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BlueMonday1984

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On the one hand, that spectacular failure could potentially dissuade the military from buying in and prolonging this bubble. On the other hand, having an accountability sink for war crimes would be a tempting offer to your average army.

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You just know Netflix’s inbox is getting flooded with the absolute worst shit League of Legends players can come up with right now

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If H5N1 does turn into a full-blown outbreak, part of me expects it’ll rack up a heavier deathtoll than COVID.

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If we came across very mentally disabled people or extremely early babies (perhaps in a world where we could extract fetuses from the womb after just a few weeks) that could feel pain but only had cognition as complex as shrimp, it would be bad if they were burned with a hot iron, so that they cried out. It’s not just because they’d be smart later, as their hurting would still be bad if the babies were terminally ill so that they wouldn’t be smart later, or, in the case of the cognitively enfeebled who’d be permanently mentally stunted.

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This entire fucking shrimp paragraph is what failing philosophy does to a mf

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Wired tried to put out a defence of tech and the result is incoherent drivel. See for yourself.

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This is pure gut instinct, but I suspect Twitter’s probably gonna die sometime during Trump’s term - the banks which funded Musk’s takeover consider it their worst deal since the Great Recession, and the rapid exodus of users is gonna further cripple Twitter’s ability to attract advertising revenue.

Part of me suspects we’re gonna see Twitter getting banned somewhere during Trump’s term as well, a la Musk’s tangle with Brazil.

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Dorsey jumping ship’s about as good a reason as any to jump to Bluesky, especially considering Twitter’s currently haemorrhaging users from the one-two-three punch of the AI training, the crippled blocking and THE ELECTIONtm.

By my guess, the AI training is probably doing the most damage - that one’s prompting artists to bolt for the exits, and if Tumblr’s NSFW ban taught me anything, its that if the artists start leaving, they’re gonna start taking their fans with them.

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