A Journal of Impossible Things

before realizing i

was asexual.

Source LINK

This is how the EU itself is reporting on it in their daily press releases LINK Note that they are trying to frame it as "just making sure there's no CSAM in the emails!", which we know is not what chat controls are for in the end. Chat control 2.0 is still unresolved, but now that they pushed through 1.0 even though majority voted against it, that weakens 2.0's resistance.

Meanwhile, enjoy this picture from May of this year where the EPP who was reviving chatcontrol 1.0 is shaking hands with Zucky

There is one issue with this whole thing and that is: none of these things that tech bros are advertising are actually inconvenient, and in most cases they're the exact opposite.

Setting up apple pay (in my experience) is a hassle, and is a security vulnerability (the more companies directly connected to your bank, the more likely it is to get hacked), all for what? So you can take 3 less seconds taking out and swiping/inserting a card?

Untangling wired headphones? A hassle sure. Not as much of a hassle as losing only one ear pod, or one ear pod consistently dying faster than the other, or pairing issues, or worse sound quality at a higher price because it's wireless. How is any of that more convenient? It's like the same amount of convenience

Or how about siri and google always missing hearing what you say? Censoring swears despite being an adult? Going off when you don't say it's name?

Having algorithms currate your own feed leading to echo chambers, and radicalization pipelines, and making it harder to find the stuff you want,with yts new horrible search algorithm etc etc

None of these are more convenient, they're the same amount or worse. But guess what? They make money. So they're sold as convenient.