damnesian

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by damnesian 1y ago
My current plan is moving to self-hosted photo and web (I'll be paying the ISP no matter what), embracing minimalism and the Fediverse for connecting with others. Open source software, hardware I control. Relationship between commercia
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by damnesian 1y ago
I'm just glad my kids graduated from school before this nonsense gained a chokehold on public discourse.
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by damnesian 1y ago
Accelerating AI is going to require some overhead that walmart most likely is not anticipating. It seems like many companies weren't anticipating it, which you see when a company adopts AI, use it as an excuse to let people go, then
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by damnesian 1y ago
You are 100% correct that it has become increasingly politicized in recent days. My reaction is it should be non-controversial to approach self-improvement in an agnostic, purely therapeutic way. It's a really fine line "holistic&
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by damnesian 1y ago
It doesn't require any faith. That is the thing about science, with a few very basic steps, it proves itself. There is only knowledge and experience. These disenfranchised men need to get off the internet and out of their echo chamber
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by damnesian 1y ago
He doesn't exactly paint the whole picture of a thousand points of data that now follow people around like the armies of flies that mob farm animals. It has become really alarming lately just how quickly and widespread one web search o
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by damnesian 1y ago
> "I think we might be in the era where seeing is not believing." This is what I'm concluding as well. I don't know if that means there will be a backlash that favors simpler communication- in person, old-school metho
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by damnesian 1y ago
I am attracted to the design of books' covers, first, in used bookstores. I recently picked up an anthology of short stories by Bernard Malamoud (if his name sounds vaguely familiar, he wrote the story upon which the Robert Redford fil
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by damnesian 1y ago
I've seen this happen in person, to my grandmother. She hitched her identity to the man of the house, even signing checks "Mrs. grandad's name." She was the accountant of their farm along with housewife and cook and chic
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by damnesian 1y ago
>well, if you don’t want to be in photos published online, don’t be in public spaces equates to >you only have to worry about surveillance if you are doing something wrong. This is, 100% guaranteed, a systematically injected narrative
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by damnesian 1y ago
and what's happening now just enables it. the chasm is so unfathomably wide, reality doesn't even matter.
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by damnesian 1y ago
Then perhaps the fakes are the actual art...?
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by damnesian 1y ago
It also feels not a small bit like the Brexit wave. Once the chickens come home to roost, I expect the center to not hold.
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by damnesian 1y ago
they don't look cool anymore. they are the eyes of skynet. I have prescriptions coming up and I have always bought ray bans. I won't anymore, I don't want anyone to think I am spying on them, because that's what they are
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by damnesian 1y ago
> I think that people who are still referring to all AI-generated content as AI slop are probably lazy luddites talk about flooding the zone with shit. It couldn't possibly refer to the mind-numbingly bland and unoriginal nature of
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by damnesian 1y ago
>When you agree to debate someone pushing long-debunked conspiracy theories or openly hateful ideologies, you’re implicitly suggesting that their position deserves equal consideration alongside established facts and expert analysis. Oh g
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by damnesian 1y ago
I know it's a cliche and not strictly historically accurate, but microplastics will likely be our lead pipes if we don't figure out some way to get something in the bloodstream that will eat or break down plastic but not us.
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by damnesian 1y ago
need to remove the P from their acronym then
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by damnesian 1y ago
It was inevitable that the ideologues who fancy themselves responsible leaders would attack the relative openness of Wikipedia. This makes it all the more important that you DONATE to help maintain it. I put my $2 in every month, every bit
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by damnesian 1y ago
It's going to be a very bad winter. It's back to masks for this family.
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by damnesian 1y ago
Turning it into this big media circus is beyond the pale.
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by damnesian 1y ago
Don't get me wrong- this kind of post is porn for me. But I've really come full circle on the whole high fidelity concept. When I was a tween, my parents divorced and as a sort of balm, my mom indulged my hifi and vinyl interests.
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by damnesian 1y ago
It's almost as if the scientific method works and global warming is not fake.
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by damnesian 1y ago
Then what are they? NSA is already taken.
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by damnesian 1y ago
The question now is which crimes, which disturbances, or if this is just a gesture of power.
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by damnesian 1y ago
No bugs to report here, and I use it all the time, and heavily. No undue burden on the system either, unlike Chrome which gets sluggish and will crash before ff. I see no reason to abandon ff at this point.
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by damnesian 1y ago
No need to worry- what we're not aware of doesn't exist.
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by damnesian 1y ago
Am I the only person who read the article like this: "blah blah BOTH BILL ATKINSON AND STEVE JOBS DIED FROM PANCREATIC CANCER blah blah"?
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by damnesian 1y ago
seems like the "mis" is missing from the name.
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by damnesian 1y ago
Same principle doesn't apply to this blog post, though.

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