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@WillAbtsmth @eigenrobot this is all a game but you can choose to play it anyway you want highly recommend to enjoy every level and not try to speedrun it

Can we talk about this calmly without calling each other mean names or insinuating that I'm part of a "coordinated" campaign to defend smartphones? I'm confused what exactly you mean by "smartphones are tobacco" but let me tell you exactly what I mean by "smartphones aren't cigarettes": - Some parents of children with rare diseases use their phones/social media to connect with comforting online support groups in ways that would be almost impossible in an age before the internet - Some political activists use phones/social media to build networks of likeminded supporters to ... let's say ... oppose restrictive zoning (me) or take on corporate power in dialysis services (you!) - For many teenage girls, phones/social media are a vector of negative social comparison ways that causally increase anxiety, depression, and suicidality The idea that these groups are interacting with smartphones in a uniform way that is analogous to inhaling a mass manufactured bundle of chemicals that has a uniform effect on its consumer base doesn't make sense. To take one more example: The relationship between phone use and youth anxiety is clear across the US and other English-speaking countries but not in other European countries with high levels of phone use. There's no similar phenomenon for tobacco, where it's clearly bad for Americans but possibly not bad for Germans. I think phones/social media do a lot of bad things. I've written about this constantly. But words matter. And saying that this technology "is tobacco" is just wrong.

@dprssionxprt @pourfairelevide @Tyler_A_Harper enjoy the stone ages

@Random__Kids @pourfairelevide @Tyler_A_Harper > 🇺🇦 🇮🇱 About the level of intelligence I expected

I don’t think “running an actual food truck” should be a class at school. I would prefer if human teachers taught kids how to read and do math the normal way that has worked for 100 years.

@unclebobmartin will people get that close to the code again? for systems i already know, makes sense for new systems i just don't spend enough time in the code to really deeply think about it anymore

I woke up this morning with an idea for improving the performance of Empire. It's an entirely different approach for navigating the world map. I think it'll cut processing time by a significant factor. The AI doesn't wake up with new ideas like that. They don't have light bulb moments. They don't look sideways at a problem and see it from a novel perspective. And the insight I'm talking about derives from my deep knowledge of the system itself, and the way computers operate. Try as they might, no matter how much they hope, they'll never be rid of us.

@CovfefeAnon @annakhachiyan example the awful Buzz Lightyear movie the whole point was that trying to fix things is bad and you should just accept whatever reality u r trapped in

The idea that the only ethical and moral stance is total passivity is spot on and is a deep issue with there are two broad, important aspects of it First - this is an aspect of the progressive world-view where *the only actors are villains* - in fact, to act is to *be* a villain Second - this view of passivity is fundamentally feminine and reflects the domination of the culture by female norms - "I don't care who started it, you both did and that's unacceptable" - the default mode stamped onto their brains by evolution of "just don't let anything *happen* and eventually the children you're watching over will grow to adults [and then men will take responsibility for them]" applied to *everything* because that's how brain heuristics work This was the first generation raised under unchecked female norms because it became illegal to tell women they're wrong about anything starting in the mid to late eighties which was then codified into law by the Civil Rights Act of 1991

@brandonwilson the fact i still want to use Claude is very bad for OpenAI

Claude API is so much less reliable than OpenAI

@DolphinMossad @AnikVJoshi link to this official Department of Labor post?

Last month, the US shipped more chemicals via rail than any other time in history. With a week to go, March will break that number...

@LocasaleLab is that because the cancer or the patient (that they only work in 1% to 5% of patients)?

Pharma and academic scientists are correct. These immunotherapy drugs are real breakthroughs. When they work, they can cure patients with otherwise terminal cancer. The reality, unfortunately, is that they only work in about 1–5% of cancer patients. Yet there is relentless hype that these drugs are the endgame for cancer. Much of the pharma and biotech industry has oriented itself around them, and a large share of NIH funding follows. Meanwhile, 95–99% of cancer patients, for whom these drugs do nothing, are left behind. That is the part people are not paying attention to.

the year is 20xx. the surface of the sun is lined with ten trillion trillion trillion transistors. the machine deity Ra simulates infinite heavens for humankind to wander. Ed zitron remains skeptical about anthropic revenue figures

and you may ask yourself, how did i get here x.com/EndWokeness/st…

@StFido @RandomSprint @eigenrobot these people vote Democrat they just like to complain about it constantly

@RandomSprint @eigenrobot These people are not democrats, in fact these people hate them.

@AlecStapp @pitdesi the issue was lack of investment in 5g / regulatory burden in US compared to China it isn't like the US lacked the technology or know how

Reminder that the United States could have been the world leader in 5G technology instead of China if we had just given *one guy* a green card when he needed one.

@jdcmedlock i am all for this the sooner profitable corporations move out of Cali the better

This doesn't make sense. Corporations are not people - we should tax people progressively, including on capital income they receive from owning corporations.

what's the point of anything anymore

This is today’s Dem party. Its full on socialism. Tax and spend until theyve sucked all the blood out of the American economy. Then complain more. They want to pretend the problem isnt an insanely wasteful govt that is spending us into oblivion.

WaPo crushing it today: "America is lucky that Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vermont) wasn’t in office for the advent of the light bulb. We might all still be reading by candlelight." washingtonpost.com/opinions/2026/…

It's just common sense. We shouldn't ask Californians to pay more until Sacramento does better. California already costs too much. Before we make it even more expensive with higher taxes, let's demand better. capitolweekly.net/before-sacrame…

@theo @icanvardar what r they doing with it (that is real and every day useful)?

@icanvardar Not my thing but I know a handful of power users that have really impressed me. Usually they're technical-adjacent but not really full time developers

still don’t know anyone using openclaw. and still haven’t found a single meaningful use case for it

@SenWarren if we didn't pay Senators unless we had a balanced budget imagine how much more we could afford

Today, I'm introducing my wealth tax — and more than 50 members of Congress are joining me. It’s time for the government to start working for American families, not just the ultra-rich.