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10 years from now I live in a farming community, most of you have cel phones in your heads and live in panopticon minority-report smart cities pre-policed by AI, many of your relat…

True words.

Imagine being so [insert your own term] that a robot is qualified to teach you to communicate better with humans.

For me that moment is every time I read anything new about AI. Luddite life!

Here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33088681

Exactly. If your entire right hemisphere is permanently shut down from making computers the core of your identity, these are exactly the same thing.

I think you mean that the only thing that's changed is that information that was tightly controlled by governments via a small but powerful set of mainstream media channels to adva…

You think? Just read all the ones in black: https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/George_Orwell But as so many even here keep repeating so idiotically, "We live in a society. We live in a …

I'm not as fond of the redesign that took place sometime in the last decade or so, but I remember the old (circa 2000) Win32 docs as good examples of great documentation. For the w…

IMO this is a normal way to feel about it. I'm american and while I'm not shedding tears, I do feel the significance. I'd have immense respect for her even if it were only for fulf…

Kiwi Farms has a thread on Taylor Lorenz from WaPo, because of certain erratic behavior. Taylor got her own dirt removed from the internet archive. Taylor has been helping Clara go…

Another fun fact: Taylor's uncle is Roger Macdonald, apparently a fairly prominent operator within the internet archive: https://archive.org/details/roger-macdonald-tv-archive http…

Tell it to somebody who's already subscribed to that whole delusional ideology. Such as every other user in this thread.

Still really unclear what law is being broken in that case. Unless you're proposing new speech-curtailing legislation. They're Intenet-famous. They're of interest to forever-online…

I don't want that to be a quasi-unilateral judgement. Also, one question. Suppose we do change the laws, and Kiwi Farms continues to operate within those new laws. Will that be eno…

I have the same information, unless CF pays someone to lurk the Farms more than I do. Unlikely. This is a pretext plain and simple. Prince is full of it. There was one fedpost and …

Lifetime of depression and multiple suicide attempts as well. If I ever do it, it'll be because I suffered my whole life, not because of the most recent thing that happened the wee…

He's been taken to court around 7 times. It's almost as if he didn't break the law, and people just think he must of because it be so nasty!

Of course not. It wasn't an actual threat, though it sounded like one. The mods handled it as soon as they became aware.

> what kiwifarms has been doing to "free speech" What? Testing it? To make sure we can actually exercise it in practice? Because "be careful how you use it or you might ruin it for…