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by mlekoszek 2y ago
There's a good summary here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canada%E2%80%93United_States_r... At least one Canadian business magnate (Kevin O'Leary) has tried to position himself in on the deal and visited Tru
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by mlekoszek 2y ago
Generally, governments in Canada are voted out in roughly 9-year intervals. Trudeau took office in 2015, so nothing unusual there. Moreover, Trudeau is exiting with approval ratings just a percent below his predecessor, Stephen Harper (22%
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by mlekoszek 2y ago
This is a really great anthology of perspectives. Thanks for doing this, I think you're going to help a lot of people.
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by mlekoszek 2y ago
I want to say that's like a mint trying to stop counterfeiting by issuing fake bills themselves. But what am I missing here?
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by mlekoszek 2y ago
Makes sense. Maybe this was a "see-what-happens" experiment that caught more attention than they expected? I can't imagine it came from Instagram having a shortage of content. e: Like, the quality and relevance of the content
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by mlekoszek 2y ago
I don't understand why Facebook would want to debase the value of their content by mixing in obvious AI slop. It's a sharp contrast to their past strategy of keeping the network as 'authentic' (their words) as possible.
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by mlekoszek 2y ago
How does this fit into a North American context, where many cultures at the point of European contact (i.e. Haudenosaunee, Algonquin, Inuit) practiced communal property? It seems they stayed egalitarian long after the extinction of local me
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by mlekoszek 2y ago
I remember how mind melting this site was back in the day. We've come very far in a very short time.
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by mlekoszek 2y ago
The cherry on top was the video player that solely exists to tell you "This content is not available in your country"
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by mlekoszek 2y ago
The promise of future value from a captive audience. The idea that no competitor could succeed because everything worthwhile is already on Twitter. A self-reinforcing network effect. IMO, this sort of held up, even with Musk's hijinks.
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by mlekoszek 2y ago
What prevents them from being repurposed?
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by mlekoszek 2y ago
No, L.M. Sacasas is a longtime scholar of McLuhan and Ivan Illich. He most certainly writes these articles himself.
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by mlekoszek 2y ago
Ah, I wish this product could have panned out. I hope it doesn't become a bugbear for future experiments with hardware user interfaces + AI. I'm still of the Bret Victor school of thought that we can do better than just tapping an
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by mlekoszek 2y ago
Wait... explain.
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by mlekoszek 2y ago
This happened in Toronto last year and knocked out the system entirely for four months. It seems that libraries are a big target for these actors. I wonder who they are, and what their agenda is?
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by mlekoszek 2y ago
I always wondered how I knew what a line sounded like.
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by mlekoszek 2y ago
YMMV, but I try to drink a bit of water, maybe do some pushups if I'm at home, fix my eyes by looking out the window for 20 seconds, maybe munch on something. Basically, all the sensory and bodily stuff you don't do when you'
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by mlekoszek 3y ago
This seems a lot like the 70s-80s auto market, a period you'd think would be burned into Detroit's institutional memory. Back then, companies like Toyota outcompeted companies like Ford by offering an affordable, reliable, no-fri
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by mlekoszek 3y ago
Glad you did.
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by mlekoszek 3y ago
Raptors in this case are a kind of bird.
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by mlekoszek 3y ago
Yeah -- you're right, this has been a long time coming. I just think the closures and layoffs these past few months have finally closed the chapter on the style of journalism and tastemaking they built.
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by mlekoszek 3y ago
Is this actually as dramatic as the title implies? The email says "we will no longer publish content on vice.com." That doesn't necessarily mean they'll pull vice.com offline. Either way, between this and Pitchfork windi
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by mlekoszek 3y ago
What about Markov chain babble? It would be interesting to see Bard learn to mimic people going far even as decided to use even go want to do look more like.
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by mlekoszek 3y ago
Late to the party but I am so in love with that logo. And every other bit of this.
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by mlekoszek 3y ago
I think forums could make a comeback over the next 3-5 years. Big platforms like Reddit, Discord and Facebook have been testing their userbase's loyalty for a long time now. If you look at Mastodon, HN, and even Tumblr, you can see a
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by mlekoszek 3y ago
What sort of problems would you say they have?
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by mlekoszek 3y ago
I'm not so aligned with this article. I think this product shows a great deal of vision and creative risk. Even if it ends up as a failed experiment, I think it's still a worthwhile effort, and I'll be happy to see where they
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by mlekoszek 3y ago
The people here are nice
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by mlekoszek 3y ago
Or maybe Vine would have become like TikTok is now.
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by mlekoszek 4y ago
I mean at the end of the day, people generally like to talk with each other, unmediated, and be understood. They like being face to face. This is the lesson of the pandemic, even if it is a bit reactionary. People like being human.

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