twirlock

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by twirlock 4y ago
Why am I not surprised that hn supports a forum for low level spooks to gossip about "cringe" people and harass them to the point of suicide? Meanwhile, no one will ever see this comment because I'm shadowbanned.
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by twirlock 4y ago
And also because he's explicitly made similar statements about non-executive staff, including purely hypothetical staff, e.g. the staff at twitter.
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by twirlock 4y ago
That's neat how different people see things from different perspectives because that statement is meaningless sophistry in my world.
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by twirlock 5y ago
Any statistical taxonomist worth his salt knows that the number is much closer to 8,700.
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by twirlock 5y ago
It's dominated by mainstream, intelligentsia-approved narratives.
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by twirlock 5y ago
Yeah well so is the economy.
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by twirlock 5y ago
I'm tired of this world covered with fucking idiots, and each one thinks they have the special golden morals that can inform us properly on when to interfere with others. Stop trying to be in charge of shit, reddit.
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by twirlock 5y ago
Nah, the AI ones are better, but look at the variety in the human designs, how the components are direct in their abstraction instead of, well a blob where none of it has real meaning.
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by twirlock 5y ago
This is the most vapid and content-free article I have ever seen from the nyt. Some guy basically got to publish his intra-company propaganda in exchange for saying vaccines are good.
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by twirlock 5y ago
No, companies don't do this because it gives you good legal standing to sue the shit out of them ianal
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by twirlock 5y ago
There were longbeards early on who warned us that Reddit would centralize discourse, providing a target for pr spooks, and then destroy free expression on the internet, and they were right.
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by twirlock 5y ago
Oh look! Spooks -- stratfor spooks in this case -- think they're aristocrats who get to use censorship for self-preservation. What a shocking, brand new development.
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by twirlock 6y ago
CNN is just Fox News for extremists like you though.
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by twirlock 6y ago
No I'm pretty sure a priesthood intelligentsia caste using the media for PR was the framers' blind spot.
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by twirlock 6y ago
This is a nonstarter because the intelligence community likes it that we have no privacy or meaningful rights anymore.
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by twirlock 6y ago
When I realized this, I immediately stopped reading and made a mental note to avoid the site in the future.
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by twirlock 6y ago
Yet another example of our society having a massive, oppressive double-standard about which worldviews should benefit from freedom of express, and of course the beneficiaries ardently refuse to admit there's anything like that going on
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by twirlock 6y ago
Oh now suddenly shills exist.
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by twirlock 6y ago
I'm glad I degoogled. This kind of thing is why. It wasn't even hard after I got email switched over. If they didn't have a video monopoly, I would never have to use their stuff.
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by twirlock 6y ago
It's a pretty site, don't get me wrong, but which law suggests presenting lists of obscurely named concepts as fullscreen shape art where I have to click one by one to read the list?
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by twirlock 6y ago
Let's all pray that it isn't true. Let's all hope really hard that it doesn't help and Trump is still wrong. That is the most important thing.
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by twirlock 6y ago
Thank you for your personal opinion that tacitly rationalizes surveilling employees without their knowledge.
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by twirlock 6y ago
Maybe you just can't read very well.
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by twirlock 6y ago
I didn't know they had a browser. I'll have to give it a try. Can't be any worse than Google's browser. Or their OS. Or their video monopoly. Or their search monopoly. Or their secret partnerships with governments. Or th
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by twirlock 6y ago
See also: The difference between correct definitions and a correct runtime system.
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by twirlock 6y ago
I'm tired of somehow having to accept that giant corporations and their lobbyists get to dictate what I'm allowed to read on the internet.
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by twirlock 6y ago
We've got PR spooks citing Hieronymus Bosch for why we all need to broadcast our identities on the internet, and that's the top comment.
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by twirlock 6y ago
I didn't say they were perfectly distinguishable. You have reasons simple ratios don't result in physical waveform attributes relevant to music. I posit you should just really think about that for like five seconds. Otherwise I do
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by twirlock 6y ago
It does prevent confusion! It prevents confusion about who Microsoft thinks owns my computer once I install their OS.
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by twirlock 6y ago
This helps me out in arguments about whether a corporate priesthood is just throwing its weight around and hiding behind moralizations to do it. Thanks, Unilever!

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