in this article. I don't use a VPN because of shadowy "hackers" who sit in front of their keyboards with a pistol and a balaclava. I use it because ISPs and governments have demonstrated they can't be trusted.
How about this?
I live in the United States, where I already have no digital privacy, and tunneling my internet traffic through a VPN owned and operated in another country won't meaningfully improve my privacy or safety
Uh, what? If someone wants my traffic logs in the US, now they have to go through Mullvad, which has a track record of not providing or collecting it.
They don't even know who I am, much less have all the data that my ISP has about me. So selling it would be pretty useless
Oh last edit: turns out this is the guy who was trying to well ackshually us into thinking Chrome nerfing ad blockers is not a big deal.
I'm torn on this topic because on the one hand there's enough evidence for the harm it does, but one thing these finger wagging experts seem to ignore is that if you keep kids isolated from the tools then you're leaving them behind.
I was probably an Internet addict as a kid with dial up and a CRT monitor, but I don't regret it given how well it prepared me for the tech-dominated present.
If it's a third person game, I'd rather be looking at her ass throughout the playthrough than his.
Speaking with the Financial Times last week, Figma chief executive Dylan Field said: “It is important that those paths of acquisition remain available because very few companies make it all the way to IPO. So many companies fail on the way.”
I.e. "Our business model never included plans for us to actually have to compete!"
Did they say why?