mosiacmango

I think the point is that we designed the black boxes to do X and they do X consistently, just with slight variation.

If I make a cake making machine and it consistently makes cakes, its not a magic box just because I'm not sure if it will be creme frosted or not.

Also Paypal, and in a lot of ways, Facebook.

Also he bought and paid for J.D vance, and runs all sorts of alt right think tanks and influencers.

Tango gameworks says hi. One of the few ever to escape this hell cycle, albeit painfully.

The just dripping irony of Microsoft praising the studio as making exactly the kind of excellent games it needs and then shutting the studio down suddenly will never be beat though.

If you only have to have a cert to be promoted, then OP can simply not do it and not be promoted. No conversation with his boss would be necessary.

It sounds more like the org need X amount of people qualified to have "gold" status with a vendor, so they pressure you to get it and make any promotion contingent on you having/gaining this cert.

Extremely online echo chamber talk doesnt make sense in any language if youre ourside that echo chamber.

Him being a 4chan shitbird means most the people here on lemmy likely weren't going to be clue'd in immediately.

If the certs were not required, you have a point. If they are required to the point where OP has to have a discussion about not doing them with his boss, then the buisness needs to keep paying, drop the requirement or find new employees.

Vulgarian sound like "vulva." It was probably that weak similarity to dirty, evil sex that got the line cut.

They should put "arrives" in quotes, not Jetsons.

If you can't buy this or have it independently tested, it hasn't arrived anywhere. Just more "home robots are really here this time guys, really I mean it this time, really. Invest more billions in our company and you'll get one, for real."

I have a strong but as of yet untested theory that no human will ever levitate based on magnitized internal human water.

A magnet sufficiently strong enough to levitate a human based on the water in the body is more likely to remove the water from the body instead.

That was an incredibly long article that said very little at all. I recall torrentfreak being snappy articles about the futility of fighting piracy, but this was just run on nothing about sideloading apps on firesticks to watch futbol games. Lots of "tv broacasters dont like them but habent done much. They did a campaign, we have no data to provide. Also, there are apps people use, we didn't like the permissions but wont name them. Also, here is a funny tshirt."

Did torrentfreak lean into ai generated articles or is this just standard clickbait padding?

A lot of human actions are unfalsifiable because we can't read minds. That why inference about what people say and do is important.

Musks and others nazi salute is just a reference to this behaviour writ large. It's not the beginning of it at all. Nazi and alt right groups have been doing dog whistles for decades, and the internet has proved a fertile ground for the behavior.

Its fine to not be aware of things like "88" or "14 words" or the like, but they are dog whistle memes used by racists and nazis, the people the mainstream right has been shifting towards for years and years. You very well may have some cultural touchstones that coincidentally use the same memes without that racist context, but when you're applauding the racists and using the terms at the same time?

Satre has a great quote about how facists dont care about what they say or do, as language is just a game to them:

Never believe that anti-Semites are completely unaware of the absurdity of their replies. They know that their remarks are frivolous, open to challenge. But they are amusing themselves, for it is their adversary who is obliged to use words responsibly, since he believes in words. The anti-Semites have the right to play. They even like to play with discourse for, by giving ridiculous reasons, they discredit the seriousness of their interlocutors. They delight in acting in bad faith, since they seek not to persuade by sound argument but to intimidate and disconcert. If you press them too closely, they will abruptly fall silent, loftily indicating by some phrase that the time for argument is past.

Jean-Paul Sartre

This game is wholley embraced by racists, so giving people "the benefit of the doubt" plays right into their game of feigning decroum while ramping up hate.

Again this may be an unfortunate coincidence for the proton CEO, but that does not undermine the overall point that he currently appears steeped in rightwing ideology, and that is not okay for someone claiming to uphold freedom and privacy.

Lastly, Protons past donations are laudable, but plenty of groups had laudable donations before they became vile. Look at google's past philanthropy as an example, or their since retired "dont be evil" motto. They certainly don't live up to those standards today, and it looks like Proton is on the same course.

"Hide your power level" mask on behavior from the alt right love to play these plausible deniability games while still signaling their actual intent. You see it with the "my heart goes out to" or "i'm just autisitc" cover for musks nazi salute, or the "he was just waving" Bannon nazi salute. They made a nazi salute, but of course it cant be a nazi salute, wink wink.

I honestly find the 88 to be a faint indicator in this case, but it was a wildly tone deaf one if so. When someone claiming neutrality is making very partisan endorsements for a party that's steeped in all of the same memetic game playing, you cant ignore the dog whistles.