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by croon 1y ago
Again, I don't think that picture is relevant to the claim, and you ignored everything else from my comment. > Halloween photos showing Robinson riding on the back of an inflatable Donald Trump or dressed as a gopnik offshoot of Pep
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by croon 1y ago
I have never seen that photo, and the one supporting source for the claim that fake news was spread is someone who apparently runs this[1]? I was not familiar with the term before either, but afaict it was based on the the shell casing engr
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by croon 1y ago
Unfortunately I think that is by design, by the administration. https://www.npr.org/2025/02/07/nx-s1-5289315/trump-week-in-r... https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/feb&#
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by croon 1y ago
> FCC aside, how is it any different from ABC canceling Rosanne Barr because of something she said? They may cancel whomever and whatever they want, which in the past has been due to pressure from the outside, justified or not. You are t
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by croon 1y ago
Were those comments made before or after the direct and described causal threat made by Carr?
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by croon 1y ago
I'm not disagreeing that cable news broadcasts a lot of propaganda, but you can't both claim that you're servicing "customer" segments based on calculus, and also claim that the news wire viewers into the same opini
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by croon 1y ago
The Amazon app does this: "Amazon Shopping detected this screenshot." I'm assuming (hoping) it's Android letting me know and not the app passive aggressively side eyeing me.
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by croon 1y ago
Quicker to just do (assuming the window is active/in foreground): 1. Alt+Space+m 2. Arrow keys to move around
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by croon 1y ago
A ghost kitchen is like an LLM or an ephemeral container, or any stateless instance. Even if you could impart some feedback, it would be gone by the next time you place an order.
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by croon 1y ago
How would you audit that all encrypted votes belong to one and only one other eligible voter?
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by croon 1y ago
Correct me if I'm wrong, but there's two competing issues here: 1) You could make digital elections secure with issued digital IDs, and simply recording everyone's vote and it would be easily auditable. But no one wants elect
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by croon 1y ago
It is exactly as simple as you think it is, but also not, as all cultural influences on politics through history has shown. Everything from the 1936 Berlin Olympics to CIA funding Jackson Pollock (and Kooning, Rothko, etc) to Metallica play
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by croon 1y ago
> Israel isn't committing genocide except in the minds of pro-palestine activists, many of whom refer to Hamas terrorism as "resistance" more than the more suitable description What do you make of Netanyahu himself in rega
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by croon 1y ago
Arguably the initial post was meant to convey confidence and authority on the subject. When questioned you could either dive deeper and explain in more detail why x because of y (if so inclined), ignore it, or... do what they did. No one ow
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by croon 1y ago
If describing someone as an "amazing patriot" for bailing out someone in jail for political violence (against "the other" side) is not supporting political violence, words have stopped having any meaning.
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by croon 1y ago
+1 I use WSL for work because we have no linux client options. It's generally fine, but both forced windows update reboots as well as seemingly random wsl reboots (assuming because of some component update?) can really bite you if you&
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by croon 1y ago
My 7 year old told my 5 year old the other day that his teeth would fall out if he didn't brush his teeth twice daily. She's also said that the king has no power because we have a parliament and a PM and elections. You and I both
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by croon 1y ago
While genuinely a sad statistic, should it still be called "sixth grade level" at that point if less than half of adults, much less 12 year olds actually reach it? I mean it should because it should be a reasonable level to reac
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by croon 1y ago
> I recently went on an analogue book binge, and discovered something I'd not previously noticed. Possibly for commercial reasons, books tend to frequently be much longer than they need to be, (coincidentally) they're often a m
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by croon 1y ago
They can build a dedicated plant off-grid, or BTM.
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by croon 1y ago
Most other industries create (more) local jobs which would offset the localized cost.
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by croon 1y ago
> Do you recall ever reading them... Do you? Honest question. Because there haven't actually been a release of "the Twitter Files". What was done was that Musk provided Matt Taibbi (among others) select internal emails and
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by croon 1y ago
The problem was obvious a long time ago, and if I was better at searching I could probably find a comment I made around GPT-3 having system prompts to make it more like a human, which has (at least) 2 effects: 1) Alters your trust value for
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by croon 1y ago
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/aug/01/smithsonian-... https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cz03gjnxe25o https://www.axios.com/2025/03/20/t
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by croon 1y ago
His Dark Materials was already in my post, but at least it's a testament to the precision of your list, so I'll look into the other ones, thank you!
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by croon 1y ago
I admittedly read less for myself nowadays, as I can only pick up an hour here or there, but I've read at least 10-20 pages per day for/with the kids for the last 8 years. The bonus with the 8 yo is that I've read books tha
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by croon 1y ago
I love Snow Crash too, for what it is, and I'm sure someone could make a worthwhile movie out of exploring the concepts, but then I'm not really sure it's worthwhile, as it wouldn't need to be strictly based on that work
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by croon 1y ago
Are you considering how some part of history is told, or whether it is told at all? Because they're currently not reframing history, but erasing it. How do you reconcile this with what you consider being an earlier "left spin&quot
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by croon 1y ago
How is it intrusive? Given charitable assumptions like granular permissions, silod app data only extracted through intents, and using only local compute? I'm all for questioning Google on whether those assumptions will be true and no d
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by croon 1y ago
Ted Chiang's "The Merchant and the Alchemist's Gate" does this pretty well. It's a fun read (and short).

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