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I'm rooting for this general class of technology as a platform for sensory augmentation for the blind. I don't know exactly what sonic encoding of spatial information is exactly id…

Grok is that you?

> He argued that Modern Chinese has become “lazy” by forgetting how to use its own verbs. instead of “researching” (研究, yanjiu), speakers “conduct research” (进行研究, jinxing yanjiu) …

I think the more mainstream understanding of transhumanism is closer to "post-genics" than eugenics.

Flash created a medium. The particular genius of the authoring tool gave rise to a whole style of animation and game and thing-in-between that only existed in its time and could ha…

did we read the same post? none of what was mentioned was even in the realm of entrepreneurship or anything ethically hairy.

My word count has hovered around 100k for most of my three years of writing and revising. This does sometimes run up against limits on Claude (or recently, with Opus 4.5, compactio…

Yes. I am a novelist and I noticed a step change in what was possible here around Claude Sonnet 3.7 in terms of being able to analyze my own unpublished work for theme, implicit mo…

NYC here, our three disconnected commuter rail systems would all like a word :)

These maps are such a cool resource, thanks for sharing! "The future is already here – it's just not evenly distributed." - William Gibson

It is to render untrusted (user-generated) HTML without letting them slip in markup like script tags that could harm other users.

Yes, it is. And yes, except that it wasn't. A SWF is about building common wealth inside the systems that finance capital built (in the same way that the 401k replaced the pension)…

This sounds a lot like a sovereign wealth fund. The government obtains fractional ownership over large enterprises (this can happen through market mechanisms or populist strongarmi…

I would like a non-native speaker to weigh in, but I gloss it as "there are ONLY a few and this is ONE OF them" and have never found that confusing or contradictory.

It's a stereotype of his political opponents as adrift in selfishness, hedonism, and "gender stuff". When you find your thought patterns flowing through tropes this way it is a goo…

This is clearly done by AI and I am disinclined to draw any conclusions from the anecdotes or data here because it all feels "synthesized".

On one hand, I wonder if a gradual transition would work. Spend enough time over the years mirroring your conscious patterns onto a computational substrate, and they might get used…

Been thinking about this. Do you have a snippet you can share?

this is very smooth and scratches an itch I didn't know I had -- to use a windowed OS on my phone

was also looking for some KEST GAK stickers