@bmath some degree of what might be termed social violence is i think always used. florida's fascist movement is animated by the perceived violence of being called bigots for what they take as traditional views. is that social violence? where on the spectrun from poppy seeds to junk is "cancel culture"? and the escalation in purported reaction, $35K almost automatically if someone calls you a racist: defense or social violence? enmity is often mutual, but who wields it from a position of power?
@bmath physical violence is a clearer boundary. and the permeability of enemy status is important. when the enemy is an ethnicity, an enemy can only be exiled or eliminated. Bernie's enemies can be taxed to innocence without a feather on their physical persons. how about desantis and trans/gay people? is that more like Bernie (a person is physically capable of living as gender-assigned-at-birth) or like ethnicity (capable not really, much of the class would be wholly immiserated, mb suicide?)
@bmath part iii, if i get to it (never promise future blog posts, once they are debts you will never write them), fascism is a primary color. diluted from its pure and deadly form, the tropes and techniques are common across political movements. but there are important differences between poppy seeds and fentanyl, even when they share certain characteristics. but there are poppy seeds at least in wars on terrorism and diatribes against billionaires and plutocrats (the latter i endorse!)
@bmath if only elon could rule through electrical zaps transmitted straight to the brains from sutro tower, making barbecue of any particle of woke mind virus.
"The conventional ugliness of communist constructions was not a defect. It was something that was desired. It was an alternative aesthetic where nothing would ever stand out. The grey leaders were beautiful—on their own terms." #BrankoMilanovic https://branko2f7.substack.com/p/on-charisma-and-greyness-under-communism
[new draft post] What is fascism? https://drafts.interfluidity.com/2023/03/05/what-is-fascism/index.html
@halfcocked @mimsical i think they might prefer not to, because they understand the answers would be surprising to and unpopular with much of the public, esp with respect to “metadata” and longer-term stored data.
“‘Equity’ is…a word that you invoke any time you object to the unit of equality someone else is using, regardless of what, if any, your preferred alternative unit of equality is.”
from #MattBruenig https://mattbruenig.com/2023/03/05/equality-and-equity/
it’s insane that these are the terms under which we live. https://www.businessinsider.com/police-getting-help-social-media-to-prosecute-people-seeking-abortions-2023-2 ht @mimsical
Representatives for the FBI told Insider they were "unable to accommodate" Insider's detailed request for information about the criteria required for officers to issue a request for a civilian's social media or internet history, what information is generally turned over to them in the pursuit of such information, and what channels officers used to make those requests. Representatives for Google and the Los Angeles and New York Police Departments, two of the largest police forces in the country, did not respond to Insider's requests for comment.
please be excessively polite. thank you.
@CoolerPseudonym (me neither!)
@dpp old ones too! i’m no ageist!
i’m not sure whether the better word is grumpy or grouchy, but that’s how i am these days.
in terms of user experience, kindle is by far the best of the ebook platforms. but you can never fucking trust them. they arrogate to themselves a role of continuing control of what you think is yours. https://mastodon.social/@joeross/109968198632286360
@mike805 it’s a different court these days, though, alas.
overall AI will make life
43.1%
better
(25 votes)
56.9%
worse
(33 votes)
@cocoaphony @tb A good case, though it all worked out so differently! Now we do largely rent our software, and they do change how our e-mail works overnight, and we gripe like the infants the lack of control makes of us, but we accept it and laud "continuous deployment" models of cloud software development. (as a free software guy i don't think i've ever released a library with a version first digit higher than zero, though, and i make no apologies for that. no revenue, no assurances.)
@tb i got it!
Are there precedents for state-imposed blocklists like this in the US? Has anyything like this been enforced or adjudicated before? https://mastodon.lawprofs.org/@blakereid/109966636164787386
If a firm makes a harmful error, a role for AI/machine-learning tools in the chain of events that lead to the error should be an aggravating rather than mitigating factor, like drunkenness for car accidents.
At first it seems unfair ("I wasn't myself!" or "The AI did it!") but the point is it's your responsibility when you create the circumstances under which inadequate or harmful or insufficiently accountable choices are likely to be made.