I think he’s been a little fooled by them, that or he’s playing their game and beating them over the head with it.

The crux of the issue is that what the platforms want to be, and the reason many people want to use them are misaligned.

A chronological feed makes no sense for a content delivery system, where the goal is to maximize the fit of the presented content to the interest of a user from a huge number of content creators. But it makes perfect sense if the goal is for a user to keep appraised of the lives of people they care about and be aware of events and situations with in that limited group. If someone spams or clogs up the feed with nonsense then people can tell them to nock it off, or mute them.

The problem is that every “social network” site inevitably jumps to try and become a “content delivery system” because it promises greater engagement from the existing user base, and thus growth. Users are trapped by inertia and network effects and forced to engage with a content delivery system they didn’t sign up for, assuming they don’t just leave because the utility of the platform as a social network is gone. By forcing companies to offer an option of a chronological feed, it gives them a choice on how they want to use the platform.

The difference is that previous admins have just abused it much more sparingly because they knew that it would undermine the regime’s legitimacy if those powers got to much attention.

“Investigation reveals that many people think using an automated system to commit cyber crime some how absolves them of responsibility.”

“Yah but the non deterministic system just did that all on it’s own… after i told it to do exactly that… and gave it a connection to the internet through which to do it.”

Repeated violations of his rights, no warrants, no formal arrest.

Fuck all the way off. Zero case.

No, it would not be possible, the etching process would destroy extant features on any silicon. There are multiple steps to it and some will destroy the work of the steps that come after, so putting a finished chip through would remove the existing features.

Generally fabrication is done on a circular 300mm wafer, printing a grid of identical chips on it that are then cut out. It would be highly inefficient to do each chip one at a time, doing one small chip or 50 chips at once on one wafer takes the same amount of time and effort.

And the bare silicon left after the first few steps isn’t really worth much. You can go buy a blank high end 300mm wafer for like 81 bucks online. The material value of the silicon is nothing compared to the value of the machine time.

maybe people should vote more strategically in primaries so half the party’s base don’t feel like they’re voting for the lesser of two evils in the general.

People still voting for republicans at this point will not hold their representatives to account over favoring billionaires, it’s a nothing burger as far as they’re concerned, not an issue for the realm of politics.

Democratic voters, as the poll shows, do care and can be convinced to hold their representatives to account, if the representatives ignore it, they are liable to get primaried.

Where is the effort and attention best placed? What is most likely to produce results?

Ezra Klein being on the list is so fucking funny. Like, you telling me the “abundance” guy associates with the “techno monarchy” guy? Shocked I tell you, that the guy who’s proposed ideological concept basically just boiled down to “what if we deregulated stuff further to make economy good?” Is deeply tied to tech oligarchs.