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New comment by damnesian in "Netflix goes vertical with its new mobile app"

damnesian — Fri, 01 May 2026 14:14:08 +0000

> Clips appear in an endless scroll feed, much like the experience on popular social apps.

An attention harvester, then.

New comment by damnesian in "AI chatbots could be making you stupider"

damnesian — Mon, 20 Apr 2026 21:20:00 +0000

it's not always the coding. it's keeping straight what you've asked it. I've seen mistakes that almost mimic memory loss. Node A is measuring node B. OK, next step is to apply this update to the measurement codebase in node B. Uh, no dude, we are working on node A.

this one anonymous guy may be vibe coding himself to $200k, but there might be bombs in there that won't go off until later.

New comment by damnesian in "AI Resistance: some recent anti-AI stuff that’s worth discussing"

damnesian — Mon, 20 Apr 2026 20:47:38 +0000

Thanks to this lovely site, and my distaste for AI, I've found a whole ecosystem of minimalist blogs and artists' personal sites. It's shifting my habits and foci. I don't do socials anymore except forums like this.

Maybe I have slop to thank for it.

New comment by damnesian in "Shares in shoe brand Allbirds rise 580% after it pivots from footwear to AI"

damnesian — Fri, 17 Apr 2026 14:46:38 +0000

I've been expecting- maybe just haven't seen- some coincidental divestment. As in, they knew what the effect would be, just looking to make a little money on a doomed venture.

New comment by damnesian in "Why are Flock employees watching our children?"

damnesian — Wed, 15 Apr 2026 21:50:25 +0000

If they are skeezing on adults at the pool and in the gym, you know they are on... everyone.

New comment by damnesian in "Don't feel like exercising? Maybe it's the wrong time of day for you"

damnesian — Wed, 15 Apr 2026 15:02:11 +0000

Exactly. I've always loved racquet sports- how it makes me feel, the improvement of hand-eye coordination, the competition, sure, all of that- but most of all, because hitting a ball with a stick with a bouncy strings around in a court is a damn good time. So it's never felt like an effort to me.

New comment by damnesian in "New bill would let New Yorkers hang solar panels from windows"

damnesian — Wed, 15 Apr 2026 14:58:13 +0000

windows should, themselves, be solar panels. everywhere.

New comment by damnesian in "Allbirds announces pivot from shoes to AI, stock explodes 175%"

damnesian — Wed, 15 Apr 2026 14:57:22 +0000

I tried suggesting this on a different forum and wow, did I get slapped down.

New comment by damnesian in "Meta Expected to Unseat Google as Largest Digital-Ad Player"

damnesian — Mon, 13 Apr 2026 14:11:06 +0000

Feels weird as Meta's overt role in my life has been contracting for years. But I know every corner of the web has their tracking cruft now, so guess it makes sense.

New comment by damnesian in "AI could be the end of the digital wave, not the next big thing"

damnesian — Mon, 13 Apr 2026 13:31:31 +0000

Hard to understand, when essential human nature is so predictable? Sure, we will do novel things with it. But society in the main will use to it exploit labor. same as it ever was.

New comment by damnesian in "Amazon to end support for older Kindle devices"

damnesian — Mon, 13 Apr 2026 13:25:53 +0000

I like my old kindle for the same reason I like using Linux and the command line as much as I can- to minimize distracting bullshit. Amazon wants all their devices to be data harvesters as much as subscription and purchase vectors.

Though I have to admit, my old kindle is more museum than anything these days, with a lot of books I go back to just to re-read sections I like. Learned quite a while ago there are ebook ecosystems outside of Amazon and minimalist readers which can use them.

New comment by damnesian in "Most people who ride bikes have no idea how to shift gears"

damnesian — Mon, 13 Apr 2026 13:20:05 +0000

there must be a strong causal link with terrain / the nature of these rides. I live in hilly country so I learned as a kid how to upshift and downshift. 80% of the rides I take would be slow and laborious with a single-speed bike. I'm willing to bet most cheap single-speed bike people (of those who aren't using them out of financial necessity or social conformity) are urban riders who have mostly flat terrain to cover.

New comment by damnesian in "Sam Altman may control our future – can he be trusted?"

damnesian — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 16:47:57 +0000

Any one person can't.

New comment by damnesian in "Iran demands Bitcoin fees for ships passing Hormuz during ceasefire"

damnesian — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 16:46:21 +0000

plausible, esp in light of all the things.

New comment by damnesian in "Attention Is All You Have"

damnesian — Wed, 01 Apr 2026 15:42:02 +0000

Nothing has made me want to go off-grid more than this article. It's terrifying.

New comment by damnesian in "'Worst in Show' CES products include AI fridges, AI companions and AI doorbells"

damnesian — Tue, 31 Mar 2026 20:06:28 +0000

if you can't opt out of terms, it's a design problem.

New comment by damnesian in "GitHub Will Train Copilot Models with User Data by Default"

damnesian — Tue, 31 Mar 2026 19:58:58 +0000

follow the $

New comment by damnesian in "I found a hidden library of podcasts (and it's brilliant)"

damnesian — Thu, 19 Mar 2026 20:58:25 +0000

Thank you, gentle poster. it does look fantastic. what a smorgasbord of possibilities. Morning gym me might be happier tomorrow.

New comment by damnesian in "Online bot traffic will exceed human traffic by 2027"

damnesian — Thu, 19 Mar 2026 20:37:37 +0000

then we need to redefine what "online" means for humans.

New comment by damnesian in "Pentagon asks for $200bn for Iran War"

damnesian — Thu, 19 Mar 2026 18:11:13 +0000

insanity!