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What is this sketchy website?

It is named after a sketchy anti-aging supplement.

And it is filled with sketchy articles.

Is it a well made fake? Or some PR website?

i8comments··on Posters Promoting Illegal Drug Use Pop Up in Downtown San Francisco
Give homes to the homeless. It works.
i8comments··on Posters Promoting Illegal Drug Use Pop Up in Downtown San Francisco
To play devil's advocate, and very lax with what they might have meant, if you replace the term "white supremacy" with the also commonly misused term "fascism", and assume that by "fascism" they very loosely meant "an excess of law and order to the point that it is suffocating and damaging", and assume that they value greater personal freedom and less than balanced order like anarchism...

Wait, I see now where this goes, and they still don't have a point. My bad.

i8comments··on Posters Promoting Illegal Drug Use Pop Up in Downtown San Francisco
San Francisco is becoming more and more lawless and decayed every day, and the reasons why are interesting to look into.
i8comments··on Zeiss's "Holocam" turns glass windows into cameras
They'd probably put it in lightbulbs (to get a long lasting power source and good viewing angle).
i8comments··on Zeiss's "Holocam" turns glass windows into cameras
I guess the closest thing you can get to that -- ssh into somewhere and get details on every human -- is to ssh into the government's database on everyone remotely of interest, or even accidentaly connected, (in essence almost everyone), both made of computer and human agent collection and analysis.
i8comments··on Zeiss's "Holocam" turns glass windows into cameras
Is there on the market any device that should be able to detect this tech if it is used as hidden cams?
i8comments··on Pornhub blocks Montana, North Carolina as age verification laws take effect
The people responsible are Pornhub.
i8comments··on How the press manufactured consent for never-ending Covid reinfections
Pretty in-depth, well researched and well argued. We need more articles and journalism like this. Thanks.
i8comments··on Black Harvard Professor Demoted Under Claudine Gay Responds
Race and sex shouldnt matter in an university.

Intellectual ability and integrity should.

i8comments··on Nvidia AI Lead: We are ~3 years from the ChatGPT moment for physical AI agents
Twitter predictions by invested people should be taken with a grain of salt.
i8comments··on Spotify starts divesting from France in response to new music-streaming tax
Megacorp strongarming a government.
i8comments··on The quality of your life is the quality of the people you get to know
That is not precisely true, in actuality.
i8comments··on Insiteful: Tools to Help Accelerate Research
You already can accelerate your research and learning with GPT4.
i8comments··on The 10 most intriguing science breakthroughs over the past year
Non paywalled link?
i8comments··on Why 2024 will be the year of Augmented Mentality
Pure fantasy that they want to push.

Although GPT4+DDG is a great learning accelerator for all knowledge.

i8comments··on List of Animals That Have Passed the Mirror Test
And worse, it might justify animal abuse to some.
i8comments··on uBlacklist: Blocks specific sites from appearing in Google search results
It also works on other search engines, which is good to know.

And it has blocklist subscriptions, but none selectable by default.

It would be nice if someone could make a blocklist to make Google or DDG similar in low spam to Kagi.

Pretty good stuff.

i8comments··on Blockbuster Alzheimer's paper retracted by former Stanford president
Still a good place to study, though.
i8comments··on Farewell, Java stingaree: Scientist declare the first marine fish extinction
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i8comments··on Major pornography site blocks users in NC in response to new law
That porn website is rather clearly trying to manipulate public opinion and strongarm the state to get what it wants.

Kinda like how Facebook strongarmed Canada when it didnt get what it wanted and stopped showing news there.

This is a surreptitious example of megacorps trying to have more power than the people.

i8comments··on Pornhub owner pays U.S. government $1.8M to resolve sex trafficking probe
Not enough to change anything.
i8comments··on Memes and mental health: How teens are coping with increasing stress
Memes are the propaganda device of the 21st century.

I remember the White House under Obama studied how to instrumentalize them, and their instrumentalization got much worse during Trump. There is quite a bit of persuassive science behind them.

Memes do not meme well.

i8comments··on ChatGPT will lie, cheat, use insider trading when under pressure to make money
Why?

The article has no explanation.

Where is the relevant science in these trendy ChatGPT papers? All their results might be invalidated in the next version and no one would know why -- it is not proven generalizable to all LLMs.

i8comments··on 2023 marked the death of anonymity online in China
As if we have privacy or anonimity in the West.

China is just 10 years ahead regarding Orwellian tech in society, we will catch up.

i8comments··on One of the Most Controversial US Spy Programs Just Got Renewed
Evil always wins.
i8comments··on Operation Cat (1976) [pdf]
Have you read the Christian bibles, though?

Or the guiding material of any other religion?

Christians, for example, believe that Jesus (not his real name) can cast demons from people into pigs and then exorcise them by sending the pigs off a cliff.

The muslims do not believe in or understand the evaporation of the oceans, and believe that god alone makes it rain.

At least if you read their founding bible alone and do not see how they actually operate.

i8comments··on You've just been fucked by psyops [video]
I think that is an oversimplification with some truth to it, but also not true.
i8comments··on Biden urged to stop EU 'unfairly' targeting American tech
Whether it is "fair" is a matter of opinion, politics and perspective. Not really fruitful to discuss it online, as the other comments will prove.
i8comments··on Sniffing women's tears reduces aggressive behavior in men
What about sadistic men?
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