* focus locally; getting invoked with local politics by supporting local candidates with your time and effort - the state department runs programs to talk to city and state officials concerning foreign policy matters and city’s and local governments can create pressure on federal representatives from those states.
* vote with your wallet; boycotts and divestments are tools ordinary people have to effect conglomerates. Ensure your retirement money is not invested with companies engaging with the political ideas you do not agree with
* protest; attending in person events shows leaders numbers and images that are harder to ignore than their consultants’ polling data.
I've done all of those and while I think they are important i believe it's most important to let politicians know, otherwise they rely too much on money.
Pointing that whatever people think they are doing is not working does not mean we have to propose a solution. I'd suggest revolution, but that won't ever happen in the US.
The default is to allow non-Mozilla user agents so that existing (good) automation continues to work and so that people stopped threatening to burn my house down. Lovely people in the privacy community.
This month I'm recovering from major surgery. I'm okay, it's something I've been waiting to get done for a very long time. I'm just bored in recovery and running out of my science YouTube backlog.
...but, like, why even offer an API at that point? Now every API-initiated PR is going to be suspect. And this will only work until the bots figure out the internal API or use the website directly.
This is honestly one of the most hilarious ways this could have turned out. I have no idea how to properly react to this. It feels like the kind of thing I'd make up as a bit for Techaro's cinematic universe. Maybe some day we'll get this XKCD to be real: https://xkcd.com/810/
But for now wow I'm not a fan of OpenClaw in the slightest.
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