TheFriar
@TheFriar@lemm.ee
- Comment on Cops are deploying AI-powered social media bots to talk to people they suspect are anything from violent sex criminals all the way to vaguely defined “protesters” 6 days ago:
They’re bad for now. But the existence of them now is a dire fucking warning and the message is clear: STOP USING FUCKIN SOCIAL MEDIA. How many times do they need to take advantage of you, break your trust, sell you out, and manipulate you before you take all of their power away? We all know they’re evil, everyone knows they fuckin suck. The answer is so painfully clear. But people continue being the engine to their entire existence. Why. Just why.
- Comment on LG TVs’ integrated ads get more personal with tech that analyzes viewer emotions 1 week ago:
Gaydio waves
- Comment on The Last of Us Complete hits PS5 today, physical Collector’s Edition coming July 2 weeks ago:
It is
- Comment on The Last of Us Complete hits PS5 today, physical Collector’s Edition coming July 2 weeks ago:
Coupon: The movie: The Ride
- Comment on The Last of Us Complete hits PS5 today, physical Collector’s Edition coming July 2 weeks ago:
lol what’s not good about the last of us 2? It’s an excellent story, really engaging gameplay, great storytelling, it’s evocative, gorgeous, gruesome, poignant, sad as hell, has tons of depth, great characters, cohesive and interesting themes, great sound, voice acting…you really can’t ask for much more from a game.
- Comment on Black Mirror’s pessimism porn won’t lead us to a better future | Louis Anslow 2 weeks ago:
That’s a relatively new phenomenon. All tech media was positive and the stuff of dreams until around the 2010s. Because we were seeing a steady and noticeable shift in the power dynamics. We were being pulled deeper under a capitalist nightmare instead of flying in a techno futuristic dreamscape. We couldn’t see anything but the piling negative aspects of our technology: it’s killing us, it’s enslaving us, its being used to spy on us, we’re being told it’s a wonder but we keep finding out it’s a horror. This isn’t on us for not being enlightened enough to see asimov’s words. We’re too aware of the active manipulation and torture. They made us the product, and they made the things we bought spy machines and tools of manipulation and deception.
We need to create better, freer tech, free from the oligarchs currently wringing us all dry while they build their multimillion dollar doomsday bunkers with the money they’re stealing from us if we are going to build the better world in which the better half of humanity succeeds.
- Comment on The White House orders federal agencies to name chief AI officers and expand the use of AI, rescinding Biden-era orders intended to place AI safeguards. 2 weeks ago:
- Comment on Microsoft employee disrupts 50th anniversary and calls AI boss ‘war profiteer’ 2 weeks 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 weeks 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 3 weeks 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 4 weeks ago:
K
- Comment on How Tesla blew its lead. 4 weeks ago:
Maybe more ketamine will help
- Comment on Tesla recalls all Cybertrucks ever made over trim falling off | Electrek 4 weeks 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” 5 weeks ago:
lol k
Knock yourselves out
- Comment on Amazon Boycot March 7-14th | No Purchases. Its time to disrupt the system. 1 month 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? 1 month 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 1 month 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? 1 month 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 2 months 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 2 months 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 2 months 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 2 months ago:
What could go wrong
- Comment on When Platforms and the Government Unite, Remember What’s Private and What Isn’t 2 months 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. 2 months 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 2 months 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 2 months 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 2 months 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 2 months 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