A leading trader of NFTs of Tulip Bulb Futures Default Swaps.
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As the world’s leading trader of NFTs for virtual tulip bulb derivatives, let me just suggest that “everyone” is talking about crypto in the same way that taxi drivers were talking about flipping real estate in 2007.
And, with that, I'm going to #deletetwitter from all my devices and #blocktwitter on my router to stop myself from visiting it using browsers.
- Not because it isn't fun. It is.
- Not because it's falling over (it clearly isn't).
- I just don't want any part of it any more.
Superficially a strong argument. Blatant call for genocide *doesn't* result in banning vs. dogwhistle call for insurrection *does* result in banning.
(I would simply say "ban em both"…)
But this isn't anti-free-speech. This is about edge cases and harm minimization.
20. In June 2018, Iran’s Ayatollah Ali Khamenei tweeted, “#Israel is a malignant cancerous tumor in the West Asian region that has to be removed and eradicated: it is possible and it will happen.”
Twitter neither deleted the tweet nor banned the Ayatollah.
If Twitter were as biased as @elonmusk and his qAnon buddies claim, Trump would have been banned from Twitter in 2015.
If it were run by ultra-liberal everyone-gets-a-participation-award-safe-space "snowflakes", he would have been banned for his birther lies in 2011.
The only problem with this is that it's utter garbage.
By the way, trying to guide chatGPT to a less obviously useless answer got it to consistently crash. So there's that.
Your programming jobs are safe for now.
#TypeScript #chatGPT #JavaScript
When I was in college and a Reagan was President I created a silly fantasy TTRPG setting to amuse my friends over Summer. Most of the world was divided into spoofs of bad fantasy movies (Krull for example) but The Free City of Bonzo was a spoof of Reagan’s America…
And I say this in the context of for-profit health insurance companies that illegally withhold payment for medical care knowing that the fines will never impact their resulting profits.
(Non-profits are scarcely better given that many are highly profitable for their c-suite.)
As long as we are focused on punishing people for using “illegal” pain-killers (and fundamentally this is about people medicating themselves to alleviate suffering) we are making things worse not better. apple.news/AHhpqo7brSKO6alex…
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Steve Martin pretending to give a eulogy for Martin Short on SNL:
“I’ll never forget Martin’s last words: ‘Tesla autopilot engage.’”
Actually, Apple solved it with the Newton MP120. The MP2000 was perfection (it even had fantastic battery life). But sadly they don’t make them any more and they forgot the UX lessons from the Newton when they made the iPad AND the reMarkable.
I agreed with Steve Jobs’s decision to cancel Newton when he was saving the company, but it’s sad that its truly great features weren’t stolen and incorporated into iOS/macOS/iPadOS, especially once the pencil came out.