Elon Tusk @srs@schelling.pt
a) Hyperwokes arguing that sex (!) doesn't "really" exist & it's an unacceptable imposition to determine one at birth.
b) Transphobes arguing that trans people don't "really" exist & it's all just an elaborate fantasy we're taking part in.
What is going on?!
How come we've chosen gender, of all things, as society's battlegrounds for epistemic scepticism?
Are we just all super self-conscious?
- The Patriarchy (TM)
- Halitosis (at a grand scale)
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RT @harmonylion1
Propaganda lesson: "Weaponized Hypochondria"
Creating fear of a nonexistent enemy creates confirmation bias, making it seem to exist.
Then you fight it, and since you're the aggressor, it fights back.
Then it really seems to exist.
Quote tweet this with an example.
https://twitter.com/harmonylion1/status/1376738898093559809
RT @ash_craig
@akbarpour_ What I am excited about is having all papers public access but Elsevier gets an NFT so they can "own the original".
@ayegill oh that's nice! Have you tried pdf annotation?
NB that this is basically a cartel, and they operate *exactly* as you'd expect.
Wondering why ISPs participate in this. - Bans reduce the attractiveness of their service.
I find it entirely reasonable that "hate speech" will soon be a reason for bans as well. - After all, AWS did that already, and they're just as private.
Remedies: encrypted DNS (as of yet), VPNs (putting you at the mercy of, at least, some other corp), TOR.
A German private industry consortium started censoring access to websites at the network level (via DNS). Right now based on their own (arbitrary, unqualified, unchecked) assessment of copyright violation.
(German vid) https://youtu.be/DSDjgK9PdTE
Free startup idea: export & host notion pages as regular static web pages.
Each time someone uses notion as their website it's so slow I find myself reevaluating if it's really THAT important.
RT @geoffreylitt
"say goodbye to confusing code forever! with our intuitive visual editor..."
Want: Research grants but for building open source software.
Seems like @BlackForestBoi is kiiiinda operating on that model with @worldbrain ?
Deus Vult, infidel!
Elon Tusk
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The personal computer is dead. We're all just terminals now.
Blogs (esp. substack) are a democratized version of magazines.
What's a democratized version of books?
RT @dril
might siphon some gasoline to generate a non fungible jordan peterson fortnite skin or what ever you fucking dopes think is good. idont know
They call it "late stage capitalism" only because they're lacking imagination.
Elon Tusk
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Both the Lord Mayor
and the Sheriffs are chosen
for terms of one year
