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popalchemist

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    the short answer is that you internalize the gaze of your oppressor, which means you install a self-censorship mechanism (to prevent what you come to perceive as the negative conse…

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    Comment #49218064

    If it were a human predator doing the same thing, it would be very obviously illegal, no questions. So to spend hundreds of millions to build a tech that does it at scale is object…

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    Comment #49204886

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    Comment #49201836

    Being in a union isn't about being at one job for life. I'm a member of IATSE (the huge mega-union behind thousands of technical job titles/positions in the entertainment industry,…

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    Comment #49201340

    Perhaps you should read about the topic before refuting it.

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    Comment #49191919

    While your statement may be true, you're clearly failing to grasp the concept; it isn't just about privacy, but about psychic sovereignty. The crippling of the will is a prerequisi…

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    Comment #49178088

    They are not mutually exclusive. Read up on the concept of a panopticon, it is just a form of prison that maximizes the oppression by surveillance by extending it into your own min…

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    Comment #49176188

    Gag inducing on multiple levels. Not only the self-indulgent and incoherent writing, but the very notion that an author or authors would call their undertaking Panoptica. A panopti…

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    Comment #49117046

    There are tons of projects with "supa" as the prefix, both related and unrelated. If Supabase were going to take legal action on this, they would have already.

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    Comment #49091031

    Super slick site. I'd love to see a video editing demo added to it.

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    Comment #49078465

    It's beautiful.

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    Comment #49078191

    It's not an isolated incident, he is describing an increasingly common attitude which is utilitarian/"realist" at best and a grotesque materialist corruption of the liberal arts ed…

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    Comment #49075199

    Yep, nobody wants to adopt models with this license because it opens legal questions most users, whether professional or non-professional, don't want to muddy their work with.

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    Comment #49054889

    For what purpose did you make this?

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    Comment #49050941

    DIG IT. This is how the web used to feel.

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    Comment #49039538

    It is precisely those people who have abdicated such concerns who most need the discussion. You can not compartmentalize reality, even if you can compartmentalize your own mind. Th…

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    Comment #49030965

    They engineered it on purpose.

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    Comment #49028724

    The arguments come ex post facto. Their motivation is profit, because OpenAI is pitching the Trump admin on a 5% stake.

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    Comment #48985968

    The two are not mutually exclusive, but Google has been the dominant force in tech for decades and therefore has been very much an integrated part of Big Brother's operations for s…

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    Comment #48985791

    Indeed, it is literally an ideology.

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    Comment #48983152

    Ding ding ding. Google is only a few steps away from the "Orphan-Crushing Machine", or the pods that imprison/enslave people in The Matrix, because it is literally the hardware-sof…

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    Comment #48972963

    Indeed, their competition is the only thing preventing network effects from giving OpenAI/Faang tech companies an easy shot at monopoly / regulatory capture.

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    Comment #48962507

    https://hsph.harvard.edu/news/usaid-shutdown-has-led-to-hund... Harvard (as credible a source as there is in the world): USAID shutdown has led to hundreds of thousands of deaths >…

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    Comment #48962325

    Yup. This guy is a straight up white supremacist.