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hi, I don’t normally promote here, but I feel compelled to ask if you’d like to test my thing. it’s a personal agent / API for creating and managing background cloud agents that I’…

A really, really deep irony that you found these cool new Masto things on twitter. The king still reigns

That is scary to me, an entire generation growing up within the walled garden and perceiving only Apple's products as what is possible for computers to accomplish. These computers …

yes

Addiction is a problem, and it's a problem now, even with the harmful substances being prohibited. The fact that fentanyl and heroin are criminalized doesn't make anyone less likel…

But isn't the bottom-line effect that your model becomes pay-for-clout? That sounds bad on its face

An excellent point. Only 99% of all people are slaves.

Write something extraordinary. Don't worry about the frame, what's your content? Write something so god-damn extraordinary people want to preserve it indefinitely, and will do the …

I'm currently researching ways to integrate org-mode based citation structures with more commonly used tools such as Zotero, and apparently it's possible to make them talk nicely? …

Sure, I agree, it's all very coercive. But I think the point really is... physical force isn't even necessary. We're already addicted

With all due respect, this view is conversely weak willed, and complacently takes the side of Acti-Blizzard. The firm directly states they help companies with "union avoidance." Ev…

I think you’re conflating cultural phenomenon (people like to dissociate by losing themselves in consumption) with biological fact. Humans 10,000 years ago may have spaced out and …

I would support reterming persuasive design as coercive design, because to me that’s really what it is Or perhaps addictive design?

It would be even better if they didn't leverage their success in one industry (advertising) by publicly posing solely as another kind of company (social media) in order to buy up o…

>It's true that with flight search, competitor results are de-emphasized, In what sense is Google a competitor with flight/travel businesses? Google is an advertising company.

FWIW, I disagree with this in principle. I think institutions of higher ed should serve humanity; knowledge is beneficial to all people for the sake of knowledge itself. I am sadde…

I think your mistake is: "living off their own resources" generally equals, for many people: "living in active exploitation in a ruthless work environment destroying their mental a…

We don't know whackadoodle brain chemistry from Adam; it's a massive assumption to attribute depression towards something so misunderstood as our neurochemistry. You might as well …

Right, spreading kindness, and also you'll just happen to make quite a lot of money

Confirmation bias?

Google is quite vicious in displaying primarily AMP pages on mobile search results. There are times my inquiry only returns AMP pages, essentially requiring me to use another searc…

>If I want something that I later don't like, what do I believe at the time of wanting? I believe that the wanting tells a silent story usually of the form "this experience will be…

FWIW, I believe seriously in the potential for drugs like MDMA and psilocybin to help those with closed minds — on left and right — to approach tired political divides from novel p…

What is your claim? Drinking is normal in your culture —> drinking is not risky in your culture ? This is patently false; drinking carries risks in any context, perhaps even moreso…

Was surprised to learn people have booted Android on iPhone 7 successfully. Could others really build a full OS from the exploit?