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mjmsmithon Evidence of a spying operation by ICE against left-wing social movements

It's worse to call out racism than it is be racist. This is American politics today in a nutshell. Your turn.

mjmsmithon "Musk" Documentary Pulled from Almost Every One of 472 Theaters After One Week

I can believe that this film would have trouble finding an audience.

On the one hand, I'm a huge fan of Alex Gibney's documentaries and I would normally be enthusiastic about a new film. On the other hand, I find Elon Musk utterly loathsome and, more importantly, completely uninteresting beyond his loathsomeness. I just can't work up any desire to spend a few hours with the man.

Compare this with You Can See Everything. I think Elizabeth Holmes is a fraud, but at least she's an interesting fraud.

[Hmmm, this was briefly flagged/dead?]

mjmsmithon Tesla Roadster

I don't hate Tesla either. I'm actually a bit disappointed knowing that I will never consider buying one for the rest of my life.

mjmsmithon America.gov

> That's outside America's scope

We know, we know.

mjmsmithon Does Reddit have an astroturfing problem? What the data suggests

Project Farm (https://www.youtube.com/@ProjectFarm).

mjmsmithon Attention is all you have

For the same reason that you could tell a joke without feeling the need to explain it.

mjmsmithon A coffee shop owner used AI to make a menu poster. Then came the angry DMs

I imagine that some?/many? customers of a locally-owned coffee shop are choosing it precisely because it's not a soulless megacorp. They're choosing a different vibe on purpose. Ugly AI advertising is the opposite of that vibe.

mjmsmithon Record-High 89% in U.S. Say Government Corruption Widespread

True, in the sense that right wing extremists apparently have no agency and no responsibility for their actions or beliefs.

mjmsmithon Record-High 89% in U.S. Say Government Corruption Widespread

To be intellectually honest, please name a few open communists infiltrating the other party.

mjmsmithon Zohran and the Short Link

It's ok to keep our personal problems to ourselves.

mjmsmithon How does IKEA come up with names for its products?

Perhaps not their best work: https://www.ikea.com.tr/en/product/gangvag-grey-170x240-cm-l...

mjmsmithon The Psychedelic Toad of the Sonoran Desert

Recently published, curious if anyone has read it: https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/735472/the-ego-trip...

mjmsmithon Ghost Cut – Or why Cut and Paste is broken everywhere

How can you be sure that the undo stack is in sync with the clipboard? Wouldn't cut+paste be a more reliable pseudo-copy than cut+undo?

mjmsmithon Show HN: Monolisa v3 – a typeface for developers and creatives

You might like Pitch: https://klim.co.nz/fonts/pitch/

mjmsmithon Map Clustering Is Not My Favorite

My iOS app using MapKit is smooth with ~4k annotations on an iPhone 14. My experience is that it doesn't really start to choke until you get closer to ~10k.

mjmsmithon A dumpster arrived behind my university's library

I'd like to believe that real books would get swapped more often than stolen.

mjmsmithon "Don't You Just Upload It to ChatGPT?"

The Empire Strikes Back: "I'm your dad."

mjmsmithon "Don't You Just Upload It to ChatGPT?"

An interesting counter-example: https://xcancel.com/ValerioCapraro/status/206506665753442336...

mjmsmithon BYD is bringing its 5-min 'Flash' electric car charging to Canada

Still, if you're going to buy a car from an enemy of liberal western democracy, you might as well buy BYD over Tesla.

mjmsmithon The better the autopilot the worse the pilot

I drive a manual Mazda 3 because I like the greater feeling of connection to the machine, but also because I think it makes me pay more attention. When I rent an automatic, it feels like a (literal) blunt instrument in comparison. I understand the appeal of (semi-) self driving, but the whole idea still makes me nervous. I can't really imagine sitting in a car doing nothing for long stretches of time but still being alert and ready to take control at any random moment.

mjmsmithon How LLMs work

> It’s like a Redditor, it just repeats what it has seen other people say.

Can stochastic parrots understand irony?

mjmsmithon The newest Instagram “exploit” is the goofiest I've seen

If this exploit has nothing to do with AI, why haven't we heard about it succeeding before? I find it hard to believe it's never been tried.

mjmsmithon If America's so rich, how'd it get so sad?

And yet your observation, contradicted by actual statistics, is apparently justification for 'IMO the "powers that be" panicked and drove the population into mass hysteria.' It's mysterious.

mjmsmithon If America's so rich, how'd it get so sad?

There have been over 100 million cases and over one million deaths in the US. Congratulations to you and your acquaintances for being extreme outliers.

mjmsmithon If America's so rich, how'd it get so sad?

Many Americans were traumatized by being asked to wear a mask because they’re big angry babies. Many other Americans were traumatized by the discovery that they’re surrounded by big angry babies.

mjmsmithon NASA Force

I honestly wouldn't be surprised if this administration thinks it sounds more manly.

mjmsmithon We gave an AI a 3 year retail lease and asked it to make a profit

I think that depends on what the "extreme body modification of an unprintable and life-altering nature" was.

mjmsmithon Dark Castle

Z Sculpt sells an updated version of Return to Dark Castle:

https://store.steampowered.com/app/4054940/Return_to_Dark_Ca...

mjmsmithon Artemis II crew see first glimpse of far side of Moon [video]

It's safe to assume that racist young Republicans contribute more to the difficulty of being black in America than vice versa. What's your point?

mjmsmithon OpenScreen is an open-source alternative to Screen Studio

Curious how this compares to Recordly (https://recordly.dev)