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Robots can drink water now? Amazing...

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Why would maps even need comments?

There's never an adult in tech dev saying "Just because we can doesn't mean we should."

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Is Jack Dorsey livestreaming in front of his grow room?

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Perhaps. I think there are real problems with the sheer excess and relentlessness of social media---there is something incompatible with how humans are supposed, at optimum, to function. It's a form of sensory overload, which we know from generations of research is potentially immensely damaging, especially to kids.

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Well, it's kind of how like we can drink Draino: you can do it, but it messes with your internals something fierce.

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Probably, and I'm sure in the future we'll look back at how the internet functions now and describe it as basically chaos, or like the Wild West. We'll eventually build structures and rules and social conventions for containing this thing, but right now we're still in the process of comprehending what exactly we've created here.

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It's surprising that it hasn't happened already, but they are going the "abundance of caution" route, understandably.

Gyms that have taken appropriate precautions in equipment, procedures, distancing and PPE policies have been open in NYC since September 2nd. Indoor fitness classes resumed Monday. There haven't been any reports of a COVID outbreak traced to NYC gyms in 7 months.

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X Marx the spot.

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Some day, my antisocial network, Turnitoff, will be the only one left standing.

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Just gonna drop this here because relevant. Apparently Zuckerberg is now pushing for revisions of section 230 to require robust moderation, as it will drive any competitors out of business.

Also, this: Facebook's ballyhooed "Supreme Court" for content moderation is a bunch of Bally-Hooey, a backdoor way to put banned content and users back up while deflecting blame for it.

Zuckerberg is still a gaslighting sociopath. Hope he has a bad day in Committee today.

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Zuck will define “robust” as that level of moderation only he can afford,whether or not effective.

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Speaking of Mr and Mrs GoogleUnfortunatelyHeads up, y'all

https://twitter.com/latimes...

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Be that as it may, that's a bit of a false equivalence.

Not only does he NOT hold public office -- or fauxffice, like the T***ps and T***ps-In-Law - but also, Hunter never pretended to be an "objective" source reporting anything remotely resembling "the news" .

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Oy

I'm not sure I knew for a fact that they'd gone to the Dark Side (though it obviously would never have been an unlikely possibility)

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