deathbird
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- Comment on 11 hours ago:
Congratulations, you’re not an asshole. 🙃
Also apparently it’s already been forked 🎉
- Comment on Recommendations for the current sale 2 days ago:
Valid list.
- Comment on Crunchyroll Faces Cancelation: Why Anime Fans Are Choosing Piracy After Latest Update 2 days ago:
What do you think should be done to you?
- Comment on Crunchyroll Faces Cancelation: Why Anime Fans Are Choosing Piracy After Latest Update 2 days 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 1 week ago:
Not how the law works…for the poors.
- Comment on 1 week 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 1 week 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 2 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 2 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”? 2 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 2 weeks ago:
I mean, I get it, but come on…
- Comment on AI Startup Flock Thinks It Can Eliminate All Crime In America 4 weeks 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. 4 weeks ago:
Very edgy, very cool.
- Comment on Saw this on another instance and knew it belongs here. 4 weeks ago:
Itssa mystery💁♂️
- Comment on Vivaldi takes a stand: keep browsing human 5 weeks ago:
NGL, Vivaldi is the best version of Chrome.
- Comment on Mississippi's age assurance law puts decentralized social networks to the test 5 weeks ago:
Sidenote: when did Masnick become such a choad?
- Comment on Taco Bell rethinks AI drive-through after man orders 18,000 waters 5 weeks 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 1 month 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 1 month 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 1 month ago:
🤫
- Comment on Jimmy Wales Says Wikipedia Could Use AI. Editors Call It the 'Antithesis of Wikipedia' 1 month ago:
Sit down Jimmy. Wikipedia has enough problems already, it doesn’t need more to be added by AI.
- Comment on This CEO laid off nearly 80% of his staff because they refused to adopt AI fast enough. 2 years later, he says he’d do it again 1 month ago:
Kindly disagree. People actually read cover letters, and a cryptographically secured entry on a pubic ledger has some conceivable use.
- Comment on This CEO laid off nearly 80% of his staff because they refused to adopt AI fast enough. 2 years later, he says he’d do it again 1 month ago:
One guy is like “Friday is forced AI ‘training’ day” (as if one must ‘train’ to write prompts. Using natural language rather than a unique language or syntax and trusting the computer to make a comprehensible and accurate output is the whole point), and then he has the gall to claim “turns out people hate learning!”
- Comment on This CEO laid off nearly 80% of his staff because they refused to adopt AI fast enough. 2 years later, he says he’d do it again 1 month ago:
“Vaughan was surprised to find it was often the technical staff, not marketing or sales, who dug in their heels.”
So the people that understood it best were sceptical, and this didn’t give him pause.
Can someone explain to me why all these empty suits dick ride LLMs so hard?
- Comment on Popup Ads in Your Pickup Truck? RAM Trucks Now Feature Scammy Ads on the Center Display 1 month ago:
Yes, but where is it, to disconnect?
- Comment on Popup Ads in Your Pickup Truck? RAM Trucks Now Feature Scammy Ads on the Center Display 1 month ago:
Real question is what cable or fuse can I pull to disable this?
Bitch all you want about RAM drivers, but this is coming to all cars. Start resisting now.
- Comment on Transgender, nonbinary and disabled people more likely to view AI negatively, study shows 1 month ago:
“Some groups like bullshit less than others” says survey. “This is why bullshit is bad.” says author. “Here’s my post-hoc reasoning for why I got these results.”
- Comment on This boomer couple would be hit with $700,000 tax bill if they sold their mansion 1 month ago:
That’s… actually an interesting way to slow down flippers.
- Comment on Meet the AI vegans: They are choosing to abstain from using artificial intelligence for environmental, ethical and personal reasons. Maybe they have a point 1 month ago:
Age of majority vegan
- Comment on Meet the AI vegans: They are choosing to abstain from using artificial intelligence for environmental, ethical and personal reasons. Maybe they have a point 1 month ago:
“Theres no fucking gun to your head.” Bosses: 🦜🤖 🟰💹, 👨💼🔫🤓