Over recent years, hundreds of thousands of British people have had Stasi-like secret records made of their *legal* actions, recorded as 'non-crime hate incidents', simply because someone else felt offended. Today a draft code of practice is to be presented to UK Parliament which will try to shift the balance back towards free speech.
Given the UK government's other restrictions on speech - like the awful Online Harms bill - I don't think this is a Damascene Conversion, but I'm hoping it is a small step in the right direction for the UK.
I use the search engine for its privacy. I've more good things to say about the browser, though.
Anyone know whether it's possible to turn off the 'AI Summarizer' feature in Brave? I dislike it immensely. First, it sometimes gives factually incorrect information; second, it gives you the 'party line' on news events. IMO, it's a bad move by Brave: I don't want yet another company filtering my news for me and deciding what the 'takeaway message' should be.
Guess we'll see soon. MSTR had loan from Silvergate; Saylor says that there's no problem, but worth watching to see if whoever buys the debt tries to force early repayment somehow.
Prediction: US gov will *not* bail out SVB but will used the chaos as an argument for why Central Banking should take over from retail.
Loathe to link back to Twitter, but this is important:
https://twitter.com/ChuckCallesto/status/1634039108958932995?s=19
Decentralised markets, ser.
No good just talking; we also need to trade.
Really wish Brendan Eich got this. He's been cutting-edge in so many ways.
Banking Twitter: "SVB is going down, GFC 2.0 is imminent!"
Bitcoin Nostr: "Yay! Buy the bitcoin dip and zap it all!"
No, I know. I'm saying that an ASIC miner will generate ~3.5kW of usable heat, so that you don't need to run your central heating...
So, Twitter has now integrated tipping with Cash App... Another missed opportunity to get on board with zaps!
Lmao. Reminds me of when people first discovered email lists in the early 1990s.
I just replied to this thread with "nostr fixes this" and an image of a nostrich to make it stand out more. If a bunch of people do the same reply, Matt Taibbi (who is not a Twitter employee) might get on Nostr.
https://twitter.com/mtaibbi/status/1633830002742657027
Aside from the fact that it's on the blue bird app, that thread is quite damning. Wasn't aware of 'Project Birmingham'. In a just world, the FBI should be investigating things like that.
I hear you but as I said: Cloth masks do nothing to limit the spread. https://www.kwtx.com/2022/01/08/health-experts-warn-cloth-masks-are-ineffective-against-covid-19/?outputType=amp
Agree. Have read the Cochrane review. I just prefer to think that they might be trying to be considerate rather than ignorant...
Only reason might be that they themselves have covid and are trying to limit the spread? When I see people doing this, I try to impute charitable motives to them, even if I think it somewhat pointless...
