explodicle
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- Comment on I have an idea ☝️ 1 day ago:
Why that direction? Intuitively I’d imagine stuffing the humans into cities would allow more mass transit, fewer cars, more economies of scale, and more area left over for nature. So more like Singapore, less like Texas.
Has anyone ever done scientific research on this question?
- Comment on Bluesky suspending antifascist researchers for sharing publicly available information about literal nazis. 1 day ago:
IMHO it would work better like a web of trust, then having to either whitelist or play whack-a-mole. I’d rather just join an instance that doesn’t allow racism.
- Comment on Bluesky suspending antifascist researchers for sharing publicly available information about literal nazis. 1 day ago:
Crypto bro here and I agree wholeheartedly. Crypto shouldn’t be anyone’s whole personality. Social networking doesn’t need money baked into it - it just needs decentralized moderation, and we can donate out of band. Anyone who wants to improve society somewhat should be on the fediverse right now.
- Comment on Bluesky suspending antifascist researchers for sharing publicly available information about literal nazis. 1 day ago:
So… um… bring back Jack Dorsey?
- Comment on Microsoft wants to replace its entire C and C++ codebase, perhaps by 2030 2 days ago:
Compatability is the only reason to use Windows anymore. If they had to compete for best distribution, then they’d rapidly lose customers.
- Comment on They should make a reboot of Freakazoid where he gets his powers from the 2025 internet instead of the 1995 internet. 3 days ago:
Didn’t he know all the information on the internet? Times have changed.
Freakazoid knows everyone’s kinks.
He has the unredacted Epstein files.
He has access to everything in secure military subnets, including authentication as every general and admiral.
He knows zero-day exploits for power grids, satellites, financial systems, and air traffic control.
Freakazoid can blow up your pager.
He can spend any bitcoin on a whim.
He knows the real name and location of every spy.
He knows the psychological profile of everyone who did online therapy.
He knows what you did last summer.
Freakazoid is why Adama said “no networks”.
I’d say God help us all… but there’s a new god in town and his name is Freakazoid. He can hear us through the phone in your pocket.
- Comment on Firefox Will Ship with an "AI Kill Switch" to Completely Disable all AI Features - 9to5Linux 6 days ago:
User agent switchers?
- Comment on The REAL news 6 days ago:
Well don’t leave us hanging, who won?
- Comment on Hey Grok 6 days ago:
I know more about manufacturing than him because I’m a senior manufacturing engineer with years of experience. I’ve met many, many suits just like him.
- Comment on Everyone is so close to grasping your unique vision! 1 week ago:
Why, they aren’t even Real Leftists! They’ve fallen for a capitalist ruse.
Karl Marx considered the Single Tax platform as a regression from the transition to communism and referred to Georgism as “Capitalism’s last ditch”. Marx argued that, “The whole thing is … simply an attempt, decked out with socialism, to save capitalist domination and indeed to establish it afresh on an even wider basis than its present one.” Marx also criticized the way land value tax theory emphasizes the value of land, arguing that, “His fundamental dogma is that everything would be all right if ground rent were paid to the state.”
- Comment on Of course there is. 1 week ago:
Maybe you would’ve been even lefter by now!
- Comment on Are there supposed to be other options? 1 week ago:
I say, “Boy, I hope he’s not a Harvard-style white privilege student that landed half of his flight-simulator trials.”
- Comment on Solidarity 1 week ago:
This simply encourages laxative vigilantism!
- Comment on After viral interview, Palantir launches neurodivergent fellowship 1 week ago:
- Comment on Xmas at the mega church 1 week ago:
Also Christian. Even calling this appropriation is distancing them from the guy with the golden throne.
- Comment on Xmas at the mega church 1 week ago:
If this is how most Christians behave, then I’m sorry to inform you this is real Christianity.
- Comment on You've probably met someone who has killed a person 1 week ago:
I’ve saved a bunch of lives. Give blood! It’s easy and makes you feel better about yourself.
- Comment on You've probably met someone who has killed a person 1 week ago:
Yep, I’ve worked with a LOT of war veterans. (American sheet metal factory)
- Comment on Oracle made a $300 billion bet on OpenAI. It's paying the price. 2 weeks ago:
You clearly want the economy to collapse. The bailout will actually be profitable for the government. /s
- Comment on Oracle made a $300 billion bet on OpenAI. It's paying the price. 2 weeks ago:
If LLMs fail and they invested: bailout
If LLMs succeed and they invested: rich
If LLMs fail and they passed: everyone else bailed out
If LLMs succeed and they passed: out of business
Therefore, the logical choice for a business is to invest in LLMs. The only mechanism to not do the stupid thing that everyone else is doing is gone.
- Comment on for a better future for ur children 2 weeks ago:
Nothing will ever top “clean coal”.
- Comment on Disney Invests $1 Billion in the AI Slopification of Its Brand 2 weeks ago:
He’s still checking it because we’re acting like it’s still the Twitter we knew.
- Comment on Disney Invests $1 Billion in the AI Slopification of Its Brand 2 weeks ago:
If you can’t tell the difference in quality between slop and Oscar-winning art, then you’re making the AI bro argument for them.
- Comment on Judge hands Lambo.com to Lamborghini after ruling owner acted in bad faith 2 weeks ago:
Another great example of this being an economic rent problem.
Namecoin is one of the oldest cryptocurrencies, but never caught on because it’s >99% domain name squatters. There’s no mechanism to increase the cost of renewal to anything proportional to the value of the name, so they always renew for practically free. Consequently there’s no incentive for web browsers to support it.
A domain name is like a plot of land. Right now our choices are crony capitalist ICANN with eminent domain, anarcho-capitalist crypto DNS, or sailing the high seas on an .onion addresses.
- Comment on Disney invests $1 billion in OpenAI, licenses 200 characters for AI video app Sora 2 weeks ago:
Disney+, so we can poison your wife in exchange for slop videos.
- Comment on Disney invests $1 billion in OpenAI, licenses 200 characters for AI video app Sora 2 weeks ago:
That’s not how the legal system works anymore. Only the rich will be protected, the poor will be constrained.
- Comment on US demands access to tourists' social media histories 2 weeks ago:
Me too 😭
- Comment on US demands access to tourists' social media histories 2 weeks ago:
In context I think they mean morally
- Comment on US demands access to tourists' social media histories 2 weeks ago:
Surely FIFA fans won’t put up with an incredibly oppressive country
- Comment on US demands access to tourists' social media histories 2 weeks ago:
Americans are incapable of thinking that far ahead. They will literally scoff at any foresight, like the future is unknowable.
