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Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 6th April 2025
  • Assuming the common use of third world to mean "poor countries", then I suppose a "fourth world" country would be one that is poor and *also *not really a functional state, perhaps with some armed conflict going on.

    But to describe NYC as that? Nonsense.

  • Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 23 February 2025
  • National ID wouldn't change that unless voter local registration and change-of-address updates were all rigidly and securely integrated.

    So long as voter registration is a locally-managed list of names and addresses it's possible to go in and arbitrarily declare some of the registrations void.

  • the enshittification of magic: the gathering
  • Yeah that was my read of the game from my first exposure to it. "You have to buy cards sight-unseen hoping to get good ones? That's a scam."

    It's like they looked at Dungeons and Dragons product churn and thought "No, that's not shitty enough"

  • State Dept funded report says AI doom is coming
    time.com U.S. Must Act Quickly to Avoid Risks From AI, Report Says

    The U.S. government must move “decisively” to avert an “extinction-level threat" to humanity from AI, says a government-commissioned report

    U.S. Must Act Quickly to Avoid Risks From AI, Report Says

    The authors said on Twitter that they aren't EA's, but they surveyed people at valley AI companies to write the report, so it's probably quite influenced by EAs.

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