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<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@whitequark" class="u-url mention">@<span>whitequark</span></a></span> they're all like that</p>
<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://hachyderm.io/@monkey1" class="u-url mention">@<span>monkey1</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@shriramk" class="u-url mention">@<span>shriramk</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@dabeaz" class="u-url mention">@<span>dabeaz</span></a></span> The time to read Dune is when you are 16. So too late, Shriram.</p><p>The movies are barely good enough for a flight (that's where I saw them, and I like and respect Denis Villeneuve in general). There is no real reason for them to have been made.</p>
<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@whitequark" class="u-url mention">@<span>whitequark</span></a></span> I see, I can't comment on the light vs. dark green :).</p>
<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://infosec.exchange/@malwareminigun" class="u-url mention">@<span>malwareminigun</span></a></span> I disagree that it was democratic more than the "bare minimum", which by the definition accompanying the image above (which is on wiki although I haven't put it into the post) would have qualified it as "light green" electoral democracy not "dark green" liberal democracy</p>
<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@whitequark" class="u-url mention">@<span>whitequark</span></a></span> Getting people to stop wanting the liberal democracy takes decades but there are certainly important inflection points where switches are thrown. The system that put DJT in power was democratic. Whether we can say that in 2026 is unfortunately in question :(</p>
<p>My PyCon US 2025 talk was about the use and abuse of OCR, including license plate scanners. It may have come off as conspiracy theory thinking, but it's quite feasible with current technology. <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bHUvzkuf3Qk" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="">youtube.com/watch?v=bHUvzkuf3Qk</span><span class="invisible"></span></a></p><p>And now our modern-day secret police Gestapo is using it: <a href="https://san.com/cc/ice-illegally-gains-informal-access-to-nationwide-license-plate-camera-network/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">san.com/cc/ice-illegally-gains</span><span class="invisible">-informal-access-to-nationwide-license-plate-camera-network/</span></a></p>
<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://infosec.exchange/@malwareminigun" class="u-url mention">@<span>malwareminigun</span></a></span> that's what I mean! a country does not go from "100% healthy democracy on par with best of the world" to "fascist dictatorship" in the span of two years. these changes take decades</p>
<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@whitequark" class="u-url mention">@<span>whitequark</span></a></span> It does say 2023.</p>
<p>who called it crispr and not gene hackman</p>
