Mullvad users who got mad simplified this to Mullvad fees finance a Nazi party directly.

You are making this up.

Those of us mad understand how the money changes hands.

It is mathematically correct to say that a portion of the energy I may contribute to Mullvad will end up financing fascism.

This isn’t only about the political donations. That’s a coowner/cofounder we are talking about. That’s significant. If some rank and file schmuck donated to nazis in his spare time and not a cofounder, it would be less bad. Still bad, but less damaging.

This cofounder has outsized infuence on how the culture of Mullvad is shaping up.

Do I want to support that when there are better, more private, VPN companies without the nazi cofounders? For example NymVPN mixnet.

There is no good reason to prefer Mullvad.

It’d be a different story is we only had two VPN companies and both had nazi founders. Then we’d have to weigh privacy vs nazism. But that’s not our situation right now.

AI can’t be accountable for itself.

We pretty much have to make some mistakes in order to learn.

Being overly afraid of making a mistake is a good way to paralize oneself.

For me it’s less about the creepy wearer than it is about surveillance, billionaires, fascism, capitalism, AI training, resale of info, etc.

It’s not as important WHO is wearing the camera glasses. A woman, a child, a cat? Where is the data going? What happens with the data? How will it be used for profit or for control which is profit again?

You know if some billionaire wasn’t laughing all the way to the bank this would not be happening.

The company can be spun out into two.

Let the spun out Nazivad get their own customers separately, if they can.

Otherwise the whole company is now tainted.

In a worker coop workers generally want, appreciate, and hire managers for themselves. But there are power dynamic diffetences:

• The workers are the boss
• Managers do not get overinflated compensation packages
• A typical max income differential of lowest to highest paid is 1:10

Managers help organize and facilitate production, but it is the workers themselves who have to be pleased.

That’s not to say some worker coop couldn’t choose to do without the manager role. Maybe some exist like that.

So is the nazi coowner getting ousted soon?

Right now we’re at “Mullvad is part nazi, nazi adjacent, nazi lite, moderately fascist, feudalism-curious” stage.

Sounds like the bosses positions should be cut then.

And in a worker cooperative that’s exactly what would happen.

“Reverse centaur”

(According to Cory Doctorow, a ‘centaur’ is a human augmented by tech, and a ‘reverse centaur’ is a human who is a mere meaty appendage to a tech system)

Piracy is copyright infringement. That’s different from larceny.

In no world is piracy ever stealing.

Today, the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), the world’s most powerful particle accelerator, comes to the end of an extraordinary chapter in its scientific journey. Following its final physics run, the accelerator has been switched off to begin CERN’s Long Shutdown 3 (LS3), a major programme of maintenance, consolidation, upgrades and installation work that will prepare the Laboratory for the High-Luminosity LHC (HiLumi LHC), the next phase in the exploration of the fundamental laws of nature.

It’s getting an upgrade!

What a title.

Definitely you’d never say this during a jury selection process.

So watch the billionaires then. Watch the Epstein class.

No, they want to watch the proles instead.

I take it a sufficiently determined individual can bypass enough of redoit’s BS to get in.

You should choose wisely how to allocate your energies.

In this case, do you really want to lend your energy to an outfit that so actively disrespects your preferences? Think about what you are encouraging in your own world.

Even if you could get back on there, is it a good thing FOR You in the long run? Of course you could scratch the itch, but do you lose more than you gain over the long term?

Beyond just the personal energy budgeting, it also seems like we want a tech solution to a political problem. If we are to have a true tech public square, it seems very wrong to allow an unelected and unaccountable entity to own that square. So under no circumstance should you be banned from any public speech forum simply for speech (save maybe for making credible and actionable bodily threats). That’s a political guarantee that has to be enforced by a democratically accountable government. No single company can own and make admin decisions for the digital public square. That’s a political demand. Obviously that’s not how thing work today. But this may give you some ideas of what you may want to push for so that in the future you can avoid what happened to you recently.

All that meta info would need to be spoofed. Even spoofing the 80%, rather than all, might be enough.

Corporatuons must have legal limits to their size in people, capitalization, revenue, etc.

If we allow limitless growth then there won’t be a wall thick enough to hide us from all the bullshit.

Billionaires should not exist, and corporations must have strict limits too.

Having one corporation buy out every other one and get into every type of business is way too much power. Look at how things work in S. Korea where the president has to kiss the feet of the CEO of Samsung. Because Samsung is way too big and does way too many things. Corps like that are just begging to be split up.

Step 1: turtleneck

Step 2: reality distortion bubble

Step 3: massive profit

Look, I love the idea of a Linux phone.

But $500 and it manages my temptations for me? Fuck no.

The whole point of Linux is freedom.

Enough behavior shaping.

Even one billionaire is a policy failure.

The people getting tricked are CEOs and investors.

It’s at least a bubble if not a fad.

It’d be diffetent if the AI sales pitch were only tricking lonely people looking for text-only relationships.

I agree with you in a sense, but what a good trick it is.