Read_810 - Censorship in America
"The mechanisms enforcing this modern censorship are not confined to private sectors or individual platforms but are significantly directed and influenced by the U.S. government itself. This intertwin...
22 Mar 20241h 4min
Ai Read_005 - Here Lies the Internet, Murdered By Generative Ai
"All around the nation there are toddlers plunked down in front of iPads being subjected to synthetic runoff, deprived of human contact _even in the media they consume. There’s no other word but dysto...
21 Mar 20241h 20min
Chat_094 - Pessimism, Optimism, & Rationally Passionate Ranting with Clint Russell
"As far as I'm concerned, there's no obvious increased danger from the CCP having control over our access or our information or even modifying the algorithm, than it is the alphabets of the world or t...
20 Mar 20242h 1min
Read_809 - Bitter Opposition to Bitcoin
"In a system that depends on irresponsible government spending (especially for perpetual war) and fiat printing to cover that irresponsibility, alarm bells cannot be allowed to work. There must be no ...
19 Mar 202443min
Read_808 - Bitcoin is Worse than a Ponzi, It's An Insurrection
"Bitcoin will probably crash again but it is neither a Ponzi scheme nor a bubble – it’s something far worse: It is an inherently secure, tightly-controlled asset with a regulated supply, and is theref...
15 Mar 202449min
Ai_019 - What if You Had a Personal Software Developer
With the announcement of Devin, the "First AI Software Engineer" by Cognition Labs, some are calling it a breakthrough, while others aren't so impressed and believe other models can do largely the sam...
14 Mar 202448min
Read_807 - A Measure of Sacrifice, Part 2
"Of all measurement instruments, the clock is the most valuable because so many of the things we sacrifice to create are not fungible. The massive clock towers of Europe, with their enormous loud and ...
13 Mar 202459min
Read_806 - A Measure of Sacrifice, Part 1
"From an engineering perspective the mechanical clock with its novelty, the escapement, was by far the more important invention. In terms of its impact on contemporary temporal relationships, the mech...
11 Mar 20241h 10min
