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Thanksgiving Conversation Devolves Into Just Stating Things Dog Is Currently Doing

Thanksgiving Conversation Devolves Into Just Stating Things Dog Is Currently Doing https://theonion.com/thanksgiving-conversation-devolves-into-just-stating-th-1840069525/

I wanted to like this but I feel it gives too much credit to the anti postmodern crowd. I am no expert but it seems like the basic narrative around anti post modernism is basically and invention of a couple political operatives in the 80s. It's basically a pejorative.

Is this a bit?

Agreed. I'm no expert but from what I've seen it feels like a proxy rhetoric for real issues around power.

You have any good run downs of the issues on it so I could share with friends?

Their point is going over your head completely.

This doesn't track with the use of "thankfully"

Enzo-Deck Code is the Ultimate UI Aslan French & Co Nov 11, 2025 CC0: No rights reserved 1

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I gave a talk last night about my programming "art" project Enzo: www.youtube.com/live/v-LsF9h...

The real big brain move is to realize that markers are a creature of the State and regulation. It's like trying to talk about a painting with no edge.

Part of the issue is that many people are not given full time gigs from their job. They work multiple jobs for less than a "full" schedule to avoid paying benefits.

To your face in person or just on the internet?

And yes you can nutpick but this doesn't mean anything about representive sample or proximity to real power.

Well there's no way for that to be abused!

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I believe that was a kit in think geek :
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I always wanted one but figured it would look too much like an ankle monitor. Would have been better embedded in shoes. (with smaller batteries and motors these days maybe that would work!)

there is mechsploitation everywhere for those with the eyes to see them

A tweet saying "A shark could swim faster than me, but I could probably run faster than a shark. So in a triathlon, it would all come down to who is the better cyclist".

Everything wrong with the agi framework in 2 simple sentences.

How are bets like this even enforceable?

Krita has a long ways to go as a graphic design tool.

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The only way to deal with the FAANG issue is anti trust. And to the degree that a tech company out performs the rest of the market, that's a good thing and should be incentivized. It just shouldn't be protected via monopoly status.

You point that this isn't your belief per se but it bears repeating.

AGI is as incoherent a concept as general intelligence. There is no general evolutionary fitness. Only particulars. Somethings are real and not reduced to a scalar abstraction.

Most techies aren't FAANG. They're regular people making 80k a year doing IT for a local Healthcare insurance company.

Overhyped but also transformational. Which feels like slicing things a bit thin but accurate.

That isn't an llm. Like dude you just clearly don't know what your talking about here.

We have existing terms for it like "low paying". "working class" outlines as specific relationship that otherwise doesn't have a phrase.

The first one is less useful.