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Posts by Formal beer

I have had the same thought

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The AI age is the "age of no consent" "Inevitability" means design decisions are no longer informed by user needs; now they are unilaterally imposed. The users are the ones being designed.

Users hate AI. So tech made it mandatory. Even if you don't use it, it pollutes what you read and how systems make decisions. The computer's hallucinated word is final.

And it needs all of your data to do it.

In the age of no consent, UX exists to normalized complete acquiescence to surveillance:

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Wait .. let them cook

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Once you means test the provision of any social good you have created the instrument of its functional demise — the worthiness line. The worthiness line will be adjusted to the point that the service is used by so few as to be seen by the majority of society as anything but red on the ledger.

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most people rejected his msg

"michael jackson is dead so the kids are safe"
people: "shut up"

They hated Jesus because he told them the truth.

most people rejected his msg "michael jackson is dead so the kids are safe" people: "shut up" They hated Jesus because he told them the truth.

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Wears thongs over his socks, owns a greyhound for racing, big fan of duck shooting

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two images of the human body's circulatory system. One of them with good cable management

two images of the human body's circulatory system. One of them with good cable management

The human circulatory system, before and after proper cable management.

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a circuit board with a d-shell connector with only 3 sockets. there's a bit of plastic around it marked HP, so presumably it is from some test equipment.

a circuit board with a d-shell connector with only 3 sockets. there's a bit of plastic around it marked HP, so presumably it is from some test equipment.

found a DE-3 in the wild, folks

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lol no

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i have a false tooth filled with a placebo in case i'm ever captured and need to be a control subject

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Palantir are about six months away from ordering their employees to leave audio logs scattered around their offices

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“Exploded”, in the same way autism diagnoses has increased. Huh.

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Does it rhyme with Bad Again?

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Yanks believe their car market is the only one in the world. Frankly all manufacturers should pull a Holden on them and just stop trying to sell there.

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That creepy US spy company doing the sort of ranting you do just before you get cleaved in twain by the hero with the sacred sword supported by his party of saint, tank, and thief.

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DIBOL is still a thing.

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A lot of what goes on in yank land begins to make sense when you realise they don’t consider wars to be real in the same way the stock market is real

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Extremely normal and fine for a company to put this in a public statement

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Totally fine that large parts of the British government are jumping into bed with a company whose public statements are "we are, at a fundamental level, absolutely batshit crazy neofascists".

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AI slop sadly but the idea is sound

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Richard Marles. A dude in a blue suit and blue tie

Richard Marles. A dude in a blue suit and blue tie

Angus Taylor . A dude in a blue suit and blue tie

Angus Taylor . A dude in a blue suit and blue tie

One of the things I like about Australian politics is that there’s a clear choice on who to vote for.

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Sucks

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Personal Conspiracy Theory: Delicious telemetry for evil purposes.

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So what is it with new cars, especially Chinese BEVs, that they need to be completely insane with Driver Safety Shit.

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Ms 16 just now: “Most ponies can’t even do one trick. A one-trick pony is doing pretty well.”

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Mines been working flawlessly for five years or more now.

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That’s infuriating. Bah.

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Not to this extent

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“We can do amputations with boiling pitch or open flames, take your pick”

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Suck eggs, like this

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