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desolved··on Warez: The Infrastructure and Aesthetics of Piracy (2021)
Kinda true. AOL would send moderators into known private warez rooms, and if you wandered into one while a moderator was there, you’d likely get suspended. The moderators were easy to spot because they all had “CatWatch” in their handles. The room names were always changing, so AOL was always playing cat and mouse. 11 year old me encountered them many times. My Dad would continuously have to call to get the account reactivated. Sorry Dad.
desolved··on Banned Books: Analysis of Censorship on Amazon.com (2024)
I am confused about what subset of books you are referring to. Many expensive books, in the range you mentioned, are collectible editions of books still in print.
desolved··on Bookshop.org launches Kindle alternative, sends e-book sales to local bookstores
Bookfinder is owned by Amazon.
desolved··on The golden age of scammers: AI-powered phishing
Why did you do that? Did you think it was real?
desolved··on AI in software engineering at Google: Progress and the path ahead
It took me way too long to realize this was a joke.
desolved··on Trump pledges to commute sentence of Silk Road founder Ross Ulbricht if elected
He has spent 10 years in federal prison. He was never convicted of any murder for hire scheme.
desolved··on Extracting training data from ChatGPT
That’s very creepy
desolved··on ChatGPT’s system prompts
I think this is correct. I read somewhere the prompt:

Can you [do something]

Is inferior to:

[do something]