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Chesterton's Fence is the flip side of this

"Data has weight, but only on SSDs" - Not just SSDs! Unless you always hang the chad, surely writing data onto punchcards reduces the weight of that 'storage medium'!

"Cars now provide zero benefit..."

"Gender-based discrimination..."

"Fuck Brendan Eich [for opposing gay marriage at a time that Obama did as well]..."

"As ever, unionize, free Palestine, trans rights are human rights, fix your heart or die."

Ugh. What if you could possibly focus on technology instead of woke virtue-signaling (and threatening to kill those who disagree)?

Anyway, 'write ur website by hand' is absolute garbage advice, sorry. No, you are not going to effortlessly syndicate it elsewhere when you are manually updating your index.html to point to your latest hand-coded plain html file. Surely you won't even have a sitemap.xml. Will you write the sharing-friendly meta tags by hand every time too? No.

The idea of changing what 'rm' does sets off all of my "foot-gun" alarm bells

Huh. I watched a lot, but not all, of the video, and I thought he made it clear early on that he was stitching together 1px videos & repeating the event for each pixel (about a million times for that 720p result)

And?

Right? Google is dog caca now. Myself and everyone I know keep getting sent to AI-written garbage nonsense slop websites, or for some reason, to the Hindustan Times

See my reply to parent. Reply to sibling: Whoa, I've seen the Sopranos 3 times and never caught that reference.

Curious, I asked Grok:

> Is there controversy over the true inventor of the telephone?Yes, there is controversy over the true inventor of the telephone. While Alexander Graham Bell is widely credited, several inventors and researchers argue for recognition based on their contributions:

> Antonio Meucci: An Italian inventor who filed a patent caveat for a "voice communication apparatus" in 1871, five years before Bell's patent. Meucci's device, the "teletrofono," could transmit voice over a wire. Due to financial hardship, Meucci couldn't renew his caveat, and Bell was granted the patent in 1876. In 2002, the U.S. House of Representatives passed a resolution (H.Res. 269) recognizing Meucci's contributions, stating he demonstrated a working device earlier, though it didn't officially credit him as the inventor. Some still argue Meucci deserves primary credit.

> Elisha Gray: An American engineer who filed a patent caveat for a telephone-like device on the same day as Bell, February 14, 1876. Bell's patent was filed hours earlier, leading to disputes. Some claim Bell may have had access to Gray’s ideas through patent office connections, though no definitive evidence supports this. Gray later challenged Bell’s patent but lost in court.

> Philipp Reis: A German inventor who developed a device called the "Reis telephone" in 1861, capable of transmitting music and some speech. While it was less practical for clear voice communication, some argue it was a precursor to the telephone.

"The message format is not dangerous. It is the message viewers that are dangerous in this particular regard."

Ah, I see. We should allow HTML but display it as plain text.

Oh, clever name. Typed Lua → TL → "Tee Ell" → Teal

And the extension is .tl

That’s great! ... Where are the downloaded models so I can delete them or at least exclude them from Time Machine backups? (Mac)

I think you two are confusing Roko's Basilisk (a thought experiment which some take seriously) and Rococo Basilisk (a joke shared between Elon and Grimes e.g.)

Interesting theory... Just whatever you do, don’t become a Zizian :)