mattparlmer @mattparlmer@schelling.pt
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- ~nilpub-miptel
- Substack Site
- https://mattparlmer.substack.com
- Current Location
- Lake Michigan and Great Plains
Currently making machines that make other machines (Utility). Formerly writing programs that run other programs (Ohlogen). Also tribune of the plebs (The Neoliberal Project).
Cryptoanarchotechnocrat with Helvetic-Temasekan characteristics.
Joined Jan 2021
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Yes, I see your “scientific studies” and “meta-analyses,” but have you considered my vague hunch about human nature based on shallow, self-flattering introspection?
Fully automated luxury space postscarcity with Banksian characteristics
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Similar to the problem of people speaking to each other in person without corporate fact checkers involved.
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RT @NiemanLab
Clubhouse poses major challenges for fact-checkers since it doesn't keep old posts, audio files, or allow users to record conversations. https://nie.mn/3aOeUni
https://twitter.com/NiemanLab/status/1359934480417501185
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Remember when the free market was a leftist ideal?
This is profoundly lame, but we'll have to live with it
Turns out you can't fake aggregation effects and as long as a critical mass of people are addicted to Twitter not much is gonna change
IMO x-posting from Twitter significantly degrades the experience here
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Given Signal's recent popularity, I'm super stoked for the inevitable months-long deluge of articles hinting that Signal must implement encryption backdoors, written by people who use Signal every day specifically because it is free of such backdoors
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bullshit that they didnt use corona-chan
nitter.net/SCMPNews/status/1352885026065539072#m
May adopt this as SOP for certain high-drama events, more private fora are sufficient for now
Extended Twitter hiatus has been somewhat fruitful, lots of logistical stuff handled and avoided getting in trouble via discourse exposure, all-in-all a major success
Picked a good time to go off grid for a week lol
This is a really good deal if you don't already have an AR pistol and want to build one.
https://palmettostatearmory.com/psa-10-5-carbine-length-5-56-nato-1-7-phosphate-10-lightweight-m-lok-moe-ept-sba3-pistol-kit-w-mbus-sparc-ar-2-10-pmags.html
Anyway, give them money so they can fix this sort of thing https://signal.org/donate/
One assumes their infrastructure is up to standards but you never know
Signal still rekt
- Urbit ID
- ~nilpub-miptel
- Substack Site
- https://mattparlmer.substack.com
- Current Location
- Lake Michigan and Great Plains
Currently making machines that make other machines (Utility). Formerly writing programs that run other programs (Ohlogen). Also tribune of the plebs (The Neoliberal Project).
Cryptoanarchotechnocrat with Helvetic-Temasekan characteristics.
Joined Jan 2021
