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"A dry sense of humor and quick wit highlights your intelligence with funny quips and jovial, friendly exchanges" - mdavis

Joined October 2008
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I spend a certain amount of time trying to convince friends that this is fine
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I just heard @BBC claim that there hasn't been a war in South America in over 100 years. 👀 @bad_histories Any reason to forget the Chaco War?
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So I went and found my old favorite playlist and rebuilt it in Amazon Music... coffee shop music - i'm not at a coffee shop, but I wish I was - webjay playlist by evan music.amazon.com/user-playli…
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And it was workable because at the time people would just throw all their music up on the web servers at their colleges or whatever. Of course this didn't last long. Yahoo bought it and shut it down. But archive.org remembers it!
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Back in 2006 there was this music website called WebJay. The wacky thing about it was that it didn't host any music. The users just built playlists that hotlinked to MP3s from other websites.
It's easy to forget in the moment how transient much of the internet is. After being bought by Snapchat and abandoned, Gfycat's certification has expired with nobody around to bother to renew it. Just like that, a vast chunk of the internet is gone. old.reddit.com/domain/gfycat…
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This is about AI
Fellow Aztecs, behold! A high-tech ship is approaching our shores. Fear not, for their advanced knowledge surely means they're morally evolved enough to respect our culture and only aim to enrich us!
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Dan Kuck-Alvarez retweeted
Eliezer Yudkowsky wrote an article in Time today calling for an indefinite moratorium on AGI development. While I don't agree with every detail, I think it's basically right, and if there were an open letter proposing what Eliezer is proposing here, I would sign it
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No it’s not. Ffs it’s a sickness to goad yourself into being unnecessarily fearful and it’s cruel to do it to others.
Dan Kuck-Alvarez retweeted
#Bolivia If you are wondering about the impartiality of the current "coup" case against interim pres. Jeanine Añez, the criminal court refused to admit as evidence the Constitutional Court's official Nov. 2019 communique endorsing the constitutionality of her succession.
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It's because of law enforcement
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A pandemic just came though here and left this on the floor
Been thinking of starting a project where i cut the unnecessary words out of memes. You can't tell, but this meme is funnier than when i found it
Remember Joe camel that was weird