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Is the job to be interacting with a computer for the entire duration of your shift? Fuck this incentive structure that requires people to fake touching their computer parts to show that work is being done.

Maybe the best fruit

With proliferation of AI generated content, people aren't able to identify other human generated content, or be certain that their online interactions are with a bot or human. This scenario has apparently been called the dark forest internet because people will try to preserve their communities by more restrictive curating, effectively hiding both from other humans and bots.

I like some of Kyle's videos, and I'm not doing a great job of summarizing all of the points made in this one. I found it worth the 15ish minutes, but probably should have watched it at higher speed.

I meant "maybe" in the context of it seeming like a significant gamble to attempt the rescue. It certainly doesn't always work out for the potential rescuers. https://slate.com/technology/2013/05/rescuers-turning-into-victims-lessons-from-first-responders-on-saving-people.html

So my hedging with the word "maybe" is because I certainly don't have the expertise to know the risks with attempting the rescue, but then again "maybe" any potential rescuers shouldn't have asked for permission.

I worked on pipelines for part of my career in maintenance planning, not in construction. I've been trying to guess at how a rescue operation could have been attempted in this case. I'm not aware of any mechanism for cutting into the pipe at the depth the divers were stuck that wouldn't immediately result in flooding the pipe, or risk cutting through the divers. The only rescue option that I could guess at is divers going in from the end of the pipe, swimming down through the length of it, and somehow pulling the trapped divers out.

Maybe the owner/state should have let rescuers give it a try, but that rescue option sounds terrifying as hell.

Like a cautionary tale?

I may be a little more comfortable with the weather than I might otherwise be if it weren't for Greta Thunberg making it a bit harder for corporations to fuck everything up. Does that count?

Otherwise, Carl Sagan.

For a rather unsettling take, you may be interested in the concept of the digital panopticon. Because of the degree of surveillance that is possible in what media we consume, it's also possible that we are intentionally being kept in these echo chambers.

I came looking for this. It seemed like this movie came out at that time when adults assumed all animated movies (or cartoons as I was told) are for kids, and so this was shown in our after-school group. There were several kids crying by the end of it, and I may have been one of them.

Is it okay to openly say that you've cloned another product, or promote a product as a clone of another? I honestly don't know the legal precedents, and know that there are many sites that have copied elements of other products that they intend to compete with, but reading the post title gave me a sinking feeling of Reddit lawyers perking up.

The site looks nice, and I really hope that I'm just being paranoid about possible legal exposure.

From Auntie Donna's Big 'ol House of Fun, "pretty fly for a WiFi"

Nice try, Ursula