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Guess which cameras are getting the hammer or the duct tape?

Or buy used.

If this disease spreads, we'll need to have a talk with the CEOs and the big investors.

They want it, duh. It don't mean they'll get it. Of course we can't sleep on this either, so your warnings are fair. Thank you.

We need McCarthyism in reverse.

Jail all the cappies at the universities. Cleanse the economics dept. Close all the relevant think tanks.

Don't tax the billionaires, just guillotine them instead. Taxes are for the civil and the civilized, exclusively.

I am so tired of capitalism. It's a dog that won't hunt.

P.S.: Look at the pics of the billionaires. I can't prove it scientifically, but if it's discovered that the billionaire gene pool is damaged I won't be surprised. Just one look at Alex Carp, and you know he's drinking tainted water and is unwell.

Your linked article talks about the need to research the tech to stop impaired driving.

It's not mandatory yet, as best as I can read it for now.

Once Apple's leasing program kills off a competing used phone market, they can also raise the cost of the lease to reflect that, which also benefits Apple over the longer term.

Apple would be stupid not to try leasing their phones.

I think at least for the bigger and for the less niche communities moderation needs to be democratic.

The upvote brought democracy to content ranking. It's possible to bring democracy to moderation.

And this will still leave the option of private despotic moderation available. Both styles of moderation can act as a check on each other. The same community can be reproduced twice, with private and with democratic moderation. Then if the tyrants are out of control you can escape to a democratically managed community. And if the so called "mob" is out of control and the privately moderated space is nicer, you can escape there. The whole system will eventuanly self-regulate to a nice daily hum.

Same.

Whenever I brought up freedom of speech, the reddit mods would mock me with "freeze peach." Many of the mods and admins are overtly hostile to free speech and hate democracy.

Ironic, because democracy is what made reddit great once upon the time. I remember leaving digg to go to reddit precisely because I felt I had more control and more weight there as a commenter. And they took an axe to everything that was once great.

Needless to say I have been banned on reddit since a long time ago.

Copyright started out in the USA at 14 years plus another optional 14 year extension. I am going by my memory here.

The purpose of the law was to balance public and private interests.

The public benefits from uninhibited copying. Private interests benefit from a monopoly on copying. The law at first recognized both of those interests as legitimate, which is why copyrights were relatively short at first.

Then the rich companies like Disney lobbied the govrnment to change all that.

Now copyright is something like lifetime of an author (who can be a corporation and does not even need to be a human) plus something like 150 years, plus/minus.

Basically the interests of the public were tossed out the window.

The public libraries were and still are the bullwark providing free access to copies, but the private interests hate the libraries too.

I don't want the artists to starve. Right now the biggest holders, abusers and beneficiaries of the heinously immoral (as it currently stands) copyright regime are the giant gorporations, not the starving artists.

Plus, now a new crop of giant corporations decided to ignore copyright that was recently serving primarily other giant corporations. I hate all of them, and all of IT. Fuck them all.

Copyright law needs a reform now.

• 10 year term, no extensions.
• Can only be owned by the actual humans and never the legal entities. One exception is an estate of a human who passed on suddenly, who may hold the copyright for the benefit of the author's family.
• No sales or transfers permitted.
• All licensing is mandatorily non-exclusive to prevent the giant corps from hoarding rights by forcing the authors to give them exclusivity. Basically an author should always be able to make new deals, full stop.

So in summary, center the human author, and balance the public and the private iterests.

And while we wait, harrrr, harrr, harrr, sail the high seas.

P.S. Fashion is one form of creative output not covered by any monopoly protection. The fashion industry is doing fine.

For me it's less about the creepy wearer than it is about surveillance, billionaires, fascism, capitalism, AI training, resale of info, etc.

It's not as important WHO is wearing the camera glasses. A woman, a child, a cat? Where is the data going? What happens with the data? How will it be used for profit or for control which is profit again?

You know if some billionaire wasn't laughing all the way to the bank this would not be happening.

In a worker coop workers generally want, appreciate, and hire managers for themselves. But there are power dynamic diffetences:

• The workers are the boss
• Managers do not get overinflated compensation packages
• A typical max income differential of lowest to highest paid is 1:10

Managers help organize and facilitate production, but it is the workers themselves who have to be pleased.

That's not to say some worker coop couldn't choose to do without the manager role. Maybe some exist like that.

Sounds like the bosses positions should be cut then.

And in a worker cooperative that's exactly what would happen.

"Reverse centaur"

(According to Cory Doctorow, a 'centaur' is a human augmented by tech, and a 'reverse centaur' is a human who is a mere meaty appendage to a tech system)