ctdonath

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by ctdonath 5y ago
Serious, yes. Worst was the wholesale revoking & denying “blue checks” (objective confirmation of identity) to those of diverse sociopolitical persuasion. This established Twitter as no longer a neutral public forum, but as a biased pub
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by ctdonath 5y ago
Can’t stop a idea whose time has come.
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by ctdonath 5y ago
Easily >45 minutes if not.
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by ctdonath 5y ago
A first step. Won’t be long before the car goes to the repossession lot itself. Tesla is evolving country music: not only will your girl leave you, so will your truck.
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by ctdonath 5y ago
How often are “open letters” actually read by the imputed recipient?
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by ctdonath 5y ago
Calories aren’t free. They’re not just there for the redistribution. What is one’s fair share of what another has worked to produce? Anyone can, for vanishingly low cost, distribute or access nearly any information they like. Yes, curation
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by ctdonath 5y ago
Nonsense. Never has everyone has more access, producing & receiving, whatever information they want - and nigh unto free. The issue isn’t cost, it’s inundation.
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by ctdonath 5y ago
Nostalgia. I built a sound card for my ZX-80 in middle school.
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by ctdonath 5y ago
The safe harbor protections address clearly objectionable/illegal behavior, not objective facts and normal opinions. Stating standard political talking points, quoting pleasant poetry, and showing exonerating video of newsworthy events
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by ctdonath 5y ago
Thanks for illustrating the problem: a largely unknown & uninvolved person paints half the population in a viciously negative light, decries normal discourse of diverse views as “unregulated”, and by implication seeks to censor those ho
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by ctdonath 5y ago
That ejection (for anything other than outright illegal content) makes the moderators “publishers” responsible for what does not get culled. Can’t offer the space as “public”, eject people for opinions, then claim “public space” protections
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by ctdonath 5y ago
Problem is these CoC enforcers are increasingly conflating criminal behavior with differing opinions, banning access to multiple popular forums/tech, just for expressing views considered reasonable by substantial fractions of polite so
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by ctdonath 5y ago
Interesting related product: BioLite camp stove https://www.bioliteenergy.com/products/campstove-2-plus
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by ctdonath 5y ago
My currently addictive “parody clicker” is Egg Inc., going on for months with pathetically minimal graphics and numbers on orders of magnitude of orders of magnitude.
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by ctdonath 5y ago
But then you don’t make everything into clips. The pressure to finish this job is palatable.
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by ctdonath 5y ago
First time through, I chose to stop, declining the offer to continue - which was in character, bent on not giving in to not making everything into paperclips. Then I learned how done “done” is. Make paperclip.
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by ctdonath 5y ago
It is. Imperative is “keep right”, and watch your rear view mirror as much as the road ahead. Doing 140mph and getting passed frequently is amazing.
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by ctdonath 5y ago
Automated driving is safer. Offering to let you watch a movie is a way to get you to not drive for two hours.
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by ctdonath 5y ago
I have a DX7 I might part with...
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by ctdonath 5y ago
hours of expensive mainframe (PDP-10) time Equivalent today to milliseconds of processing in an Apple Lightning cable.
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by ctdonath 5y ago
Borland logo was prominently displayed on a high-profile building in Atlanta until a few years ago. Surprised they lasted so long.
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by ctdonath 5y ago
Generating media in real-time on the user's computer rather blurs the line between who is creating vs consuming media.
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by ctdonath 5y ago
Some US voting districts are very odd shapes, specifically to include/exclude factors which increase the chances of a particular political party winning.
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by ctdonath 5y ago
That makes me uncomfortable.
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by ctdonath 5y ago
I watched Tenet at home with subtitles, and had no problem with it. Between wife going "what are they saying?" halfway thru many movies, and getting kids to read fast, subtitles are just left on all the time now. I'm a bit an
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by ctdonath 5y ago
Mountain_Skies' anecdote above certainly does not meet any form of "obscene, lewd, lascivious, filthy, excessively violent, harassing, or otherwise objectionable", nor does (say) any of the objective reporting & fair disc
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by ctdonath 5y ago
Actually points the other way: Apple tends to preserve names, rather than obfuscating them with changes. Beats isn't now "AirPod Fast" after company acquisition, 'i'-prefix names haven't been switched to "
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by ctdonath 5y ago
Of note, both lethal cases occurred over failure to submit 4 pages of registration and a $200 tax (NFA Form 1 or 4).
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by ctdonath 5y ago
You omit the qualifications for that exemption, which speak heavily toward good faith and minimal impact, which FB/T/etc are going way beyond and will likely have to defend in court with difficulty.
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by ctdonath 5y ago
There was a clear trajectory toward increasing such aggressive raids. Quarter-century-old details escape me at the moment, but many were quite aware of such things ramping up. The Ruby Ridge incident was comparably violent but on a smaller

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