Pretty fucked up how, starting in the 13th century, Big Tech enclosed the commons, deeding the land to feudal lords and forcing smallholders to rent the land they worked.
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the greatest indignity in living in San Francisco, to me, is being forced to walk past this stupid fucking mural all the time
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imagining the world if posting did last that long
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i want a huge coffee table book titled Masters of Content. Classic Posts from the Century of Internet
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miyazaki's stance is just the Fukayama tweet on child-sized skeleton decorations / the Joyce Carol Oates tweet on regular-sized skeleton decorations but you loved the fuzzy dudes in spirited away so you want to pretend it's profound
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Just passed a house with a child's skeleton as a Halloween decoration. People should realize these are not cute; when you see one in reality it is at minimum a human tragedy and at worst a #WarCrimes
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Every time this video resurfaces i'm amazed how Miyazaki thinks his stance on depicting pain is so clear that he's justified in being terribly cruel to the presenters across the table.
He's a celebrity, and he's bullying—on camera—a group of junior researchers. Self righteously!
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miyazaki of studio ghibli, upon seeing an artificial intelligence presentation- "i strongly feel that this is an insult to life itself".
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the difference between defining oneself via taste (consumptive, exclusionary, fleeting) versus orienting one's life around beauty (creative, shared, eternal). it can be subtle but it's crucial!
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administrators of public schools should have to pass confidence votes from professors and students imo
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I gotta stop doomstrolling
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"im gonna replace google with chatGPT" – people fine with understanding the world through human centipede type epistemology
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when they came up with "computer" i dunno if they realized how far it was gonna go. love yourself.
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it's funny how everyone gets mad if an image model overfits on its training set and reproduces something too close to it, but if a text model changes a date or a proper noun people get upset. these are very subtle human cues about how to represent reality.
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rationalists keep pointing at graphs and saying "aren't you worried about scale?!" i refuse to look at the graphs because of course i'm worried about scale! i've seen what their founder tweets!
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if we can do it, this will unleash memes too powerful for human minds
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What if we made something like 4chan’s /r9k/, which blocked any text that had already been posted before, except now your text has to pass some threshold of GPT sequence probability before it can be posted or viewed. Any SEO or LinkedIn tier post gets automatically blocked. twitter.com/bayes_baes/sta…
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metcalfes law doesn't apply if a marginal user is net negative
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I’m a sucker for sublime continuous surface curvature, light arcing across an object’s surface, intentional breaks like musical rests, damn haha
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In some sense the earth might become a giant, slowly-rotating spherical hard drive.
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partiful should be an iMessage app
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i wonder how much of the post-covid supply chain crises came from industrial learning curves resetting after production was stopped for prolonged periods
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winner 30 under 30 (consecutive posts with <30 faves)
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one of the most important qualities about a building is what the noise floor is made of
traffic < forced air hvac <<< water moving calmly through pipes < the ocean < wildlife
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i think the reason i dislike web3 is that it's spiritually opposed to production in the real economy
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i'm just assuming applebees was once okay. it hasn't been in my lifetime but it must have been at some point.
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i think the quintessential boomer quality is not noticing or acting when something that used to be good becomes terrible. Applebees Syndrome.
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it's really sad to me how much posting links has died as an artform. please share good links.
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they need to add italics to imessage. it's time.
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a lot of people seem to think we had a lost decade in technology, but it seems clear that we comprehensively solved a complex set of problems in exchanging information and actuating controls.
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whenever academics post photos all i notice is that lecture halls all have terrible light
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it's basically the "timer coallescing" feature from Mavericks, introduced at 10:34 in this video, but for your attention rather than for microsecond precision CPU timers
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"scheduled summary" is the best iOS feature in years… you gotta turn this one on
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The mirror image of "why is rent suddenly so high" is "why is rental housing suddenly a great investment". Conveniently, mega-landlords like Blackstone are obligated to truthfully disclose this is in SEC filings and public statements, and they are 100% crystal clear about why:
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Getting tired of liberals discovering a housing crisis and offering no (zero) story of how it came to pass aside from theories of individual sentiment theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/
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some time over the last few years i became the sort of person who tidies a space before doing anything and it's insane i was ever any other way
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i often enjoy an app, but wish it had one more feature, something I'd happily build.
alienated from production even in software
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the reason you spend so much time looking at your phone is that it's a light-emitting surface, and light is inherently beautiful. the only way out is to make sure that you live in a space as bright as the sun. I recommend the DIY LED U-Home 40W Corn Bulb and sufficient diffusion.
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whenever i see an interface like this im like damn… they shoulda let me design it instead
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good piece on the state of the chinese film industry. I really hope these unreleased films are being archived.
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if any of you need to find me after this website collapses i'll be playing Snoopy Pinball on my iPhone 13 mini
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