And yes, they are-

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_immigrant_detention_si...

Isn't the US building mass detention camps right now for all the brown people there? And arresting / detaining / demanding papers from any and everyone? With federal agents killing civilians?

Don't get me wrong, China is also horrible here, they have their own camps.

But pretending the US is positive wrt human rights is a wild take in 2026.

I certainly don't wish for death, I still find so much beauty and joy in life, and I still find and experience love. But I don't wish for an afterlife, or prolonged life. If I'm fortunate to live until my natural death, I will welcome it.

Humanity will go on, there are billions of threads of consciousness right now, and I feel so much gratitude that I was and am one of those. I have a lot of comfort in being wrapped and surrounded by those threads, and that they will continue around me when mine frays and ends.

My cannon view is that we're just the universe experiencing itself, and that while my consciousness will end, that universe will go on, my atoms part of it.

Please don't take this the wrong way, I'm genuinely curious but also a bit in shock. Do you really let an AI agent autonomously handle and respond to incoming board-level emails for you?

I feel often I'm behind the times, but this makes me feel way behind the times. I still haven't picked up AI into my daily life.

How do you know what the emails said, action items, who's communicating what to you? Do you trust it to handle and make decisions for you that are nuanced and in alignment with you?

It just feels disingenuous. Put a disclaimer at the top, so at least I know. But there's not, it's the author's name.

I can prompt chatgpt to write me this. I want to hear from people who know the tech/history.

If it stays removed this is probably my last interaction on HN.

It's just blatant censorship. There's not even any real political message here. It's just a fucking memorial for the tens of thousands of children (and tens of thousands of adults) that were killed, that someone coded up.

What's the lie?

HN is not unbiased, and not above censorship. Political things make it to the front page all the time, but this is the wrong kind of political thing. We're not supposed to talk about ----cides, at least, this ongoing one.

We have 30 seconds maybe while this thing is in the local atmosphere, Jesus Christ just keep the camera on it and let us watch it launch.

I know this sounds like whining, and part of me is annoyed that I'm so annoyed at this. But it was just such an emotional moment, and it felt like the media team had no plan or any idea what to do.

It's not just frilly video, it's how the world sees it, emotionally connects to it, and grows up loving it, and wanting to support more.

We had black screens as it left the pad, they didn't know what camera to switch to and kept changing feeds every 2-3 seconds, they switched to a grainy feed of the crowd just looking up while booster separation happened, so we missed that, and hastily switched back after they separated.

All the prep and they couldn't come up with a media plan? Maybe it was technical problems and their camera indexing was off or something.

Come on guys. You're going to the moon. You couldn't plan the launch camera / video feed better? This is how the world sees it, gets excited about it.

Not sure if you know, but in the same vein, I was shocked when I learned ~50% of the biomass of trees is carbon (right, we knew that), but also that the carbon came from CO2 the tree respirated. Also makes total sense in hindsight, but still think it's so cool.

The trees literally build their mass from the air and sunlight (and yes, obviously also water and trace minerals from the roots).

A single for-profit company owning the full HW and SW stack? My trust in companies lately is at a lifetime low. It just leaves a bad taste in my mouth.

I wonder how that sys app will be handled in GrapheneOS's google play sandbox?

We don't understand how our own consciousness exists, much less functions. You could argue we are a box of (biological) numbers.

I think we just don't know. Because scientifically, we don't. So I'm skeptical of anyone arguing hard for either side and stating absolute facts.