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by mcphilip 5y ago
Highly recommend the author of this post, or any other psychonauts, to read Cosmic Trigger by Robert Anton Wilson. He recounts a period of several years in his life where his psychonautic explorations left him believing he was in contact wi
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by mcphilip 6y ago
Glad I’m not the only one who thought of L-space. It’d be interesting to see if you could get something like GPT-3 to heavily weigh a given author’s corpus when generating output and see what it spits out for “Detritus and Carrot walked int
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by mcphilip 6y ago
The Power of Nightmares - Curtis traces back the history of leaders abandoning the approach of holding on to power through a shared vision of a better tomorrow that people can rally around. Curtis using the rise of suicide bombing as an exa
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by mcphilip 6y ago
My enjoyment of his films comes from appreciating his attempt to thread a narrative through a complex series of events and images. The linked New Yorker article makes it clear that he’s well versed in the postmodern rejection of grand narra
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by mcphilip 6y ago
I get that the settlement plumbing constraints led to stock halts, but still trying to figure out why $DOGE stopped being tradable a few hours ago* Edit, removed some tin foil. *I don’t use RH so it could be back by the time you read this c
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by mcphilip 6y ago
Absolutely, but funny how often the fallacy plays out time and time again.
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by mcphilip 6y ago
No provider wants the cesspool to be pinned on them. I get that emotionally, but this is nuts. Obviously they have the right to make these moves, but god knows what happens when the new administration starts reflecting on the role played by
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by mcphilip 6y ago
I’m not saying it will be impossible to access, just harder for Average Joe who doesn’t understand App Store versus WWW. It’s fascinating, if somewhat terrifying, watching communication channels breakdown for millions of people.
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by mcphilip 6y ago
Glad I downloaded it yesterday since this was obviously an unrealistic deadline. It’s getting harder and harder to keep tabs on both sides now. Things have really fragmented in the past 24 hours: lots of posts on MeWe, Telegram, Gab, etc, l
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by mcphilip 6y ago
Big tech is so desperate to score points with the new administration as soon as Trumpism is in its death throes (hopefully). As much as I hate the content on things like Parker, this makes me sick. I get why they want the kid gloves treatme
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by mcphilip 6y ago
Good overview of what’s known so far about the situation: https://www.kxan.com/news/local/austin/austin-based-solarwin...
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by mcphilip 6y ago
I spent a good 5 or 6 years reading philosophy and psychology in my spare time. I don’t claim a formal understanding of the subject that would come close to what you would get from a college degree, but I do feel like I understand the zeit
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by mcphilip 6y ago
yeah, I’m seeing event bridge errors and am unable to load cloudwatch log groups. happy short staff day!
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by mcphilip 6y ago
I’ve been feeling the physical symptoms I associate with depression, but not the changes to cognition. I feel like I’m wearing an iron mask, if that makes any sense. Really heavy head with what feels like a layer of numbness between me and
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by mcphilip 6y ago
It actually is an interesting topic to look at the history of Blood Libel and see the Satanic Panic and QAnon as the evolved/remixed version with different actors. I think with the advent of the internet, things are shifting away from
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by mcphilip 6y ago
I do have some hope that the more extreme conspiracies pass in time and don’t permanently damage the psyche of those involved. Growing up in the Bible Belt during the Satanic Panic, I was legit afraid of being caught and sacrificed by satan
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by mcphilip 6y ago
I got pooperhole.com after a few refreshes
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by mcphilip 6y ago
I think ideally it should be up to the employee to return when they feel safe. That being said, I look forward to going back to the office. It’ll be nice to see people again —- few people bother to turn on their video on zoom anymore for an
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by mcphilip 6y ago
I assume you’re being sarcastic but I’ll give a datapoint anyways. Small home in Austin, ~1400 square feet, costs a little over $200/month in the summer and I keep it a nice cool 71 degrees 24/7. Low to mid $100s the rest of the y
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by mcphilip 6y ago
Same here, I haven’t used Instacart in months and my account was locked on July 12th from bad login attempts.
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by mcphilip 6y ago
I wonder if a lot of people sent test amounts to see if it worked or not. 5000 people sending $10 adds up fast.
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by mcphilip 6y ago
I suspected some sort of internal tool was used to target prominent users but I’m still curious why there were thousands of unverified accounts tweeting the same scam. Searching for that bitcoin address pulled up tons of accounts tweeting i
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by mcphilip 6y ago
I’d be surprised if Twitter didn’t have some internal tool like this but I’d expect it to only be accessible over a VPN that few had access to.
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by mcphilip 6y ago
There was at least one masterpiece of educational software in the early 80s: Robot Odyssey. I think it was just too hard and obscure at the time to get much recognition, but I was thrilled to see a write up about its influence in Silicon Va
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by mcphilip 6y ago
Scheduled AWS lamda using the Mechanical Turk HITRequest API to get some random person to post to the site once a day. Shouldn’t cost more than a dime a day.
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by mcphilip 6y ago
> This is anecdotal and it might come across as bitter and tonedeaf as someone who is not in a STEM job and cant see the bigger picture very well. Im a diesel engine tech who repairs those big trucks carrying food and shit tickets to gro
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by mcphilip 6y ago
I expect my reply to be buried in the flood of others, but I enjoyed the essay because of the various responses it provokes internally: 1. Optimistic response. Right on! More influential VCs need to beat the drum of rebuilding the America
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by mcphilip 6y ago
I’ve been wondering if something will act as a catalyst for social unrest, starting on a small scale, and wonder if the PPP could be a tipping point. There have already been reports of LLCs formed just to get free money for the wealthy and
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by mcphilip 6y ago
I’ve been following the coronavirus news since mid January, spending hours a day on twitter and reddit looking at virus and financial news. There are days I take a break from it all, but overall I feel like I want to bear witness to the ev
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by mcphilip 6y ago
But will your friends get haircuts, manicures, massages, etc every day when the quarantine lifts? Pent up demand only helps certain industries, unfortunately. Imagine being a hair dresser with a stack of bills from the shutdown and no big

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