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  • Your Average IT Department Budget

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  • It criticises science for profit. They literally invite various scientists who know their stuff and they all tell Hammond he's a fucking idiot. It's much clearer in the books, though, where you get to read where they notice all the enclosure mistakes that were made by Hammond's team.

  • The Reddits (6 minute read)

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  • This article reads pretty bizarrely to me.

    Del.icio.us does absolutely seem to be the same design as reddit if you look at old screenshots, and predating Reddit by 2 years definitely makes reddit look like a bit of a ripoff. I'd argue both are just an evolution of the forum format so not too special.

    Aaron Schwartz seems to take a very big place in reddit's mythos and it feels weird seeing him take up only a single paragraph - the author is only telling their own story, though, so it only makes sense if author didn't know him. It does change my perspective of reddit hearing that Steve and Alexis were aiming to be your bog-standard startup from the getgo and Scharwz only came as a later team addition.

    Article feels a bit like an advertisement for investing.

  • Peak technology

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  • For those who don't know, Wendigoon is a creepy lore youtuber.

    He's also sometimes been acredited with creating the aesthetic of the boogaloo boys, not sure how true that is.

    As far as I've heard, his videos are fairly consistent with documentation of the events he covers, such as the unibomber, the MLK assassination, etc.

    It's very funny to think he wasn't radicalized before the printer situation.

  • Swedish police forcibly remove Greta Thunberg from parliament entrance

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  • It's super bizarre seeing this girl grow up exclusively by photos of her being arrested.

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  • "when I'm finished, you're gonna be in multiple time zones at once."

  • France makes abortion a constitutional right

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  • Encyclopedia britannica:

    political program or movement that champions, or claims to champion, the common person, usually by favourable contrast with a real or perceived elite or establishment. Populism usually combines elements of the left and the right, opposing large business and financial interests but also frequently being hostile to established liberal, socialist, and labour parties.

    Wikipedia asserts a similar definition

    History.com again corroborates this:

    The style of politics that claims to speak for ordinary people and often stirs up distrust has risen up on both sides of the political spectrum throughout U.S. history.

    Your definition is objectively not what the general populace means when they say 'populism'.

  • France makes abortion a constitutional right

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  • Populism is simply a political strategy where you appeal to the 'common voter.' It is neither good nor bad.

    Pro-Union efforts are populist. So are most socialist movements.

    The Nazis also ran on a populist campaign. As is Trump right now.

    Stating a movement is populist is an in-the-moment observation. I would argue that trying to sort 'true populists' who are actually trying to help their supporter base from 'faux-populists' fundamentally misuses the term, which is simply noting who the politician is trying to appeal to.

  • Generative A.I - We Aren’t Ready.

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  • That timeline of dealing with the bad looks incredibly optimistic. I imagine new issues will likely be regularly cropping up as well which we'll also have to address.

  • Navalny died from blood clot, Ukrainian intelligence chief says

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  • That does make sense.

  • Navalny died from blood clot, Ukrainian intelligence chief says

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  • Why is this news being given by Ukraine's intelligence chief? I would assume we'd get it from another vector.

  • Here's why the $3,500 Apple Vision Pro headset is so expensive

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  • I think you're attributing more grandeur to Apple's decisions than is warranted.

    Apple's iPhone was not the first phone to use a touchscreen - that goes to IBM in the 90s. Apple did produce a PDA the same year with a touchscreen, though it used a stylus-based touchscreen. During that time touch tech was still developing. If you follow the overall evolution of touchscreens, Apple actually deployed its touchscreen phone about as early as they could - probably because every other company was also eyeing making one but were waiting until touchscreens were cheaper and more reliable.

    It also was not the first smartphone. Again, that IBM phone with a touch screen also had e-mail capability, a calendar, and various other features, and phones being able to access the web and play games along with various PDA functions was almost standard as we got into the 2000s.

    The touchscreen rectangle smartphone was already on the way - Apple just grabbed the bag first.

    What Apple consistently does is act brashly by deploying a usually obvious future product before the tech is actually developed enough to fully support it. They then sell it at a stupidly high price which trims off who buys to mostly just futurists with rose-tinted glasses on. It's a very effective strategy to get credit for innovation and leading the future while avoiding bad PR, and it fools massive amounts of people.

    Apple is a company that is insanely good at corporate strategy. In fact, if there's anything that Apple has truly pioneered, it's the modern predatory, anti-repair, designed obsolescence fashion-tech environment we currently see.

  • Rule

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  • Ubermensch schit

  • How Google is killing independent sites like ours - HouseFresh

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    • Ban commercial Ads from the web.
    • Illegalize selling of user data without consent, at minimum.

    The majority of online enshittification stems from profit motivation. Removing the incentive will fundamentally change how the internet is used and will likely change it for the better.

  • You have to remove the plastic label if you want to recycle this plastic bottle.

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  • You forgot about polymer shortening. During the first synthesis process from petroleum to the usual type of plastic, long polymer bonds are formed which give the plastic its malleable-yet-durable characteristics. During shredding to get the plastic into a more feedable shape (as in feedable through a hopper into an extruder to be melted) those polymers are shortened. This polymer shortening ends up leading to a more brittle plastic, and because of this new plastic beads are added to rejuvinate.

    Because of this, recycling plastic inherently requires new plastic in its process, and old plastic is only recyclable for a few cycles until its essentially garbage being mixed into the process.

    We are essentially just pushing out the inevitable, which will be that we'll need to dispose of massive amounts of plastic waste that is unusable after a few cycles. I imagine we'll eventually just have to compress this waste into blocks and bury those blocks deep underground like nuclear waste.

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    Jailed Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny dead, prison service says

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  • I don't think Navalny believed any resistance would be mounted for him - he might have had hope but I don't think he counted on anything. I think he chose to go back knowing he would likely die. He chose to be a martyr to maximize the effect he'd have.

  • Stability AI Introduces Stable Cascade: A Modular, Efficient, and Easy-to-Train Text2Img Model

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  • Anyone done the elephant room test on it yet? /s

  • You can remove or disable Windows 11 and 10's AI 'bloat' with new BloatynosyAI

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  • Using syncthing and obsidian with the excalidraw addon does this. Don't know if that'll meet your standards, but it'll do handwriting, offline work, and syncing.

    While obsidian is not open source, it is extensible with a large community, so it can do a very wide variety of workflows. It's what I used before moving to Logseq.

  • You can remove or disable Windows 11 and 10's AI 'bloat' with new BloatynosyAI

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  • Like clockwork! Almost as reliable as the OS /s

    Linux has no mainstream advertising so word-of-mouth is the only way it gets adopted.

  • You can remove or disable Windows 11 and 10's AI 'bloat' with new BloatynosyAI

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