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echelontoday at 12:40 AM2 repliesview on HN

Gruber's usually too much of a walking Apple ad for my taste, but I love this.

We need to define the things we hate. Give them words. Use the words as weapons.

I've been thinking about this a lot recently with "watermarks" of the statistical and non-visible kind used to track image creators. (Google embedding "this image is AI but also here's the user ID".)

I've been thinking that practice needs a new word too. It's not watermarking, it's signals-math based tracking, so maybe sigtracked.

That might not sound gross enough though.


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happytoexplaintoday at 12:53 AM

I find the characterisation of his Apple praise fascinating. It's really not that zealous, unless you hate Apple (which is fine). I think this image of him speaks more of the prominence of the Apple superfan image in popular culture than the actual reality of his position.

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y1n0today at 12:57 AM

It's more than just defining things. It's ridiculing them.