Wake up.

Instead of trying to detect and block it, just disincentivize it.

Most AI spam on social media is trying to exploit various systems intended to predict “good” content on the basis of a user’s past content by tracking reputation/karma/etc. They build up karma by posting a massive amount of innocuous content, then leverage the karma to increase the visibility of malicious content. Both halves of this process result in worse content than if the karma system didn’t exist in the first place.

Is your Kindle e-ink?

The general issue with e-ink-based readers and scrolling is that e-ink is designed to be mostly static, with sporadic (preferably partial-page) refreshes; but scrolling needs to have a very high refresh rate that updates the whole page simultaneously if it’s going to be usable.

Because we think of every life as a story, and every story needs narrative closure. So if someone’s life seems like an unfinished story we feel like there’s some kind of lingering agency trying to finish it.

When politicians refuse to talk about it.

A reverse clepsydra: an air-filled container that releases bubbles of air at a constant rate.

It depends on the joke: most are funny regardless, but for some jokes a straight delivery is part of the humor.

the tech community keeps waiting for everyday people to take the baton of self-hosting. They never will—because the effort and cost of maintaining self-hosted services far exceeds the skill and interest of the audience.

The same argument could have been used a century ago to claim that everyday people would never switch from trains to private cars, because the effort and cost of maintaining a car exceeds the skill and interest of most travelers. That may have been true at one point, and may be true again in the future—but it’s contingent on changing circumstances, not a categorical truth.

You could set it to use your own DNS server, and have the server block anything not on a whitelist.

In the context of a semi-nomadic culture that had just conquered the urban Canaanites, pigs were city animals distinct from the nomadic sheep and goats—a ban on pork would prevent cultural assimilation. Same with the ban on shellfish that would have been standard in the coastal cities.

For a parallel, look at segregation-era white Americans banning music and other cultural pratices associated with African-Americans.

So… a business card?

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The Harappan language—then you could decipher the script of the Indus Valley civilization.

https://www.cbsnews.com/sanfrancisco/news/hawks-helping-keep-oakland-streets-safe-by-dispersing-crow-roosts/

while Baz insists he has nothing against crows, it’s the mess they leave behind that has people crying foul.

That’s what I’m secretly training the crows for.

I doubt the falconer would have any issue with me—I’m basically keeping them employed.

I’m indifferent to squirrels… but my city has hired a falconer to scare the crows away with hawks, so now the crows symbolize the oppressed masses being persecuted by the state.

A crow-calling whistle and a small tin of peanuts.

Blood Meridian as an illustrated children’s book.

What’s the purpose—research? Tax evasion? Shits and giggles?