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hillbillydillyon Fastpotify

I don't know about you but spotify discovery feels like the least organic discovery possible. Its so homogeneous and predictable and corporate slop adjacent it makes me cringe just thinking about it.

hillbillydillyon TikTok shares your data more than any other app and it’s unclear where it goes

yea these convos really make me think 'all hope is lost' when you get some decent idea fleshed out re: adtech algorithm auditing and your first thought is: yea lets root out anti american sentiment in the algo. facepalm strong fox news vibes around here these days

hillbillydillyon The rising human cost of sports betting

its the classic hn libertarian take. empowered teens with freedom technology, saying one thing (body autonomy, no regs!) but, actually with regulations they're just smarter regulations cause I'm smart

hillbillydillyon Barrier Reef doomed as up to 99% of coral at risk, report finds

might want to modify your interpretation of what "well educated" people get up to in the world these days huh? HN has long been a bastion of libertarian contrarianism made up of (imo) privileged and extremely "well educated" folks disconnected from large swaths non-silicon society.

you should really just not read the comments here and seriously stop thinking these nerds care that much or would do anything if they did.

hillbillydillyon Barrier Reef doomed as up to 99% of coral at risk, report finds

low effort climate denialism posts- oversimplified, pedantic and contrarian, for what? "Oceans Acidifying Faster Today Than in Past 300 Million Years" https://www.nsf.gov/news/news_summ.jsp?cntn_id=123324

seriously two clicks.