Connections Puzzle #1110

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Comments: one connection really stretches it…

Concentration camps != Extermination camps. The nazis had both. They also did forced sterilization in those camps. But the latter camps also had gas chambers.

The US interned American Natives / American Indians and Japanese people in concentration camps. At least for the former group, they also carried out forced sterilization, settled and exploited their land, and stole their children away for “re-education”. They did not build gas chambers or any other means of industrial slaughter, but few people would deny that the US committed genocide against the Native population of that continent.

It’s well documented that contraception, sterilization, and possibly abortion, are forced upon the Uyghur people in Xinjiang. Uyghur people but not Han Chinese are being interned in concentration camps in, at the time, the “largest mass incarceration of an ethnic-religious minority since second world war” (Guardian, 2019). Uyghur children are being transfered to boarding schools against the will of their parents and guardians, or because those have been interned for having too many children in the first place. Multiple Chinese government officials have repeatedly affirmed the goal of reducing Uyghur fertility. At a minimum, this constitutes 3 out of the 5 possible criteria for a genocide, each of which alone is sufficient to make that accusation. We have not yet seen mass killing of Uyghurs, but that doesn’t mean there’s no genocide. As has been said in this discussion: “We know what genocide looks like.” Exactly: It commonly looks quite like this.

Sources:

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genocide?wprov=sfla1
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Persecution_of_Uyghurs_in_China?wprov=sfla1
• https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/nov/24/china-cables-leak-no-escapes-reality-china-uighur-prison-camp
• https://apnews.com/article/269b3de1af34e17c1941a514f78d764C
• https://www.vox.com/future-perfect/22311356/china-uyghur-birthrate-sterilization-genocide
• https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-china-53220713
• https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-55973215
• https://www.studentsofhistory.com/internment-of-japanese-americans
• https://www.popsci.com/story/health/forced-sterilization-american-history/

Adding my personal notes on search engines here for anyone’s interest. I personally use Qwant on Desktop and DuckDuckGo on mobile. I like Qwant because they are at least working on their own index and are EU-based. On the other hand, DuckDuckGo is faster and has a more comprehensive privacy policy. I’m really trying to use Mojeek on mobile but the search results are much worse than DuckDuckGo and Qwant in my repeated experience.

Useful background:

• https://stateofsurveillance.org/articles/technical/blur-pixelation-censorship-false-security/
• https://undercodetesting.com/the-vulnerability-of-pixelation-as-a-privacy-measure/

I believe they are just running some sort of network detection. I also got this message yesterday, but when I switched servers in my VPN it went away. Sad to see reddit go down this path. But that’s why I’m here.

Broken link

Spoilsport :P

Erm… OP, you know that blurring is not destructive, right?

Could one integrate this with apps like NextTube or PipePipe? I.e., When I search for a video on those apps, they search the torrent index first, then search Frama Tube / PeerTube second, then search YouTube-proper last. While I’m streaming a video from any of these sources, I am then also downloading and seeding it to the torrent network and I keep seeding the last videos I watched on a rolling basis until an allocated memory space on my disk is full and the oldest or least requested video in that local buffer is deleted to make space for new; while I’m on Wifi to save mobile data? I think providing such seamless integration is the best way to get this space densely populated enough to be useful.

I have not. To be perfectly honest, I don’t really understand how that would even work. Can you elaborate? At home, I run a local model with a Kobold CCP backbone to localhost. The physical network is a private Wifi, though the computer is running VPN and I haven’t given much thought about what that means for the AI via localhost. At work, I can thankfully use a responsibly managed AI (company servers, very strong and externally audited data privacy standard with zero on-server data retention) for coding.

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First ever perfect connections 🙌 normally I find this very difficult.

billionaire tax backed by California governor and presumptive Democratic presidential aspirant Gavin Newsom

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Newsom, the California Democratic Party, and […] - are publicly opposing the tax.

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Newsom said that the proposed tax “makes no sense” and would be “really damaging to the state.”

Huh? Wording?

Can you explain in a little more detail how enforcing online ID prevents WW3? Genuinely curious. The only thing I think of that national online ID might help with is counter intelligence, especially in defense against psyops. However, in the few cases that we do know about psyops toppling elections, e.g., Brexit, these were performed on behalf of or with the aid of party and government officials in the affected countries. If any, this would become easier, because widespread online ID silents dissenting voices, while well-financed entities can navigate and / or circumvent such regulation (also see, for example, the effect of GDPR on the market structure of attention merchants in Europe).

Introducing Athenian democracy: Place your name on a paper slip. Place that slip in a big bag. If your name gets pulled, congrats: You are now a politician for an allotted time. Also works with marble slips for extra flair.

Thank you for the context. Highly appreciated! I had gathered the gradual decline in funding and surveillance from this publication but they didn’t really talk about the damages done by COVID or DOGE.

That’s a completely fair opinion, even though I would argue that Google pagerank is a genuinely revolutionary piece of code that has, taken on its own, made the internet a better place.

Can someone explain this part?

That means you still have access to essentials like WhatsApp, Google Maps, Spotify, Signal, and iMessage via a third-party solution that needs temporary access to a Mac.

Does that mean you can only use this phone as intended if you own a Mac because you somehow have to set up the apps outside the phone and that only works on Mac (not on Linux, Windows)? That sounds… Like a narrow market. What’s the target audience? California parents?

No, seriously. I think many would agree that the internet user experience peaked some time after Google entered the scene (yes, officer, right down this sub) but before YouTube left every serious competitor behind. There was a lot of “small web” content with no clear commercial intent (not blasting you with two affiliate links and one video ad per paragraph). Many of the big platforms were controlled by the techies who set them up and not yet by the venture capital who would eventually buy them out. Yet, venture capital already kept these firms afloat, so a lot of genuinely good services were genuinely free for the user and not paywalled or privacy-paywalled (just give us your email address and IP, bro, trust us bro, just one more captcha, bro, maybe one more 2FA using your phone number, bro, really, we might even let you visit our site then). Of course, someone had to pay up eventually: Enshittification ensued.

A second aspect: For the past decade at least, democratic-presenting governments have used all our web data fed into clandestine technology to win elections, either to stay in power or get into power and pull up the ladder behind them. I guess it’s like that old saying: A small time criminal robs a bank, a big time criminal owns a bank. Sure, we had all sorts of amateur criminals on the web in the predotcom and dotcom era and that might’ve cooled down a bit since. But now all the big players are adversarial, instead.

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True that. Even though that is also made more difficult by that same social environment often being fully googled and thus always busy with some slop.

TLDR: Both OpenAI & Anthropic about to go public and expected to exceed a 1 trillion USD valuation. Anthropic expected to pull ahead because of more sustainable business user base, while OpenAI mostly caters to free tier personal users. OpenAI more open to military use of its technology than Anthropic, the latter clinching with Pentagon over surveillance and autonomous weapons use.

Please don’t just post links without at least a short summary that let’s me gage whether that article is interesting for me.