We live in a capitalist dystopia
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A month old but first I've heard of it.
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Sam Altman Wants Your Eyeball
Last week, OpenAI's CEO Sam Altman announced in San Francisco that the World project he co-founded, formerly known as Worldcoin, is opening six stores across the United States, allowing users of the project's app to scan their eyeballs.
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Anuj Ahooja (@[email protected])
In the last five years, we've gone from "employees will never have to go into an office" to "employees need to be in the office because creative and innovative work can only be done face-to-face between humans" to "lol we don't need humans"
mastodon.social
A 'click-to-cancel' rule, intended to make canceling subscriptions easier, is blocked
A “click-to-cancel” rule, which would have required businesses to make it easy for consumers to cancel unwanted subscriptions and memberships, has been blocked by a court days before it was set to go into effect.
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We seriously need to streamline the processes for the government to do anything. So much gets blocked not on any merits but because somebody skipped some bureaucratic step.
Most of that is by design. Plenty of people in our government (or who hold the purse strings for those people) don't want things like this to pass.
I feel the same… as a British person who now no longer can freely live in those countries.
Alastair Somerville (@acuity.design)
I’m sorry but wut? #FantasticFour got their skills thru a scientific accident and in the face of a lot of social exclusion/othering.
bsky.app
And itch.io caved too.
The fact that it started because of a game that had already been removed makes this all even stupider.
Update on NSFW content
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The fact that it started because of a game that had already been removed makes this all even stupider.
It should not be hard to put together a bipartisan bill to shut this jive down. I don't think many right wing voters are big fans of the payment processor veto either.
The only real solution is to abolish private banking and payment processing as an industry. Didn't they basically do that in Europe? Don't people have like, government-issued debit cards that are impossible to defraud and are required to be accepted everywhere?
Well yeah, Europe is somehow able to pull off stuff like that for likely the same reasons they're able to implement them in the first place, whatever that is.
Honestly the difference between the US and Europe sometimes feels like it runs deeper than the systems they happen to have put in place, because what would prompt them to put those systems in place in the first place? It's hard not to just conclude that they're just better people in some nebulous but somehow-not-racist way (since Europe is way more white than the US but obviously it's the whites who are demonstrably to blame for most of the US's problems).
Honestly the difference between the US and Europe sometimes feels like it runs deeper than the systems they happen to have put in place, because what would prompt them to put those systems in place in the first place? It's hard not to just conclude that they're just better people in some nebulous but somehow-not-racist way (since Europe is way more white than the US but obviously it's the whites who are demonstrably to blame for most of the US's problems).
American Evangelism is a cancer.
Then again, the age verification scam is getting farther in Europe than in the US, and the UK seems to be in competition with the US for the worst in general (see the "TERF Island" nickname).
Also the particular fundy group responsible for this is Australian (just like Rupert Murdoch and Ken Ham both are; Australia has less right-wing nuts than the US only because half of theirs come here).
The age verification bollocks is basically one of those “freedom of Brexit” things. Absolutely hate it. It’s been instigated as a law by the previous UK government, kept as-is by the current government, and managed by OFCOM, the UK’s media regulation quango, so don’t blame the rest of Europe for it!
(The regulations have already forced loads of UK based web forums to shutter, some which have been around since the 1990s.)
(Yes, if you live in the UK you can get around BlueSky, Reddit asking for an ID to verity you age by using a VPN.)