How do you account for slaves that don’t do manual labor? How do you account for slaves in gilded cages? It’s not how we usually see it, but a scholar could be a slave.

And profits were maximized with better working conditions and / or the lie you were not being exploited and could reap the fruits of your labor.

Isn’t the idea of owning humans just a fad in the history of civilization? Pure subjugation by force died down and we started experimenting with different forms of exploitation and some justification.

Is it, really? Am I expected to research became someone else wants to change my behavior and don’t have the time to share the research they supposedly have done? We believe in a lot of things based on trust in the system. When you challenge someone’s position, you should at the same time challenge yours.

You might want to add they are in the US in the description.

How long have you tried Linux / Ubuntu before you left it? Have you tried other distros? Your issue is real, but the solution might be something more radical than a small fix. Maybe it’s too late this time, but try some options next time you decide to explore Linux.

I always thought of steam as neutral evil for being a corporation, but that was just plain wrong of me. Compare them to Digital Extreme and the fact they accidentally created a lucrative loot box and prompt remove from the game. They actually called the mechanic a slot machine instead of surprise mechanic.

From a documentary: https://youtu.be/NA5vT1LooXk?t=1360

That’s my general go to too.

It’s weird that they describe complex situations and then call it simple. I can also say I can create light with the press of a button and pretend it’s not just a trigger that depends on prepared terrain.

Please, people, don’t discuss the new polygraph as if it were more real than the old one. They are both tools, but, also, they are first both lies. It’s just a guess, but I believe there’s probably someone at every stage of the implementation saying it doesn’t quite work like that or that it doesn’t work at all. But who cares? The product they are selling is justifiable exploitation.

Can you explain what you mean by personal responsibility?

The way I see it, on one side, the law is the law. I can list every valuable thing in my house and put it on a sign in front of my house that also says I don’t lock the doors. Or put a sign saying I’ll skin them alive if anyone tries to steal from me. Neither sign will change the law and make me more or less culpable.

On the other side, we are discussing morality more than law here. In Brazil, having sex with someone at 15 is not illegal. Do you think it’s OK? Do you feel the need to defend the act? Just have your opinion and stand your ground, whatever it is.

I’m pretty sure someone asked that question when they tried to prevent robotaxis on the streets, but someone else got paid to skip the bureaucracy. Now they will collect extra money from the companies for not being road ready.

If they are treating tech flaws as a crime, all the violations come from the exact same driver. Take the license away.

If it wasn’t free, it was pirated. I remember asking a teacher for a copy of clipper to practice at home and he reacting strangely and saying we would have to ask the director. I don’t remember the details, but I got my copy and learned piracy was okay.

I don’t think that’s a good parallel. Some people genuinely want to help and don’t know how, so a spreadsheet is perfect for that situation. Other people feel an obligation to help, so seeing other people jump in will make them act as well.

Before reading the rest of the article, I thought that it’s okay being the friend that most always initiates conversation, but not the one that absolutely always does that. If (all) your friends that frequently hear from you don’t stop to wonder what happened after weeks of silence, that’s not an asymmetry issue, that’s people not caring.

The thought that we need to get our friend’s attention the same way creators do popped into my head and I hope it’s just something silly I can’t shake off. There’s another thought, though. Being that kind of friend doesn’t allow you to have any depressive episodes or risk falling down more than you should with a supposedly support system around you.

This is the first time I had to consider that condoms made of natural rubber is not the norm everywhere.

There’ll be people that see this as a good thing and not exploitative at all. We are absolutely too used to the people above taking two kidneys and forcing us to pay for the life support they provide that them asking kindly for just one kidney feels OK.

The human brain is not capable of formal logic at this stage.

Kay said she was also concerned about the presence of adverts on some newer, discounted Kindle devices, and how these might alter the reading experience.

Some people still insist you have options and that the market change because of organic choice. You don’t and it doesn’t. Companies are subtle and gently guide you to where they want when it works. When it doesn’t, they push you while thanking you for your support.

To offer some perspective. The Linux kernel will now stop supporting a CPU from 1989.

The distinctions between automation-assisted text production and writing may not matter to you. If so, fair enough, but I also wonder what you’re doing here. Go wallow in the infinite universe of slop. If you don’t want an infinite universe of slop, maybe these distinctions matter more than you think.

Language is math and semantics at the most basic level. And a lot of patterns we manipulate in different ways. Experienced writers probably approach their work more systematically than beginners, which is math, logic, structure. Writing is not magical, even if the process is subconscious.

I believe that AI writing will always be limited and eventually bland without human feeding it creativity. That said, the discussion I find more important is not who deserves an ephemeral title, but the nature of the final product itself. We already have varying degrees of non-food, now we have a new kind of non-text.

And non-texts have been present since writers were paid by the word and inflated their works so they wouldn’t starve. They are there to satisfy SEO and our attention spam. We play the language game and adapt to new rules all the time, begrudgingly if we get aesthetically displeased.

People say AI writing is terrible, but people love horrible things all the time. It’ll probably not be good for them and make it hard to appreciate something different and totally human created with time, but that has also been happening before more automated tools. It’s not a tech problem.

I believe what you want is the part called “autenticidade”, which is a test to check that the votes inputted are the ones registered.

https://www.tre-sp.jus.br/comunicacao/noticias/2025/Outubro/eleicoes-2026-voto-eletronico-e-auditavel-conheca-recursos-de-seguranca-da-urna

It’s the official government site from Brazil in Portuguese.

I guess judges in Brazil really are that bad as a class to feel so surprised someone is claiming them to be just another regular worker, in the USA.