Unexpected KACA

https://github.com/hxu296/tariff/blob/main/tariff/__init__.py#L27

(caca is a slang term for poop)

Haven’t seen these two paint alternatives mentioned yet:

1. Krita
2. Inkscape

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Indeed, hence the dumb joke

Palantir sounds like a medical condition of the feet. Palantir Facetious or something.

ETA: in case you don’t get it

Yo, that’s Benn Fucking Jordan, aka The Flashbulb!

He’s always had great views on this stuff. From his wiki about piracy:

After the collapse of Sublight Records, instead of taking on another contract, Jordan purchased his previous licenses and released his most anticipated album, Soundtrack to a Vacant Life, on his own record label, Alphabasic Records. On the day of its release, he personally uploaded copies of the album to music piracy sites, including a small HTML file explaining his relaxed views on file sharing and showing listeners where they could give support if they desired. This resulted in attention by the mainstream press, and the album became the most downloaded album on many popular file sharing networks.

Jordan has spoken extensively on issues of net neutrality, free speech, and copyright laws in the music world. In an interview with TorrentFreak, he encourages involvement in these issues and warns against corporations like Amazon or iTunes and their ability to stem the free flow of information. File sharing, to Jordan, is a way of bypassing this potential oppression and accessing information freely. In the aforementioned interview, Jordan notes that “file trading is just a peephole to a much larger picture. Copyright, in its current state, holds information at ransom for monetary value. While in music it can stifle culture and art, with literature and education it can be nothing less than a weapon of class warfare.”

In a 2024 episode of “The New Music Business” podcast Jordan reviewed these perspectives in the context of having been the subject of False Streaming Activity and having had his music taken down by distributors.

Implying that rich motherfuckers aren’t the actual problem, and were before AI was even a thing

I’m really surprised this hasn’t been discovered more often, but maybe it’s just early and more cards will start to fall soon.

That’s all his base needs, a different name. They won’t question it further than that.

It’s ok, our soldiers are like the Nazis, they will treat you with love. /s

It’s a really interesting thought, and under ideal circumstances would work IMO. Obviously things are never ideal and there would be all sorts of roadblocks and gotchas as something like this was developed. Things we could think of now, and other things we probably couldn’t. Not to mention the whole problem of, “who develops it and how much trust can you give them?”

As I was reading the idea, it made me think of the suits from A Scanner Darkly that the undercover narcs wore. Basically heavily obfuscated the voice and displayed always-changing patchwork human features to anyone observing from the outside, including trying to hide body shape. Something like that could get similar results. Obviously a video filter would be much easier to develop than a sci-fi suit, but still.

The question remains: did you hit CTRL+ALT+F3 because you needed to clean your monitor, or do you need to clean your monitor because you hit CTRL+ALT+F3?