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Imagine typing in coordinates or picking a location on a map, and then suddenly your phone or any other device is at that location inside the cage, by a combination of GPS, cellular and WiFi spoofing
My former manager called it a portal haha: https://x.com/masadfrost/status/1856467695606345756
> Today on Twitter, as on most social media, justice works in a roughly Stalinist style. The normal penalty is permanent execution. There is no transparent explanation for why an account is executed, before or after the execution. It has simply “violated the Twitter rules.” The public rules are extremely abstract and could theoretically justify almost any execution. The private rulebook by which the secret police, or “Ministry of Trust and Safety,” operates, is of course as secret as everything about the secret police.
> Of course, it is easy to observe that a two-day-old spam account does not deserve a six-month trial, with lawyers, before getting the bullet it needs in the back of the neck. Due process in this context must not be a clone of the IRL judicial system, which is more broken than anyone can possibly imagine.
> And there is a simple solution to the problem of scaling due process: *scale the level of due process to the size of the account*. An account with a million (real) followers might well deserve a six-week public trial, perhaps even with some kind of counsel. The spammer with 20 followers? Any cop can shoot him, as at present, and leave the body by the side of the road as a warning to others.
> There is a use for online Stalinist justice—it is only an injustice when it is disproportional to the user’s investment in the service. When Twitter is your career and any cop can just shoot you, an eerie atmosphere of terror pervades everything.
On the other hand, are societies like India or China becoming less capitalistic, where many of these trends are broadly moving in the opposite direction?
I'm pretty bearish on Signal for this reason. (even though I use it personally)
The playbook for unlocking adoption would be via a 'minority rule' where Signal users refuse to talk to people on WA, but I don't see that happening anytime soon.
We've launched Deno support on repl.it here (in beta): https://repl.it/languages/deno for folks to try out.
I'll try to import a larger set of symbols soon, to fix the gaps.
I felt that 'type and hit enter to copy' would be faster for my workflow, which is why I built this :D
I'm new to LaTeX. It was taking me a while to lookup common notation, so I took a lot longer (https://xkcd.com/1205), and built a search for it.
I'll be using LaTeX over the next few months, and will be improving this page as I do. The project is also open source.
Let me know what you think!
Perhaps custom search displays differing results?