GaryBluto

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by GaryBluto 1mo ago
This sounds incredibly neurotic and more than a little cultish. How long until Zitron starts a nice little AI-free settlement in Guyana?
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by GaryBluto 1mo ago
I've come to see Ed Zitron's dramatic predictions as reminiscent of a trend I noticed on YouTube a while back; Whenever you'd look up anything pertaining to China's future, you'd inevitably find your screen plastere
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by GaryBluto 1mo ago
Those people are still in control of their actions, with the exception of those with untreated mental illnesses who are even more likely to be a danger to you and others if apprehended.
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by GaryBluto 1mo ago
Nobody is forcing people to risk their lives to infringe on other people's rights. Whenever I see a news article about a criminal killed in the act, I never think "I wish they were alive.", I think "I wish they never wen
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by GaryBluto 1mo ago
It appears the author seems to be neglecting his optimized website in favour of a Substack[1]. Never revisit(?) your heroes I suppose. [1] https://mceglowski.substack.com/
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by GaryBluto 2mo ago
> What were the Zines evidence of? Protected speech? Evidence of conspiracy. > We have days worth of footage of storming the Capital and yet dozens were given full pardons. They're political charges. So just because something bad
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by GaryBluto 2mo ago
> they're abusing terrorism charges to send someone away for life for moving zines. You can make anything sound idiotic if you simplify it enough. They're trying to send someone away for hiding evidence. Using your logic you co
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by GaryBluto 2mo ago
I've got to agree there. The whole article had the smell of somebody arguing with themself.
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Tim Curry Has Died(en.wikipedia.org)
80 points by GaryBluto 2mo ago|2 comments
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by GaryBluto 2mo ago
Don't you see the irony in complaining about a hypothetical scenario in which Trump makes Dolly Parton's death about himself under a submission completely unrelated to Donald Trump?
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Back to the Future: Hypertext the Way It Used to Be(xanadu.net)
6 points by GaryBluto 2mo ago|0 comments
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by GaryBluto 2mo ago
We're discussing this on a submission of a dogmatic manifesto.
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by GaryBluto 2mo ago
I'd be interested to see the project author's reaction to this. Will he downgrade to an older version of the library out of principle?
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by GaryBluto 2mo ago
Believe it or not, the very first LLM was actually invented by Nazis who live on the dark side of the moon. The A in AI? Adolf. How many articles do we really need about how AI will break into your house and steal your TV, narrated from
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Komar and Melamid: The Most Wanted Paintings(awp.diaart.org)
1 points by GaryBluto 2mo ago|1 comments
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by GaryBluto 2mo ago
Considering moving to Fastmail myself. I usually use mailbox.org but they've been having far too many outages recently (some declared on their status page, some not). Problem is I use numerous E-Mail aliases for different services and
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by GaryBluto 2mo ago
I see how that was confusingly written. I'm not suggesting Anthropic are somehow retroactively causing it, just wondering if it could create a similar effect.
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by GaryBluto 2mo ago
I wonder if this watermarking system to lead to an increase in tortured phrases, believed to be caused by plagiarism evasion tools that change random words to applicable synonyms. https://arxiv.org/abs/2107.06751
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by GaryBluto 2mo ago
I think that throwing a submarine sandwich at anybody would be considered assault or battery (unwanted, offensive physical contact), although I do think selective enforcement could be a real problem in the future.
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by GaryBluto 2mo ago
You mean the guy who assaulted a federal officer and got off scot-free? Woe is him.
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Emergency alerts sent to millions across England over threat of wildfires(news.sky.com)
4 points by GaryBluto 2mo ago|1 comments
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Some of tech's CEO suite is cloning itself with AI. What happens next?(bbc.com)
3 points by GaryBluto 2mo ago|0 comments
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Mozilla revokes Firefox signing key after unencrypted copy lands in GitHub(theregister.com)
12 points by GaryBluto 2mo ago|3 comments
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Powered by mushrooms, living computers are on the rise (2025)(engineering.osu.edu)
5 points by GaryBluto 2mo ago|0 comments
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by GaryBluto 2mo ago
I'd argue anonymity is a component of privacy.
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by GaryBluto 2mo ago
Most consider privacy important.
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by GaryBluto 2mo ago
>It is difficult to believe you are approaching this in good faith when you started with drug testing and background checks, then pivoted to it being about tax brackets, I wasn't claiming there needs to be all of those in the first
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by GaryBluto 2mo ago
Putting on a seatbelt adds a negligible 3 second delay to get where you need to go in exchange for a valuable addition to safety. I'm saying that Rx Kids needs at least a seatbelt, I'm not asking for constant eye tracking to be re
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by GaryBluto 2mo ago
I suppose it's about finding a balance. I understand not having unreasonable amounts of repetitive checks, but if you make it too easy to abuse more than a few people will abuse it, which takes away money from the people who need it.
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by GaryBluto 2mo ago
> All of the checks you listed would just serve to make it harder for this money to reach the mothers that need it. In the same way seatbelts just serve to make it harder for drivers to get to where they need to go quickly. It would not

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