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by mannanj 1mo ago
Have you considered getting involved in local civics? I only ask because like you, I felt similar. But I also grew up (I’m 35 now) with a big disconnect from civics life and always felt “someone else would save me”. Now I see I was the prob
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by mannanj 1mo ago
So, in 2021-2022 I publically called the See I Ayyy terrorists and advocated against accounts that algorithmically looked to astroturf or divide people on Instagram. They showed up as actors in my commune where I lived (it was open-to-join,
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by mannanj 1mo ago
Op just committed a crime. He not only made fun of rich people which is not ok, he also stole from them. The thieving is only ok if it’s rich-on-rich or rich-on-poor. Let’s remember to follow the rules and the laws we want selectively appli
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by mannanj 1mo ago
Yeah I mean if everything is virus that word seems to hold no meaning =) So thats the reality behind language itself. Communication itself really starts to mean everything and nothing simultaneously, at least as a deeper philosophical truth
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by mannanj 1mo ago
you exclude yourself from the possibility space of people who can act and do anything becasue you resign. so be it- that's your choice. create that reality you desire. I refuse that reality though, and I accept that a majority includin
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by mannanj 1mo ago
Arguably, and not to offend you, it is those very people who have significant ownership stakes and funding in (Not)openAI. It's not like the people with more resources than in any time in human history aren't investing in and want
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by mannanj 1mo ago
Makes me wonder, if we make a tradeoff for comfort and advancement from our biology's "limits" - and that tradeoff is spiritual fulfillment. Seeing it hit across: the work we used to do outdoors, the sleep-wake-dark cycle we
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by mannanj 1mo ago
Yeah. It's uncomfortable, but I have come to a similar conclusion. Part of the self-policing apparatus in my eyes is to also: a) keep the lower classes sicker and busier thus less able to make time and energy to change their environmen
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by mannanj 1mo ago
Note: much of the privacy work is done by Israeli intelligence firms. If you think that it's "our" government, you'll be disappointed.
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by mannanj 1mo ago
Anyone who has never lived next to a data center is commentating on the side lines without experience about what it’s actually like. Lots of these commentaries miss the following: - noise and uncomfortable vibrations making nearby habitual
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by mannanj 1mo ago
AI;DR I did read some actually until the cheap output quality started showing. I have a hypothesis which has solved burn out for me, it’s contrarian to most health advice out there. “Just follow the sun and cut stimulation after it’s down”.
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by mannanj 1mo ago
I find that when someone comes from an attitude of abuse and hostility towards it users, then later without taking responsibility and owning its original actions says “we changed were being nice now” that it isn’t really a change but a farc
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by mannanj 1mo ago
What have you defined as creativity and intelligence?
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by mannanj 1mo ago
ugh. so hard to read these ai generated articles. am I the only one? and am I supposed to put my agent in front to read it, which just introduces noise - didn't anyone learn from that "telephone" game we played as children? Y
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by mannanj 1mo ago
and after posting this, and recently restarting my anthropic subscription: - I see 2 billing placeholders on my bank account - 1 subscription actually went through - my bank flagged anthropic's subscription initially as suspicious and
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by mannanj 1mo ago
you aren't the only one with this issue. many other people I've heard had a similar issue with anthropic billing. I also had a weird edge case behavior around billing where it blocked my usage due to an unpaid bill but then also w
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by mannanj 1mo ago
So they are sensitive to RF but for some reason all the RF around you, from the power lines in the walls, the WIFI, the towers, they are immune to those?
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by mannanj 1mo ago
hmm, sorry as well if I came off a bit strong. I can see that there's a bigger issue at hand of a holistic set of entities and groups targeting us and surveilling us in as many changes as they can. where I struggle to understand you is
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by mannanj 1mo ago
>I feel like Safari helped me reduce my trash content consumption. Page with tons of ads? Not worth visiting Nice. I thought that was just me! Same with ads on YouTube. One thing you may be surprised with, not sure if this helps or harms
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by mannanj 1mo ago
I've been more minimal and focused in my technology usage, specifically lucky enough to keep my phones and devices in "no notifications" mode for much of their lifecycle. My desktops and screens also have 0 apps on them ever,
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by mannanj 1mo ago
I know people don't like apple and safari here, but I like safari. It works good enough for me. And when an experience is off, it helps me develop my web developer hat by better understanding webkit and why safari has a different exper
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by mannanj 1mo ago
I wrote this 100% as my human, for my flesh body, Mannan. The one who's thinking of and writing and inspecting these words is the awareness sitting in the human-flesh body for the human named Mannan. no ai at all. I do like how AI does
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by mannanj 1mo ago
I use my phone on airplane mode a lot, and also in a faraday cage bag. If you need directions, You can use use radio and pop in the directions then use just airplane mode and navigate and it will still place you via gps. If you want music u
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by mannanj 1mo ago
are you assuming that every time you're recorded by a flock it would be capturing your face as well? do you have evidence behind that? i.e. what about on highways or fast moving spaces or far spaces where your face isn't even visi
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by mannanj 1mo ago
plenty of content is human authored. the low status ones are not, in my argument. You could keep pretending that everyones using AI to make low quality or "AI high quality" output but either way, when its obvious its human made, a
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by mannanj 1mo ago
you could try LEDs made with phosphor. a few companies including waveformlighting (unaffiliated: https://www.waveformlighting.com ) offer them.
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by mannanj 1mo ago
I've been noticing the affect of gold light during gold hour, specifically during sunset. I find I have more creative ideas for problems I've been chewing on come up, and also feel an indescribable calm. I've been trying to n
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by mannanj 1mo ago
So to fight abuse and overreach by your leaders, you can: - give up your car/vehicle propery - let an LLC take ownership - reside in the privacy protections of LLC and corporation I don't think any successful case has happened yet
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by mannanj 1mo ago
this is so untrue, gullible and naive. so if I steal your home, your car, your food, your water, and everything material, and you end up starving and dead or stranded on the side of a ride in a desert where no ones coming to help you - are
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by mannanj 1mo ago
The one piece anime has an interesting theory about the floods and kings. Anyone considered what it might say about history and the hypotheses in this article?

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