Micah Warren

Oregon the DM🕎 @oregonthedm.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 04, 2024 at 22:45 UTC

firework bans really do work not everyone will stop, but damn do I feel less fear about my house burning tonight

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Micah Warren @nonlinearpde.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 04, 2024 at 18:03 UTC

Every time Trump mentions it it seems to tank a bit. That or Tesla is the new store of value.

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Micah Warren @nonlinearpde.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 04, 2024 at 02:05 UTC

If only I could STOP to quit

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Micah Warren @nonlinearpde.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 03, 2024 at 15:38 UTC

I was arguing with a shareholder last week on X about how anyone could approve his pay package and he was like "Elon will add easily multiples of that to market cap" ... it seems like he's not wrong here

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Micah Warren @nonlinearpde.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 03, 2024 at 15:11 UTC

Meanwhile

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Micah Warren @nonlinearpde.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 03, 2024 at 15:09 UTC

My presidential campaign never got off the ground precisely because I couldn't convince the public I'm up for up the job

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Micah Warren @nonlinearpde.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 03, 2024 at 14:54 UTC

It's a psyop getting the kids to low key respect the sigma energy of Kamala and I'm here for it

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Micah Warren @nonlinearpde.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 03, 2024 at 04:34 UTC

What about an appreciation for othering? ... surely there's some common ground there

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Micah Warren @nonlinearpde.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 03, 2024 at 02:27 UTC

My take that I'll stick to is that in 40 years ( if we make it) folks will look back and be shocked that they were that they were many people who thought you could just not regulate the Internet

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Micah Warren @nonlinearpde.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 03, 2024 at 02:13 UTC

Honestly corporations not having political speech 60 days before an election wouldn't make me lose a lot of sleep

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Micah Warren @nonlinearpde.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 02, 2024 at 21:02 UTC

cyberbullicide is medical term

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Micah Warren @nonlinearpde.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 02, 2024 at 20:57 UTC

I'm talking more broadly about the trend the article is pointing to (not limited to yesterday's case) and against the idea (which everyone around here seems to agree with) that if you allow any regulation of free speech you're handing Trump II everything. There's plenty of room in between.

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Micah Warren @nonlinearpde.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 02, 2024 at 20:54 UTC

But step back a bit. If we didn't have an FDA, one could say that we shouldn't because red states would take they idea that drugs can be regulated and use it to punish people using certain hormones, when we know the FDA that exists has good reasons to exist.

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Micah Warren @nonlinearpde.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 02, 2024 at 19:52 UTC

So if scientific research shows that TikTok causes brainrot begins to appear we can think about regulations of big tech companies? That's a start. Also I don't think we should let what red states are fantasizing about distract us from the bigger long term threat of unregulated tech companies.

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Micah Warren @nonlinearpde.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 02, 2024 at 19:17 UTC

sounds like it could be a funny story tbh

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Micah Warren @nonlinearpde.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 02, 2024 at 18:51 UTC

you could've just said "no I didn't read it, paywall" or something

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Micah Warren @nonlinearpde.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 02, 2024 at 18:35 UTC

There's quite a large gap between "imposing regulations to make sure corporations aren't profiting off directly by prioritizing disinformation" and "the truth czar is coming into your house to inspect it for thoughtcrime" but I see quite a few people who seem these are one and the same

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Micah Warren @nonlinearpde.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 02, 2024 at 18:29 UTC

This was a hundred percent serious question. What freedoms do you lose if Citizen's United was overturned?

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Micah Warren @nonlinearpde.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 02, 2024 at 18:28 UTC

"selling eyeballs by the trillions" from "expressing your opinion". If we want to move forward as a functioning democracy we can't just trust all the Elon's and Marks of the world to behave benevolently, we have to get over this idea that you can't touch the algos witout eviscerating speech.

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Micah Warren @nonlinearpde.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 02, 2024 at 18:26 UTC

Short version of longer answer, there could be a regulatory environment in which the algorithms were regulated to make sure they aren't actually doing really twisted things, right now it seems like corporations have total carte blanche to do whatever, and shouldn't be impossible to separate /

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Micah Warren @nonlinearpde.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 02, 2024 at 18:19 UTC

OK, but "think of the children" is a good excuse to regulate lead paint, whatever sort of classification as common carrier status can be swept away in a week of June, and it's reasonable to think that "speech" (normatively speaking) shouldn't include every single profit driven algo you could imagine

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Micah Warren @nonlinearpde.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 02, 2024 at 18:15 UTC

what freedoms are you concerned about losing?

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Micah Warren @nonlinearpde.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 02, 2024 at 17:18 UTC

Ignoring the flashy headlines what part of the article do you find objectionable?

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Micah Warren @nonlinearpde.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 02, 2024 at 17:17 UTC

Did you read it?

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Micah Warren @nonlinearpde.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 02, 2024 at 16:27 UTC

Also Tesla stock is a Ponzi scheme

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Micah Warren @nonlinearpde.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 28, 2024 at 17:08 UTC

So bad day for regulations, unless they target homeless people

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Micah Warren @nonlinearpde.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 15, 2024 at 15:47 UTC

🎼it rained in 🎶 Eugene Oregon 🎶 The pollen is at medium I'm going to go for a run 🎶

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Micah Warren @nonlinearpde.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 12, 2024 at 23:19 UTC

Nice to see some actual numbers and not this $14.2 million banks used to get away with

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