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Re:OpenAI whistleblower found dead in San Francisco apartment on Friday December 13, 2024 @07:51PM (#42413687)
Agreed. This is a good time to revisit an Intercept investigation from last year that explored another suspicious suicide by a tech titan whistleblower:

https://theintercept.com/2023/03/23/peter-thiel-jeff-thomas/

that’s a nice way to never feel guilty about stomping on peas and roses
Re:A Novel the CIA Spent a Fortune to Suppress on Wednesday May 24, 2023 @03:03PM (#36062605)
not books but related: last year PayPal shut down the accounts of Consortium News and MintPress News

https://jacobin.com/2022/05/paypal-independent-media-journal...

Re:Twitch CEO Emmett Shear is resigning on Saturday March 18, 2023 @01:25PM (#35211122)
“We fucking fund the people who did 9/11—still, to this day. Donald Trump literally went on national television and said, ‘They bought $10 billion worth of weapons,’ so if they chop-chop-chop an American legal permanent resident, it’s OK.”
Re:Twitch CEO Emmett Shear is resigning on Thursday March 16, 2023 @04:39PM (#35188191)
yeah extremely reasonable
Re:TikTok profits from livestreams of families begging on Thursday October 13, 2022 @02:57PM (#33194996)
Adding to the spectacle, we have westerners displeased with a Chinese platform siphoning off too much of their direct aid, which is being sent to displaced Syrians who likely wouldn't be in this situation were it not for the US.[1]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timber_Sycamore

Re:The Penguin Random House trial on Sunday August 28, 2022 @01:35AM (#32626046)
Being unconventional means value for sure https://www.reddit.com/r/TrueAnon/comments/wzjewu/taibbi_rem...
Re:Snap launches its first drone on Thursday April 28, 2022 @03:28PM (#31197106)
Link doesn't work, here's another reference: https://alter.com/trademarks/pixy-88492464

> Camera containing a linear image sensor; Cameras; Motion-activated cameras; Optical sensors

https://pixycam.com/

Re:Elizabeth Holmes found guilty on Tuesday January 04, 2022 @02:11AM (#29792223)
Whoa nice, how’d you get that?
Re:Ask HN: Favorite Podcast Episode of 2021? on Monday December 27, 2021 @12:34PM (#29704577)
TrueAnon's trilogy on Tesla

https://soundcloud.com/trueanonpod/lamest-show-1

> how a nerdy dot-com gold chaser hacked the self-satisfied neoliberal green political regime and orchestrated a cacophonous symphony of thirsty social media marketeers, auto industry executives, captured and bought off media, and the bull market ride of the century. At the center of all of this is the pied piper of the redditmen, our very own epic bacon PT Barnum — Elon Musk — who rightly understands that branding really is everything and that so long as you can keep the music going the party doesn’t have to end.

I think it’s kitschy in a cool way! Kind of like mmm.page
Re:Instagram Has Become SkyMall on Saturday July 10, 2021 @11:59PM (#27798369)
Different context but in 2012 eBay stopped buying keyword search ads and nothing happened

https://hbr.org/2013/03/did-ebay-just-prove-that-paid

https://www.forbes.com/sites/augustinefou/2021/01/02/when-bi...

I think you can see it in this thread, too, where many people are aghast at the maintainers' decision to remove the piece and citing it as evidence that jokes aren't allowed on the internet anymore.
Re:I spent eleven years working on this Line Rider track on Wednesday November 25, 2020 @10:33PM (#25216585)
This brings back memories of playing Free Rider 2 on TrackMill. It’s amazing how these simple games were elevated to art forms by their communities.
Re:Git is too hard on Tuesday November 17, 2020 @04:27AM (#25121685)
If anyone is looking for a git GUI, Fork is great https://git-fork.com/
Re:Show HN: My GitHub Readme Is Interactive on Thursday September 03, 2020 @08:41PM (#24370580)
With so many people entering characters right now, it’s only a matter of time til we get some Shakespeare
Re:Bouncing DVD Logo on Wednesday April 15, 2020 @10:09PM (#22885383)
Even though it's gross, it's kind of cool that you can do this with nested marquees:

<marquee behavior="alternate" direction="up"><marquee behavior="alternate" direction="left"><span>DVD</span></marquee></marquee>

Re:Freeman Dyson Has Died on Friday February 28, 2020 @02:49PM (#22445724)
Here's another article that introduces the idea of panpsychism:

https://aeon.co/ideas/panpsychism-is-crazy-but-its-also-most...

Re:I find journaling indispensable on Sunday September 01, 2019 @02:46AM (#20850859)
I recommend checking out Standard Notes!

https://standardnotes.org/

Yeah, I just think 'pop' is a good word to take down something seen as a comprehensive work when it's more of a '100 foot overview.'

That's a rare thing, though. The adjective should probably be used neutrally way more often than derogatorily.

I've enjoyed some of Walter Isaacson's books but always worried an internet-intellectual would roast me for that.

I think those biographies are more pop than his fans like to think and more academic than his detractors might imagine.

The Invention of Nature: Alexander von Humboldt's New World

Frida: A Biography of Frida Kahlo

Born Standing Up (Steve Martin's autobiography)

Re:Show HN: Spase.io – A new kind of planner on Monday February 18, 2019 @05:31PM (#19195097)
Cool idea and great execution! The paper airplanes are a nice touch.

I'd suggest making it a little more clear which day is selected and a lot more clear which item is selected (plus editable text/color/date).

Also, is there a way to make my calendar private? Public-by-default doesn't seem wise.

Would love a tech write up :)

Re:Wake Word: An Algorithmic Nightmare Game on Saturday February 02, 2019 @08:38PM (#19067212)
Encountered the ghost of Mark Zuckerberg

Social credit score was too low to travel

Re:Google Tried to Patent My Work After a Job Interview on Friday November 30, 2018 @02:04PM (#18571658)
Patent law includes a provision for situations like this - it’s called “derivation,” meaning basically that someone stole another person’s work and tried to patent it. The rightful inventor can initiate a proceeding at the patent office to invalidate the patent and get control of the work.
Re:Stripe Is Now a $20B Company on Thursday September 27, 2018 @04:00AM (#18082753)
Agreed! The sheer amount of landing pages borrowing from Stripe's wide shadow button style is a testament to this
Yes! Explorable Explanations: https://explorabl.es

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