Eh, I'm autistic and I can explain exactly how my tangent is related to the initial topic, its just that a lot of people do not have the attention span or patience to follow a complex set of successive or simultaneous associations.
Its possible to be an autist and not also have adhd, Neurodivergent as a term is a wide net cast over a diverse array of thinking modes... not solely a term for only one of them.
... these are the people who think the 'Machine' that Rage Against the Machine is raging against...
... is the liberal mainstream media.
We are talking about people with negative amounts of media literacy... as well as very low levels of actual literacy.
Holy fuck, now that is a headline.
sigh
Dustin' off this one, out from the fucking meme archive...
https://youtube.com/watch?v=JnX-D4kkPOQ
Millenials:
Time for your third 'once-in-a-life-time major economic collapse/disaster'! Wheeee!
Gen Z:
Oh, oh dear sweet summer child, you thought Covid was bad?
Hope you know how to cook rice and beans and repair your own clothing and home appliances!
Gen A:
Time to attempt to learn how to think, good luck.
Wow that was fast.
I did not even know this app existed untill about 8 hours ago.
Already comprimised.
EDIT: Also, lol, this arguably is not even largely a hack.
These idiots just had everything stored in a fucking publically accesible firebase bucket... amazing.
They didn't delete anything they claimed to.
Either way you look at it, anywhere on the spectrum from:
A ] A bunch of women reasonably concerned for their safety
B ] A bunch of gossip mongers
... well, they've now all been doxxed, ironic from each angle.
What a fucking disaster.
Autist here:
Holy shit, an actual good joke, half revolving around Autism?
Damn.
Don't see that often, hahah!
So its gonna run a soft credit check on you and then give you a price?
You don't even need AI for that, and that'd be waaaaay cheaper to implement than AI.
...
A Delta spokesperson told Fortune the airline “has zero tolerance for discrimination. Our fares are publicly filed and based solely on trip-related factors like advance purchase and cabin class, and we maintain strict safeguards to ensure compliance with federal law.”
This is horseshit.
In Economics, the entire concept of setting specific prices for specific market demographics is literally called 'price discrimination.'
https://www.investopedia.com/terms/p/price_discrimination.asp
Advance purchase and different seating classes literally are price discrimination, third degree.
Frequent flyer discounts would be second degree.
Overall adjusting seat costs per flight based on how full or empty that flight is, is first degree price discrimination.
...
This is like a company that sells chickens saying 'we don't sell chickens.'
This is just gobsmackingly false, so blatantly so that it is actually funny.
Airlines entire fucking business models are based on inventing new forms and strategies of price discrimination.
...
What this asshat is saying is only even interpretable as true if what he means is 'we don't directly factor sexuality, age, disability, ethnicity, legally protected classes into our pricing model.'
They of course do this indirectly by pulling a whole bunch of your meta data and then accurately inferring those things, and then discriminating against you based on that.
It is laughably easy to get around US discrimination laws in this way, megacorps have been regularly doing this for at least decade now, both when it comes to you as a consumer, and you as a potential employee or renter.
wtf AI in your mouse driver?
Oh yeah, totally not logging your every mouse movement, no sir, not at all!
Oh I am still at the 2014 phase.
We... used to have a term for people that advanced further: sell-outs.
Though I do very much prefer the recently popularized Cyberpunk lingo:
Fucking Corpo Scum.
No, that would be like uh... Ms. Hawk Tuah.
Greta is what you call an activist: Someone who actually believes things and advocates for change based on her beliefs.
When I was in school, this kind of behavior was referred to as a politically involved/informed, active citizen, the kind of people without which a democratic society cannot survive or function.
On the bright side, at least our upcoming American cyberpunk dystopia is now more likely to feature a greater prevelance of lone wolf, broke, two bit hackers as a semi-viable lifestyle/'career path'...
If you are in the US, and under roughly 20, the actual leading cause of death is firearms, been like that for the past 5 or 6 years.
https://www.cnn.com/health/guns-death-us-children-teens-dg
Thats from about 6 months ago.
You may also note that the article's source at CDC:
https://wonder.cdc.gov/controller/datarequest/D158;jsessionid=63943AC0B45AD52893397A22A027
No longer works, because this information is inconvenient for the current administration of " "pro-life" ", violence loving fascists.
https://archive.is/XZCYG
Scientific American, from 2022, has this same trend, but extending the age bracket all the way up to age 24.