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backtoyoujim··on Cosmological time dilation in the early Universe
It's the idea that the wave function of reality doesn't collapse until it is observed ?
backtoyoujim··on Leaving the Office at 5 Is Not a Moral Failing
Having the commercial real estate house of card collapse is also not a moral failure.
backtoyoujim··on Forget ‘quiet quitting’ – ‘loud laborers’ are killing workplace morale
‘A boss, a laborer, and a loud laborer are sitting at a table with 20 cookies.

‘The boss takes 19 cookies and warns the laborer: “Watch out, the loud laborer is going to take your cookie away.”’

backtoyoujim··on Downloading a video should be “fair use” as recording a song from the radio
Why is there yet another legal framework with basis for legal jurisprudence being a rule from a child's game ?
backtoyoujim··on The elite's war on remote work has nothing to do with productivity
Agents of oppression will ply false generosity with their precious attention and then castigate you for needing it.

Manager with be seen as the slur that it should in 50 years.

backtoyoujim··on Cancel Zoning If we want to fix the housing-affordability crisis zoning must go
Versus Texas with its 95% total private ownership of its lands ?

No, I prefer National Forests that are open to my recreation than barbed wire and no trespass signs.

backtoyoujim··on YouTube-Dl Site Goes Offline as Hosting Provider Enforces Court-Ordered Ban
"it’s good enough to signal to average users that downloading content from YouTube is not permitted."

that sure seems like doublespeak. i have to download the video to watch it.

backtoyoujim··on Replace peer review with “peer replication” (2021)
Yes it would indeed mean slowing down and having more scientists.

It would mean disruption is no longer a useful tool for human development.

backtoyoujim··on I'm betting on HTML
If you don't want rounded corners then what's this all been about ? What am I working toward ?
backtoyoujim··on Not paying electricity for an entire year with Tesla Solar Roof [video]
Prying the old tiles off of the ruins of an post-apocalyptic wasteland can be very cost efficient.
backtoyoujim··on Time to bring back asylums?
And why do the rich US Americans keep profiting from it ?
backtoyoujim··on Spartans Were Losers
According to the histories levied by the Athenians.

The Spartans left no written record and hardly any archeology.

backtoyoujim··on FBI improperly used 702 surveillance powers on US senator
How do we use the RICO laws to disassemble US law enforcement ?
backtoyoujim··on FedNow Is Live
how long until it has a section for tipping ?
backtoyoujim··on Google restricting internet access to some employees for security
Ah the ol' 'no internet access but internet access' type of no internet access.
backtoyoujim··on The office is a theatre for work (2019)
That's interesting. Do you mind saying whether you currently work in an office away from home or work from an office in your home ?
backtoyoujim··on Nuclear fission fuel is inexhaustible (2022)
The space to keep exhausted fission fuel is not.
backtoyoujim··on The internet didn’t kill counterculture, it's just not on Instagram (2021)
can we ever stop being the product ?
backtoyoujim··on French Police Will Be Able to Spy on People Through Their Cell Phones
France has been on fire for more than a year now from protests.

Perhaps the bell tolls for thee ?

backtoyoujim··on SF's Anchor Brewing Company shutting down after 127 years
Are you kidding ? You want us to bend our language usage for ChatGPT ?

Can you just let humans write without LLMs controlling the development of our language ?

We have managed to have language without your ChatGPT.

backtoyoujim··on Dashcam images reveal where police are deployed
Well to be fair the article points out that the police aren't just racists ... that they are classists, too.
backtoyoujim··on Injunction issued in case about social media pressure from US Government
I mean if you can drone strike a citizen as president there is little left to have in the toolbox of "unilateral power over their people".

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Killing_of_Abdulrahman_al-Awla...

backtoyoujim··on LexisNexis is selling personal data to ICE so it can try to predict crimes
I'm not sure how you equate agencies like the FBI and CIA with newspapers.

Seems like a really weak argument from here.

One is a commercial venture with zero license to kill or interfere with foreign political processes.

backtoyoujim··on Testosterone therapy and the heart: New research finds no increased risk
Glad to see gender therapy is doing fine for CIS males, I suppose.
backtoyoujim··on Ghost: Create an AI replica of yourself that is accessible via SMS
your comment had me sit quietly for 10 minutes or so to reflect upon it. my thoughts kept passing and pushing around sci-fi story moments where i have seen and read that play out.

i am sorry for this loss that you are going through. thresholds are rarely painless, and i hope that some compassion reaches you from us.

backtoyoujim··on Google doesn’t want employees working remotely anymore
This whole thing reminds me of that letter that gets passed around from time to time online written by one Jourdon Anderson to his former white male American slaver Colonel P. H. Anderson.

I had to look it up to find the postscript which I think is very precient today:

"P.S.— Say howdy to George Carter, and thank him for taking the pistol from you when you were shooting at me."

backtoyoujim··on Customer ratings have become meaningless. ‘people give 5 stars like it’s candy.’
It is not "the people" that are ruining rating systems that were created, run, and controlled by corporate interests.

This is literally someone whining that humans are not acting how they want for more profit from their flashing lights money making machines.

backtoyoujim··on FBI misused surveillance powers more than 280k times in a year
Once every two minutes for a year ? Is my arithmetic right there ?

That seems excessive.

backtoyoujim··on Avoiding hallucinations in LLM-powered applications
If we can't stop lying why would our golem stop lying ?
backtoyoujim··on AI clones teen girl’s voice in $1M kidnapping scam: ‘I’ve got your daughter’
Like I'm going to carry photos of traffic lights and crosswalks everywhere I go.
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