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- Comment on Not likely to be AI-generated or Deepfake 2 weeks ago:
Even cnailshells would have to adhere to the basic laws of conchology though
- Comment on Not likely to be AI-generated or Deepfake 3 weeks ago:
I mean, it could be a manual photoshop job.
It could, but the double spiral in the shell indicates AI to me. Snail shells don’t grow like that. If it was a manual job, someone would have used a picture of a real shell.
- Comment on Tough Shit 5 weeks ago:
This seems like a good opportunity to tell the story of “Balloon man”
- Comment on In Leaked Audio, Amazon Cloud CEO Says AI Will Soon Make Human Programmers a Thing of the Past 2 months ago:
I wish I could give this comment more than a simple upvote. I want to mail you a freshly baked cinnamon bun.
- Comment on perspective 3 months ago:
This gem also springs to mind
- Comment on Ah sweet! 3 months ago:
I think the brain is only where the concentration of prions is highest and therefore the most dangerous part of an infected person to eat, but you can also get it from other body parts. But I’m no expert… haven’t eaten anyone in years actually.
- Comment on Some subreddits could be paywalled, hints Reddit CEO 3 months ago:
As they say, horniness is the stepmother of invention.
- Comment on After Musk's pro-Trump/Vance bender, X users report issues following Kamala Harris' accounts 3 months ago:
You mean embedding posts or something else? fedi.tips/how-to-embed-mastodon-posts-on-a-websit…
- Comment on What song would cause you to do this to yourself ? 3 months ago:
What, you don’t enjoy a bunch of sleepy whiny junkies self-indulgently wailing through a three chord Bob Dylan cover for 15 minutes? Man, weren’t nineties arena rock great.
- Comment on Bill Gates says not to worry about AI's energy draw 4 months ago:
Well, perhaps that process would be more difficult and resource-intensive in this hypothetical scenario, so it would be much easier and less hassle to just keep the bodies alive?
- Comment on Everything old is new again. 4 months ago:
That might also be true. You never know.
- Comment on All three game console makers have now abandoned X integration 5 months ago:
It’s actually amazing how much Musk managed to squander Twitter’s brand value in only two years. He’s really done everything wrong from a PR perspective.
- Comment on The Verge shows how Google search is useless 6 months ago:
I’m starting to feel like a shill because I say this so often, but Kagi is the only one I’ve found that actually does the job anymore. To me a search engine that works is worth the small cost each month, but unfortunately I don’t see paying for search becoming mainstream anytime soon.
- Comment on The Verge shows how Google search is useless 6 months ago:
- Comment on Or we could do metric time 6 months ago:
I like this idea more and more. All computers off, noone is allowed to work, just a big new years party for everyone.
- Comment on it works! only 99.99$! 7 months ago:
Plus forum search so you never have to add “reddit” or “lemmy” to your search phrase again.
- Comment on Last one but it’s a hell of a book 8 months ago:
There definitely should have been an 12" extended dance mix with the complete lyrics included.
- Comment on Last one but it’s a hell of a book 8 months ago:
Psalm 137
By the rivers of Babylon we sat and wept when we remembered Zion.
There on the poplars we hung our harps, for there our captors asked us for songs, our tormentors demanded songs of joy; they said, “Sing us one of the songs of Zion!”
How can we sing the songs of the Lord while in a foreign land? If I forget you, Jerusalem, may my right hand forget its skill. May my tongue cling to the roof of my mouth if I do not remember you, if I do not consider Jerusalem my highest joy.
Remember, Lord, what the Edomites did on the day Jerusalem fell. “Tear it down,” they cried, “tear it down to its foundations!” Daughter Babylon, doomed to destruction, happy is the one who repays you according to what you have done to us. Happy is the one who seizes your infants and dashes them against the rocks.
For context, the book of Psalms is a collection of jewish hymns. Psalm 137 is written from the viewpoint of defeated jews in Babylonian exile; the last verse may well be read as a defiant answer to the line “sing us one of the songs of zion!”. The god of the bible is not speaking directly here nor is he being addressed.
As additional context, Boney M’s disco version is actually a cover version of The Melodians “Rivers of Babylon” (featured on the soundtrack of the film The Harder They Come) and tactfully omits the verse about dashing Babylonian infants against rocks.
- Comment on Someone help me make a 'transition metals' joke here... 8 months ago:
I’m still missing a wheelchair. And now I really need to go.
- Comment on Someone help me make a 'transition metals' joke here... 8 months ago:
The hard thing is finding an infant in a wheelchair to go with you
- Comment on Real! 9 months ago:
More like rapidly flipping german, french, english, swedish and danish channels on a TV.
- Comment on Pornstars: "we agree" 9 months ago:
Were you imagining Paper Mario-style pornography? With real people somehow made to look flat?
- Comment on ‘There is no such thing as a real picture’: Samsung defends AI photo editing on Galaxy S24 9 months ago:
When corporations dabble in philosophy, you know they’re trying to muddy the waters and skirt an ethical issue. It’s not a genuine inquiry going on here; it’s a “whatever argument serves the bottom line” situation.
I guess there’s no such thing as intellectual property either, when you really think about it. Hence nothing wrong with me making and selling pirated samsung phones.
- Comment on Squidward 11 months ago:
So you’ve added the criteria per capita; I still think you’d find that the gang milieus that gangsta rap (in its various forms) is closely associated with vastly overshadows any isolated cases of Nödtveidt or Varg-wannabes there still might be out there. Black Metal is also one of the most popular subgenres of metal nowadays, so the per capita argument doesn’t really apply.
RAC/White Power-music perhaps, but then only because the fanbase of this music is so embarrassingly small.
- Comment on Squidward 11 months ago:
I actually grew up around people just like that. Point is, the music they listened to never mentioned violence in any shape or form yet they would happily beat up anyone they could get their hands on for any made up reason they could think of - like being a metalhead or just wearing the wrong color pants.
- Comment on Squidward 11 months ago:
Gangsta rap beats all genres mentioned here in terms of associated violence and death.
- Comment on 1.1 History 11 months ago:
Surely that’s “heavy stuff”?
- Comment on AI will change the way we do everything. All jobs will be replaced. 1 year ago:
The history of chatbots for support purposes show us that jobs will be replaced not when they can be done as good, but good enough, and what “enough” means is going to be a race to the bottom kind of situation over time.
- Comment on On the morning train 1 year ago:
Or that late.
- Comment on Europe gives Elon Musk 24 hours to respond about Israel-Hamas war misinformation and violence on X 1 year ago:
Europe gives Elon Musk 24 hours to respond
So kinda like… a Final Countdown?