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given some of the other things I've seen from the guardian, not sure that would've necessarily been a contraindicator

I think there's a bug with your post button, it sent the same message twice

ja that can happen/s here too

presumably your bones comprehend all the non-weather reasons that .au is such a popular za expat destination

I get the club invite most times I speak afrikaans in pretoria

I know someone who's a practicing christian and has said they've seen angels

technical, intelligent person on all fronts otherwise. I have .... not pushed matters

(e: not claiming this person I reference is racist, more that I've heard some really fucking kooky shit in many spectra, so I don't know how much of a heuristic that sort of thing is by itself. the fairies thing may be a bit more concrete/direct - gonna have to try test it on some flaming racists sometime)

there are some phenomenal whoppers just in the opening paragraphs of that article, holy shit

this is gonna make great piecemeal reading today!

ah yes, a good ole

also @dgerard for your pillaging pleasure

pretty common to see that mentioned ito EU going after megacorps; the tone was set by microsoft actions in the 00s (the Office saga), and has rung a few times since over the years

everything the EU usually (tries to) stand for

only when for itself. there's a lot to (and which I do) like about the EU from the outside, but also a lot not

courts decide .. measure has to pass

yeah and the moment the floodgates are open, there will be a long tail of this shit everywhere that'll take an immensely long time to get cleaned up. and possibly may never be fully cleaned up. just like the current problem of surveillance-based advertising, which I'm not sure whether it can fully go away even if the very business model itself is made untenable - a lot of that infrastructure will die, but some will find new homes in more unsavoury purposes

but you didn’t actually say that, instead you had a quadro-ellipsis that could’ve been anything

and you’ve also just restated an obvious fact/observation with no point of your own? was there one?

some numbers on recent hypewave investments in here (via techmeme)

Last year, Tom Loverro, an investor at IVP, predicted a “mass extinction event” for start-ups and encouraged them to cut costs. Last week, he declared that era over and christened this time the “Great Reawakening,” encouraging companies to “pour gas” on growth, particularly around artificial intelligence

jesus fucking christ these people would love to call it the enlightenment or something, wouldn’t they?

“Sam Altman canceled the recession,” joked Siqi Chen, founder of the start-up Runway Financial

one day soon I’m going to get to my project of building up a graph database of every crank and issuer of batshit statements like these, so that in times to come I can easily follow up on ‘em and see how their shit aged. but all hail sammy, the saviour! no, forget about that musk fool, no-one ever liked him! sammy is where it’s at!