Meaning what? That true enlightenment is to affirm openly all your likes and dislikes with no care for what anyone else thinks of them?

That's what Virgina Woolf said.

To be highbrow, you can like whatever you like as long as other people don't like it too.

(She didn't say that last part out loud, but it's strongly implied.)

"It's not a bug, it's a complication."

Only true blue organic human slop coming from my IP address!

Retvrn to oldschool forums with chronological posting.

It would be really great if Google had a setting that allowed you to exclude certain domains from all searches by default. Like you, a YouTube video (or a Facebook page, or an Instagram or Twitter post) is basically never what I am looking for.

`-site:youtube.com`?

Yeah but I'd like a way to attach a "blacklist" to my account so that my searches excluded all of the unwanted sites by default rather than having to add negation operators to every search.

The level of trust I have in a promise made by any existing AI company that such a device would never phone home: 0.

Sam Kriss is quite good: https://samkriss.substack.com/

Nice, there are three of us whose minds immediately went to Disgustipated.

Salesmanship all the way down.

He's kind of hard to avoid at this point if you're a regular on any big social platform (except maybe Instagram?).

You can’t even avoid it on HN now. ;)