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One thing that could be improved about , or at least 's version, is that if there's a thread going on and you reply to an item in it, and the person who wrote that item then blocks you, there is afaict no affordance at all to find the rest of the thread again...

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Then, enter the anger when it is an appropriate anger, something that expects a better world that exists for the thriving of, and cares for the needs of, everyone.

But always refuse to enter the rage.

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Rage is punitive.

It has no answer to abuse but more abuse. It has no answer to violence but violence. It looks at a system that exists to consume people, notes that the system is consuming them, and then demands an even more predatory system, one that consumes somebody else first and worst.

Rage’s response to harm is to demand more harm. It's response to punishment is more punishment. Its response to a manufactured lack is to demand more lack.

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I really try to avoid hating people, but Eric Schmidt makes it tough....

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He talked about electric cars. I don't know anything about cars, so when people said he was a genius I figured he must be a genius.

Then he talked about rockets. I don't know anything about rockets, so when people said he was a genius I figured he must be a genius.

Now he talks about software. I happen to know a lot about software and Elon Musk is saying the stupidest shit anyone's ever said, so when people say he's a genius I figured I should stay the hell away from his cars and rockets.

I did in fact get to just over 36k!

And I have some ideas about an ending. Rather vague ones so far :

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OpenAI is the pure bullshit company.
Altman's contention that they are building "artificial superintelligence": Bullshit.
Board members' cult of effective altruism: Bullshit.
Output from the machine: Bullshit.
It's all hallucinations: Pure bullshit.

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If you missed it, Germany literally has a crazy obscure bureaucrat in a state government who hates porn, and tries to censor any porn site.

Olives  
https://nichegamer.com/dlsite-forced-to-block-german-users/ This German #WarOnPorn nonsense is just getting embarrassing at this point. Won't they ...
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Funny enough, the same men feel too uncomfortable to participate in events encouraging women in CS simply because the room might be more than 70% women. Go to the conferences, talk to people, attend the parties and you will see. As the night proceeds, you will be transported to the Madmen era where drunk old men, professors or company representatives from places such as Google, start unsolicitedly groping some of the handful of women present at the conference parties.

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Anyways, this was my letter venting to myself when OpenAI was announced as a company that will save the world in 2015 🙄

I would have framed somethings differently now than 8 years ago, but my disdain of them remains.

Alt text in thread below (because of word limit).

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Didn't realize my wireless plan capped tethering speeds, but now it makes sense. When your phone gets ~10-15 mbps and your tethered computer gets .5 or .6 consistently, you know they're screwing w/ the service you paid for.

Welp, I'm ashamed it took me this long to realize, but changing the TTL on my computer seems to have released the throttling.

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Day 18: 35,002 words so far.

I'd like to do at least another 1000 today, but we'll see. Chugging along nicely really! I should really think about an ending haha.

To show confidence in the product, should immediately announce that the new CEO will be ...

(Bet I'm not the first to make this joke.)

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@FtRupertTed Exactly, and how we find some of these KOOL folks. Business like accounts, celeb accounts, fan accounts, one themed accounts, never interested me. I have RSS news readers, I don't need CBC to tweet the news I already know. But if they engage (which some reporters do) I will follow them. Otherwise, I have no interest in accounts that just fill the fediverse up with stuff. I can get that in a Google search. I want real people. Real events. real concerns. No algorithms @SusanHR @rolle

Argh, seems to have replaced their refreshingly friendly and responsive and convenient and helpful email support with a useless and condescending AI-like front end that can be persuaded to turn you over to a real person via a clunky and cutoff-prone web chat app thing.

Sigh.

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