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Very good point, but with a catch I will explain in the tweet below.
Now why is it that I cannot use any app across platforms and resume where I left off?

Imagine a multimodal nightmare of this, with data trailing everywhere, and me not remembering whether to move my hand or leg to perform an action.
The thing is we will obviously get standards. But if we don’t fight for open standards, we will get proprietary standards.

Walled gardens = Harem of users that are reared exclusively to the pleasures of one emperor.
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I think there was a steady and continuous slide from 1970s to now, on recognizing inner talent vs outer bling-bling.

The 70s had rock stars. The 80s had pop stars. The 90s reality TV stars. The 00s had YouTube stars. The 10s had Instagram stars. Next we’ll have bot-stars.
The context of the artistic experience and creative process doesn’t matter much now, as far as popular appraisal is concerned. People’s attention spans got much shorter, and everything can (must?) be cropped and photoshopped in the most presentable manner.
On the other hand, there is a veritable explosion of tiny communities who nourish true creativity even today. But how do they survive and sustain themselves economically? Not possible as the web ecosystem supports only the top performers and aggregate monopolies. Not subcultures.
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It is true that we must develop machine-learning models that can represent causality, but there is no one notion of causality that “represents our intuition about cause and effect”.

All notions of causality are tied up with theology, and specifically, with the theology of time.
When we say the “intuitive notion of cause and effect”, what we typically mean is the Christian theology of time which is the dominant paradigm today, and secularized version of it known as “Deism”, that attributes the fundamental cause to a mover external to the universe.
This theological model of time is implicitly assumed within physics, for example, when we posit the “Big Bang” as the origin of space-time.

Then on, causality is modeled as one directional links from a “past” event to a “future” event.

But this model fails at singularities.
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Well, only the most misinformed of the people would say that AI is about automating “routine work”.

The most drudguous jobs are the last to be automated. It is white collar jobs that get automated first. The proportion of bullshit jobs that humans have is increasing over time.
Even if we accept that routine work is getting automated, and somehow that it is a good thing, what does “humans will achieve more” mean ?

It is ‘newspeak’ to mean “humans will consume more”. And consume till when? Until the ecosystems of the planet get depleted beyond recovery.
The strange western idea of “progress” as a kind of accelerating consumption of resources can only lead to one thing: human extinction.

Other civilizations had other metrics for defining what “achieving more” means. In that perspective, routine work is not at all a bad thing.
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NOTABLE: been solid vetting & anon feedback on /QResearch/ re: the this particular “KEYSTONE” theory. 🤯

As I was discussing earlier today—Q tells us to DEMAND DECLAS. Are WE the ones who have been holding the 🔑 the entire time?!?

WOW. #ThanQ anon.

#QAnon #DECLAS #KEYSTONE
2) KEY SIG CONFIRMED?

We KNOW that POTUS has the 🔑

...[AND] Patriots = stone

APPLY THE KEYSTONE.
PAINT THE PICTURE.

SHALL WE TURN THE KNOB???

#DemandDECLAS #ThanQ @POTUS
3) Q also provides this explanation for us as well:

WE ARE THE STONE >> WE ARE THE FORCE.

Key - unlocks the door of all doors (info)
Stone - the force / strength capable of yielding power to act on info
Key+Stone=
Q

Are #WeThePeople holding DECLAS in our OWN HANDS?

#QAnon
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OK #AndroidDev we need to talk about saving and state in your apps using onSaveInstanceState and friends. Broadly speaking this mechanism is there to have users return to your app after an interruption in using it and carry on where they left off. 1/9
Behind the scenes, the app might have been killed by Android and whatever you've saved in onSavedInstanceState is returned to you to restore the app to the previous state, as if the was app kept running in the background. Smoke and mirrors basically. 2/9
The trick is to save just enough in the Bundle provided in onSavedInstanceState to make sure your app is able to resume where it left off. As a bonus, view state is already saved for you by the system. Saved state is also provided after config changes (like rotation). 3/9
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1) Here is an op-ed attacking free speech, but it has some good content and I think we should talk about it. bigleaguepolitics.com/media-matters-…
2) The op ed is embedded in an analysis by @bigleaguepol but if you want to see just the video go here:
3) The title of this video op-ed is: “How The Far-Right Is Dividing Americans With Social Media.”

It is published by “Now This” and features Melissa Ryan, “Editor, Ctrl-Alt-Delete” and a “Visiting Fellow, Media Matters.”

#propaganda
#journalism
#fakenews
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Tight vote even on the timetable of debate on amendments. Govt wins by 321 to 304.
God it's going to be a long two days. Anyway we're nearly ready to go. parliamentlive.tv/Event/Index/b8…
They're going to kick off with amendment 110. This covers changes to the power of sifting committee for statutory instruments.
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The @Patreon changes are well meaning, but this is a case where I suspect some obfuscation is likely the better system.

This raises the patron cost of a $1 pledge to $1.38
This really only applies to the lowest tiers, but dollar tiers are what allow people to afford to pledge to lots of creators.
I guess the question is: how many people will withdraw some of their pledges if the price goes up to $1.38?

Is it actually better for creators to only get $0.62 on a $1 pledge if it means more patrons?
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