I’ve never used twitter in my life, still have a vague interest in what Musk is doing to it though.

I have several hypotheses:

• the same force that stops them decaying also stops their hair from ever getting mussed up, falling out, or growing longer

• only we can’t see their reflection, they themselves can see it

• vampires are essentially a representation of a parasitical upper class and as such they look like idealised wealthy aristocrats

Yes I had a family member in a right wing conspiracy area. It was infuriating because his friends would tell him their nonsense and he would be skeptical and google it, only for google to seemingly support what they were saying.

I couldn’t replicate his results at all and it would take a lot of searching to even find what he was talking about so I could debunk it for him.

When will people realise that google has tailored algorithms and we are not all experiencing the same search results?

The first thing you’ll see if you search Google for “tank man” right now will not be the iconic picture of the unidentified Chinese man who stood in protest in front of a column of tanks leaving Tiananmen Square, but an entirely fake, AI-generated selfie of that historical event.

No, this is the first thing the author saw. Probably because they are a journalist writing about AI.

When I google tank man I don’t even get the AI image on the first page. The top result is from history.com. If I go to google image search it is the 7th result on the page. The top result is from wikipedia.

This is something I don’t really like about the WTO.

If a populace doesn’t want some product in their country you shouldn’t force them to have it.

No, I think you’re still confusing what you like in a government (eg democracy) with what something has to do in order to qualify as a government.

Take a look at this report on education. If we look at a country like Mali the average child there has just two years of schooling and attendence even at primary/elementary school is very low.

It may not have a government that we like, but it still has a government.

Defamation, intellectual property, stalking/threats, harmful digital communications, false advertising, accurate declarations of food contents, protected names, conspiracy to commit serious crimes: all these forms of speech are regulated by law and the judiciary where I live, so I have no problem with hate speech laws as long as they are clear and reasonable.

Personally I am in favour of proportionally representative democracy with a lot of checks and balances to enshrine human rights in law, so that if a populace wavers toward the hateful there are still protections for minorities and the non-hateful.

I think you’re misunderstanding the person you’re talking to. They are just saying that anything that can’t do those 3 things is not a government.

It is a tempting proposition to let the state handle hateful speech, but we don’t have to look much further than Florida to see what happens when the shit side is in power

You seem to be suggesting that separating hate speech prevention from legislation will protect you from a “tyranny of the majority” situation.

But if the populace has a bigoted plurality, won’t that also create a tyranny of the majority?

China’s still one of your major trading partners, though.

It does. I think what he really means though is an international group of spin doctors who mobilise nationalist sentiments.

Probably in service to Disaster Capitalism.

Prince changed his name to an unprinteable character so they had no choice.

As I recall, some of the media used the short form TAFCAP (the artist formerly known as Prince).

As for xtwitter, I vote for FKT. Pronounced as a word.

Even if we just decentralised/federated the Wayback Machine, that would really be great.

It’s about focusing on the now rather than hoping there’ll be a better time.

Thanks, that really resonated with me.

Me too, and for some reason I thought it was a philosophical question.

They won’t even tell me my forgotten passwords.

I feel naive but I had assumed paid-for TV didn’t have ads. That’s super crazy.

According to this Ted talk (at about 8:15) Amazon tried a resume filtering AI but discovered it was filtering out women.