a_better_world

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by a_better_world 7mo ago
But if Musk actively identifies himself as a Nazi, how is that name-calling? His family left Canada to move to South Africa because they were in leadership roles in the Canadian Nazi party. He makes Nazi salutes on stage and very happily as
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by a_better_world 7mo ago
Wonder if it will recommend creative uses of vegetables for hiding classified information https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47126246
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by a_better_world 7mo ago
"freedom torches" was the exact phrase used. They were sold as a marker of female liberation. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Torches_of_Freedom The term was first used by psychoanalyst A. A. Brill when describ
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by a_better_world 7mo ago
wouldn't that be _rectal ad absurdum_ in this case :)
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by a_better_world 7mo ago
LISP returns!
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by a_better_world 7mo ago
> we are the only intelligence that can reliably drive. Science would like to point out that rats also can learn to drive https://theconversation.com/im-a-neuroscientist-who-taught-r...
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by a_better_world 7mo ago
ok, but how about if we stop funding ICE?
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by a_better_world 7mo ago
how good was Taleb at following his own advice? Had he tested it? As I recall he is pretty big on "skin in the game' as his differentiator.
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by a_better_world 7mo ago
he might mean Bernie Sanders or someone of that type
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by a_better_world 7mo ago
if college education produces a public good (a more competent workforce), then it should be funded through public funds-- government should pay for education. If it does in fact lead to better outcomes, then the higher tax will cover the co
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by a_better_world 7mo ago
Soooo many times in my career I've had to come back and "extract that variable into a function" that I just do it right away by force of habit. Point is, this isn't trivial, it is the kind of thing that ends up saving wo
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by a_better_world 7mo ago
sounds a bit like https://thechoiceengine.substack.com/p/the-strip-mining-of-t... "The strip mining of trust" is a metaphor describing the unsustainable extraction of social capital—honesty, reputation, and g
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by a_better_world 7mo ago
or might find SOMEONE ELSE stranded somewhere due to vehicular breakdown. yes, obviously "put on your own oxygen mask before helping others" (so you remain an asset instead of a liability), but please remember the "helping ot
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by a_better_world 7mo ago
or just shoot you while you are in your car.
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by a_better_world 7mo ago
I guess you don't live in Minneapolis, or another targeted metro area. It is hard to imagine what it is like to live in a city where 3000 masked and poorly trained people cos-playing special forces are specifically tasked with arrestin
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by a_better_world 7mo ago
if you have the grip strength to hold that, you have solid core strength already. And you are carrying in your hands, not balanced on your head-- which totally alters the stress on the spine. So yes, cograts on your feat, that is a pretty c
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by a_better_world 7mo ago
"when AI took my job I bought a chain saw" https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/28/opinion/artificial-intell... Sorry, don't have an archiv link.
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by a_better_world 7mo ago
former practicing scientist at an institute whose name you would recognize. The field may not be fully constrained by ethics, which is just a way of saying that the work is done by people and people have varying ethical bounds, but from wha
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by a_better_world 7mo ago
gems and turds. The far right consipiracy stuff was filtered out, likewise the neonazi/technocracy stuff (and yes, there is clear historical links between technocracy and nazi idologies, see the history of Joshua Norman Haldeman (1902–
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by a_better_world 8mo ago
changing "clay" for "legos" doesn't change the core argument. The tactile feel you get for the medium as you work it with your hands and the "artificial syntax" imposed by the medium.
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by a_better_world 8mo ago
and count on Trump to disrespect the extradition treaties. Which might be a reasonable expectation, but will have consequences, and Trump might not hold power forever.
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by a_better_world 8mo ago
Did you miss the "without their consent" part?
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by a_better_world 8mo ago
and you might have to think about and be conscious of the many things... like when would you need to take a picture, write an observation, record an interesting noise, wayfind with a gps? How often do you need to do these things? Is this cu
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by a_better_world 8mo ago
My hot water tank once fell off the wall. On Christmas day. Expensive repair. Hot water tank was in the basement, which was not insulated. So the mass of hot water contributed very little as a heat reserve for the house. House was in a nort
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by a_better_world 8mo ago
wot, like a prompt injection attack? Impossible now that models don't hallucinate.
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by a_better_world 8mo ago
One could say the same about many TV shows and movies. I view Moltbook as a live science fiction novel cross reality "tv" show.
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by a_better_world 8mo ago
Also in the USA. We call it "prison labor", and over 1% of our adult population is "under correctional control." Approximately two-thirds (about 61% to over 65%) of the 1.2 million people incarcerated in US state and fed