Understandable. FWIW members (15 USD/month at this time) get a discount and the option to use one of the credits you get each month. So Dune can be had for 14.99. I get the pricey books with credits, others I use the discount for. It’s a bit odd and I don’t love memberships, but I do want to support ownership models where they still exist.

If you share access with friends and family using a self-hosted audiobook server then the value really sky-rockets.

instead of giving money to a Bezos/Amazon owned service, you can support services like libro.fm that let you download/own the audiobook mp3 outright.

“Your stroke signature does not match our records”

What nonsense? Look it up in a thesaurus.

Yes, people want skilled professionals. Who says they shouldn’t? They should also care about a system that favors a dominant class largely because of historic access to (stolen) capital. After all, that would reduce competition and competency.

What’s being implied by bringing up “merit” as antithetical to DEI is that you can’t trust people outside of the dominant class to do the work competently. If that were the case, the problem is not DEI, it’s upstream: fair access to education and opportunities, but I don’t hear DEI opponents crying about that.

Reminder that “merit” is a synonym for “supremacy”

It shouldn’t be. Unfortunately, afaik, no lawsuits have been settled yet. Seems like Anderson v. Stability Ai is the one to watch with regard to OP.

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All that inauguration money can only buy so much protection.

That depends if you consider his executive order talk of starting a fire, or just starting a fire.

If the regulators are made up of selfish individuals who are captured by industry (lobbyists, campaign contributions, etc) then what? Please don’t say elect new officials, unless you have a solution to misinformation and the massive financing necessary to get elected.

It seems we’re stuck and we’re all just waiting for the selfish person to do the right thing. What if the selfish person is us? Perhaps the best way to navigate an unjust system is to participate as little as possible. And with that extra time we can organize and apply political pressure.

Has everyone forgotten that Trump mainstreamed the ban-TikTok rhetoric?

Funny because Trump brought it up before Biden was in office. “Man praised for putting out fire after starting said fire.” Lucky for him it seems TikTok users have memories as short as their media.

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Yes. I encrypt because theft. I know PopOS and Mint make it 1-click ez. …unless of course you want home and root on a separate drives. That scales difficulty real fast. There’s plenty of tutorials, and I managed, but I had to patch together different ones to get a basic setup-- Never mind understanding exactly what I did and repeating it (the latest challenge I’ve been dragging my feet on). I do hope this is an area that sees more development in the near future.

People, listen to Juvenile and “back that thang up!” That man understand the importance of data redundancy.

Sorry, their comment hadn’t been posted when i loaded the thread. Much obliged.

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Understood. Thank you for the added context. I was not familiar with the “years of lead” phrase. I agree. It does not take a lot of effort to neutralize opposition. You reminded me of the Steve Bannon quote to “…flood the zone [the media] with shit.” Attention algorithms have only accelerated it. It has made it very difficult for Americans to focus on a core issue and organize around it. A new insane thing is pushed out before the previous one can be digested.

That makes sense to me. I’m a little fuzzy on “an ideological years of lead dynamic,” what do you mean by that?