That’s what all the money in the Social Security Administration is for.

Normal cars do whatever is in their power to cease movement while facing upright. In a wreck, the safest state for a car is to cease moving.

The very annoying things right now:

• This was a family of Mennonites, as @IHeartBadCode@fedia.io said, their way of life is purposely dumbified - 15 years ago this would have been a sad story about a child that died because of a cult with backwards thinking.
• Media is broadcasting it like “omg look how America is going backwards” - which yes, we are, but the full story is helpful - they’re just dramatizing this one poor kid’s death for the clicks. (Example of a way for media to be more truthful: “6 year old Mennonite child in cult dies of Measles due to their ridiculous belief system.”)
• Anti-vaccine groups should be given no credibility. Crazy is supposed to live on the fringe so they know they’re crazy and nobody will listen to them, not make Comcast News.
• The US government is hiding how bad the measles outbreak is, some alt accounts on bsky suggest the cases are in the 2000s a few days ago, probably higher now.
• Brain worm in charge of HHS which won’t help anything.
• It happened in Texas, which given the current climate, media stirring the pot will just drive more opposition between people in the US when we need unity against Tyranny.
• Articles like this are just for the clicks.

an increasingly vaccine-hesitant country

Come on, Comcrap. Loud doesn’t mean popular.

Trash “news” service.

You should see how often US software companies outsource their dev to other countries rather than having to pay US salaries.

Now’s the time to get things from anywhere else while you still can, although some things can be a bit tricky.

Very true, as far as he is concerned, he is forever.

Don’t give the guy too much credit, a bunch of Heritage Foundation bootlicking traitors and one stupid muskrat are driving things here. Mango Mussolini is just a senile old pervert following their instructions.

Fascism in the 1920s and 30s became popular until America entered WWII late after Japan bombed Pearl Harbor. After we “won” the war for everyone, it was condemned and went away, but not entirely. It has been a slow long-game rebuild to bring it back into fashion in the US.

Weird to think about, the US could have very well gone full Fascism and joined the Axis powers, had Japan not bombed Hawaii.

Worst part, it is coming back under the guidance of boomers (and one Fascist Gen-X South African illegal immigrant muskrat), humans that literally got to experience the best human existence ever seen on planet Earth (post WWII), but apparently that wasn’t enough for them, they had to make sure nobody else was ever able to experience it.

Insurance isn’t some magic thing that removes all risk from a situation. Go out to reputable sources to find some very long dry reading on how insurance works. It is basically a form of gambling on the part of the insurance company. The house doesn’t like to lose.

In the context of dealerships:

• Insurance won’t pay out the full value of the vehicle. It will be a depreciated cost. This means less money will be recovered than would have been made if it had been sold. This payout will also depreciate further depending on the age of the vehicle/how long it has been on the lot.
• Insurance payout on building repairs will also not likely completely cover the expense.
• Insurance will raise premiums or cancel insurance contracts if the occurrence is too frequent. Once insurance becomes unattainable, the losses explode.
• Not having insurance on the property can affect any mortgages or loans, including leading to foreclosure of the property. The banks want to make sure they get their value out of the property.

In the context of owners:

• Insurance rates are already higher due to problems with the vehicles (30% last year), and there are already plenty of articles about how they’ll be going up more due to the ongoing vandalism.
• The cars in some of the cases that were destroyed were at a repair shop, so those are cars already owned by people. The sale was already completed. (Which does bring question to targeting, but a symbol is a symbol at the end of the day, and it isn’t the same as killing humans.)

Two Teslas for every job lost, and a chicken in every pot.

My student loans should be paid off around when I retire, according to their amortization chart.

Next up: Mango Mussolini says Tesla is too big to fail and government-finances it.

And Saudi and Qatar princes.

Yeah, the Internet really went paranoid with it, which doesn’t help that it is still evil, but in a different way. Also, never feel safe by something called “local-only” as it can process on device and still fire a yes/no bit to the cloud. At its core, SafetyCore is pretty innocuous. It’s a tiny ML model interface that other applications can query to search for targeted images. Its primary purpose is to look for things like CSAM and NSFW images, apps can query the interface to check if an image is naughty and send back basically a boolean yes/no. One of their selling points is “no more dick pics in your SMS!” There’s also an ML library in the camera software that, for years, has known about looking at all sorts of things and identifying what they are, cat, dog, brown person, truck, sign.

Google can push software onto Android phones whenever they want, this is widely know, and SafetyCore was actually pushed in that fashion. Apple can too, to be fair. On some level, there’s pretty much no reason to have any trust of your mobile device anymore when the vendor can change it whenever they want without consent, but I digress.

Now, tying it all together: the phone contains a “safety” ML model (SafetyCore) that can detect types of image and relay a yes/no, and a camera ML model that knows what most of our known universe looks like for the purpose of running the camera. The latter is likely not even needed, given the former was pushed without consent and could be updated by the same consentless mechanism.

The tl;dr boils down to: Google can push a query to phones to respond if they have a type of image. That type of image could be heavily illegal or terrible activity. It could also be anything the government in control wants to find. Picture of Tiananmen Square, sure. Protest signs, sure. How many phones have recent pictures of certain skin-colored people in a given square mile? Sure.

Unfortunately not direct evidence in this closed-source future, only extrapolation potential based on available evidence and how software works, and how companies like money.

There are some things our machines should just not do. The biggest weakness in this part of history. 25 years ago, tech evolution was limited by what computers could do. Tech evolution doesn’t have that safety baked in anymore, your phone could run for weeks “turned off” recording everything you say and transpose it to a text file in the bootloader or a secondary controller chip and you’d never know. Your phone’s battery life could be limited because every camera and microphone periodically fires to store data for later upload. The dead-reckoning sensors in the health tracking portion (the M-series coprocessors in iPhones, for example) could track your movement in a cave for miles (airplanes used to use this same tech for navigation across the planet.) Your camera’s wide-angle lens could identify everyone at your dinner table when you set it face down on the table because cell service is never good enough to leave a phone in your pocket anymore but you don’t want to disturb the meal with your entire screen turning on every 5 seconds.

We now have to consciously choose what our machines do because they can do anything they want, but we haven’t chosen. The blind trust has run on for too long.

Secondary tl;dr: the software is there, just assume evil intent possibility. Google, in specific, chose this time to push an image identification application to phones without consent in a time where the planet’s freedom is collectively dying. Hopefully it’s just a marketing faux pas…

You have to enable viewing system apps. I also noticed an older phone running Android 10-era Android didn’t receive it.

including Comcast, Anheuser-Busch, Diageo, and La Crema, which is owned by Jackson Family Wines.

Media has to just name names going forward, all of them. This planet needs to know what evil to avoid. Good this article did, although I wonder who they might have omitted.

Among other terrible things, this is exactly why Google shoving Android “SafetyCore” onto all Android phones is absolutely evil. Illegal phone searches become a casual click on a cloud interface to target millions with whatever they want to find.

Not really surprising given how all the social information delivery services are designed for a constant wall of short dopamine hits, and the platforms used to access the information are designed so no actual skill is needed to be able to access the information delivery services.

You give a rat a button that’s tied into their brain’s pleasure center, the rat will push the button until they die.

All computer-tech needs to be made more open. Not just from an observational standpoint, but the act of making disparate systems work together requires learning and knowledge beyond push button, receive good feels. Megacorp one-stop-shop software/hardware platforms need to be broken up. Both from a walled garden echo chamber perspective, and from a user-use perspective. When a company controls the entire experience, it is too easy to ensure their user is always engaging with their products and spending money/time. Making that company’s life harder, makes the technology better for humanity.

Algorithms optimized for dopamine hits must be banned. As soon as our machines became revenue generators tuned for consumption, it was game over. Older systems, one used to have to learn at least basic things to accomplish a goal, which promoted the act of learning in general.

Basic hardware/software interaction and learning were useful side-effects of personal compute from the 1970s-early aughts. One was forced to occasionally open or fix hardware, one was forced to understand how the software worked. One ended up with basic understanding and approachability of the machines one used. Devices today are just expensive consumption toys with zero knowledge needed to consume. When they malfunction, the user has no reason or encouragement to attempt to fix them, as they can’t see why the device ceased to work.

Big Tech has run amok too long. Governments are barely regulating them. We humans just gotta start saying no.

It’s a weird thing in apps when you accept permissions. The app is allowed to ostensibly tether over the Bluetooth link enabled in the app.

Isn’t it just hilarious how somehow, being rich just gets one a free pass to also “be smart”?