Authoritarianism is the more efficient governing model.

The hard part is picking the right authority. That’s what the other models factor in. But yeah authoritarianism can be more efficient if we pick the perfect authority

Some people have done such horrible things beyond a shadow of a doubt that even death is too much of a mercy. They should be kept alive and tortured mentally and physically every day until they die of natural disease processes.

but…why? What good does this serve? It just wastes time and resources on the torture

OK well if the concern is scale then I do think that is solvable. There is work being done to automate cooking more and more

But we also need to go to the toilet a few times a day. Doesn’t mean everybody should do some plumbling. Why can’t food be treated like a utility, like electricity and water?

that list feels a bit outdated. What about write a simple program? Make basic 3d models and 3d prints? Some photography and video editing. Design a simple website. Even if you aren’t a tiktoker, these are fairly essential skills in the modern world. And if we’re throwing in poetry and painting, might as well throw in music, sports, sewing, gardening.

I’m not saying humans should specialize on a single skill. I just think people should be able to choose not to cook in favor of learning other skills. At a certain point, society should reach a point where somebody can say “I don’t need a kitchen in my house, I’ll just eat out all the time”.

Wouldn’t it be better to have affordable delivery food? Cooks focus on the cooking, regular people won’t have to spend so much time learning and doing cooking, and focus on their own work/play

there’s something like that in Bazzite! If you go to the menu -> system settings -> language -> keyboard, then physically unplug the keyboard, the keyboard should now be disabled!

I believe the UK too

I remember hearing the opposite, that strikes with a set duration were ineffective because management could just wait it out…

how many countries has Signal pulled out of so far? I keep hearing about it

If you’re a developer I recommend the stepsecurity article, a detailed breakdown of the attack. Some highlights about the nx-console attack:

• the malicious version of the extension was only up for 11 minutes before getting detected and taken down, but apparently that was enough to compromise a developer at Github
• portions of the malware were hosted on nx-console’s public Github repo, though hidden in a dangling orphaned commit
• data was exfiltrated through 3 channels, including using a victim’s Github credentials to publish the data on their own repos
• the malware looked for credentials like Github and AWS tokens, likely for future supply chain attacks, and may be the first to steal AI credentials (in this case Claude API)

From the bleepingcomputer article:

“As always this is not a ransom, We do not care about extorting Github, 1 buyer and we shred the data on our end, it looks like our retirement is soon so if no buyer is found we will leak it free,” the cybercriminals said. “If you are interested. Send your offers to the communications below, we are not interested in under 50k, the best offer will get it”

The stealing of AI credentials reminds me of a lemmy post from last year: the first ai agent worm. Imagine a virus that uses AI agents to dynamically probe systems and evolve to spread through infrastructure, meanwhile stealing AI credentials to pay for the tokens that the agents are consuming, a self-funding AI virus!