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by devindotcom 4y ago
It's not a backchannel... every social media company has a dedicated response team that handles requests from law enforcement, partners, big media companies, etc. Do you think Disney just hits the report button on YouTube? This is an o
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They didn't - as I said before, this kind of communication is commonplace between large tech properties and governments, other large companies, NGOs, etc. It wasn't anything like a direct order. Local law enforcement, city council
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>Imagine if you had the Trump admin suggesting whose accounts to review? They did, for 4 years. I'd certainly be curious to see those emails, but they don't really fit the narrative of these "twitter files" threads.
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Extremely common
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Neither. Social media companies are in regular contact with all major governments about lots of issues. A weekly "hey all here are some accounts we noticed, have a great week" email to a designated Twitter contact for review reque
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Ceramics.org vs Metals.co, how surreal.
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Not that I have a better solution, but won't this suck up and kill seabottom creatures and denude their habitat?
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by devindotcom 4y ago
Just a note, if it's The Block, he allegedly paid off the CEO, not the journalists who write there. It's a meaningful distinction. The CEO is a business officer, the EIC would be the one directing content.
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Exactly my question. It doesn't go cleanly into any of the common widths from the time. Common powers and multiples are way off. My guess is it was an arbitrarily chosen size on free hosting like Geocities, that fit into their default
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by devindotcom 4y ago
I feel your clear and general disdain for the press is coloring your interpretation of events here and the reality of editing and sourcing. There was an editorial failure, certainly, but in a rapidly changing situation due to a misunderstan
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My dad tells the story of how he went to a shop to pick up some wine when they were being economical, and was in the "value" section. A wino of the classic type approached and pointed out the (I believe it was) Franzia. "That
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by devindotcom 4y ago
The classic cartoon for this: https://i.pinimg.com/originals/05/80/42/058042c06780bbc0fa3a...
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I too love the effort put into solving this problem. It's a totally different mindset from my own and clearly they get a lot of satisfaction from it. I myself would be satisfied with understanding that it is possible but non-trivial to
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There's an experiment going to the ISS on Monday seeing if they have any epigenetic, cross-generational adaptations to microgravity. I fully expect orbital varieties of various fruits and veggies soon!
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Coral Vita is an interesting company working on this, accelerating coral culturing so there's more stock to seed depleted or potential locations with: https://www.coralvita.co/
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Placing the blame on "the media" over the last five years is not really correct. People have been undermining basic election rights and processes for quite a while and while both parties engage in it the right is far more active a
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Wouldn't be the first time this happened, but it's hard to verify this without any hard data. Follow up with Meta via your business account and ask them to explain or you'll go the FTC and press (me).
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Nice list. I would second Ryuichi Sakamoto, Loscil, Julianna Barwick, Mary Lattimore, and Grouper for sure and there are lots of other good ones on there. I'd add Windy & Carl, A Winged Victory for the Sullen, Yui Odonera (lots fro
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by devindotcom 4y ago
Report says over 100, as late as 2020.
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The interesting thing I learned about this is that the big names in chess all agree that they don't need to be told what move to make. In a recent interview Magnus Carlsen said: > The people who get caught are those who cheat in
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FYI the Kobo Libra 2 is just this if you don't need the Amazon ecosystem. If you do, you're out of luck for now though.
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The most prescient fiction work of the century, in my opinion.
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Good stuff, Max. Wish I had time to fiddle with local SD but I'm not worried about it, it just keeps getting better and more accessible. The leading edge will always be experimenters but the trailing edge will be creative people using
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This seems kind of odd to me, the idea that using 50 plastic bags is environmentally equivalent to one plastic-based reusable bag. The "environmental impact" is defined pretty broadly, but intuitively it feels like I'd rather
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Very true. I can't stand the screen door effect you see on a lot of digital projections. It's horribly distracting. I saw Dune in digital IMAX and spent the whole time thinking there was something wrong with the projector. I think
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RIP. Some may see the Drake Equation as reductive, and that's kind of the point. Its simplicity makes it compelling: presenting the enormousness and diversity of the universe as a near infinitude that seems incapable of supporting only
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This article is about people being jailed or killed for criticising their government
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I liked when it was appearing randomly in reddit threads but ultimately the story kinda fizzled out. Creepypasta type fiction tends to do that, big concept, scope expansion, then a rushed ending. Actually it's kind of a hallmark of SF&
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PgDn also does this... strange. Scroll wheel works fine.
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Accommodating the doppler effect is non-trivial, Lynk has demonstrated it with its own satellite but doesn't exactly have the orbital presence of Starlink: https://techcrunch.com/2021/09/29/lynk-demos-glo

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