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"If man chooses oblivion, he can go right on leaving his fate to his political leaders. If he chooses Utopia, he must initiate an enormous education program - immediately, if not sooner."
-R B Fuiler
- Comment on Relativity 6 days ago:
sounds… hot
- Comment on I AM BETTER 1 week ago:
There’s a Sean Carrol video somewhere talking about how the average graduate student in physics understands Relativity far better than Einstein did, and it’s because lots of people with lots of different specialties and insights have thought really long and hard about it and come up with deeper, more elegant ways to describe it.
- Comment on I AM BETTER 1 week ago:
I try to bear Old Isaac in mind when I meet arrogant and unpleasant but intelligent teens.
It’s very easy as an adult to be very annoyed by them, short with them, and/or to feel an obligation in some way to “socialize them better”
But you don’t know which of them have an insight in their brain that unlocks the proverbial Warp Drive.
Zefram Cochrane - Comment on Give your mouse the finger with this wild cursor control ring — Prolo Ring hits Kickstarter, hoping to transform your finger into the ultimate macro and gesture device 1 week ago:
Ooooh that’s information
Downvoting myself now LOL
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- Comment on Give your mouse the finger with this wild cursor control ring — Prolo Ring hits Kickstarter, hoping to transform your finger into the ultimate macro and gesture device 1 week ago:
Yet people put lithium batteries on their lap right next to their genetalia and on top of a blanket that covers up the laptop’s hot air exhaust
I have reasons to pass by this invention but exploding off my finger is not the primary concern
- Comment on Viral ‘Cheater Buster’ Sites Use Facial Recognition to Let Anyone Reveal Peoples’ Tinder Profiles 1 week ago:
It’s the very best of Clarke’s work: when he lets a good writer do the storytelling, and sticks himself to figuring out the logical conclusion of new technology
- Comment on Viral ‘Cheater Buster’ Sites Use Facial Recognition to Let Anyone Reveal Peoples’ Tinder Profiles 1 week ago:
Light of Other Days
One of the plot points is that in response to panopticon-style surveillance, an underground counterculture emerges of people who become invisible – hiding under camo, blankets, etc. And never speaking; only using sign language directly touching another person’s hands to keep communication private. - Comment on ‘Death to Spotify’: the DIY movement to get artists and fans to quit the music app 2 weeks ago:
If it were just a tip jar feature that would be one thing but it’s kind of a lot of things.
It does what it says on the tin and I love having a shared library online for streaming with apps that support local cache download. - Comment on ‘Death to Spotify’: the DIY movement to get artists and fans to quit the music app 2 weeks ago:
Also it funds Google which is … not ideal
- Comment on ‘Death to Spotify’: the DIY movement to get artists and fans to quit the music app 2 weeks ago:
I set up a Funkwhale but tbh it is feature-poor
Which would you suggest as a selfhost alternative ?
- Comment on Average physicist experience 2 weeks ago:
Professor Lenny ❤️
- Comment on And they mocked me for my WoW subscription 😗 2 weeks ago:
This is why I set up a Funkwhale home server
- Trump Is Not Afraid of Civil War. Neither Is Stephen Miller. (interviews with academics who study Democracy)www.nytimes.com ↗Submitted 3 weeks ago to nyt_gift_articles@sopuli.xyz | 3 comments
- Comment on when hell freezes 3 weeks ago:
I think you’re doing it wrong
When I said high AF I wasn’t kidding. I am doing it right because combining that many edibles and just the right amount of shroom is a ficking science
- Comment on when hell freezes 3 weeks ago:
Meta: I, a Linux using Atheist, sharing this meme with Catholic in-laws as we return from Mass (I go because it’s relaxing when high AF)
- Comment on Anonym and Snap partner to unlock increased performance for advertisers | The Mozilla Blog 3 weeks ago:
Just another reminder why I use Librewolf
- Comment on Brave launches 'Ask Brave' feature to fuse AI with traditional search 4 weeks ago:
Well now it can use AI while it sends your ostensible Tor queries over the clearnet , and sells your demographic data despite promising not to do that
Buck Frave
- Comment on Anonymity is dead and we’re all content now 1 month ago:
I was being a bit loose. You can video record people in public -- just not audio. Any audio on your video recording device makes it illegal.
There are 13 US states like this
- Comment on Anonymity is dead and we’re all content now 1 month ago:
Where I live, recording someone without their consent -- even in public -- is a crime.
I have personally argued both sides on this. Over time I have come to favor it.
- Comment on Nvidia unveils new GPU designed for long-context inference 1 month ago:
Any favorites? What do you think about state space models?
