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I meant literal global temperature here, not metaphorical! Though we should get the latter down too, and pronto
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It is when an AI is built on top of a whole chain of other AI’s, and then you block the whole thing
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It would make sense to do this but I think in practice they seem to shy away from it. By contrast with:
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Does any North American agency more competent than Metrolinx do it as well?
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Starter packs led to too much low quality interactions and a whole movement of follow-farming. Discover is used as a substitute for actually following accounts, and is a too non-contextual algorithmic feed; if you have a post show up there, you get a lot of drive-by low context replies
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They should’ve just done a nicer landing page for lists, but no “follow all” functionality
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I think it’s a wild choice that one (1) rogue Putin-friendly state can meaningfully hamper a process to add a European democratic nation to the union, and that there’s apparently not much that can be done about Hungary being part of the EU
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If your pithy, edgy, polarized online policy formulation would get laughed out of any real-world room of regular people, you probably should not use it as a rhetorical basis for public advocacy
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We badly need a Metrolinx-shaped agency that can develop deep expertise in building and operating transit, both to expand GO Transit and to get local transit infrastructure built. Metrolinx needs to be replaced or rebuilt so we’re opening transit, not wasting years and billions spinning our wheels
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Oh come on, post about a scam account, get a like from a different kind of scam account? đź’€
(There’s a bunch of these fake Ukrainian female medic/soldier accounts who post generic/fake things or repost news verbatim)
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1) There’s always bad things happening somewhere but there’s also good things happening; you can help cause more of the latter
2) Trying to do something gives you more purpose than just being an observer, especially if your observing is largely of the bad things
3) Better transit is its own reward
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Interesting idea. If threads were their own thing, replies could be required to be to “the thread”
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So, the same Russians who talk about Orthodoxy have now damaged one of its most important landmarks. Saint Sophia Cathedral — a historical monument that is 1,000 years old. One of the oldest landmarks in Ukraine.
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You can also think “fuck cars” if you have to drive everywhere, or perhaps especially if you have to drive everywhere