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I think we miss the elephant in the room. Since the rise of "social media" driven by clicks on ads, quality has almost entirely been replaced by quantity. And now, creativity has been farmed out as well. I still believe in quality
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I retired to the country, where any friends are 50 miles away, and most don't even reply to emails and messages. I still want to utilize some free wikis and such to help share ideas. There are simple things that can improve life for pe
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The administration is a grift fest, and with legislative and judicial capture, NOBODY CARES. The possible blackmail factors will come out when the DOJ'S Epstein data comes out (and is not incinerated, electronically or otherwise) plus
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Goes by the initials DU. Juries of users participate in the moderation. Your own filtering for both titles and users is built-in. Sorry for the delay in replying.
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The link is 404.
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About 17. That's when I got access to an IBM 704 or whatever. Fortran II, IIRC, Personal computers came a lot later. About 1976 or so. Assembler and BASIC (Palo Alto Tiny Basic)
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There's an "Encyclical for Dummies" [0] that I found helpful, before reading the whole thing, if I get to it. It's really good food for thought. > “Artificial intelligences do not undergo experiences, do not possess a
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HN is my main news aggregator. The other site is both political and social, and heavily moderated as well. "I skim" and save a subset of daily articles as PDF's, as well as some referenced articles, so that my saved articles
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Thanks ChrisArchitect for the HN link. I don't use the home page, and it's further down "the daily scroll" yet. Nine whole posts ahead. Along the way, I found some other linked articles on the topic, all paywalled. This
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I used to run a Moodle instance on a laptop. Mainly for documenting projects I was working on. Any wiki ought to do, as will paper and pen. A Moodle can author and share a presentation (as web pages) and even accept others' comments. S
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Agriculture. Interesting coming from a university formerly known mainly for its ag school, but vastly more than that now. I hope that scholars there are working on (preventing) the Next Worst Mistake, or mitigating it, if it has already bee
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There is bunker stuff beneath it, but of what value is that? Giving away your location is a sure way to collect missiles from foreign nations. The president has a "Doomsday Plane" to escape when the country is nuked. It can only b
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Who remembers "The Price is Right"? Mark Cuban switched to the dark side overnight. No doubt his online pharma and Trump pharma reached $ome under$tanding. Grift, grift, glorious grift.
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He is hurrying, but his $1.7 Billion militia and ICE will soon be fighting behind an El Cid propped up rider. It looks like he has had repeated strokes. Not the golf kind. But fight they will because he will fully become a chatbot. FIRST DE
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I LOVED these kits. I could only afford a handful but I would order manuals and build many in my mind. Later on, I built countless S-100 computer cards when I had a paying job, and that led to other jobs. I never took a course in electronic
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Well, it's paywalled and I have better things to do, so let me just say that strong muscles protect joints. Bruised but not broken. While men strive for "buns of steel", I can't help noticing the great preponderance of w
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> Everything I may need either already exists or is too complex to do on my own Wait until you get older. I did! And I have identified over the years tons of applications that would help seniors that nobody gives one iota of attention t
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> “Mr Musk isn’t here today. My clients are,” Savitt said. “Mr Musk came to this court for exactly one witness: Elon Musk. Now he’s in parts unknown.” Musk Absent From OpenAI Trial, Lawyer Apologizes [0] > CNBC reports Musk was accomp
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HIS allies, not the country's allies. > allies who claim they were wrongfully targeted by the Biden administration, sources familiar with the matter told ABC News. > The commission overseeing the compensation fund would have the
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Chaos is how politicians, generals and tech moguls keep the public from understanding the situation, their strategies, tactics and goals, thus the means to retain their independence from onslaught. Unfortunately, people are treated as enemi
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Trad West misspelled sacrament in the meme, and put his name on it.
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All foreigners held for 6 months. USA wins.
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Quoth Steve Ballmer: "Developers, Developers, Developers!!!!!" Don't find and watch that video unless you have a therapist on the line.
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https://archive.is/20260511130833/https://www.scientificamer...
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Becoming a Dad made me fully realize how precious the gift of life is, and reconfigured my life from one of growth, achievement and enjoyment to those plus wanting to pay them all forward. I never thought much about giving before then (who
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Music all day long diverts attention. There's an oldies station nearby, and's it's very effective and uplifting. Music at bedtime to mask odd country noises of unknown origin.
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Re: Apple Notes. There is no way to adjust line spacing, so paragraphs look (according to reddit commentators) super crunched or smooshed. To make notes really readable, one must insert a blank line. I copy such notes into Pages and increas
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by k310 6mo ago
id.me asked me to log in. I checked. It looked legitimate. Asking for linked accounts, I chose the V.A. and thus began a round of uploading, and then social security number, at which point I just logged out. I trust nobody and nothing at th
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https://www.sltrib.com/opinion/commentary/2026/05/02/opinion...
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Paper bags without handles are useless indeed. I have a bunch of styrofoam-lined bags, but don't generally bring then into stores for a few items (I'll change that), but for the long drives to the stores I really like (Green Acre

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