TaiCrunch

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[–] TaiCrunch@sh.itjust.works 4 points 1 day ago

Even better: they'll wear blue on Wednesday or something.

[–] TaiCrunch@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

The most they could do is try to arbitrarily make the licenses null and void, but there's no functional way to outlaw making code publicly available without also outlawing the entirety of HTML, CSS, and JavaScript.

[–] TaiCrunch@sh.itjust.works 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Of course it's Josh Hawley.

[–] TaiCrunch@sh.itjust.works 2 points 4 days ago

I think so, too. So I'm glad it doesn't happen.

[–] TaiCrunch@sh.itjust.works 9 points 4 days ago

It also looks like he's pushing the limits of what we'll let him get away with. Judging by how quickly everyone is rushing to figure out how to comply with these orders, it looks like he'll get away with a lot.

[–] TaiCrunch@sh.itjust.works 18 points 4 days ago (2 children)

So they expanded traffic to make it slightly more convenient for lawmakers to fly directly to their home states and didn't have enough air traffic controllers to accommodate the expansion.

How much you wanna bet we hear it was DEI initiatives that kept them from hiring enough qualified air traffic controllers? Since we're already blaming DEI anyway.

[–] TaiCrunch@sh.itjust.works 21 points 4 days ago (2 children)

The action requires federal agencies to review and potentially rescind funding from schools that teach concepts suggesting individuals are “inherently racist, sexist, or oppressive” based on their race or that America is “fundamentally racist.”

So, do nothing because this isn't actually happening? Like every other non-issue that's been created?

[–] TaiCrunch@sh.itjust.works 27 points 4 days ago

They've been going after public media since Nixon. Of course, it would hit their key demographic--rural areas--the hardest, who rely on public media for things like emergency alerts. Not to mention public media is the only source of local quality journalism for a lot of places.

But who cares about all that when we can let Sinclair Broadcasting take over and get rid of all that "woke" stuff?

[–] TaiCrunch@sh.itjust.works 2 points 5 days ago

Take matters into their own hands, just like they did in the coal mines 100 years ago?

[–] TaiCrunch@sh.itjust.works 1 points 5 days ago

The only reason they haven't is because our biggest platforms are built in the back of open-source software. Without actually contributing to it, of course.

[–] TaiCrunch@sh.itjust.works 3 points 5 days ago

And if you use ChatGPT the data is sent to the United States of America, including the chats you have with the AI.

Who will sell it to data brokers who will, in turn, sell it to China. And who knows how many other hostile foreign entities.

I'm honestly loving seeing corporate America melting down over being undercut by China like that hasn't been the basis of our entire economy since 1971.

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