eleveriven

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by eleveriven 8mo ago
The headline makes it sound uniquely sinister, but most of what's described here is just the modern adtech stack doing what it's been doing for a decade. The real tension is that advertisers want attribution, sites want revenue, a
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by eleveriven 8mo ago
At the same time, I think it's risky to lean too hard on the idea that captivity is the only way to sustain concern
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by eleveriven 8mo ago
The key difference is that births like those (and this one) aren't about "we need more elephants," they're about which elephants survive and reproduce
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by eleveriven 8mo ago
Yet framing it as either captivity or guaranteed death is also a bit of a false binary. Zoos are a mitigation strategy, not a moral end state
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by eleveriven 8mo ago
Zoos are a tradeoff: constrained lives in exchange for research, genetic insurance... And whether that tradeoff is worth it depends entirely on whether the off-site work actually helps wild populations
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by eleveriven 8mo ago
I do appreciate that they're explicit about why this matters (genetic diversity, SSP, long-term conservation work) instead of just treating it as zoo PR
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by eleveriven 8mo ago
I think this is the other side of the same coin, and it's a really important one. When time is scarce, especially with family and a life outside work, the ability to turn tiny, fragmented moments into forward progress is huge
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by eleveriven 8mo ago
I don't think the goal is to reject these tools, but to be more intentional about when we use them
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by eleveriven 8mo ago
AI doesn't remove difficulty so much as it removes friction, and friction was often what forced me into deeper conceptual understanding. When the path of least resistance is always "ask the model", my brain never has to build
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by eleveriven 9mo ago
And real users shouldn't be the ones discovering these edge cases through fear
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by eleveriven 9mo ago
This is really more of an "utdoor run while wearing the watch" proxy than a true fitness measure
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by eleveriven 9mo ago
Stories like yours are why I'm skeptical of these "health insight" products as currently shipped. Visualization, explanation, question-generation - great. Acting like an interpreter of incomplete medical data without a strong
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by eleveriven 9mo ago
The problem is that the product itself invites the wrong expectation
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by eleveriven 9mo ago
Right now this looks less like "AI for healthcare" and more like a very polished way to scare (or falsely reassure) people
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by eleveriven 10mo ago
Valve earned a lot of goodwill by actually shipping things that made Linux gaming viable day-to-day, not just promising it
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by eleveriven 10mo ago
Steam does an amazing job at convenience, but GOG scratches a completely different itch
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by eleveriven 10mo ago
There's clearly a real segment of players who value ownership and longevity enough to vote with their wallets
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by eleveriven 10mo ago
Offline installers are the real line in the sand
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by eleveriven 10mo ago
GOG talking about preservation and ownership has always sounded sincere, but backing that up with independence from a public company structure makes it much more credible
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by eleveriven 10mo ago
The irony is that the same companies pushing us toward login-only everything are also the ones best positioned to survive it
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by eleveriven 10mo ago
There's a point where "privacy" flips into distinctiveness
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by eleveriven 10mo ago
What I'd really like to see is more honesty: "we store X because feature Y needs it, here's the risk we're accepting," instead of pretending every service needs emails, analytics, and cookies by default
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by eleveriven 10mo ago
Most people fixate on network-level anonymity and completely underestimate how badly a "tuned" browser leaks identity
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by eleveriven 10mo ago
Even if you don't want to live entirely on the anonymous web, it's useful to see how many products claim privacy while being structurally incapable of delivering it
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by eleveriven 10mo ago
What's most depressing is that people like you did the right thing (took the time to investigate and report) and still hit a wall
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by eleveriven 10mo ago
The fact that families have to crowdfund lifesaving care creates the vulnerability but it doesn't force anyone to build an industrialized scam on top of it
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by eleveriven 10mo ago
Whether sentencing should reflect that is a hard question, but pretending all fraud is morally equivalent seems like willful blindness
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by eleveriven 10mo ago
The fact that the website is suspended while the donation machinery was clearly active is… not a great sign
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by eleveriven 10mo ago
If BBC journalists can donate $5 and see the counter move, how are these campaigns not triggering internal red flags?
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by eleveriven 10mo ago
Most workers aren't asking for miracles. Just let them do their jobs without turning everything into a political chess match.

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