ABoxOfNeurons

Spirituality is kind of an odd word because it can mean either "rigorous self-examination" or "crystal magic." The former is indispensable. The latter... Not so much.

I haven't read those, but the general tradition of Secular Buddhism they seem to be describing is covered in a ton of great books like The Mind Illuminated and The Science of Enlightenment, both of which I recommend.

There's a difference between allowing speech about a thing and embracing the thing. This is a classic case of embrace, extend, extinguish.

If you're interested, I'd look into what happened with XMPP and Google talk. XMPP was a federated chat service. Google Talk became compatible with it, and instantly became the most popular client for it.

It then broke compatibility slowly, pushing more people from other XMPP clients onto Google talk.

They finally removed it completely, and because they were the most popular client, XMPP users moved to Google talk to maintain their connections to other users. The protocol basically ceased to exist.

People are broadly assuming that's Meta's plan with threads and Mastodon, because it's an extremely common way for corporations to get rid of open systems.

They're basically /r/the_Donald.

After all that work they did to screenshot Twitter?

An adult drosophila melanogaster. Amazing and incredibly useful work, but the title makes it sound like a bit more of a breakthrough.

Importantly, they are not consistent with it, and there are many approved games with AI art. Steam moderators have a surprising amount of autonomy, and this isn't necessarily indicative of a company policy.

In case anyone hasn't seen this:

Do not fall into the trap of anthropomorphising Larry Ellison.

https://youtu.be/-zRN7XLCRhc?t=33m1s

Because the same legion of full-time Eric Cartman impersonators smears the same hateful dogshit over normal comment threads. This is a lot more effective than individually banning every member of the inevitable asshat brigade. There's room for instances that federate with them, but it probably shouldn't be the default.

The problem is that the articles from exploring heads take an average of two sentences to reach an obvious and malicious lie. There is no room for discussion under those circumstances.

For those who don't respect the authority of conservatives as the arbiters of reality, they have no purpose except as a glimpse into the abyss. It's like having your stream of memes interrupted every few pages by a graphic crime scene photo, only with the dread that comes with knowing that the criminal has a wide support base.

We'll probably see sooner or later.

I meant the whole channel. I wasn't being constructive.