Anakin:

That’s the thing: You can’t unless you are already well-informed beforehand.

Yes, it is possible to spot common rhetorical deceptions such as whataboutisms or straw man arguments, but misinformation in general is impossible to debunk in real time unless it defies common sense such as “Immigrants are eating the pets of locals”.

A popular talking point here in Germany when the government was trying to push for installing heat pumps instead of gas or oil based heating solutions was, that installing a heat pump would entail massive renovation costs to make its use viable. This information is semi true because installing a pump in older buildings might indeed require renovations. But exposing this argument as a broad overgeneralization takes so much time and effort that it is impossible to do on the spot, unless you have prepared multiple examples of home configurations and the associated costs of installing a heat pump.

The whole idea behind Steve Bannon’s famous tactic of “flooding the zone” is to flood the discussion with so much misinformation it would take a disproportionately amount of time to debunk it all.

TBH I don’t bother with watching discussions anymore because of this.

Bluesky, the decentralized social network […]

Were only one instance exist or did I miss something?

OK, I am going to try arguiung that privacy supersedes food:

To have a right to anything means there is something that I own. Owning something puts a division between me and others who can not own this specific thing: My right is my own, I do not have to diminish it by sharing. The most fundamental form of division is absence. Having a right to privacy is a right to the absence from others. Therefore the right to privacy is a more fundamental one than the right to food.

However, I agree that in practice eating in public beats dying in private any time of the day. 🤷

There are dozens of us! Dozens!

Bro, you can!

Except, no employer will allow you to use your own AI model. Just like you can’t bring your own work equipment (which in many regards even is a good thing) companies will force you to use their specific type of AI for your work.

Uhm, I guess you missed the news when it was revealed that Deepseek had a little more backing than they claimed.

IIRC that’s Cloudflares random number generator.

1. It can be viewed as part of your privacy to not be subject to defamation.
2. If it reaches the threshold of defamation it is punishable. Whether its enforcement is feasible is another matter.

It is somewhat bewildering to realize that we have come all this way in technology but somewhere something is always turning water into steam to drive a piston of some sort.

Nope, all they collect is date of registration and last time the client connected to the server. Has been proven in court.

Even better you can also do a GDPR to change your email. The GDPR doesn’t just cover your right to deletion but also the right to correct wrong information.

Arakis, Dune, Desert Planet.

Sadly, this sort of stuff is going to be needed more and more around the globe.

0 F is defined as the lowest temperature a guy was able to reach with some random mixture which is arbitrary.

But 0 C is commonly defined as the point at which water turns from solid to liquid and the other way round. Scientifically it’s ever so slightly off but still it’s defined via Kelvin.

Obligatory link to IPoAC

Doesn’t have to be Gitmo. I recommend reading Little Brother and according to one hacker, so does the NSA.

Not that I am arguing for simply rolling over but:

Come screw with my first constitutional rite, and my iron clad citizenship.

When push comes to shove, they won’t give a flying fuck about a piece of paper that says they can’t do that. Just ask anyone who’s been to Gitmo on either side of the bars.

On second thought… yeah.

We happily take the blame for WW2, but WW1 is on Austria!