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- Comment on Meet UpScrolled, the anti-censorship TikTok alternative 5 days ago:
For sure, Nazis (or their speech patterns anyway) do seem to be specifically against the policy as well though
- Comment on Meet UpScrolled, the anti-censorship TikTok alternative 5 days ago:
In this case it seems quite reasonable for their stance to stem from the censorship of posts about palestine on popular social media platforms. Agreed we shouldn’t settle for any more privately owned social media regardless though.
- Comment on Vimeo Lays Off 'Most' of Its Staff, Allegedly Includes 'the Entire Video Team' 1 week ago:
I wonder if anyone in the upper echelons of Bending Spoon has large investments in google. Probably would be hard for google to purchase and squash vimeo due to monopoly laws, but asking a friend to purchase and squash it l? Perfectly acceptable
- Comment on Amazon axes 16,000 jobs as it pushes AI and efficiency 1 week ago:
If I’m reading between the lines correctly the cuts have nothing to do with AI and it’s not clear Amazon said that they did, they cited closing some Fresh and Go stores, discontinuing some products (doem biometric hand scanner), cutting back on what they described as overhiring during covid, generally reducing bureaucracy.
The journalist, however, throws in an AI connection seemingly unrelatedly at the end and talks about how amazon is improving their robot technology. Wonder if someone is being paid to try to make things about AI even when they’re not.
- Comment on UK study to examine effects of restricting social media for children 1 week ago:
I’m a bit skeptical too without seeing the study design since it seems like a big ask for the 12-15 group they’re targeting. I think I bought my first phone around 14 or 15 because my parents definitely weren’t about to pay for one. I don’t think I would have volunteered to add parental controls even for a reasonable sum.
- Comment on UK study to examine effects of restricting social media for children 1 week ago:
The team will recruit from ten Bradford secondary schools, and involve around 4,000 students across the academic years 8, 9 and 10, covering ages 12-15.
A bespoke app loaded onto the teenagers’ smartphones will cap each participant’s total social media use per day, and block all social media use at nighttime.
The research will be implemented on all social media apps commonly used by this age group, from TikTok to Snapchat and Instagram, but not messaging apps such as WhatsApp.*
Current plans are to limit participants to one hour of social media a day, and block it completely between 9pm and 7am, although this is subject to change.
Half the school year groups will be randomly allocated this daily social media restriction and nighttime curfew, and the results will be compared to the remaining year groups in the trial who have no limits on social media use.
I wonder how they’re handling recruiting/incentivizing participants. Seems like it would be hard to get 4000 15 year olds from the same school system to consent to phone restrictions.
- Comment on Which one is it? 1 week ago:
Was it the gasp that gave it away or would you have noticed anyway?
- Comment on America Is Slow-Walking Into a Polymarket Disaster 2 weeks ago:
Only a minuscule amount of critical thinking is required to reject the hypothesis that cumulative betting odds on news items are predictive of real outcomes. He mentioned sports betting as a similar case, do sports betters think increased betting odds (say on a specific horse to win) increase the likelihood that that horse wins? I kind of feel like they understand what the numbers represent but I’m not super steeped in gambling culture so I’m genuinely curious.
News outlets framing betting odds as useful stats for predicting events is worrisome though. Readers expect journalists to provide only relevant information so mixing in stuff you’re paid to include breaks the expectation between writer and reader since the expected intention of the article (information on a topic) is different than the actual one (fulfilling an advertising obligation to a gambling company).
- Comment on publication maxxing 4 weeks ago:
Love it when people publish just to publish, really improves the whole academic enterprise!
- Comment on Microwave does not make room a flat, judge rules 5 weeks ago:
The size of a queen mattress! That’s criminal, especially listed as a 2 bedroom.
- Comment on Microwave does not make room a flat, judge rules 5 weeks ago:
Slap an electric burner on the counter and call it a day. A friend in Boston has been apartment hunting and there are so many without an oven!
- Comment on 'Friendslop' dominated 2025 by proving time and time again that graphics are overrated 5 weeks ago:
Agreed, couch co-op games are doing well in general because they’re an easy hangout activity and only require one console/computer. Couch co-op has been out of vogue amongst the big publishers (I’m sure a fortnite player is more valuable to them) so people are using what’s available. The few by big publishers with nice graphics have been popular as well (split fiction, it takes two).
- Comment on Gamers Are Overwhelmingly Negative About Gen AI in Video Games, but Attitudes Vary by Gender, Age, and Gaming Motivations. 1 month ago:
Exactly. If we thought the companies would fold in AI thoughtfully as one tool of many for game creators to consider when implementing their vision I doubt people would be negative. As it stands we trust companies to continue doing what they’re doing: forcing workers to incorporate AI into their workflow because they’re rich friends at google/meta/openAI really really need the technology to succeed to make back anything on their investment even though the profit step still reads ??? in their master plan anyway.
- Comment on too soon? 1 month ago:
I always picture myself heroically charging the gunman with a few people I made eye contact with right before, but this guy actually went and did it. Solo to boot.
- Comment on How Did the C.I.A. Lose a Nuclear Device? A plutonium-packed generator disappeared on one of the world’s highest mountains in a covert mission that the U.S. will not talk about. 1 month ago:
I bet your success odds go up drastically if you’re in the CIA and have contacts with government officials globally though
- Comment on I mean... they work on me 2 months ago:
My brother’s orthodontist had a dreamcast with crazy taxi. Always a good visit
- Comment on Roblox is a problem — but it’s a symptom of something worse 2 months ago:
Roblox wants the future of communication to be via Roblox?
- Comment on "I love the round things!" - The Doctor 2 months ago:
They have to mix it all together then remove the bagel chips and bag them separately to get the correct flavoring.
- Comment on good bones 2 months ago:
orange juice is a bit acidic for those with sensitive stomachs
- Comment on ...will continue until... 2 months ago:
You could also get out of the wagon and help pull, maybe unload the wagon too
- Comment on Meta is earning a fortune on a deluge of fraudulent ads, documents show 2 months ago:
reduced user reports of scams
Probably by hiding the reporting function or something
- Comment on Look inside 2 months ago:
Free market is for chumps. Companies love to buy their suppliers and distributors and transportation hubs so they don’t have to deal with the market.
- Comment on They're just puppos 3 months ago:
They already noped off of dry land as soon as the monkeys showed up
- Comment on And they mocked me for my WoW subscription 😗 3 months ago:
Damn a 100 cd changer then, mad respect
- Comment on And they mocked me for my WoW subscription 😗 3 months ago:
You idiots don’t have a 6 cd changer in your car? Pathetic!
- Comment on it's true! 3 months ago:
A lot of people love their lawn toys (and hate municipal workers and well draining streets I guess).
I lived in Massachusetts for a while and the city I lived in directed people to blow/rake their leaves into the road so a giant vacuum truck could collect them.
- Comment on As Microsoft lays off thousands and jacks up Game Pass prices, former FTC chair says I told you so: The Activision-Blizzard buyout is 'harming both gamers and developers' 3 months ago:
I don’t know many of the details of the price hike, but my first thought was that ms might be trying to put pressure on tariffs via consumer outrage. If people don’t see prices going up they won’t get upset, and absorbing the costs obviously hurts the bottom line.
If my theory is true it’s pretty cowardly to try to force it via consumer sentiment rather than using their considerable weight to fight the bully themselves though.
- Comment on Who the fuck needs an x axis anyway 4 months ago:
It’s hard to speculate, but the cdc should take a look at this strong correlation!!
- Comment on Who the fuck needs an x axis anyway 4 months ago:
HMMMMM
- Comment on it's just science, i guess 4 months ago:
Agreed people shouldn’t be drinking it, pasteurization makes it safe for everyone’s immune system. Especially important considering the state of most factory farms.
BUT you’re probably remembering right. I’ve had milk straight from the cow (and cream and buttermilk separated from a just milked cow, as well as butter churned from said cream). Buttermilk especially tastes like quite different from the stuff in the grocery store.
