spencerflem

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by spencerflem 7mo ago
I’m not saying it’s inefficient. I’m saying cloud computing uses a lot of power.
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by spencerflem 7mo ago
Climate change and pollution, and yes they do.
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by spencerflem 7mo ago
It’s new capacity! They’re not even saying they shouldn’t do it or that they’re not useful or not worth it but you Cannot logically say both “these things do not use a lot of power” and “we need to build more power plants to handle these th
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by spencerflem 7mo ago
How am I as an individual supposed to get externalities priced in? And given that right now they are clearly not, what’s your plan until then?
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by spencerflem 7mo ago
To nobody in particular: I loved this article, and all the little jokes and asides.
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by spencerflem 7mo ago
If you trust the AI disclosure at the top, this was all human made except for one heading
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by spencerflem 8mo ago
Not if the democrats can help it
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by spencerflem 8mo ago
Doesn’t text chat still have a weird thing where you can’t see the texts unless you’re in a voice call in that channel?
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by spencerflem 8mo ago
I mean, discord is a tool of US surveillance and I’m a Lot more worried about that government doing something to me given Russia is ten thousand miles away
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by spencerflem 8mo ago
Game engines, UI frameworks, desktop environments, and web browsers all share a lot of features. The Arcan project is my favorite piece of software running with this idea rn
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by spencerflem 8mo ago
Yeah :c I feel the same way. They’ve made a variant with more traditional poker deck look but the same rank/suits of the ever deck that I’m excited to try one day
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by spencerflem 8mo ago
I own a few of these- they’re lovely things but I’ve not found them easy to bring out in a group. The same author’s made a variant that loses some features to gain looking like a very standard poker deck (with just more numbers and suits) t
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by spencerflem 8mo ago
hence why the clock’s stayed pretty close to midnight
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by spencerflem 8mo ago
Those conditions lead to conflict which lead to nuclear war. I’m convinced it will happen in my lifetime and nothing in the last 5 years has made me feel like we’re moving in the direction of peace and international collaboration
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by spencerflem 9mo ago
I get why they would want them but it seems so clear to me that the world is going to end in fire
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by spencerflem 9mo ago
I’m not convinced we’d be in a better place if the ICE officer had been shot in self defense. It’s a really powerful story and cements to ‘normal people’ who are just barely following the news what ICE is like. FWIW I do think things might
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by spencerflem 9mo ago
I agree, sadly we do not have any leadership pushing for this yet.
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by spencerflem 9mo ago
The CCP has far less impact on my life as an American than the US government.
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by spencerflem 9mo ago
Oh wow it’s by Tristan Hume, still remember you from EyeLike!
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by spencerflem 9mo ago
I loved that game. The developers had a Q&A once and said they legitimately did not playtest it, at all <3
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by spencerflem 9mo ago
Even if the democrats win, they will face no consequences. Chuck Schumer can’t even say ICE funding should go down
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by spencerflem 9mo ago
I think it’s reasonable not to vote for a candidate that supports genocide. Maybe that’s not a line for you but surely you have a line that cannot be crossed somewhere
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by spencerflem 9mo ago
Can confirm that the Connections museum is lovely :)
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by spencerflem 9mo ago
I don’t really see it to be honest. I feel like their best and most natural use is scams. Maybe a different comparison you would agree with is Stingrays, the devices that track cell phones. Ideally nobody would have them but as is, I’m glad
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by spencerflem 9mo ago
Why not? I don’t think normal people have very many good uses for deepfake tech.
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by spencerflem 9mo ago
I mean, yeah. If y’all didn’t pollute the climate to the point things will be unlivable I wouldn’t feel that way. But rn my political goals are to leave a more beautiful corpse.
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by spencerflem 9mo ago
I have a new opinion that fits better imo: that they genuinely like it when other people suffer, even at their own expense. From this perspective Trumps policies are all mostly rational.
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by spencerflem 9mo ago
I feel ya 100%. Add on atomic bombs and biosphere collapse and I’m not just worried for the USA but civilization itself not making it many more decades
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by spencerflem 9mo ago
It took me so long to realize this but it’s completely true. What they want most is for other people to suffer
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by spencerflem 9mo ago
And the worst part is, from a societal point of view - it doesnt matter if $companyA wins over $companyB, if the reason they won is that there was more Geico ads than Liberty ads etc. We allow every space to be overrun with these things, wa

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