nojonestownpls

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by nojonestownpls 5mo ago
When you take into account how much corporations cloud the effects of your work from you, and how easy (normal, in fact) it is to live in a bubble where you don't realize the level of suffering of others, then when you say > no matt
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by nojonestownpls 5mo ago
Yes, when life puts you in a position where you're insulated from the consequences of your actions, just enjoy it :) If your role is actively making life worse for thousands of others, that's their problem. When you've been o
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by nojonestownpls 5mo ago
$250k can do a good job of easing meme-induced pain. "survive underwater" what a joke. Yes, there will be good engineers there who will be sad to see it go this way, but they choose to be there, get paid better than 99% of humanit
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by nojonestownpls 5mo ago
Yep, large scale murder is just "business is business", but Musk ouchied my feelings with the bad words and that's far worse - that checks out for the current US left attitude. As a non-white person, I'm far more worried
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by nojonestownpls 5mo ago
Do you not use any major provider's AI at all? Because the other big options are from companies actively aiding a genocide (Google), or companies clamouring to be the tools used in future war crimes (OpenAI and Anthropic - the latter o
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by nojonestownpls 11mo ago
I checked it out based on this comment. It's funny how in some ways it feels like a lazy student-assignment copied from Wikipedia: the subheadings and the structure are exactly the same as the Wikipedia article on the topic, and someti
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Global firms including Palantir 'profiting from genocide' in Gaza: UN rapporteur(theguardian.com)
24 points by nojonestownpls 1y ago|0 comments
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by nojonestownpls 1y ago
> There was no border dispute of any kind between these countries That is such a perfect representation of the level of public discourse around this, that I can only thank you for providing a sample. It's not even hard to learn abou
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by nojonestownpls 1y ago
It's interesting to contrast comments like this in this thread, with the amount of hatred and abuse heaped upon Russians on the day of Russia's invasion - not just the Russian state, but a big chunk of comments that made it clear
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by nojonestownpls 1y ago
And yet far less attention than those in Ukraine got even at a time when the destruction and killing there was less than 1% of what Palestine has gone through. Within one week of the first attack, Ukraine got more mainstream support, on-air
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by nojonestownpls 1y ago
There has always been a significant section of the US public that's anti-science, and would have posed a strong obstruction to funding any of the space achievements of the 20th century - if not for the fact that the Soviet Union demons
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by nojonestownpls 1y ago
I've also heard people jokingly call manicures handjobs.
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by nojonestownpls 2y ago
> He's upset that Democrats didn't let him commit crime just because he donated to them? Yeah, doesn't he know that you have to be blood-related to the President for that privilege?
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by nojonestownpls 2y ago
Imagine if this was a male journalist snooping through newly appointed young, female engineers' histories, e-stalking them the same way and writing an article of his findings. You can justify it as "it's technically still rep
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by nojonestownpls 2y ago
Not necessarily a culture shift - assuming you mean IRL culture, not HN culture - but rather a sign of HN's much increased popularity in recent years, outside the thoughtful nerd circle.
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by nojonestownpls 3y ago
For some added context on the vaccine distrust: > In the early 2010s, the CIA ran a fake vaccination program in Abbottabad, offering free Hepatitis B vaccines to children in an attempt to collect DNA evidence linking Osama bin Laden to t
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by nojonestownpls 3y ago
> Given how many activists have used it in overthrowing dictatorial governments How many? There's some news about it being recommended for use by BLM protesters, and about it being blocked in China, Iran, etc. Where is this info abo
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The Other 9/11: Salvador Allende and Chile(libya360.wordpress.com)
15 points by nojonestownpls 3y ago|4 comments
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by nojonestownpls 3y ago
> The mailing lists are censored and the inner circle cannot be criticized. Well, HN isn't censored in this regard (unless you believe their influence extends here too). What specific criticisms do you have against "the inner c
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by nojonestownpls 3y ago
> And yet they seem to fumble it regularly, in every direction. The results are all over the map, ignore the issue, too strict, knee jerk in about every way, sometimes every way... > It occurs to me that none of these organization nat
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by nojonestownpls 3y ago
Yeah, all Apple users know that "this software needs to be updated" means "the software itself is fine, the developer just needs to pay us money". It's obvious, not misleading or an attempt to create FUD at all.
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by nojonestownpls 3y ago
Google: We have no moat! OpenAI: Hold my beer while I get these people to artificially create one.
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by nojonestownpls 3y ago
It's strange that old expressions like "the US is throwing stones from a glass house" or "the US is like a pot calling the kettle black" have existed for a long enough time to be idioms, but the term for decrying su
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by nojonestownpls 3y ago
Explicit control is in many ways better than this kind of subtle behind-the-scenes manipulation. It's more visible, easier to gather resistance against (yes, even under the control), and relatively easier to dismantle. To "subvert
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by nojonestownpls 3y ago
Twitter is a well-established company with a huge userbase and existing infrastructure. Gwynne was hired to make something out of nothing in an unproven space (no pun intended), having to build everything from the ground up (also no pun int
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by nojonestownpls 3y ago
As a previous non-regular-Twitter user, every time I checked in to see what the hype was about, it was full of people trying to create "personal brand"s and sounding very artificial. It had a very LinkedIn-ish vibe. Regular Twitte
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by nojonestownpls 3y ago
The US doesn't have to bother with formal requests of course.
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by nojonestownpls 3y ago
I believe Bookmarks existed before Elon, he just made it more visible in the UI (or approved the change, or however it happened). > pushed the chronological feed It's funny how many people who did not even know they weren't usi
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by nojonestownpls 3y ago
You don't have to go that far. Elon just got more involved in politics than before (or at least more publicly than before - all billionaires are probably influential in politics, just not so explicitly), and the best move in that game
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by nojonestownpls 3y ago
The why is answered in the first link, I'll copy paste it for the lazy: > Pick them carefully, don’t skimp, and make sure they have good support. Because when things go pear-shaped, you really want to be able to actually talk to s

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