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- Comment on Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales isn’t worried about Elon Musk’s Grokipedia: ‘Not optimistic he will create anything very useful right now’ 11 hours ago:
Yet another horrible thing that apparently exists. Boooo.
- Comment on Python Foundation rejects $1.5M grant with no-DEI strings 18 hours ago:
Especially in light of how incompetent this administration is, and how bad it is at clearly communicating ideas, they made the only sensible choice. Maybe there’s more details in the grant terms itself, but from the article it looks like it just says “don’t advance or promote DEI”, and without explicitly defining what they mean by that they are setting up a trap.
PyPI is smart not to take the money.
- Comment on Another WSJ banger about why the poors aren't doing more 5 days ago:
The milestones have become outcroppings on a sheer rock face. Gripping like hell to one while searching for the next one. Stretching, grasping, searching, missing.
No rope.
- Comment on Ruby Central tries to make peace after 'hostile takeover' 1 week ago:
Yes, self-organization without the distorting effects of corporations, massive grants, or quasi-celebrities is best for most groups.
- Comment on A young woman was sexually assaulted while out DoorDashing. Two days after she reported the assault to DoorDash, they deactivated her account and she can't access the money she's owed. 1 week ago:
Technically I don’t even care that she filmed him within his home, although I’m sure he would and it’s not great behavior. The problem I have is that she posted it online. I feel like sometimes people forget that taking a picture or recording a video is one thing, and posting it online is a completely different thing, but because we see all these pictures and videos from other people online we forget that they made two separate choices in order for us to do so: they recorded the thing and they shared it with us.
- Comment on A young woman was sexually assaulted while out DoorDashing. Two days after she reported the assault to DoorDash, they deactivated her account and she can't access the money she's owed. 1 week ago:
She was told to leave the bag on the porch.
- Comment on A young woman was sexually assaulted while out DoorDashing. Two days after she reported the assault to DoorDash, they deactivated her account and she can't access the money she's owed. 1 week ago:
Okay but also don’t record people without their consent and post it publicly. Idk why she was suspended but that would be reason enough.
If you think it would be evidence of a crime and you felt like you needed it to pursue charges I could understand saving a photo or video privately to later turn over, but suppose dude got blitzed, ordered DoorDash, and passed out before it arrived, and you’re gonna share that with 8 billion of your closest friends? Gtfo
- Comment on Two New Windows Zero-Days Exploited in the Wild — One Affects Every Version Ever Shipped 1 week ago:
I expect it’s stuff like ATMs, Coinstar machines. Things that may need to phone home regularly but don’t need to sit online constantly.
- Comment on The Ensh*ttification of Everything with Cory Doctorow [1:49:08] 2 weeks ago:
Adam Conover has the smarm of Alton Brown with the deep knowledge of James Corden. Truly the Joe Rogan of the Left. But he has had some good guests on his show lately.
- Comment on 3 weeks ago:
Congratulations, you’re not an asshole. 🙃
Also apparently it’s already been forked 🎉
- Comment on Recommendations for the current sale 3 weeks ago:
Valid list.
- Comment on Crunchyroll Faces Cancelation: Why Anime Fans Are Choosing Piracy After Latest Update 3 weeks ago:
What do you think should be done to you?
- Comment on Crunchyroll Faces Cancelation: Why Anime Fans Are Choosing Piracy After Latest Update 3 weeks ago:
Given how things have been going, it seems an appropriate course of action.
- Comment on OpenAI's new Sora video generator to require copyright holders to opt out, WSJ reports 4 weeks ago:
Not how the law works…for the poors.
- Comment on 4 weeks ago:
I feel like maybe the Arab Spring, inspirational as it was, was half-baked. I believe it’s possible that open broadcast microblogging system might have generated a sense of solidarity and community that exceeded the facts on the ground.
- Comment on 4 weeks ago:
Here’s a thought: no microblogging platform is suitable for professional use. Cut it out, stop it.
- Comment on [de] Chatting with right-wing extremist “paedophile hunters”: Group hunts down suspected pedophiles. Their fantasies also target gays, Jews, and leftists. Reporter has been reading their Signal chat 5 weeks ago:
Yeah, but the odds (and advisability) of “normalizing” pedos (despite some movements in the 70’s), similar to how gay people were is…well I think it’s low, for reasons I hope I don’t have to explain. That’s what makes them a useful perennial target, or claim. Universal one too, even people on the left will throw it around as an accusation. It can devolve into arguments about who is or isn’t a valid target for vigilantism (whether they do or don’t fit the category), when the argument should be against vigilantism itself.
- Comment on [de] Chatting with right-wing extremist “paedophile hunters”: Group hunts down suspected pedophiles. Their fantasies also target gays, Jews, and leftists. Reporter has been reading their Signal chat 5 weeks ago:
The obsession with pedos has long struck me as an excuse to generate violence against a target group by naming them as the most unambiguously vile people. It’s the core of blood libel, pizza gate, anti-drag laws, etc. I don’t think the turnaround of “you know who the real pedos are?” is all that effective. I think we need a revulsion to vigilantism that is even stronger than revulsion to any crime, so claims of crime or harm cannot be used to lend support to vigilante violence.
- Comment on Why do people call it “woke”? 5 weeks ago:
“Woke” was what some people said they were when they said and did certain things. Then some other people decided they didn’t like that first group of people, sometimes for what they said, sometimes for what they did, sometimes just for who they were, and they saw that those people called themselves woke. So they decided that they didn’t like woke, and when they saw other things they didn’t like that reminded them of the first group, they called that woke too.
There is not necessarily only two groups.
- Comment on Americans have 400 days to save their democracy 5 weeks ago:
I mean, I get it, but come on…
- Comment on AI Startup Flock Thinks It Can Eliminate All Crime In America 1 month ago:
I’ll believe it when they catch a McDonald’s manager shorting his employees’ wages.
- Comment on Saw this on another instance and knew it belongs here. 1 month ago:
Very edgy, very cool.
- Comment on Saw this on another instance and knew it belongs here. 1 month ago:
Itssa mystery💁♂️
- Comment on Vivaldi takes a stand: keep browsing human 1 month ago:
NGL, Vivaldi is the best version of Chrome.
- Comment on Mississippi's age assurance law puts decentralized social networks to the test 1 month ago:
Sidenote: when did Masnick become such a choad?
- Comment on Taco Bell rethinks AI drive-through after man orders 18,000 waters 1 month ago:
Order kiosks = good Voice to text ordering system = obviously not ready for prime time
- Comment on 4chan refuses to pay UK Online Safety Act fines, asks Trump admin to intervene 2 months ago:
I’m not sure I like the idea that you’re “offering a service” in a country simply by being a data service that can accessed from it.
Someone from Australia can call me and we can chat. It doesn’t mean I or my phone carrier are offering a service in Australia.
- Comment on U.S. government takes 10% stake in Intel, as Trump expands control over private sector 2 months ago:
Cool, now do Duke Energy. And Exelon. And Entergy. Etc. (Not that I trust this admin ofc, but if you want collective ownership…)
- Comment on U.S. government takes 10% stake in Intel, as Trump expands control over private sector 2 months ago:
🤫
- Comment on Jimmy Wales Says Wikipedia Could Use AI. Editors Call It the 'Antithesis of Wikipedia' 2 months ago:
Sit down Jimmy. Wikipedia has enough problems already, it doesn’t need more to be added by AI.