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@cstross Tesla reminds me so much of places like Uber and Theranos—a company whose culture is an extension of the leader's own deeply immoral nature.
There's a cadre of guys on every tech forum who insist it's irrational/emotional to judge Tesla because Musk is awful. When a company is dominated by the CEO's cult of personality, I think it's very rational. Tesla *is* Musk. If Musk has no ethics/decency, it's irrational to assume that Tesla could. The results speak for themselves.
Can anyone explain to me how TikTok is more dangerous to national security than Google/YouTube and Facebook? Or why the absence of moderation is unacceptable for children on TikTok yet not members of congress on Twitter? If I’m the one assessing the risks to society, I’m getting different results.
Sure would be nice if people stopped threatening to blow up the building I work in.
Man. Whenever I read an article that mentions Firefox, people come out of the wood work to complain about pocket or the addons button or whatever other interface tweak that happened back around version 57 or whatever and I can’t help but think these are some of the biggest babies on the internet. Just absolute fucking cry babies about the most trivial shit. We’re all gonna get stuck using Chrome/ium but good news! No more pocket button that you didn’t use! You’re doing great. Thanks for helping.
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TIL that there's something called "Silicon Valley Bank" at the same moment that I learned that every assumption I would have made about something called that would have turned out to be correct.
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I got an old PC rig sitting around. On the one hand, It's legit old and it probably doesn't make a ton of sense to dump money into it. On the other, it does have an Xeon X5675 in there so that machine still kinda rips, and all it would need is a CPU fan and cheap discrete graphics card to be almost good as new. Difficult choices ahead.
This song has been wearing out drummers for like 15 years at this point and still no studio version of it exists so far as I know. Love it.
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Tempted to start shitposting on LinkedIn.
Sometimes I think about the fact that years ago, I bumped into Matt Pinfield two days in a row - once at a Jane's Addiction concert, then the following day walking through Times Square. The first time was a normal social moment, bullshitting after a show. The second time, I think both of us were uncomfortably surprised. It's that second memory that I cherish.
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it's only "AI" if it comes from the san francisco bay area . otherwise it's just sparkling autocomplete
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Ahead of the release of video footage documenting the police execution of Tyre Nichols, the authorities are deploying all the standard tactics in the counter-insurgency playbook:
—Delay the release of the video
—Appeal for calm while mobilizing the same police forces that carried out the killing to be prepared to carry out more violence on a massive scale
—Permit some family members and activists to view the video in order to enlist them as spokespeople demanding a certain kind of response and delegitimizing those who do not comply
—Spread fear about an invented identity ("outside agitators," "gang members," "antifa") in order to preemptively justify violent repression
—Fire the officers involved; if necessary, initiate legal proceedings (these can always be dropped later)
All this has become standard practice. This is how they hope to suppress unrest, even in the most egregious cases of police murder.
But they have no intention of diminishing the amount of violence that police employ, nor addressing the disparities that render that violence inevitable. This is obvious because they are putting all their energy into managing the public response to police violence, not into seeking any sort of change.
If there is to be any change, it will have to come from us.
If there was a video game where you just went around looting corpses, my wife would play the hell out of it. Her birthday is coming up so any recommendations welcome!
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Terrific insider piece on Twitter under Musk, marred only by too many unnamed sources. https://www.theverge.com/23551060/elon-musk-twitter-takeover-layoffs-workplace-salute-emoji
Swapped my self-hosted Bitwarden instance for Vaultwarden, and it was completely painless. RAM usage is way down and nothing broke.This is very happy news. And to think: my Friday nights used to be strictly for getting hopelessly drunk and debasing myself. These days, I'm too tired to drink and only debase myself in socially acceptable ways.That's the kind of personal growth I can fully endorse.
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