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Interesting. I had not considered how scale affects these mental model. Now I wonder if depending on the scale, one model is better suited. Or maybe they both can be modified based…

> Never attribute to stupidity what can be attributed to self-interest. Interesting. Sounds like a counter-point to Hanlon's razor: "Never attribute to malice that which is adequat…

I agree with the content of the post. It does feel like a post stating things that are obvious, were someone not blinded by technology. Curious if others have noticed a trend of go…

By common law I refer to British common law which pops up in opinions. References to "domicile" come from common law (in Trump v Barb). I may be mistaken.

IANAL, but pretty curious of SCOTUS. I just read a lot of the opinions. (I hate that the pdf does not have a table of contents). I've used the mental model of math and theorems to …

I watched the live chat to get the news about these opinions. Good on the reporters that cover the opinions and post updates. Without much editorialization I may add. As an aside, …

Can remember how I set it up. Tap the back of my iphone 3 times and it toggles greyscale. Makes taking and looking at photos nice.

Thinking out loud: using follow/unfollow you transmit a signal with no information. using the timing between the signal you are encoding symbols. I think this is called Pulse Posit…

This is one of the two most influential books I've read.

In the past year I bought a Ruizu clip-on MP3 player. If I want something new I use yt-dlp and get specific songs. It's nice having a device not connected to the internet. In the p…

The writings of Neil Postman. Specifically, * "Amusing ourselves to death": visual media is fundamentally different from writing and that impacts society. As a medium it supports c…

Slightly tangential, is there any chance this is motivated by profit or someone making money off this? Otherwise, seems kinda benign and random.

> The absolute largest change I would expect would be to end birthright citizenship for children whose parents illegally entered into the US and have never had a visa of entry perm…

The precursor to this case is Trump v. CASA[0], which arose from injunctions blocking the executive order banning birthright citizenship. The case made it to the supreme court on t…

Reading this on a first gen SE. Still works great. Since it can’t get the lastest OS many apps don’t install, effectively making it the type of dumb phone I always wanted.

Lumping AI together with social media is confusing for me. One is a tool for the user, the other is not. If social media is a tool for anything, it is for the company to generate a…

Yup, that's it! Thanks for the link. I kinda explain a lot odd stuff through this lens.

I suspect that's how it started and then put it out there and gained momentum. Possibly as a joke. As a note on satire, is there a term for satire which is perpetuated for long eno…

> The concept of a bubble doesn't exist anymore. It is a reminder that economics is firmly based on behavior. Interesting to see how economics reflects on this period in time. > ge…

It’s a symptom not a cause.

Technology service technology, rather than technology as a tool with a purpose. What is the purpose of this feature? This reads like the first step to "infinite scroll" AI echo cha…

Studied EE and went into software after college. Started out system programming and now I work on high level backend services and frontend SDKs. I've been drown more to engines and…

When I was renovating my kitchen, I left some notes on the wall before putting up cabinets. A little treat for the next renovator.

+1 on Ellul’s work. Though it is quite long. A book with similar sentiment that is more approachable is Neil Postman’s Technopoly.

Gucci Mane explaining "the sauce" - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g0-F88c6Hrk