Those who use 'they', and many times identify that 'they' with the scientific community, are the same self-proclaimed free thinkers who actually exhibit a self-centered exceptionalism. These are the same people curing COVID with ivermectin.
L'unico che dovrebbe dimettersi è il menestrello delle infrastrutture, Donnarumma e Strisciuglio sono gente sua. d
Dopodiché, sono ormai anni che invece di gestire il ministero, gira l'Italia avvelenandola con la sua schifosa propaganda nazista, come se fosse eternamente un leader di opposizione.
Inutile parlare dei suoi fallimenti, dal fantomatico ponte sullo stretto, alla situazione delle ferrovie e delle autostrade Italiche.
Non è stato nemmeno capace di sistemare in tempi rapidi la questione dell'omologazione degli autovelox.
La concorrenza spietata di Wannacci che l'ha fregato dopo averlo usato, non è una scusa sufficiente.
Gianni Alemanno esce da Rebibbia, si fa intervistare dal Corriere della Sera e regala alla destra italiana una delle perizie più tragicomiche mai prodotte.
La commissiona da solo, la svolge da solo, e la annuncia raggiante:
"Ho trovato una grande empatia, poi, non ci crederete, ma la maggior parte dei detenuti sono tutti di destra. È strano ma è così".
Alemanno è convinto di fare un complimento. Vuole raccontarci una destra calorosa, solidale, umana persino in cella. E con il sorriso di chi porta una buona notizia certifica una cosa sola: il posto d'Italia con la più alta concentrazione di destra è la galera.
Il campione, del resto, è perfetto. Un penitenziario è pieno di gente condannata per aver violato la legge. Alemanno entra, si guarda intorno, fa la conta e scopre che la maggioranza la pensa come lui.
Lui lo spaccia per un dato sull'empatia. È un dato sulla vocazione di un'intera area politica.
Il bello è che nel campione rientra pure lui: condannato in via definitiva per traffico di influenze illecite e abuso d'ufficio. Parte integrante della statistica che annuncia col sorriso.
Trent'anni a ripetere che a delinquere sono sempre gli altri. Un anno e mezzo a Rebibbia per scoprire che a farlo sono i propri simili.
Grazie del dato, Gianni. Sulla predisposizione della destra alla galera, da oggi abbiamo un più che attendibile testimone.
Ricordiamo anche che hanno dovuto metterlo insieme a gente di destra probabilmente per la contiguità del tipo di reati, perchè altrove lo avrebbero giustamente menato.
I’m on tour with my new book, The Reverse Centaur’s Guide to Life After AI. Catch me TONIGHT (Jun 25) in PHILLY and TOMORROW (Jun 26) in CHICAGO.
It's not often that someone on a panel says something that makes my jaw drop, but that's what happened earlier this week when the moderator of a panel I was on in Toronto described jailbreaking an iPhone as "rampant theft of IP."
Some context: the panel was in Toronto, and the nominal subject was "digital sovereignty," though all the panelists (except me) interpreted that to mean "sovereign AI." All of their interventions were focused on how Canada could build and operate its own AI, which I found very weird, since there is no AI-related threat to Canadian sovereignty. If Donald Trump ordered OpenAI and Anthropic to turn off all of Canada's chatbots tomorrow, nothing would change: every firm, ministry and household would operate as per normal:
Now, that's not to say that Canada doesn't have a digital sovereignty problem – it really does! Donald Trump and US Big Tech have fused into a single entity and Trump now orders US tech giants to terminate the online accounts of foreign officials who displease him. When Microsoft turns off your Office365 account, you lose your working files, your calendar, your address book, your email archives, and the Outlook email address you use to log in to every online service:
So while turning off Canada's chatbots would not inflict any real harm on Canada, M365 terminations could paralyse any federal or provincial ministry, any structurally important firm, and most Canadian households.
The threat doesn't stop there: Trump can also order Apple and Google to brick any of Canada's iPhones or Android devices – terminating individual officials' mobile access, or terminating whole provinces. It's not just iPhones either – Trump can also brick any tractor in Canada:
This is the real digital sovereignty risk, and Canada needs to address it now. But Canada can't – our hands are tied…by us. In 2012, we passed a law, The Copyright Modernization Act, that criminalizes "jailbreaking," meaning that Canadian companies can't go into business figuring out how to install different app stores on phones and consoles, or change the firmware in tractors to enable independent repair, or reliably export their cloud data to rival Canadian services:
Why did we pass this law? Because the Americans promised us free trade and no tariffs on our exports if we agreed to it. That's a promise Trump tore up, but we're still holding up our end of the bargain. That's crazy. It means that American companies can use Canada's courts to destroy Canadian businesses that offer the Canadian people tools to help them escape Big Tech's sleazy ripoffs of their data and cash.
And boy do those US tech companies take in a lot of cash. The US ad-tech duopoly of Google/Meta rig the advertising market, taking 51% out of every ad dollar through an illegal, collusive arrangement called "Jedi Blue":
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jedi_Blue
The US mobile tech duopoly takes 30 cents out of every dollar spent via an app, by forcing every app vendor to use their payment processors, which charge 1,000% more than any other payment processor in Canada. That means that every time a subscriber to a Canadian news site signs up through an app, 30% of the lifetime subscription revenue for that Canadian subscriber is funneled to one of two California companies.
The corollary, of course, is that if Canadian businesses were free to compete with US companies – if Canada stopped foolishly holding up its end of the bargain that Trump has dishonoured – then it would be as though every Canadian news outlet increased its subscriber base by 25% overnight! What's more, the Canadian companies that sell those jailbreaking tools would make billions out of US Big Tech's billions.
And that's where the moderator of this week's panel comes in. When I finished making this pitch, they turned to the rest of the panel and said something like, "Well, apart from rampant theft of IP, what else could Canada do to secure its digital sovereignty?"
That's when my jaw dropped. Making it possible for, say, a Canadian company to sell its own Canadian game to a Canadian customer, in Canada, without giving Apple or Xbox 30% of the purchase price, is not "theft of IP." It's not "theft of IP" for a rightsholder to sell their own products to their customers. It's not "theft of IP" for a Canadian owner of a device to decide for themselves which software they want to run on it. If buying software from the company that made it and installing it on a device you own is "theft of IP," then so is putting non-Nike shoelaces in your Air Jordans.
It's not "theft of IP." It's just good business. Moreover, it's the kind of good business that created America's tech giants in the first place. As Jeff Bezos tells his suppliers: "Your margin is my opportunity." US tech giants make whopping margins around the world, thanks to the anticircumvention laws that the US Trade Rep crammed down every US trading partner's throats, laws that allow US companies to use other countries' legal system to destroy their competitors.
I've been mulling this "rampant theft of IP" remark for a couple of days now, but it wasn't until a reader wrote to me to remind me about Apple's origin story that I realised what the punchline is. Apple founders Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak financed their first product launch by selling "Blue Boxes" (devices that let you make free long distance calls by cheating the phone company) door to door in the UC Berkeley dorms:
Now, I'm not going to weep for the lost revenues that Jobs and Woz denied to AT&T. After all, AT&T was stealing that money from its customers, which is why, just a few years later, a federal court convicted AT&T of monopolistic practices and broke the company up:
But the legal term for what a Blue Box does is "toll theft," which is to say, Apple – a company literally founded on theft – now makes the majority of its profits by convincing people that making a competing product is literally stealing. A company whose founders got their seed capital by marketing illegal circumvention devices now markets products designed to make it a crime for a rightsholder to sell their own work to you.
I've long said that "every pirate wants to be an admiral":
But this is just a little too on the nose. When Apple went into business selling products to rip off the phone company, that wasn't progress. When Canadians go into business selling devices that let iPhone owners use their own property to do legal things – like buying copyrighted works directly from their creators – that is not piracy.
Canada has a real digital sovereignty problem, and it's not AI. Canada will not mitigate its digital sovereignty risk by successfully launching a Made in Canada version of the money-losingest venture in the history of the human species:
https://www.wheresyoured.at/brokenomics/
Canada's real digital sovereignty problem is its reliance on the apps, cloud services and devices that are tethered to the American cloud, access to which Donald Trump could – and does – terminate whenever he feels grumpy. Trump has repeatedly threatened to annex Canada and turn us into "the 51st state." He's trying to steal Alberta right now. Our digital sovereignty risk is the risk of Trump paralysing our country in order to steal Alberta – or the entire shop.
We can address that digital sovereignty risk – and make billions at the same time – by legalising jailbreaking and becoming the world's "disenshittification nation." Unlike a program to build Canadian AI, this will make billions, not lose them – and unlike Canadian AI, this will make our country more resilient and safer, by delivering products that Canadians – and the world – want to buy and will pay us a fortune for.
Big Tech's margins are our opportunity.
If you'd like an essay-formatted version of this post to read or share, here's a link to it on pluralistic.net, my surveillance-free, ad-free, tracker-free blog:
Che poi pure anche fosse... "non è colpa nostra, rassegnamoci a morire" mi sembra un po' una minchiata.
E siamo comunque ben al di la di quello che comunque è scientificamente provato al di la di ogni RAGIONEVOLE dubbio.
Se poi il "ragionevole" dubbio arriva da Mimmobancomat69 che ha le stesse capacità di gestione del rischio di quelli de "eh signora mia, gli effetti collaterali dei vaccini"... un sentito VAFFANCULO.
The mainstream, centrist Democratic Party is like a waiter who keeps bringing you back the soup even after you tell him over and over you don't want the soup.
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