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by vrganj 4mo ago
So we have established that "just a job" is not unpolitical? It's just that you draw the line somewhere between enabling mass surveillance and being a concentration camp guard.
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by vrganj 4mo ago
Luckily, we've gone through that phase around ninety years ago in Europe. We've been trying to avoid it happening again ever since, though right now is a dangerous time here as well. But hey, at least Europe hasn't fallen yet
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by vrganj 4mo ago
I don't think there's a big risk the European startup I work for now is involved in bombing brown people in the Middle East, actively accelerating climate change or dividing society for engagement. Seems like a much better bet for
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by vrganj 4mo ago
I cannot imagine actively working towards what one believes would be a worse world. It's just regular politics, no identity involved. Everything is political - including our careers.
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by vrganj 4mo ago
The nuclear option would be the US pulling cloud services over night. This would be the counterstrike, not the initial nuke launch.
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by vrganj 4mo ago
They are one and the same.
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by vrganj 4mo ago
It's just wage slavery then :-). You can do it OR you can starve. That's the beauty of freedom of choice under capitalism.
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by vrganj 4mo ago
This looks vaguely interesting, but not with remote brains. Make this local-only and I might bite. I do not want a giant chunk of metal and sensors controlled by some outside entity roaming around my home freely.
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by vrganj 4mo ago
This mirrors my own experience as a European that worked at FAANG in the Bay Area. It used to be a dream job. Now I've relocated back to Europe and want nothing to do with American Big Tech. It's become toxic and completely counte
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Why I'm Forced to Say Farewell: Google Management Has Lost Its Moral Compass(docs.google.com)
335 points by vrganj 4mo ago|253 comments
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Russia buys gasoline from India to tackle shortages(reuters.com)
6 points by vrganj 4mo ago|1 comments
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Virginia county asks schools to conserve power due to AI electricity price hikes(tomshardware.com)
9 points by vrganj 4mo ago|1 comments
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by vrganj 4mo ago
Has the cattle benefitted from the free food the rancher gave it? I suppose it's a question of perspective. And yes, there's local players building that are targeting precisely those users. No data harvesting is a major selling po
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by vrganj 4mo ago
All of the free services are just part of the ad sales funnel. Never forget, the consumer never benefits, they are only the cattle to be fattened up. Them not launching in Europe gives the local market a chance to build up its own players.
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by vrganj 4mo ago
It is illegal to use your monopoly in one area to unfairly distort the market in another. This is one of the core concepts of antitrust law.
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by vrganj 4mo ago
People here strive to be the ones hiding in the bunkers as the world burns.
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EU plots long game against US digital supremacy(politico.eu)
31 points by vrganj 4mo ago|16 comments
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by vrganj 4mo ago
https://archive.ph/Xe98t
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Vast Majority support clampdown on social media to protect children(ippr.org)
1 points by vrganj 4mo ago|0 comments
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Reddit is going to force you to log in to use old Reddit(theverge.com)
21 points by vrganj 4mo ago|6 comments
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by vrganj 4mo ago
Maybe people focus on AIPAC because they have a problem with any or all of the other bullet points I mentioned that AIPAC supports and enables and that your whole long message never addressed?
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by vrganj 4mo ago
You misunderstood, they were only ever concerned with the freedom of their speech . You know, stuff like inciting racial hatred. It was never their opposition's speech they wanted to be free.
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by vrganj 4mo ago
* AIPAC is one of the biggest donors to US political campaigns. * Entanglement of tech industries * Israel serves as an outpost of US imperialism in the Middle East. * Shared understanding with fellow Settler-Colonialist state * On a relate
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by vrganj 4mo ago
Sentiment hasn't moved from far-right to the center. If it feels like that to you, it sounds like your perspective changed because you moved from the center to the far-right.
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by vrganj 4mo ago
It does feel a bit arbitrary, as does the initial flagging.
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by vrganj 4mo ago
Shooting a policeman in defence of innocent others said policeman was about to shoot. I thought the second amendment was all about stopping the bad guy with the gun?
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by vrganj 4mo ago
What are zines evidence of?
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by vrganj 4mo ago
Nobody conspired to shoot a cop. People just happened to exert their First Amendment rights close to where it happened and got punished for speaking the wrong kind of speech.
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by vrganj 4mo ago
Will you look at that, the authoritarian suppression of opposition speech is already working!
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by vrganj 4mo ago
It takes a special kind of person to use a warning about the dangers of right wing extremism to... argue in favor of right wing extremism.

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