jtrek

If we had some sort of new Nuremberg trial he might die in front of a crowd.

I had a similar thought. A nice HUD for navigation would be nice. But we live in the bad place, so it's all privacy invading enshittifying trash.

Things being illegal doesn't mean they don't happen. And, again, if people were redlined in 1960 and now a neighborhood is mostly black, that didn't magically go away in 2026. The consequences are lasting.

Furthermore, as an individual, fighting more powerful institutions (eg: banks, the government) is not trivial. Shrugging it off with "you should report is" is technically true, but not a complete solution nor especially practical.

Breaking everything down to racism is naive

Well that's not what's happening in this discussion, so okay

focusing on what actually keeps people segregated, like socioeconomic status.

Deeply tied into race, historically and presently.

Regardless, the point stands that there's few to no good reasons for an employer to know your address during the application process, and a lot of bad ones.

This isn’t the 1960’s. There’s no more segregation and people can live wherever they afford.

Redlining is less of a thing, but there are still areas that are predominantly populated by different ethnic groups. Furthermore, the consequences of housing segregation are still felt today. It's not like the people who were forced to live in "undesirable" neighborhoods in the 1960s got reshuffled around.

To say "there's no more segregation" is naive.

And even furthermore, it opens the door for unfair judgements like "oh they live in a bad neighborhood", which might not be first order racist, but are still undesirable. There's no need for it. Only unfair things can come from the information.

I just... I don't have a horse in this race. I'm a cis dude. This should just be between some other family and their doctors/therapists to decide what's best.

Had an exchange that went like

"The workers don't know how to run the business"

"Did the owner tell you that?"

"... shit."

If I was in charge, I'd make some changes to the job process

• you must post the salary
• if you post a job and it's determined there was no intent to fill the role, you must pay every applicant a year's salary. Whistleblowers also get a payout.
• making the applicant fill out a form that duplicates information on the resume (eg: name, phone) is illegal.
• asking for the applicant's address is illegal. They were going to use this for racism. You can ask about time zone and willingness to commute to the office
• employers must pay workers for their commute at their normal hourly rate.
• Ghosting an applicant (no response without a rejection or hire for a month) results in a fine. Pay the applicant 3 months salary.

All other fines now scale with wealth of the perpetrator

Class solidarity

There's a thing in our culture where we simultaneously tell people to work hard, and to become the guy at the top who doesn't work.

CEOs and managers and such often don't really do much work. They're not in the weeds making the thing go. They don't spot that O(n^2) algorithm and fix it so the site doesn't go down under load. They send a message that says "site seems slow", and someone actually fixes it.

This is a problem all over. The people we let make decisions aren't the people doing the work. They don't know how things work.

AI creates a smaller version of this. It turns you into an idiot leader, but without the benefit of taking all the profits from labor.

I get most of my music from Bandcamp, on bandcamp friday's. It sucks they sold out and are probably circling the drain, but for a long time they were a solid independent source.

Buying directly from the band at a show or through their label is also cool.

It's more of an up-front cost, but after years of doing this I have a large drm-free library.

I really thought this was the onion. Satire is dead.

Where does "I did a web search and found an answer on an AI generated source" land? I feel like the Internet is increasingly infected, and finding actual answers to stuff is hard.