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  1. Re:Must be Russian on Nigerian Man Charged in Hacking of Los Angeles County Emails (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    Which would explain, why Hillary Clinton got 4 million votes more in California, than Trump...

  2. Re:Facebook committing corporate suicide on Facebook Is Clamping Down On Fake News, Partners With Fact Checkers To Flag Stories (slate.com) · · Score: 1

    No, more like more than half of their US user base.

  3. Narrative Checkers, not "Fact Checkers" on Facebook Is Clamping Down On Fake News, Partners With Fact Checkers To Flag Stories (slate.com) · · Score: 1

    Facebook isn't fact checking, they're narrative checking to make sure it's leftist-approved.

    Like Twitter's Ministry of Truth and Safety, its job will only consist of protecting leftism - as they have failed to pick anyone that is anything but a hard leftist.

  4. Uber can't PR their way to victory on this one. on Uber Appeals Against Ruling that Its UK Drivers Are Workers (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    Given that contract classification abuse (if not outright fraud) is something well known across the world, Uber can't PR themselves out of this one.

  5. Re:Will that actually help? Also, Wi-Fi on 150 Filmmakers and Photojournalists Call On Nikon, Sony, and Canon To Build in Encryption (zdnet.com) · · Score: 1

    Congratulations, the "journalist" will be seized along with their camera and storage.

    You just made it that much worse for the individuals out there.

  6. Re:Will that actually help? Also, Wi-Fi on 150 Filmmakers and Photojournalists Call On Nikon, Sony, and Canon To Build in Encryption (zdnet.com) · · Score: 2

    The moment they see encryption or something "not right" with that camera, it's not going to go well for the camera's presumed owner.

  7. A rubber hose and a few other things will make short work of whatever is done.

  8. So a gallery of rogues. on Bill Gates Announces A New $1 Billion Clean Energy Fund (fortune.com) · · Score: 1

    At least they did the easy work of identifying who is against the US.

  9. No, just the one where the humans win. on IBM's Watson Used In Life-Saving Medical Diagnosis (businessinsider.co.id) · · Score: 1

    Humans don't get practice sessions, neither should Watson.

  10. Re:Let's see Watson get it *wrong*. on IBM's Watson Used In Life-Saving Medical Diagnosis (businessinsider.co.id) · · Score: 1

    Why? Why would it be nice?

    To see the fallibility of Watson. Just as it was nice for Patterson to observe the original Watson seeing his own desk on fire, it is similarly nice to see Watson fail.

    Since it is an expert system, it probably already has an error rate.

    Yet we have not seen it in any final results. On the other hand, we've seen Watson's PR-friendly "successes".

  11. Lack of other, different choices == force on Uber Is Treating Its Drivers As Sweated Labor, Says Report (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    If their reason for choosing Uber is that they had no other options that were significantly different/better, it's still force.

  12. Lower quality ahead. on Robots Are Already Replacing Fast-Food Workers (recode.net) · · Score: 1

    More directly to the heart of American fast-food cuisine, Momentum Machines, a restaurant concept with a robot that can supposedly flip hundreds of burgers an hour, applied for a building permit in San Francisco and started listing job openings this January, reported Eater. Then there's Eatsa, the automat restaurant where no human interaction is necessary, which has locations popping up across California.

    In other words, a robot that makes lower quality food and some place that hates humans.

  13. People that Twitter protects and loves. on Twitter Reinstates White Nationalist Leader's Account (buzzfeed.com) · · Score: 1

    Twitter loves and protects those people.

  14. Being not-leftist. on Twitter Reinstates White Nationalist Leader's Account (buzzfeed.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    The only violation that matters is not being a proper leftist according to Twitter.

  15. It's called Twitter. on Twitter Reinstates White Nationalist Leader's Account (buzzfeed.com) · · Score: 1

    N/T

  16. Let me know when they remove leftists. on Twitter Reinstates White Nationalist Leader's Account (buzzfeed.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Twitter has gladly helped criminals, abusers, and racists - as long as they were leftists. Some of them even have the ear of Twitter's Ministry of Truth & Safety department.

    When we start hearing of people on the left get removed from Twitter (permanently), then they might have some shred of legitimacy.

  17. Let's see Watson get it *wrong*. on IBM's Watson Used In Life-Saving Medical Diagnosis (businessinsider.co.id) · · Score: 1

    Enough to see all these thinly-veiled ads, but it'd be nice to see Watson be proved wrong.

  18. ITT: Metric fucktons of AMZN apologists. on Struggling Workers Found Sleeping In Tents Behind Amazon's Warehouse (thecourier.co.uk) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Price alone isn't a justification for such conditions. If anything, price-related justifications show a callous disregard for those that do work (or seek it).

    If anything, this is a reason why permatemping (what Amazon is doing), classification abuse (hiding behind a third party), and zero-hour work (the ultimate in precarious work when combined w/ UK-style workfare) needs to DIAF and the remains be shoveled into the nearest black hole.

  19. Proof says otherwise. on Twitters Says It Will Ban Trump If He Breaks Hate-Speech Rules (qz.com) · · Score: 1

    That's complete tosh.

    While proof has shown otherwise. Look at those who use favored positions on platforms like Twitter(where a leftist will never be banned or disciplined, but conservatives will) or Reddit (e.g. the edits made from the Fuck Spez incident) to harass others.

    Oh, and your sig needs to be revised to say "This is fascism, Clinton fits."

  20. Does Twitter want to invite trouble? on Twitters Says It Will Ban Trump If He Breaks Hate-Speech Rules (qz.com) · · Score: 1

    By condoning and defending "hate speech" of their own while defining it as anything that breaks leftist narratives, they're becoming the ones that aren't civil.

  21. Re:How on earth is this policy enforced? on Uber Asks Everyone To Stop Making It The New Tinder (sfgate.com) · · Score: 1

    Easy, it's only enforced when Uber wants to purge a conservative from their platform.

  22. It's force nonetheless. on Uber Is Treating Its Drivers As Sweated Labor, Says Report (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    Just because it's not your preferred term of force doesn't mean that it isn't force.

  23. Narrative Control Tools, Twitter Edition. on Twitter Cuts API Access For Media Sonar, Spy Tool Used To Target Black Lives Matter (dailydot.com) · · Score: 1

    You can also block people you don't want to see your tweets, and make them only available to logged in users, or users you whitelist.

    If there was sanity at Twitter, they'd purge those features after purging the "Trust and Safety" team.

  24. You might be frustrated that the most popular platforms don't allow your particular speech (although Twitter will tolerate pretty much anything other than harassment and child pornography)

    For leftist-favoring definitions of harassment and child abuse.

    but you are not being silenced.

    Only if you're leftist. If you're conservative, the policy will be used at a moment's notice to purge.

  25. So Twitter protects criminals. on Twitter Cuts API Access For Media Sonar, Spy Tool Used To Target Black Lives Matter (dailydot.com) · · Score: 1

    Given Twitter's support of protecting criminals of similar leanings, this isn't surprising. I wonder how long this will go until they have to actually defend someone significant they hate (or purge someone significant they favor), if only to be consistent with policy.

    There's always Lockheed Wisdom.