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And after the fire, the sound of a soft whisper.

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Starting an anti-shrimp welfare charity, where we pay vegan Effective Altruists token sums to eat unethically-farmed shrimp.

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@vikhyatk If you want, I can wander over to Mission and we can walk there together! (But, also, BART supports physical cards now, too, so if they didn't take your wallet, you can still use it!)

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@a_musingcat c*t-coded tweet

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@vikhyatk Infuriating.

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@MozeTech I don't think the city will make a true comeback; it has shifted from a labor-based city (programmers) to a capital-based city (vibecoders). Whether the mall gets reopened or not, it's still a potemkin village representing the ghost of something that used to exist. England-core.

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it's weird how this mall has been closed for the entire time i've been in sf. so big; so empty. i arrived after this city was over. it's like detroit.

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@vikhyatk Lost Mode:

https://t.co/RC5bOT9Q8x

Plus, apparently, you can remotely wipe a device, too:

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@vikhyatk Really? I thought the Secure Enclave and also the fact that iOS allows you to remotely lock down your devices would mitigate that.

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@CommanthaBiden it's gonna be alright

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@acidshill They openly bragged about the integrations initially. It seems likely this was an instance of critically bad PR forcing their hand.

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@ChaseBlagden depressing!

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@fabsbz @nevereatcars what i wouldn't give to be addicted to heroin in portland in the 1980s instead of sober in san francisco in the eternal 2016

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@herbiebradley @andrewho03 i know someone who lives right in the central part of fidi which seems even worse than soma, somehow.

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@imitationlearn enjoy your break! take good pictures!

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@bubbling_creek @BjarturTomas i think sam is unblackmailable, considering The Allegations. hard to beat those. guy just comes out on top no matter what

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lmao. my landlord sent me an email a few days ago that was along the lines of "hey. i know there's a guy who's been stalking you. yes, i did ignore this for months. please please pretty please get a restraining order others are starting to move out because of him im losing money"

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@vikhyatk @thsottiaux ultra max xtreme fast mode. statements of the absolutely deranged.

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@vikhyatk @thsottiaux in theory it's optimal to announce resets during off-peak hours such that the majority do not end up taking advantage but power users (usually vocal advocates and also tend to do more attention-grabbing things, inflating vals) will, to maximize PR without risking downtime

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@huyenduong_inc @severeengineer i took like a seven year break from posting online entirely out of protest of gpt-2 and only relapsed when i Had to be in san francisco and as such lost to the moment

most of my friends are better and luckier than i in this regard; i got to avoid chatbots 'til three months ago

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@severeengineer somewhere far away in niche IRC channels and on smaller social platforms owned by better people there lies a large body of people who really despise the entirety of the moment, and have since before it began in earnest

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@severeengineer not tuning into the space because my connection is terrible but: contrarianism still fully exists, it's just hard when the entire economy is weighted in one direction. i know many wonderful exceptional people who are against the current moment; they're just holding on & hiding.