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> do they care if you come in and steal all their shit because you pickpocketed them? no way.

They most decidedly DO care if you do this.

It's easy to think things are "apolitical" when resting on the laurels of the results of political struggles and revolutions that brought us to where we are.

The idea that you should be able to create and own your intellectual efforts, and to do so without coercion.

> political statement?

> If I create my own software stack for the TRMNL display I received as a gift

Should you own what you create? Should you BE able to create? freely?

Should you be able to give and gift freely?

> some days structure

How do you think days are defined? Think "July" is a name that came absent of politics? What about October?

Saturday and Sunday are weekends? Since when did weekends exist as we understand and enjoy them without the action of political actors (union workers striking and other people fighting for labor rights).

What holidays are holidays? Which are national holidays? Those are all political.

I remember while at Amazon, during the "everyone needs to be using AI in every way" push, one of my teammates was proud to present that he had figured out how to split the audio on his mac to record the meeting (because our meeting software didn't allow for recordings without consent) and fed this into speech-to-text and generated summaries of the meetings without any of us knowing (i.e. no consent).

I let him and our manager know that he'd just violated eavesdropping laws across state lines (he's in D.C. and I'm in WA; RCW 9.73.030).

It's amazing how many people don't think that "AI Notetaker" is the same as "I secretly recorded this (as possibly violated the law)"

> Why is everything sanded down to "good or bad"?

Amazon's Sentiment Analysis of Product Reviews was one of the very first forays into ML that the company had. They just keep wanting to re-use it everywhere.

or a simpler version: "A stitch in time saves nine...but I charge by the stitch"

Please read the book "Bullshit Jobs"

Most SWEs are a mix of Duct tapers and Box tickers, and their managers are Taskmasters.

"Yet you participate in society. Curious! I am very intelligent"

"...you said on an iPhone. Heh. Gotcha."

Police aren't "protected persons"

> civilians who find themselves in the midst of an international armed conflict or military occupation and are in the hands of a foreign power

Everyone gets the first amendment

This just shows that even in the most obvious cases, if a cop wants to fuck up your life it might only take SIX YEARS to get back to normalcy.

This is awesome. Perfectly solving a problem, showing off tech, and adorable.

> I proceeded to do the work.

> I did the work.

> I worked.

Unix philosophy strikes again

FYI, looks like keyvalues.com didn't pay their bill

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