TheFriar
@TheFriar@lemm.ee
- Comment on Microsoft employee disrupts 50th anniversary and calls AI boss ‘war profiteer’ 2 hours ago:
- Comment on Online ‘Pedophile Hunters’ Are Growing More Violent — and Going Viral: With the rise of loosely moderated social media platforms, a fringe vigilante movement is experiencing a dangerous evolution. 3 days ago:
Look at how much conspiracy content especially after 2016 focused on pedophilia. A lot of it. That carried over into this
- Comment on OpenAI's move to allow generating "Ghibly stlye" images isn't just a cute PR stunt. It is an expression of dominance and the will to reject and refuse democratic values. It is a display of power 5 days ago:
If you don’t mind my asking, how do you not have a moral objection to using AI? With everything we know about it, the theft, the benefit to the technocrats, the environmental toll, I could not bring myself to wave away those issues. Not to mention the power imbalance of this tech being controlled by the ruling class, looking to eliminate people’s livelihoods for the sake of profit. What do you use it for? I feel like we should be boycotting them en masse.
- Comment on The specter of a GTA 6 delay haunts the games industry: 'Some companies are going to tank' if they guess wrong, says analyst 1 week ago:
K
- Comment on How Tesla blew its lead. 1 week ago:
Maybe more ketamine will help
- Comment on Tesla recalls all Cybertrucks ever made over trim falling off | Electrek 1 week ago:
I mean, how many times have they recalled these same, like, 5,000 trucks? This is at least the third massive recall.
- Comment on Meta: “We're Still Investing Massively In VR Gaming And Don't Plan To Stop” 2 weeks ago:
lol k
Knock yourselves out
- Comment on Amazon Boycot March 7-14th | No Purchases. Its time to disrupt the system. 4 weeks ago:
Right? One week of not buying things from Amazon is fucking nothing. They’ve proven over and over that they’re evil and should be boycotted. Do people seriously buy something every week from Amazon? That’s like addiction shit.
Just stop buying from Amazon. I reached that tipping point like twelve horrific things ago. If you’re still using it, you’re just kind of a bad person with zero self control.
- Comment on The US Is Considering a TP-Link Router Ban—Should You Worry? 5 weeks ago:
Well I will say, their brand is definitely working class disillusionment, mixed with humor and some anger
- Comment on Watch: A real-life flying car takes to the skies 5 weeks ago:
It’s a big ass drone with a car shape 3D printed over top of it
- Comment on The US Is Considering a TP-Link Router Ban—Should You Worry? 5 weeks ago:
Nah that’s amazing. But yes, definitely check out more of their stuff if you like jobseeker. Another in a similar vein is Till Dipper. Not just because of the similar sounding names. But you really can’t go wrong. Their newer album is a little more accessible I think. UK Grim the song gets stuck in my head constantly.
- Comment on The US Is Considering a TP-Link Router Ban—Should You Worry? 1 month ago:
Sickusername btw. Ever seen them live? One of the best shows I saw in the few surrounding years (of the year I saw them)
- Comment on Robot with 1,000 muscles twitches like human while dangling from ceiling 1 month ago:
Ooh yeah let’s hope that’s the case.
- Comment on OpenAI whistleblower’s deemed suicide 1 month ago:
And American cops are all too happy to take one less murder case if there’s any room to say it was a suicide. They’re not looking to add unsolved murders, especially ones that implicate he most powerful companies and men in the world.
- Comment on Starbucks Baristas Aren't Writing Messages On Your Cup By Choice 1 month ago:
It’s like post modern millennial writing style. Outlets think they have to be clever and tongue in cheek and a little ironic. It’s annoying
- Comment on Guy Who Ruined Buzzfeed With AI Now Says AI Is Bad, Launches New AI Platform 1 month ago:
I mean, haven’t they had a really decent actual news outlet for a while though? I remember buzz feed breaking some pretty big stories and had really great investigative pieces done some years back
- Comment on Larry Ellison wants to put all America's data, including DNA, in one big Oracle system for AI to study 1 month ago:
What could go wrong
- Comment on When Platforms and the Government Unite, Remember What’s Private and What Isn’t 1 month ago:
But if they acknowledged that, how would they be able to high road people?!?
- Comment on Reddit Blames Google Algorithm Changes For Not Hitting User Growth. 1 month ago:
This is just attention grabbing language for something that really isn’t even a problem for Reddit. The longer recent trend of stunted growth could be cause for concern, but the actual numbers are something like they got 101.6 million unique visitors instead of their projected 103.4. That’s nothing. They’re talking like they’re in free fall. It could be the start of a trend that could be bad for a public company, but realistically, what we’re all hoping to see isnt what this article is actually telling us. Unfortunately.
- Comment on An OpenAI whistleblower was found dead in his apartment. Now his mother wants answers 1 month ago:
A truly depressing response to the article bringing up how yet again whistleblowers against major corporations are being killed mysteriously.
- Comment on Jeep Introduces Pop-Up Ads That Appear Every Time You Stop 1 month ago:
they would have you watch ads without seatbelts and without air bags.
No, they would require you purchase these because their business can’t sell their products without them, but they’d make you pay a subscription for them to keep working, and when you stop paying the subscription, the car stops turning on until you pay your monthly airbag and seatbelt fee.
- Comment on Apple Maps now shows the Gulf of America 1 month ago:
We’ve known since the beginning their products are made off the suffering of slave labor. Them being evil isn’t new whatsoever.
- Comment on US Bill proposed to jail people who download Deepseek 1 month ago:
You overestimate the strength of the cognitive dissonance. These people have somehow found a way to overcome the concept of hypocrisy and the consequences for it. They’re impervious to shame and repercussions.
This is them gathering their strength. The more we care about facts and honesty, the more they win. This is kind of the endgame
- Comment on Trump signs order establishing a sovereign wealth fund that he says could buy TikTok 1 month ago:
Two inches from the best timeline. We got fucked.
What two inches? What was the best timeline that we missed out on so narrowly? 2000? Because Reagan won by a lot, if I’m remembering correctly.
- Comment on Day 200 of posting a Daily Screenshot from the games I’ve been playing until I forget to post Screenshots 1 month ago:
Hey! Dropping you a line in this AW2 thread too! lol
I love AW2. I think it might’ve been your post that made me pick up Control, actually. LOVED that! And the DLC is massive and so much fun. I loved the AW tie-ins.
We seem to have a pretty similar taste in games, so I’m glad to hear you loved and wanted to replay Silent Hill 2 right after playing it. That’s my next purchase, for sure. Although, where we differ is that I LOVE replaying games. Especially games like Cyberpunk, where the openness and discovery of the thing leaves a lot to keep finding. I mean, shit, I’m on an embarrassing number of playthroughs and im still finding new locations, new ways to interact or new pieces of each gig story to see. Love it.
My all-time games (I’m a very new gamer) are Cyberpunk, RDR2, AW2, and Control. I want to find more that strike me in the way these have.
- Comment on Day 105 of posting a Daily Screenshot from the games I’ve been playing until I forget to post Screenshots 1 month ago:
Hell yes! Dude I still have been replaying it. And finding new stuff. That DLC, too! It’s so damn good. Glad you’re enjoying it! And I’m glad you remembered to let me know hah! I wish there were more games like this.
- Comment on Day 174 of posting a Daily Screenshot from the games I’ve been playing until I forget to post Screenshots 2 months ago:
So RDR2O is good? I love RDR2, and I’ve played the campaign to death. But I tried online and found it…meh. Maybe I didn’t invest in it and I was looking for a more cohesive story or maybe a helping hand in getting my toes wet, but it just felt like there was nothing novel or interesting to do. I’m sure playing with someone makes it a lot more fun. I was really looking for more of the campaign. That’s not what it is.
- Comment on Call of Duty's massive development budgets revealed: $700 million for Black Ops Cold War 2 months ago:
I mean, factoring in advertising costs and shit, especially with a huge advertising push, could make that total number rise dramatically. And when you actually have the government pumping you full of money, you find ways to spend it. When other games end up asking themselves if they can afford to ____ because the timeline is _____, this kind of production gets to say, “do it. Hire more people.” And it doesn’t have to involve crunch.
- Comment on Experts say high food prices are here to stay. Here's why 2 months ago:
We need to start organizing (in person), grab-n-go demonstrations en masse. People, in person, get together, leaflet-bomb a store after everyone fills up their carts, and everyone runs out. Free food, taken from the culprits (organize only at corporate retailers), and a dent in their most delicate jewels: their fuckin wallets (and their black hearts).
The trend spreads, and a point is made. Did I mention the free food?
- Comment on I still don’t think companies serve you ads based on spying through your microphone 2 months ago:
I found indisputable proof of this happening.
We were using Google maps, driving in a production van. We were talking about the song “Gasolina” by daddy yankee. The person whose phone it was did not speak Spanish. Moments later we were being served suggestions to stop at “estaciones de gasolina”