cryoshon

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by cryoshon 9y ago
have you ever heard the falsehood that "my ignorance is as good as your knowledge?"
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by cryoshon 9y ago
okay, silicon valley: disrupt income inequality. find a way to get rich by un-riching the rich.
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by cryoshon 9y ago
honest, good faith question: at what point do we say "no more surveillance" and start smashing cameras? the thoughts "we are free" and "total surveillance when in public" are incompatible...
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by cryoshon 9y ago
with luck, mentioning NSA on your resume results in an immediate trip to the discard pile during applications at most tech companies. if you're going to invade privacy on a massive scale, you better be ready for the consequences.
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by cryoshon 9y ago
the larger issue is that if it's this easy to create fake photorealism, video evidence is no longer valid. not from the government. not from amateur videographers. not even from a video you took yourself-- think of it from everyone els
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by cryoshon 9y ago
psst (most money is spent marketing the drug, not developing it) (marketing includes bribing doctors and healthcare systems to prescribe it)
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by cryoshon 9y ago
you see creepy i see crimes against humanity that are ready for prosecution
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by cryoshon 9y ago
https://web.archive.org/web/20071128230208/http://www.arts.r... here you go; it's from the proceedings of the senate select intelligence committee; this evidence is in fact unimpeachable government
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by cryoshon 9y ago
ah yes, the pragmatist's prayer-- "it was necessary even if it was immoral, therefore it was right, even if it was wrong, therefore i am noble, even if i have lost my humanity" everyone jumps to the question of "does the
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by cryoshon 9y ago
one of the MKULTRA programs sought to reduce the ambition of populations using chemicals that could be dispersed in an imperceptible quantity if you don't believe me, jump down the rabbit hole and you will become a bit jaded
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by cryoshon 9y ago
some people believe that "anything is justifiable" in the name of american security some people will believe MKULTRA is just a conspiracy people and some people will view such actions as necessary but messy aspects of the brutally
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by cryoshon 9y ago
this reads like longform apologia for government inaction and banker exploitation... at one point the interviewee makes it seem like the government didn't do prosecutions because it would have taken a lot of paperwork. why do we pay ta
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by cryoshon 9y ago
easy. the kid was pinned down, face down, from the very start of the video. officer 1 advances to cuff, officer 2 covers. so fucking simple.
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by cryoshon 9y ago
imagine a man face down on the ground with his hands behind his head and his legs crossed in a narrow hallway. the man is sobbing in terror, and drunk. two cops are pointing assault weapons at the man and screaming at him from 20 feet down
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by cryoshon 9y ago
tbqh i'm more worried about being gunned down by the police than being arrested or being searched at this point. exhibit A: https://twitter.com/ShaunKing/status/939014159726870530 (warning to system-believers
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by cryoshon 9y ago
we couldn't keep it because we thought we could just leave it in a corner and do nothing with it turns out democracy is hard work
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by cryoshon 9y ago
upvoted for referencing linehan-- she is an excellent example of a relentless scientist / clinical practitioner who has absolutely revolutionized her entire specialty and likely saved many thousands of lives (BPD drives people to suici
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by cryoshon 9y ago
>Isn't this covered by anti-trust laws? have you seen any enforcement of anti trust laws lately?
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by cryoshon 9y ago
>I can see Facebook adapting their algorithm to recommend treatments for depression, anxiety, even ADHD imagine this: employers know that having these conditions (some of which are permanent) makes people less effective at working, and s
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by cryoshon 9y ago
I mean if you're already planning on giving a terminally ill person LSD, why not slip them some MDMA, benzodiazepines, and opiates, too?
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by cryoshon 9y ago
long term goal: found a nonprofit institution dedicated to free education in matters of critical thinking other long term goal: build my business to the point where i can trust someone else to take on some of the grunt work
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by cryoshon 9y ago
correct. every empire has its victims. the question posed by the OP's article was why not the chinese empire rather than the anglo-american empire as a point of first contact. in all honesty, i trust the chinese not to fuck up first co
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by cryoshon 9y ago
why is china so frightening to the west as a representative of humankind? they are imperfect, sure-- their abysmal human rights record will soon be matched by a collapsing xenophobic West. but they are evidence that humanity can produce con
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by cryoshon 9y ago
>As long as there is no uncontestable proof, the doubt must benefit Facebook. they have a history of privacy violations they have an incentive to snoop further i see no reason to offer the benefit of the doubt to either hypothesis, as an
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by cryoshon 9y ago
for those of us who are digital natives, even if we spend great effort in covering our tracks, they likely know more about us than we know about ourselves. they use this information to employ a system of psychological levers which results i
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by cryoshon 9y ago
given the below examples i'll contest that it'd be "trivial" to debunk on the iOS platform and also add that even if it were debunked on the iOS platform, that doesn't debunk the other platforms. why would they leav
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by cryoshon 9y ago
a good alternative hypothesis, but also one that should be proveable, at least in some cases. designing an experiment to test this would be quite easy. ultimately your explanation could exist alongside audio snooping, perhaps even helping t
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by cryoshon 9y ago
can't help but agree with you. people are scrambling to debunk an ill-defined phenomenon that's only exists anecdotally... and in the realm of those who ask "qui bono?" who benefits if "facebook is listening"?
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by cryoshon 9y ago
and this is where economics becomes one with social theory, too. one of these days i'll be banned for making insightful yet political comments like this, but: the socioeconomic theorists like marx saw that the profit motive led to perv
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by cryoshon 9y ago
"the fall" by camus the specific topic is a man's life-- but not the man you think.

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