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by labster 2y ago
I read through Google News without logging in, and ever since that thing happened in November, it’s been flooded with crypto stories decorated with AI art. It totally makes sense to me that BTC would appear in this photo, since crypto bros
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by labster 2y ago
Just run an undersea cable to Argentina, easy peasy. Argentina should be more than willing to help out their fellow citizens in the Malvinas, right?
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by labster 2y ago
SQL was developed in the 1970s, there’s no way they’d waste all those bytes to spell out UNKNOWN and INDETERMINATE.
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by labster 2y ago
That user has six karma and therefore does not have showdead on.
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by labster 2y ago
In America, we didn’t need emergency powers to shoot BLM protesters. Or Civil Rights protesters, or the unarmed veterans of the Bonus Army, or union members — historically it’s fine to shoot protesters. Conservatives are just snowflakes bec
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by labster 2y ago
Not if the squeezed their bike horns and rang their bells at all hours of the night, and threatened the locals.
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by labster 2y ago
How dare you call the guy who left a dead bear in Central Park a total nutjob
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by labster 2y ago
Tolkien also timed the end of the War of the Ring, and the start of the Fourth Age the following year, to March 25th. It’s a deliberate echo of the Annunciation — or in-universe context, a foreshadowing. https://tolkiengateway.ne
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by labster 2y ago
But the East still would have lost the Cold War.
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by labster 2y ago
Everyone loves helping kin except when helping kin on the public dime. Morals are funny that way.
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by labster 2y ago
Honestly a better question would be if there are any social norms that allow for a moral CEO to exist? Pretty much all of our norms are tilted towards producing immoral executives.
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by labster 2y ago
The great thing about AI peer reviewers is how fast you get feedback. There’s no need to wait weeks for your paper to be rejected when reviewers G, P, and T will tell you right away your paper isn’t the right fit.
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by labster 2y ago
I think they’re just not used to thinking about historical study. Even in science, do you focus on the Great Men like Einstein and Newton, or do you choose an Annales approach like Connections ? Neither is wrong, but there are right and le
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by labster 2y ago
Or how women’s contribution to sciences were continually overlooked and sometimes purposefully hidden, going along with the social/political status of women. History is stories we tell ourselves about the world, stories backed by the e
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by labster 2y ago
I don’t think either of those websites pay Mozilla millions of dollars. Maybe the more important lesson they’re teaching is that money makes the world go round.
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by labster 2y ago
Not if the wife is a dakimakura and the kids are anime figurines
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by labster 2y ago
Isn’t factory and office work the social experiment? Just a couple centuries ago most work was done at home, or out on the farm, with only the owner/tenant and his family around. WFH is somewhat of a reversion to the historical mean.
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by labster 2y ago
The siren call of proving someone wrong on the internet strikes again.
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by labster 2y ago
The music industry is at least 10 or 20 times older than the concept of copyright. The traditional business model was always about live performance and patronage, and even today that’s where most musicians’ income comes from. The recordings
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by labster 2y ago
As the guy who started this subthread, I was joking — but I expect it will come true anyway. The whole industry seems bent on removing humans from the production of all goods and services, so someone somewhere will try to optimize humans ou
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by labster 2y ago
The concepts aren’t absurd, you’re just being hopelessly naïve to think that no one is inhibited from enjoying culture, love, and beauty; in a world with genocide, homophobia, and industrial-scale desertification.
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by labster 2y ago
The next obvious step is AI generated songs. Music will get much cheaper when we can completely avoid cost centers like record labels, recording studios, and bands.
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by labster 2y ago
Without disputing anything you said, it’s worth noting that the record industry has spent the last century trying to screw the artist, and the future is apparently no different, since this article is (2025) somehow. That said I am worried t
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by labster 2y ago
Compelling evidence, but if the aliens who built the pyramids brought in mortar from another planet, the isotopic ratios could be totally different. So the date of the pyramids could be anything really if we throw out Occam’s razor and rati
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by labster 2y ago
What a terrible century for texting.
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by labster 2y ago
I’m not a lawyer but I wouldn’t recommend posting a dump of the PII columns lol
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by labster 2y ago
If Tintin in the Congo is the part entering the public domain, perhaps a yikes is in order?
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by labster 2y ago
That poster has like 30% flagkilled comments in the past month, so I’m guessing half-truth takes are kind of his thing.
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by labster 2y ago
Wikimedia is right next to GPT Nation. I think an invasion is imminent.
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by labster 2y ago
No, but you can find millions of Russian children being taught that Ukrainians do not exist, and that they are all really Russians, because Vladimir was baptized Orthodox in 980. It’s basically as crazy as saying Canadians don’t exist and a

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