Funny how "Eat the Rich" is not a quote from the article. Doesn't appear anywhere in there. It's quite the phrase to pull out of nowhere for the sake of a punchy headline. New York Times headlines consistently piss me off. I skimmed, and it doesn't seem too bad, but I'm a terrible judge of the quality of profiles like this. They're incredibly hard to get right.
From what I can tell, this guy (Fain) is a badass fighting the good fight and not holding his tongue. I have serious respect for him. Hopefully management starts to realize that they've been getting away with some wild shit. No more.
Yup yup yup! I’ve said it before, and I’ll say it again: most people think sex is awesome. If you don’t, then by all means don’t have it or watch it. But don’t you dare judge other people for doing one of the most natural and enjoyable things on earth.
It’s so strange to me that people stigmatize the one thing most humans have in common: that most of us are the byproduct of fucking.
Yeah, I’ve been seeing a lot of praise for this bot lately, but I really dislike it. I don’t like that it’s the default comment in so many posts, and I find it doesn’t help so I always just collapse it now anyway. Maybe it would be better if the bot could be summoned just when it’s needed for super-long articles? IMO most articles aren’t long enough to need a summary and just end up adding an unnatural automation ‘filter’ to the original text.
For me, that depends on a whole lot of things. Who owns it? Who pays for its operation? How much and what access does it need? What verifiable privacy protections are there? How transparent are its processes?
I’m just generally suspicious of companies whose products are ultimately meant to be integral to our daily lives. These kinds of tools will undoubtedly need access to a huge chunk of our personal and professional data to work effectively. I’d rather not interact with the world through the lens of someone’s corporate vision. With the right protections? Sure, I could see some cool and creative use cases. But that unfortunately brings me back to my general skepticism.
Jacobin is well known for its left-wing socialist philosophy. Their articles vary wildly in quality though, and I’d say they’re more miss than hit lately tbh, but there’s the occasional gem. I hate how many “interviews” they publish as articles, but that’s just a pet peeve of mine. It’s worth giving them another try if a different headline catches your eye.
That episode was freaking awesome. I’ve watched it a couple times. The music is genuinely great, and waaay catchier than it has any right to be. I love it when shows like this let themselves get a little goofy. This plus the lower decks crossover was just perfect.
I’ve been using Usenet for about 20 years. So many upsides.
Usenet traffic is essentially indistinguishable from normal internet traffic, so you don’t have to worry about hiding your activity with a VPN (though you still can of course). And since you don’t need to upload/seed anything, you’re safe in that regard.
Downloads are pretty much always available, no seeds. Once a file is uploaded and propagated across all the servers, everyone can just download it at whatever full speed their connection allows. I saturate my connection at around 110 Megabytes per second. There are retention times based on your Usenet provider, but they’re incredibly high these days so I doubt you’d come across many incomplete downloads, if any.
Quality is consistent. This is the biggest deal for me, as I’m incredibly snobby about quality. Want 4K SDR because the HDR on your TV sucks? You can find it for most new shows. Want a version with a super-high bitrate? It’s usually out there. Full untouched BluRay rips? Definitely. Nearly all media is available from SD up through 4K, from consistent uploaders/groups so you can rely on the overall quality. And since you don’t have to worry about seeding or download speeds, you can grab the highest quality you want as long as you have enough disk space.
Automation is a cinch with native arr integrations, and new shows and movies are usually available right after they air, often before it’s finished airing. If a show airs at 8pm you can usually grab it by 8:15, 9:15 at the latest.
Keep an eye out on Black Friday, providers usually have awesome deals.
Yeah, it was public. This was a while back though, more than two decades ago, so it was the relatively early days of those big online databases. I vaguely remember my school being part of some early trial, though I could be pulling that out of nowhere.
Drink it from a cup made of soy paper and you’re still just holding beans.