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seventytwo··on The Secret Life of Circuits is now in stock everywhere
Love it
seventytwo··on Everything you do is being recorded
What a wild, victim blaming take.

Zero people want to be surveilled. They want the other benefits that come with technology and reluctantly accept, as a cost, some lower of privacy.

seventytwo··on DeKalb deputy charged with Flock camera misuse; more Georgia officers fired
Gosh, no one could have predicted this.
seventytwo··on America's Support for Capitalism Has Declined over Last Decade
Golly, what could possibly be causing that?
seventytwo··on How to earn a billion dollars
It doesn’t end in feudalism. It ends in guillotines.
seventytwo··on How to earn a billion dollars
Bound to happen in a society that’s been increasingly warped and purchased by people like PG in the last 15 years
seventytwo··on How to earn a billion dollars
Things he wants = democracy

Things he doesn’t want = mob rule

seventytwo··on How to earn a billion dollars
Yep. That’s how democracy and law work.
seventytwo··on How to earn a billion dollars
We are. All of us. If enough of us agree, we can make any rule we want.
seventytwo··on Reading for pleasure is sharply down among schoolkids, report shows
The bar isn’t dropping, it’s shifting.
seventytwo··on Reading for pleasure is sharply down among schoolkids, report shows
What an asinine take.
seventytwo··on Facebook is paying people overseas promoting Alberta separatism
Why not both?
seventytwo··on Ask HN: What was your "oh shit" moment with GenAI?
The dangerous thing is when you’re a novice and can’t identify the BS. That’s why for people with “good” and “expert” skill, it’s not a huge boost. They can identify the BS, and what’s left is modestly helpful.

The highest danger in using AI comes precisely to people who stand the most to gain from it.

seventytwo··on Ask HN: What was your "oh shit" moment with GenAI?
I’ve come to this same conclusion. Either we accept an internet crawling with bots and astroturf, or we abandon the anonymity and have an internet with only verified humans.
seventytwo··on Energy Prices Are Driving Demand for Solar Panels and Heat Pumps
Seems legit
seventytwo··on NSA is using Anthropic's Mythos despite blacklist
Yes. This administration. The Trump administration.

Clear enough?

seventytwo··on John Simpson: 'I've reported on 40 wars but I've never seen a year like 2025'
Remember that Russia is never as strong or as weak as they appear, and if they ally closely with China while Europe and the US is divided, it may mot be a good time for us in the West.
seventytwo··on John Simpson: 'I've reported on 40 wars but I've never seen a year like 2025'
And I’m guessing you’ve covered 40 wars and have been reporting on those locations since at least the 1980s?

Sit down.

seventytwo··on The ultra-rich are claiming an increasing share of global wealth
“May” be a problem? Come on man.
seventytwo··on The ultra-rich are claiming an increasing share of global wealth
You can’t imagine any other options between what we have today and central planing?
seventytwo··on Rivian Unveils Custom Silicon, R2 Lidar Roadmap, and Universal Hands Free
The $10k price exists to make the $100/mo seem like a good deal.
seventytwo··on The ultra-rich are claiming an increasing share of global wealth
The problem isn’t necessarily the wealth itself, it’s the power feedback loop that comes with it. It’s the ability to influence the government to pass laws which maintain or amplify your existing wealth, which then increases your influence, etc.

There is nothing “free market” about this. There is no equitable or efficient destitution of resources when this kind of thing happens - and it will always happen, because it is an inevitability.

seventytwo··on The ultra-rich are claiming an increasing share of global wealth
Here’s one - you presume the decisions they make about capital allocation are good and can’t be improved upon.
seventytwo··on The ultra-rich are claiming an increasing share of global wealth
Ah, yes. Which is why we should return to tradition of the fiefdoms of yore, where the dukes and sultans famously brought great wealth and prosperity to their indentured servants!

Thank you, omnipotent billionaires, for your generosity and grace!

seventytwo··on The AI-Education Death Spiral a.k.a. Let the Kids Cheat
Because we’re not wild animals.
seventytwo··on Over fifty new hallucinations in ICLR 2026 submissions
Then punish all of it.
seventytwo··on TIL: The Data Furnace
Yep. These various “tiers” have already been considered and are described in the Wikipedia article.
seventytwo··on Paramount Buys the Free Press, Ushering in a New Era at CBS News
Found the billionaire
seventytwo··on What Google Translate can tell us about vibecoding
They’re all just tools. Use the tools or become obsolete.
seventytwo··on A deep dive into self-improving AI and the Darwin-Gödel Machine
Genetic algorithms applied as an AI agent…

So… yeah…

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