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Building the panopticon does not reduce crime.

I am confused why you want to debate and make excuses for an agency that sent an innocent man to torture prison for all the months it took for the courts to get him back. Honestly.…

I think you are a bad person who wants to sit around and talk about this as if it’s some sort of abstract philosophy and not a situation where actual human beings’ lives and health…

I listed asylum seekers and visa holders in detention but they are definitely grabbing citizens too. Usually they do not hold them for very long. This happened at the Target I shop…

https://youtu.be/e4X0hI40a8A Just a handful of examples from last year. As a resident of Minneapolis I can assure you it is much, much worse than these few examples. Are you not fa…

From everything we are seeing, the tools are not actually that capable. Their main function is not their stated function of spying/knowing a lot about people. Their main function i…

In English the word is “connotation.”

Or you could just… not use LLMs

I had a coworker who kept up a blog about random purchases she’d made, where she would earn some money via affiliate links. I thought it was horrendously boring and weird, and the …

It doesn’t imply any of that at all. There certainly is a huge army of people ready to spout this sort of nonsense in response to anyone talking about doing anything. Hard to know …

Doing something is literally the opposite of doing nothing. This is complete gibberish.

We cannot coordinate large scale positive change without connecting genuinely with each other. I don’t think violence is necessary. The common people have access to many levers of …

The future certainly does look bleak. I think not giving up on normal human expression, connection, and creativity is a good way to combat that.

That explains a lot. Thank you! What a weird business decision on their part. I would guess the minimum has something to with payment processing overhead, but Patreon handles 1-2$ …

How is she doing now?

I don’t think it’s a good reason. I think it’s a reason. It’s certainly demoralizing. Plagiarism sucks and feels bad. If I were to google something and see the AI overview parrotin…

Decentralized and expensive. Maybe I’m looking at the wrong blogs but my impression so far is that a lot of subscriptions are around 5-10$ monthly for a single creator. I can get a…

The way things are going, I’m not sure if the mega corps will ever truly turn a profit off the blood sucking. Maybe suck some USA tax money for a bailout… In the meantime, there ar…

I’m sure there could be some argument to be made for obstruction of justice considering he oversaw the firing/dissolution of agencies and people investigating his dealings. Plus wh…

I have never noticed that page being updated in a timely manner.

Our Azure DevOps site is still functioning and our Azure hosted databases are accessible. Everything else is cooked.

All of our sites went down. This is my company’s busiest time of year. Hooray.

I don’t find it particularly childish to hate on a man who led the charge to destroy food and medicine meant for orphans. Among other things. If he didn’t want bad publicity for ev…

Spot on. These people are all severely emotionally stunted and it is both pitiable and dangerous to me. They will never experience the full breadth of human emotion. And they have …