supersquirrel
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- Comment on AI Could Be the Most Effective Tool for Dismantling Democracy Ever Invented 1 hour ago:
I agree but I don’t think it has much to do with the tool itself beyond it being a superb culpability obscuring tool, what we are witnessing is essentially a birth of a religion just a super lame one.
A status quo where people are not allowed to break in rhetoric or ideology as quality of life plummets will create a rising potential for the introduction of a concept that nullifies or simply exists outside the framework of that status quo worldview that is strangling people.
For people who are obsessed with AI, the unreality of it is precisely what lets AI function as an ideological lifeboat that doesn’t require grappling with the immense issues with our worldviews and assumptions as a society because AI can be added to contexts as a Deus Ex Machina that disguises and explains away incrongruities between our broken world views and the desperate reality caused by them.
- Comment on OpenAI negotiates with Microsoft to unlock new funding and future IPO 1 hour ago:
Sam Altman exhibit A?
- Comment on Republicans Want You to Die | Common Dreams 12 hours ago:
but im the radical for wanting them to have healthcare
- Comment on The Fediverse Has Already Failed 19 hours ago:
No, this is not the same old shit, because while yes of course humans are still humans and will do shitty human things the difference is that there is no easy way to enclose the fediverse and force an opinion, censor people speaking out against injustice. or hold the entire network hostage to push a profit for investors.
The Fediverse is still definitely vulnerable to those things, and who knows if longterm whether a large corporation or constellation of authoritarian regimes can critically undermine the Fediverse (we will certainly see attempts at some point), but no matter what happens, anybody can still spin up their own instance of Mastodon, Lemmy or any other fediverse software and start creating an open, new community.
From the perspective of an authoritarian ruling class, the problem of quelling dissent in the masses has gone from buying the one or two tv conglomerate networks that provide news for 100s of millions of people, or buying Reddit, instead you have to keep stamping out Fediverse communities wherever the pop up, in whatever country or legal context they happen to pop up all over the globe.
If you think that the Fediverse taking off and reaching a critical mass where lots of people use it daily for normal social media stuff isn’t a strategic failure for the dictators and ruthless capitalists willing to create mass murder if it nets them a profit I don’t know what to tell you…
- Comment on OpenAI negotiates with Microsoft to unlock new funding and future IPO 23 hours ago:
Hey, I have a flaming dumpsterfire of money over here, would you like to invest in this one too?
- Comment on OpenAI negotiates with Microsoft to unlock new funding and future IPO 23 hours ago:
It’s a weird space. I used to think we were on the verge of entering a whole new era of technology but now I think it’s going to be muted. Perhaps AI (as we know it now) eased some tasks and eliminated some BS stuff that used to waste our time, but we’ve not yet completely eliminated most professional jobs - if anything I think we just added more for them to learn and do to remain competitive.
How could anyone have predicted this outcome!?
- Comment on Saleblazers mixes shopkeeping and co-op survival with a fresh patch adding UI scaling for Steam Deck 1 day ago:
I have been having a lot of fun playing this co-op, the shop mechanic is really fun because it makes it so your base becomes an actual center of activity instead of a gameplay deadzone of conquered challenges.
If you want chiller vibes, there is something about Old Market Simulator that really gets me (co-op too).
- Comment on Animal spirits 2 days ago:
IMPRESSIVE BUT HAVE YOU WITNESSED THE SQUIRRESSACT
- Comment on Bill Gates to give away 99% of his wealth in the next 20 years 2 days ago:
Way too late to matter you coward
- Comment on Giant Bomb is now 100% independent - Giant Bomb 3 days ago:
I wouldn’t really bother with trying to set up the bomb, it is always a trap
- Comment on Giant Bomb is now 100% independent - Giant Bomb 3 days ago:
Giant Bomb drops the best kind of Giant News Bomb!.. but I am left bothered by the question of whether it is truly correct to describe this as “dropping a big news bomb”, or whether in a strangely precise way this is somehow a sort of reverse “bomb undropping”, blast damage from unnecessarily destructive practices lifted with the wave of a capitalist wand, so should I actually say Giant Bomb Undrops The Bomb And It Is Bomb ? ?
- Comment on Lawyers for Israel criticised for suggesting a reduction in obesity resulting from the war in Gaza may increase life expectancy 3 days ago:
What truly sickens me isn’t these monsters, though they purposefully conflate antisemitism with being against a genocide committed by a country and that certainly qualifies them as monsters, rather it is that the rest of society looked at people like this and equated them to “just being the other side” from progressives and leftists when their hate is thinly veiled, so poorly concealed that I can come to no other conclusion that they would rather just come out and say they want to commit a complete genocide of Palestinians… AND THEN THEY DO and the center of my society just takes the money from AIPAC and smiles and waves like they didn’t hear genocidal words from someone with a frightening amountof power that we are enabling.
- Comment on Palworld confirms ‘disappointing’ game changes forced by Pokémon lawsuit 5 days ago:
Who the hell in their right mind would want to buy a switch after seeing this?
- Comment on Don't sleep on Cataclismo, building up fortresses like LEGO to defend against hordes is great 6 days ago:
This does look like a blast
- Comment on Weekly Recommendations Thread: What are you playing this week? 6 days ago:
If you want to find some new RTS games and keep up with news in the genre I enjoy this youtubers videos
- Comment on Weekly Recommendations Thread: What are you playing this week? 6 days ago:
Operation Harsh Doorstop - I have been missing a moddable big map team based vehicle shooter for… a decade? EA really screwed this space over and for years and years mods like Forgotten Hope 2 and Project Reality stayed on the Battlefield 2 engine because no new alternative came. OHD is that game, and it is free! Flying helicopters in multiplayer is a mental challenge and rush like no other.
…steampowered.com/…/Operation_Harsh_Doorstop/
Motor Town: Behind The Wheel - Recently there has been a big increase in multiplayer servers with 20+ people on them, which this game ABSOLUTELY deserves and even more excitedly, I have started to see custom race events organically pop up in populated servers which I think will become really popular since Motor Town is a fantastic racing game that just happens to also be a fantastic driving job simulator.
…steampowered.com/…/Motor_Town_Behind_The_Wheel/
Out Of Ore - Really I don’t know why I haven’t gotten this game before, I am a geologist and I like big machines, in this game it is like one of those satisfactory/factorio games… except you ACTUALLY mine instead of all the fun bits being abstracted away leaving only the fiddly automation parts. There are a plethora of loaders, excavators and trucks and digging and terraforming land with them is a blast in this game. I haven’t played for super long but it is already a huge recommend for me!
- Comment on Weekly Recommendations Thread: What are you playing this week? 6 days ago:
You ever try Beyond All Reason?
- Comment on Skype was shut down for good today 1 week ago:
I am not sure I remember anymore, I have eaten my tail one too many times.
- Comment on Skype was shut down for good today 1 week ago:
What most people don’t know about the ouroboros is that every time the creature eats itself it becomes a little bit closer to being a turd so even though from an inside perspective the system appears to be in a complex mysterious cyclic kind of stasis, from the outside it is just more and more obviously a turd in the shape of a donut.
- Comment on Is Duolingo the face of an AI jobs crisis? 1 week ago:
A woodchipper can approximate a tree almost perfectly up to a certain token limit so long as you have a real tree to feed into it.
- Comment on Facebook Allegedly Detected When Teen Girls Deleted Selfies So It Could Serve Them Beauty Ads 1 week ago:
Can you make the algorithm that determined it was ok for you to murder Tuvix tho
- Comment on ‘The Worst Internet-Research Ethics Violation I Have Ever Seen’ | The most persuasive “people” on a popular subreddit turned out to be a front for a secret AI experiment. 1 week ago:
Social media didn’t break people’s brains, the massive influx of conservative corporate money to distort society and keep existential problems from being fixed until it is too late and push people resort to to impulsive, kneejerk responses because they have been ground down to crumbs… broke people’s brains.
If we didn’t have social media right now and all of this was happening, it would be SO much worse without younger people being able to find news about the Palestinian Genocide or other world news that their country/the rich conservatives around them don’t want them to read.
- Comment on ‘The Worst Internet-Research Ethics Violation I Have Ever Seen’ | The most persuasive “people” on a popular subreddit turned out to be a front for a secret AI experiment. 1 week ago:
The only way this could be an even remotely scientifically rigorous study is if they randomly selected the people who were going to respond to the AI responses and made sure they were human.
Anybody with half a brain knows just reading reddit comments and not assuming most of them are bots or shills is a hilariously naive idea.
- Comment on The hills are alive with the sound of music! 🎶🎵 1 week ago:
Yeah, still WAY better than listening to traffic and incessant car noise?
- Comment on Free open source video editor Kdenlive announces a major release 1 week ago:
Kdenlive to edit gameplay videos on my steam deck, it is an awesome no nonsense tool!
- Comment on Dark mode comes to Rock Paper Shotgun 2 weeks ago:
RPS has let go of too many of the people that made it what it was, now it is just a business webpage with dark mode and the name of something I used to love… yeah!..
- Comment on If you're still on Lemmy... 2 weeks ago:
ahaha, I cant even correct that, it feels wrong
- Comment on If you're still on Lemmy... 2 weeks ago:
Literally dangerous for targeted groups to do that…
- Comment on If you're still on Lemmy... 2 weeks ago:
I mean even if they are, the software is open source and lemmy is made to work with ActivityPup, an open protocol. That is what matters at the end of the day.
- Comment on Discord CEO steps down, replaced with former Activision Blizzard CSO as they work towards being a public company 2 weeks ago:
Sorry, all I do is win, so the floor of my car is covered in medals…
