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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Elon Musk’s Grok Twitter AI Is Actually ‘Woke,’ Hilarity Ensues⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Decidedly mixed Ave increasingly right-leaning but I’m pleasantly surprised at my own experience having diverse voice chats with people who agree on one thing but disagree on just about everything else.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Cybertruck Is a Disappointment Even to Cybertruck Superfans / Looking at the specs alone, the car is delivering 30 percent less range than expected for 30 percent more money⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Tbf the rockets seem to work. Not easy to fake that.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨PlayStation To Delete A Ton Of TV Shows Users Already Paid For⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  disingenuously points to the indecipherable ToS

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨A Googler who just resigned after 18 years reflects on the decline of the company he loved⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The solution I’m most interested in is eliminating the friction to seed/early stage funding coming directly from interested user communities and even better would be to also draw as much of the labor pool as possible from the same group.

  I think this eliminates most of the misalignments in stakeholder interest.

  We already have equity crowdfunding in the states. We need more innovation in crowdfunding platforms.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Auto execs are coming clean: EVs aren't working⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Research suggests otherwise.

  An independent analysis of 15,000 EV batteries finds that most don’t need to be replaced until they’re well over a decade old.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨World EV Sales Now Equal 18% Of World Auto Sales⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Not to mention the $7500 tax credit and if you’re in CA there’s also a tax rebate (they send you a check).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The only ‘new’ feature that would excite me enough to buy an iPhone 15 is USB-C⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  If you have any interest in holding out another year or two a battery replacement would be much cheaper. If you’re looking forward to the upgrade then enjoy the new phone!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Cory Doctorow: Interoperability Can Save the Open Web⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  We have tools both new and old to work collectively against megacorp consolidation and we can do it directly in the market. Here’s what I would love to see more of:

  • Equity crowdfunding: Let’s have users/communities/customer bases finance new companies at the seed stage instead of relying almost exclusively on venture/investment banking-backed startups. I believe this greatly reduces the misalignment of stakeholder interests in finance/business.

  • Buying collectives: Let’s leverage our buying power to receive lower prices and have more say in the ethics of supply chains. This can happen at the individual level and amongst cooperative/independent/small chain retailers. This combined with equity crowdfunding implies an opportunity to work our way up (and down) the supply chain from consumer to retailer to distributors to manufacturer.

  • Open Source R&D via Invective Prizes: Ever heard of the X-Prize? Imagine a crowdfunding platform where the crowd determines the goals for projects and contributes to the purse and people/teams compete to solve it. The winning submission open sources their result in exchange for the prize. This gives the crowd an alternative to corporate-funded IP held behind walled gardens purely to extract profit.

  • Open, interoperable web infrastructure: Most features of social media platforms could be baked into protocols and made readable by any 3rd party software that chooses to integrate it. The fediverse we’re posting on right now is a great example. We have to have free, open digital communications to have agency as free peoples.

  All these options reside naturally in a market-based economy and IMO further empower political action while not inherently relying on it. It’s a powerful “yes, and”.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Man behind viral dress to stand trial charged with trying to kill wife⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Man that was trippy. Clicked my inbox and saw your message. Clicked it to reply and it brought the post back up. For the briefest if moments I saw dark blue/almost black and gold then it went right back go basically white. Like the image itself blinked but I have to assume it was my brain briefly interpreting it one way then reverting.

  Wtf

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Man behind viral dress to stand trial charged with trying to kill wife⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Wait is it black and blue in the thumbnail for this post? I forgot how much this messed with my head. I honestly see white and gold.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨It's early morning! Do you mind?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Ok how do I download videos on Lemmy?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Meet the latest way the superrich prove they're really, totally worried about the environment: $10 million electric superyachts⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I find them to be excessive as well, but since we have no power over wealthy people being conspicuous consumers the idea that they shouldn’t exist is unfortunately an unattainable ideal.

  On the flipside, expensive toys like these often support R&D that eventually reaches more mass market production products.

  People talked a lot of smack about the original Telsa Roadster (not getting into the politics of Elon here, what a mess), but the Roadster helped fund the Model S which funded the Model X, 3, and Y and ultimately forced every other vehicle manufacturer to get in the EV game.

  When faced with situations out of my control I try to find the best path to beneficial outcomes.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Meet the latest way the superrich prove they're really, totally worried about the environment: $10 million electric superyachts⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  The best answer between an unachievable ideal and a reasonable compromise is always a reasonable compromise.