"All your life, you will be faced with a choice. You can choose love or hate… I choose love." --Johnny Cash

Is Age Verification a Trap? - IEEE Spectrum #privacy

<...> emerging age-restriction policy collides with existing privacy law.

Modern data-protection regimes all rest on similar ideas: Collect only what you need, use it only for a defined purpose, and keep it only as long as necessary.

Age enforcement undermines all three.

To prove they are following age-verification rules, platforms must log verification attempts, retain evidence, and monitor users over time. When regulators or courts ask whether a platform took reasonable steps, “We collected less data” is rarely persuasive. For companies, defending themselves against accusations of neglecting to properly verify age supersedes defending themselves against accusations of inappropriate data collection.

It is not an explicit choice by voters or policymakers, but instead a reaction to enforcement pressure and how companies perceive their litigation risk.

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Fascism at the End of Industrial Civilization #society #futurism

America’s Oligarchic Techno‑Feudal Elite Are Attempting to Build a Twenty‑First‑Century Fascist State

I. From liberal promise to oligarchic capture

III. Techno‑feudal aristocracy and the colonization of everyday life

IV. Elite impunity and the machinery of lawlessness

V. Concentration camps, paramilitary policing, and ritualized predatory violence

The history of xz backdoor vulnerability. #security #video

Museum of Plugs and Sockets: home page #interesting #rabbithole

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Jimi Hendrix Was a Systems Engineer #music #history

“Purple Haze” firmly established that an electric guitar can be used not just as a stringed instrument with built-in pickups for convenient sound amplification, but also as a full-blown wave synthesizer whose output can be manipulated at will. Modern guitarists can reproduce Hendrix’s chain using separate plug-ins in digital audio workstation software, but the magic often disappears when everything is buffered and quantized. I wanted to find out if a more systematic approach could do a better job and provide insights into how Hendrix created his groundbreaking sound.

AIs can’t stop recommending nuclear strikes in war game simulations | New Scientist #ai #futurism

Leading AIs from OpenAI, Anthropic and Google opted to use nuclear weapons in simulated war games in 95 per cent of cases

Exclusive: US orders diplomats to fight data sovereignty initiatives | Reuters #digitalsovereignty

Trump's administration has ordered U.S. diplomats to lobby against attempts to regulate U.S. tech companies' handling of foreigners' data, saying in an internal diplomatic cable seen by Reuters that such efforts could interfere with artificial intelligence-related services. Experts say the move signals the Trump administration is reverting to a more confrontational approach as some foreign countries seek limits around how Silicon Valley firms process and store their citizens' personal information - initiatives often described as "data sovereignty" or "data localization."

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