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by _wire_ 6mo ago
The suggestion that "hires" won't be human is so offensive; the greatest hazard of AI is the continuing of a 500-year program of chattel enslavement of people. But go ahead, but your little menagerie a virtual pizza party and
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by _wire_ 6mo ago
These devices are a form of social pollution, whereby the desires and demands of others are mechanically proxied into common spaces. When you negotiate others on the causeway, you are involved in human one-on-one exchanges with parity; each
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by _wire_ 6mo ago
Anytime any device in any context greets you with "Hello" or "Welcome", it is announcing that it doesn't belong to you, and that you must be vigilant to its exploitation of you. Windows is remarkable in that it is c
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by _wire_ 6mo ago
Talk about the target becoming the measure... "What our firm offers is re-alignment of your market data with the simulation"
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by _wire_ 6mo ago
For me, this is a memorable line from the 60s movie Becket with Peter O'Toole and Richard Burton, which is a character study about state power, belief and love based on history of King Henry and his Archbishop, done with strong produ
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by _wire_ 6mo ago
Within 10 minutes this presentation becomes exhausting. Summary: A thousand words are spoken where a hundred would to, including continuing repetitions of "um," "you know," and "right?", to make a point about r
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by _wire_ 6mo ago
Yet another sky-is-falling lament about domination and consolidation by "frontier" AI companies that offers the meager insight that ultimately capitalism is a corpse. A worthwhile question is begged: how will industry evolve human
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by _wire_ 6mo ago
Something is something than you think, part 1001
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by _wire_ 6mo ago
It used to be the codebase was made by people...
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by _wire_ 6mo ago
Republicans
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by _wire_ 6mo ago
The grid is always missing its 4th and most interesting quadrant: the "unknown knowns"; what Zizek calls the contents of ideology; or how Chomsky might regard UG. The unknowns that prescribe our capacity to know. As to "any
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by _wire_ 6mo ago
But HN is still partying like it's 1999... Couldn't he offer a 1/4 day for a HN revamp?
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by _wire_ 6mo ago
Prefer the observations that gen-AI can retrieve, in a manner that looks remarkably lifelike. Use gen-AI to assist composition, under the expectation that it will retrieve code with surprisingly high context sensitivity. Never expect gen-AI
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by _wire_ 6mo ago
Because oldschool is the future! Just ask AI. It's where the profits come from doing things the same old way that profits came from...
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by _wire_ 6mo ago
Incredibly cancerous technology that is obliterating privacy and eclipsing local control of devices. Following the lead of Microsoft PC, the device is a trojan horse for unstated, unregulated interests of the app. The half-life of enshittif
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by _wire_ 6mo ago
A thoughtful review of the filmography of Mani Haghighi, and on his influences, eg Abbas Kiarostami. (By Richard Brody.)
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by _wire_ 6mo ago
EnPoopification... Let 'em in early to build the brand then shut 'em out later to protect it. The point of any media outlet is thought control, and venture capital knows the vital importance of thought control to returns on invest
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by _wire_ 7mo ago
What's the context of approval? To approve, of course! Those little scamps. Oh, they grow up so fast.
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by _wire_ 7mo ago
MAGA: Make Apple Great Again " I'm not here to turn Apple around... " Wonderful to see the iBook in a context of seeming cool when that was such a disgusting era of product design, hamstrung between the 1940s and the next mil
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by _wire_ 7mo ago
"I just got my third coffee and I'm feeling really good about the quality of this code. I don't even bother to look at it. Keeps my tests simple to not test at all. You know, 'in theory'. Of course when the architec
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by _wire_ 7mo ago
I was off by a lot: World oil is 6 billion tons per year: 100 million barrels per day times 365 divided by 6 barrels per ton. The plan wants 20 billion tons per year, so 3x world output. Ok, I am so wrong! Sounds totally doable!
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by _wire_ 7mo ago
For kit placed in low earth orbit, where it tends to come back down again, fuel to payload is greater than 20:1, so to get 100 million tons of payload up, so the "plan" specs 2 billion tons of fuel-- per year! If rockets were powe
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by _wire_ 7mo ago
Maybe start with a lunar civilization, and let things move on from there.
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by _wire_ 7mo ago
Plus psychopathic hypocrisy. It's not simply the pathos of lack of decorum, it's maniacal, inverted decorum. But in USA we are proud to do everything beyond excess.
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by _wire_ 7mo ago
Terrible thinking is distinguished by proximate correctness under a tarp of inconsiderate or un-examined assumptions, leading to tautology and a false sense of understanding. In Butler's case, the terms "race", "slavery&
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by _wire_ 7mo ago
To believe in "Make America Great Again" you have to believe that America is not great, and this implies you are ashamed of your country. Shame is built in to MAGA.
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by _wire_ 7mo ago
This looks shopped. I can tell from some of the pixels and from seeing quite a few shops in my time
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by _wire_ 7mo ago
Thanks to the unbridled power of artificial intelligence, I just have to specify all the edge cases and the world will be mine!
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by _wire_ 7mo ago
If her brain had wires, it might have worked. Except drugs don't have anything to do with wires either. But she'd try anything once. Far out!
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by _wire_ 7mo ago
Similar to U.S. conduct within the UN, the U.S. and its proxy on the Sinai routinely, exclusively, overwhelmingly betray the will of collective, to a degree of monstrous hubris and violence. Re NATO -- which term it should be noted the Brit

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