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by tootie 1y ago
It is absolutely insane that the party who tried on the Libertarian mask less than 20 years ago and rode high on a wave of "don't tread on me" individual liberty is now suddenly ok with masked thugs scanning everyone's f
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by tootie 1y ago
We're calling them Kavanaugh Stops. Legalized racial profiling.
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by tootie 1y ago
Anil is an old-school technologist. He helped Movable Type which was arguably the first blogging CMS. He also worked at Fastly and Glitch. I'm sure he knows how CLIs work and what they're good for. And surely no one here is sugges
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by tootie 1y ago
I don't see how OpenAI isn't doomed. They are riding on brand recognition. They are in such a deep hole with investors and despite their meteoric revenue they are only getting deeper. And there is no moat between them and Google o
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by tootie 1y ago
That's 2023. As of today they are expected to hit peak fossil fuel usage and start declining within the year. https://www.climatechangenews.com/2025/09/09/china-on-course...
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by tootie 1y ago
Kinda terrifying. And it can run in 32GB of VRAM? Anyone with a 5090 can start spewing out believable fake videos.
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by tootie 1y ago
Idk how this Dwarkesh Patel got so popular so fast. I'd never heard of him and he keeps popping up in my feeds.
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by tootie 1y ago
Exactly. A 5-10 year timeline and you've got the formula for a new Space Race with China. Give us $7T or else China will control the world. This 2024 story feels like ancient history that everyone has forgotten: https://www.
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by tootie 1y ago
The water erosion theory is poorly supported and the orthodoxy is supported by an absolute mountain of corroborating evidence. Remember the great sphinx is part of a massive mortuary complex and we have decades of scholarship documenting al
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by tootie 1y ago
There were most assuredly many, many older civilizations. Humans have been more or less the same for at least 200k years and have had the same capabilities the entire time. We have preserved artwork much older than this and much finer. If y
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by tootie 1y ago
Libertarianism is often described as a broken clock and it's their time of the day again.
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by tootie 1y ago
Kirk, among many other right wing figures, have absolutely made light of past violence against Democrats. The discourse around Paul Pelosi was utterly vile and despicable. Nobody ever threatened his first amendment right to say horrendous t
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by tootie 1y ago
1% of Germany's power needs sound like an awful lot to me.
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by tootie 1y ago
It's not in production but I read that Slate, the modular EV startup, is explicitly not putting any screens and letting out your own device on the console. Seems like the obvious way to do it.
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by tootie 1y ago
I don't see how this is usable for making like a feature film. Editing will be impossible. At best it will be for ads. At worst for making social media slop.
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by tootie 1y ago
I remember when HP announced their plan to acquire Autonomy. I was very familiar with their tech and their status in the industry at the time and knew they were approaching irrelevance with no chance to boost sales of anything. They complet
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by tootie 1y ago
The fact that this is their demo to the world and it's full of errors implies that average users will only get worse results.
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by tootie 1y ago
Simon has a popular blog, but he's also co-creator of Django and very well-known in the Python community.
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by tootie 1y ago
How did Sunshine operate for so long? I remember when it was announced and nobody understood what it was for. It never gained adoption. Presumably never had much, if any, revenue. Was it pure vanity?
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by tootie 1y ago
I didn't dig in to every cite but a few seemed suspicious. One linked on digital interventions specifically said it showed no positive results. Another on pet ownership having 100% success rate was sponsored by the pet industry. I thin
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by tootie 1y ago
Exact opposite. Science is under attack by politics and we need authoritative voices explaining how dangerous this is. Why would scientists not be allowed to offer opinions on their observations? That's basically the same thing as scie
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by tootie 1y ago
A large portion of the electorate do not have an accurate sense of how big the government is or what it spends money on. DOGE is a living example. They believed (and musk boasted) they'd find trillions in wasted money. I think a lot of
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by tootie 1y ago
That's a ridiculous statement and honestly this blog post itself is very misleading. The quote taken on condition of anonymity is someone saying there is no evidence this was a national security threat. The NYT article is not at all a
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by tootie 1y ago
All cultures evolve. Most of them disappear. They leave influencew behind as they meld. Any modern culture will be recorded very precisely.
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by tootie 1y ago
That post is just plain racism.
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by tootie 1y ago
Sodium oxybate. And yeah most commercial sleep trackers are not going to work for someone with such disordered sleep. There have been retail EEGs available but they never catch on.
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by tootie 1y ago
I have narcolepsy and it's hard to describe what an absolute fog I was in for years before diagnosis. The current best treatment is a powerful depressant taken at bed time and again middle of the night to induce deep sleep.
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by tootie 1y ago
It was the CEO of Disney and it happened after threats from the head of the FCC. Edit: to clarify, the CEO of Disney caved to pressure from affiliates owned by a Nexstar who are actively petitioning the FCC to relax media ownership rules so
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by tootie 1y ago
Just look at the guy who shot Trump's ear. He had no discernable motive or explicit political leaning at all. And had supposedly been tracking both Trump and Biden. He just did it for attention.
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by tootie 1y ago
The head of the FCC isn't people. The recent Paramount merger was preceded by Paramount conceding multiple times to unreasonable demands by Trump personally. This is definitely abuse of power and official censorship.

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