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Farmers urge gardeners to check tomato plants as virus plans scrapped
Fearing hundreds of millions of dollars in losses, farmers are pleading with industry and home gardeners to help them limit the spread of a highly contagious tomato virus. ⌘ Read more

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[$] Hardening fixes lead to hard questions
Kees Cook’s “hardening\
fixes” pull request for the 6.16 merge window looked like a
straightforward exercise; it only contained four commits. So just about
everybody was surprised when it resulted in Cook being temporarily blocked
from his kernel.org account among fears of malicious activity. When the
dust settled, though, the red alert was canceled. It turns out,
surprisingly, that Git is a tool with which one can inflict substantial … ⌘ Read more

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AI DISASTER: Fears AI will leave Earth with population ‘the size of UK’ by 2300 & turn entire countries into apocalyptic wastelands
David Rivers and Sayan Bose,    -  The U.S. Sun

_Stephan: The remote viewers who have participated in my 47-year-long remote viewing of the future project, which began in 1978, to described a future radically different than the present day. One of the things that stood … ⌘ Read more

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Intense Culture of Fear”: Behind the Scenes as Trump Destroys the EPA From Within
Akela Lacy,  Staff Writer  -  The Intercept

_Stephan: The Trump and Congressional fascist coup is dismantling the government agencies that were designed to help America prepare for climate change and assist Americans when they experience some kind of climate crisis. Trump is gutting EPA, as well as FEMA, and I feel very sad for the millions of Americans who are goi … ⌘ Read more

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Scientific conferences are leaving the US amid border fears
Miryam Naddaf,    -  nature

_Stephan: For all of your lifetime and mine, the United States has been the world leader in science. America’s inventors, many of whom, from Einstein to Nikola Tesla, to Wernher von Braun were immigrants; American universities, which attracted the best and brightest students from around the world; American research laboratories, many begun and staffed by immigrant graduates of t … ⌘ Read more

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Now comes the ‘womanosphere’: the anti-feminist media telling women to be thin, fertile and Republican
Anna Silman,  Reporter  -  The Guardian (U.K.)

_Stephan: Most of the Trump Republican anti-democracy coup is straight out of Hitler’s playbook. The one thing that stands out for me, however, is the growing weakness and gender fear of a large percentage of American men. They are frightened by and resentful of gender equality. … ⌘ Read more

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Trump’s Power Feeds on White Demographic Fears
James Risen,  Staff Writer  -  The Intercept

_Stephan: Despot Trump’s racism was inherited from his father, and has been a life-long attribute of his character, and is a defining aspect of MAGAt world. Black MAGAts don’t seem to get this, but then there were Black slave owners in pre-Civil War America. We don’t talk enough about this White supremacy racism in the Republican Party, and media doesn’t cover it properly, if at all.  But … ⌘ Read more

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AI isn’t a shortcut for thinking. In her guide for skeptics, Hilary Gridley reframes AI as a collaborator—not a replacement. Use it like spe …
AI isn’t a shortcut for thinking. In her guide for skeptics, Hilary Gridley reframes AI as a collaborator—not a replacement. Use it like spellcheck for your thoughts. Don’t fear it—iterate with it. Insight improves, speed follows. Full post: https://hils.substack.com/p/the-ai-skeptics-guide-to-ai-collaborationRead more

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Fund managers quietly fear Trump doesn’t have a tariff plan and that he ‘might be insane’
Gustaf Kilander,  Reporter  -  Independent (U.K.)

Stephan: This article stood out to me for two reasons: First, this is what the United States and its psychopathic “tyrant” Trump look like to media in the U.K. and other countries. Second, it is one of the first major media pieces I have seen dealing with Trump’s mental illness.

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Ten Friendly Portrayals of AI
Artificial intelligence usually strikes fear in people’s hearts. The concept of other sentient life forms is daunting enough; having those life forms be computerized entities adds a whole new layer of uncertainty. Their capacity for knowledge far exceeds our own, and they don’t have burdens like fatigue or emotion to slow them down. That mixture […]

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‘He’s Building a Concentration Camp’: Fears Grow as Images Emerge of Offshore Prison at Gitmo
Jon Queally,   Managing Editor   -  Common Dreams

_Stephan: The Trumpian coup, like all fascist movements, is building a concentration camp for the people it wants to persecute. And, of course, they’re putting it in a location where none of their opponents can oversee what is happening. The Nazis did the same thing. Think about it:  30,000 peo … ⌘ Read more

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10 U.S. Military Plans That Were Top Secret Until Recently
Throughout history, governments and military organizations have devised secret plans to secure their nation’s interests or gain an advantage over adversaries. Many of these plans remained classified for decades, only coming to light through declassified documents or whistleblowers. These revelations often provide a fascinating glimpse into strategies, fears, and ambitions that shaped global events, offering […]

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Why the Christian Right Demonizes Discourse
J. Dylan Sandifer,  Instructor in Sociology at the University of the District of Columbia and Founder and Chief Strategist of Sandifer Strategies  -  The New Republic

_Stephan: This is one of the main reasons the Republican oligarchs and Trump find it so easy to manipulate lower IQ, lower education, and poorer White people. As the report says, “Their toxic fear of ideas is shaping the modern censorship movement.” I see all of this as a c … ⌘ Read more

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New Year’s attacks fuel fears of extremism in military
Brad Dress,  Staff Writer  -  The Hill

_Stephan: Did you particularly note that the two terrorists that recently murdered innocent Americans were militarily trained MAGAts? The rising percentage of MAGAts in active service, or recent retirement, in the armed forces is a trend I having been following and reporting on (see SR archive) in SR for years. It really concerns me because if Trump orders the use of the militar … ⌘ Read more

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‘Concentration Camps’: Border Czar Says Trump to Detain Migrant Families
Jessica Corbett,  Staff Writer  -  Common Dreams

_Stephan: Tom Homan looks like a thug and, I suspect, has been chosen by Trump because he has no qualms about behaving like one. I fear that on 21 January Homan will start the trend Trump has constantly promised, and that it is going to provoke a civil uprising in Blue states and in Red states it may become so intense that, as in the K … ⌘ Read more

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How women’s basic rights and freedoms are being eroded all over the world
,    -  The Conversation

_Stephan: Part of the manifestation of humanity’s precognition is the hysterical fear a growing number of men have about women. Part of it is, I think, that there is no other way to incarnate except through the body of a woman, and these men unconsciously realize if there is a subordinate gender it is male. So they seek control of their superiors. This i … ⌘ Read more

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10 Secrets Places You Won’t Believe
A burial mound above a hidden chamber. A huge basement that the U.S. feared might be sabotaged by World War II’s Axis Powers. A warehouse storing artifacts of a maritime disaster. Secret schools where teachers and students alike fear for their safety. A hospital in the jungle of a war-torn nation. A house built on […]

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Insurers Are Dictating Care and We’re Sick, Sick, Sick of It!
Adam Brown,  Emergency Care Physician, Entrepreneur, and Healthcare Executive.  -  MedPage Today

_Stephan: In order to create change in any culture it requires 10% or more of the community, state, culture to change its consciousness about something. It can be good or bad. Trump got elected because there was a critical coherence of consciousness centered on fear, genderism, racism, and resentment. To change … ⌘ Read more

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‘Our big fear’: How Trump’s plan to privatize USPS could have ‘disastrous consequences’
Carl Gibson,  AlterNet Staff Writer  -  Raw Story | AlterNet

_Stephan: Since he took office as Postmaster General, I have been reporting in SR about Louis DeJoy’s destruction of the Postal Service. It is much slower and more expensive than it was when he came into office. I consider it one of the major failures of the Biden administration and the Republica … ⌘ Read more

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As the fallout from the tomato virus outbreak continues, how could it affect prices at the checkout?
The outbreak has already led some states to impose bans on SA tomatoes and fanned growers’ fears the restrictions could cause more harm than the virus itself. ⌘ Read more

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In-reply-to » @movq @falsifian @prologic Maybe I don't know what I'm talking about and You've probably already read this: Everything you need to know about the “Right to be forgotten” coming straight out of the EU's GDPR Website itself. It outlines the specific circumstances under which the right to be forgotten applies as well as reasons that trump the one's right to erasure ...etc.

@aelaraji@aelaraji.com This is one of the reasons why yarnd has a couple of settings with some sensible/sane defaults:

I could already imagine a couple of extreme cases where, somewhere, in this peaceful world one’s exercise of freedom of speech could get them in Real trouble (if not danger) if found out, it wouldn’t necessarily have to involve something to do with Law or legal authorities. So, If someone asks, and maybe fearing fearing for… let’s just say ‘Their well being’, would it heart if a pod just purged their content if it’s serving it publicly (maybe relay the info to other pods) and call it a day? It doesn’t have to be about some law/convention somewhere … 🤷 I know! Too extreme, but I’ve seen news of people who’d gone to jail or got their lives ruined for as little as a silly joke. And it doesn’t even have to be about any of this.

There are two settings:

$ ./yarnd --help 2>&1 | grep max-cache
      --max-cache-fetchers int        set maximum numnber of fetchers to use for feed cache updates (default 10)
  -I, --max-cache-items int           maximum cache items (per feed source) of cached twts in memory (default 150)
  -C, --max-cache-ttl duration        maximum cache ttl (time-to-live) of cached twts in memory (default 336h0m0s)

So yarnd pods by default are designed to only keep Twts around publicly visible on either the anonymous Frontpage or Discover View or your Timeline or the feed’s Timeline for up to 2 weeks with a maximum of 150 items, whichever get exceeded first. Any Twts over this are considered “old” and drop off the active cache.

It’s a feature that my old man @off_grid_living@twtxt.net was very strongly in support of, as was I back in the day of yarnd’s design (nothing particularly to do with Twtxt per se) that I’ve to this day stuck by – Even though there are some 😉 that have different views on this 🤣

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In-reply-to » @falsifian Do you have specifics about the GRPD law about this?

@movq@www.uninformativ.de @falsifian@www.falsifian.org @prologic@twtxt.net Maybe I don’t know what I’m talking about and You’ve probably already read this: Everything you need to know about the “Right to be forgotten” coming straight out of the EU’s GDPR Website itself. It outlines the specific circumstances under which the right to be forgotten applies as well as reasons that trump the one’s right to erasure …etc.

I’m no lawyer, but my uneducated guess would be that:

A) twts are already publicly available/public knowledge and such… just don’t process children’s personal data and MAYBE you’re good? Since there’s this:

… an organization’s right to process someone’s data might override their right to be forgotten. Here are the reasons cited in the GDPR that trump the right to erasure:

  • The data is being used to exercise the right of freedom of expression and information.
  • The data is being used to perform a task that is being carried out in the public interest or when exercising an organization’s official authority.
  • The data represents important information that serves the public interest, scientific research, historical research, or statistical purposes and where erasure of the data would likely to impair or halt progress towards the achievement that was the goal of the processing.

B) What I love about the TWTXT sphere is it’s Human/Humane element! No deceptive algorithms, no Corpo B.S …etc. Just Humans. So maybe … If we thought about it in this way, it wouldn’t heart to be even nicer to others/offering strangers an even safer space.
I could already imagine a couple of extreme cases where, somewhere, in this peaceful world one’s exercise of freedom of speech could get them in Real trouble (if not danger) if found out, it wouldn’t necessarily have to involve something to do with Law or legal authorities. So, If someone asks, and maybe fearing fearing for… let’s just say ‘Their well being’, would it heart if a pod just purged their content if it’s serving it publicly (maybe relay the info to other pods) and call it a day? It doesn’t have to be about some law/convention somewhere … 🤷 I know! Too extreme, but I’ve seen news of people who’d gone to jail or got their lives ruined for as little as a silly joke. And it doesn’t even have to be about any of this.

P.S: Maybe make X tool check out robots.txt? Or maybe make long-term archives Opt-in? Opt-out?
P.P.S: Already Way too many MAYBE’s in a single twt! So I’ll just shut up. 😅

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New Research Reveals AI Lacks Independent Learning, Poses No Existential Threat
ZipNada writes: New research reveals that large language models (LLMs) like ChatGPT cannot learn independently or acquire new skills without explicit instructions, making them predictable and controllable. The study dispels fears of these models developing complex reasoning abilities, emphasizing that while LLMs can genera … ⌘ Read more

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Pressure mounts for ACCC inquiry into alleged supermarket price gouging amid claim farmers being paid 1978 prices
Grocery prices rose and major supermarkets made billion-dollar profits last year, but Bundaberg farmer Trevor Cross fears rock-bottom produce prices will force him to leave the industry he loves — and there are many others like him. ⌘ Read more

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Why this year’s bumper berry crop is benefitting buyers but not necessarily growers
Several wet years and this month’s cooler, spring-type temperatures have been ideal for raspberries, blackberries, and blueberries, but as prices drop at the supermarket there’s a real fear expenses will overtake profits for growers. ⌘ Read more

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Beyond the deadline: What I learned from a recent taskforce experience
The taskforce I was part of the last weeks is finally done! The deadline for the production deployment was met and today also a knowledge transfer took place. I’m happy to not have to fear weekend work or do overtime in the evening anymore, and hopefully return to a more regular workload again. ⌘ Read more

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Plex Users Fear New Feature Will Leak Porn Habits To Their Friends and Family
Many Plex users were alarmed when they got a “week in review” email last week that showed them what they and their friends had watched on the popular media server software. From a report: Some users are saying that their friends’ softcore porn habits are being revealed to them with the feature, while others are horrified … ⌘ Read more

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Rosa’s been selling produce at the Queen Victoria Market for decades, but now she fears for its future
Traders at the Queen Victoria Market in Melbourne say they feel “blindsided” by management’s decision to raise licence fees and hand back the cost of utilities, waste disposal and utilities to stallholders. ⌘ Read more

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Veggie ‘oversupply’ sees 70pc price drop on some produce, farmers struggle to recoup costs
Due to an unusually warm winter in northern Australia, an oversupply of fresh produce like capsicums and tomatoes is leading to fears that farmers’ costs for growing vegetables will soon outweigh their return. ⌘ Read more

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**RT by @mind_booster: 1/3 🚨Recent @POLITICOEurope leak revealed that US & EU officials have agreed to cooperate on measures to turn public opinion against #encryption.

Experts’ statements by @edri & @globalencrypt have called out against this plan

➡️https://edri.org/our-work/eu-us-plan-offensive-to-legitimise-police-access-to-data-civil-society-responds-amid-growing-fears-press-release/
➡️https://www.globalencryption.org/2023/04/statement-on-eu-us-cooperation-against-encryption/**
1/3 🚨Recent [@POLITICOEurope](https … ⌘ Read more

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Farmers stripped of 12 months’ income by freak hailstorm want changes to disaster recovery arrangements
Some Queensland farmers lost 100 per cent of their crops during vicious weather last year but didn’t receive government support as no disaster was declared. As climate change gets worse, they fear for their futures. ⌘ Read more

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Passwordless deployments to the cloud
Discovering passwords in our codebase is probably one of our worst fears. But what if you didn’t need passwords at all, and could deploy to your cloud provider another way? In this post, we explore how you can use OpenID Connect to trust your cloud provider, enabling you to deploy easily, securely and safely, while minimizing the operational overhead associated with secrets (for example, key rotations). ⌘ Read more

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RT by @mind_booster: Este mês a edição do Digital Rights Drinks acontece excepcionalmente no Mundo-B, em Bruxelas, a partir de amanhã à noite e durante todo o fim de semana. Vamos andar pelo Freedom Not Fear @fnf_eu 😉
Na edição de Outubro regressamos a Lisboa!

Este mês a edição do Digital Rights Drinks acontece excepcionalmente no Mundo-B, em Bruxelas, a partir de amanhã à noite e durante todo o fim de semana. Vamos andar pelo Freedom Not Fear @fnf_eu 😉

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Public Service Announcement: Fear not, we’re still on patrol and ask you to keep a close eye on your Yarn neighborhood. We got some reports of suspicious activities going on in the background lately.

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Quirky China: woman stops washing hair to avoid baldness, lost mother finds missing daughter by chance, man gives mouth-to-mouth to drunk friend
Quirky China: a man insisted on giving drunk friend mouth-to-mouth, a lost woman asked for directions only to find her missing daughter and fearing baldness a woman takes internet advice and stops washing hair. ⌘ Read more

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Fear grips cryptocurrency traders and magnifies the global rout in US$247 billion DeFi market, Binance’s founder CZ says
The crash in cryptocurrencies shows how the fundamental principle of DeFi – the pursuit of higher yields in the era of cheap money to disrupt and replace traditional banks – has been upended by rising interest rates. ⌘ Read more

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China’s tattoo ban for minors criticised as circular logic and irrational fear of difference, but many welcome new rules
A national ban on tattoos for minors in China has won praise from some but a number of people have questioned the need for such a ban and criticised growing state intervention into people’s private lives. ⌘ Read more

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South Korea’s BTS band break taboos but are seen by many as doing more abroad to battle discrimination than at home. Why?
The group is often criticised for speaking out more overseas than in their own country, but supporters say the seven are constrained by a conservative society and managers’ ‘fear’ of repercussions. ⌘ Read more

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RT by @mind_booster: LEAKED: 1st look at @EU_Commission’s CSAM proposal, expected tomorrow. Seems to confirm our fears that the law will go after all private communications in the EU (not just of suspects) as well as undermining #E2EEncryption.
The Commission must #DoBetter href=”https://txt.sour.is/search?q=%23KeepItSecure
”>#KeepItSecure**
LEAKED: 1st look at @EU_Commission’s CSAM proposal, expected tomorrow. Seems to confirm our fears that the law will go after all private communications in the … ⌘ Read more

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Alright, check this out. I just kinda completed today’s project of converting a jeans into a saw bag. It’s not fully done, the side seams on the flap need some more hand sewing, that’s for sure. No, I don’t have a sewing machine. Yet?

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At first I wanted to put in the saw on the short side, but that would have made for more sewing work and increased material consumption. As a Swabian my genes force me to be very thrifty. Slipping in on the long side had the benefit of using the bottom trouser leg without any modification at all. The leg tapers slightly and gets wider and wider the more up you go. At the bottom it’s not as extreme as at the top.

The bag is made of two layers of cloth for extra durability. The double layers help to hide the inner two metal snap fastener counter parts, so the saw blade doesn’t get scratched. Not a big concern, but why not doing it, literally no added efforts were needed. Also I reckon it cuts off the metal on metal clinking sounds.

The only downside I noticed right after I pressed in the receiving ends of the snap fasteners is that the flap overhangs the bag by quite a lot. I fear that’s not really user-friendly. Oh well. Maybe I will fold it shorter and sew it on. Let’s see. The main purpose is to keep the folding saw closed, it only locks in two open positions.

Two buttons would have done the trick, with three I went a bit overkill. In fact the one in the middle is nearly sufficient. Not quite, but very close. But overkill is a bit my motto. The sides making up the bag are sewed together with like five stitch rows. As said in the introduction, the flap on the hand needs some more love.

Oh, and if I had made it in a vertical orientation I would have had the bonus of adding a belt loop and carrying it right along me. In the horizontal layout that’s not possible at all. The jeans cloth is too flimsy, the saw will immediately fall out if I open the middle button. It’s not ridgid enough. Anyways, I call it a success in my books so far. Definitely had some fun.

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I’m getting back into running after a couple of weeks downtime. My left knee is not what it used to be, and I’ve decided to ease back into it. Mentally I’ve accepted that I’ll probably never run 10km in 37:42 again, but emotionally I fear getting slower… As if a slight decline, while saving myself from injuries, would be a defeat.

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💁‍♂️ If you’re ever on a UNIX machine of some kind without any useful networking utilities like ip or ifconfig, fear now! You can view the network topology of the Kernel by just doing:

cat /proc/net/fib_trie

😲 #Linux #Tips

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Being misunderstood is a great temporary moat. I could write a book on this, but suffice it to say, I didn’t have confidence in my own vision until I took the time to really look at others and realized that the main difference between me and the average idiot was that I had bothered to look at the ideas of other idiots at all. It was like their entire ontology had become an ant farm. It was the moment I realized, I am a super-idiot. I only half joke, because becoming a super-idiot liberated me from the perfectionism and the addiction to approval that caused a stultifying and primal narcissistic fear of criticism. If you are struggling with this, take it from someone on the other side of it: It’s ok, you’re an idiot. The Strength of Being Misunderstood | Hacker News

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Babies love putting things in their mouths: dirt, insects, bits of grass, their own poo. They have no sense of fear or self-preservation, and come up with endlessly creative ways to place themselves in mortal peril. Once they learn to talk, their constant experimentation with the world transcends the physical to the philosophical. They want to know everything. They are bottomless pits of curiosity, with very little in the way of attention span or self-discipline. Your typical two-year-old can only concentrate on a task for six minutes at a time. Young children are not self-aware enough to feel much in the way of shame, or embarrassment. Nothing is off-limits. The Embarrassing Problem of Premature Exploitation - LessWrong 2.0

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Some even left reality entirely, sealed themselves away in radioisotope-powered life pods beyond jurisdiction: Dumped into the pacific, shot into orbit or buried in the crust↵↵Immortal pod trolls, they are now the Internet’s ancients, feared by some, sought out by others

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