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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Trump says he plans to put a 100% tariff on computer chips, likely pushing up cost of electronics⁩ ⁨⁨17⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  Yes, but the media is willing to lie for him and whatever form necessary to normalize all this

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨mRNA vaccines for HIV trigger strong immune response in people⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  mRna is cancelled

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Every female Democrat presidential nominee has resulted in a Donald Trump presidency⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Your despising of the Clintons is the real point: there was an anti-Clinton machine working for 20 years before her run, making everyone who listens to AM radio, or eventually conservative TV, absolutely hate them both. She was pre-judged before she ever got up there. Everyone had an opinion. What a fucking mistake.

  That said I do think it would be silly to run another female candidate with this electorate, there is a gruff male-driven populism at work, and Dems/Progs/Liberals/Whomever would do well to play into it rather than fight it if, of course, we have another real election.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Mice⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Having no way of finding out if you’re telling the truth or not, I choose to believe

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The woman in the center of this pic is Dead⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Here’s a great Atlas Obscura article about it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How do you reconcile staying sane while keeping yourself up-to-date with the news?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Good news readers can help you get lots of the content you want with only a quick passing glance at the headlines so you can still carry a conversation/contemplate the inescapability of this planet

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The woman in the center of this pic is Dead⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  This is mostly a myth propagated by the idea of “posing stands” which were actually meant to keep living people still for portraits that took a long exposure time. Victorians loved some goth shit like hair jewelry tho.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Inflation outpaces wage growth for over 40% of Americans⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Not just inflation but also everything has become a “small monthly service” now and those prices rise every few months. Life was simpler and less fee-based when I was a kid and teenager, just less expenses in general.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Humans can be tracked with unique 'fingerprint' based on how their bodies block Wi-Fi signals⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Once you start playing with radiowaves and antenna you start noticing the intricate ways it plays with and around bags of water like bodies. I’m sure the original research on location/movement tracking was due to scientists trying not to get interference, later once they figured it out it was natural to see how much data they could get out of a radio interference profile.

  I remember the original tech was going to be marketed as a way to tell if your old person (parent etc) had fallen down and stopped moving. Not the best use case, and then the privacy implications became clear. Once that happens the race begins to exploit the tech.

  …But the eventuality here is something like a Star Trek tricorder that can take multiple vitals and detect irregularities from across the waiting room. Sensors that remember who was in a room and what settings they had. Etc. Some cool thing besides the bad stuff (microtarget those ads).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨‘If I switch it off, my girlfriend might think I’m cheating’: inside the rise of couples location sharing⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  One of the ways I knew my marriage was over, he disabled location services and left them off for months and then years. I followed when I started fucking other people.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Women are anonymously spilling tea about men in their cities on viral app⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  There’s no way a libel database could be a bad business model

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨They even got their own island⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  They would have sex with him.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YSK De-banking is often how the US first declares you "homeless"⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Unfortunately there are systems that will reject PO boxes - credit applications, mortgage and loan applications. It’s increasing and I think they’re catching wind that nomads do it, so they challenge for a “physical address” which of course must match your credit file. This is a nice way to shit on people who are trying to get out of transitional housing too, since they can easily spot group homes and halfway houses.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨They even got their own island⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  One of the dudes in my gay group tonight:

  “My momma cleaned hunter’s cabins and those hunters were real nice men if you know what I mean.”

  He was talking about a time when he was early teens.

  So it’s not just girls who get this treatment! If that makes you feel any more egalitarian.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Wall Street’s AI Bubble Is Worse Than the 1999 Dot-com Bubble, Warns a Top Economist⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s exactly it, they’re making themselves “indispensable” at the consumer level to hold on for dear life.

  But, on the other hand, you have companies like Klarna that are successfully using AI to replace, in one case, 700 humans or 3/4 of their tier 1 support staff. And every other company perks up at that. There is definitely a use case for AI, it’s still improving, and business will keep it going in some form (which will be great for the poor neighborhoods they put the data centers in).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Study finds AI tools made open source software developers 19 percent slower⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  They can hold session memory including 10+ source files, and a looong chat, but when you run into the wall, suddenly it’s eating its own memory to keep going, rather than forcing me to reset the session. Which is interesting, like co-coding with a mild amnesiac. “Hey remember when we just did that thing 2 minutes ago?” I should have started a new session when I branched.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Study finds AI tools made open source software developers 19 percent slower⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Yep I’ve got a working iOS app, a v.2 branched and on the way, with a ton of MapKit integrations. Unfortunately I’m getting depreciation errors and having to constantly remind the AI that it’s using old code, showing it examples of new code, and then watching it forget as we keep talking.

  Still, I have a working iOS app, which only took a few hours. When Jack Dorsey said he’d vibe coded his new app in a long weekend, I’m like, hey me too.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨AI slows down some experienced software developers, study finds⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Not to sound like one of the ads or articles but I cube coded an iOS app in like 6 hours, it’s not so complex I don’t understand it, it’s multifeatured, I learned a LOT and got a useful thing instead of doing a tutorial with sample project. I don’t regret having that tool. I do regret the lack of any control and oversight and public ownership of this technology but that’s the timeline we’re on, let’s not pretend it’s gay space communism (sigh) but, since AI is probably driving my medical care decisions at the insurance company level, might as well get something to play with.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I can fix her⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Twice this year, it’s a him but yes. They make borderline in boys too.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  America doesn’t do free market capitalism it does late stage capitalism, where profits do in fact need to be record high every quarter, even if that means people are gonna die (like 10m people becoming uninsured, plus us borrowing a bunch of money from China, so we can give more to the billionaires that own us and don’t need it).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Does people doing things that upset others also upset you?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Last year on the 4th, I was walking home from the big fireworks show, and I saw a teenager on a scooter, who was briefly crouching down and not being safe. But he came up beside a lady and surprised her, and she swatted at him and tried to push him over, which would have crashed him into several people walking. More than just a startle response, and the kid stopped, looked back, angry - but he was a black teenager and there’s this white lady and her beefy white boyfriend/husband staring him back, so he turns and disappears back into the crowd.

  And I’m instantly furious.

  “That’s assault,” I told her.

  “Mind your own fucking business” she says. Several other people are watching.

  Thankfully my husband and her husband pulled us in different directions and the crowd separated us.

  But I was so fucking angry, and that lady looked like she had started a fight or three in her life. Her boyfriend looked like he wasn’t happy to be there in that moment.

  So yes, but it has to be something serious.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YSK that 158 families made up 50% of all US Presidential Campaign Spending⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  There are only a few outcomes that would lead down that road, and while I hope for one of them, I am pretty convinced they’ll all die happy and rich in their warm beds of old age after getting lots of plastic surgery and riding on lots of jets and jetskis

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Dried or fresh cherries will also produce the effect in sufficient quantity. Which is how I learned not to eat a bag in a sitting.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨You're not alone: This email from Google's Gemini team is concerning⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Few years ago I got a Nest Secure to go with my other Google Nest gear. One day Google emailed me to tell me Assistant was now enabled on my security system. Oh, by the way, it has an undocumented microphone!

  That’s when I realized what a privacy nightmare Google really is. I know Apple isn’t great but come on.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨“It changes everything:” Plunging costs of PV and batteries mean 24-hour solar a growing reality⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m halfway across the country from you but our corrupt fucking government made buy-back for solar generated electricity super cheap to make solar ownership less affordable, and more profitable for the utility.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Yes, this is what people did back then⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  You got a dog? Still smoke?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨It is what it is⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  That was actually their lawyer’s argument, that “incognito mode” being private was just something people assumed and ran with, not their fault.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨the seven deadly companies⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Front end, back end

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨OpenAI supremo Sam Altman says he 'doesn't know how' he would have taken care of his baby without the help of ChatGPT⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Parenting books were serious business, whole generations were raised with Dr Spock for instance, who had fucked up ideas about childrearing.

  It’s one thing to ask for tips on getting a baby to sleep, it’s another to ask it for formula recipes. Unfortunately I doubt most parents know the line where it becomes dangerous, but I am hoping here.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Tough, Tiny, and Totally Repairable: Inside the Framework 12⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Makes me sad that I know exactly what you mean, this new glass shit has me nervously eying the Linux door.