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I agree with you. Something I noticed and wanted to add: When I mention UBI to people, a lot of them are hearing it like a guarantee that everyone gets enough income to be happy or be comfortable.

I have found that people who interpret basic income in this way tend to become strongly opposed to UBI on the grounds that it could never be funded and would lead to social collapse due to limited resources.

Idk what you picture, but I imagine a person on UBI affording to eat rice and beans in a studio apartment somewhere in a low cost-of-living and low property value geography (though perhaps among pleasant neighbors and like minded folks).

So I kind of think the name "Universal Basic Income" needs to be reworked so it sounds more harsh, almost like a necessary evil. Something like "Rock Bottom Income", idk.

I don't have the perfect answer, but do you think conservatives would get on board if it was like "The poors can't complain, they can take their complaints straight to Bean Town if they don't like the wages" or do you think they'd still find it unpalatable?

I think this kind of research and discourse about it is important from an ethical and social reckoning standpoint, but I don't think it is economically worthwhile to engage in a neverending arms race between AI censorship and the boundless determination of trolls.

So my hypothesis is that we are going to see governments roll out legislation that just recognizes defeat and fully deregulates AI generated content online rather than spending the time/money/energy trying to hold corporations or individuals accountable for what LLMs say.

Perhaps we will see regulations around what AI agents do insofar as executing code or submitting transactional requests, but I really doubt there are going to be many enforced limitations on what LLMs say in the near future.

It will probably be the same policies that finally put the copyright concerns over their enormously controversial training data to rest, ultimately killing any prospect of copyright holders to sue for damages over stolen art/code/etc.

I think there is a path forward where the internet and the content on it are sufficiently commoditized that the costs become trivial to average people, like the cost of running an LED at night, and so monied interests move into other areas like robotics and the internet begins to drift back toward the idealized vision mentioned in this post.

I doubt it will ever drift all the way back, but it is getting super cheap to run edge compute and store data on the cloud.

It's getting increasingly cheap to write code with LLMs too, and if that continues to evolve at the rate it's going then users are not going to feel locked into their big-name platform of choice anymore. Porting from Apple to Google to Microsoft to Amazon to Self-Hosted etc, will be a lower and lower bar with fewer and fewer barriers for the average user, making for a hint of that old wild frontier feeling online again.

Super weird. I recall that tickets from cameras were found to be not enforceable in California back in the early 2000's because officers signing the tickets were not on site at the point of the infraction and so could not testify that they actually witnessed the full scope/context of the events in question before any court of appeal.

I wonder if that's changed or if this system is somehow different than the previous iterations where officers signed tickets after only witnessing video footage.

Bummer, you are right. I was wrong. I misread the first study and thought they were detecting faces through object like glasses using infrared, however that is not the case. They just mentioned detecting eyes through glasses(using visible spectrum) and then moved on to talking about infrared for other purposes.

Damn, well I'll take down the comment. Thanks for pointing this out, sorry to waste your time!

Whether it passes or not, civilians need to start using the infrared on their phone cameras to see through face coverings and profile law enforcement identities during execution of illegal orders anyway.

I cannot believe there is not a widely used FOSS app for this when the hardware is in your pocket already and the research is prevalent for how to do this.

I don't understand why protestors would even show up in Washington DC during the fascist parade like is being implied in the article.

The union protests and social unrest currently underway are not really related to Trump's authoritarian birthday bash except for how the media paints them as a "warm up".

Protesters would be better served popping up all over the country except in Washington DC during their synchronized goose stepping contest.

During one of the mass exodus events from Reddit to Lemmy, a lot of people started using these tools they would install to automatically scrub and obfuscate their Reddit comments and posts history. Often these tools would replace posts with random letters and even nonsense links because there was suspicion that outright deleted posts could be detected and then programmatically restored if Reddit really wanted to get that user content back.

I suspect these tools probably exist for Lemmy as well and you are seeing users with long comment histories use them because those also happen to be the users who have a lot of previous content to cover up/obfuscate to maintain/ensure their own privacy.

Inject it with bleach! That'll do the trick.