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bannedbybroson Epistemic Learned Helplessness (2019)

lmao

bannedbybroson No new boss at NSA until it answers questions on buying location, browsing data

>voluntary empire

lmao ycomb.

bannedbybroson It's easy to screw up on breaking news but you have to admit when you do

Channel 4 and plenty of other people. Y'all are inside a propaganda bubble.

https://twitter.com/jacksonhinklle/status/171499970410093403...

bannedbybroson Narges Mohammadi wins 2023 Nobel Peace Prize

Why make the award reasonable when it can be a feel-good self-congratulatory propaganda fest?

bannedbybroson Why aren’t America’s students showing up?

>The US spends huge amounts on education... for rich people

FTFY

https://nces.ed.gov/pubs/web/97916.asp

bannedbybroson Unity’s new pricing: A wake-up call on the importance of open source

He doesn't have to fake it. Dude probably believes that there's no connection between right to repair, unsustainable consumption, and planetary destruction. That might be worse than faking it.

bannedbybroson Positive association between altitude and suicide in U.S. counties

Too bad that the chemical theory of depression is pseudo-science.

bannedbybroson Microsoft, OpenAI sued for ChatGPT 'privacy violations'

Napster was people sharing files. That's a crime! But now it's corporations so it should be legal.

bannedbybroson Catholic group spent millions on app data that tracked gay priests

Gotta love the casual racism/homophobia of old Hitch. \s \s \s

bannedbybroson Female spies of MI6

More female sociopaths!

bannedbybroson The availability of text generators will force positive changes to education

Clickbait. Nobody said students were acing their homework.

bannedbybroson Everyone loves e-bikes – except some who have to share roads with them

Cars are far deadlier for both individuals and the planet. That's why everybody travels on the sidewalk. If instead of subsidizing cars they built infrastructure for pedestrians, bikes, and light EVs, then there wouldn't be a problem.

bannedbybroson Algorithms could increasingly influence human culture

Dishonest clickbait. Ycomb as usual.

bannedbybroson Digital Berlin wall: How the German prototype for online censorship went global

Censorship is a crucial foundation of capitalism.

Not just controlling the hegemonic narrative through media, etc.

But also the founder of SciHub is stalked by the fedz for liberating science, etc.

IP is censorship.

bannedbybroson Central African Republic Adopts Bitcoin as Legal Tender

Went? It's a 6 month old project. It hasn't even started.

Does ycomb actually think these nations would be better off with colonial currencies that have maintained poverty and exploitation for centuries? Probably yes.

bannedbybroson Music theory for nerds (2016)

>Not counting the octave, there are seven fairly nice fractions here. Hmm. Seven. What a conspicuous number.

There's seven nice fraction because of how they were rounded.

But there's no explanation of why he rounds 1.682 to 5/3 but doesn't round 1.587 to the even closer 8/5.

It's because scales are a social construction, not a result of vague math.