Posts by dan131riley@federate.social
(DIR) Post #AhzCoY3YPlTGKjKnfU by dan131riley@federate.social
2024-05-17T15:23:59Z
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@ZachWeinersmith “Separate from the meat of this discussion”…so we’re into the vegetarian course?
(DIR) Post #AiioLw5nCN9kTece6y by dan131riley@federate.social
2024-06-08T15:26:40Z
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@ZachWeinersmith Looney Tunes etc. were originally produced as theatrical shorts, that could be shown before movies intended for mixed (or even adult) audiences. There was something of a phase change in I'd say the 70s, when there were a lot of dedicated full-length shows specifically for what I remember as "Saturday morning" cartoons. Then we got cable and channel diversification, and cartoons aimed again at a more diverse audience (some them quite good, e.g. Avatar, Kim Possible, etc.)
(DIR) Post #Ain87S4imSmZ2eKdGa by dan131riley@federate.social
2024-06-10T17:26:51Z
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@ZachWeinersmith Shakespeare mostly didn't come up with his own plot ideas either, and arguably his most original were the rom-coms. But he still found time to complain about Kit Marlowe. (I should go re-read some Wodehouse...)
(DIR) Post #Aipk6yrmwnhrQuEAka by dan131riley@federate.social
2024-06-11T23:42:09Z
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@ZachWeinersmith I'm reminded of a reprint excerpt of TS Eliot, possibly from "The Waste Land", that inverted text and notes
(DIR) Post #AjQpuM8Qzm8ExafMVE by dan131riley@federate.social
2024-06-29T21:11:24Z
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@ZachWeinersmith as a kid we’d go to G&S performances by the Stanford Savoyards, and it was never an issue. They weren’t meant to be Wagnerian, they were always meant to be more conversational (and the Savoyards would frequently update them to be topical too). Light opera is a totally different beast from Wagner or even Verdi.
(DIR) Post #AjQv2fUnOdD75ruNlI by dan131riley@federate.social
2024-06-29T22:08:56Z
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@ZachWeinersmith not offhand, but there’s actually lots to recommend the Simpsons episode where Kelsey Grammer (as sideshow bob) reenacts Pinafore. Simpsons did it!
(DIR) Post #AjXRqrLjxcE5opPQoK by dan131riley@federate.social
2024-07-03T01:44:50Z
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@ZachWeinersmith I think evolution gets underestimated? It takes a way of encoding the information of life in a form that can reproduce and evolve, balancing fidelity of replication and variability. And that has to be adapted to a fitness landscape that provides a useful gradient. I guess I'd agree that AGI could emerge from seemingly simple things, but I'd also say those things are likely to be much more subtle than we think. Simple, but subtle.
(DIR) Post #Ajb0iGWt3LjpAz8lBA by dan131riley@federate.social
2024-07-04T18:59:34Z
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@ZachWeinersmith HRC polled well when she wasn't running (for example, when she was Secretary of State). Then she admitted to having ambition and *boom*.There's an unfortunate reservoir of misogynistic and racist hatred that would come out of the woodwork if MO were running.AFAICT, Michelle is nice, empathetic, and intelligent--and I'd vote for her. But I don't think she has the ambition BO did to test the viability of the system as an instrument for social progress.
(DIR) Post #AjnnkhOjM3hOjldNw0 by dan131riley@federate.social
2024-07-10T23:05:36Z
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@ZachWeinersmith There's also likely people thinking that if someone can accept "maybe Hitler wasn't so bad" it's only a hop, skip and jump to "maybe the Confederacy wasn't so bad". US politics will never escape the Civil War.
(DIR) Post #Akb1NZr19eY5Ph1AbQ by dan131riley@federate.social
2024-08-03T16:58:43Z
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@ZachWeinersmith AIUI his nose grows under stress, for example when he knows he is lying. That doesn't make him an oracle, as he can't attest to truth or falsity beyond his knowledge. So no?
(DIR) Post #AmEODwM0ZFucD7q7kG by dan131riley@federate.social
2024-09-21T11:44:48Z
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@blenderdumbass @chris Apple has made significant concessions to the Chinese government. Other than that they seem to have a pretty good record of trying to make it impossible for anyone--including Apple themselves--to retrieve personal information.
(DIR) Post #AsS0szGPVNz1ouBFfk by dan131riley@federate.social
2025-03-26T15:37:26Z
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@stux But how many people were deported to El Salvador without due process is a state secret (according to admin court filings)
(DIR) Post #AtjlZceJtXrZgoIh7I by dan131riley@federate.social
2025-05-02T20:04:45Z
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@regehr Unfortunately, silicon valley is not what it used to be when I grew up there. It has been taken over by VC culture, and the loudest VC voices are in love with cryptocurrency and effective accelerationism. Trump has promised much lighter regulation of tech in general, and has completely gutted any regulation of crypto (which he's currently profiting from, including selling access to the president for cryptocurrency purchases that benefit him).
(DIR) Post #AyR4vAeLqhjvD7yC0W by dan131riley@federate.social
2025-09-21T13:17:14Z
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@jeridansky @bicmay @briankrebs Media consolidation makes this so much easier. Mega-corps are very dependent on a favorable regulatory environment, which makes them vulnerable to coercion by a government that doesn’t believe fairness is a virtue.Companies like Disney and Warner Bros. Discovery have an enormous attack surface, and there’s only a handful of them that need to be coerced in order to change the landscape.