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  Beast game

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  Apple's new watches are always listening The latest Apple Watch models have some new features: they can listen to the sounds around you all day, transcribe snippets of conversation on demand and write up summaries of everything they heard. The new features may run into problems with privacy laws, particularly those that require consent from people being recorded, but also with unspoken social conventions about speech. When we talk with other people, we have some expectations about what...

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  I mean, that's exactly what the Romans did to him.

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  I don’t like this happening, and there should be transparency in all moderation decisions, but some of these points make no sense. There is essentially no expectation of privacy on threadiverse platforms. Everything is public and probably already being used to train models. There is no private messaging system. Direct messages are unencrypted and potentially visible to any instance admins. They and should not be used to share anything sensitive.

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  Meanwhile people out here hosting websites on [disposable vapes](https://bogdanthegeek.github.io/blog/projects/vapeserver/).

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  Actual photo of my mind.

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  I’ve shared several peer reviewed papers that show the opposite.

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  What a stupid premise to begin with. God is at least as real as money, love, or America. All of these are useful ideas to describe things that cannot be “proven” with objective evidence, but still have a meaningful impact on the reality of our lives. Arguing about the objective existence of God is a red herring. I wish we spent as much time talking about the very well studied social benefits and harms of religion. Then we could start talking about meaningful reforms.

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