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Does anyone actually believe this crap?

You think the census is what the government would use to mass identify and imprison people, not the NSA database(s)?

You think homeland security, or the FBI, or any other alphabet agency doesn't already have access to a giant list of people?

Think about what meta knows about everyone, or Google. You do realize that the US gov has read access to their core databases right?

"The census" has absolutely no bearing on any of that which you're worried about.

It's just shocking the level of ignorance that gets upvoted in the comments here now.

GPT‑5.3 Instant 5 months ago

The bias comes from the training data.

Since so much of that training data is Reddit, and Reddit mods are some of the most degenerate scum on the internet, the models bake their biases in.

I'll post some inside baseball:

Almost everyone in ecom is running every ad network integration they can, no matter the source of traffic.

So if you click a Facebook ad, load a website, enter your information/checkout ALL of your information goes to every other network they integrate with.

You might never use TikTok, you might have every Facebook domain blacklisted, but when you clicked on a Google search "result" (ad) and checked out everything about your order was sent to meta/tiktok/applovin/400 other "networks" via S2S APIs.

Until this is made illegal, the incentive structure will ALWAYS push marketing departments to do this.

Sora 2 10 months ago

We live in an absurd era where "AI Safety" means "AI that doesn't listen to the human telling it what to do".

It'll all be rather funny in retrospect.

We moved away from webflow because it was slow (got the nickname web-slow internally).

Plus, despite marketing begging for the WYSIWYG interface they actually weren't creative enough to generate new content at a pace that required it.

We massively increased conversion rates by going full native and having 1 Engineer churn out parts kits/kitbash LPs from said kits.

Scale for reference: ~$10M/month

The EU solution meaningfully changes the offending company's behavior

How are those cookie consent popups working out?

For those OOTL about that last part, a common meme/troll of the moderators/jannies is

“They do it for free”

People would post rule breaking content and say “clean it up janny”

Meanwhile my grandfather went through hell with them when they lost a $250k check they demanded since he had to pay quarterly.

He eventually won but they were threatening him with huge penalties for nonpayment and he had to get a lawyer.

I don’t understand the bizarre haters that show up in every GLP-1 thread.

America is fat, and the health consequences of that make COVID look like a regular Tuesday.

“If people just X” clearly isn’t working, we need results and we need results fast. The state with the lowest obesity rate in 2025 is higher than the state with the highest obesity rate from 1990.

It’s funny how the wordsmiths come out to defend Apple here.

Your “photos” aren’t shipped off-device without your knowledge, just an arbitrary blob of ”metadata” that you can’t audit describing everything about that photo. :)

It’s sort of like “I don’t want my WiFi router uploading my house online!” And someone replying “it’s not your physical house, just a map of the house and the real time location of everyone in it! The house never moves!”

The setup for “that wasn’t real homomorphic encryption!” is in, when in 2-4 years it comes out that they were doing this exact thing.

The entire concept of a homomorphic encryption system is a land mine outside of obscure academic discussions. In practice systems marketed to the public as “homomorphic encryption” will result in user data exfil mark my words.

FYI: Everyone should disable control center from the Lock Screen to prevent that attack (airplane mode activation while locked).

iPhones are still trackable while powered off, at least for a while.