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New comment by iamacyborg in "US and Iran agree to provisional ceasefire"

iamacyborg — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 08:05:02 +0000

> Only a Zionist would call equal rights and the right to self-determination a "maximalist" position.

To be clear, this was not Hamas’ position during negotiations.

New comment by iamacyborg in "LinkedIn is searching your browser extensions"

iamacyborg — Fri, 03 Apr 2026 07:59:19 +0000

> The widespread "Facebook is listening to me" belief is my favorite proxy for this ... Because, it sorta is - just... Not in the way folks think. Don't need ears if you see everything!

Getting folks to install “like” and “share” widgets all over their websites was a genius move.

New comment by iamacyborg in "LinkedIn is searching your browser extensions"

iamacyborg — Fri, 03 Apr 2026 07:56:17 +0000

I suspect a lot of retailers simply aren’t aware that that data is being collected and sold off to their competitors (or to ad networks so their competitors can poach their audience)

New comment by iamacyborg in "I tried to prove I'm not AI. My aunt wasn't convinced"

iamacyborg — Wed, 25 Mar 2026 13:32:18 +0000

> liberal arts annotator

Tell us more about this axe you appear to need to grind.

New comment by iamacyborg in "Meta told to pay $375M for misleading users over child safety"

iamacyborg — Wed, 25 Mar 2026 12:44:47 +0000

Not if they can charge more for “certified” human impressions

New comment by iamacyborg in "Student beauty and grades under in-person and remote teaching"

iamacyborg — Mon, 23 Mar 2026 17:53:32 +0000

> There may be subtle variations available to men, but the simple fact is that many fewer people notice or care.

I wouldn’t say that’s the takeaway, even with a simple navy suit you have a lot of options.

What that article does do though is highlight just how low the bar is for men to dress.

New comment by iamacyborg in "Student beauty and grades under in-person and remote teaching"

iamacyborg — Mon, 23 Mar 2026 14:17:41 +0000

I don’t think that’s particularly true. There’s a lot you can do with texture, colours and silhouettes, even within items that are “the same”. I do think most men are pretty unimaginative when it comes to dressing themselves though, and most can’t even do basic things like getting trousers hemmed to fit them properly.

New comment by iamacyborg in "France's aircraft carrier located in real time by Le Monde through fitness app"

iamacyborg — Sat, 21 Mar 2026 16:03:22 +0000

I’ve been using both for ~7 years so I’m pretty familiar with them…

New comment by iamacyborg in "France's aircraft carrier located in real time by Le Monde through fitness app"

iamacyborg — Sat, 21 Mar 2026 12:28:58 +0000

Genuinely not sure what insights they provide that you don’t get out of the box from Garmin.

The social stuff is nice though.

New comment by iamacyborg in "France's aircraft carrier located in real time by Le Monde through fitness app"

iamacyborg — Sat, 21 Mar 2026 08:24:21 +0000

Strava has had a lot of privacy issues over the years, particularly with stuff like flybys.

New comment by iamacyborg in "France's aircraft carrier located in real time by Le Monde through fitness app"

iamacyborg — Sat, 21 Mar 2026 08:23:20 +0000

> and more because of the analysis, dashboards and stuff like that

Which is weird, because if they bought a Garmin device, they already have all that built in.

New comment by iamacyborg in "Afroman found not liable in defamation case"

iamacyborg — Thu, 19 Mar 2026 12:11:19 +0000

I’ve had “lemon pound cake” stuck in my head all morning thanks to this

New comment by iamacyborg in "Polymarket gamblers threaten to kill me over Iran missile story"

iamacyborg — Mon, 16 Mar 2026 21:19:52 +0000

I’m not sure what that wiki article has to do with a criticism of the oblique “late stage” capitalism term. Particularly when the only reference is a link to the relevant late stage capitalism article which mentions the term isn’t all that clear cut or even used with any degree of consistency, which is why I’m asking for proof that “every single” economist agrees.

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

New comment by iamacyborg in "Polymarket gamblers threaten to kill me over Iran missile story"

iamacyborg — Mon, 16 Mar 2026 14:11:02 +0000

Happen to have any links?

New comment by iamacyborg in "Polymarket gamblers threaten to kill me over Iran missile story"

iamacyborg — Mon, 16 Mar 2026 14:09:47 +0000

What seems silly about it? Labour is certainly more efficient but the principles and the outcomes remain largely the same.

New comment by iamacyborg in "Polymarket gamblers threaten to kill me over Iran missile story"

iamacyborg — Mon, 16 Mar 2026 13:45:40 +0000

The only things that's true now is that there's more laxity around consolidation of power in big business. The core tenets of capitalism haven't changed in thousands of years.

New comment by iamacyborg in "Polymarket gamblers threaten to kill me over Iran missile story"

iamacyborg — Mon, 16 Mar 2026 13:35:14 +0000

> late-stage internet capitalism

This isn't a thing.

Capitalism is just capitalism.

New comment by iamacyborg in "Polymarket gamblers threaten to kill me over Iran missile story"

iamacyborg — Mon, 16 Mar 2026 13:31:46 +0000

I wonder when/if this'll be banned like the mechanically similar binary options were in '18/19 (in Europe and the UK).

New comment by iamacyborg in "The emergence of print-on-demand Amazon paperback books"

iamacyborg — Mon, 16 Mar 2026 08:56:18 +0000

Acid-free is debatable, non-archival books frequently last decades or even centuries

New comment by iamacyborg in "The emergence of print-on-demand Amazon paperback books"

iamacyborg — Mon, 16 Mar 2026 07:22:48 +0000

Fwiw the quality of the print from the few letterpress books I own is worse than the print quality on a decent hardback.