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Have you heard of the American TV Show Jackass? Debauchery and indecency is well celebrated in American culture.

Regardless of "strategy", algorithmic content delivery is going to be used for propaganda, period. What's really fascinating is it kind of happened over night, when Instagram and Twitter were updated to not display content in chronological order. Personally, I took for granted how much bigger than a "UX change" this was.

This should be an unpopular opinion but I kind of respected Apple's previous stance, and I'm in a way a bit disappointed they've backed down, but I think they've needed to because they are moving too quickly.

5 years from now we'll likely see Apple Silicon powering Apple's entire new product lineup, and Swift developers will be deploying software across the entire product lineup with minimal effort. Swift is both quick and safe, so we can hope these new softwares will be both fast, secure and free of critical bugs.

This to me is a really interesting and appealing alternative to the frustrating world of slow web apps that invade your privacy and fill your computer with bloat. I don't see Apple's previous stance as being greedy about obtaining a 30% cut, rather it is about trying to bring to fruition a vision of the future where users can perform their computing needs with fast and secure native apps. I hope we don't legislate away such a reasonable opportunity for people to be freed from Google and Facebook invasion.

I personally believe the 1000 is the last MPC built that's worth having. And fortunately it's one of the most affordable.

I strongly agree that the whole point is workflow more than anything else. I use my Octatrack like a DAW so I don't even need a computer. My computer is more like a digital "tape" machine nowadays.

My Machinedrum and Monomachine are to my left and right. :)

I own an MPC60 and IMO all the magic in it is with its workflow. To get one just for the sound should disappoint. However it's a nice bonus to be able to use its shitty pre amp as a distortion fx for my other gear.

You should spend less time thinking and more time looking because frankly there is a lot of dedicated hardware available. The options are endless.

Perhaps you would like an Elektron Digitakt. You can connect it to your computer and use its VST to display an alternative UI on your computer screen.

Funny enough the designer in the video you mentioned has specifically perfected the phone pocket already.

https://imgur.com/a/NgzjJP7

Personally I'm way more inclined to believe Americans are unhealthy because their health care system is too expensive, rather than the other way around. Obesity is treatable.

This doesn't make any sense to me considering an uncontrolled outburst of anger is the exact kind of thing that gets people punished by law.

If Facebook's abuse of everyone's personal data was as strikingly abhorrent as say, organ theft, Andrew Yang would write the policy to give me a $4.56 USD check while I lay bleeding in a tub of ice.

Did you write this comment with a voice assistant?

I'm sure if I worked at a company like Facebook, my day to day work-life and experiences would be primarily dictated by my managers, and perhaps their managers. But at the end of the day, Zuck is at the top, and people ultimately listen to him.

Not to knock your point. Political activism needs to be local, but there is a reason there is so much focus on the president. I don't think it is unwarranted.

I don't have any claims to make, the unfair angle of the parent comment motivated me to invite people to simply read into it themselves, so thanks for the vox link. Surely there is a middle ground between no police and military-grade policing.

Imagine thinking being anti-racist is the popular opinion of the day

I don't think you're presenting your anecdote in good faith. Either that or you're just completely unaware of the context.

"Montreal was once known as the bank robbery capital of North America."

https://montrealgazette.com/news/local-news/history-through-...

NYPD went on strike in 2014, if anyone wants to research that themselves... RIP Eric Garner

Was I making an argument?

Do you not understand that these non-approved views, for the most part, come from actual nazis? Like, real life nazis. People that will kill you because of your skin colour.

I've read a lot of bootlicking comments on this website lately from people who want to talk in upper abstractions about free speech and discuss moral theory. You are all completely missing the point. That black people are needlessly DYING because real life white supremacists are having their voices promoted and platformed on the internet.

When it comes to activists eating their cake and having it too, yea, those are the privileged facebook employees taking a paid day off as a way of making a statement. What a joke.

You know who needs their voices heard? Who needs free speech? Black people. And our society silences them through gruesome MURDER. Murders with no justice. God forbid someone get their tweet "fact-checked".

I disagree that Twitter has been missing "fact checking". Instead I think the problem was bots.

Take an obviously absurd political viewpoint, which nowadays has to be really absurd. Here's an example: Tom Cruise should be president of the United States. Scientology will make America great again.

Sounds pretty fucking absurd, right? But throw in 50 million bots on Twitter and Instagram pretending to be Americans who think Tom Cruise should be president, and now your once absurd view point simply becomes "the other side of the aisle." It's of course all fake.

Unfortunately this exploits the minds of otherwise kind hearted people that do really want to give you a chance to hear you out. It is how democracy should work after all. But the current reality is this "other side" is basically just white supremacists. Full stop. They're not all rotten people, plenty of them were goaded into embracing the hatred because the internet, and all those fucking bots, makes it look normal

WW2 taught us to shut down Nazis right away. Zuckerberg and Dorsey have utterly failed as Americans.

People are getting really excited about the future of WFH, but oh my god will it be awful for those with managers who need to see your butt is in your seat when at the office. Why should we expect this to change when the home becomes the office? Daily stand ups are now on zoom!