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My RSS feed spams me with more content than I can read. I would like a plugin that prioritizes articles according to my expressed (and manually adjustable) preferences. Does such a plugin exist? If not, is there a reader with an easy to understand feed API that I can use to train my own?

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Re:How to be anonymous in the age of surveillance on Sunday January 12, 2020 @04:37PM (#22029651)
Actually, putting on Juggalo makeup will land you on a gang watch list.

Once on the watch list, it is likely that any attempt to evade surveillance will be used to justify more invasive surveillance.

https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2012/10/solitary-confin...

Airbnb sells customer records. Unclear whether this occurs in real time or on a lag. Do they vet their data customers in this manner?

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/11/04/business/secret-consumer-...

I see it differently.

The distinction I would make is that even before Newton, people could make useful predictions about the trajectory of falling objects. My dog does it well, every time he catches a ball. He even seems to grok the effect of wind on a frisbee.

We have no way of predicting how a CNN will react to an input. GANs really illustrate this point. I think this is an important distinction.

Was the fact that objects fall down a "black box" before Newton came up with some equations?

I don't think its fair to describe CNN's and human vision as being black boxes in the same way.