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On the visual design traits... I'm primarily a backend developer. Most of my work has been in serving json or occasionally xml. Spring Shell in Java is something that I'm closer to working with than a GUI. When I've done w
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The tik-tok psychic defamation case would likely be better comparison (which is on par with Depp v. Heard). She defamed an innocent college professor about committing murder based on tarot card readings and continued to do so after the act
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Satire doesn't always have to be "ha ha" funny. They've got plenty of that material. As mass shootings became more and more common as a news satire site they felt that they couldn't continue to keep their heads in t
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> Unlike Jones, who at literally every step of the legal process thumbed his nose at the court, including, at one point, attempting to boycott the process outright. Legal Eagle and the commentary on the cell phone evidence (3 years ago)
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> Idk what the Sandy Hook shooting has to do with this, the Onion has been around for much longer. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%27No_Way_to_Prevent_This,%27_... > 'No Way to Prevent This,' Says Only N
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The context for those print subscribers is that this isn't a "had the subscription since the 2010s" They discontinued their print edition in 2013. Those 65,000 subscriptions are all people who subscribed since 2024 when it
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Yes. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%27No_Way_to_Prevent_This,%27_... https://www.thedailybeast.com/how-the-onion-became-one-of-th... ( https://archive.is/hEJhg ) It is growing and con
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I believe its because its a different structure. Previously, they were trying to buy the assets outright. That got into the "one group of families is owned $1.4 billion and another is owned $50 million" and the "how do you
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Unlocked link for the NYT article: https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/20/business/infowars-alex-jo...
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> So I can't help but wonder whether schools are going about this all wrong. Rather than banning the use of AI and trying to catch students who are cheating, why aren't they creating schoolwork that requires AI? Back in college
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Sun On Privacy : Get Over It (1999) https://web.archive.org/web/20171008211256/https://www.wired...
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Clearly you want to buy a replica Chewbacca cosplay outfit.
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Would going for the bitcoin puzzle wallets be a better demonstration of "it's broken" without needing to do anything fancy? https://btcpuzzle.info/ If all of them went to "solved" at once or in shor
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As a profession (and under time constraints) ... Tom Scott : How the US Postal Service reads terrible handwriting - https://youtu.be/XxCha4Kez9c Part of the story is that the OCR that is handling hand lettered addresses. I
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It's reference in The Codeless Code - https://thecodelesscode.com/case/234
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> And to be fair, we did lost the "technology" of memorization. We are not capable to create easy to remember texts, because we are not trying to. One of the more impressive Taskmaster (British humor gameshow) tasks was the mem
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The decline of writing is something that's been going on for a long time. Well written and grammatically correct emails are something that's been on the down turn. Consider how often people send emails in all lower case, lacki
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A college instructor turns to typewriters to curb AI-written work and teach life lessons - https://apnews.com/article/typewriter-ai-cheating-chatgpt-co... The scene is right out of the 1950s with students pecking
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If your credit card is current. One of the "oh, this gets into trouble" is when you do a 10 year registration paid in advance and the credit card on file expires before the auto-renewal time. The registrar will poke you, and put
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The bit that I wasn't entirely sold on with his analysis was that he was working on 1 satellite per rack https://youtu.be/FlQYU3m1e80?si=nUMhO-lDny_VpG0D&t=1065 (YouTube auto transcribe) > ... but how do you sca
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The last week of January, the site was intermittently serving back a 429 response (too many requests) as recorded by the wayback machine. https://web.archive.org/web/20260000000000*/Zombo.com In the first week of
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I recall reading about this in The Code Book by Simon Singh when I was dabbling with writing single and double substitution cypher solvers. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steganography#History > The first recorded us
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Consider the rate of job hopping that would be evident on that resume. I'm not sure how many companies would be willing to invest in sending a FTE who stays somewhere for likely less than a year to a conference or say "Ok, you an
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A college instructor turns to typewriters to curb AI-written work(apnews.com)
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As a note, Sanskrit is a "sibling" or cousin of Latin or Greek in the family tree of languages ( https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/4f/IndoEuro... ). Neither Latin nor Greek grew
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I believe you are confusing what an editor does and proofreading. In the time before LLMs, for some of my occasional blog posts I'd first post it to whatever messaging system my colleges used and ask them to read over it. Identifyin
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https://www.etymonline.com/word/*teks- > Proto-Indo-European root meaning "to weave," also "to fabricate," especially with an ax, also "to make wicker or wattle fabric for (mud-covered) hous
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https://www.historyextra.com/period/20th-century/anne-frank-... > But the manuscript that Otto Frank pitched to Dutch editors didn’t contain his daughter’s entire diary. Anne herself had begun editing large swa
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Kurzgesagt typically does STEM focused videos... they've got a new channel "After Dark" which focuses on history and historical figures. Their first one: Kurzgesagt After Dark The Final Days of Louis XIV - https:/&#x2F
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> The qualities of American writing have clearly been on a precipitous decline for a very long time now, predating AI slop and even spell checkers and computers. https://www.literaturelust.com/post/what-writers-need-

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