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dont_forget_meon Brazil's X ban is sending lots of people to Bluesky

It saddens me the Brasil banned X because of racism, anti-semitism and hate-speech. But X is still not banned in the west.

At some point we have to come to this realization in the west that absolutism is never the answer. Free speech is good upto certain extent, the way it was at Twitter before the rich and powerful took over. Moreover, it is content moderation and it doesn't have anything to do with free speech.

dont_forget_meon The AI photo editing era is here, and it's every person for themselves

Post-modernism is like salt and pepper. A small appropriate amount of salt-pepper would make a meal great. But salt and pepper by themselves can never be a proper meal. In similar vain, you need post-modernism to get a borader perspective of things. But that doesn't mean post-modernism, by itself, cannot be the only way to discuss things.

dont_forget_meon Calculating the cost of a Google DeepMind paper

All that compute power just to invade privacy and show people more ads. Can this get anymore depressing?