AI wearables are quietly listening to everyone in Silicon Valley
TLDR: Techbros in SF are wearing AI pins that record everything everyone says around them.
“My general sense is that we should assume we are being recorded at all times,” said Clara Brenner, a partner at venture capital firm Urban Innovation Fund. “Of course, this is a horrible way to live your life.”
Damn right it is. Every day one step closer to dystopia. Fuck this shit.
This conversation is being recorded — and so is everything else you do in San Francisco
AI wearables are quietly recording everything. Is it legal? And do you consent?Zara Stone (The San Francisco Standard)
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The U.S. can’t slash education funding and think it can compete with China
Cheap labor isn’t China's only advantage over the United States
As Trump slashes education spending and imposes tariffs, Chinese leaders are steaming ahead to improve their nation’s education standards and outcomes.Michele Norris (MSNBC)
US education problems aren't funding related, at least on the education itself. The US has focused almost exclusively on raising the floor of education since no child left behind, which has been an absolute failure. It's gotten to the point now that some districts are removing gifted classes because it's viewed as not fair to the lower achieving students.
Funding also is largely irrelevant to student performance, beyond a floor level. The biggest problem is parent apathy, which isn't solved with money. Other problems like food insecurity and lack of housing are problems that aren't education funding related. A free lunch can help a kid pay attention in class, but it's not going to solve home life or not doing homework.
The US Needs More Engineers. What’s the Solution?
A sustained, coordinated, and multipronged approach involving both public and private sector players is the single best way to ensure a continuous supply of skilled professionals.Abhi Kodey (BCG Global)
Heydey ho folks, anybody I know a decent search engine with a lite interface?
I've been a DDG Stan for years but after doing some research on freeBSD kernel modification I've realized just how bad the AI SLOP articles have become, and they're doing nothing to filter them out. Lately it seems every result is either a nuked reddit thread, or an LLM produced static page that almost is convincing enough to be a real person (if it weren't confidently producing advice for Linux on a page claiming to be for freeBSD).
I do most of my browsing in Links and Offpunk, so HTML only is highly preferred, no JavaScript, as it is non-functional in my browsers of choice.
The engines don't necessarily need to be clearweb, I'm down to clown with Gemini, Gopher, i2p... I'd prefer against TOR but if its the only place to find a decent web browser I'll use it.
Diceva di essere Mengoni, ma non era vero. Scopriamo insieme perchè.
Come di consueto mi trattengo un po’ su Facebook per postare, commentare, ecc.
Decido improvvisamente di seguire qualche cantante famoso come Povia, Cocciante, Marco Mengoni e altri. Chiaramente fin qui nulla di strano.
Quando seguite questi cantanti su messanger si può stabilire un contatto col cantante ed io l’ho fatto. Convinta che fosse veramente Marco Mengoni gli ho dato il mio numero di telefono per continuare le nostre conversazioni su telegram, fino a quando una sera Marco ha detto di amarmi e mi ha chiesto dei soldi. Chiaramente non poteva essere ed ho iniziato ad insospettirmi fino a quando il mio sguardo è caduto sul numero di telefono di Marco.
E’ stato allora che ho capito che non era il vero Marco Mengoni, ma
Faceva credere di essere Mengoni: sgamato! - sgamiamoli
Come di consueto mi trattengo un po’ su Facebook per postare, commentare, ecc. Decido improvvisamente di seguire qualche cantante famoso come Povia, Cocciante, Marco Mengoni e altri. Chiaramente fin qui nulla di strano.raffaella papaccioli (sgamiamoli)
Israeli Army Is Now Policing Southern Syria (Videos)
Israeli Army Is Now Policing Southern Syria (Videos)
The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) announced on August 11 that its troops had arrested an “arms dealer” overnight in the...Anonymous1199 (South Front)
Russian Media Prepares Public for Potential Endgame of Special Military Operation
Russia Signals Plan to End Special Military Operation Ahead of Putin-Trump Summit
The phrase ‘plan to end the Special Military Operation’ appeared yesterday in Russian media fieldPetr Ermilin (Pravda English)
After using ChatGPT, man swaps his salt for sodium bromide—and suffers psychosis
Honestly not sure what to say except INSANITY!!!!
Three months later, the man showed up at his local emergency room. His neighbor, he said, was trying to poison him. Though extremely thirsty, the man was paranoid about accepting the water that the hospital offered him, telling doctors that he had begun distilling his own water at home and that he was on an extremely restrictive vegetarian diet. He did not mention the sodium bromide or the ChatGPT discussions.
After using ChatGPT, man swaps his salt for sodium bromide—and suffers psychosis
Literal “hallucinations” were the result.Nate Anderson (Ars Technica)
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India: Opposition Leader detained by police in protests against suspected voting fraud
Thirty members of the Indian parliament, including Opposition Leader Rahul Gandhi, were detained by police following a protest against suspected voter fraud in recent state elections. Rahul Gandhi's Indian National Congress party had found fake and duplicate voters in the electoral rolls, and accused the election commission of colluding with the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party. The Election Commission rejected his claims, following which digital rolls were briefly unavailable from the EC website.
The protest also focused on a 'special revision' of voter rolls in the state of Bihar, where elections are scheduled later this year. The requirements for inclusion were criticised as being unreasonably complicated, and likely to disproportionately affect the poor, illiterate, and migrant labourers.
Hm I wish there was some more info or research into the credibility of the opposition leaders' claim. This article reads a little bit like he said she said without telling us any of the facts.
Thanks for posting, News from this part of the world is so important we don't read enough of it
The opposition leader showed examples of duplicate votes, as well as obviously fake votes (one had parent's name as 'asdfg' or something like that). The question is how common these are, and whether they are being used to swing elections a certain way.
Honestly, if the Election Commission had been more transparent and admitted the mistake instead of trying to hide the rolls, this might have been a non-event.
‘Another Nazi-style pamphlet’ – Moscow slams latest statement from Ukraine’s backers
‘Another Nazi-style pamphlet’ – Moscow slams latest statement from Ukraine’s backers
Relations between Kiev and Brussels have begun to resemble “necrophilia,” according to Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria ZakharovaRT
Ukraine's intelligence network is in crisis, Russian Federal Security Service says
Ukraine's intelligence network is in crisis, Russian Federal Security Service says
According to the report, the lack of trained agents and reduced financial aid from Western partners have impacted the Ukrainian Security Service's activities in RussiaTASS
No Peacemaker: Netanyahu Seeks War to Avoid Jail and Expand Israel's Borders
No Peacemaker: Netanyahu Seeks War to Avoid Jail and Expand Israel's Borders
There is no way Hamas is going to accept Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu’s conditions for a ceasefire in Gaza as they would essentially lead to the Palestinian movement’s demise, Ankara-based security and political analyst Dr.Sputnik International
i think it's a testament to how much wealth is captured by the ruling class that they can literally buy the consent and impunity to create a new apartheid colonial state in an area of the world that is HEAVILY populated by indigenous peoples and despite an overwhelming majority of the world's population abhorring both it's this current episode as much as its previous incarnations in the americas, australia, and africa.
it's also a testament to the power and longevity of the american hegemony that it committed such atrocities a century and a half plus ago and are still doing so now while we all helplessly watch.
[Resolved] How to cross post?
Hi all, I just posted in one community and now I want to cross post that into another.
Is there a right way to do that? I'm not seeing any ui elements for this.
I'm on the default piefed.social web mobile UI, if that helps. Thanks!
Any way to remove voice-over?
Oh. You just want to turn off the polish part of the audio!
Okay that's a much bigger task.
Mandatory age verification online in the EU - Amendment 186
EU parliament accepted a last minute amendment, mandating age verification for pornographic (whatever that is) content online, punishable with up to one year prison sentence.
This was rolled into a directive concerning CSAM. Because adults accessing porn need to be de-anonymised to avoid child exploitation?
Some press releases: (1), (2), (3)
PRESS RELEASE I European Parliament votes to force pornographic websites to use effective age-verification tools to protect minors - FAFCE
Strasbourg, 18 June 2025 The Federation of Catholic Family Association in Europe (FAFCE) welcomes the decision of the European Parliament to force pornographic websites to put in place "robust and effective age verification tools to effectively prev…admin (FAFCE)
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This is misleading. It will keep your information private from the website you’re accessing (supposedly), but the EU authorities will know full well which websites you’re visiting and surveilling.
And of course, they will apply the non-compliance claims to absolutely anything they want to censor.
I know very well that it is known which pages I visit, when authorities pretend it.
I'm normally not a friend of AI, but despite of this I use Andisearch as my main search engine since almost 3 years, because with it, I don't have even the need to access most of the pages, I can read these in the own reader mode in the search results and summarize the content, sandboxed and with random proxie. The search concepts don't even appears in the browser history only that I searched with Andi, but not what, I can watch YT videos also direct in the search results. It's one of the most private search engine which I know, and I know almost all also thanks to an user. Free, no limits, no logs, no ads, no cookies, anonymous, own independent LLM.
Andi - AI Search for the Next Generation
Andi is AI search for the next generation. Instead of just links, Andi gives you answers - like chatting with a smart friend.andisearch.com
It Looks Like a School Bathroom Smoke Detector. A Teen Hacker Showed It Could Be an Audio Bug
(Above link with skipped Paywall)
Summary by Andi:
A teenage hacker named Reynaldo Vasquez-Garcia discovered that the Halo 3C vape detector, which looks like a standard smoke detector in school bathrooms, contained hidden microphones and security flaws that allowed it to be turned into a secret listening device1.
Working with another hacker known as "Nyx," Vasquez-Garcia found the device could be hacked by exploiting weak password controls and firmware update vulnerabilities. Once compromised, attackers could use it to eavesdrop on conversations in real-time, disable its detection capabilities, create fake alerts, or play audio through its speaker1.
The researchers revealed these findings at the 2025 Defcon hacker conference, demonstrating how any hacker on the same network could hijack a Halo 3C by brute-forcing passwords at 3,000 attempts per minute. The device's firmware could also be modified since its encryption key was publicly available in updates on the manufacturer's website1.
Motorola, which owns the Halo 3C's manufacturer IPVideo Corporation, said it developed a firmware update to address the security flaws. However, the researchers argue this doesn't solve the fundamental privacy concern of having microphone-equipped devices installed in sensitive locations like school bathrooms and public housing1.
- Wired - It Looks Like a School Bathroom Smoke Detector. A Teen Hacker Showed It Could Be an Audio Bug ↩︎ ↩︎ ↩︎ ↩︎
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Remove paywalls and summarize articles for free, covering NYT, Washington Post & more. Instant access to content without login for faster insights.smry.ai
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What Does Palantir Actually Do?
Palantir is often called a data broker, a data miner, or a giant database of personal information. In reality, it’s none of these—but even former employees struggle to explain it.Palantir sends its employees to work inside client organizations essentially as consultants, helping to customize their data pipelines, troubleshoot problems, and fix bugs. It calls these workers “forward deployed software engineers,” a term that appears to be inspired by the concept of forward-deployed troops, who are stationed in adversarial regions to deter nearby enemies from attacking.
Crucially, Palantir doesn’t reorganize a company's bins and pipes, so to speak, meaning it doesn’t change how data is collected or how it moves through the guts of an organization. Instead, its software sits on top of a customer’s messy systems and allows them to integrate and analyze data without needing to fix the underlying architecture. In some ways, it’s a technical band-aid. In theory, this makes Palantir particularly well suited for government agencies that may use state-of-the-art software cobbled together with programming languages dating back to the 1960s.
Palantir’s software is designed with nontechnical users in mind. Rather than relying on specialized technical teams to parse and analyze data, Palantir allows people across an organization to get insights, sometimes without writing a single line of code. All they need to do is log into one of Palantir’s two primary platforms: Foundry, for commercial users, or Gotham, for law enforcement and government users.
Foundry focuses on helping businesses use data to do things like manage inventory, monitor factory lines, and track orders. Gotham, meanwhile, is an investigative tool specifically for police and government clients, designed to connect people, places, and events of interest to law enforcement. There’s also Apollo, which is like a control panel for shipping automatic software updates to Foundry or Gotham, and the Artificial Intelligence Platform, a suite of AI-powered tools that can be integrated into Gotham or Foundry.
Foundry and Gotham are similar: Both ingest data and give people a neat platform to work with it. The main difference between them is what data they’re ingesting. Gotham takes any data that government or law enforcement customers may have, including things like crime reports, booking logs, or information they collected by subpoenaing a social media company. Gotham then extracts every person, place, and detail that might be relevant. Customers need to already have the data they want to work with—Palantir itself does not provide any.
Foundry and Gotham are similar: Both ingest data and give people a neat platform to work with it. The main difference between them is what data they’re ingesting. Gotham takes any data that government or law enforcement customers may have, including things like crime reports, booking logs, or information they collected by subpoenaing a social media company. Gotham then extracts every person, place, and detail that might be relevant. Customers need to already have the data they want to work with—Palantir itself does not provide any.
Since leaving Palantir, Pinto says he’s spent a lot of time reflecting on the company’s ability to parse and connect vast amounts of data. He’s now deeply worried that an authoritarian state could use this power to “tell any narrative they want” about, say, immigrants or dissidents it may be seeking to arrest or deport. He says that software like Palantir’s doesn’t eliminate human bias.
People are the ones that choose how to work with data, what questions to ask about it, and what conclusions to draw. Their choices could have positive outcomes, like ensuring enough Covid-19 vaccines are delivered to vulnerable areas. They could also have devastating ones, like launching a deadly airstrike, or deporting someone.
In some ways, Palantir can be seen as an amplifier of people’s intentions and biases. It helps them make evermore precise and intentional decisions, for better or for worse. But this may not always be obvious to Palantir’s users. They may only experience a sophisticated platform, sold to them using the vocabulary of warfare and hegemony. It may feel as if objective conclusions are flowing naturally from the data. When Gotham users connect disparate pieces of information about a person, it could seem like they are reading their whole life story, rather than just a slice of it.
Fear Peter Thiel and his gangbuster crew of excel homies and consultants 😂
Don't get me wrong, they're enablers of authoritarianists, but let's not give them too much credit. Magic? 🫧🧐🪠
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recensione alberghiaca con sorprese megapazzurde e stasi ottimalizzata!
A grandissimissima richiesta (…di ben 1 persona), quasi urgeva una recensione dell’albergo dove sono stata per poco più di metà della settimana scorsa… utile a non si sa chi o cosa, data la solita mia necessaria precauzionale omissione di dettagli altrimenti fondamentali, ma il piacere della storiella (o, come dice il caro Piero Angela, il […]
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recensione alberghiaca con sorprese megapazzurde e stasi ottimalizzata!
A grandissimissima richiesta (…di ben 1 persona), quasi urgeva una recensione dell’albergo dove sono stata per poco più di metà della settimana scorsa… utile a non si sa chi o cosa, data la solita mia necessaria precauzionale omissione di dettagli altrimenti fondamentali, ma il piacere della storiella (o, come dice il caro Piero Angela, il piacere della scop..ta) è sempre altamente importante e necessario a non sprofondare ogni giorno sempre di più in quello stato dell’essere che ci (mi) vede... vabbè, scusate, basta cazzate. 🙁Vediamo prima le cose strane, così togliamo il dente bizzarro e via il dolore causato dalla morbosa curiosità. A parte il non proprio spassoso incidente dell’ultima sera, che fa testo a sé, di cose curiose ce n’erano un bel po’ in questo hotel; queste altre, per fortuna, non avvilenti. La cosa che forse più colpiva, complessivamente e continuamente, è che… proprio all’ingresso, affianco alla reception, aveva un bar… che operava da normale bar, essendo in centro. In 4 giorni non ho visto nessuno andarci, però oh: per chi ha interesse, ci sta il bar. Anzi, ci sono due bar: c’era una sala interrata, che fungeva da sala colazione (e solo colazione, il resto del tempo era chiusa), e aveva un altro bancone/postazione bar. Addirittura, le pareti di questa erano affrescate con un tema apposta per l’hotel… ma non ho fotine mie ora, quindi ops. 👻
Passando alla camera… Altre cose strane sono che il rubinetto del lavandino si chiamava Cristina(e si, le marche delle robe idrauliche sono sempre stranamente assurde, maCristina non l’avevo mai vista)… mentre, la marca dell’area lavandino proprio, è un altro nome mai sentito, TECHNOVA, ma la cosa che mi ha lasciata confusa è che il font sembra uscito tipo da un anime… queste lettere un po’ rotonde con la O che è una stellina, insomma… E poi ancora, nell’armadio appendiabiti (non in bagno ovviamente), c’era il quadro elettrico della stanza, con un cartello che diceva tipo di non aprire se non autorizzati… ma la porticina di plastica era di suo mezza aperta, quindi il cartello nel contesto sembra una presa in giro. Boh, roba proprio strana si trova, mi sa, andando in giro con l’occhio clinico ben aperto. 👁️
Temo di non essere proprio bbona a fare le recensioni dei posti, però, perché i tratti positivi di forte impatto che riesco a dire solo solo 2… però oh, son roba tosta. Come già detto, con la stanza solo per me le faville sono state sensibili: anzitutto perché il letto era a due posti, ma c’ero appunto soltanto io, quindi ho dormito alla grande, senza sentire i rumori molesti dei miei genitori — altrimenti succede puntualmente che loro fanno il roleplay della Russia (russano e invadono il mio sonno) e io quindi dell’Ucraina (sigh) — e perdendomi ampiamente in questo letto, gigante per i miei standard (0.5 posti più grande del mio solito, wow), stabilendo insomma per bene anche in trasferta il mio stato da principessa femcel marcia… ma poi, perché avevo il bagno solo per me… 😈E il bagno, anche se era più piccolo di quello dei miei genitori — che, al contrario, avevano la parte principale della stanza più piccola di me, ops — era stellare… da gaming, oserei dire. E il gaming è infatti avvenuto alla grande, la sera che avevo un po’ di tempo (si, proprio quella dell’incidente) e ho quindi deciso di provare la doccia che c’era. Il design era molto strano a prima vista, e certamente mi aspettavo qualcosa di insolito nel suo uso… ma non immaginavo che avesse letteralmente i LED blu (primo colore del gaming!!!) e dei display numerici per indicare la temperatura corrente dell’acqua e il tempo trascorso con essa accesa!!! In confronto alla roba normalissima che posso permettermi io a casa, questa doccia è stata super premium… tanto che, trasportata dal gaming, ho deciso di farmi anche lo shampoo, nonostante inizialmente volessi solo sciacquarmi. (Poi vabbè, lo shampoo ha causato altri problemi, ma quella è una condanna mia personale.) 😻
Ecco, del bagno in realtà non mi è assolutamente piaciuto che il sapone per le mani fosse in un dispenser automatico (non solo da me, anche dai miei era così)… A parte che si mimetizzava col muro, quindi inizialmente non lo notavo e mi chiedevo dove straminchia fosse il sapone per le mani, non essendoci saponette in giro, ma solo il flaconcino per la doccia… è semplicemente terribile il fatto che si attivi con un sensore di prossimità: se si appoggia qualcosa lì sotto per sbaglio, ecco che questa verrà sburrata immediatamente dal macchinario, senza se e senza ma… e anche banalmente per prendere il sapone, è scomodo, non si capisce mai come bisogna mettere e togliere la mano, e quindi ogni tanto va a cadere, sporcando la superficie attorno al lavandino. 😭Però… in un certo senso, questo contrasto tra elementi di lusso e oggetti che vanno bene solo in un bagno pubblico ha una sua personalità… E quindi, comunque, tutto sommato, nice albergo da 3 stelle in provincia di Roma; non costato troppissimissimo, considerato che il totale con le due stanze è stato 800€ per 4 notti. Ci sarebbero ora foto da salvare riguardo il viaggio, ma, tra questo blog, il sito delle foto, Pixelfed, la BBS, ora anche Sharkey, oltre pure al semplice Pignio, non so manco dove mettere cosa, e allora zzz, circolare, non c’è null’altro da vedere qui… 🥴
#albergo #curiosità #hotel #recensione #stranezze #vacanza
China state media says Nvidia H20 GPUs are unsafe and outdated, urges Chinese companies to avoid them — says chip is ‘neither environmentally friendly, nor advanced, nor safe’
China state media says Nvidia H20 GPUs are unsafe and outdated, urges Chinese companies to avoid them — says chip is ‘neither environmentally friendly, nor advanced, nor safe’
State media wants Chinese companies to avoid Nvidia chips.Jowi Morales (Tom's Hardware)
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Huawei's brute force AI tactic seems to be working — CloudMatrix 384 claimed to outperform Nvidia processors running DeepSeek R1
It turns out that using four times the energy solves a lot of problems for Huawei.Sunny Grimm (Tom's Hardware)
BCC supports Israels blockade of international journalists into Gaza
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The only valid question is "Why isn't Israel letting in international journalists".
To even entertain this ridiculous narrative as if it's a credibly question is completely insane.
"Adolf Hitler says the Jews are all terrorists. What do you have to say about that?"
Disproven
[old scientist, pointing at some data]
After decades of research, thousands of experiments, a massive amount of peer reviewing, we can finally confidently conclude...
[smug dude with a ridiculous hairstyle]
Uh yeah, but this TikTok by PatriotEagle1776 says your research is wrong
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I feel like a large reason for the distrust is because Governments have given every incentive to the population to distrust Big Pharma.
For example the recent Pfizergate corruption scandal with EU head Ursula Von Der Leyen
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EU executive reviewed von der Leyen’s Pfizergate texts — then let them disappear
Document sheds new light on controversies over a multibillion deal to obtain Covid-19 vaccines.Mari Eccles (POLITICO)
EXPOSING The Billion Dollar SECRET VPN Companies Are Hiding
Just found this amazing girl Addie LaMarr who is super knowledgeable on cybersecurity. She said the forbidden 'i' word and got the video shadowbanned (obvious from the 1k comments, 7k likes but 84k views)
Her vids/shorts are a must-watch. Similar content to Laurie Wired
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Fight Chat Control: The EU (still) wants to scan your private messages and photos
Fight Chat Control - Protect Digital Privacy in the EU
Learn about the EU Chat Control proposal and contact your representatives to protect digital privacy and encryption.fightchatcontrol.eu
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Yeah, you have to be braindead trust a game developer with any kernel level software.
I think a more secure solution would be some kind of virtualized environment to run the game within, which the developer could have full control over, but I doubt that will ever come about.
A more secure solution would be to implement proper security server side, use simple (and cheap!) heuristics to weed out impossible movements and actions, not offload critical gameplay processing client side, and only send relevant data. Some, if not most of that, was how things were done before. No way to teleport wherever, no way to see people across the whole map, and so on. It would not be perfect, but no solution is. It, however, would be very easy to upgrade, and not be a privacy shit-show. But that requires a bit more work from the devs, so I guess the only solution is to give absolute total control over our devices to them.
I can't wait to see the moment we get cheap devices good enough to process in realtime video input and produce adequates outputs. Get that enclosed in a device that acts as a passthrough KVM for the display, but auto-correct user aim, movement, toggles, etc. As long as there's a market, I'm sure people will think about it.
Good luck detecting that with any kind of client-side anti-cheat.
Democratic Socialists of America pass resolution to fight for anti-Zionist DSA
Resolution Text:
DSA members – regardless of endorsement status – who are credibly shown to
1. have consistently and publicly opposed BDS and the Palestinian cause (e.g. by denouncing the BDS movement in public interviews; writing public op-eds denouncing the BDS movement; drafting and voting in favor of legislation that suppresses BDS, such as legislation that suppresses speech rights around the right to freely criticize Zionism/Israel and/or the right to boycott; making statements that “Israel has a right to defend itself”; making or endorsing statements or legislation equating anti-Zionism with antisemitism), even after receiving fair and ample opportunity for education about the Palestinian struggle for liberation,
2. be currently affiliated with the Israeli government or any Zionist lobby group(s) such as, but not limited to, AIPAC, J Street, or Democratic Majority for Israel (DMFI), or
3. have knowingly provided material aid to Israel (e.g., voted to provide Israel with material aid; gave direct financial donations of any kind to Israel and/or settler NGOs who carry out the mission of Israeli settlement and Palestinian dispossession/displacement, such as the Jewish National Fund, the Israel Land Fund, the Hebron Fund, and Regavim)
shall be considered in substantial disagreement with DSA’s principles and policies, thereby committing an expellable offense as outlined in Article 3, Section 4 of the DSA Constitution, which states that a member credibly shown to have engaged in any of the above shall “be expelled [by] a two-thirds (⅔) vote of all members of the National Political Committee.”
I can't find any articles about this online. The resolution to align with BDS was opposed :
Full list of resolutions here dsa-lsc.org/2025/08/06/lsc-off…
LSC - Official 2025 DSA Convention Recommendations
The Libertarian Socialist Caucus makes the following recommendations to delegates for the 2025 DSA National Convention.Caucus Statement (Democratic Socialists of America's Libertarian Socialist Caucus)
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Democratic Socialists of America pass resolution to fight for anti-Zionist DSA
Resolution Text:
DSA members – regardless of endorsement status – who are credibly shown to
1. have consistently and publicly opposed BDS and the Palestinian cause (e.g. by denouncing the BDS movement in public interviews; writing public op-eds denouncing the BDS movement; drafting and voting in favor of legislation that suppresses BDS, such as legislation that suppresses speech rights around the right to freely criticize Zionism/Israel and/or the right to boycott; making statements that “Israel has a right to defend itself”; making or endorsing statements or legislation equating anti-Zionism with antisemitism), even after receiving fair and ample opportunity for education about the Palestinian struggle for liberation,
2. be currently affiliated with the Israeli government or any Zionist lobby group(s) such as, but not limited to, AIPAC, J Street, or Democratic Majority for Israel (DMFI), or
3. have knowingly provided material aid to Israel (e.g., voted to provide Israel with material aid; gave direct financial donations of any kind to Israel and/or settler NGOs who carry out the mission of Israeli settlement and Palestinian dispossession/displacement, such as the Jewish National Fund, the Israel Land Fund, the Hebron Fund, and Regavim)
shall be considered in substantial disagreement with DSA’s principles and policies, thereby committing an expellable offense as outlined in Article 3, Section 4 of the DSA Constitution, which states that a member credibly shown to have engaged in any of the above shall “be expelled [by] a two-thirds (⅔) vote of all members of the National Political Committee.”
I can't find any articles about this online. The resolution to align with BDS was opposed :
Full list of resolutions here dsa-lsc.org/2025/08/06/lsc-off…
LSC - Official 2025 DSA Convention Recommendations
The Libertarian Socialist Caucus makes the following recommendations to delegates for the 2025 DSA National Convention.Caucus Statement (Democratic Socialists of America's Libertarian Socialist Caucus)
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in reply to reboot6675 • • •FauxLiving
in reply to reboot6675 • • •In a techno utopia, it would be nice to use something like this to have perfect memory. Assuming it was private, self-hosted and open source.
In reality, these are likely vendor locked hardware attached to cloud services awaiting their first massive security breach. A privacy nightmare that will just become more e-waste
belit_deg
in reply to FauxLiving • • •Would it?
A chatlog of what everyone has ever said to you? Every misspeak, miscommunication, he-said-she-said, emotional comment? What problem would it solve?
It might solve some problems, and introduce a shit ton of new ones. As technology always does.
FauxLiving
in reply to belit_deg • • •Given that a lot of people communicate via social media, that record already exists but we don't have access to it most of it.
I communicate with a lot of my friends via IMs and so there's a perfect history of our conversations in the chat logs. It is useful to be able to search to find a previous conversation. I'm not a masochist so I don't go back and dwell on arguments or things said in anger.
There are people with medical conditions that would benefit from having an augmented memory. People with early Alzheimer's, or Traumatic Brain Injury could recall previous conversations confidently.
People with high functioning autism could use the record to handle social confusion. Often they'll have difficulty in social situations without understanding what went wrong, so their memory of the encounter will be incomplete/unreliable. Having an objective record could let a trusted third party help them learn/understand what happened.
I could imagine people wouldn't mind leaving their memories to their children after they die. Or victims/witnesses of crime using their augmented memory to accurately identify the perpetrator.
Sure, I can easily think of downsides as well. But, it does seem likely that these kinds of devices that are always recording will become more common as prices for storage and hardware keep dropping.
belit_deg
in reply to FauxLiving • • •Seems we are talking about different things here. By "perfect" I assumed you meant "complete", as opposed to an IM-log, e-mail, letters or other async communications.
For people with medical conditions such as dementia, of course, this could solve real problems. I'm not saying we should pull the brakes in every case. My only point is that more data doesn't equal "better" in every case.
Forgetting things are an underappreciated part of being human. Of course accumulating knowledge with science etc is what drives humanity forward. But when living our day to day lives, forgetting stuff is not just a bug, it's a feature. It enables us to move on, letting go, and revisit memories more organically and qualitatively.
For example the rush of nostalgia that hits you when you randomly hear a song from your childhood. Compare this to prompting your local AI with "give me a perfect list of songs from my childhood".
For example it's interesting to listen to accounts from savants with near perfect memories who talk about the struggles of remembering everything.
FauxLiving
in reply to belit_deg • • •I'm not saying use technology to extend a person's biological memory. I'm saying use technology to keep a record of a person's life (obviously I know the privacy implications of doing this in actual practice in the year 2025, which is why I prefaced my comment with "In a techno utopia").
You, personally, will still forget things and be capable of nostalgia.
I think it's pretty uncontroversial to say that people like to have pictures. They collect pictures of vacations that they enjoyed, pictures of their children when they were X age, pictures of dead relatives and pictures of themselves with friends. Because people enjoy revisiting memories. When video cameras became more ubiquitous, people took videos of vacations they enjoyed, videos of their children's first steps, videos of themselves. There are entire markets for services which let you store and retrieve every picture that you've ever taken.
At the same time everyone has a story where they wish they had recorded some event. For example, a baby's first steps that a spouse missed because they were at work or some unexpected spectacular event. Or even mundane things like 'Where did I leave my phone?'. Having the ability to keep a record of memories, in video or in some hypothetical full-sensory recording, of every moment is something that people would be interested in.
Perhaps this is just a matter of taste, because I would absolutely do this.
Whats_your_reasoning
in reply to FauxLiving • • •As one of those people, I have to be clear: this is not how things would shake out. The vast majority of the time, the misunderstanding comes from tone, not from the words used. Providing a transcript showing that one’s words are inoffensive has done little to improve the situations where I’ve been able to provide them - NTs often double-down that their emotional interpretation of your tone still matters more than the specific words you chose.
Lfrith
in reply to FauxLiving • • •Even in a tech utopia something like this existing would make it not a utopia to me, since I don't see a similarity between regular voluntary posted texts and social media submissions and a persistent recording device.
Like the social situation automatically means people who come in contact with them are being recorded against their will. When it comes to IMs in your example people can choose to participate or not, but this tech is not the case.
Unless there is some Black Mirror type built in privacy block of people showing up as glitched out avatars if they haven't opted in.
FauxLiving
in reply to Lfrith • • •It looks like you've thought of an idea to solve the problem that you stated.
Lfrith
in reply to FauxLiving • • •In my tech utopia there wouldn't be Orwellian surveillance to begin with. Anyone entering with those type of devices would find it not working.
It would be a haven from the other districts where big brother is always watching and citizens are always watching each other.
ScoffingLizard
in reply to FauxLiving • • •FauxLiving
Unknown parent • • •I think of it like a memory. I can remember seeing people, they don't have to consent to my having a memory of them.
I think it is the same if the memory is stored on electronic storage. Though, I would not trust something so private to a cloud service. It would have to be a secure storage that only I physically control and have the ability to decrypt.
Black Mirror did an episode about this, if you haven't seen it. It's called "The Entire History of You". Obviously, since it is Black Mirror, they present a dystopian take.
FauxLiving
Unknown parent • • •Humans have been extending and improving on our biological capabilities using technology since before recorded history. Improving our memory seems like it will eventually happen also.
I do completely understand why this would be a nightmare in practice. Governments would claim that they had the right to search it and it could still be stolen or accessed by unauthorized bad people.
SparrowHawk
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in reply to reboot6675 • • •Sarbanes Oxley (SOX) Tought these fuckers nothing
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Corporations and c-staff lie cheat and steal, They come up with a legal ideas and tell people to act on them. The last thing they need is something storing information about what they're actually saying and is set around them. These spy pins and the VR boardroom note takers are just generating documentation to get these assholes hold off to prison, when we start caring about that start again
You don't keep those emails, you don't keep those records, you don't keep audio or video past a predetermined period of time someone discovery comes for you , You're not caught shredding evidence.
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