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  i was talking today with friends about the online #surveillance "age verification" laws and i realised one important thing: your stance about them depends mainly on how cynical you are about people online. if you believe that people online are mainly out to get you and your kids then you are most likely in favour. if you think that the kids can meet other normal kids and make meaningful connections with strangers online then you are probably opposed to anything that would make...

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  @mo i might be just an old man yelling at the clouds but when did this "bortle scale" became a thing? and why? i remember spending every single summer when i was a teenager under the stars and we simply used the limit magnitude as a measure of sky quality...

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  @jamesthomson@mastodon.social i thought it was to indicate that in the next version they will use AI to rewrite everything and it will join famous club 27

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  some time ago i (half) joked that the only job #llm can replace outright is the CEO. today i attended an earnings call where a synthetised voice of our CEO read multi-page long table of numbers from an official financial document, according to a script prepared by claude, over a single slide titled "company earnings 2025" - to a room full of employees who commuted to the office to watch it in person. there was no management present or even shown on the screen. it was the most disturb...