supersquirrel
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- Comment on Digg launches its new Reddit rival to the public 3 days ago:
Conceptually what does this offer that the fediverse/threadiverse/lemmy/piefed doesn’t?
What then does it say about the actual value of these companies?
- Comment on Do we need more users ? 3 days ago:
Ok, what content stream in what medium when viewed in a bulk popularity view like that isn’t 90% memes or equivalent?
- Comment on Do we need more users ? 3 days ago:
I think something that has been lost about progressive politics and leftism and general (in US-centric circles at least) is that as much as people on the left disagree about absolutely everything, in general (with plenty of exceptions) politically left movements and cultural spaces tend to be far better at identifying common values and truths that are universal and holding individuals and communities to those values and truths.
Whereas on the right the endless stumping about valuing freedom of speech turns out to mostly be a mirage when it comes to innocent, vulnerable people being physically murdered on camera, on the left institutions and individuals are much more often held to a standard of values and called out if they fail to reach it.
When most people enter a space where left voices haven’t been systematically silenced, they often react negatively and feel rebuked. I know some of my first encounters when I was younger with actually left spaces initially made me bristle with how willing they were to say no to things that weren’t healthy, to challenge oppressive structures even if they were so normalized they were invisible to me… it can be an uncomfortable process but ultimately leftist spaces actually try to do it and it is good that they do it.
I entirely agree with people having ways to decide when politics comes up on their feed and when it doesn’t, but the idea that we are all just being a bit too negative and obsessed with the news and we should cheer up is honestly insulting in 2026 given, you know gestures at everything.
- Comment on Google Says Its New AI Shopping Protocol Will Not Use Data to Overcharge Consumers 3 days ago:
Why would they be doing it otherwise?
- Comment on Do bats have an option on their phones that turns photos upside down automatically? 4 days ago:
bats are so smart holy shit
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- Comment on US Senator proposes bill permitting AI data centers to bypass federal power rules via off-grid energy infrastructure development 4 days ago:
If passed the bill would create a new utility category called “consumer-regulated electric utilities” (CREUs), with companies who build their own independent power infrastructure falling under this new designation. In order to qualify for CREU, the utilities would have to be completed disconnected from the main grid and built solely to serve new electric loads.
A visual depiction of this bill from the perspective of someone from Arkansas.
- Comment on we need more users 5 days ago:
What conservatives want is for us to treat them like babies with tiny little fragile baby beliefs that we have to coddle.
I don’t care if you think differently than me, what I care about is babies demanding we take their hateful and irrational ideologies seriously while they simultaneously target vulnerable groups with at a minimum hate speech and harassment.
If we coddle conservatives this place becomes less welcoming to new people, that is how it is.
- Comment on Here's a taste of what Arc Raiders would look like in first-person, though you're too late to try it yourself 5 days ago:
FPS > TPS
- Comment on [deleted] 5 days ago:
Thanks for sharing the game!
- Comment on China’s ‘artificial sun’ breaks nuclear fusion limit thought to be impossible 6 days ago:
Solar is Fusion as a Service or FaaS technology.
- Comment on There aren't any ancient ruins with crazy traps and riddles 6 days ago:
What about your mom though?
- Comment on AI insiders seek to poison the data that feeds them 6 days ago:
I love how competent and thorough you think the people doing this are.
- Comment on we need more users 6 days ago:
What if we figured out the right prompt to get an AI to regurgitate its memorization and just copied that? Is that still theft if it was already stolen?
- Comment on we need more users 6 days ago:
- More then Reddit this place is an echo chamber for the far left anti capitalist crowd. While I don’t mind a discussion, everything over simplified to EAT THE RICH was getting tiresome.
That must be so difficult for you compared to all the wonderful corporate platforms full of rightwing hateful trolls who genuinely harass people.
- Comment on we need more users 6 days ago:
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- Comment on Microsoft May Have Created the Slowest Windows in 25 Years with Windows 11 1 week ago:
lolllllllll
- Comment on Scientists discover a treatment that will let you live to be 1000 but it also turns you into a reptile. Do you do it? 1 week ago:
Yes? What is the downside here?
- Comment on Distinct AI Models Seem To Converge On How They Encode Reality 1 week ago:
Why the hell would I waste my time studying such a lame, environmentally destructive, fundamentally anti-humanist technology?
- Comment on Hooded Horse ban AI-generated art in their games: "all this thing has done is made our lives more difficult" 1 week ago:
That’s bullshit exaggeration and you know it.
It is not a bullshit exaggeration.
- Comment on Distinct AI Models Seem To Converge On How They Encode Reality 1 week ago:
To me this points to there being a lazy trick for AI Models that precludes a more nuanced expression of reality that they all find themselves at from optimizing more revealing encodings of reality away.
- Comment on UK urged to unplug from US tech giants as digital sovereignty fears grow 1 week ago:
I say this as a freedom loving citizen of the US…
Do this now, you will regret it if you don’t.
- Comment on "Microslop" trends in backlash to Microsoft's AI obsession 1 week ago:
Their business is B2B now.
That and mass surveillance such as with Palestine and Microslop’s Azure used by Israel to obscure individual culpability in deciding who to murder next.
- Comment on Moral Panic and Australia’s Under-16 Social Media Ban: A Critical Youth Work Perspective 1 week ago:
Do you honestly think blanket restrictions on alcohol and cigarettes etc… actually work? In my experience they don’t.
Further this is a moral panic and distraction from actually addressing the problems, it will do nothing to keep kids safe and will just backfire when they search out even less safe alternatives.
- Moral Panic and Australia’s Under-16 Social Media Ban: A Critical Youth Work Perspectivewww.youthandpolicy.org ↗Submitted 1 week ago to technology@lemmy.world | 6 comments
- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
Because for a variety of reasons the oil and gas markets are way oversupplied and Trump is trying to at least temporarily kick Venezuela out of the supply side to keep prices high.
- Comment on Scientists Discovered a Creature That Breaks a Fundamental Rule of Biology 2 weeks ago:
“Objectively, ambiguity in the genetic code should be deleterious; you end up generating a random pool of proteins,” Dipti Nayak, senior author of the paper from UC Berkeley, said in a press statement. “But biological systems are more ambiguous than we give them credit to be and that ambiguity is actually a feature—it’s not a bug.”
What a beautiful way to restate the fact that genetics are fundamentally a language for it is the same exact mechanism that imbues human language with power.
- Conservationists name ultra-rare leopard colour morph in Karnataka as ‘Sandalwood Leopard’www.downtoearth.org.in ↗Submitted 2 weeks ago to [deleted] | 1 comment
- Comment on Throw the baby out with the bathwater 2 weeks ago:
Also speaking for the US, aspects of the civil rights movement and other positive political movements have at times been critically dependent on religious organization… and I have no interests in defending organized religion, I don’t consider myself religious but the reality is much more complex than “religion dumb science smart”.
For one, the concept of evolution and then genetics absolutely supercharged racism and honestly Science had little capability to mitigate it. The 20th century may have gone very differently if Scientific leaders had immediately resoundingly rejected eugenics at an ideological level rather than attempt to differentiate what they studied from "race ““science”” in the details. In otherwords, Science was incapable of equipping the followers of its ideology with the systematic tools to resist fascism and oppression whereas you can easily demonstrate various different religious groups that were instrumental in resisting fascism and oppression.
Religion isn’t the point, from a scientific perspective religion is relevant because people imbue it with belief and that should be respected for the reality that creates, the point isn’t that god exists or doesn’t honestly I think no question could be more boring to a true scientist who would know such questions by definition cannot be answered. A true scientist is also driven by a love for the universe that is around them, and ultimately that isn’t too different than someone who is truly religious at the core of the human experience of it.
Organized religions are always two things, the religion itself and the political structure of the religion and in many cases those political structures can be very hostile to Science, but I do not believe inherently so and I do not believe it is a lack of Scientific thinking that allows the political structures of religion to become hostile towards Science since Science cannot even prevent the internal structures it is built upon from becoming hostile to itself.
It is funny that the more you talk about “science” and the more you talk about “religion” the more universally relevant yet irrelevant the words become, the reality always escapes a single word like that…
- Comment on We'll probably never see a Grand Theft Auto set in a futuristic city like GTA 2 because the team "hated it": "People didn’t connect with the game or its city" 2 weeks ago:
I actually really liked the weird scifish city of GTA2 a lot, it has surprising strange vibes.
It clearly wasn’t the developers strength though, they are far better at making cities that are heavily inspired/woven together from chunks of real places.
In my opinion the game that captures GTA 2 vibes best is Skillshot City previously known as Gene Shift Auto.
Gameplay is fast and fun and it is a genuinely good free to play multiplayer game with fast rounds.
