TurtleJoe
@TurtleJoe@lemmy.world
- Comment on The Man Who Killed Google Search 3 weeks ago:
It seems clear to me that he hates the people that are ruining the tech industry, ripping off customers, and pumping out shitty projects for short term stuck pumps, and he takes every opportunity to shit on those people and point out their idiosyncrasies. That’s pretty much every tech CEO these days.
It’s also pretty clear to me that he believes in the promise of the industry, and thinks that workers deserve better than the people that they work for.
- Comment on tremendous 5 weeks ago:
Media isn’t reporting his obvious dementia. They call the nonsense he spouts “rambling speeches.”
Some other recent examples:
“We can’t have an election in the middle of a political season. We just had Super Tuesday. And we had a Tuesday after Tuesday already.”
Gang boong. This is me. I hear bing.”
I could tell you about aircraft carriers, where they use electric catapults. They couldn’t go to the steam, which works better for about 1/100th the price, you know? The electric catapult, you know that story? I could tell you about the elevators on a tremendous carrier, the Gerald Ford, and they decided not to use hydraulic like the John Deere tractor, they decided to use magnets, ‘we’re gonna use magnets!’ to lift up the elevators with seven planes.”
https://thinkbigpicture.substack.com/p/john-gartner-trump-cognitive-decline
- Comment on Amazon's Just Walk Out technology relies on hundreds of workers in India watching you shop 1 month ago:
They were using machine learning to try and figure out what people were buying. Machine learning has lots of errors
until you train it.Machine Learning, no matter how well trained or advanced, is just doing a make-em-up.
Besides that, in this case the experiment has been going on for years and humans were still doing like 70% of the work. It was a failure, that’s why Amazon shut it down
- Comment on Court Bans Use of 'AI-Enhanced' Video Evidence Because That's Not How AI Works 1 month ago:
Everything that is labeled “AI” is made up. It’s all just statistically probable guessing, made by a machine that doesn’t know what it is doing.
- Comment on Court Bans Use of 'AI-Enhanced' Video Evidence Because That's Not How AI Works 1 month ago:
A term created in order to vacuum up VC funding for spurious use cases.
- Comment on Huh 1 month ago:
It’s often still people in developing countries answering the questions.
- Comment on Pixelfed introduces Loops, a Short-Form Video App 2 months ago:
No, crypto is never the solution for anything. Its use cases are limited to drugs and scams, which are sometimes the same things.
- Comment on Reddit's new paid ads look exactly like user posts 2 months ago:
Recuperation has been around for a lot longer than the Internet.
- Comment on Reddit's new paid ads look exactly like user posts 2 months ago:
- Comment on The New Audi A3 Is Amess With In-Car Subscriptions 2 months ago:
Or they just all decide to do it, and you have no choice.
- Comment on Stuck 2 months ago:
Cyber truck buyers are Elon worshipping tech bros, which means that they think they are smarter and better than everybody else. This leads to acts of hubris like the above picture, which are obviously very stupid and easy to see coming, but these types of people think, “I am very smart and know exactly what I am doing at all times. This will be fine, because I am doing it.”
- Comment on Good luck out there 2 months ago:
In the US, you can get a pretty decent ebike $1,500-1,800. I wouldn’t even consider them a luxury in many parts of the country, because we so often have to share the roads with cars.
- Comment on Study featuring AI-generated giant rat penis retracted entirely, journal apologizes 2 months ago:
It’s certainly not helping.
We’re already dealing with the problem of half the (US) population only believing things when they align with their political views and now on can’t even Google something and be sure that the entire first page of results isn’t SEO AI hallucinated misinformation.
- Comment on US concerned NASA will be overtaken by China's space program 2 months ago:
The government has funded SpaceX, not musk.
- Comment on Relationship advice? 2 months ago:
This guy essentially founded modern “rationalism.” He has millions of literal followers, not just the Twitter kind. His dumbass is the one that spawned the Effective Altruism cult that has become extremely popular with tech bros. Sam bankman-fried, Sam Altman, Elon musk all subscribe to this “philosophy.” It’s all batshit insane and incredibly stupid.
- Comment on Amazon Prime Video won't offer Dolby Vision and Atmos on its ad-supported plan | The company is now facing a lawsuit over its decision to charge $3 more for ad-free viewing. 2 months ago:
Back in the day, before streaming was a thing, there were lots of people saying that they’d gladly pay for content if it was served to them in a convenient way.
It wasn’t just people saying that, it was backed up by studies.
- Comment on ‘Enshittification’ is coming for absolutely everything 3 months ago:
It is a word coined to describe a specific capitalistic process, yes.
- Comment on AI Launches Nukes In ‘Worrying’ War Simulation: ‘I Just Want to Have Peace in the World’ 3 months ago:
It’s just as likely to make some shit up as it is to be any kind of helpful.
- Comment on [Politics] Have phobia, will travel 3 months ago:
Yeah, there’s usually more than one of these going on at once. Makes it easier to pivot if they get called out for it being nonsense.
There’s always an element of racism running as an undercurrent, so you can pick your Boogeyman du jour, be it Muslims/Arabs (they don’t differentiate,) central/south American immigrants, black lives matter, CRT, DEI, etc.
Then you can add some kind baseless moral outrage on top. Trans people existing, gay people wanting to get married, satanic panic, etc.
It’s really like a fear cake, I guess.
- Comment on Across America, clean energy plants are being banned faster than they're being built 3 months ago:
Non-native lawns are a huge reason for the native bird decline across NA in the last 3 decades.
- Comment on Kids Don’t Think Congress Has Their Best Interests In Mind With Their Grandstanding ‘Protect The Children’ Hearing 3 months ago:
I think KOSA is a terrible bill. I’ve written both my senators about it. It only takes a couple minutes.
- Comment on Google Search is losing its 'cached' web page feature 3 months ago:
It’ll be nothing but AI spam.
- Comment on AI shouldn’t make ‘life-or-death’ decisions, says OpenAI’s Sam Altman 3 months ago:
People only thought it was the former before they actually learned anything about them. They were always this way.
- Comment on "Did you realize that we live in a reality where SciHub is illegal, and OpenAI is not?" 4 months ago:
This was a case where you needed the sarcasm tag. Up to then, it was a totally “reasonable” comment from an AI bro.
BTW, plug “crypto” in to your comment for AI, and it’s a totally normal statement from 2020/21. It’s such a similar VC grift.
- Comment on A fair trade 4 months ago:
Golf courses actually see pretty frequent use; anybody who has played a public course on the weekend knows what it’s like to be constantly waiting to take your shot because the group in front of you is still putting, and the group behind is waiting to take their tee shot.
A much bigger waste of resources and land are the sterile suburban yards that barely get used at all.
I do wonder how much fertilizer runoff, herbicide use, etc the average golf course is responsible for
- Comment on Could X go bankrupt under Elon Musk? 5 months ago:
I think the idea (I don’t say plan, because I think it’s more of a seat-of-the-pants situation) was to first destroy Twitter as a platform for any kind of left wing activism.
Next, make it profitable as a subscription based right wing social media app.
The shit last week was just a rich, fragile narcissist lashing out at his perceived enemies.
- Comment on OpenAI brings Sam Altman back as CEO less than a week after he was fired by board 5 months ago:
They’re all money grubbers. The board are part of a rationalist cult called Effective Altruism that claims to want to save humanity, but they believe they need lots of money to do this (Sam Bankman-fried is an EA guy.)
Sam Altman is also nominally part of this group, but also hangs out with people like musk and Rishi Sunak. He’s more like your typical alt-right tech bro.
- Comment on Trump McGill 6 months ago:
He’s using every trial to fundraise.
- Comment on A new smartphone again? Rethink unhealthy culture of frequent upgrades 7 months ago:
I don’t think there were ever that many of us who read Adbusters every month, but it’s likely even fewer now.
I think that reality TV and social media influencers have had as much to do with people embracing conspicuous consumption as a culture as much as advertisers have.
- Comment on The Batshit Crazy Story Of The Day Elon Musk Decided To Personally Rip Servers Out Of A Sacramento Data Center 8 months ago:
“Elon musk is a drooling socialist cuck who is apparently far too cowardly to meet my challenge of a firm July 4th, 2024 launch date for his personal mission to mars. Jeff bezos could easily do this if he wasn’t too busy actually running the company that he owns.”