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Lesbians too [0]. And people who don’t make much money [1]. And people who aren’t Asian [2]. And athletes, and people who like sports [3]. Applying group statistics to judge indivi…

> raise concerns about data being shared with third-party companies or federal agencies. What, you don’t like “sharing”? It would be selfish not to “share”! Truly the move from “se…

Future jobs? I thought AGI was the future of work! And plus, their duty is to a higher cause! All humanity needs them to win, so that the superintelligence is “aligned” to their su…

So, but… where do most fish go when they die?

So… @lazide replied with a hahaha. It got flagged to death, understandably. If it were anybody but @lazide I’d have flagged it too, but… I can’t help but grimace and nod. To hazard…

I think this is an ancillary specifically for economy class passengers—you pay a certain amount to reserve a 4-hour slot on a bunk or something. I have no idea, but my guess is eco…

Matteo Wong writing on new “Nano Banana” features in Google Earth. He is not a fan, but he did create some rather impressive fake satellite imagery of cataclysm. Linkbait title as …

Especially on the same routes where you’d think about using this kind of airliner... https://www.airnewzealand.com/economy-skynest

Good enough for what? Certainly good enough to direct people to the correct links for their platform. And, to me at least, to signal ahead of time that it’s a Claude-flavored game.…

I mean Some of these municipal water plants in the US are independently operated by municipalities of awfully few people and even fewer resources to spare, often serving relatively…

Oh boy. The human here is effectively assuming the role of a Magic 8 Ball… What a weird species of halting problem…

It's not a conversation at that point, it's a performance. I walk away.

I think knowing what you want (and being able to articulate it with adequate specificity, and detecting when processes drift away from it) is a real skill/field of expertise. I jus…

I’m familiar with cities that conduct time-bounded surges of policing in reaction to specific outbreaks of criminality. When inter-faction violence in a neighborhood escalates to t…

Suspicious, maybe; but not criminal (like lying to a federal officer in the course of an investigation, or willfully destroying what they’re lawfully trying to search). Probably ev…

Chasing eternal profit growth isn’t a fact of life, notwithstanding the mythology of commodification. Neither are all investors motivated purely by profit. Neither is it clear that…

Is this different from the per-app enumeration in Account —> iCloud —> Storage? That provides a means to delete per app