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lanartri, (edited ) to random
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lightninhopkins,
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@lanartri Yeah, I know about it. The crackdown was brutal.

lightninhopkins,
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@lanartri is that in Iran?

lightninhopkins,
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@lanartri are they all dead or in prison now?

lightninhopkins,
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@lanartri I know that is dark, but I'm asking honestly.

sundogplanets, to random
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Here comes a thread on light pollution from satellites, with a concrete action that you all can take to help push for regulation of satellites in orbit!

Astronomers have been worried about light pollution from satellites (if you've been following me for more than 24 hours, you've perhaps heard a bit about this). Astronomers spent SO much time and effort begging and pleading with Starlink to make their satellites fainter, with mixed results.

lightninhopkins,
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@sundogplanets I mean..there is another way.

flexghost, to random
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We live in a timeline where Libertarians have more sense than the alt-left

Here’s Trump getting booed…

Trump being rotund asking for votes. This is the Same timeline as Libertarians having more sense than students getting their DoorDash sent to their hunger strike before receiving a degree in imagination and poetry as interpreted through a Marxian lens

lightninhopkins,
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@flexghost I can't believe I am cheering for libertarians this morning. I need to make some eggs.

ZachWeinersmith, to random
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So, one lens on the weird direction of the modern Internet is that entities created to route you to cool stuff, e.g. search, social media, have especially in the last 5-10 years been taking an ever larger part of the pie via having giant networks. Google can now control whether a news site lives or dies. Meta can take 99.5% of all ad revenue displayed next to an artist's work and they have no power.

Long-term effect? Damage to the creative class.

lightninhopkins,
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@ZachWeinersmith Google and Facebook are also dying. They are both becoming useless.

GottaLaff, to random
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Via Kyle Griffin:

New: Senate Judiciary Chairman Dick Durbin is calling on Alito to recuse himself from all cases involving the 2020 election.

"The Court is in an ethical crisis of its own making, and Justice Alito and the rest of the Court should be doing everything in their power to regain public trust."

lightninhopkins,
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@GottaLaff Can we just pause for a second and think what life was like for a 3rd grader named Dick Durbin.

lightninhopkins,
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@GottaLaff The whole idea that the SC is not political needs to go away. It always has been. People just live longer now. Jefferson was right that we should change the constitution as time goes on. Either we do that or it all falls apart.

dangillmor, to random
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Such moral cowards running New York University -- ordering student protestors to write phony apologies.

This is right out of the authoritarian playbook -- and it craps on every notion of freedom of expression.

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/05/17/nyregion/nyu-protests-apology-letters.html

You don't have to agree with the protestors' politics. But you should damn well understand that America is in wave of McCarthyism right now.

lightninhopkins,
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@dangillmor I mean, honesty it's time the university system goes away. It no longer serves students, it just another sink hole of debt.

maxleibman, to random
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AI didn’t ruin Google. Cynical content farmers ruined Google. SEO ruined Google. GOOGLE ruined Google.

lightninhopkins,
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@maxleibman I think you could replace "Google" with "The internet".

gamingonlinux, to random
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It just keeps going. Google AI telling people to eat rocks 😂

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lightninhopkins,
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@gamingonlinux Yeah, it's kinda funny until you think about the other questions that get fucked up answers.

ryanhoulihan, to random
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It’s so bleak just sitting here waiting for all of this to collapse in on itself isn’t it

lightninhopkins,
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@ryanhoulihan meh, SSDD.

arstechnica, to random
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Sony Music opts out of AI training for its entire catalog

Music group contacts more than 700 companies to prohibit use of content

https://arstechnica.com/ai/2024/05/sony-music-opts-out-of-ai-training-for-its-entire-catalog/?utm_brand=arstechnica&utm_social-type=owned&utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social

lightninhopkins,
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@arstechnica "AI training" = stealing anything it can get its grubby hands on. Calling a LLM "AI" was the first joke.

nocontexttrek, to StarTrek
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lightninhopkins,
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@nocontexttrek Data getting a cat was a stroke of writing genius.

whitequark, to random
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OH: "I've built LLVM too many times for it to feel painful. now I have to build Chromium to feel something"

lightninhopkins,
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@whitequark when is the part where we all get to spend our days doing art and shit while the machines feed us?

QasimRashid, to random
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My latest:

SCOTUS has repeatedly ruled that police have no legal duty to protect us—so why do we keep throwing money at an org with no duty to keep us safe? And perhaps most importantly, how do we actually ensure public safety?

Read sub & share: https://qasimrashid.substack.com/p/how-many-people-realize-police-have

lightninhopkins,
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@QasimRashid We need to redefine what the job of police is. They are not military, and should never be allowed to be so. They should be in neighborhoods talking to people. Stop kicking down doors and killing.

lightninhopkins, to random
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Oh cool, @shanselman is here!

warandpeas, to random
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Poof💨💨💨

lightninhopkins,
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@warandpeas Wow. Following.

zackwhittaker, (edited ) to random
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New, by me: Two university students have uncovered a security bug that lets millions do their laundry for free.

CSC ServiceWorks provides internet-connected laundry machines to thousands of residential homes and universities around the U.S., Canada and Europe.

The students found that any security checks are done by the app on the user’s device and automatically trusted by CSC’s servers,

But CSC still hasn't fixed the isue — or acknowledged their findings.

More: https://techcrunch.com/2024/05/17/csc-serviceworks-free-laundry-million-machines

lightninhopkins,
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@zackwhittaker shhhhh

donni, to random
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Women wanted him. Men wanted to be him. Birds mocked him. Fish disliked him tremendously

lightninhopkins,
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@donni do fish have any friends?

lightninhopkins, to random
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Does exist out here?

donni, to random
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I could swear there was a time when my phone didn’t always tell me upsetting things

lightninhopkins,
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@donni it was youth, I think it was youth.

lightninhopkins, to guitar
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Can anyone recommend a guitar for a kid (plays intermediate) with a whammy bar that does decent at not taking the strings out of tune?

lightninhopkins, to random
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@shanselman If you see any posts from me on Twitter they are fake. I killed that account years ago. I had some friends tell me the account was reactivated.

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