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archonis··on We May Be Entering a Second Axial Age
Might be a great article. Overriding scroll behavior and velocity so that content moves when fingers aren't touching the screen seems like a suicidal choice for a publication.

Mobile scrolling is a solved problem unless you make it one.

archonis··on The best relationships are all-encompassing.
Writes about a romantic relationship and:

References Steve Jobs in a positive way

References Elon Musk in a positive way

References Ayn Rand in an extremely positive way

Their inevitable breakup is going to be spectacularly dysfunctional and likely play out in an extremely public/online way.

archonis··on When AI Builds Itself: Our progress toward recursive self-improvement
Return on capital generates income at a much greater rate than return on labor.

Time is a factor, but it doesn't seem like that's what you're talking about.

archonis··on Kiki – a tiny homepage construction kit with a small footprint
May her passing be a gentle one.

For what it's worth, a random person on the internet just shed a tear for the both of you.

archonis··on I was recently diagnosed with anti-NMDA receptor encephalitis
Really glad you finally got a correct diagnosis, and thank you for the tools/utilities you've contributed.

My early rust skills benefitted significantly from having read your code!

Good luck and good health.

archonis··on The History of "Prisencolinensinainciusol"
Seriously. Exploring the topic and jumping from 1970s to 2003 without mentioning the Cocteau Twins is criminal.
archonis··on Shift will clean homes for free to train future robots
Who needs occam's razor when you've got a mobieus shaped breadknife?
archonis··on IBM Spins Off the First Pure-Play Quantum Chip Foundry
I wonder how many people IBM will layoff to celebrate this one.
archonis··on What we lost when we stopped letting kids leave the front yard
Loitering laws have existed since english commonlaw, but in the modern era were adapted to penalize homelessness, unemployment, etc...
archonis··on Launch HN: Chert (YC P26) – Twilio for iMessage
Agents interacting with humans on an emotional level is manipulative.

You've repeatedly stated that your goal is to make agentic conversations seem more human. This is deception that most people neither want nor need.

archonis··on Tennessee man jailed 37 days for Trump meme wins settlement after lawsuit
If you want to reform the justice system, more power to you, but while it exists the last people who should be exempt from its reach are those who wield its power in criminal ways.
archonis··on Tennessee man jailed 37 days for Trump meme wins settlement after lawsuit
If you don't hold people accountable for removing the liberty of others without just cause, those who abuse their power will continue to run rampant.
archonis··on Palantir employees are starting to wonder if they're the bad guys
Trump is the sort of old school racist whose entire model of the world couldn't tolerate Obama as POTUS.

...and then of course, this didn't help:

https://youtu.be/HHckZCxdRkA?si=axixDO1Cm1i3Su0k

archonis··on To Protect and Swerve: NYPD Cop Has 547 Speeding Tickets
Looks like they found the one cop on the force who doesn't obscure the license plate of their private vehicle.
archonis··on Apple TV's Upcoming Cyberpunk Series Will Be the Matrix Meets Blade Runner
As Gibson himself said, the Matrix owed a lot more to Phillip K. Dick than to his sprawl trilogy.

...and as indicated by the presence of the comic on set while shooting the Matrix, and as said by Grant Morisson, the Matrix was largely derrivative of The Invisibles.

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