Arainach

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by Arainach 5d ago
By 2023, it's not "hosting interviews with political opponents" - it's obvious that giving a voice and publicity to people like RFK Jr. is actively harmful to society. Freedom of speech means we don't throw RFK in
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by Arainach 5d ago
Since 2016, he's appeared repeatedly in conservative outlets (including pushing conspiracy theories about Ukraine), gotten fired for uncritically pushing unsubstantiated claims from the Trump campaign as journalism, hosted a video podc
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by Arainach 5d ago
If you have no idea what their real name, and their user name doesn't seem to be related to their real name, then the "joke" doesn't make any sense and would fall flat. So either you made a joke that isn't funny or
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by Arainach 5d ago
> Greenwald had to shift to alt media Greenwald didn't "have" to do anything. His politics took a sharp turn towards the right-wing fringe and he lost his original audience.
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by Arainach 5d ago
In general, joking that people's promotions are due to their names is thinly veiled racism, especially considering it's a very real phenomenon[0]. Jokes in general are, if not explicitly against site norms, discouraged: "Comm
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by Arainach 6d ago
I have no doubt every organization is different, and to some degree different teams in organizations are different, but I've been fortunate enough to work at several employers where "staff" or "principal" truly mean
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by Arainach 6d ago
This was never really true at most places, and even where it was sort of true, it's been false since 2023. The ladder has collapsed. No more juniors to mentor and grow (in some cases no more US hiring period), and all of the carrots h
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by Arainach 7d ago
> I don’t think you can say he’s in any way close to the Oceangate gu They both have loud, stupid, and obviously wrong ideas about how hard diving in the sea is or isn't.
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by Arainach 8d ago
It doesn't help that this is being forced from above. I agree you can't turn off your brain, but any time I argue that AI isn't the right tool for something management gets angry. There is a constant push to fully automate
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by Arainach 9d ago
> that AI can do everything economically necessary Who gets to define this? Those with power are famously bad at understanding long-term implications, how things work, and what matters - especially when it comes to funding things like r
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by Arainach 9d ago
> an interspecies kiss was surely much worse than an interracial kiss to those who were uptight about such things. It wasn't. Neither NBC nor the producers expressed any concerns over interspecies kisses.
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by Arainach 9d ago
The statistics and my experience disagree. Those stop signs lead to a lot of people blowing through them at high speed and plenty of deaths, especially in the dark.
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by Arainach 9d ago
Which Star Trek was "trusting the viewer to draw their own conclusions"? Was it the one where Kirk used "half-breed" as an insult so horrible and hurtful that it would reveal an android as an imposter (in a period where
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by Arainach 9d ago
Sci-fi has always been political. Star Trek exists because Gene Roddenberry's military drama was cut for making political statements[0], so he moved the political statements to be in space in the future. [0] https://collider
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by Arainach 9d ago
Everything is political. If you think it's not, you're just benefiting from the status quo and blind to it. Even ignoring that history loves to repeat itself, plenty of politics in all forms of media has aged excellently, and ple
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by Arainach 13d ago
I enjoy murals and graffiti art. Taggers who just put their names on walls, however, are a cancer
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by Arainach 13d ago
I don't agree with your claim, but assuming you're right: Do you think that trying to solve "bad parenting" is less intrusive than cameras in robotaxis?
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by Arainach 13d ago
Among the reasons are that kids (and some adults) are idiots. That's it, it's not income inequality or rage at the system, some people just break things because they think it's funny. That's not something you can fix, s
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by Arainach 13d ago
On the contrary, we have a long history of evidence that when people think they aren't being watched, enough of them will do awful things. This is why public restrooms in the US are vandalized, why there are low effort graffiti tags al
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by Arainach 14d ago
People are awful when they think they aren't being watched, especially with communal or other people's property. It's why things are covered in lame low-effort graffiti tags, why bathroom mirrors have things scratched into t
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by Arainach 15d ago
Given that the models have been proactively hacking other companies, why does it matter where the code currently is? It could move to any of them.
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by Arainach 15d ago
Don't just post raw LLM output. If anyone wanted that they could ask an LLM themselves. https://distantprovince.by/posts/its-rude-to-show-ai-output-...
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by Arainach 18d ago
https://www.theverge.com/2023/3/28/23659191/amazon-sidewalk-...
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by Arainach 18d ago
I (and most users) don't care about that. Having a great app for YouTube and other services I use is far more important than being able to stream pirated content.
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by Arainach 18d ago
No, it's not. Let's start with the disclaimer that I work for Google, not the Android TV team, all words my own, etc. The Shield at launch was an amazing product - premium UX and hardware, premium price point. Google changed the
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by Arainach 19d ago
No, there really aren't. I turn on the device, the app in the upper left is selected and showing some content from that. The device sits idle, I get drone footage of landscapes. If I accidentally bump the wrong button on the remote and
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by Arainach 19d ago
> Both actions are equivalent, as such words are (social and/or political) capital bounties offered to the masses in return for fulfilling the death of said politician. Neither the law nor common interpretation of words agrees with
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by Arainach 19d ago
That doesn't follow. It's OK to say you wish a politician was dead. It's not OK to pay someone to kill them. It's OK to say that you support some criminal activity (let's say Luigi), but it's not OK to offer
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by Arainach 19d ago
Money isn't speech.
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by Arainach 19d ago
> Hmm, I would have expected more outrage from the US "free speech absolutists" over this US government decision The crowd that claims to be in favor of free speech should be in favor of free speech for everyone, not just US ci

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