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How to find Mind Worker Helmet and Gloves in Disney Dreamlight Valley
During Disney Dreamlight Valley's Emotional Rescue quest within the Inside Out realm, you'll meet Joy for the first time and help her regain some of Riley's long-term memories. Along the way, she'll reveal that Sadness is also handling her memories, prompting you to investigate. Before you go and find Sadness, you'll need to wear a Mind Worker helmet ...
Following its release on PC on Steam Early Access in 2024, Ubisoft's The Rogue Prince of Persia is releasing today on console, including through Xbox Game Pass.Ubisoft announced this during the Xbox Gamescom livestream today. The game is launching for Xbox Series X|S, Xbox on PC, Xbox Cloud, and PS5. It's coming to Nintendo Switch and Switch 2 later this year.The game's 1.0 release ...
A previously unreported spreadsheet of 2,152 international legal requests with the State of Israel was hidden within last year's "Anonymous for Justice" leaks.
The Guardian: Voices arguing that climate action is a waste of time are getting louder. Here’s why they are wrong | Clear Air theguardian.com/environment/co…
Started just dumping raw caffeine powder into a glass to start the day instead of drinking energy drink and it's been great Starting to think that the advertising about celsius being healthy was junk!
Warlock ransomware exploits unpatched Microsoft SharePoint vulnerabilities to gain access, escalate privileges, steal credentials, move laterally, and deploy ransomware with data exfiltration across enterprise environments.
I have never owned—let us assume that one can "own" money stored in a (((bank)))—this much money in my whole life! But everything comes at a cost. Now I have to choose between buying a burger to meticulously balance debit and credit and spending some extra time on my beloved Fediverse.
Forget surveillance capitalism - let's talk about *surveillance infantilism*: the drive by the wealthy to spy on you in order to pursue the toddler's goals of getting everything they want from the people around them, without any reciprocal obligations.
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If you'd like an essay-formatted version of this thread to read or share, here's a link to it on pluralistic.net, my surveillance-free, ad-free, tracker-free blog:
The answer I came up with at the time is that the ultra-rich (and the states they have suborned) have a fundamental understanding that the more unfair a society is, the less stable it is. The more unstable a state is, the more its ruling class have to expend on private security.
No captain of industry wants to arise from his sarcophagus of a morning, only to discover a mob of hoi polloi building a guillotine on his lawn.
As Thomas Piketty argues, there comes a point where it's cheaper to make society more fair - say, by building hospitals and schools - than it is to pay for all the gaiter-wearing gun-thugs you'll need to weed out the guillotine-building projects that spontaneously erupt under conditions of gross unfairness:
Mass surveillance shifts the guillotine equilibrium in favor of being greedier, by making it cheaper to identify and neutralize incipient guillotine-builders, which means that you can raise the greediness floor without seeing a concomitant rise in your guard labor bill.
And there's *lots* of money to be made by raising the greediness floor, the corollary of which is that any time you fail to act with sufficiently shameless greed, you leave a *ton* of money on the table.
That's the substance of the shareholder lawsuit against Unitedhealthcare, alleging that after Luigi Mangione allegedly murdered United CEO Brian Thompson‡, United failed to screw enough patients hard enough:
But there's another way in which surveillance abets rampant billionaireism: when companies spy on us, they can change the rules of their services to increase how much we pay them, and decrease how much they pay us. When companies do this to their customers, they call it "personalized pricing" - but everyone else calls it what it is, *surveillance pricing*:
When a company charges you more than someone else for the same service (say, Uber jacking up the price of a ride because your phone battery is about to die, or an airline charging you extra because they know you have a funeral to attend), they're effectively re-valuing the dollars in your bank account. The fact that the cab-ride that costs you $20 and costs someone else $15 means that your dollar is only worth $0.75.
For example, the apps that hospitals use to hire contract nurses first buy their recent financial information from an unregulated data-broker, checking to see whether the nurse has a lot of credit-card debt, because if you owe a lot on your Visa, the app can offer you a lower hourly wage and you'll still take the shift:
This is re-valuing your labor. If my debt means that I get $20/h for a shift that would pay you $25/h, the app is saying my hours are only worth 80% of what yours are worth.
This kind of price-fixing is an example of a phenomenon I call "twiddling," which is when a company changes its underlying business logic (prices, costs, recommendations, search rankings) on a per-user, per-session basis to shift value from customers and suppliers to shareholders:
There's lots of kinds of twiddling: the fact that apps generate so much fine-grained, up-to-the-second surveillance telemetry about our use of them means that zuckermuskian social media bosses can make pretty good guesses about how many ads and boosted posts they can enshittify into our feeds without us switching off the app:
If you were studying this stuff in an MBA, they'd call it "optimization." Mass surveillance allows the optimization of guard-labor, by identifying threats to the status quo for targeted enforcement, which is much cheaper and effective than indiscriminate enforcement. Commercial surveillance allows buyers to figure out the most an individual consumer will pay, and raise prices accordingly; and to calculate the lowest wage a worker will accept, and lower pay accordingly.
Commercial surveillance allows companies to "optimize" their products to be *nearly* so enshtitified that we quit them, but not quite, maximizing the value they can shift from us to them.
To be free people, we don't merely need to be ungovernable.
How do we do that? Well, there are lots of policies that would make it harder for the ultra-rich to "optimize" us so that we are easier to fleece and abuse, but every "optimization" starts with surveillance. After all, you treasure what you measure, and if you can't observe a worker or a customer - or a citizen getting ready to build a guillotine - you *can't* optimize them.
That's where "privacy first" comes in. There are a *lot* of people angry about a *lot* of problems that are all rooted in the unregulated, unrestricted practice of mass surveillance by governments and their corporate partners:
Pulling together people angry about being turned into deepfake porn, people angry about parents who've gone Maga or kids who've become anorexic; Fox News cultists angry about the use of reverse warrants to identify Jan 6 rioters or Tiktok millennials quoting Osama Bin Laden; immigrants angry about ICE plundering commercial databases to locate their next victim; and people angry about online racial financial, hiring and housing discrimination makes for a hell of a coalition.
If we make it illegal to spy, we make end the conditions for rampant billionaireism. We become unoptimizable.
Billionaires are overgrown toddlers, after all. They don't acknowledge the humanity of others - indeed, they probably don't even believe that the rest of us are really *real* (we're "NPCs"):
The point of billionaireism is to escape: to escape any mutual obligations to others, any duty to give moral consideration to your workers or your customers or the voters you're trying to hoodwink with a torrent of manipulative, dishonest media messages. It's to do whatever you want, to move fast and break things, from rocketships to the night sky. It's being able to shout down anyone who says "NO!"
That's the drive behind "libertarian exit" projects, where people dying of terminal billionaireism attempt to colonize some "empty place" where they owe nothing to anyone:
It's why billionaires are obsessed with tunnels and skycars (escaping the inescapable geometric reality that the only way to move a lot of people through a city is on public transit):
It's why they build luxury bunkers, so they can wait out "the Event" in comfort while the not-quite-real people on the outside rebuild civilization, whereupon they can emerge with their AR-15s, bomb-collared mercenaries, and thumb-drives full of bitcoin and assume their rightful place as Frazetta warlords with a harem in every fortress:
It's a life without friction, because all of that friction has been offloaded onto *us*, through the process of optimization. The gig economy lets a billionaireist enjoy the pleasures of round-the-clock staff without having to pay workers to sit idle. You just summon a worker whenever you want a burrito or a massage or a blunt, and they only get paid while they're "on the clock" for your task.
The fact that this means that an ever-larger fraction of the world has to scramble in mounting desperation to stay clothed, fed and housed is a *hell* of a lot of friction, but it's not *your* friction. They've been *optimized* - to your purposes.
In a fair society, we'd have transparency for the powerful and privacy for everyone else: we'd know every time Elon Musk's jet took off and where it was going so we could surround the landing strip with angry protesters - and Musk wouldn't know a single thing about his workers, his users, or anyone else. He would experience us through the same veil of total ignorance through which he experiences his children.
Interesting fact--mass surveillance is a lot older than most people think. In America, the government kept files on every man since the Civil War. They had to--we had "universal conscription". I put that in quotes because rich people could openly buy their way out and didn't need a bullshit doctor's note about bone spurs.
I'm pretty sure the Suffragettes and Mata Hari let the feds know women can be dangerous, too, so they've tracked all women since WWI.
Big Tech are newcomers to this stuff. Imagine what you could do with a hundred, hundred fifty years of longitudinal data? Lots of traits run in families. That was known well before Darwin crapped his first diaper.
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@simonzerafa does someone make a type-c and alligators line-person's jack?
i would totally use one if it was built like the one i borrowed from an ameritech truck in the 90s. clip onto copper and dial or plugin to an iPhone would be very nostalgic for me 😭
Back in the late 1970s (long before cell phones), my mother and her friends would keep a telephone handset in a bag and hold it out to random strangers telling them they had a call.
Square Enix decided its gamescom 2025 shadowdrop would be another port of the strategy game Triangle Strategy, as it is now on the Xbox Series X. It is on sale on the Microsoft Store to celebrate the launch until September 3, 2025. This means the price is temporarily $41.99 instead of $59.99. Triangle Strategy is the story of a continent once again on the verge of war as the result ...
Cet article fait partie de ma série de l’été spécial hackers. Bonne lecture ! Vous savez ce qui différencie un grand chef d’un cuistot lambda ? Le grand chef invente les recettes que tout le monde copiera pendant des décennies.
Fuck you #CarmenOrtiz. I hope you die a slow, painful, and miserable death. I hope your last breaths find you writhing in agony and I really wish there was a hell that you could spend eternity in because you are simply not worth the air that you breathe. ---
Cet article fait partie de ma série de l’été spécial hackers. Bonne lecture ! Vous savez ce qui différencie un grand chef d’un cuistot lambda ? Le grand chef invente les recettes que tout le monde copiera pendant des décennies.
"Californians are more concerned than excited about the future of AI, by a margin of 55% to 33%, according to new polling shared exclusively with TIME ahead of its publication this Tuesday. Of the 1,400 adults polled, 48% said the technology was progressing “too fast,” compared to 32% who said the pace was “about right” and just 4% who said it was “too slow.”
The company is preparing to drop the next big wave of features for Windows 11 users in the coming weeks, as detailed in the latest Release Preview build. Plus, there's more to come as we head into fall. Here's what to expect!
Where Winds Meet Launches in the West on November 14 for PS5 and PC
Everstone Studio has announced that its free-to-play open-world action RPG Where Winds Meet will officially launch in the West on November 14 for PlayStation 5 and PC via Steam, Epic Games Store, and the Microsoft Store. The title first debuted in China on PC in December 2024, followed by iOS and Android in January 2025. [...]
got this at the kids’ house last week. This guy apparently comes by often and hangs out on the launch. I probably should have gotten closer, I didn’t want to scare it off. Great Blue Herons are pretty cool. #BirdGang
American Academy of Pediatrics pushes mRNA shots for babies against HHS guidance — as Health Canada approves Pfizer’s LP.8.1 mRNA injection for infants.
J'ai découvert au détour d'un podcast #polya récemment que l'#amour peut se décrire sous trois formes:
- Éros, c'est l'amour passionnel. Le plus connu, qui se nourrit du manque, d'un besoin affectif non comblé. Une forme d'amour centré sur soi. Cet Éros a tendance à se tarir dès lors que les besoins sont comblés. (C'est l'amour selon Platon)
- Agapé, l'amour à l'inverse centré sur l'autre. Presque un amour inconditionnel, divin. Celui qui est la source de #compersion : il se nourrit du bonheur et du bien-être de l'être aimé·e. Parfois au détriment du soi (C'est plutôt l'amour au sens de la charité chrétienne)
- Philia, où l'amour-amitié, ou l'amour-raison : c'est l'amour de ce que nous avons déjà, de ce qui ne nous manque pas. Je t'aime signifie alors "je suis joyeux·se que tu existes". (C'est l'amour selon Aristote)
pour moi l'amour passionnel n'a pas besoin d'être tout le temps présent.... Meme si j'aime bien qu'il soit présent régulièrement, comme il née du manque, il faut qu'il y ai ce manque. C'est aussi ce que j'aime bien dans l'idée de la non cohabitation
L'amour centré sur l'autre pour moi c'est un peu une forme d'idéal, mais dans le sens aussi inaccessible... Meme si parfois je l'approche, il me semble quand même difficile. C'est aussi celui qui se rapproche le plus de l'amour familiale, centré sur ceuxcelles qui en ont besoin, quitte à ignorer ses besoins ... Perso ignorer mes besoins ça toujours été un truc difficile, parce que pas lié à l'amour mais plutôt a des peurs ... Puis n'ayant pas d'enfant et mes parents ne connaissant difficilement le concept de montrer son amour, c'est quelque chose qui m'échappe facilement Mais J'ai beaucoup d'admiration pour les personnes qui arrivent a en avoir.
L'amour amitié a toujours eu beaucoup de place pour moi, plus que l'amour passionnel, c'est celui qui a toujours été plus en accord avec ma façon de concevoir le monde .. et qui compensé les autres formes d'amour quand elles étaient absentes. Autant l'amitié ça été un truc que j'ai dû apprendre adulte... Autant cette forme elle a toujours beaucoup de place dans mes relations. Celle qui fait que j'aime tout partager , être toujours là pour, beaucoup parler avec....
Et mon couple avec LeMari a toujours été principalement de l'amitié... Ce qui n'empêche pas le dimension sexuelle de s'épanouir, ou en tout cas je ne le vis pas comme ça (je dis ça car j'ai lu qu'Eros représenterait les relations charnelles, ce que l'amitié ne permettrait pas).
The #Republican-controlled TX legislature is expected to pass a new congressional map creating 5 new winnable seats for the GOP.
The vote follows prodding by #Trump, eager to stave off a #midterm defeat depriving his *party* of control of the #US #House, & weeks of delays after dozens of Texas #Democratic state lawmakers fled the state in #protest.
Some #Democrats returned Monday, only to be assigned round-the-clock #police *escorts* to ensure their attendance at Wednesday’s session. Those who refused to be *monitored* were confined to the #House floor, where they protested on a livestream Tuesday night.
Furious national Democrats have vowed payback for the #Texas map, with #California’s legislature poised to approve new maps adding more Democratic-friendly seats later this week.
Normally, #states redraw maps once a decade with new #census figures. But #Trump is lobbying other conservative-controlled states like #Indiana & #Missouri to also try to squeeze new #GOP-friendly seats out of their maps as his party prepares for a difficult #midterm #election next year.
In #Texas, #Democrats spent the day before the vote continuing to draw attention to the extraordinary lengths the #Republicans who run the #legislature were going to ensure it takes place. Democratic state Rep #NicoleCollier started it when she refused to sign what Democrats called the “permission slip” needed just to leave the #House chamber, a half-page form allowing Dept of *Public Safety* #police troopers to follow them.
he’s also laying the groundwork by saying the old census was bad and he wants a new census for declaring all the votes in the midterm invalid. See Garrett Graff on Rachel last night.🔥
that’s why Trump is laying the groundwork for the bad census because he then has a back up plan if the blue states do the redistricting which we absolutely have to have them do!
Other than your lack of hash browns, I'm going with yours. It has a more unctuous look to it. The egg is just right, and the toast is properly toasted.
Los que estamos aquí lo hacemos, en parte, huyendo de algoritmos porque sabemos o, al menos, intuimos lo que hay. Pero si aún queréis saber más, hace unos días TVE emitió a deshoras, lógicamente, el documental "La trampa del clic". rtve.es/play/videos/somos-docu… Y seguro que sabéis cómo esquivar el tener que registraros.
Haroun Nasser Al-Din, a member of the Political Bureau of Hamas, affirmed on Tuesday that the fate of around 7,000 Palestinian residents living in 22 communities in the Jerusalem desert is now in danger of forced displacement.
CoD: Black Ops 7 Dev Reacts To Battlefield 6: "Let's All Have Fun"
Call of Duty: Black Ops 7 associate creative director Miles Leslie has commented on the fact that 2025 marks the first time since 2021 that there will be new Call of Duty and Battlefield games released in the same year. How does Leslie feel about the competition? He told IGN that he recently played the Battlefield 6 open beta and concluded that "it's a fun ...
Et voilà chipette est partie passer la douane. On a dû retirer quelques fringues de la valise parce que ma balance manque de précision ou la leur est gourmande. Et à 100$ les 2kg d’excédents c’est trop violent 😅
être à la porte 1h avant le départ veut dire quoi ? La fouille a eu lieu avant de passer en salle d’attente ? Ou aura lieu une heure avant le départ ? ?
Die Trump-USA wollen zwei der weltweit wichtigste Klimasatelliten abschalten. US-Forschergruppen versuchen derweil, Wissen vor der Löschung zu bewahren. klimareporter.de/erdsystem/bla…
BREAKING: #Trump says D.C. restaurants are “bursting.” Reality check.
After his Aug 11 police takeover, OpenTable shows seated diners in Washington fell 16% that day, then cratered 31% by Aug 13, and were still down around 20% through Aug 16.
Restaurant Week kicked off Aug 18 and the slump stuck, with marquee operators saying there’s no uptick.
Morning, fedi Just sliced a piece of my fingertip while cutting meat. Again. It hurts like hell, I'm seeing red, it fucking hurts so much (literally and figuratively)
“For an American audience,” Finnish President Stubb said “the best way to explain it is that if you take the relative land mass of what Russia wants right now from Ukraine, it would be a little bit like you giving up Florida, Georgia, South Carolina, North Carolina, even Virginia, and then bumping into Maryland.” shorturl.at/cgATk #press
Hmmm...maybe. Not sure that is true--this is a fascinating site. I found out Mallorca is about the same size as Long Island (much bigger than I'd thought!) Here's comparisons of Ukraine with various countries (scroll down for comparisons to US states). mapfight.xyz/map/ua/
Breakdown: Sculpting a Fierce Fantasy Troll Using Only Nomad Sculpt
Janell Buncome showed us the workflow behind creating a detailed troll character entirely with Nomad Sculpt and explained why this software became the artist's tool of choice.
I will be at Asakusa's Taitō-kan(東京都立産業貿易センター台東館), on 2025/10/25 (Sat.) from 10:00 〜 16:00 for the OSC event!
If you are near Tokyo, or have some interest in Linux or Free/Libre Open Source Software (FLOSS) in general, please feel free to say hi to me at the conference!
I will be the one promoting the awesomeness of KDE to all the people at the event! There's no entrance fee so please feel free to take a peek around if you end up in Asakusa! #osc25tk #KDE #Linux #FOSS
The greatest spiritual victory ever won, was and is a completely free will operation in which he has won our hearts, while the world, the flesh, and the devil has lost them.
In strongholds such as El Alto, support for the Mas party that once made Evo Morales Bolivia’s first Indigenous president has ebbed away – leaving it on the brink of extinction
Tips & Best Practices For Indie Devs Planning a Console Port
Serenity Forge's Kevin Zhang shared advice for indie developers on console porting, based on the studio's publishing and game development experience. Created in collaboration with Unity, this interview is part of the Indie Survival Guide series, spotlighting real-world tips and stories from the dev community.
Kim Yo Jong, Vice Department Director of C.C., WPK, Censures Seoul Authorities for Deceptive Attempt at "Appeasement Offensive" kcna.kp/en/article/q/1965dc98a…
I'm so glad I am not a woman, I'd make the worst woman, thank you to the women out there that know what it means to be a woman, I couldn't do it, most women can't do it either, but you can, and thats why the world hasn't ended yet. Thank you.
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