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by Frieren 5mo ago
Big tech owns a big chunk of the job market. So, the job market is not a market but a centralized system were big-tech has all the power to shape it. Unionizing is just part of the fighting back. Only splitting the big monopolies can bring
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> The danger here is that this is not only an extension of the ‘Teach the controversy’ tactic that fundamentalists use to try and get one very particular kind of religion equal status to science and humanism in schools, ... > but tha
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by Frieren 5mo ago
> The solution must be legislation that limits all of: data collected Let's finish the sentence there. Being spied by corporations 24/7 while we game, watch entertainment, drive, talk with friends, work... it's fucked up.
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You can get the president of the United States to work for you for way less money than that.
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> However, someone reportedly hijacked the developer’s Steam account and quickly transformed it into Beyond The Dark – changing its name, screenshots, and other store details. As Steam does not fully verify every patch made to a game, th
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It would be easier to recommend the agent to buy tickets for a concert, or send a present. No so directly useful, but it seems that big tech thinks that it is a great idea to give agents that kind of access.
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> It’s not like you’re not buying things linked to Saudi Arabia or UAE for lack of human rights. The fact that these criminals are embedded so deeply in our society is a reason to fight against them even harder. They are corrupting polit
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> only the large corporations can make money from content. It is an aristocratic tax. Nobility has the right to profit on everything that the peasants produce. The peasants can keep enough to survive, everything else should be extracted.
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> Nobody is even trying to make the trust better either which is odd. The average working class Joe opinion does not count anymore. Corporations do not care about consumers opinion, the money is in other big corporations. In an unequal w
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> It's enough that said thing could have business intent So, it is a business.
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> industry standard Some time more than 10 years ago, industry standard moved away form Linux, Apache, open source, etc. to big-tech. Many developers attending conferences cannot differentiate propaganda (Facebook connected, Google I&#x2
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When inequality is high capital is the government.
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> Maybe a few years down the line they might open up more jobs so over long enough time spans its not zero sum Also, everybody benefits from a society that chooses qualified people for a position, and gives everybody an opportunity to ge
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> To me this suggests that theater’s are at least partially incorrectly pricing things which explains why they are struggling. Theaters are struggling because they need the working class to attend, and the working class has no money. Thi
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> The study only tested humans against AIs looking at patient data that can be communicated via text. This is like saying that LLMs can evaluate paintings better than art experts. But only when looking at data that can be communicated vi
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by Frieren 5mo ago
Most business nowadays is related to financial transactions instead of building new products or services The real economy seems to be burning but Wallstreet acts as if it didn't matter.
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by Frieren 6mo ago
Whistleblower protection is key for any working society. Only dictatorships and oligarchies protect criminals while shaming whistleblowers. I do not care which country the outsourcing company is in. When criminals go global, protection whis
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by Frieren 6mo ago
I hope it succeeds and helps to grow open software alternatives in Europe. We need technology to serve citizens instead of the other way around. We do not need European versions of big-tech because the resulting oligarchy will be as bad.
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by Frieren 6mo ago
> just their top 10 publicly traded companies earn more than all but 2 countries Are not European countries trying to reduce dependency on American tech giants? China was very successful in this regard. Russia is also independent but in
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by Frieren 6mo ago
> Won't competition likely keep prices low? If there are 100 companies you can choose from, yes. If there are 3 oligarchs that own all options, not. Capitalism only works when there is competition between many players. When you get
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by Frieren 6mo ago
As financial markets get tighter AI companies will stop subsidizing their services and charge enough money to actually make a profit. It is time to setup local models. It is cheaper, and you already have a computer. Why keep it idle and pay
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by Frieren 6mo ago
Only aristocrats can play that game. The soldier is being punished for doing something not allowed for his class status. This is how a caste system works. People is not judged based on their actions but their relationship to power.
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by Frieren 6mo ago
I hope that you feel better now. And I am very happy that you got help. Mental help is never a cost for society, it is an investment.
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by Frieren 6mo ago
> It's so easy to shift blame on other's and mark it as "not my problem lol" I don't say that it is "not my problem". It is. That is why Facebook is guilty and high level decision makers should be held
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> If you work to earn a living, you're working class They are using a divide an conquer strategy. By splitting the working class they want to weak our ability to resist capital. There is no logic to their argument just lies to fulfi
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> you should really quit your job Stop blaming the working class. We need jobs to pay our bills. Regulate capital, force them to follow the law, force them to be ethical, and use all the force of the state for doing so. To blame employe
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by Frieren 6mo ago
> about factors that any economic system is vulnerable to because they are basic economic and human behavioural issues. So neoliberal ideas work except when applied to real humans. That is the definition of not working.
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by Frieren 6mo ago
Neolibaralism is a failed ideology. That most western countries are holding on it shows how low we have fallen. Socialists democracies with high social support is what we know that works. They provide to their citizens, keep corruption in c
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> Later on Monday, Comer said the string of deaths was unlikely to be a coincidence. Release the rest of the Epstein files. This seems the kind of conspiracy that could be found there.
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> When I joined the workforce a long time ago, I went in with the mindset that: Their property, their equipment, their right to monitor (or even keylog). Why do you renounce to your rights to privacy so easily? You are an employee not a

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