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  • Belgium forms far-right party TRUMP named after Donald Trump

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  • Every time I want to quote the Smiths' That Joke Isn't Funny Anymore, I remember Morrissey is a fascist supporter now.

  • Real talk.

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  • You're being flippant and know better, but I think it's important to state the obvious and add some nuance. Not to defend the Belgians, but to emphasize the central role capitalism played in the death of up to 15 million people, and how corporate-colonialism never really ended.

    Arguably, the worst atrocities in Congo occured when it was the private property of king Leopold, who granted vast concessions to private companies with international investors. For example: the Anglo-Belgian India Rubber Company. They declared bankrupcy in Belgium, and refounded themselves as Abir Company in the Congo Free State, so they could avoid paying tax and avoid Belgian regulation. A corporation moving production/extraction/exploitation abroad, relocating their headquarters to a third country, so they can avoid tax and regulation....

    The DRC officially became independent of Belgium in 1960, but colonial corporate rule and influence never truly ended. King Leopold founded Compagnie du Katanga, Compagnie du Katanga became Union Minière du Haut-Katanga, Union Minière du Haut-Katanga became Umicore. Umicore is very active in Congo to this day. A few years ago Elon Musk signed a deal with them to help supply Congolese cobalt for Tesla cars.

    The soon to be trillionaire fascist son of a man who owned an emerald mine in a former British colony, runs a company that produces cars that include cobalt mined by a company that helped kill 15 million people in the Congo Free State.

    People prefer to look the other way, then act surprised when the chickens come home to roost.

  • 'The Owl House’ creator Dana Terrace situation with Disney+ positive views on AI generated content

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  • Is Owl House mainly a kids show? It seems like it.

    Same question for Knights of Guinevere? Kids, YA, a bit of both but also interesting for adults?

  • Amazon Fire TV will now block apps used for piracy, even if you sideloaded them

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  • Or buy a second hand pc for not much more than 50 euros/dollars. Install linux and it'll be more than fast enough for torrenting, playing media and a bit of surfing. Companies are off loading anything that can't run windows 11 right now.

    Also means you're not torrenting stuff on your main system while gaming.

  • communalism

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  • FBI subpoenas the web registrar behind Archive.is

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  • America would sooner arrest someone for bypassing the firewall on an article about a prolific child rapist, than arrest an actual child rapist.

  • I got infected like an idiot

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  • Alternative if you want to be hardcore: air gap the system you run questionable software on.

    If you're bored, you can even try to infect it with as much shit as possible.

    Doesn't work as a test system though. Stuff lies dormant waiting for network access.

  • Piracy: ꜱᴀɪʟ ᴛʜᴇ ʜɪɢʜ ꜱᴇᴀꜱ @lemmy.dbzer0.com
    Hyperrealism @lemmy.dbzer0.com

    Is it possible to bind Soulseek(or equivalent) to VPN?

  • More than a million people every week show suicidal intent when chatting with ChatGPT, OpenAI estimates

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  • I think another potential use, is targeting and manipulating vulnerable people for political reasons.

    Perhaps convince them to stay at home on election day. Perhaps convince members of undesirable demographics to disproportionately kill themselves. Perhaps make vulnerable people so paranoid or scared that they end up killing people you want to get rid of. Perhaps convince someone vulnerable to commit politically convenient violence, which can be used as a false flag or to rally support.

    Why leave that kind of thing to chance, when you can use AI to tip the scales in your favour?