He gave people information that they otherwise wouldn't have, regarding the surveillance state at the time. Definitely good for the common person, bad for the government.

I do wish there was more done about it. It seems like not enough happened and now things are even worse with the thousands of internet trackers, Google, Meta, Flock, etc... We needed some kind of privacy protections but we didn't get enough and now we're here, on platforms like Lemmy, avoiding the all-knowing algorithm as much as possible.

How did we go from "Ahh! The government can listen to our phonecalls and read our emails!" to "Sure Big Tech, train your AI on my personal photos, location, usage habits, and manipulate my internet experience for profit! Please do!!!"

Cellphone video footage obtained by Fox 13 Memphis shows a vehicle driving away from officers, but does not appear to capture the moment of the shooting. A photo of the car shows bullet holes in the windshield.

Of course Fox doesn't show the moment of the shooting. They want to make the cops seem like good guys and the car is the big bad criminal getting away. Same shit with Renee Good.

Thanks for the inspiration to go fishing this weekend.

In a couple years we'll be saying honey "doesn't taste like it used to"

It'd probably be more beneficial to read the article directly from Anna's Archive where they display plenty of graphs and infographics to make the data understandable. Unfortunately this article has none of that. The "over-focus on popular artists" is quite literally meaning they're only missing artists who aren't being listened to, most of which are probably AI anyway.

https://annas-archive.li/...

God damn I love The Onion

...oh wait

They must've not watchec this completely true documentary.

Funny in a "lol true" way

Putting up the info of these people on Wanted posters is such a great idea. If I'm able to get my hands on this info I know exactly what I'm doing lol.

Saw someone say this on the last article I saw regarding this, but:

What's stopping the OSes from just putting "Not for use in California" on their product/website? Seems like a simple and easy fix lol.

Audience member calls Senator a coward and the Senator calls him "Punk". Wtf lmao.

I do believe going barefoot is beneficial for both your body and mind, however I don't think everybody should start going barefoot out in public, grocery stores, sidewalks, etc. Too many rocks from our rocky infrastructure. Next time you go on a hike, however, take your shoes off and feel the earth.

Feels like a technique the Trump admin would use to justify something atrocious. "This thing that's always been around? Yeah it was temporary and we're finally getting rid of it! Nobody even used it!"

Saw this meme a year or 2 ago and it gave me a chuckle.

Fast forward to now and I realize it's not actually a joke... 😭

Yeah no way I'm believing 1 million real people followed this account. Would be hard to believe even if it said 10,000

From what I've seen they're only adding ways to use AI more efficiently from the browser, it's not like they're developing their own AI, or forcing anyone to use it. It's not even an obvious feature either, and you need to set it up with an existing AI service.

So on the AI enshittification scale, I'd rank Mozilla pretty low (unless there's something I'm unaware of)

I've been using web client for work because the app takes seemingly over 50% of my laptop's resources. Went from waiting 2-3 minutes for Teams to open at the beginning of the day to 10 seconds. Highly recommend.

Dominant personalities and work styles almost always make it up to management.

I mind, because each and every doctor I've seen regarding my chronic pain I've been dealing with for over 5 years has refused to diagnose me, and every appointment I've been recommended anti-depressants and anti-anxiety medication, which are not solutions.

From my perspective, most doctors don't seem to do shit, they just listen and try to sell the trendiest, most profitable drug for Big Pharma. If I could find an actual, legitimate doctor, maybe my opinion would change, but I've been left to suffer by the only people that are supposed to be able to help. It's gotten bad enough to where I went to an emergency room, and they still did nothing, except try to prescribe more drugs.

I see it as a huge scam. A major scheme. It doesn't seem to just be insurance companies, but even the doctors themselves seem to be full of shit.

Oh frick! I opened this without my VPN on 💀💀💀