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  • Be the feminist you aspire to be

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  • There's a graffiti on an abandoned building nearby, about 8 stories tall, that just says "STOP MEN."

    Strangely, neither myself nor any of the men I regularly hang with have been offended by this or felt targeted. It's almost like random graffiti can't hurt you.

  • Polonium

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  • Meh! Call me a wet blanket but I've been on the internet since before 4chan, so I'm pretty familiar with the Nazi bar problem and I'm long past accepting "just jokes."

  • 9 billion IQ move

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  • I get using a comma as a radix, sure. It makes grammatical sense, like saying "two, and three tenths", just a little pause between concepts.

    But how does it make any sense anywhere to use a full-stop for grouping digits?! "1.000.000.000.000" looks ludicrous, not to mention we can't even agree on whether thats a billion or a million!

  • Watermarks offer no defense against deepfakes, study suggests

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  • There are other privacy issues with having an indelible marker as to the origin and chain of custody of every digital artifact. And other non-privacy issues.

    So the idea here is that my phone camera attaches a crypro token to the metadata of every photo it takes? (Or worse, embeds it into the image steganographically like printer dots.) Then if I send that photo to a friend in signal, that app attaches a token indicating the transfer? And so on?

    If that's a video of say, police murdering someone, maybe I don't want a perfect trail pointing back to me just to prove I didnt deep fake it. And if that's where we are, then every video of power being abused is going to "be fake" because no sane person would sacrifice their privacy, possibly their life, to "prove" a video isnt AI generated.

    And those in power, the mainstream media say, aren't going to demonstrate the crypto chain of custody on every video they show on the news. They're going to show whatever they want, then say "its legit, trust us!" and most people will.

    These are the fundamental issues with crypto that people actually don't understand: too much of it is actually opt-in, it's unclear to most people what's actually proved or protected, and it doesn't actually address or understsnd where trust, authority, and power actually come from.

  • How it started...

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  • Actually I see something completely different

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  • Its like losing your identity

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  • Voyager for Android doesn't show them, so I have no idea what any of you look like anyway!

  • Protestation

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  • Hmmm... Who was it again that medieval Christians allowed to do money lending work? Wasnt there some ethnic or religious minority involved in that field?

  • Vibe coding service Replit deleted production database

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  • It sounds like this guy was also relying on the AI to self-report status. Did any of this happen? Like is the replit AI really hooked up to a CLI, did it even make a DB to start with, was there anything useful in it, and did it actually delete it?

    Or is this all just a long roleplaying session where this guy pretends to run a business and the AI pretends to do employee stuff for him?

    Because 90% of this article is "I asked the AI and it said:" which is not a reliable source for information.

  • It's the truth

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  • Stern Asian Grandma is most displeased with how spicy my dish was yet again, and demands i add a heaping spoonful of chilli crunch to fix it!

  • Head.

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  • He's Hernerable

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  • 19-year-old killed while cleaning industrial meat grinder in Vernon, California

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  • I was at a swing class last week, it's already back!

  • Important PSA

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  • Caught

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  • I considered it but:

    1. I think its safer to leave attribution in general.
    2. Is "the joke" the setup, the punchline, or both?

    Since that person came up with the setup, i think an editor changing the punchline isnt necessarily making a new joke, they'd just be a third contributor.

    Opinions vary though, sure. As a software dev, I dream of a world where everything is version controlled and no one's contributions are undocumented or underplayed.

  • The Astronomer CEO's Coldplay Concert Fiasco Is Emblematic of Our Social Media Surveillance Dystopia | 404 Media

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  • Fair cop, I didn't check source I just saw it mentioned elsewhere. His company being valued at just over a billlion probably confused people.

    I grant that there's a difference of degrees here, but him being "just" an unethical millionaire doesn't substantially change my views on the situation.

    Someone in another thread mentioned polyamory which I find a personally interesting angle as well, since I practice relationship anarchy. This situation would just never happen to me because all my paramours know each other and know about the activies we do together. It makes me suspicious of these stories because while I also enjoy laughing at a rich guy getting caught, I don't like that it culturally reinforces this idea of monogamy as a core value and that breaking the trust of such monogamy should have public consequences.

    Obviously the last thing I want is society-wide condemnation of the wrong aspect of this situation. It isnt the having a side-piece that's the problem, it's the lying to your primary partner (and everyone else) that actually creates the trouble.

  • Important PSA

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  • Thanks to THC destroying my ability to REM, I have become Jet Li's the One.

  • ‘A mistake’ says Netanyahu after Israel bombed Gaza church Pope Francis called daily

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  • For having the world's most advanced weapons they sure do accidentally hit the wrong targets an awful lot.

  • The Astronomer CEO's Coldplay Concert Fiasco Is Emblematic of Our Social Media Surveillance Dystopia | 404 Media

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  • Their reaction is what set it all off too. Even the singer immediately speculates that they're having an affair because of how they acted. So yeah, even if he wasn't a billionaire, somebody probably would have doxxed him anyway because there are tons of people that like drama and know they can make money off it. That he is a billionaire and doing something deeply unethical is what makes the story go viral all over social media. Lots and lots of people there want to make money and clout by exploiting any avenue for drama and engagement.

    Perhaps the problems this exposes are not just our grim and omnipresent surveillance apparatus, but the attached system of gig-economy content creators all racing to the lowest common denominator for scraps of engagement and ad revenue? We've created a society of unempathetic monsters.

  • Some stephen king type shit idk

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  • There's a few actual versions of the pin pulling games now. I liked this one for Android called "How to Loot", pretty fun little time waster.