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I miss the pre-www world (but I was just a kid then, and being a kid was pretty great). If we could go back to about 1994 tho when all I had was a mostly dumb cell phone, that'd be…

This seems ripe for a joke akin to "how was the food?" "bad, but at least the portions were big!" Like, "how was the medical advice" "worse than a doc's, but at least it was cheape…

One statue of liberty (Liberty Enlightening the World, Liberty Island, NYC) is approximately 4 times the size of one statue of liberty (Liberty Enlightening the World replica, Île …

I am sympathetic to your analogy. I think it works well enough. But it falls a bit short in that encyclopedias, lossy or not, shouldn't affirmatively contain false information. The…

I am not sure I would rely on observations of gyms and beaches for whether people are healthier for fear of selection bias. Going to the beach and seeing mostly fit bathers is like…

I send texts via voice command/dictation all the time. How would this be distinguished?

Isn't a solution to assign vicarious liability to whomever approves the use of the decision-making machine?

Humans do like to fuck.

NB: "the only one that does[n't] make my finger pads feel sore is the macbook"

This is seriously the thing I like the most about my 2017 and 2023 macbooks. The trackpad feels so good. Every other manufacturer that I have tried, and no it is not all of them bu…

Surely the hopes for Pope Pizzaballa is in part because of his name?

I would pay $500bn to get siri to distinguish between a 13 minute timer and a 30 minute timer.

This is what I do. I cannot call it Twitter anymore because that makes me sad (I miss you Twitter 2008-2016). I cannot call it X because that is dumb. So Xitter it is.

That is an interesting question: do people generally care about the survival of the species? I am not actually sure I wouldn't take the bet against you there. Given what I perceive…

Why is Musk attacking these things in the EU? Why does he care what we do?

That is not at all what that says...

I try, too. It is less and less possible every day.

What are the financial reasons for governments to want mass surveillance? I can understand some other reasons, which I think are illegitimate, but I cannot think of a financial rea…

I have a really hard time understanding why we as a society (or various societies) are okay these kinds of things. Sure, I understand that there is little I can do about it, but wh…

I have been meaning to try it. Is it best to get a new phone, or will any old model work fine?

But it is trivial to allow js per website using ublock. My default is no-js, and if there is some website I really want to use that requires js, then I enable it. If I find myself …