It means any dollar works the same as any other. That’s how I would put it.

Here’s a dictionary:

https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/fungible

So if Kagi takes a bunch of dollars in and makes a claim that THIS particular dollar funds the AI project, but THAT particular dollar does not fund it, that claim about the specificity of the individual dollars is on its face bullshit.

Don’t forget that money is fungible.

I don’t want to convince people that the good they do in the world is ineffectual. That is counter to my interests.

There is no poimt in waiting or hoping for a catalyst or even talking about it, since no one seems to know what this catalyst is, all it does is shift the initiative outward, makes people stall, makes people limp and faithless in their actions, wastes emotional energies, etc. I don’t see any positive effects.

Of course people need to organize. But how the fuck will anyone organize when even the prophets do not believe!

Inference is a thing.

Not government.

Only 3 (a minority) are unauthorized police installations. Police in the example in the article are going rogue likely with some tacit support.

What’s left?

Someone with time, money, utility trucks, experience in mounting cameras, someone with networking resources and experience to store and analyze data.

Who is that? This immediately excludes 99.99% of the population. We can infer, assuming the article is not fake news, it’s almost certainly a corporate entity or an estate of a very high net worth individual or family.

We can ask who has the motive and the capability not just to install many flagrantly illegal cameras but also to collect, analyze and use the information?

Mounting unaccountable cameras on public utility poles is an act of war. It’s not a foreign entity, because that would start a big stink if it were. That means almost cedtainly these are our local energy and labor extractors: corporates and/or billionaires (or otherwise very high net worth actors).

Insane.

People who lead by example while standing on business ten toes down and NOT self-deprecating?

Humility hurts more than helps in many situations, like here in this one. “I do all that but I humbly believe it’s pointless, it makes no difference.” That’s not the energy that gets things done or is appealing to watch or to join.

ASML is the sole manufacturer of EUV machines in the world. Everyone needs ASML, not the other way around. There is no replacement for ASML.

ASML basically decides what they want to do. Right now they align with the USA export restrictions, but that friendly relation is not guaranteed to remain. Only China is banned. ASML can still sell their machines at will otherwise.

If ASML breaks with the USA it will be fine, but the USA won’t be fine at all.

If we had a sane and functioning government there would be no billionaires, no Elon stealing elections, no Citizen’s United, no nationalized online gambling, etc. There would also be no wars that were not authorized by Congress. No concentration camps. No privacy violation. No spam in your virtual or physical mail box. No spam calls or texts, no ugly billboards or intrusive ads anywhere. There would be clean water, universal medicine, housing, UBI, etc. It would look nothing like the sad doomscape we have right now. I am just scratching the surface.

If ASML has many competitors, then yes.

Tech hygene is necessary in the short term as damage mitigation, but this situation cannot be normalized.

Regular audits have to be a necessary part of any such law.

The MVPs get to do what they do because there is enough buzz and energy going the same way in the trenches. You bet those MVPs are reading social media to check the temperature.

We are their environment.

$1mil fine sends a message “polluting is fine as long as you cut us, your friendly government, in on the graft.”

That may be fheir interest. I only care about my own interest in this case. I want all this billionaire leniency and apologetics to stop immediately.

Frankly the entire business community is begging to be disciplined. This is beyond just the billionaires. The entire business community is drinking some tainted water and is off the chain.

Did you forget about Luigy?

Not only was there no backlash, the public was publicly celebrating. Also, United Healthcare was approving every claim for 6 months. Obviously this is the language of the Epstein class. They speak it and they understand it.

No, the public is ready. There is no problem with the public in this aspect at least.

It’s like fining Epstein $100.

$500 million dollar fine.

All C level execs caned for 100 strokes publicly. Top investors guillotined in public.

That’s how you make this stop.

Or the scale of the fine can be expressed as a percentage of the assets and revenues, to make the fines genuinely dreadful.

Never mind right sizing the fines. I keep operating from the assumption that we are dealing with largely reasonable people who have a bad take and are correctable.

Make guillotines great again.

No new taxea, no fines, no jails, straight to the public square guillotine with this level of malfeasance.

I think there is enough here for a judge to order a search warrant. It doesn’t mean yet a crime has been committed, but there is enough to start some kind of compelled discovery process to find out what the fuck is going on.

Since it’s an important enough corporation that got caught, in a sane society it should not make a difference, but we low key have a two-tiered justice system from the looks of it.

I don’t know how a self-destruct code will work, but if you have password A get into profile A, while password B gets you into a plausibly looking and normal profile B while profile A and password A get deleted, then you can claim your phone was always and ever the way profile B shows it. It doesn’t look or feel “destroyed.” It’s just a normal profile with mundane messages, browsing history, contact list that makes sense, etc.

Good luck proving that anything fishy happened when the whole operation looks and feels like unlocking a normal phone.

You can even setup biometric login to be password B. So if someone gets into your phone with a fingerprint, which feels very normal, they see a normal boring and completely plausible profile.

There is absolutely a way to make phones secure if there is enough will.

That said, it’s a political problem that’s begging for a political rather than a tech solution.

A slave owner can be decent to his slavee, right?

And we can oppose slavery as an institution.

Same with the billionaires. An individual billionaire might not be a pedo fascist. Possible? Sure. I still hate all the billionaires. Even the decent ones. Because allowing a single individual or a single familiy to hoard that much wealth is toxic to the society.

Mildly informed speculatuon:

In-browser ad bkockers may use anti-anti-ad-blocker filtering rules.

I am pretty sure uBlockOrigin does this by default. But I can’t be sure about the rest at the moment, although my guess is, even the other ad blockers will likely allow at least optionally to set up a filter to remove anti-ad-blocking code from your private copy of a web page you’ve loaded from the net.

DNS filtering naturally will still load all the anti-ad-blocking code, because DNS filtering does not analyze the contents of your private copy of the web page in question.

I am of the opinion that you should NOT have to know all this before you can have a decent and safe experience on the net. It’s shame.