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by xtiansimon 2mo ago
Well. Some of it's mental (can't imagine walking when you have a car) and some of it is what mom who has two kids (with or without the father) is going to want to choose to walk pushing a folding cart full of groceries when they c
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This is the weirdest thing—-I didn’t think anyone was paying attention to graphics and images anymore to care who produced them. My personal signifier of fake content is that voice on videos. It’s most found in ads about foods. Or says, “th
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by xtiansimon 2mo ago
> “What's the point of adding these AI chatbots if they're hopelessly uninformed about your products?” This drives me nuts. But it is a continuum. From help-bots which are just natural language navigation to docs, to the best i
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by xtiansimon 2mo ago
> “…status signaling isn't part of biology?” It’s just a short-cut. The most ostentatious courtships of bird species are found in populations without significant predators. Evolution has granted this as advantage, because they don’t
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by xtiansimon 2mo ago
> “Suburbanites buy cars” True for Long Island, NY. Can’t go to to the store 0.3 miles away without driving your cage. Kids take the bus to school in even the best weather, that is if their parents don’t drive them.
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by xtiansimon 2mo ago
Don’t forget 2021-01-17, “This is your wake up call. Thank you for staying at the New Darwin Inn.” Johnny Neumonic (movie, 1995)
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by xtiansimon 2mo ago
Inflection point of technologies: - [pneumatic tire] -> bicycle. - [battery, touch screens, high bandwidth networks] -> mobile phones - [transformer architectures, massive datasets] —> “ai” as we know it today Such an in
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by xtiansimon 2mo ago
> “…they appear to have lost their balls…” I see where this is going. It’s the flip side of the Trump coin as expressed to me by my neighbor who I only just met: “President Trump is the only president in my lifetime who has any _balls_!”
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by xtiansimon 2mo ago
> “U.S. has used…” Missing the ‘has’ part for “present perfect tense”, e.g. “a past action with present relevance”. In an ongoing war.
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by xtiansimon 3mo ago
Curious. You’re curating from the single point of truth (spot). You direct new additions for your site over to spot. How does a submission get into your subset? Does the submitter add to spot and then shoot you a message to pull by some uni
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by xtiansimon 3mo ago
Aesthetically it’s visually dense. A cornucopia of themes. Just the sort of thing a committee likes to pick. Ban committee juried art contests.
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by xtiansimon 3mo ago
I don’t any experience with CRMs, but I’ve had some discussions with a coworker about a skunk works project idea: mining our emails for “incidents” from our client’s representatives. Most of our emails falls into one bucket: sharing, or e
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by xtiansimon 3mo ago
> “Stories come tumbling out, not because you can’t stop talking about yourself, but from an earnest yearning to share authentically and be received, while simultaneously promoting deeper listening and presence.” In this age of turning a
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by xtiansimon 3mo ago
> _"They needed to not..."_ I think I'm reading a moral stance in your comments. Like Commandments. "Thou shall not bear false witness". Maybe a radical stance in the context of news? I conclude you're deman
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by xtiansimon 3mo ago
> “Do you, as a human, feel the urgency in that text?” They do pick up when I use all CAPS and !!!
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by xtiansimon 3mo ago
I know what you’re referring to, and after you said this I noticed the gui’s little control palette. I watch the user click this palette and then have to click the text palette to type a command. And my mind sympathetically found this extra
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by xtiansimon 3mo ago
> “Yet another article where the media is sanewashing the subject at hand.” I agree this level of public gambling is crazy. Though I’m dismayed with the criticism of mainstream media not taking a stronger stance, which I take is your cri
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> “… which is owned by an organization that can charge whatever it wants…” Sure, but how can the price change at the last moment like this?
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> $8 steak Is gristly piece of roadkill. But there are certain dishes which are traditional, American: - 1/4 lb burger and fries, - bec on a roll with coffee, - 2 eggs, hash browns, toast and coffee - soup and sandwich
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by xtiansimon 3mo ago
> “Apple Maps … without a solid net connection it lies there mutely.” Worse, without a net connection you can’t even get the phone to start a route.
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by xtiansimon 3mo ago
I use an Otter case with my iPhone because I’m team lanyard. My iPhone is like a pet. It never goes out of the house without a leash. Haha. So that adds a little bit of width. I have the iPhone 15 now, and I use my old iPhone SE for music a
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by xtiansimon 3mo ago
It’s interesting to * imagine* the future development of “The System” of segregation. Government driving changes to laws, imposing fines on platforms which create EULAs resulting in technological controls (or alarm flags)—whether you can b
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Eggs. Chef says don’t touch my omelet pan on pain of death.
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I think this is generally the opinion of writer Cory Doctorow— https://pluralistic.net/2026/07/22/table-flipper/
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The corporate ownership is interesting. I generally don’t buy brands. They just get my first attention. What sucks about brands is the marketing that drowns out the signals from other brands making them impossible to find or discover. Come
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> “…Europeans being silly about air conditioning, from the drill-baby-drill nation…” Sounds like a ‘mixed-meme’. I appreciate your concern, but confused thinking bringing heightened emotions is counterproductive. https://dicti
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Heck. The San Francisco Bay Area was largely AC free in my youth (except maybe Walnut Creek).
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On a personal note I used to love stargazing in the mountains of California’s Sierra Nevada mountains as a child. Sort of lost some of the magic when I started needing to wear prescription eyeglasses.
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> “…gets scraped and added to a pile of training data to later be monetized…” I feel you. It reminds me of the "Freedom for any purpose" doctrine of FOSS and the moral question of FOSS in military usage.
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“The bureaucracy” wants order in all things. They want to approve what is spoken, distributed, and discussed. Absolute control. No? The more norms are changed, ignored, trampled, inverted, the more invested people will speak out. On a perso

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