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I don't know. Upvotes often do the same thing, especially in siloed communities. I feel like this is a larger problem -- people leaning into extremifying their views or just playin…

One analogy might be to the misleadingly named motion picture. We all have heard the stories of early cinema-goers who dove out of the way when the train on the screen barreled tow…

To be fair, it doesn't sound like anyone is literally judging this person for his moral stance -- it sounds like he is judging others for not sharing his morals. They're not making…

Interesting, especially because GPT-4o still can't tell you how many R's there are in "strawberry".

Aliens Can Watch ‘I Love Lucy’: https://www.lscheffer.com/tv.pdf

I was just re-watching "Westworld" recently, and there's a moment when Aaron Paul's character Caleb is having a telephone conversation with a sympathetic HR employee who tells him …

Let's just do away with the justice system entirely since social media seems to fulfill its functions perfectly.

As I pointed out above, this is really 20th century thinking. Social media allows for a kind of mob behavior that has shown itself antithetical to the kind of market liberalism mos…

We really need a better vocabulary for talking about this sort of thing than the 20th century terms of fascism, communism, and liberalism. I don't have the words yet, but we need t…

> For God's sake, is this where we're headed? Just ban anything that sounds offensive? Headed?

If Trump and the Republicans confirm a new Justice, Democrats have indicated they will pack the Supreme Court, appointing as many Justices as they feel necessary to get the rulings…

I think about this a lot. We are the first people in human history to see the planets up close, so to speak. For thousands of years, humans stared up at the sky and watched these l…

> I don't want to be part of a machinery that spreads misinformation and conspiracy theories. You're swearing off the internet entirely?

> We don't store any of the images uploaded or generated. Once the toonification has finished running no images are kept on our systems. I imagine this is all in good fun, but this…

I want to thank you for linking to the articles, even if you disagree with him. Calling an observation "offensive" and punishing someone for making it, is not refuting it, or even …

This should be horrifying to any sane human, but we live in a time of great insanity, and much of what ought to be criticized passes by unremarked in plain sight. > Ubuntu asserts …

I imagine others are thinking about this, too. I feel as if we are headed towards either an era of radically secured code where serious vulnerabilities become rare as hen's teeth, …

I'm going to remember this. It's a good way to have discussion if you're lucky enough to have someone who can abstract their personal views from the model that produced them.

The continued fetishizing of child-molestation fantasist, heroin-evangelist and wife-murderer William Burroughs is gross. To place photos of him on the cover of a new book holding …

Makes me wonder what a similar mod would do for video shot on a Fisher-Price PXL-2000: https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=pxl-2000

I will cite this as "Hliyan's Law" from now on.

Whenever I read about this experiment, I think about Theodore Sturgeon's "Microcosmic God", and experience a moment of profound disappointment: https://tinyurl.com/microcosmicgod I…

No. I'm saying that your face is more public than your fingerprint, and that makes your phone less secure. That's not my primary reason for being against FaceID, but it's an obviou…

> FaceID doesn't "take images of your face and environment" though. From "How Apple's New FaceID Works" at Gizmodo: "Face ID starts with an image of your face, but builds on top of…

I do not want FaceID, and will resist it as long as possible. I do not want to normalize the idea that security should depend on a camera taking images of my face and environment. …