Telorand

@ Telorand @reddthat.com

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15h ago

‘A good way of dealing with overpopulation’: Epstein files reveal how the rich fuel climate denialism
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Telorand @reddthat.com 15h ago
It's the Mechanical Turk automaton all over again

1d ago

WiFi Could Become an Invisible Mass Surveillance System

I knew someone who voluntarily went to work for Facebook a few years ago. I don't talk to them anymore. Last I heard from a mutual is that they got laid off, and it couldn't have happened to a more deserving schmuck.

1d ago

I was quite out of the loop, but it sems like TeamSpeak 6 is now a full fledged self-hostable Discord alternative? TeamSpeak 6 Is Back: New Design, Screen Sharing, and More

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Telorand @reddthat.com 1d ago

That's good to know. I sincerely appreciate you sharing your experience

2d ago

Discord Users Threaten Exodus Over Age Verification Face Scan Controversy

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Telorand @reddthat.com 2d ago

At which point, the only option left is to leave or enjoy rapid enshittification.

2d ago

I was quite out of the loop, but it sems like TeamSpeak 6 is now a full fledged self-hostable Discord alternative? TeamSpeak 6 Is Back: New Design, Screen Sharing, and More

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Telorand @reddthat.com 2d ago

It's decentralized, not federated I thought...? Are there other services that use the Matrix protocol?

2d ago

Discord Users Threaten Exodus Over Age Verification Face Scan Controversy

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Telorand @reddthat.com 2d ago

Don't even have to go that far. Just stop paying for Nitro. They'll get the picture when their revenue stream dries up.

2d ago

Consensus reality is bourgeois.

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Telorand @reddthat.com 2d ago

Ah, but I do not believe it is universally wrong to enforce a subjective paradigm.

Then you're doing the exact same thing as the people you claim are unjustly enforcing objective reality, undercutting the very reason for rejecting it in the first place. That's why I said the belief is internally inconsistent.

2d ago

I was quite out of the loop, but it sems like TeamSpeak 6 is now a full fledged self-hostable Discord alternative? TeamSpeak 6 Is Back: New Design, Screen Sharing, and More

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Telorand @reddthat.com 2d ago

Stoat seems to, though I've not actually tested it. But my system audio devices showed up in the browser client as inputs, so that's a good sign that something is there.

2d ago

I was quite out of the loop, but it sems like TeamSpeak 6 is now a full fledged self-hostable Discord alternative? TeamSpeak 6 Is Back: New Design, Screen Sharing, and More

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Telorand @reddthat.com 2d ago

Until it's just as bad. Just move to Stoat (formerly Revolt) or Fermi.chat and save yourself the headache of another centralized platform going to shit.

2d ago

Did I ever tell you all the story about mushroom hunting? It's pretty long but....

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Telorand @reddthat.com 2d ago

The joke is stronger without the "shitake" ending, since that particular pun depends on pronouncing the word entirely wrong. "Morel" is awesome, however!

2d ago

Consensus reality is bourgeois.

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Telorand @reddthat.com 2d ago

But I do think they work forwards from the conclusions of those who came before.

You're really missing some key information here. When people go to school to become scientists, they retest old experiments as part of their training as a way to demonstrate:

How we know what we know
That science is repeatable. Results and behaviors fall within the models of our understanding.

However, these are not hard and fast models that must never be questioned. Science is constantly changing as new objective facts are uncovered, experiments are reviewed and retested, and new ones are scrutinized by expert peers.

Science cannot create axioms, so the foundation of scientific knowledge is always nonscientific reasoning and observation.

No, the foundation of scientific knowledge is facts. That's why we can unilaterally say that trans women are women. That's why we know that evolution is true. That's why we don't say that people with extra melanin in their skin are a different species from people with less.

It's true that the interpretation of those facts comes from our subjective understanding in an effort to get as close to an objective model as possible. We necessarily experience the objective universe subjectively. But the fact that experiments are repeatable and certain facts remain the same no matter how many times we observe them is a key indicator that reality has objectivity.

And I think it's perfectly appropriate to use violence on those whose worldview is violent.

I don't know that I personally agree (maybe if we agree what "violence" means), but I'm aware of the tolerance paradox. I was pointing out that the philosophy to which you hold does not seem to be internally consistent. I think it's excellent that you do not hold space for bigots, but if you believe in a universally subjective reality, and it is universally wrong under your philosophy to enforce a subjective paradigm upon someone else, that notion must apply universally. It cuts both ways, as it were.

In other words, it seems that the Tolerance Paradox is baked into the notion that reality is wholly subjective.

3d ago

Discord will restrict your account next month unless you scan ID or face

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Telorand @reddthat.com 3d ago

Discord age-verification bot: "Your account is nine years old, and nine-year-olds are too young to use Discord. Terminating account."

3d ago

Chatbots Make Terrible Doctors, New Study Finds

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Telorand @reddthat.com 3d ago

The thing that frustrates me about these studies is that they all continue to come to the same conclusions. AI has already been studied in mental health settings, and it's always performed horribly (except for very specific uses with professional oversight and intervention).

I agree that the studies are necessary to inform policy, but at what point are lawmakers going to actually lay down the law and say, "AI clearly doesn't belong here until you can prove otherwise"? It feels like they're hemming and hawwing in the vain hope that it will live up to the hype.

3d ago

Whoops: ‘AI’ Toy Company Leaks Chat Logs, Personal Data Of 50,000 Toddlers

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Telorand @reddthat.com 3d ago

Companies are rushing to install age verification in everything "to protect children," and yet here we have a prime example of a company failing the most basic of tests, clearly demonstrating that they can't be trusted to handle any data, much less PII.

3d ago

Consensus reality is bourgeois.

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Telorand @reddthat.com 3d ago

It's a garbage philosophy based on the ignorant premise that science starts with a conclusion and uses evidence to justify it.

From their manifesto:

When you apply empirical evidence-gathering to a construction that is racist, you will find racism. You will find a scientific basis for racism so long as you believe in racism. Should you believe in empathy, tolerance, and kindess, you will find a scientific basis for those instead.

...which is not at all how science works today. Bigots will still work backwards from their conclusion to try to justify their bigotry, but good science is emergent and draws no conclusions until sufficient evidence has been gathered. They're trying to say that (bad) science has been used to justify harm, but rather than saying maliciousness or ignorance are the problems, they're lazily gesturing around and saying that it's all of reality that's the problem.

Meanwhile, everybody getting their own subjective reality absolves the bigots of responsibility, because under the anarcho-antirealist paradigm, it is wrong/harmful to enforce your reality upon others.

Good job listening to those inner warnings, BTW!

3d ago

Discord will require a face scan or ID for full access next month

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Telorand @reddthat.com 3d ago

The US is busy violating people's rights and executing civil dissidents. They'll get to it when they grow bored of terrorizing everyone.

3d ago

Discord will require a face scan or ID for full access next month

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Telorand @reddthat.com 3d ago

I usually just roll my eyes when I see that corpospeak, but now I'm going to translate it as "payday." Thanks!

5d ago

Western Digital details 14-platter 3.5-inch HAMR HDD designs with 140 TB and beyond

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Telorand @reddthat.com 5d ago

Not a clue. Care to eli5?

1w ago

CEO of Palantir Says AI Means You’ll Have to Work With Your Hands Like a Peasant

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Telorand @reddthat.com 1w ago

Yes, I know. I'm not looking back at the entire timeline of history. I'm looking at the most recent example, because while the idea is not new, it is not an idea that lasts on its own; people wise up over time, which is why the idea gets rehashed by different figures at different points in history.

1w ago

CEO of Palantir Says AI Means You’ll Have to Work With Your Hands Like a Peasant

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Telorand @reddthat.com 1w ago

It does predate them. They didn't invent it, and I never said they did. I said their actions are the reason the US reveres wealth today, as in it's the most contemporary set of events that have reinvigorated that well-practiced strategy.

If you're looking for specific historical knowledge, as in citations, here you go:

https://history.princeton.edu/about/publications/one-nation-under-god-how-corporate-america-invented-christian-america