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They’re not just x. They’re y.

the great bifurcation will continue apace

Pig-human organ transplants make me think of The Onion series, Porkin' Across America. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PwQns6vGfj4&list=PL4NL9i-Fu1...

> I have a habit of selecting and highlighting text on computer screens, while reading. "There are dozens of us!"

This is my exact experience as well. I wonder if I should switch to using Sonnet so that I can have more time before auto-compact gets forced on me.

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2016/dec/16/venezuela...

> Because money talks! Could you elaborate in what ways money influenced Turkey to speak out about it, where others didn't? I'm intensely curious about this.

To me, participating in these markets is akin to telling people you have a hot tip on a game of musical chairs where you know when the music is going to stop. I've played those gam…

My money is resoundingly on yes. I'm deeply cynical about NFT's the same way I'm cynical about Beanie Babies and Pokémon & MtG cards. It's not for me, but I get it, and they'll lik…

35.5% in NFT's reads very young.

Are we ready to talk about 9/11 yet? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alleged_Saudi_role_in_Septembe...

there's actually an interesting argument that i first heard Diane Fleischman pose -- that chicken is worse than beef on a calorie/animal measure and so would harm more animals beca…

the ingredients.

it's like a combination between ad-hoc live podcasting and radio call-in shows. your question "what is clubhouse exactly?" is about as straightforward to answer as "what is the int…

Thank you for sharing this. It's absolutely hilarious.

FYI, your comments all show up as "dead" to me. I vouched for this one, but not sure why they're dead.

the site is archived: https://web.archive.org/web/20101105111623/http://www.erasma...

If I'm not patronizing them, who is? Why would a browser want to get into the censorship business?

...and doesn't care about deplatforming. "We need more than deplatforming" https://blog.mozilla.org/blog/2021/01/08/we-need-more-than-d...

And who sets the formula, who lobbies for laws to be passed to require it, who runs and owns the clearing houses? Hint: It's in the thread you linked. > RH offered to open up stock…

Hear, hear! For the people who see no issues with any of this, shall we shut off their water and electricity too while we're at it?

FYI your comment was dead, and I vouched for it. You might be shadowbanned? Not sure, but regardless you might look into it.

Anyone could join that Discord server. Discord is incredibly difficult to moderate at scale, and they had banned every bad word that they didn't want the chat to be about. People j…

My cousin who I have been IM'ing with from the days of AIM/ICQ/Yahoo Messenger asked me yesterday if there was a better chat app than Facebook Messenger. We're both using Signal no…

Can't remember where I picked this up, but this has been a good mental model for me for understanding the dimensions of this problem of picking what I should pursue in my career & …