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Peter Thiel is a character who believes in a single world government using AI outside of any democracy.
Sorry, but your description doesn't paint an accurate-enough picture of this guy.
Peter Thiel is a lunatic who believes that AI regulation is the anti-christ, and he's currently one of the most powerful people in the world.
What's the logo between Guix and C?
Who is "they"? This comment reads like a tinfoil hat caricature of paranoia.
The billionaires are opportunists who got us to where we are because we (stupidly) let them get away with crime after crime.
They aren't evil geniuses who masterminded this government coup back in 2007. That type of rhetoric is silly and not likely to convince anyone of anything other than thinking you're a nutjob.
I've been wondering about this recently too. Everyone has had that situation where they talk about (Thing) out loud with someone, and then a few seconds later they see an advertisement for (Thing). That means there is something recording conversations and selling it to advertisers. I don't see why those companies wouldn't sell that to Palantir too.
The obvious suspect for "who the fuck is recording my conversations" is smartphones, but it's also probably IOT shit like smart TVs and other appliances. Even if not connected to wifi, some could include their own modems.
In addition to this, Palantir could also just buy location and other data directly from telecom companies. They could even have deals with eg Qualcomm to backdoor their SoCs or implement data collection. (Except I think something like that would've been caught be security researchers already)
This is admittedly very cool, and I don't support shoplifting even if it's from an evil megacorp.
What worries me is that Cop Drone(tm) will start carrying a gun some day.
The killer was a college-age white boy from Utah from a religious and self-proclaimed "gun toting" Republican family (which is weird btw, to declare your family as part of a political group). We don't know if he's a Trump supporter, but it's very likely that he at least was at one point in his life. The scary part (for them) is that he represents growing disillusionment with MAGA among one of ther most important groups.
The dude is the exact demographic targeted not just by MAGA, but specifically Kirk's organization. Kimmel's comment was about MAGA's immediate attempts to claim (without any evidence) that the killer was instead a transgender bogeyman, with many influencers even calling for civil war against the left.
But the important thing is that Kimmel got canceled because the Trump admin threatened to revoke the network's broadcast licenses (without which, they can't operate). The Kirk comment was obviously just a cover, because MAGA has been attacking left-leaning media, and the comment itself was not offensive to anyone. That's government censorship, violating the constitution to attack his political opponents. They thought that people would be angry enough about the Kirk killing to let this slide, but even MAGA allies have pushed back against it.
An RTO mandate isn't growth. Growth would be if they mandated all hard drives containing Teams source code be thrown into a dumpster, and the dumpster lit on fire.
Not saying you didn't read the article, but your comment could be interpreted as thinking that advertisers are pulling out because they disagree with Kimmel coming back, but it's actually backwards.
The reason they're pulling out of advertising is because people are also boycotting companies that advertise with Nexstar/Sinclair to discourage advertisers, and hurt their revenue.
I'm not saying the advertisers are good guys or motivated by anything other than money, but we should definitely encourage more of them to stop advertising there. If anything, start buying from the ones that pulled out.
So what will be the consequences for those involved in this security failure? Nothing? If a preschool fails to lock the doors to the building, and a child is kidnapped, you blame the employees and possibly even charge them criminally. The same should be done here, otherwise stuff like this will continue to happen.
I don't think that's the right answer. Android isn't a good operating system, it's a great operating system for mobile. All these mobile Linux distro projects face a monumental challenge to reach parity with Android on almost any metric. Even if any one of them was backed by major investment, I don't think they'll ever succeed...and if they do, we'd just end up with multiple competing open source operating systems which just creates pointless fragmentation.
Android is open source, but it's held by an evil monopolist. The most effective path to freedom on mobile is legal/regulatory, and supporting efforts to break Google up. They've already been declared an illegal monopoly twice in two separate cases. The first one ended with a slap on the wrist, because the judge was a spineless coward. The second one is currently in the remedy phase, and hopefully will have a real impact.