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-15 karma · joined June 28, 2024

face me, dang (pronounced with a soft-a)
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caustic-view··on What does a world without Airbnb look like?
> but the winner of the hypocritical scenario is the local citizen, and the loser, the tourist, which is typical of NYC and many other cities.

We aren’t talking about war crimes, so yeah this all sounds completely normal and kind of a truism?

Why would or should a local polity put the interests of outsiders ahead of those of its own citizens, especially with regards to housing?

caustic-view··on ChatGPT just (accidentally) shared all of its secret rules
This is the LLM confabulating an explanation for your question; they’re not explaining why their human masters set that prompt/constraint. At most it’s reflecting on the prompt it was given (by OpenAI) and justifying that for you (which your question suggests), at worst it’s completely freestyling (maybe it will say the same about matplotlib if prompted?)
caustic-view··on Journalism has become ground zero for the vocation crisis
I want to challenge the lazy acceptance that an “activist media” is even a thing, or is it just a way saying “things are happening that I don’t like”?

What are the signs and effects of this activist media? Who are its players? Are there sides? What are they?

caustic-view··on US Supreme Court allows cities to ban homeless camps
> First they came for the homeless, and I actively celebrated it.
caustic-view··on Framework Laptop 16, six months later
Apropos of the implication that the score matters: the reviewer is a Windows user