1. There are companies you can pay to physically shred your disk drives. You have to be able to trust them of course for this to work.

2. Or if you want to DIY, you can drill or smash your drives. Just wear eye protection, etc. Making the drives inoperative like this is the only thing I’d trust, but you can also software-wipe them first.

Maybe I’m being naive, but it seems like the biggest threat of unchecked AI is “just” the further concentration of wealth (among humans). Which, ironically, poses a catastrophic risk to humanity…

Wait, when did the action happen??

Lots of hotels tack on “amenity fees” or “resort fees” separate from those. It’s pretty obnoxious, especially since they don’t show them to you til you’re halfway through booking.

I dunno. It sounds like he was a state-sponsored arms dealer. Was he really “doing good?”

Unlike Twitter, Mastodon seems to rely much more on stable hashtags for discovery. That’s probably because there’s no “the algorithm” like on Twitter. So with Mastodon you very well can subscribe to hashtags and expect them to get reused over time.

Intolerance of intolerance is essential to a free society. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paradox_of_tolerance

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Same here, although it’s only like 90% of my posts. I figured it must be on my end, but I guess not.