#Excise policy case

[bhaskarlive]

Manish Sisodia petitions Delhi HC demanding stay on trial in excise policy case

Senior AAP leader and former Delhi Deputy Chief Minister Manish Sisodia has petitioned the Delhi High Court seeking a stay on trial of the money laundering case linked to the alleged liquor policy scam.

Source: bhaskarlive.in

[kimskashmir]

Excise policy case: Supreme Court to hear Delhi CM Arvind Kejriwal's bail plea today

NEW DELHI — The Supreme Court will on Wednesday hear a plea filed by Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal seeking release from jail in connection with the Delhi excise policy case, in which he is under investigation by the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI). A bench of justices Surya Kant and Ujjal Bhuyan will take up Kejriwal’s two petitions, which have separately challenged the August 5…

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Excise Policy Case : हाईकोर्ट ने CBI को भेजा नोटिस; 17 जुलाई को अगली सुनवाई

Excise Policy Case : दिल्ली उच्च न्यायालय ने उत्पाद शुल्क नीति मामले से जुड़े एक सीबीआई मामले में जमानत की मांग करने वाली याचिका पर सीबीआई को ��ोटिस जारी किया। हाई कोर्ट ने अरविंद केजरीवाल की जमानत पर सीबीआई को नोटिस जारी कर जवाब मांगा है। सीबीआई को एक सप्ताह के अंदर अपना जवाब दाखिल करने का निर्देश दिया है। अगली तारीख 17 जुलाई है। NEET Paper Leak : हरियाणा से जुड़ रहा पेपर लीक का कनेक्शन दिल्ली…

[rightnewshindi]

आबकारी नीति मामले में अरविंद केजरीवाल को मिली बड़ी राहत, कोर्ट ने 15 हजार के मुचलके पर दी जमानत

आबकारी नीति मामले में अरविंद केजरीवाल को मिली बड़ी राहत, कोर्ट ने 15 हजार के मुचलके पर दी जमानत

Delhi News: आबकारी नीति मामले में दिल्ली के मुख्यमंत्री अरविंद केजरीवाल को राउज एवेन्यू कोर्ट से जमानत मिल गई। कोर्ट ने अरविंद केजरीवाल को जमानत के लिए 15 हजार के मुचलके पर बेल बोंड भरने के लिए कहा। इस दौरान राउज एवेन्यू कोर्ट ने दोनों पक्षों को संबंधित दस्तावेज पेश करने के लिए कहा। वहीं अरविंद केजरीवाल के वकील रमेश गुप्ता ने कहा कि ED की तरफ से पूरे दस्तावेज नहीं दिए ग‌ए हैं। वो दिए…

[cencuser]

[uniqueeval]

Excise policy case: Supreme Court to hear Kavitha's bail plea on August 27

Supreme Court to hear BRS leader K. Kavitha’s bail plea in a money laundering case linked to the Delhi excise policy scam. File | Photo Credit: The Hindu The Supreme Court is scheduled to hear on Tuesday (August 27, 2024) the bail plea by Bharat Rashtra Samithi (BRS) leader K. Kavitha in a money laundering case linked to the alleged Delhi excise policy scam. A bench of justices B. R. Gavai and…

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सत्येंद्र जैन को सुप्रीम कोर्ट से झटका, याचिका पर विचार करने से किया इनकार

Creative Common न्यायमूर्ति मनोज मिश्रा और न्यायमूर्ति एसवीएन भट्टी की अवकाश पीठ दिल्ली उच्च न्यायालय के 28 मई के आदेश के खिलाफ जैन की चुनौती पर सुनवाई कर रही थी, जिसने उनकी डिफ़ॉल्ट जमानत याचिका को 9 जुलाई, 2024 तक के लिए स्थगित कर दिया था। पीठ ने कहा कि यह कहने की आवश्यकता नहीं है कि जमानत प्रार्थनाओं को अनावश्यक रूप से स्थगित नहीं किया जाना चाहिए। सुप्रीम कोर्ट ने मंगलवार को उम्मीद जताई कि…

[mariacallous]

A years-long effort to change how colleges respond to reports of sexual harassment and discrimination and to expand protections for transgender students is dead after a federal judge ruled Thursday that the Biden administration’s overhaul of Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972 was unlawful.

The court order vacates the rule nationwide and could create more confusion for colleges as they seek to move forward without running afoul of the federal gender equity law. The Title IX changes were already on hold in 26 states and at hundreds of colleges, thanks to a series of lawsuits from 26 Republican attorneys general. Thursday’s order is the first final ruling in those cases and was part of a lawsuit brought by Indiana, Kentucky, Ohio, Tennessee, Virginia and West Virginia.

Republican lawmakers and state officials celebrated the ruling as a victory for women and girls while advocates for LGBTQ+ students criticized the decision as an attack on transgender students. The Biden rule allowed students to use the bathrooms and locker rooms that align with their gender identity.

Chief Judge Danny Reeves of the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Kentucky, who previously criticized the rule, wrote in a 15-page opinion that the regulations suffer “significant constitutional infirmities.” For instance, using the wrong pronouns for a student could be considered harassment under the rule. That provision “offends the First Amendment,” wrote Reeves, a George W. Bush appointee.

“As expected, courts have continued to find it impossible to justify the Biden administration’s changes to Title IX rules eviscerating students’ speech and due process rights,” said Tyler Coward, lead counsel for government affairs at the Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression, a free speech and civil liberties advocacy organization.

The ruling is the latest legal setback for Biden’s higher ed agenda, which hasn’t fared well in federal court.

‘Back in Time’

Colleges and universities will now revert to the previous Title IX rule, which took effect in summer 2020 during the first Trump administration. Those regulations required colleges to hold live hearings with an opportunity for cross-examination to allow those accused of sexual misconduct to confront their accusers—a provision the Biden rules nixed. Additionally, the 2020 regulations defined sexual harassment more narrowly than the Biden Title IX rule.

“Fitting, I guess—everything’s going back in time four years,” said Brigid Harrington, a higher education attorney at Bowditch & Dewey who focuses on compliance with civil rights laws. “Schools that had been enjoined were already there, so it doesn’t change things for many.”

Colleges don’t have to throw out all their new policies related to harassment and discrimination; they can keep the parts that don’t conflict with the 2020 rule. For example, under the 2024 regulations, colleges must give pregnant students notice of their rights, and the 2020 rule doesn’t prevent a college from doing so. (Reeves didn’t take issue with the pregnancy provisions but said, “It simply is not proper for the court to rewrite the regulations by excising the offending material.”)

Thursday’s ruling wasn’t a complete surprise for colleges and universities, considering the injunction and upcoming change in administrations. Andrea Stagg, director of consulting services at Grand River Solutions, a company that works with colleges on Title IX and other issues, said that colleges already have started talking about what to change in their policies and what to keep.

Still, reimplementing the 2020 regulations will mean retraining and re-educating students, staff and faculty about the changes.

“It’s very complicated, expensive and exhausting … and folks don’t have the resources,” she said. “For a field that already experiences a ton of burnout … it’s demoralizing to work so hard and then have the rules change on you.”

Several other lawsuits challenging the rule are still pending, and the Biden administration could appeal the decision to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit, so Thursday’s decision may not be the end of the legal battle over Title IX. The Education Department could not be reached for comment Thursday because the offices were closed in commemoration of former president Jimmy Carter’s passing.

“I don’t think this is the last that we’re going to hear of this,” said Harrington. “I think that civil rights are going to be a big topic for the next four years.”

A Repudiation or an Attack?

Republican attorneys general who sued the Biden administration and conservative advocates who criticized the rule celebrated the judge’s decision “as a massive win” and a sign that “common sense is slowly returning.”

“The court’s ruling is yet another repudiation of the Biden administration’s relentless push to impose a radical gender ideology through unconstitutional and illegal rulemaking,” Tennessee attorney general Jonathan Skrmetti said in a statement. “Because the Biden rule is vacated altogether, President Trump will be free to take a fresh look at our Title IX regulations when he returns to office [Jan. 20].”

President-elect Donald Trump has criticized Biden’s Title IX changes, and many experts expect him to issue new regulations that are more conservative than his 2020 rule, especially concerning LGBTQ+ students.

Congressional Republicans, who sought to overturn the Title IX rule, also praised the ruling and pledged to protect educational opportunities for women and girls. Passing legislation that would prevent transgender students from participating on the sports team consistent with their gender identity is a top priority for the House.

“It is clear the Biden-Harris administration completely lost its way on Title IX,” said Louisiana senator Dr. Bill Cassidy, the chair of the HELP committee, in a news release. “They betrayed the original intent of Title IX by removing longstanding protections that ensured fairness for women and girls.”

Representative Tim Walberg, the Michigan Republican who chairs the House Committee on Education and the Workforce, said that Biden’s proposed rewrite “would have undermined safety, freedom and fairness for women.”

Meanwhile, advocates for LGBTQ+ students and those who experience harassment or sexual violence described the ruling as an attack on trans students and others that would impact their educations.

“With these protections already removed in some states, students who experience sexual assault have had their complaints dismissed, or worse, been punished by their schools after reporting; pregnant students have been unfairly penalized for taking time off to give birth to a child; and LGBTQI+ students have faced vicious bullying and harassment just for being who they are,” said Fatima Goss Graves, president and CEO of the National Women’s Law Center.

Tracey Vitchers, executive director of It’s On Us, a national organization working to combat campus sexual assault, took issue with claims that overturning the Biden rule would protect women and girls.

“The 2020 regulations did well-documented harm to the safety of women and girls by making it more difficult to report and obtain justice if they experience sexual violence in school,” she said. “If preserving the rights and safety of women and girls was the actual litmus test for today’s decision, the judge would have chosen to uphold Biden’s rule. Instead, the safety of women and girls is being weaponized to discriminate” against trans people.

Vitchers added that while Title IX is important, colleges are required under state and federal laws to respond to reports of harassment and address student safety.

“Institutions are going to have to find ways to be creative to uphold the rights and safety of students on their campus under this new environment,” she said. “If Title IX is going to continue to be this horrible political football it has turned into, we need to see schools invest in evidence-based approaches to sexual violence prevention, because the ultimate goal is to ensure students have an education free of sexual violence.”

[wispstalk]

I've mused on the avoidance of racial politics in Oblivion but never really got into the broader ideological context. since I'm on one lately, I organized my thoughts and put them under the cut. 🚨BEWARE: EFFORTPOST🚨

for those who heed my warning and scroll by, enjoy this screenshot from when I was trying to find the post I linked above:

who the fuck shaved my beautiful blog 😔

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let's get the divine right shit out of the way

Despite the narrative at its heart, I don't think Oblivion is presenting a pro-monarchy message. No one in real life is an actual avowed monarchist anymore except for some maladjusted internet freaks, and we don't care about them, so I'm not gonna spill a bunch of ink on why feudalism sucks.

But still. Your HoK's job is to defend the bloodline, no matter how they might feel about it. If they don't, the idyllic heart of the Empire will fall to a demonically-aligned group of religious wackjobs whose only goal is wrecking shit for its own sake. Which could mean nothing.

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the war on terror uhhh devils and stuff

From George W. Bush's public address on Sept 20, 2001:

Americans are asking, why do they hate us? [...] They hate our freedoms -- our freedom of religion, our freedom of speech, our freedom to vote and assemble and disagree with each other.

After a sleeper agent attacks you in the street for the nth time, you might ask yourself: "Why are these people so hot to turn everything into the Deadlands? That place fucking sucks."

You don't get much insight to the Mythic Dawn. Even when you infiltrate their hideout, no one really makes a compelling case. Mankar Camoran's manifesto is full of impenetrable theological ravings (which is a fun touch, dgmw) and when you finally confront him, his justifications are pretty thin.

It is worth remarking that one character calls Camoran's writing "revolutionary." I don't think this line is intentional propagandizing. It's just the normative line of liberal democracy: revolutionaries are terrorists. Their motive is bloodthirst, and their end goal is chaos.

I wouldn't claim the demonic hordes are a stand-in for militant Islamist groups. If that had been the intent, Bethesda didn't need to be coy about it (cw: video link, breathtakingly racist).

Instead I think the Daedra represent the ambient, pervasive fear of the time. We were at war with the concept of terror itself, after all. Politicians and media outlets put aside their differences to tell the American public that we faced a profound existential threat, and we lapped that shit up.

Or some did. Despite this heartwarming feat of bipartisanship, plenty of people retained their critical thinking skills and mobilized a record-breaking international protest. Not everyone was in favor of expansionism.

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the machinery of empire

Now it's worth looking at Oblivion's weirder and cooler older sibling, Morrowind. Though it leaves plenty of room for your character development, the plot centers at least some extant critique of empire.

(please note it's been a long time and I'm murky on the plot but) the Nerevarine begins as a Blades asset who eventually brings an unruly province to heel. The player can interpret this any number of ways, but the game is explicitly presenting foreign intervention through the character of Caius Cosades. He leaves you to it once you become a self-sustaining instrument of soft power.

Most of this has been excised in Oblivion. In fact, Ocato tells the HoK that the Elder Council is pulling the Legion out of the provinces to address the crisis at home.

It's plausible to read this as a soft criticism of US foreign policy. There are a couple threads of non-interventionist thought that dominated opposition to the Iraq War: 1) the libertarian tendency, which was hardcore isolationist and 2) the liberal-left tendency, which called for defunding the military but might favor humanitarian aid to varying degrees.

Or it could just be a throwaway line. Fuck if I know! I still find it notable that the game had little interest in riffing on its predecessor, considering that the canon events are only a few years apart. Maybe something happened ✈️🏙️ that made people cagey about this stuff.

There was certainly a nod to religion as an arm of imperialism in Morrowind as well, through the missionaries. It makes sense that this wouldn't be visible in Cyrodiil, but where Morrowind gives you an ambiguous soup of competing faiths, Oblivion offers up a nice neat package.

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crystal dragon jesus

The evangelical Christian right had a lot of political capital to throw around in the early 2000s, and a lot of visibility thanks to George W.'s cozy relationship. Freaky fringe millenarian shit was everywhere-- like the Left Behind series, which made the NYT bestseller list a few times.

This did not go unchallenged. Plenty of people found the bigotry repellent, the lobbying was a subject of national debate, and even that bitch John McCain was briefly bold enough to level criticisms at celebrity pastors.

Pop-culture Christianity was fairly anodyne, though it pains me to admit that. A few Christian bands broke into the mainstream charts (idgaf what anyone says, P.O.D. had some bangers). The "youth pastor sitting backwards in a chair trying to be cool" meme describes a genre of guy that spawned around this time.

Being an atheist during this time was more isolating than it is these days, but for the most part, it was some relief that most Christians wanted to distance themselves from the vocal fringes.

Enter Martin, my boy, my #1 projection dolly. The catholic themes are laid on THICK with the tonsured monks and the stained glass and the "I was once a devotee of the Fuck God" reveal. But he's like, quietly religious. Humble about it, even. He expresses some doubt! But in the end, when it's really down to the wire, he kicks Satan Mehrunes Dagon's horned red ass and then his dad The Lord a dragon lifts him to the heavens wherever incoporeal dragons hang out, and all humanity is saved. Subtle 👌

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okay enough already

It could be argued that the fantasy genre as a whole skews reactionary-- other mega fantasy hits from the time were about returning to an ideal past (LOTR) and reviving traditions of the powerful (Eragon). Oblivion slots right into this. It is philosophically small-c conservative.

That doesn't automatically mean evangelical neocon. Maybe some of the game writers or company execs were those things. I'm not making any claims like that.

But evangelical neocons were in charge of the global hegemony back then. It went right past me back in 2008 when I first played, because even though I loathed those fucking hogs, I was fresh outta high school and hadn't developed much of an eye for latent ideological currents. Over a decade later, when I picked the game up again, all this stuff was glaringly obvious.

This was the sewage we all waded in, and thus the game is just a reflection of the status quo.

I leave you with this song, which has nothing to do with Oblivion but it's funny how it aged like milk. I've been sending it to my IRL pop-punk-fan friends to torment them.

[bhaskarlive]

Excise policy case: Arvind Kejriwal’s judicial custody extended till Aug 20

A court here on Thursday extended the judicial custody of Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal till August 20 in connection with the alleged excise policy scam.

CM Kejriwal was produced before the Rouse Avenue Court through video conferencing from Tihar Jail upon the expiry of his previously granted custody.

Source: bhaskarlive.in

[beardedmrbean]

Harvard University is bracing for two bills in its home state of Massachusetts this year that would target the school’s massive $51 billion endowment and policy of admitting legacy applicants.

One would hit Harvard and 10 other private colleges that have more than $1 billion in assets, including the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Williams College, with an annual 2.5% excise tax to fund state universities. 

A second bill would charge a fee on rich colleges that give legacy applicants a leg up in admissions and pass along the funds collected to community colleges.

While the state bills are coming from Democrats, Harvard is facing pressure mostly from Republicans on the federal level. The school is under investigation by two congressional committees for the way its handled antisemitism on campus in the wake of the Oct. 7 attack on Israel by Hamas. 

The federal scrutiny could bring new interest in the Massachusetts bills about Harvard’s tax treatment, said state Representative Simon Cataldo, a Democrat who introduced the legacy admissions bill last year.

“The shortcomings of how some prominent universities have addressed antisemitism has led to scrutiny of their practices in many different areas, including the fact that taxpayers are in essence paying for preferential treatment on billions of dollars they hold in their endowments," Cataldo said. “I say that as a Jewish legislator who is profoundly concerned about antisemitism on campus."

Harvard didn’t respond to a question asking for comment about the bills.

Harvard, the oldest and richest college in the US, has long been a target for its immense wealth. The House Ways and Means Committee is investigating the tax-exempt status of Harvard, MIT and two other universities. 

The preferential tax treatment given to Harvard adversely affects the state coffers, Cataldo said. 

“Taxpayers and the public at large are rightfully looking at the university’s conduct and thinking maybe more closely than we have in the past about how much taxpayers are paying for them," Cataldo said.

The legacy admissions bill would target Harvard, Williams and a half-dozen other colleges that give special preference to the children of almuni. The bill uses a formula determined by endowment value per student to determine fees based on a sliding scale. The money would go to a trust to fund community colleges. Harvard would be assessed about $100 million annually, Cataldo said. 

The excise tax bill on endowments would distribute wealth to offset tuition at public universities and could be used for universal pre-K, said Representative Natalie Higgins, a Democrat and a lead sponsor of the measure. It would generate $2 billion annually based on 2022 endowment values, with Harvard paying the most, $1.2 billion, followed by MIT with almost $600 million, according to sponsors.

“These institutions have benefited from a lot of protection and tax breaks, and they’ve hoarded a lot of wealth for centuries," said Higgins. “Not every student in Massachusetts has a shot in going to MIT or Harvard. But their endowments could make sure that all public higher education students at all 29 public colleges and universities could attend for free."

Even before the antisemitism drew attention to the campus, Harvard was under scrutiny for its legacy admissions policy, especailly after the Ivy League university lost a Supreme Court case over race in college admissions in June. The US Education Department is investigating whether Harvard discriminates by giving preference to undergraduate applicants with connections to alumni, after a group filed a complaint in July. 

The federal government successfully taxed more than three dozen private universities as part of the Republican-led tax cut in 2017. The colleges, including Harvard, Yale and Princeton universities, have been lobbying to remove it since the 1.4% levy on net investment income passed. The tax helps fund corporate tax cuts.

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Delhi Excise Policy Case : कोर्ट ने 23 अप्रैल तक बढ़ाई केजरीवाल की न्यायिक हिरासत

नई दिल्ली। Delhi Excise Policy Case  मनी लांड्रिंग मामले में मुख्यमंत्री अरविंद केजरीवाल की न्यायिक हिरासत 23 अप्रैल तक के लिए राउज एवेन्यू कोर्ट ने बढ़ा दी। न्यायिक हिरासत (Delhi Excise Policy Case) समाप्त होने पर ईडी ने केजरीवाल को तिहाड़ जेल से वीडियो कांफ्रेंसिंग के माध्यम से राउज एवेन्यू की विशेष अदालत के समक्ष पेश किया था। Priyanka Gandhi : चुनाव प्रचार को धार देने रुड़की पहुंचीं प्रियंका…

[leam1983]

"The Year of the Linux Desktop"

Every time someone from work mentions that to me, I feel like rolling my eyes.

Custom rigs should be custom. As in, the hardware, aesthetics, intended purpose and driving operating system - all of them should be in the user's hands. What a lot of diehards don't want to consider is that Windows is still one of those choices.

And the fact is, it still is. It still will be for decades to come.

I've been distro-hopping between Pop!OS, Linux Mint and Debian on my laptop. They all have their perks, they all have their respective drawbacks - no Wayland compositors for Mint, for instance, which hobbles any NVIDIA build by default. I keep hearing diehards mention that everything can be done on Linux, all the while typically failing to mention that oftentimes, the choice gets made not by the user, but by company policies, personal requirements, or simply aging hardware that's never so much as seen an open-source driver before. There's still plenty of cases where basic user operability requires Windows by default, and no amount of FOSS Bible-thumping will ever change that. By and large, the people I work with require complete office or graphics suites, not the valiant efforts of volunteer teams steadfastly climbing the Sisyphean ramp of Windows software parity.

And, well, like it or not, sometimes, you just wanna play that stupid fucking game of which the Easy Anti-Cheat implementation wasn't designed with Linux compatibility in mind. Because it's your library, your games, your own damn personal time.

"Well, then, play compatible games or games the Proton layer supports!" spout some of the diehards.

Fair enough; but what if I really want is to rejoin my cousin after hours to dick around in a cannabis-infused Destiny 2 raid? Am I really going to die on the hill of Open-Source software if I've got the rig, the game and the potential to play it?

Copilot is being reworked to include security restrictions following last week's immense backlash. So is Windows Recall - which you always could turn off entirely. Moreover, if Copilot's very existence offends you, just use a Debloater tool and excise it from your system. It'll come back after updates, but you'll always have the choice to remove it manually.

Yes, Windows 11 is bloated. Yes, Microsoft overreaches and overextends its grasp. No, these things are not as catastrophic as they seem, because any patient user with five minutes to spare can slim down a brand-new Windows install. If your only lasting argument is that your Linux distro doesn't require you to do so, then it's a question of personal choices, not moral value or definite requirement.

Linux won't ever be mainstream. It's too fiddly, too undefined, too fragmented between extremely specific distros and entire software forks that emerge more as base discontent than as an actual software-based value-added propositions. Cheers if you need NixOS, for instance, but do you really think Joe Average who has an aging rig he uses to file his taxes is going to bother learning the intricacies of one Package Manager over another?

Nerds like myself are a diverse bunch, and there's as many distros as there are types of nerds. That kind of fragmentation does not a market make.

I love Linux as much as any other Sysadmin, but I wouldn't put a distro on my personal rig without at least some form of dual-boot option to Windows. The last thing I want is to cross out games or services, to limit my choices for the sake of ideological purity.

[seewetter]

For search results free of AI you can use startpage.com (which gives you Google results without sharing your data with Google and omits the AI answer at the top). You can also go into your internet settings and make startpage your "default search engine" so that you don't use Google.

Alteratively, you can install Firefox and then open the Firefox settings (top right of your screen opens a menu, go to "Add-ons and themes" and in the search bar type "uBlock origin". Ublock not only stops data tracking, it also has a feature that lets you block any field on a website you don't like permanently. That includes removing the AI results from Google (or from DuckDuckGo, who unfortunately are now giving AI results. AI results that I hide with uBlock).

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When it comes to art, you will have to either find websites that block AI art (filter it out) like artstation or try your luck with tutorials online that teach you how to remove AI from your search results. Although again, if you are using Google Chrome, I recommend switching to Firefox and installing uBlock because Google harvests all your data and from that data they can learn how to circumvent your attempts at excising AI from your life.

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When it comes to a desire not to train AI models, I assume you have 1 (or maybe 2?) accounts with Microsoft through which you access Word, Excel, PowerPoint, that kind of software. If you don't want to switch to alternatives (like LibreOffice, which can replace Word for some people), you can go to the top left corner of Word/Excel/PowerPoint and click "File" > then "Options" at the bottom > "Trust Center" (also at the bottom left) > "Trust Center Settings" > Privacy Options > Privacy Settings > make sure there is NO checkmark in "Turn on optional connected experiences" (this is what trains Microsoft's AI models with your data) > now click the "OK" button at the bottom until you close all the open windows.

Now restart any Office programs you might have open and it will permanently(!) apply that policy to your Microsoft account across all programs (although you may want to check it every time you reinstall the software or use it on a different computer, just in case and you definitely have to do it for every account you have with Microsoft).

Once you have Firefox, uBlock and Startpage (or DuckDuckGo), you can also look up guides for how to disable Microsoft Copilot using PowerShell. This will not only disable that AI permanently on your computer, but it also prevents Microsoft from making a copy of every moment you spend on your PC (including when your banking passwords are visible on screen).

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As for job applications being screened via AI, the reality is that I can't fix that. I am unfortunately not an all-powerful deity. I guess we can organize protests and political pressure to stop businesses from doing this, but barring that I have nothing.

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Hope this has been helpful in detoxifying your web experience and feel free to ask questions if something's unclear. All the best. :3 <3

I wish there was a way to completely OPT OUT of AI. Like you could set your ENTIRE Internet browser to NOT shove it down your throat.

When social media was getting big, you could just NOT get a Facebook or a Twitter. It was simple as that. You can't do that with AI.

Trying to find a job? It goes straight to an AI filter. Trying to look at art? Here's 100+ ai shit. Trying to look up who was in what movie from the 1980s? GOOGLE GEMINI IS HERE WITH THE COMPLETELY WRONG ANSWER!

Someone PLEASE create a way to allow people to get AI the FUCK OUT of our lives if we DO NOT WANT IT!