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Personally I just want a way to randomly browse, and not have the algo constantly shoving stuff my way. Suggestions are nice when paired with an active selection, but other than th…

At least the Brazilian courts seem to be functioning...

I haven't used OpenBSD since the 3.x days, but I did dearly love it at the time. I'm so glad they're still working on it.

Of course, where else would it fall? What a joke of an administration.

15 years ago when I was still in college in the US, the new president of the school came to give a speech to some incoming freshman. In that speech he talked a lot about how colleg…

Humans will always veer toward the path of least resistance. This isn't surprising, but it is disappointing.

I suspect a lot of the growth of any AI economic boom, will benefit very few people, to the detriment of most everyone else.

I worked for years as a BI consultant for some rather large Silicon Valley companies. My experience felt like 70% wasted time creating pipelines, data restructuring and visuals for…

Time to move your money into foreign exchange. The dollar is going to fall pretty hard.

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Tangentially related: there is practically no treatment for back pain. https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/18/well/lower-back-pain-trea...

You really have to have your head in the sand to not recognize DOGE for what it is. A dismantling of government to siphon wealth and power to the ultra-rich. It's straight up theft…

Tesla did one good thing: it brought hype to the EV market. Now that many major car manufacturers have caught on, Tesla brings nothing to the table. And with Elon heading it, those…

The grift and insider dealing is so obvious.

Every time I read about the fever-dream utopia that libertarians so desperately want, I am reminded of the town which fell apart because the ideas in practice simply don't work: "W…

Great insight to have as a young person. You are discovering and understanding the dangers of social media much quicker than most.

I believe there are updates to this news. He was eventually released following a lot of international coverage and pressure - shame it happened at all to begin with. https://www.np…

> Also notable: Kids prioritized feeling "welcome and safe" online over free speech (sigh). These are kids. The sigh in this article is because kids would rather feel safe than be …

This is a repeated theme with every business right now. Nearly every product both tangible and intangible will go up in price. Our services are dependent on a global supply chain. …

Yes, because it doesn't reason or think. There's nothing to "convince", you just prompt hack it until it does.

Advertising is the cure worse than the disease in this case. I'm willing to have a slightly worse service occasionally if it means I'm not being bombarded with corporate propaganda…

I may have missed it, but how "real-time" are these trades? For those trades that appear to be in the last few days, how is it being tracked?

This should happen anyway, not just as a response to tariffs. But if that's what it takes to have the political will, then I won't look a gift horse in the mouth.