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5 hours agolooks like this weekly thread refuses to die, I’m gonna keep posting here
Drew DeVault has put together a handy-dandy little list of people to avoid
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I mean, so too were the people making charts of how effective Zyklon B was.
Embrace the AI because it’s like the thing everyone loves in movies: xenomorphs
yeah basically
I’m convinced Stephenson is personally very right wing but also smart enough not to advertise it publicly.
Monkey paw curls
as always trawling LW’s AllPosts section is as they say in the biz a target-rich environment
wake up babe the LWers are talking about removing parts of their brains
great they made a shirt making them easier to avoid
here’s an update on the modified bacteria in the mouth startup, TL;DR it’s much harder than they thought it would be and is it really worth pursuing when we are all gonna be killed by Robot Satan (spoiler of course it is the grift must go on)
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/xg4fTBEneAEqprHyk/lumina-probiotic-past-and-future
“GPS will stop people reading maps!” buddy you ain’t seen nothing yet. Technology is allowing people to get lost better, faster, and at scale.
as usual the illustrations are genius
Anyone know when and why polyamory became a Rationalist shibboleth?
not Libertarian in the organized political sense, more like steeped in the dominant California ideology
I had short odds for that entire submission being nuked but apparently there’s enough non-bad stuff there for the mods to keep it up.
the effort of rampant libertarians to jumpstart a social movement is going as well as expected
19th C mine operators enter the chat “harumphh back in our day…”
Zitron is a better writer though. Yud is bland personified.
So not only are these facilities driving up electricity prices and sucking up all the water, they’re not going to provide any extra jobs in the vicinity? Genius marketing Meta.
my feeds are full of news of the death of Wendell Berry who I have absolutely no relationship to but this quote is relevant to our interests
Beware the machinery of longevity. When a man’s life is over the decent thing is for him to die. The forest does not withhold itself from death.
I’m just going by memory here but I seem to recall Roam being either weirdly EA-adjacent or culty or both. Don’t quote me.
speaking of hype cycles I heard on the radio news this morning that some researchers have figured out how to send odors digitally, so prepare for another round of “smell-o-vision” “news”