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James R Kirk

@ Kirk @startrek.website

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  • 'The Truth Is Paywalled.' Internet Vets Lament the State of the 'Open' Web

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  • Yeah exactly, well said. I think for a lot of people the advent of paywalls felt like taking away a free thing, instead of a return to the norm. Personally when it comes to journalism I prefer a paywall to advertiser-supported.

  • NYC’s Urban Textscape: Analyzing All of the Words Found on NYC Streets

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  • 'The Truth Is Paywalled.' Internet Vets Lament the State of the 'Open' Web

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  • The argument that paywalls somehow ruin the open parts of the Web always fell flat for me. It is trivial to contribute to the Web for free if one wishes. Nobody is forced to paywall their content.

  • /r/RedditAlternatives post - "A good alternative to Reddit? "

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  • Yeah, nine times out of ten someone who wants "free speech" on the web means they want to force others to listen.

  • /r/RedditAlternatives post - "A good alternative to Reddit? "

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  • The nice thing about Fedi is that slur-loving people can have their space that allows slurs, but people who don't want slurs can de-federate.

  • If AI was all it was cracked up to be, it wouldn't be shoved in your face 24/7

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  • It doesn't really improve productivity much for me. And if you take into account the emails I receive from coworkers written with copilot then I'm actually doing more work to decipher what they are trying to say.

  • Reitti v2.0.0: Introducing Memories – Transforming Your Location Data into Personal Stories

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  • Looks great, can old Google location data be imported?

  • CBS News just gutted its climate team

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  • John Oliver did a deep dive into her recently. It's not good. She brands herself as a moderate but is essentially in lockstep with most MAGA views. The owners of CBS are gutting everything that's left of the storied CBS brand to enrich themselves.

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    Whats up with AI today ?

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  • I'm only seeing information about ChatGPT, Sora, Claude and Gemini... Where is the news about AI?

  • If AI was all it was cracked up to be, it wouldn't be shoved in your face 24/7

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  • It is just advertising. The more I think about it the more I can't think of any practical use for generative AI that doesn't involve essentially spamming everyone.

  • lemmy world is curating my posts

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  • The number of e-bikes with USB-C charging has now doubled – to two

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  • That is a crazy fact. As the article highlights USB-C can do 240W!

  • Patron-Supported Journalism Can’t Be the Future of News

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  • Good read that got me thinking. Donation supported journalism works well for NPR.

    I can imagine an ecosystem in which enough people give their $50/month streaming subscriptions directly to artists and journalists.

  • What We Talk About When We Talk About Sideloading

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  • I've been impressed with F-Droid's press releases. If they have a snowball's chance in hell of stopping this, they are certainly giving it a clear and concise effort.

  • Are there enough resources in the world to allow everyone (or at least the vast majority) to live comfortably and happily?

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  • At the risk of sounding like a conservative, most people do find meaning in doing work and would not be content to lay around eating and watching TikTok forever. Just because someone does not find meaning in laboring to make their bosses wealthy does not mean they don't find meaning in the work itself.

    For example I think a lot of "low level" jobs would be quite enjoyable and rewarding if we weren't forced to do them in order to survive. I'm thinking things like carpentry, running a small grocery store or even waiting tables.

    So to answer your question, yes, the Earth can provide far more than every person needs to live a fulfilling life because all we need is food, shelter, community and freedom to find how we can best contribute. Those things are not expensive or resource intensive. But they are kept from us and replaced with plastic things we don't need in order to further enrich a small few.

  • But there were SO MANY dealbreakers before we even got to that point

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  • Climate change is actually a great example of what I was getting at, because it has a relatively simple and known solution, and humanity has possessed the technology to implement that solution it for essentially as long as we have known about climate change itself.

    To put it in context of this conversation: climate change has only increased the "complexity of our times" for working class people, because the people with power and money chose this path. They could have been building windmills, and nuclear power plants and hydroelectric dams to power our electric cars, but there was less profit in that.

    The mental stress of "ethical consumption" doesn't exist in a world of ethical production.

  • Microsoft's decision to axe Windows 10 is driving Apple PC sales growth — users buy Macs instead of AI PCs despite Microsoft’s push for Copilot+ PCs

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  • Siri is bad but at least it has natural language processing. I think it's so funny how CEOs have no idea how LLMs work.

    Over a year ago Apple literally ran an ad showing off an "Apple Intelligence" feature that you could tell nobody at Apple ran by the actual engineers before deciding it was possible. It (of course) has still not been released.

  • But there were SO MANY dealbreakers before we even got to that point

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  • Sadly, I don't think it will soon even matter if the leader is unpopular.

  • But there were SO MANY dealbreakers before we even got to that point

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  • My conspiracy theory is that the Epstein stuff staying on the front pages of social media for long (despite tech CEOs all being strongly MAGA) was an attempt by the Peter Theil / Russel Vought faction to move on from Trump. Which if you think about it is even scarier if they feel they don't need him any more.