Maybe they should have thought about that before taking away the little bags of pretzels and cookies

I would like to see some ROBOT9000 esque oddball meme communities overtly based on heavy algorithmic moderation, can be LLM but wouldn’t have to be. Weird rules strictly enforced by robots, could be fun.

Occasionally people have meltdowns and accuse/threaten other users for daring to vote a certain way, presuming specific motives for doing so

oh damn, I figured it was some kind of rubbery material but its metal

I think it’s some kind of synthetic material rather than sausages, there’s a serial number or something stamped onto one on the bottom left, they don’t look like they have any kind of skin and no oil/moisture/rot

Depends how good their camera person tracking system is I guess, and whether police have direct access to it. I think propaganda might sometimes exaggerate how well these things work to make people believe the state is more capable than it really is.

Well no, because in aggregate people will fail at protecting themselves, or else it wouldn’t be a broken society. You can’t solve a coordination problem with advice to defect.

Hopefully the person doing that is beyond the reach of US law and/or has very good opsec

I saw no messages for a long time, then saw a couple when I moved the radio to the other side of the room, and a lot more when I brought it with me to a more populated city.

It could happen, but there are several large existential threats Bitcoin has to overcome to avoid collapsing and being supplanted by something else and survive into the long term, especially quantum computing attacks and the structurally diminishing funding for Bitcoin miners. The people who maintain its code are very reluctant to make any upgrades.

Wow, that was a great talk. I liked the bit about the importance of joy to making effective software/platforms.

But most people don’t buy two, and good luck having your reviews be taken more seriously than the botted ones

Now do the government and some big banks

I’d guess that the content and the people would be a bigger factor for someone who isn’t very into technology than understanding the underlying concept and architecture.

I don’t think it uses npm though, that’s got to count for something

The show Pluribus had a cool scene about this

They don’t always write the laws, sometimes they let lobbyists do that and pass them without reading

The idea of the whole world valuing online debates and caring how good the arguments are, and the way this seemed almost believable before the internet grew to reach everyone, is kind of depressing in retrospect. At least it’s also funny.

I close bathroom doors, mainly to keep in the habit of doing it

wdym?