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No, we should not allow billionaires to secretly buy northern California farmland to build an instant city for 50,000 people without revealing detailed plans about where they will get resources like water, energy, labor, and transit access. Here's why. www.newscientist.com/article/mg26...

Legislature Advances Proposal Allowing Cafes in More Neighborhoods - The Urbanist Washington State could see more small neighborhood cafes opening up within short walking distances of homes, under a proposal advancing at the state legislature. If enacted, the change would represent...

A bill advancing through the Washington legislature would make neighborhood cafes legal by-right in all residential areas in every city and town in the state.
www.theurbanist.org/2024/01/27/l...

Gemini, sooorta?

@arvidkahl.bsky.social just bought the audiobook of zero to sold after listening to your podcast for the last few months. Super excited to listen — your podcast is far and away the best thing I listen to, no contest.

Seeking: Dirt and dirt-related activities

When you disassociate at work

Apparently Elon Doesn’t Think He Needs To Pay Rent Because SF Is A ‘Shithole’; So Why Should We Pay For Twitter? It’s no secret that Twitter isn’t paying many of its bills, including the rent for its headquarters. That was rumored last fall, but became much more clear when the landlords sued the company in Ja…

So this lawsuit that former employees filed against Twitter last week regarding not paying rent and ignoring building codes has some CRAZY stories. I tried to highlight the craziest ones in this article

o computer gods, grant me the knowledge of which buttons to press, which order to press them in, and the wisdom not to press any of the buttons I shouldn't

Many such cases

What is private on Bluesky?
https://write.as/lajpcs033np8qypv.md

I researched and wrote this article that goes into the details of privacy on here. It's written with non-software-engineers in mind and I use as little jargon as possible.

Online age verification is coming, and privacy is on the chopping block The future of the internet could be at stake.

US states and various countries are beginning to pass laws that require verifying user’s ages. The problem is that this is a privacy nightmare.

People have been complaining for years about trackers and targeted ads but having to upload your ID to random websites has gotten nary a peep.

oh yeah, I can’t think too much about how our society utterly wasted the chance to use Covid to make life less shitty, or I’ll go insane

if you compare the world as it is to the ideal world you imagine, instead of the worse world it used to be, you will never be able to tell if you are succeeding at making it better

Hotblack Desiato in The Restaurant at the End of the Universe

But how do I tell if the questions are endless?

An S3 bucket works too for a static site!

this is like when youre in a loud bar and you really can’t hear what someone’s saying so you just try to guess at the appropriate times to nod and laugh and hope it seems like you know what’s going on

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pretty sure i've just about exhausted all my twitter A material, it's all downhill from here

If you’re a member of Congress and your friends aren’t discussing

~Laundering Cash
~Wire Fraud
~Stealing Public Funds
~Making False Statements

it’s time to find a new circle.

Your network is your net worth 👑 Keep grinding. They hate George Santos because they are HUNGRY💸📈😤💪

Yes (derogatory)

SHARE if you agree it’s time for zoologists to get off their lazy asses and discover a new animal already. And NOT some bullshit like a new bug. I want them to find a dog the size of a car

Like, yes raise minimum wage for sure. Just don’t really see what the drama is that the article is unveiling, seems like clickbait basically imo

Sure! I agree with that. Just doesn’t seem to me like this article is revealing anything particularly new or bad (relative to any other company).

1. They do manual data labelling (we knew that)
2. They pay like fast food wages (for work that’s presumably easier
& safer than food service)

Not to be a buzzkill

Mm I don’t really think this is much of anything. They never tried to hide that humans label their data, that’s how you improve the model and all that. Also the one person they spoke to is earning 2x min wage in their location.

Antennas activated for thought direction sir, proceed with orders

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O hell, dude 😔😣