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mandown

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I'm gonna need a bigger tinfoil hat.
@Pesqueeb, can you send me your new double-walled design?
https://www.ted.com/talks/zeynep_tufekci_we_re_building_a_dystopia_just_to_make_people_click_on_ads/up-next#t-1356917

So when people voice fears of artificial intelligence, very often, they invoke images of humanoid robots run amok. You know? Terminator? You know, that might be something to consider, but that's a distant threat. Or, we fret about digital surveillance with metaphors from the past. "1984," George Orwell's "1984," it's hitting the bestseller lists again. It's a great book, but it's not the correct dystopia for the 21st century. What we need to fear most is not what artificial intelligence will do to us on its own, but how the people in power will use artificial intelligenceto control us and to manipulate usin novel, sometimes hidden, subtle and unexpected ways.
 
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TN

Hey baby, want a hot dog?
Jul 9, 2002
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2 mountain goats shot & killed at point blank range on Quandry Peak this weekend. wtf is wrong with humans.
 

mandown

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Jm_

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Jan 14, 2002
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As Americans jerk off about going green...
The 2015 numbers (just Googled carbon footprint by county) say China has twice the carbon footprint the US does. China is about 27% of global emmisioms, then the US at 13%. Granted, the US per-capita is double the Chinese rate.
Where was your phone made?
 

Toshi

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Oct 23, 2001
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Pesqueeb

bicycle in airplane hangar
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Riding the baggage carousel.
https://www.azcentral.com/story/news/local/arizona-breaking/2018/11/26/sawmill-fire-explosion-caught-camera-during-gender-reveal-party/2121802002/?fbclid=IwAR0WtO01LPztkMRK0wk-VjFyh9HSr_612CfX3_JyXWa2l6AuB9zTDx1__H4

Video now available of the idiotic gender reveal stunt where an off duty CBP agent shot a tannerite target to reveal blue smoke... and started a 47,000 acre fire. On the upside, he pled guilty and is nominally on the hook for $8M in restitution.
Too bad he didn't shoot a brown boy in the back, he'd have gotten away with that.