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- Comment on Planet Of The Apes [spoilers] 2 months ago:
I assume they only ever watched the awful 2001 version, which has a more faithful ending to the original Planet of the Apes book than the 1968 film. In the book it’s also an alien planet, rather than Earth.
They probably never bothered to watch the 60s film and just assumed that they knew what was happening because the ending is so iconic and has been widely parodied for 50+ years.
- Comment on Enemies of glory have no honor 2 months ago:
Except the people who are opposed to Imane Khalief are not engaged in a good faith argument about gender not being binary and what a woman even is. They’re trying to impose a binary by saying a woman has to conform to our standards.
Look at how they’ve targeted female rugby players and boxers who have ‘less feminine’ features in their conception by accusing them of secretly being trans women. It’s all about appearances because these women dared to be strong while having strong facial bone definition
- Comment on Enemies of glory have no honor 2 months ago:
Okay but then would you put Michael Phelps in his own category for having:
- The torso of a 6’8 man and the legs of a 6’0 man, giving him a disproportionately large chest and less leg drag in the water
- A wingspan that’s longer than his own height (his arms stretch to 6’7!), something so freakish and concerning that he thought he might have a disease at one point in his life
- Double-jointed elbows, chest and feet that are basically flippers because of how much he can bend them
Or do you just accept that some people are extraordinary and that a Usain Bolt, Michael Phelps or [insert female athlete with unusual physical characteristics] can come along once a generation and dominate a sport because they were born to do so?
- Comment on Enemies of glory have no honor 2 months ago:
Who said anything about women fighting men??
- Comment on Enemies of glory have no honor 2 months ago:
It’s totally fine to be interested in these things. Where it gets murky is when people say things like: women with too much testosterone are too good and should take drugs to block their natural testosterone levels. Just because someone is at that 1% advantage level doesn’t mean we should stop them from competing. If anything we should let them cook so we can see what the upper limits of human potential could be
- Comment on Enemies of glory have no honor 2 months ago:
We’re also talking about a cis woman who was born in Algeria, where gender reassignment is not a recognised practice. She is not trans, regardless of what chromosomes she has.
This weird obsession with female athletes who have too much testosterone or a Y chromosome being in some way at an unfair advantage is also absurd. Male athletes who are genetic freaks are just recognised as extraordinary for their height, wingspan or lung capacity. The same should go for women
- Comment on App development 4 months ago:
‘Peoples is peoples’ apparently. What’s not to get?
- Comment on Ex-OpenAI star Sutskever shoots for superintelligent AI with new company 4 months ago:
The point is not that we can’t imagine speculative technologies. The point is that this is a grift which distracts from the real and present threat of AI like the threats to privacy, artists’ livelihoods and the internet itself which is being poisoned by LLM generated content
- Comment on Ex-OpenAI star Sutskever shoots for superintelligent AI with new company 4 months ago:
I don’t think he plans on delivering much product at all
Well good news. If the product you’re imagining is ‘Skynet’ or a ‘god-mommy’ both of those are science fiction and we don’t need whatever this bullshit is to save us
- Comment on [Scott Manley] How Failed Gyros Are Making Hubble's Life Harder 4 months ago:
- Comment on Microsoft's carbon emissions up nearly 30% thanks to AI 5 months ago:
Oh it’s far more useful than that. It’s the shiny new thing that’s going to make a lot of money for shareholders
- Comment on 1000+ Firefox for Android extensions now available – Mozilla Add-ons Community Blog 6 months ago:
Is there a working alternative frontend for Twitter? I haven’t visited the site since the public instances of Nitter I used went down
- Comment on Neuralink Co-Founder Suggests He Left Elon Musk's Company Over Safety Concerns 6 months ago:
Because he looks like a smug bastard
- Comment on Stack Overflow and OpenAI Partner 6 months ago:
The snake eating its own tail
- Comment on The Tech Baron Seeking to “Ethnically Cleanse” San Francisco 6 months ago:
The speech won roars from the audience at Y Combinator
Starting to get why everyone else in the Bay area hates the tech people
- Comment on The Tech Baron Seeking to “Ethnically Cleanse” San Francisco 6 months ago:
The techno-authoritarian Curtis Yarvin-type crowd have been around for a while. We can laugh them off or ignore them, but their biggest believers are billionaire man-children in the Valley and that will undoubtedly come to bear fruit in horrific ways.
- Comment on WhatsApp Must Act to Protect Elections | foundation.mozilla.org 6 months ago:
WhatsApp is a huge vector for misinformation across the world. This is exactly the kind of specific demand people should be making of them to force some level of responsible behaviour
- Comment on Are you prepared for the ramifications of windows 10 EoL? 6 months ago:
There are people out there still using Windows XP. Not everyone will jump because Microsoft is trying to force their hand
- Comment on CEO Alarmed to Discover That Laying Off 1,500 Workers Had Consequences 6 months ago:
Spotify is also a record label now. They probably need an entire division devoted just to the marketing and strategy needed to make that successful
- Comment on CEO Alarmed to Discover That Laying Off 1,500 Workers Had Consequences 6 months ago:
People think that because you can build a Spotify clone with two sticks and a heroku subscription it must not need a lot of people to work on. It’s what Elon said about Twitter prior to buying it and gutting all the features.
These apps are first and foremost businesses with legal, HR, and all sorts of other roles before you get to product. And the products are so mature, so complex, that you need dozens of teams to cover the entire thing
- Comment on US teacher charged with using AI to frame principal with racist audio 6 months ago:
This kind of thing is going to ruin so many lives before society learns to adapt to the new normal.
But it’s tough because who wouldn’t want a school board to err on the side of caution if there was an audio leak of a principle saying worrying racist shit? Or worse, what if someone made one look like a paedo? Every parent want them out before asking questions, just to be safe
- Comment on TikTok's CEO is feeling the pressure and users are freaking out 6 months ago:
China takes a protectionist stance towards many industries, whereas the US claims, not entirely correctly, to be a bastion of free trade. I’m not sure US citizens want their government taking cues from the CCP either
- Comment on TikTok's CEO is feeling the pressure and users are freaking out 6 months ago:
This isn’t an anti-trust case, it’s just anti-China posturing and lobbying from Meta and friends bearing fruit. Google and Meta will fight for the users and their monopolies will grow even more menacingly bloated
- Comment on You can now buy a flame-throwing robot dog for under $10,000 6 months ago:
Boston Dynamic didn’t let this happen. Their EULA prevents people from doing this so they used one a robot from Unitree instead
- Comment on Making deepfake porn without consent could soon be a crime in England 6 months ago:
Not saying actors going unpaid is okay, but one of these things is a sex crime and should absolutely be illegal
