balamatom

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by balamatom 4mo ago
The bitrates, on the other hand...
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by balamatom 4mo ago
Donkeys are noble animals!
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by balamatom 4mo ago
> I don't see why people couldn't organize at the grassroots level and build/solve real problems their local (or global) communities may be facing. Usually it's because when they do, their de facto owner - "the s
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by balamatom 4mo ago
I am. Who's the rest of y'all?
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by balamatom 4mo ago
Don't kill your ego. It's innocent. Find who framed it.
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by balamatom 4mo ago
Can confirm: am mole person, live at mall. Write software for fastfood which decides the fate of millions. Don't know who I work for or what qualities made me get the job.
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by balamatom 4mo ago
Ding ding ding we have a winner. Salivate!
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by balamatom 4mo ago
+1 for the original insult ("control fetish") from the disembodied spirit that broadcasts bitflips at your electro-chemical controller ;-)
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by balamatom 4mo ago
By directing your attention towards, or away from, physical phenomena that mechanically affect your lower back: overexertion, underexertion, posture, nutrient intake, crowd...
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by balamatom 4mo ago
Science opportunity! >:] Get yourself locked up in the slammer for a night while carrying a fresh burner; observe them writing down your IMEI and IMSI; see if that makes you start getting robocalls.
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by balamatom 4mo ago
Already the case in most EU countries. I don't know if there is a commensurate robocaller problem. Come to think of it, when I get an EU SIM, it does start getting robocalls... as soon as I give the number to some Big Legitimate Busine
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by balamatom 4mo ago
>Why is it so hard for some people to understand that humans need other humans and human problems can't be solved with technology? Perhaps because they have been persistently failed by other humans, but not by technology; and/o
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by balamatom 4mo ago
>what happens when algorithms can optimize the content itself? You think they aren't already? You're just inoculated by your exposure to pre-AI content - hence you're not the target audience - and thus it's not delive
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by balamatom 4mo ago
Your children would certainly cherish and respect you for it. Many such cases, in fact! Which you of course don't know about. Because anti-prohibitionist narratives don't cause Number to Go Up. What's safer : if you were to
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by balamatom 4mo ago
Parents destroy kids' brains the most.
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by balamatom 4mo ago
Those two add up to "prove that you allow computer vendors to teach you what 'human' means".
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by balamatom 4mo ago
Or maybe the difference between doing work, and controlling humans by convincing them that what they're doing is "work".
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by balamatom 4mo ago
You mean, like, every other social network?
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by balamatom 4mo ago
Obviously all terms are open to interpretation. Nevertheless, speech acts still have concrete intentions and meanings. Observe: - "Cultural differences" - Selective and intentionally ungrammatical quoting - "You can't&qu
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by balamatom 5mo ago
No; like pantaloons but smart.
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by balamatom 5mo ago
Ah, la culture. It's the enemy's pareksalons this time!
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by balamatom 5mo ago
>what’s wrong with the vibe coding community For starters, the vibes. Vibe coding, like Web3 before it (like Web 2.0 before it, like the dotcom boom before that - what preceded?) - harnesses the kind of focused attention with which gamer
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by balamatom 5mo ago
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by balamatom 5mo ago
Correct. Knowledge consists of, roughly speaking, thoughts. (a "justified true belief" - per https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/knowledge-analysis/ - is a kind of thought) The "thinking" part o
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by balamatom 5mo ago
>it's impossible to have an honest conversation about it, because they people who haven't seen an ad or paid for a movie in 20 years go absolutely insane when called out It's generally not possible to have an honest conver
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by balamatom 5mo ago
There is no personal attack here; other than, perhaps, one conducted by whoever keeps flagging my perfectly substantial comments. But since you said "please", sure, I'll think about it.
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by balamatom 5mo ago
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by balamatom 5mo ago
I was gonna bet on "the police" but "having read books" kinda disqualified that
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by balamatom 5mo ago
Most political discourse you consider normal today (e.g. "fun") was considered absurd some years ago. Fewer than you imagine.
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by balamatom 5mo ago
>Although I am not sure why they then chose an open wood fire, which is likely far more polluting than even non-renewable grid power Likely not if you factor in the energy expenditure of gathering some firewood vs. energy expenditure of

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