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RT @RokoMijicUK
Ad-hominem arguments are almost always correct, and if you disagree you're a fascist

@pluralistic Perhaps the problem is a lack of transparency? Customers should know it's not really "free ink for life" but "free ink for a while but hey, maybe we just decide to screw you over at some point." - You're buying a call option on the company's behavior.

Most services are like this. Like AWS = We give you a server, but hey, maybe not anymore if we feel it's opportune." - A call option on your own reputation.

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🇬🇧 We aren‘t walking barcodes! Sign the brand new European Citizens‘ Initiaive for banning biometric mass surveillance now! #ReclaimYourFace reclaimyourface.eu

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@sheogorath @yarmo hey guys, looking for a password manager, too, here & the joint approach sounds nice. Could you post a link to pass? Not exactly the easiest thing to google...

Anyone know what happened to @spakhm ? All his posts look deleted for me.

RT @mmay3r
The phrase "work / life balance" betrays an inherent bias. In what sense is work not part of life?

Refame it as "contribution / leisure balance" and see how you feel.

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To the south and west
of Southern Province is the
Atlantic Ocean

Wanted: Chrome extension.
* Use NLP to detect when the author labels someone else a word ending in -ist
* Make those words bold red
* Prevent me from sharing the page on social media

There truly is no more effective way to let an arbitrary amount of time, energy, and general morale disappear into nothing than an unmanaged project.

Free business idea: Uber but for music usage rights.

North Korean cyberpunk anyone??

(Album cover @Amaranthemetal )

RT @TomerUllman
I gave OpenAI's GPT-3 nine classic thought experiments in the format Title/Description/Question, and had it produce new ones.

I give you, Thoughtless Experiments.

Love that quote. Implications for the world as a whole?
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RT @PetrusTheron
"The great horizontal killer applications are actually just fancy data structures." — Joel Spolsky.
It is no coincidence that the browser DOM is a tree data structure, well-maintained by React. joelonsoftware.com/2012/01/06/
twitter.com/PetrusTheron/statu

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willing to bet money that within the first year of the Biden presidency some brain genius writes a very worried thinkpiece about the dangers of unsavory groups meeting up in unsurveilled small businesses and suggesting cameras be made mandatory
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RT @kittypurrzog
New from Vice: “The Problem with Private Conversations: How Radicals Are Avoiding Content Moderation by Speaking in Person”
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RT @OMuscletron
@CholeraFan @LA_libertarian1 ‘Social moderation’

Which decade did the performance of GUI apps peak?

Certainly not 2020s where everybody bundles a browser with their app.

My guess would be 1980s. It's gone downhill from there.

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