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New comment by d23 in "The Origins of Wokeness"

d23 — Tue, 14 Jan 2025 14:49:08 +0000

What an embarrassment. To think I once respected you. On the near eve of Trump retaking power and this poorly reasoned garbage is what you choose to post. The most generous explanation I can muster is that this is a cynical ploy to ingratiate yourself with the man who just bought the government.

Congrats on pontificating on the most serious issue of our time: why you can’t call black people negros or colored people. I’m done with HN.

New comment by d23 in "Ask HN: What sub $200 product improved your 2024"

d23 — Wed, 08 Jan 2025 16:04:36 +0000

Can you recommend a brand / model?

New comment by d23 in "Released my first solo game about humans taking robot jobs, a ludum dare winner"

d23 — Wed, 18 Sep 2024 12:26:16 +0000

Though I've worked on a few game-sort-of-things professionally (the original 2017 /r/place being the most well known), this is my first solo project. This started as a Ludum Dare game jam entry with a friend, and we got #1 in the Fun category, #1 in the Innovative category, and #6 Overall out of ~2000 entries.

Honestly, I was blown away (called my friend after we finished but before reviews came out and both agreed: we weren't sure if this was even fun), and this was the push I needed to go off on my own and make something bigger.

I've been working on it for about 10 months, but a significant amount of that time was spent in things that didn't feel very productive: trying to figure out marketing / PR, trying to pitch publishers, setting up a business, play testing, and trying to jump through app store hoops. I think a lot of that will be easier next time.

Released my first solo game about humans taking robot jobs, a ludum dare winner

d23 — Wed, 18 Sep 2024 12:26:16 +0000

Article URL: https://machineyearninggame.com/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41578867

Points: 1

# Comments: 1

New comment by d23 in "Advantages of incompetent management"

d23 — Mon, 08 Jul 2024 03:52:52 +0000

I’m really curious to learn more. Do you have a way I could contact you?

New comment by d23 in "Linda Yaccarino is the new CEO of Twitter"

d23 — Sat, 13 May 2023 20:00:55 +0000

You’re right. I need to do some serious soul searching to try to figure out why I am getting drawn into this head wall banging.

New comment by d23 in "Linda Yaccarino is the new CEO of Twitter"

d23 — Sat, 13 May 2023 20:00:05 +0000

I have now directly addressed your defense that he has only done it once by bringing up another case.

New comment by d23 in "Linda Yaccarino is the new CEO of Twitter"

d23 — Sat, 13 May 2023 19:07:04 +0000

I'm going to go out on a limb here with the way you've consistently dodged whether you think this is acceptable behavior and say that even if I brought up another example, Yoel Roth, you still would have a way of doing gymnastics around it.

New comment by d23 in "Linda Yaccarino is the new CEO of Twitter"

d23 — Sat, 13 May 2023 17:25:54 +0000

Is that seriously your beef, that I said pedophiles instead of pedophile? You are completely avoiding the substance of the point.

Twitter appeared to limit the reach of investigative news site Bellingcat

d23 — Sat, 13 May 2023 16:55:48 +0000

Article URL: https://www.businessinsider.com/twitter-appears-limit-bellingcat-after-elon-musk-called-it-psyop-2023-5

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35930218

Points: 22

# Comments: 4

New comment by d23 in "Linda Yaccarino is the new CEO of Twitter"

d23 — Sat, 13 May 2023 16:53:25 +0000

It wasn't their statement, it was mine, and your response concedes that Musk did exactly that.

I just can't wrap my head around this. How can you both concede the behavior and be perfectly fine with and defend it?

New comment by d23 in "Turn ideas into music with MusicLM"

d23 — Sat, 13 May 2023 01:37:45 +0000

I like some of the outputs, but as far as I can tell you aren't exposing any way to actually use the model? And the last demos you posted are a year ago?

New comment by d23 in "Turn ideas into music with MusicLM"

d23 — Sat, 13 May 2023 01:35:30 +0000

I'd take just having more control at a more granular level rather than having it try to generate a full song every time (e.g. generating just foley noises, or just a guitar melody, etc).

New comment by d23 in "Linda Yaccarino is the new CEO of Twitter"

d23 — Sat, 13 May 2023 01:33:10 +0000

Part of me wished I hadn't spent so much time responding to it on here, but I appreciate your response. It makes me feel a bit better.

New comment by d23 in "Linda Yaccarino is the new CEO of Twitter"

d23 — Sat, 13 May 2023 00:05:37 +0000

You are missing that this is one of many racist signalers and memes white supremacists and nazis use to justify their hatred. They're based on incomplete and misleading statistics designed to manipulate people without critical thinking skills.

New comment by d23 in "Linda Yaccarino is the new CEO of Twitter"

d23 — Sat, 13 May 2023 00:02:27 +0000

I just don't know how many times I have to post the same basic takedown of why this presentation is a problem: https://twitter.com/JuddLegum/status/1655948197129494532

It's completely removing intra-racial statistics that would make the problem much more apparent, which is that there are far more white people in America than black people, and thus, there are far more white victims of crime than black victims. Expressing absolute numbers rather than percentages is a bald faced misrepresentation, and the creator of the graphic went out of their way to represent it that way (the cited source has the data correctly expressed as a percentage and includes intra-racial statistics too).

The fundamental problem: this is designed to mislead people like you and it works. And I'm struggling not to be rude here, but it is really hard for me not to see how someone with even the most rudimentary critical thinking skills couldn't look at a graphic like that and immediately see the red flags.

New comment by d23 in "Linda Yaccarino is the new CEO of Twitter"

d23 — Fri, 12 May 2023 23:49:17 +0000

> Are you questioning whether this is the right place for you based more on quality of discourse or on the leanings of the views expressed?

Both. I am uninterested in hanging out with the 13/52 crowd.

New comment by d23 in "Linda Yaccarino is the new CEO of Twitter"

d23 — Fri, 12 May 2023 23:45:09 +0000

Complaining about "disproportionate media coverage" is a thin veil for the delivery of the more insidious message the dishonest graphic is conveying: why aren't they covering the real problem of all these black people committing violence.

And I didn't say it's the "worst" racism. It's cheap, low effort, dishonest, unintelligent, and designed to manipulate morons, which brings me back to my original comparison to phrenology.

New comment by d23 in "Tucker’s Message Fiasco Is the Wakeup Call You Need to Auto-Delete Your Messages"

d23 — Fri, 12 May 2023 23:14:44 +0000

These are the thoughts of an utter sociopath. He's a skilled propagandist trying to dress up his racism and psychopathy and put it in a more presentable package.

New comment by d23 in "Linda Yaccarino is the new CEO of Twitter"

d23 — Fri, 12 May 2023 23:06:25 +0000

I don't know how warped you have to be to look at that and think this isn't the most bottom of the barrel racism there is.