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alex_abton The indieweb doesn't need to “take off”

I would join you but I'm busy making sure everyone is drinking out of paper straws to save the environment.

I remember when I had a pretty serious health problem, went from doctor to doctor and none of them helped and some even made it worse.

I complained about it quite bitterly for about a decade, even after I had resolved it on my own without their help.

This post reminds me of that time of my life. He's not wrong and yet he may look back on this time like I have on my life and think heh, is that really what I spent my time doing? The life I could've been living instead. The life I can be living right now, today and tomorrow :)

alex_abton The DOJ still wants Google to sell off Chrome

Who does preventing abusive behaviour benefit? Those currently being abused.

But doesn't that make room for someone else to come in and be abusive? Yes and we have the tools to prevent that, if necessary.

alex_abton Anthropic raises $3.5B at $61.5B valuation

The profit margin will come from government contracts.

It's the Azure/AWS business model.

alex_abton Differentiable Logic Cellular Automata

> magine trying to reverse-engineer the complex, often unexpected patterns and behaviors that emerge from simple rules. This challenge has inspired researchers and enthusiasts that work with cellular automata for decades.

Can someone shed some light on what makes this a problem worth investigating for decades, if at all?