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by jrm4 11mo ago
With regard to safety in tech: Nothing changes until bad leaders are punished. Nothing changes until bad leaders are punished. NOTHING CHANGES UNTIL BAD LEADERS ARE PUNISHED. I'm all ears as to how to get this going.
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by jrm4 11mo ago
100%, but the clear proof afforded by Elon should be the opportunity to really put it out there.
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by jrm4 11mo ago
Absolutely wild that this isn't bigger news. This should be the front page of every major news network.
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by jrm4 11mo ago
It didn't even go that deep, as I recall. Just a weird name they attached to it. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strategic_Defense_Initiative
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by jrm4 11mo ago
Wow. Given that I was around (though young) for that and still mostly forgot about it, I imagine "Star Wars," as a reference to the US/USSR missile thing is probably mostly COMPLETELY unknown to the youngsters?
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by jrm4 11mo ago
Feels like a great argument...for, I don't know, a bunch of moderately technical high-schoolers who were somehow raised on markdown instead of Microsoft Word and want more power? No, seriously, who is this for?
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by jrm4 11mo ago
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by jrm4 11mo ago
Another nebulous but I think VERY observable factor would be the extent to which "parents are, and expected to be, involved in their kids school stuff." Anecdotally, but I bet you see a lot of it, I can count on one, maybe two han
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by jrm4 11mo ago
I'm not sure how your first thing much factors in? I haven't seen any data but I'd be VERY surprised if e.g. a survey of homeschoolers would cite to a lot of "making bad students pass" and "lefty indoctrination
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by jrm4 11mo ago
It's very odd there are few comments in the realm of, "Maybe McDonald's has grown to be bad at 'fast-fooding.'"
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by jrm4 11mo ago
For some reason this reminds me of the following teaser: In a typical "tournament" -- say 64 teams, how many matches/games are played before declaring the final winner? Not sure if there's a way to do spoilers here, but
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by jrm4 11mo ago
Okay so -- this and Bluesky. REALLY feels like no one talks about how "permanent and duplicated" is very much an anti -feature if autonomy and safety and freedom is your goal? Like, no actually - automatically saving everything a
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by jrm4 11mo ago
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by jrm4 11mo ago
I tend to agree -- but what kept me around that particular flavor of Black mastodon bullshit was of course, not the people -- but my personal belief that Mastodon is the smartest model for social media, and as such I choose to try to se
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by jrm4 11mo ago
It's not an "argument?" And if anything it's just more of a confirmation of your exact idea of being against a universal Black Person's Association. Which is to say, to some extent, innocently, people on all sides
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by jrm4 11mo ago
A good principle in theory, but did you miss that I mentioned that I am black as well? And on one hand I understand that for very many issues, black folks get unfairly percieved as making too big of a deal of things etc. But no, I'll s
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by jrm4 11mo ago
It would literally just be Python (and probably some php and maybe even ruby) plus "Bash is good enough and more ubiquitous for the things you don't need all of Python for," no?
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by jrm4 11mo ago
WONDERFUL. If it works, literally life improving for me. My browser slows to a crawl with the silliness like copilot on the side. And at the risk of asking too much (because this was a thing we used to have as a plugin)... ...any possibili
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by jrm4 11mo ago
Black people are emphatically absolutely big in tech in the US, just not in a lot of well known "classic" arena; way more in the business tech space. Like linkedin, not slashdot. like, the 4chan tech board is a great source of inf
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by jrm4 11mo ago
Right, I'm using a perhaps loose definition of deterministic here, as in -- "With AI tools, you cannot 100% predict any output based on input, the way you can with most programming."
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by jrm4 11mo ago
Yes, this is a structural vs. social thing. My gut is that though, it would be entirely possible to build "nice and easy to find" ON TOP OF, as opposed to fully integrated with, a decentralized service.
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by jrm4 11mo ago
Yes, that's what I was trying to do with "y'alls," trying to respond to the whole thread -- I understood that you, bee_rider, got what I was saying.
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by jrm4 11mo ago
was literally saying the opposite that's WHY I said "with whom I shared views" and not BLACK PEOPLE GENERALLY. so many feelings people get into.
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by jrm4 11mo ago
Feels like a lot of y'alls feelings are getting in the way of what I was saying here. Slow down and read carefully. You all should try thinking about this in perhaps Venn diagrams or something. There are Black people on Mastodon, mysel
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by jrm4 11mo ago
You'd have to be around Mastodon to know what that means, but basically there was an effort by some Black folks there to not just create their own server but to also flag and identify racist/toxic servers etc, and anyone who fit t
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by jrm4 11mo ago
This feels very analogous to my experience with the place. As a Black person (who absolutely loves the idea and model), it's weird. Feels very much like a "you become what you hate situation," in my case, interacting with Bla
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by jrm4 11mo ago
To me, Mastodon's overwhelmingly the best model. Even Bluesky has already shown that it's too centralizable, and I think very few people have considered the idea that "you can take it with you" is actually a bug as much
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by jrm4 11mo ago
Yeah, "MCP" felt like BS from jump. Basically it's the problem that will always be a problem, namely "AI stuff is non-deterministic." If there was some certainty MCP could add to this equation that would perhaps b
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by jrm4 11mo ago
FWIW, this is why "not your keys, not your coins." Coinbase is good for on-ramping, bad for storage. You know, the entire point of cryptocurrency.
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by jrm4 11mo ago
Here's the thing (as someone who did Emacs for a year and then gave it up) The possibility and ease of interoperability with other general program styles is far more important that the idea is given. Look, there are too many other go

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