10 Oct 2024
drinking games with the Devil
Should I get into a drinking game with the Devil? No, for three important reasons unrelated to your skill at the game.
The Devil can out-drink you.
The Devil can drink substances that are toxic to you even in small quantities.
The Devil can cheat in ways that you will not be able to detect, and take advantage of rules loopholes that you might not understand.
What if I am really good at the skills required for the game? Still no. Even if you have an accurate idea of your own skill level, it is hard to estimate the Devil’s skill level. And even if you have roughly equally matched skills, the Devil still has the three advantages above.
What if I’m already in a drinking game with the Devil? I can’t offer a lot of help here, but I have read a fair number of comic books. As far as I can tell, your best hope is to delay playing and to delay taking a drink when required to. It is possible that some more powerful entity could distract the Devil in a way that results in the end of the game.
Bonus links
IAB,
Others Urge Court To Reconsider Ruling That Curbed Section 230 (this
is why the legit Internet is going to win. The lawyers needed to defend
the blackout challenge
are expensive, and a lot of state
legislators will serve for gas money. As legislators learn to introduce
more, and more
diverse, laws on Big Tech the cost imbalance will become
clearer.)
In
the Trenches with State Policymakers Working to Pass Data Privacy
Laws Former state representative from Oklahoma, Collin Walke,
said that one tech company with an office in his state
hired about 30
more lobbyists just to lobby
on the privacy bill he was trying to
pass.
Risks
vs. Harms: Youth & Social Media Of course, there are harms
that I do think are product liability issues vis-a-vis social media. For
example, I think that many privacy harms can be mitigated with a design
approach that is privacy-by-default. I also think that regulations that
mandate universal privacy protections would go a long way in helping
people out. But the funny thing is that I don’t think that these harms
are unique to children. These are harms that are experienced broadly.
And I would argue that older folks tend to experience harms associated
with privacy much more acutely.
Google
Search user interface: A/B testing shows security concerns remain
For the past few days, Google has been A/B testing some subtle visual
changes to its user interface for the search results page….Despite a
more simplified look and feel, threat actors are still able to use the
official logo and website of the brand they are abusing. From a user’s
point of view, such ads continue to be as misleading.
Ukraine’s
new F-16 simulator spotlights a ‘paradigm shift’ led from Europe
(Europe isn’t against technology
or innovation,
they’re
mainly just better at focusing on real problems.)