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[2009] Doctor admits Israeli pathologists harvested organs without consent
  • "This article is more than 14 years old." Right in the header.

  • Seth Meyers on ‘Battlestar Galactica’: ‘The Most Incisive Show About Post-9/11 America’
  • This is really well thought out. There was something that always bugged me about BSG that I couldn’t quite put my finger on, and you explained what it was quite nicely.

  • What you're missing when you leave Reddit, all of the "friendly" users
  • Reddit’s value has never been in the “average redditor” or the “popular subs”. The real value is in the niche tail of communities and the fact that they have such a massive amount of people that even if “only” 10% of their users were decent people, it still meant that they had enough decent people to talk with something to contribute.

    Yeah, I don't use Reddit any longer, but it was really great that there were active subs devoted to incredibly obscure topics. If you wanted to talk about something, chances were that thousands of other people did too.

  • After Radio Silence, Kbin App Artemis Shuts Down
  • Yes, the whole thing is especially frustrating because the app was quite nice. Harriette did a really good job really quickly.

  • Musk threatens to sue researchers who documented the rise in hateful tweets
  • Not much good at anything, but incredible at self-promotion so people think he is

    A friend of mine once made what I thought was an absolutely brilliant observation: "Self-promotion is the only skill that is consistently rewarded."

  • The BBC on Mastodon: experimenting with distributed and decentralised social media
  • I think governmental organizations should do the same. It's absurd that FEMA or whoever essentially has to rely of Elon's goodwill.

  • Moms for Liberty hit with tax complaint
  • Why should a political organization be tax-exempt?

  • AI-Generated Data Can Poison Future AI Models - Scientific American
  • Yes, that’s pretty much where I’m at.

  • AI-Generated Data Can Poison Future AI Models - Scientific American
  • If the quality of AI-generated content degrades to the point where it’s useless that is also fine with me.

  • AI-Generated Data Can Poison Future AI Models - Scientific American
  • So in order for data to be useful to AIs, AI-generated content will have to be flagged as such. Sounds good to me.

  • News: A confused Dianne Feinstein tried to give a speech in the middle of a Senate hearing vote and was told to 'just say aye' instead
  • > > > Why are you sure about this? Do you think her issue is a lack of education/knowledge? > >

    Exactly. From what the article says, the remarks she was attempting to deliver were accurate and on point. She was momentarily disoriented as to what particular action the Senate was engaged in at that time.

  • Musk says Twitter will no longer have a light mode, making dark mode the default option
  • I was thinking pretty much the same thing. He’s got the sensibility of a teenage boy. He thinks things like the letter X and the color black are totally cool, and he thinks naming his company “Space-Sex” and one of its spacecraft “Big Fuckin’ Rocket” is the height of humor.

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    Florida loses another multi-million dollar event over 'racist' DeSantis policies
  • Because they are quoting the organization that canceled their event.

  • X is just PayPal 2.0
  • Palm Pilots seemed so futuristic back then.

  • What films that flopped when they came out but you saw in the theater and loved, that are now universally acclaimed or cult classics?
  • I get the feeling that both the original and the sequel are the kind of film where word of mouth just doesn't do it for some reason. I had a friend years ago who mentioned that she had never seen Blade Runner, and immediately followed that by saying not to bother telling her how good it was.

  • What films that flopped when they came out but you saw in the theater and loved, that are now universally acclaimed or cult classics?
  • Blade Runner. It did very poorly at the box office, and the critics were lukewarm at best, but I loved it. I was a big fan of Philip K. Dick, so a film by Ridley Scott based on one of his novels was right up my alley. I dragged my friend to see it the week it came out, and I was blown away. Even back then I wasn’t alone. It almost immediately became a cult film that regularly played in smaller repertory theaters.

    I remember reading an interview with Arthur C. Clarke back then where he mentioned that he had recently spoken with Stanley Kubrick, and Kubrick had said that Blade Runner was the most visually beautiful film he had ever seen.

  • Twitter alternatives for the Musk-averse
  • Up to a point. Google+ was invite only for so long that by the time it became available to the general public no one cared anymore. When people signed in with their new accounts they couldn’t find anyone they knew, and they never came back.

    Really stupid on Google’s part, because they launched at a time when people were angry with Facebook for selling private user data, and a lot of users probably would have moved to G+ if they had been able to.

  • Threads is rolling out its Following feed
  • Yes, I signed in out of curiosity, and I was completely disoriented because there was no feed of just the people I followed. I kept clicking around, thinking I was missing something obvious.

  • Trump causes confusion by sharing meme calling Jan 6 a ‘government staged riot’ even though he was in power
  • Personally I think it's just the usual incoherent right-wing worldview. Their concept of "the government" somehow doesn't include the president, the military, or law enforcement.

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