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I have a Microsoft app only because it is the only one I can get to work for the purpose I use it for, and it puts ads into it that get by my you block origin somehow, but they are like naked chicks and soft porn pictures. Microsoft is advertising with soft porn to me at this very day.

High times had some good articles back then.

The last part is always bad, even if theoretically it may not be. When you have a hundred to a thousand terms and conditions being pushed on you for a near immediate signature, that’s because they can add that one part being illegal doesn’t make the rest unenforceable, and now instead of a single page of terms we have a hundred.

There is a reason the Courts made that rule of disqualifying the entire contract of such contracts if one part was illegal, and they have rules and tests for when that applies too in such cases to prevent any legitimate mistakes from cancelling an entire contract.

Most of such terms were unenforceable in the US too, until around 2001 or so, and it just got worse from there. The supreme court made it official in the 10’s sometime if I recall, endorsing even making consumers or employees sign away their rights to sue to either buy something or get hired.

All that wage theft from minimum wage workers, which exploded in the bush years, happened with employees unable to sue, instead only being able to bring a binding arbitration suit of the employer’s choosing. And knowing them they would make the claimant pay a big filing fee to start the process.

It also used to be that if one part of such a contract was found to be illegal, the entire thing would be thrown out, not any more.

The problem is companies like docusign you might not have a choice not to use it, for a job for instance. This is pernicious, and will force us to hand over even more of our information, accepting a thousand page terms of service to do necessary tasks, with no government protection (none enforced even when there,) to any significant degree.

Moreso. It can always get worse, and indeed everything is.

AI is bullshit, not that different, it’s the most hyped bullshit since idk. We are being played on this, amongst a great many other things.

Tech is a freedom ending thing don’'t get me wrong, if we don’t organize.

Without reading the article, algorithms have been used in sentencing for some time, well over ten years, to detrimental effect.

Data centers have paid off the government to do a bunch of nuclear mini reactors, the administration naturally cannibalized the Nuclear regulatory commission already, Some are opening old ones, like the infamamous three mile island that melted down, but others are doing the mini thing.

I was looking for the guardian article I just read like a week ago and the enshitified search engines aren’t producing it, they aren’t even trying to find what we ask. These guys are trustworthy though, and will explain the process at least.

https://www.foodandwaterwatch.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/06/2506_FSW_GoingNuclear.pdf

Oh thank god, for a second I thought citizen lab joined the bad guys and was promoting this.

Iran will not be overthrown because they are being attacked by the universally hated enemy of all aerobic life on earth, the US and Israel, and are rallying around the flag.

These clowns can’t operate this shit safely. They will mini melt down and scapegoat others then do it again.

The regulators have been relegated to bootlicking. There is no one making them do it safely, only their own judgement (shudders.)

We are truly fucked though, and this nuclear bs is part of it.

And their workers outfitted with kill switches. Probably their stupid phones first, later collars that can deliver paid or death remotely. Dark shit.

There is nothing enlightened about this descent into the abyss.

Neo Liberals are still in control of the, controlled opposition, the Democratic Party.

Awww, is the New York Times pretending to be a real news outlet? Isn’t that darling. Wait, stop humping Israel’s leg. Wait no, gross dude. Go to hell.