Posts by randywaterhouse@social.stlouist.com
(DIR) Post #AQ41l0DHTH53VSSBpw by randywaterhouse@social.stlouist.com
2022-11-28T13:35:49Z
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@fitheach It’s also a double-edged sword. You can know about all the horrible and stupid things happening everywhere, all the time, and all at once. It’s likely we were always as evil as we seem to be today, but we couldn’t remotely know as much about it. We have more work ahead of us to adapt our minds to this superpower.
(DIR) Post #AQ430gqpKKIS2jzm6a by randywaterhouse@social.stlouist.com
2022-11-28T13:49:52Z
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@fitheach Do you mean a choice to adapt our minds to omniscience, or a choice not to be horrible monsters? I would say adapting is inevitable, if the alternative is to go crazy. The calculus on media consumption versus mental health is a mindfulness habit I have been forced to develop.I’m pretty sure some variable segment of people will continue to be violent, ignorant, wasteful jerks forever, regardless of my personal decision to pay attention to it.
(DIR) Post #AQRUQtHKuUzPVvBuKm by randywaterhouse@social.stlouist.com
2022-12-09T20:26:43Z
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@RadicalEdward They aren’t wrong. They acted like jerks, and the community acted in a coordinated fashion in response. People talk about attacking the unpleasant and abrasive like there was something wrong with it. Bad actors should be punished, as an organized and intentional campaign, until they stop acting badly.
(DIR) Post #AQRVUyBehdoLqj2imm by randywaterhouse@social.stlouist.com
2022-12-09T21:27:30Z
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@tek @RadicalEdward Welllll it was organized inasmuch as the inherent processes of federated social networking created a predictable outcome.
(DIR) Post #ARIrarHnlm0AulQq6S by randywaterhouse@social.stlouist.com
2023-01-04T15:14:41Z
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@hn100 Those laid off engineers will find good homes where they will be asked to write *actual software* instead of gluing together artifacts from companies Salesforce bought.
(DIR) Post #ARL86rmNSUZXIFwCXo by randywaterhouse@social.stlouist.com
2023-01-05T16:27:45Z
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@molly0xfff True value creation happens when we make things and solve problems. Any enterprise where currency is synthesized through manipulating perception, collecting rents, or performing arbitrage is morally inferior, tantamount to theft. To quote Goto Dengo: “Wealth that is stored up in gold is dead. It rots and stinks. True wealth is made every day by men getting up out of bed and going to work. By schoolchildren doing their lessons, improving their minds.”
(DIR) Post #ARL8PTbdYffRp7mv1E by randywaterhouse@social.stlouist.com
2023-01-05T17:31:26Z
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@fascinating_bastard @molly0xfff I think you just described literally all of social media ever.What is nonsensical about clearly defining the nature of value? Recently, we seem to have some trouble pinning down this concept.
(DIR) Post #ATXrw9e62wN9FahAbQ by randywaterhouse@social.stlouist.com
2023-03-12T16:43:23Z
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@hn100 Right-wing billionaire fucks shut up for everybody; in related news: water is wet, sky is blue.
(DIR) Post #ATaatIpCLZQR6Tp1uq by randywaterhouse@social.stlouist.com
2023-03-14T00:16:33Z
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@hn100 Ohhh, you think?
(DIR) Post #ATkejbBMU6H2evSMfA by randywaterhouse@social.stlouist.com
2023-03-18T20:46:43Z
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@hn100 Thin crust Chicago-style? HERESY! APOSTASY!
(DIR) Post #ATxNNqL393nCF6xagS by randywaterhouse@social.stlouist.com
2023-03-24T13:44:25Z
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@elipariser In the Frank Herbert novel Dune, they have outlawed thinking machines. It says “Thou shalt not disfigure the soul”—basically, do not use technology to displace those aspects of yourself that are uniquely human.Technology is fine, if it works harmoniously with what lets people do people things. But, when you begin to model your thoughts in the form of a machine, either out of laziness or through unseen influence, you are diminishing yourself, and all of humanity.
(DIR) Post #ATzfiX2GINQhwp6gim by randywaterhouse@social.stlouist.com
2023-03-25T20:16:21Z
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@unabomber Russian state-owned news.
(DIR) Post #AVGoQrMPmBVk7JroIq by randywaterhouse@social.stlouist.com
2023-05-03T04:11:36Z
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@dangillmor In fact it’s often EASIER and FASTER to build a web application. They don’t WANT that, because there’s less opportunity to dig their tendrils into your phone’s operating system through the browser.