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chacha2on A case against security nihilism

Isn’t this the security nihilism the article is addressing?

chacha2on Twitter sees jump in govt demands to remove content of reporters, news outlets

Pre-school STEM is your plan to get people off twitter?

chacha2on A theory that “elite overproduction” leads to political instability (2020)

“I see in the fight club the strongest and smartest men who've ever lived. I see all this potential and I see squandering. God damn it, an entire generation pumping gas, waiting tables, slaves with white collars, advertising has us chasing cars and clothes, working jobs we hate so we can buy shit we don't need. We're the middle children of the history man, no purpose or place, we have no Great war, no Great depression, our great war is a spiritual war, our great depression is our lives, we've been all raised by television to believe that one day we'd all be millionaires and movie gods and rock stars, but we won't and we're slowly learning that fact. and we're very very pissed off.”

chacha2on Blender and the Rabbids

The industry doesn't appreciated that blender can mesh edit and sculpt? What can it do that their existing software can't?

chacha2on How to Love Animals in a Human-Shaped World

They didn't consent to nature either.

chacha2on Costa Rica Has Run on 100% Renewable Electricity for 299 Days

Won't have that stuff in an ice age.

chacha2on What if plants were animals like any other?

It is the struggle, itself, that is important!

chacha2on What if plants were animals like any other?

> Trying to pretend we can erase any and all suffering we may cause ever is a fruitless effort.

I wouldn't be so sure. Eduard Hartmann came up with a solution in the 19th century.

https://theconversation.com/solve-suffering-by-blowing-up-th...

chacha2on Gemini's "uselessness" is its killer feature

What good is competing implementations if they all have to keep to the same spec?

chacha2on Gemini's "uselessness" is its killer feature

It's a shame it can't add on any innovations that didn't make the cut to the current web, such as Ted Nelsons parallel documents.

Seems like any interest in making technology more than a replica of reality has disappeared. Maybe its even going the opposite direction, that what we have in reality is too complicated to recreate so the digital becomes more constrictive than the real thing.

chacha2on The depth of Bill Gates' ties with Epstein

But there was a "VIP pedophile ring" ? You're not a crazed conspiracy theoriest when it turns out to be true.

chacha2on The depth of Bill Gates' ties with Epstein

> She chose to describe “herself as an ‘internet operator’” during this period

Interesting considering the theory she was the reddit power mod /u/maxwellhill who became inactive after her arrest

https://old.reddit.com/r/conspiracy/comments/hnfx0r/not_conf...

chacha2on Primates change their 'accent' to avoid conflict

Tarantino did something similar

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=6mzqahILpAs

chacha2on Hatetris – Tetris which always gives you the worst piece

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EUJb1BD63ME

Quick rundown of tetris history.

chacha2on A virtual Apple Macintosh with System 8, running in Electron

chacha2on Human-monkey chimera embryos created in lab

> no predisposition for mental illness,[...] high IQ

Already you've delved into ideology.

chacha2on Show HN: Giving my mother-in-law an easy internet radio with real icon buttons

Icons on desktop

chacha2on 'Fake' Amazon workers defend company on Twitter

It won't be the AWS team doing this on the side, it would be a commissioned company.

chacha2on 'Fake' Amazon workers defend company on Twitter

Noam Chomsky with Andrew Marr

https://youtu.be/lLcpcytUnWU?t=173

"If you believed something different, you wouldn't be sitting where you are sitting"

chacha2on Amazon driver quits over AI-powered safety cameras in delivery vehicles

There shouldn't be any workplace surveillance.

chacha2on Do you really want Linux phones

Not really, the iPhone planned to do the same thing.

chacha2on The X.Org Foundation is joining calls for RMS to be removed

You wouldn't catch RMS advocating free software on twitter...

chacha2on Lost in Thought: Psychological Risks of Meditation

If they were to abandon that pressure they might have a much harder time keeping a routine and proper work out.

chacha2on The world will only get weirder

> To paraphrase Peter Thiel, new technology is probably so fertile and productive simply because there are so few rules. It’s essentially illegal for you to build anything physical these days from a toothbrush (FDA regulates that) to a skyscraper, but there’s zero restriction on creating a website. Hence, that’s where all the value is today.

If websites are this man’s ideal, thank god for regulations.

chacha2on Low Earth Orbit Visualization

What is New Zealand up to? Looks dangerous.

chacha2on Element Matrix Services Announces Element Home

This would be insane for anyone outside of HN. $10 a month for a 5 person chat? They know everyone can get this free elsewhere for decades now? A 5 person Signal group would even have higher security.

chacha2on Actually Portable Executables

Naming Your Child | David Mitchell's Soapbox

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xblh12XgQ4o

The first half is relevant.

chacha2on The Queen has more power over British law than we thought

Yes, I would like to live in a democratic nation.

chacha2on Cixin Liu's Postscript for the American Edition for “The Three Body Problem”

Another idea, maybe a certain type of person is the one pondering intergalactic relations. I'm not sure all humans would be so friendly if they came to think about it.

chacha2on Cab Ride: Drive a train, forever, through a dreamlike land

It's a video.