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contagiousflowon Meta reaches $17B settlement over social media harms to children

Would you like to link to these studies?

contagiousflowon AI boosted homework scores, then exam scores dropped: study

Why would they ask you when they can ask Claude then?

contagiousflowon Kagi added a setting for removing paywalled links from search results

Fair enough! How has it been for you?

contagiousflowon Kagi added a setting for removing paywalled links from search results

Do you use Google instead?

contagiousflowon Picking berries is my meditation

Why?

contagiousflowon Cops Used Flock to Track a Man Across State Lines for a Pretextual Weed Search

> Why do you accept it?

I don't. I work every day to help my community and I hope you do the same.

> You don't need a surveillance state

Then don't call for one. If you'd like to change your community, again, I'd recommend you to stop being scared and just start talking to more people around you.

contagiousflowon Cops Used Flock to Track a Man Across State Lines for a Pretextual Weed Search

> terrorize large cities

Oh I wonder what kind of terror he's talking about

> Illegal blocking of sidewalk selling fake handbags

Jesus Christ. If this is what brings you to a surveillance state with open arms maybe you should talk to people outside of your bubble.

contagiousflowon Read this before you buy that TV streaming stick

What is the alternative? Trust has been built, as long as the trust is not eroded it is safer than any other retailer?

contagiousflowon Google fixed more Chrome bugs in June than over the past two years, thanks to AI

That's why you should be critical of their press releases.

contagiousflowon Superlogical

Ladybird contributors have their own controversies that make the project hard to stomach

contagiousflowon Superlogical

https://fortune.com/2026/07/27/shopify-ceo-voting-rights-str...

Along with a myriad of different controversies. Just searching his name will bring up many articles about his chronically online Elon Musk wannabe takes.

contagiousflowon After the AI Crash

Sure, but that only stands if you believe the only purpose of human intelligence is for economic benefit.

contagiousflowon After the AI Crash

What is inevitable?

contagiousflowon Mythologizing AI makes it more likely that we’ll fail to operate it well (2023)

strawberry

contagiousflowon $100 AI Music Video: Claude Fable 5 vs. GPT-5.6 Sol

And do you think that makes the world a better place?

contagiousflowon The US Government Is Now a Shareholder in 26 Companies

I agree that corporate taxes are not working at this time for one specific country. But the claim of "corporate taxes don't work" is much more broad and not something I've seen specific evidence for. My understanding was that historically corporate taxes have been extremely effective, even if those taxes aren't paid the profits of a company are instead redirected as other investments.

contagiousflowon The US Government Is Now a Shareholder in 26 Companies

> Corporate taxes don't work

What does this mean?

contagiousflowon This blog is written in en-GB

Have you never met a pro ICE person from USA?

contagiousflowon The labor share of income in the US is at its lowest post-war level

Well I would implore you to read your own source. And maybe start hanging around groups that read more

contagiousflowon The labor share of income in the US is at its lowest post-war level

Source for this statistically?

contagiousflowon The labor share of income in the US is at its lowest post-war level

> non-wealthy

> landlord

If you think these two things are compatible you need to talk to more people outside of your bubble.

contagiousflowon U.S. government will decide who gets to use GPT-5.6

And what happened to the J6 crew?

contagiousflowon The Coming Loop

"the industry" is not some monolith, and treating it as such is no productive. There are all types of software and many ways in which it is created. If the companies that are "AI enabled" are so much better we should see some big changes soon. But I'm still waiting for products I use from "AI enabled" companies to start churning out features at unprecedented speed.

contagiousflowon The Coming Loop

> You Cannot Quite Opt Out

I am so over this. I cannot take anyone seriously that claims inevitability of their ideas, and how you must adopt them without "being left behind". If these tools are so good and so capable the result should be able to speak for themselves rather than this FOMO inducing, emotional language.

contagiousflowon It used to be hard

> I legitimately think this will be the biggest sociopolitical issue over the next few years. The frustration of seeing your hard work getting one-shotted.

Man, what a narrow world view.

contagiousflowon Let's Encrypt bans certificate usage in any US sanctioned territory [pdf]

Now imagine the USA did that to the city you live in...

contagiousflowon Switzerland wil have a referendum to cap population at 10M

I'm not saying this is wrong, that makes a lot of sense. But on the other hand why have I never heard of other, much more dense countries facing this problem? I just never hear of Japan, China, Germany, Taiwan, etc seeing overcrowded trains and raise their hands saying "there can't possibly be a solution!"

contagiousflowon Switzerland wil have a referendum to cap population at 10M

Can you explain how adding frequency to the train network will not work to compensate higher ridership?

contagiousflowon When AI Builds Itself: Our progress toward recursive self-improvement

Couldn't they just have background agents "figure it out"

contagiousflowon The LLM warnings Google fired Timnit Gebru over have all come true

I reckon we agree more than we disagree, but there is a dichotomy of expansive and contractive technologies. Much of the computer industry has given more agency, choice, and knowledge to people.