riley0

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[–] riley0 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Is that a devil's-advocate question? Anyway, I don't know, but I suspect. I'm not their customer, I'm their product. The more access they have to data, the more money they make.

[–] riley0 2 points 2 years ago (3 children)

I don't want Google to use my emails and documents to train their AI.

[–] riley0 5 points 2 years ago

FF does PWs well.

[–] riley0 16 points 2 years ago (6 children)

Oh, hell no!

[–] riley0 13 points 2 years ago

manifest v3

[–] riley0 4 points 2 years ago (1 children)

"21 Republicans — led by Reps. Dan Crenshaw and Michael Waltz — introduced legislation in January to authorize the use of military force against Mexican cartels" https://theintercept.com/2023/08/31/republicans-mexico-war/

[–] riley0 1 points 2 years ago

Matt Stoller has a good newsletter about monopoly power https://www.thebignewsletter.com/

[–] riley0 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Yup, but it's a question of whom society recognizes as smart. Bill and Hill met at Yale. They sold us a bill of good with free trade. They thought they could get away with Hillary crafting a national healthcare system, almost in secret, and that everyone would accept it b/s she's brilliant. Obama, Columbia/Harvard/Univ of Chicago, bailed out bankers, not home owners. That was a disaster.

The term, best and brightest, came into common use in describing to the Kennedy adminstration. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Best_and_the_Brightest They really bungled Vietnam.

I don't know that we've ever been governed by the best and brightest. Sometimes I think we're governed by the most venal and greedy.

[–] riley0 -3 points 2 years ago

Don't ask for other people to identify you, please.

[–] riley0 1 points 2 years ago (3 children)

Yup. Look at how the best-and-brightest theory worked out in the mid 20th century--e.g., the Clintons. Technocracy doesn't work.

[–] riley0 3 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Bonhoeffer says stupidity is a social thing. I mostly agree. Things didn't turn out well for Bonhoeffer. Shoveling against the tide is exhausting.

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