moskie

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by moskie 1y ago
They never feared it, they always wanted it, just with someone like Trump calling the shots. Every accusation is a confession, etc.
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by moskie 1y ago
I think you're on the right track, but not getting to what I view as the logical conclusion: publicly funded options, free at the point of service to everyone. I've also humored the idea of taking it one level of abstraction furth
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by moskie 2y ago
The Hacker News community feels like a particularly knowledgeable group of people that could provide good insight into what is happening. Discussion around it is clearly being tamped down, for political reasons.
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Bluesky is getting its own photo-sharing app, Flashes(techcrunch.com)
5 points by moskie 2y ago|3 comments
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by moskie 2y ago
Having too much money is brain poison.
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by moskie 2y ago
Would you say the same about people joining picket lines and marches? Any sort of peaceful protest? Also, you're projecting. You don't (and can't) know what a person's true goals are. Framing these actions as them commun
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by moskie 2y ago
Reading Paul Graham's musings on "wokeness" is a complete waste of time. Please find the words of other better informed people to read, who have an actual interest in addressing problems like racism and sexism. Also, for all
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by moskie 2y ago
This deluge of terrible things from Zuck over the past few days is so clearly 100% in deference to Trump. The fact that Zuck name-checked Twitter when explaining the change to Community Notes was also such an obvious tell. If he viewed Twit
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by moskie 2y ago
I could call you small minded for thinking only of advances in rocket technology, and ignoring the negative aspects of advancing Musk's power and influence. Should I?
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by moskie 2y ago
> given the very real concerns that there is a dangerous cult of personality surrounding Musk, seeing this footage presented this way is unsettling.
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by moskie 2y ago
A "Creativity" slider.
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by moskie 3y ago
Location: Berkeley, CA Remote: Open to remote, on-site, or hybrid in the SF Bay Area. Willing to relocate: No (with perhaps a few exceptions.) Technologies: Ruby on Rails, React, TypeScript, JavaScript, Postgres, Redis. Would be eager to ge
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by moskie 3y ago
You're very much missing the visual artistry of the movie, and focusing too much on literal story telling. You can do that if you like, but the visual aspects are why this movie belongs on this list. One way to approach film making is
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by moskie 3y ago
Fury Road absolutely belongs on the list.
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by moskie 3y ago
Something along these lines feels like a decent alternative to (but not a replacement of) social media that's privately owned and for profit, that could exist in parallel to what we have now. If we can build something on a platform who
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Twitter to focus on video, commerce in business revamp(reuters.com)
2 points by moskie 3y ago|0 comments
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by moskie 3y ago
I understand your point, but I think an assumption that a lot of internet users have, and a fundamental pitch of the internet, is that the internet is the tool you use to _find_ people to bowl with in the first place.
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by moskie 3y ago
As opposed to recognizing these problems ahead of time, and instead creating a (public?) system for forming these social networks that doesn't need to monetize. One that wouldn't be corrupted by the needs for ever-increasing profi
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by moskie 3y ago
It is troubling that, in the US at least, one of the two major political constituencies has a lot more guns than the other....
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by moskie 3y ago
I definitely agree, but I would also suggest that the need for social media companies to monetize on engagement incentivises them to exacerbate the issues you mention. Removing those incentives might improve political discussion.
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by moskie 3y ago
I don't think it's a good idea to assume / hope that HN remains that way. Money is still an aspect of the existence of HN. It exists because pg has enough money to run it, and its existence aligns with his current desires. Th
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by moskie 3y ago
The mistake was to commit to a system where social connections are only maintained / allowed to exist if they are profitable for an intermediary.
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by moskie 3y ago
hm? Of course it is?
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by moskie 3y ago
Federated social media, and maybe a public cloud infrastructure as an alternative to things like AWS?
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by moskie 3y ago
I think this is a fine perspective for inconsequential (-ish) social interactions, but then I start to think about the political organizing that these sites have also facilitated. "The revolution will not be televised" and all tha
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by moskie 3y ago
I've wondered for a long time if social media is just a fad.
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by moskie 3y ago
We (the internet community) made such a terrible mistake with social media. We formed connections and communities and friendships on sites like Facebook and Twitter and Reddit, but those companies need to make money, so those connections ar
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by moskie 3y ago
Ok, I've done that, but it involved switching away from my tab on lemmyverse.net, going to lemmy.world in a different tab, and manually searching for what I found on lemmyverse. Is there an intended workflow that involves clicking som
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by moskie 3y ago
What's the intended workflow, once I see a community I want to subscribe to? I've created an account on lemmy.world, but I see a community from lemmy.ml..... what do I do?
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by moskie 3y ago
AI will replace the users, too.

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