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wuffah@lemmy.worldto News@lemmy.world•Social Media Figure Killed in Road Rage Episode, Police SayEnglish29·5 days ago“You want some of this?” Mr. Dousten yelled, according to the affidavit…
…Mr. Dousten then fired a single shot that hit Ms. Hermosillo’s car, breaking the window of the front passenger seat where she was sitting, and striking her in the face, it said.
He “fired a shot in a random direction,” the police said in an email obtained on Wednesday. “Tragically, that bullet struck a passenger in an uninvolved vehicle.”
…Ms. Hermosillo’s partner drove her to the hospital, where she was pronounced dead, the police said.”
This is unbelievably sad. Can you imagine what her partner must have gone through? They’ll be haunted by this for the rest of their life. Her family is crushed. She was 27.
How is it that someone so out of control of their emotions that they carry a loaded gun and wave it carelessly during traffic confrontations is able to access firearms?
wuffah@lemmy.worldto politics @lemmy.world•Pictures of Trump's Swollen Ankles and Hands Boost Health Rumours After He Admits He's 'Not Doing Well'English6·6 days agoLet’s create a real hell, fund it, and send him there for the rest of his life.
It’s MY doody, and it’s a BIG one!
wuffah@lemmy.worldto News@lemmy.world•Trump blasts 'out of control' museums for teaching 'how bad Slavery was' in wild rantEnglish33·7 days agoThis is so fucking bizarre.
wuffah@lemmy.worldto Privacy@lemmy.ml•AI browsers are coming for your clicks — and your privacyEnglish63·7 days agoGoogle, Apple, and Microsoft are all doing the same thing with their operating systems. Soon, everything you do on your device will be recorded, analyzed, compiled, and cross-referenced. All of it ready to be used against you in advertisements, commerce, and a court of law.
If you think age checks are bad now, wait until it’s enforceably illegal to even look at pornography on your device. Or, maybe you receive a knock at your door for a missed period, or some questionable searches while pregnant? Higher ride app pricing for a low phone battery? Now your digital credit score determines your eligibility and cost for a ride. Think your VPN will hide that pirated movie or your location? Who needs to bypass encryption when your entire screen is analyzed by a hardware driven AI classification system in real-time.
Advertisers, authoritarians, media execs, and tech bros are vibrating so hard that they’re starting to glow. This is the real AI revolution into which they have sunk so much money. Do you think they’re just going to accept that they won’t get a return on their investment because you think you have a right to privacy?
How long will we even have access to hardware and software that doesn’t contain baked-in content analysis?
wuffah@lemmy.worldto News@lemmy.world•Theft or civil disobedience? 16 volumes go missing after Shelbyville church urges members to check out, never return library books about LGBTQ+ peopleEnglish19·8 days agoCivil disobedience is a peaceful way to protest unfair laws when the regular methods of changing the law are too restricted or too slow to protect the civil rights of citizens. Civil disobedience in this case would be refusing to check out or read books that they find objectionable, if the government were to mandate that they be read.
You could make the argument that government is mandating this content if public schools assign it to students, but there is no real punishment under the law for rejecting a school assignment. It’s that they don’t want YOU to have access to this information, which is the opposite of civil disobedience: oppression. If the government were to mandate the removal of this content, as these citizens would like, the act of disobedience would be to read the books.
This is stealing from a public library.
wuffah@lemmy.worldto News@lemmy.world•Costco to stop selling abortion pill mifepristone at its US pharmacy storesEnglish348·12 days agoLow demand?? Birth control is in low demand??? I’m surprised that Costco doesn’t sell a smaller spoon to make this horseshit a little more palatable.
Nothing sells capitalism as inherently fascist faster than every corporation racing to obey the regime in advance.
Farts and poop!
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CUUUUNNNNNNNT!
wuffah@lemmy.worldto Technology@lemmy.zip•My new laptop chip has an 'AI' processor in it, and it's a complete waste of spaceEnglish2·13 days agoYou’re right, it appears that NPU hardware was introduced in the iPhone 8, in 2017, and I say this typing away from an Apple device. Sounds like I’ll be busy this weekend with that rusty spork.
However, it’s the recent generation of NPUs that provide the processing power needed to run the expanded scanning services implemented by these OS’s. That’s why Apple Intelligence requires an iPhone 15, and Microsoft is hawking Recall laptops.
While I admit the pins-and-string-on-a-corkboard tone, I don’t think we actually disagree on anything here. Eventually, an open source platform will become the only way to avoid this kind of hardware enabled surveillance.
wuffah@lemmy.worldto Privacy@lemmy.dbzer0.com•Spotify fans threaten to return to piracy as music streamer introduces new face-scanning age checks in the UKEnglish1201·13 days agoIn the words of my forefathers, “Fuck you, I won’t do what you tell me.” 🖕
EDIT: MUTHAAAAFUCKAAAARRRRR!!
wuffah@lemmy.worldtoPolitical Memes@lemmy.world•Why do they all have the same procedure?English11·14 days agoWhether it’s actually the concentrated evil turning them ugly, or the evil they do that makes the money they use to pay for the plastic surgery, does it matter?
Spiritually, aren’t those the same thing anyways?
wuffah@lemmy.worldto Games@lemmy.world•Rockstar Games Working Closely With Remedy Entertainment on Max Payne 1 & 2 RemakeEnglish6·14 days ago“The past is a puzzle, like a broken mirror. As you piece it together, you cut yourself, your image keeps shifting. And you change with it. It could destroy you, drive you mad. It could set you free.”
Set us free, R*/Remedy
wuffah@lemmy.worldto News@lemmy.world•Trump deploys National Guard to Washington DC and pledges crime crackdownEnglish20·14 days agoOh good, while they’re there maybe they can help build housing or provide food for the homeless people Trump wants to get rid of.
Can’t be homeless if you got a home!
wuffah@lemmy.worldtoPolitical Memes@lemmy.world•Any number of deaths is worth the fantasy, apparentlyEnglish91·14 days agoOnce, I nihilistically mentioned to my friend that “I welcome the coming inevitable nuclear holocaust.” His reply was something that I will never forget: “I don’t think you realize what nuclear war entails.”
I haven’t wished for the end of the world since.
wuffah@lemmy.worldto Technology@lemmy.zip•My new laptop chip has an 'AI' processor in it, and it's a complete waste of spaceEnglish372·14 days agoMicrosoft, Google, and Apple are all quietly integrating NPUs into their devices, and implementing the software infrastructure in their operating systems to do on-device classification of content: Windows Recall, Google SafetyCore, and Apple Intelligence. These services are obsequiously marketed as being for your benefit, while all are privacy and surveillance nightmares. When the security breaking features of these systems are mentioned, each company touts convoluted workarounds to justify the tech.
Why would these companies risk rabidly forcing these unwanted, unpopular, insecure, expensive, and unnecessary features on their collective user bases? The real reason is to capture everything you do and store on your device, use the tensor hardware you may or may not even know that you purchased to analyze the data locally, then export and sell that “anonymized” information to advertisers and the government. All while cryptographically tying the data to your device, and the device to you, for “security”. This enables mass surveillance, digital rights management, and targeted advertising on a scale and depth previously unseen. Who needs a backdoor or a quantum computer to break consumer-grade encryption when you can just locally record everything everyone does and analyze it automatically at the hardware level?
Each of these providers is already desperate to scan, analyze, and classify your content:
Microsoft has been caught using your stored passwords to decrypt archives uploaded to OneDrive.
Apple developed forced client side scanning for CSAM before backlash shut it down. They already locally scan your photos with a machine learning classification algorithm whether you like it or not. You can’t turn it off.
Google recently implemented local content scanning with SafetyCore to “protect you from unwanted content like spam”. Then why is it scanning your photo library?
I would rather saw off my own nuts with a rusty spork before willfully purchasing a device with an integrated NPU. I fear that in the next 5-10 years, you won’t be able to avoid them. We are paying for the edge hardware being used for our own unwilling surveillance. Then, our tax dollars are paid to these tech companies to purchase the data!
Do you trust the rising fascist regimes and their tech lackeys in America and the UK to use this power morally and responsibly?
Do you really believe that these features that you didn’t ask for, that you cannot disable, and are baked directly into the hardware, are for your benefit?
I can hear every sound referenced in this thread in my head.
As an Internet person with absolutely no knowledge or experience in finance, I can professionally guarantee you that Kanye West’s crypto coin “Yeezy Money” is not a good investment and you should not purchase it.
I mean Jesus fucking Christ.