I’ve already given several examples, all of which seem to qualify.

Yeah, it’s honestly a great book I really recommend reading it

If you’re arrested, you have various established rights, like being innocent until proven guilty, jury of your peers, need for the circumstances of your arrest to have been legal, need to charge you with a crime and let you see a lawyer to continue holding you, etc. Debanking, afaik, is more of just something government agencies do at their discretion. Sometimes it’s even done without any overt process at all, financial institutions are simply given vague warnings implying they should cut certain people or organizations off, and they proactively comply.

To give the example of civil forfeiture, there your money is assumed to be criminal until you prove in court that it is not, a reversal of the standard and infamously easy for corrupt cops to abuse.

Even better: The Anarchist Cookbook, nonviolent bait and switch edition:

From the cofounder of Food Not Bombs, an action-oriented guide to anarchism, social change, and vegan cooking

Unlike the original Anarchist Cookbook, which contained instructions for the manufacture of explosives, this version is both a cookbook in the literal sense and also a “cookbook” of recipes for social and political change.

In some ways it might be less serious, but that isn’t its only notable property. There’s also the way it bypasses many of the protections and assurances we have about the latter, like due process. The ability to silently, invisibly, and unilaterally shut down political adversaries etc. is dangerous, and there isn’t much reason to think it will be used only where there is legitimate justification (again, consider the sanctions against ICC judges for trying to hold war criminals accountable). It is entirely reasonable for people to want to preserve ways to defend themselves against this type of nonphysical state violence.

Does that mean you think there is no difference ethically? Have you thought about what corporations like Microsoft are going to do with the power they are accumulating here? Regardless, it’s worth considering that from the perspective of a programmer who is looking to incorporate AI into their work and learn to rely on it, there are risks with using these services that work against their interests, and that’s true independently of any ethical considerations.

I think they will stick with companies like USDC and just keep a leash on them. These stablecoins have freeze functions, the government can take charge of those if they want, and it’s potentially a major source of demand for US treasuries in an environment where US debt keeps looking like a worse bet to everyone, since the legislation mandates full reserves and specifies what those reserves can be denominated in.

Not that any of this is especially a good thing imo. The value of crypto is permissionless money, stablecoins are not that and have centralized controls, at least the popular ones the law approves of.

Don’t they fill the same role? What would the practical differences be? They compete for basically the same market anyway, so it’s worth thinking about what system is likely to become the standard.

You’re good, I’m mostly just pointing this out in case it’s something people reading comments who didn’t have time to read the article would want to know. Although now I’m seeing that this is also in the title, but oh well, not like I read it the first time

Ok, I’m not trying to defend it, call it what you want. The point is that debanking is serious and a real threat.

If you’re not using local models these companies have got you by the balls

titles that use “Generative AI” for art, audio, music, text, or dialog.

The wording seems to imply that using it for coding is not prohibited, just using it for media assets displayed to the player.

Transitioning to CBDCs would just be making the back-end more robust

What exactly “transition to CBDCs” means is kind of ambiguous, but the way it’s looking is that what we’re going to get is licensing of privately issued stablecoins, which then increasingly get used behind the scenes in payments infrastructure. They passed a regulatory framework for this last year in the US and things have been progressing since then.

Whether those particular protesters were in the right seems less significant than the general threat of debanking being used by a government as a weapon to disrupt the logistics of protests. This is obviously not limited to disruptive right wing protesters with questionable grievances. Take for example the way the US has used sanction powers to disrupt the daily finances of ICC judges.

From the news article someone linked:

The woman was allegedly second-in-command in the Los de la M gang, where she was supposedly known for her precise aim and skill with firearms. She gained a reputation due to multiple incidents across Colombia, according to local newspaper Diario del Norte.

She was arrested alongside alleged accomplices “Gorda Sicaria” or “Fat Hitwoman” and a man called “Leopoldo” on Dec. 1 in connection to the murder of her ex-boyfriend Deyvy Jesús García Palomino on July 23. Police said Rodriguez allegedly told Deyvy to meet her to settle a money issue, but once he arrived two men drove by on a motorcycle and shot him.

Details unclear but seems like stereotypical gangster stuff

On the bright side, hardware takes longer to become obsolete now, so at least it will likely last a long time and retain resale value.

I made one to track volume of keypresses per hour, and draw a graph comparing how much typing I’ve been doing on the current day vs an aggregated average

It’s funny that instead of imagining finding people who are actually into that, anon defaults to the frog boiling manipulation approach

Respect, that’s an accomplishment for sure. It’s been a while since I’ve played, but what I really like about DCSS is how it’s about exercising good probabilistic judgment under high stakes, it challenges you to manage your emotions and reflect on your biases in a way not a lot of games do.

I hate most of the companies paying people to write code though, isn’t it a good thing if their code is shit that no one can understand and doomed to collapse under its own weight?