NewCharlesInCharge
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NewCharlesInCharge
11mo ago
In China the state can punish you for failing to take adequate care of your elderly parents.
NewCharlesInCharge
11mo ago
For me personally I imbibed the “pregnancy will ruin your life” message as a teen and wasn’t receptive to any counter programming for decades.
If your parents aren’t planting the seeds to make you desire a family, then the messaging you pick up elsewhere will dominate, and it’s almost all of the “pregnancy is a disaster” variety.
NewCharlesInCharge
11mo ago
All the big social media companies almost certainly employ spies that are exfiltrating data.
If I were running Chinese intelligence I'd think it smart to Br'er Rabbit the Americans about banning Tik Tok. If they actually do it then maybe they'll rest on their laurels a bit thinking they've actually accomplished something. It also provides a blow to their supposed principled stance on free speech, and the debate itself is a good distraction from my lesser known methods of collecting data.
NewCharlesInCharge
11mo ago
Machiavelli would tell you that you'll need to eliminate all the male children as well or else they'll grow up and seek vengeance.
NewCharlesInCharge
11mo ago
I mean, nobody would expect a chancellor Hoecke to try to restore the borders of the Reich in 1914, but then few people suspected that Putin would be willing to start a war of annexation in Europe to restore Russia to the Tsarist glory days.
I don’t think Putin would agree with this characterization.
He’s spoken of the historical relationship between Russia and Ukraine and used this as partial justification: these borders were made up by the Soviets and didn’t matter at the time since Ukraine wasn’t independent in any real sense.
As far as I know he’s never said that he’s seeking to restore the borders of the Empire or of the USSR. Most charitably, people seem to infer this based on his starting a war and speaking of history. Less charitably it’s a deliberate distortion to make the bad man appear even more bad.
NewCharlesInCharge
11mo ago
The mics were muted last time and the pundit consensus is that this was in Trump’s favor.
NewCharlesInCharge
11mo ago
That all your traffic is to a single endpoint is a pretty big clue that you’re routing it through a VPN. For popular services the IPs are also necessarily public since the clients need that information in order to establish the connection. So, identify all the single endpoint clients, then compare against a list of known VPN IPs, and you’ve caught a lot of violaters.
Though if you’re using something like AWS to provide your VPN service I suppose it would be trivial to add a feature that allocates a new IP just for you, just for the length of your session. Heck, you could have it switched it out every few minutes to confuse the government’s tracking effort. Or establish a dozen VPN tunnels and round robin packets through them.
NewCharlesInCharge
11mo ago
Collier’s review came up in my YouTube feed a few days ago, and I’d never heard of her before. I ended up watching the whole four hours that same evening. If you’re like me, a Star Trek fan disillusioned by all the recent series, it’s a good watch.
This one has some things you won’t have seen before from channels like RLM. For example, she drops quotes from Patrick Stewart’s autobiography that give an insight into what went on in the creative process. Also some details on his personal life that make me deplore him even more than I already did.
While I’m done with Star Trek I still find Star Trek criticism fun and compelling. It’s cathartic and a verification that I’m not crazy.
NewCharlesInCharge
11mo ago
I held off from watching season three for about a year, watched the first episode, then didn’t bother with the next. They had Beverly Crusher do a murder and then setup a mystery box, and I lost all interest.
Though after watching Collier’s review I learned the mystery boxes all get resolved immediately in the next episode.
NewCharlesInCharge
11mo ago
He’s Polish and openly believes in ghosts. He’ll be back in the pews and reciting the creed soon, if he’s not already.
RLM’s media criticism is pretty traditional as it is. For a movie to work, it needs a certain narrative structure, should have setups and payoffs, etc. One of their compliments they give is “it’s a movie” where so much of what they review lacks the necessary elements to even be called a movie.
Underneath it all they’re really talking about truth, beauty, and goodness.
NewCharlesInCharge
11mo ago
That's worse than China's VPN policy. There's no carrier requirement to block VPN apps, and the fine is far lower, apparently starting at 100 yuan, roughly $15. Also I've never heard of anyone actually getting penalized, all the enforcement appears to be focused on mucking about with the packets.
NewCharlesInCharge
11mo ago
Oh I'm guessing Upper Queen Anne and Madison Park, fancy neighborhoods in Seattle proper, probably still do sport such signs. I haven't been to those neighborhoods in years, though.
The suburbs are more sane the city. We actually fund our police departments and encourage them to do their job. But the criminals they catch get handed off to a county-wide prosecutor who has a bias against prosecuting.
NewCharlesInCharge
11mo ago
In my upscale Seattle suburb neighborhood the In This House and Black Lives Matter signs are gone. Before it was about every other block where you’d see one.
No one is sporting any presidential election signs.
There’s one guy that occasionally flies a Let’s Go Brandon flag, but he’s done that since I moved here three years ago.
There are a bunch of signs for the Republican running for a state legislative position, I’ve only seen signs for his incumbent opponent on public rights of way, not homes. But the primary had all the Republicans together earning like 40%.
There are a handful of governor’s race signs on either side, and that race appears actually competitive.
NewCharlesInCharge
11mo ago
On the fake electors, I initially found this compelling, but not anymore. As far as I can tell the electors met, pledged their votes to Trump, and recorded this on paper on the appointed date. This was in anticipation that election results in their states could change, and if so there could be a problem if there were no elector votes recorded by the date specified in the Constitution.
There wasn’t a scheme to substitute these electors in place of the ones representing the state’s certified winner. On Jan 6th Trump’s ask of Pence was that he not certify the election, not that he count votes from the electors for Trump.
An alternate slate of electors also met and recorded their votes in Hawaii in 1968. Nixon was certified the winner, Kennedy’s electors met and recorded their votes anyway, and then later a recount went in Kennedy’s favor. Nixon, in his capacity as Vice President, counted the Kennedy electors from Hawaii.
NewCharlesInCharge
11mo ago
It’s basically the same play they ran with Biden. Keep appearances minimal and roll the dice that media can plausibly not talk about how he’s losing his marbles until after the election.
At some point they figured that’s not going to work and so engineered the debate to expose him, and even then it nearly didn’t work to get a new candidate.
We’ve got a couple of months for Kamala to not implode. She’s apparently a poor manager with high turnover, has plentiful examples of incompetent extemporaneous speaking, and has already floated policy ideas unpopular enough that they’re walking them back.
There’s plenty of opportunity there.
We also don’t know what the Republicans might be holding back. Last time there was a coordinated attempt to deny them their October surprise, but I don’t know that the 51 intelligence officials trick will work a second time.
NewCharlesInCharge
11mo ago
The media will fact check Trump for stating opinions that they don’t like.
Walz gets a free pass. There’s about half a dozen of his previous colleagues in the military that have come out against him, but a viewer of the mainstream media wouldn’t know it. The media has decided that they’re not going to allow swiftboating, whether legitimate or not.
NewCharlesInCharge
11mo ago
Or they have a quota for article length and needed to pad it out.
This is a very common thing you encounter where the first 3-5 chapters of some nonfiction book are compelling and directly relevant to the author’s main thesis. Then the rest of the book is vaguely related to the thesis, mostly it’s other things the author has studied and can write competently about.
Publishers are reticent to put an 80 page book on the shelves even if that’s the best version of the book the author can produce.
NewCharlesInCharge
1yr ago
Why couldn’t you just take a film picture of the AI generated scene? There’s no depth to film, a flat image should be indistinguishable from the real thing.
35mm has a grain density that works out to about 5.6K, so if you have an 8K monitor then you shouldn’t be able to detect pixelization.
NewCharlesInCharge
1yr ago
Unless you're a spy, or someone valuable enough to your government that China could get concessions from treating you like one, there's very little risk posed by the Chinese government. There are currently three Americans that America itself considers wrongfully imprisoned in China.
Looks like about 2.5 million Americans visit China each year.
It's a similar risk for Chinese nationals visiting the West. If you're the Huawei heiress then maybe you should be careful. If you're a nobody then it's very unlikely the state will visit trumped up charges upon you.
Actually if you're a professor the risk looks less trivial, there are a lot of cases of professors being prosecuted and found not guilty.
NewCharlesInCharge
1yr ago
There are barely any 'tech jobs' to speak of, you're definitely not getting hired by one of the big players if you're here.
Meta still hires remote and at most they'll knock 15% off of Bay Area comp.
NewCharlesInCharge
1yr ago
Most likely it’s an attempt to do in software what those fuzzy mic covers do physically, reducing the blown out sounds from things like p-sounds that are super aspirated.
But it’s probably someone’s side project and not close to perfect. I saw others posting they’ve heard the effect in other Spaces hosted on X.
NewCharlesInCharge
1yr ago
Maybe you only cut the ones without legible outputs.
NewCharlesInCharge
1yr ago
I think there's some epistemic room there to believe that Trump himself believed he saw an earlier forecast that included Alabama and that the media were being unfair to him. During the controversy he apparently tweeted out an undoctered map from some agency that did show impacts to Alabama.
I can think of examples coming from respectable lawyerly types that don't have so much room. For example, Rache Levine getting WPATH to drop age guidelines on "gender affirming care."
NewCharlesInCharge
1yr ago
The mainstream media is burning its credibility right at the point where it's becoming trivial to create completely believable fake images and videos of literally anything you want to depict.
Googling "Paige Averianna Patton" shows that she was associated with the shooting since at least the very next day, publicly talking about being messaged by Hale who said "I'm planning to die today."
I guess we didn't know of Hale's obsession, but the association was always there.
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