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I really love those weird collections that are open to the public. I wonder how many people out there are obsessively collecting and cataloging that one theme in their basement.

Oh well, I guess we have another once-in-a-lifetime economic crisis ahead of us. Ready your tax dollars, prepare the bailouts! We've got some billionaires to save.

I'm sure capitalism will find a solution to the issue it caused, right?

The economic bet there are enough mentally ill people who reject reality... looking at the state of affairs in tech and politics this might actually pay off.

So, some tech business took something that is practical, robust, and low maintenance, and then added a deteriorating battery, delicate electronics, and the need to constantly charg…

"Let's not buy from Russia, it's an overt dictatorship lazily cosplaying as a democracy that's waging wars on other nations and killing innocent civilians."

Is it autobiographical?

"Denmark completely autistic." -Unnamed US federal government secretary

I know capitalism and I don't always get along, but it's so good to see its desire for profitability and the need to protect investors actually kill a business that needs killing. …

What contemporary economic ideology has taught me: If it sounds too good to be true, it usually isn't. And the Venn diagram of scams and business is almost a circle in a sense that…

Is Web3 just regular internet with ponzi schemes bolted onto it?

Is it because the creepy breeding kink, drug addict CEO playing a neo nazi edgelord who supports far-right extremist parties all over the world? Or is it the noncompetitive product…

Ads are not the problem. It's the ad-tech surveillance and the malvertising. There are ways to show ads that are not a threat. When online services choose to become hostile, adbloc…

Put at risk, or willfully given to their masters? All the ghouls suckling Yarvin's teats like Thiel want their tech driven tyranny, and SS data will help them on their way.

100% https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ELIZA_effect

The US is trying CCP-style state-capitalism? Also, the glorious leader and great GOP chairman Trump gave his owners a great opportunity for insider trade. Last time be publicly bra…

It's not just the UK, but the whole of Europe. With the rise of literal neo-nazi parties like reform uk, the german afd, the french front national, and whatnot out there, widesprea…

In my hobby we have "grognards" - the grumpy old farts that detest everything new and pick on every little change. That opinion piece was written by a full on grognard who cries wi…

The AI hype is probably collapsing soon. But that won't solve the issue. It's basically the only thing that drives the ponzi scheme, sorry, the "stock market growth". It'll end in …

"Last week I’m in a café, rewatching the same JavaScript tutorial for the 23rd time. Next to me? A 16-year-old casually building a Discord bot that streams live sports data." You d…

Unsurprising. Your virtual girlfriends are just linear algebra and the ELIZA effect.

'Chain-of-thought AI "degrades significantly" when asked to generalize beyond training.' - yeah thanks Captain Obvious.

"As a search company, we care passionately — perhaps more than any other company — about the health of the web ecosystem." Yeah, right, complete and utter bullshit. This really rea…

The corpos and people lobbying for this "age verification" aren't interested in child protection. They are just abusing child protection for their own gain: data collection. There …