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[–] [email protected] 6 points 11 months ago

A People's History of The United States, Howard Zinn

The Myth of Sisyphus, Albert Camus

A Short History of Decay, E. M. Cioran

The Book: On the Taboo Against Knowing Who You Are, Alan Watts

Discipline and Punish, Michel Foucault

The Selfish Gene, Richard Dawkins

How Emotions Are Made, Lisa Feldman Barrett

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Someone went out of their way to create a bespoke response for when a user blocks an NSFW community. It immediately asks you if you'd like to block all NSFW or just the community in question. There is no other subject given similar treatment.

I may want to stay on the instance I'm currently on and occasionally poke fun at notions like this, because that's a good way for me to help better frame my thinking and share it with others. Even if it's in a silly place like showerthoughts.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

The commenter you're replying to is using a common English colloquialism: "go out." In this particular construction, "go out" is short for "go outside," which generally refers to the act of transporting one's physical body (assumed to currently exist inside a structure, underground, or somehow contained within some sort of boundary) to a location that could be considered exterior to their present location.

In the context of the thread, the commenter is inviting those making claims about the air temperature to experience it for themselves by exiting their current containment units and exposing their sensory organs to the actual air temperature of the external world, thus providing the counterpoint to their proposition.

For the beginning of the sentence, please see:

[https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/my-brother-in-christ]

[–] [email protected] 45 points 1 year ago (7 children)

https://www.improvethenews.org/

This is a free news aggregator and news analysis site developed by a group of researchers at MIT and elsewhere to improve your access to trustworthy news. Many website algorithms push you (for ad revenue) into a filter bubble by reinforcing the narratives you impulse-click on. By understanding other people’s arguments, you understand why they do what they do – and have a better chance of persuading them.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Nah, send all under 18 to gulag. Make chip for computer. After gulag use chip to shitpost. Is circle of life.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Scifi Channel did one as a miniseries. It was... Not great.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

ITT: A bunch of people "WELL ACKSHUALLY-ing" technical justifications for this decision. Pretty gross.

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"The document cites access to Twitter’s “firehose,” which would grant the Army the ability to search public tweets and Twitter users without restriction, as well as analysis of 4Chan, Reddit, YouTube, and Vkontakte, a Facebook knockoff popular in Russia. Internet chat platforms like Discord and Telegram will also be scoured for the purpose of “identifying counterterrorism and counter-extremism and radicalization,” though it’s unclear what exactly those terms mean here."

 

Bach starts with a thermostat, then adds a system to model the thermostat, then a system to model the model... and so on. Is consciousness somewhere in that hierarchy of models modelling models?

 

Hossenfelder lines up pretty well with my position, but that always makes me suspicious...