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Don DeLillo Documentary (BBC) (www.youtube.com)

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"We — users of products — are at war with the products we’re using and the people that make them. And right now, we’re losing." (www.wheresyoured.at)

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‘if the sudden halving of people and the doubling of everything else is not potentially revolutionary, what is?’ (www.lrb.co.uk)

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Laboratory Greece (2019) (www.filmsforaction.org)

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instead of [...] a radio single (catchy chorus, upbeat, universal lyrics), labels are pressuring artists to make [...] for the playlist (soothing chords, no dissonance, inoffensive electronic textures (thequietus.com)

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Aurora Migrant Gang 'Takeover' (www.youtube.com)

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My favorite social media post ever published (lemmy.world)

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Housing - A human right or big business? | DW Documentary (www.youtube.com)

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"D&D is not “fantastic-medieval.” It’s not even “fantastic renaissance” or “fantastic-post-apocalyptic.” It’s “fantastic American history.”" (www.blogofholding.com)

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"In a way it was very touching, this whole society so starved for meaning that it made totems out of meaningless artifacts. The whole country was like a cargo cult." (news.ucr.edu)

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AI Block (if you absolutely have to use chrome) (chromewebstore.google.com)

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Seen on ycombinator news: "TLDR: All your data are belong to you.

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Chrome is introducing window.ai - which essentially will allow any website to run AI / LLM tasks on YOUR device, via your chrome browser. Basically chrome will add the "Gemini Nano" language model to your browser locally.

Like advertising, I never asked for this, and I don't want this, and I don't want websites to be able to do this.

I make loads of browser extensions (for fun and profit).

So I thought, "why don't I just make an ad-blocker equivalent, an 'AI-block-er'?"

And thus AI Block was born.

You install the extension, it runs automatically whenever a site loads, and programmatically blocks access to the window.ai API by overriding it.

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But also, I don't trust, that this window.ai API will be particularly secure or used in an honest-manner.

I worry it may leak sensitive on-device data to websites, or be used to "call-home" to Google and send juicy advertising data back to Google about me, this time the data will be LLM-verified.

Just note that the install will say

"Can read and change your data on all websites" - this is simply because its a content script with the host_permission "<all_urls>" so it works on all sites (thats a broad permission so it triggers the warning).

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Happy webbing folks.

Papillon"

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"Stereotypes pitting "scroungers" against those in "genuine" need have been especially acute in the age of austerity." (phys.org)

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"Mainstream academia has become profoundly anti-feminist and anti-woman. This is something that Daly predicted would happen in the 1970s, and so it has come to pass." (thecritic.co.uk)

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"Self-erasure through absorption into a mass (as distinct from a community) is not a problem created by LLMs; it was noticed by Heidegger and Kierkegaard, and by Tocqueville before them." (hedgehogreview.com)

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"I personally think that another influence lies in the bizarre modern ideology that insists that everything that people have always done is so much harder now, against all evidence." (freddiedeboer.substack.com)

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"Giving a creative worker more copyright is like giving a bullied schoolkid more lunch-money." (pluralistic.net)

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"to show off the vector prowess of my J90 core, my wristwatch runs a full n-body simulation of Jupiter and 63 of its moons" (www.chrisfenton.com)

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"Toxo would take the dendrites, the branch and cables that neurons have to connect to each other, and shriveled them up in the amygdala. It was disconnecting circuits." (www.edge.org)

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Why We’re Turning Psychiatric Labels Into Identities (archive.ph)

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You have no free will at all | Stanford professor Robert Sapolsky (www.youtube.com)

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"...almost all women endure some version of this suffering: A recurrent seizure of the imagination that usually begins quite young, in which they project themselves into a calculation of loss." (warwick.ac.uk)

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As a middle-aged man clinging to adolescent invulnerability, I firmly believe any vessel can be opened with my teeth. (archive.ph)

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"There was certainly a fear of women becoming too waged and too powerful, and this was very much exploited by the right to divide private against public sector workers at the time." (archive.is)

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"Dollar hegemony means selective austerity at home too. Extravagance is only admissible when it comes to certain kinds of spending. It’s spending that will not promote wage inflation or empower labor or the poor. Why? Because as soon as there’s any threat of wage-price inflation, you will have a flight from the dollar by financial asset holders around the world, as you saw in 1978. The United States can be extravagant with military spending or tax expenditures, but not with redistributive social spending. The supply-side economist Paul Craig Roberts put it succinctly when he said that there are basically two kinds of deficits—Keynesian and non-Keynesian, inflationary and non-inflationary. Obviously, they preferred the latter."

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"What kind of a company creates fake authors for a famous newspaper or magazine and operates them like sock puppets?" (futurism.com)

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"Someone once figured out that the average American will spend a cumulative six months of life waiting for traffic lights to change." (archive.ph)

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