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by paimapi 1mo ago
one could say that that's what it means to be resilient and emotionally mature, to not desperately seek approval from only external sources, and to be content with expressing yourself however you'd like to :)
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by paimapi 1mo ago
it's not that load-bearing isn't doing the, well, load-bearing semantic work but it's both the lack of variability and lack of nuance hat makes it sound cheap. word choice is powerful - and in the same way, it can be nuanced
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by paimapi 1mo ago
while true, this is reliant on company leadership (and their boards/shareholders) to allow for it. there's too much invested in commercial real estate at the moment that every publicly traded company with significant stake from so
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by paimapi 1mo ago
in the few books I've read about technological breakthroughs, the vast majority come from academia. I'm thinking about Eckert's adoption of IBM's ticker tape for commands rather than just rote data [0], all the invention
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by paimapi 1mo ago
2-3 hours at 20kW daily (assuming commute, etc) vs 20ish hours always on tasks really is close to equivalent which is to say that the last thing our planet needs is another universalized technology that outputs as much total emissions as ca
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by paimapi 1mo ago
> https://restroomarchive.com/r/2026-08-31-tri-cities-airport-... incredible work. I can only imagine what it was like standing here getting the images, the smell of the must wafting from the corners that haven&#x27
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by paimapi 1mo ago
I am a little wary how many of the newer apps on F-Droid seem fully vibe-coded. there's only so many 'brain training' games and 'fully offline notes' that one really needs I wish there was a 'ranking' feat
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by paimapi 1mo ago
sure, that's a great principle but is it applicable here? Ariely is noted having sent an email asking Epstein about 'that redhead' (along with hundreds of others and his work rehabbing the image of someone with a known pedoph
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by paimapi 1mo ago
> The messages revealed that his friendship with Epstein lasted for nine years, including well after Epstein was initially charged with soliciting sex from a minor.[52] Ariely also suggested that Epstein use learnings from his research t
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by paimapi 1mo ago
> It revealed that Ariely had a longstanding relationship with Epstein, including having visited him at his New York home on several occasions.[45] One of the documents is an image of an email from Ariely to Epstein, in which he requests
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by paimapi 1mo ago
I'm very comfortable with not being liked by people :)
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by paimapi 1mo ago
tale as old as time. cis gay white men joining the Log Cabin and advocating against trans rights as soon as they taste power is another example it reminds me of playground socialization. the cool kids bully you for a long time and so you so
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by paimapi 1mo ago
fully agreed with this. it's the same stigma that I see get applied to SSRIs - that you become 'dependent' on medication, it's not 'natural', etc in reality, if the side effects are minimal and you function bet
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by paimapi 1mo ago
that's an uncited claim framed as a guess, not confirmation or even a more educated guess by people performing actual ethnographies and larger demographic analysis. pair it against both the fact that these bombs are easy to make (plast
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by paimapi 1mo ago
blunt comment but not technically wrong - it's likely poverty and subsistence living that's driving adoption of this 'technique' and much of that originates from a combination of the colonial carve up of Indonesia [0] in
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by paimapi 1mo ago
yet another case of an editor writing a clickbait headline for a much more nuanced article about a very specific and interesting topic it both makes sense and seems very obvious that the CIA utilized an artistic movement as both a tool of i
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by paimapi 1mo ago
a single RCT of 40 people is about middle-of-the-range when it comes the hierarchy of evidence and is at best a 'that's neat, I'll wait a few years for there to be more studies' if you don't want to do any more thin
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by paimapi 1mo ago
definitely not Switzerland now - https://tuta.com/blog/switzerland-surveillance-plan Iceland still has the best data protection laws in the world, afaik
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by paimapi 1mo ago
we had one chance to elect that technocrat who could have set us on the path that the PRC is on now. instead, we decided it was more important to feel like we could have a beer with the President and so ended up invading Iraq and Afghanista
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by paimapi 1mo ago
you say that like American lobbyists and Congress people are at-all technically minded and not just hyperbolic princes seeking influence at any cost
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by paimapi 1mo ago
>Big deadly pandemics (black plague level) are usually bacteria. that's not really true, is it? I'm thinking small pox and influenza are big ones with well-studied pandemics that had fairly high mortality rates
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by paimapi 1mo ago
this is more of a curiosity and not pushback but are there mechanistic reasons why viral mutations are subjected to tradeoffs in terms of lethality vs infectiousness? is it that the more lethal it is, the earlier it is that people become sy
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by paimapi 1mo ago
we're far closer to one side of that spectrum than the other. consider the retroactively legalized mass wiretapping, room 641A, NIST compromises, PRISM, 14 Eyes, the other Snowden revelations, etc then consider this paired with the imp
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by paimapi 2mo ago
I think the exploits of the Inquisitors across the millenia especially post-Cathars when torture and mass slaughter were recommended tools for religious indoctrination might be a bit a counter-factual to this (but religious history is not m
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by paimapi 2mo ago
from NIST [0] to AT&T [1], the NSA has always had a backdoor into huge swathes of data created or transmitted through whatever means along with having Congress laws passed to retroactively make all of this collection legal [2] it really
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by paimapi 2mo ago
their competitors are Clearview and Motorola, neither of which are what you would call unimpeachable from a corporate ethics standpoint [0] [1] [2] [3] [4] companies will only do better if their clientele wants it. if the police don't
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by paimapi 2mo ago
I came from an email marketing company where this was not the case. celebrity accounts were accessible to everyone down to the level of first-line support which eventually resulted in someone getting fired because they were able to add a se
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by paimapi 2mo ago
I think this has much to do with the history of policing in the US which originated in the South as re-enslavement patrols and in the North as strikebreakers [0]. these institutions were built to be oppressive towards a population that was
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by paimapi 2mo ago
news like this is only coming out because Flock very recently rolled out a system that tracks usage and flags possible abuses: https://www.wsbtv.com/news/trending/flock-updates-safeguards... the problem is that us
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by paimapi 2mo ago
it's a rhetorical heuristic that a writer should know to use when directing a reader to a declarative that they want them to pay attention to, usually because it's a non-obvious or roundabout insight when utilized by AI, it's

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