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The old classic intrusive thought of "instead of ADHD or something else mundane you actually have a brain tumor and this is just you slowly going insane" popped up again a few minutes ago and I tried...
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It's still weird to me that I somehow kept the ideas "I want to be a pregnant woman" and "I am completely 100% a cis man" in the same head for so many years lol
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Beneficial capitalism: The purpose of this business is to sell the best <product or service>Toxic capitalism: The purpose of this business is to make money
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The fundamental flaw of neoliberalism is the most basic philosophical error of confusing "is" for "ought".They took the notion "capitalism works because of the profit motive" and concluded that...
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The genius of capitalism was to *mitigate* the harms of greed by leveraging it to benefit everyone — we can't fully eliminate greed, so let's structure things such that greedy people being greedy has a...
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Okay, weird idea I just thought of: what if profits were random?As in, instead of an individual or organization directly getting the profits from their efforts, all profits are put into a big pot that...
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Or.. and this is a really wild idea... some sort of scheme for "wealth dithering".What I mean by that is make it so the profits from their labor spread randomly across their social network. You don't...
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I really like this idea because it disallows the extraction and isolation of wealth. It makes it so wealth is fundamentally due to our relationships and interactions with others. A single person cannot...
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**Equipment**Red Cat 51ASI294MMStar Adventurer GTiASIair+**Imaging**217x90s (5.4 hr) Sii86x90s (2.5 hr) Ha62x90s (1.6 hr) OiiiBortle 6/7**Post-processing**PI w/ NoiseX, BlurX, and StarXGNU IMP
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Actually, I kind of like this color blend, though I don't actually know what palette this would be anymore lol#Astrophotography
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Yes, AI poses an existential threat to humanity, just not in the way the techbros want to acknowledge. @gerrymcgovernhttps://mastodon.green/@gerrymcgovern/112178915820342967
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"Artificial Intelligence" is intelligence in the same way "artificial flavor" is flavor: a poor substitute for the real thing that's used to make a cheap, low-quality product more palatable.
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People like Sam Altman are just glorified salesmen trying to peddle the technological equivalent of junk food: manufactured, highly processed, and completely devoid of any nutritional value.
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I love #astrophotography because you can get so much beauty from what's essentially a glorified counting machine that spits out big tables of "this is how many tiny energetic particle things hit me in...
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Whenever I read "<company> was sold to a private equity firm" it feels like I just heard a judge give someone a death sentence.
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Maybe a more apt analogy is hearing someone's name get called to be this week's blood sacrifice to the gods
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