ogmios
@ogmios@sh.itjust.works
- Comment on Jacques Ellul's The Technological Society: How Efficiency Becomes the Master 4 days ago:
I’ve had arguments with people in simple little games, where the points barely matter at all, because some people get upset if others don’t play for pure efficiency.
- Comment on It’s Time To Go Back to Web 1.0 5 days ago:
Perhaps all the above could be summed up by “Capitalist Greed”…??? 🤡 🖕
No. It’s can’t. And you’re actively hurting your efforts by attaching high school edgelord bullshit to it.
Corruption has been a seriously problem everywhere, forever, and does not care one bit what words the ruling party uses to express themselves.
- Comment on The New York Times Just Published Some Bizarre Race Science About Asian Women 1 week ago:
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They’ve been known to literally lock people in their factories, and even put up suicide nets to prevent workers from killing themselves.
- Comment on Woodside boss says young people ‘ideological’ on fossil fuels while ‘happily ordering from Temu’ 1 week ago:
I feel a certain amount of schadenfreude every time I see someone finding out that propaganda doesn’t actually produce real convictions.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
I love a good Hawaiian hotbox!
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
I hope you can understand how extenuating circumstances such as yours aren’t the norm.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
An indoor cat wouldn’t stand a chance. The lack of experience is an absolutely enormous barrier to overcome, and indoor cats really struggle a lot if they ever get lost outside.
- Comment on Being called a loser for liking animation while the entire world is falling for AI slop is beyond. 2 weeks ago:
Most other people who you interact with aren’t actually seeing you individually. Instead they are confronting images they’ve previously developed regarding one or two characteristics they noticed. Don’t take what they say too personally.
- Comment on What techniques do bad faith users use online to overwhelm other users in online discussion and arguments? 2 weeks ago:
Dude. Power seekers have been doing this shit since ancient times, and you’re getting your panties in a twist about people who fight back against them?
- Comment on What techniques do bad faith users use online to overwhelm other users in online discussion and arguments? 2 weeks ago:
Here is a great piece someone put together a while ago which goes through many of the techniques bad actors use.
- Comment on Netflix will show generative AI ads midway through streams in 2026 2 weeks ago:
Why do we keep paying people like this to enshittify everything?
Because if you refuse to destroy yourself, your family, and the rest of the world, they’ll import 3rd worlders who will do it because they’re being threatened.
- Comment on Netflix will show generative AI ads midway through streams in 2026 2 weeks ago:
It’s quite something how they’re trying to force the Internet to work as an artificial version of things we already have, instead of using it for the unique purposes which it can actually fulfill.
- Comment on Civil disobedience earring/keychain set (requires bread tie) 4 weeks ago:
You idiots are so dead if there’s ever a real conflict.
- Comment on Historians alarmed as Trump seeks to rewrite US story for 250th anniversary 4 weeks ago:
Yea man. How dare they celebrate their 205th anniversary!
- Comment on Historians alarmed as Trump seeks to rewrite US story for 250th anniversary 4 weeks ago:
Under an executive order issued in January, the president has started to churn out his own approved version of US history that professional historians fear will resort to the tried and tested authoritarian playbook of airbrushing out inconvenient and inglorious chapters that do not align with his vision of American greatness.
The executive order is literally just planning for celebrating the 250th anniversary, and this is the whole of the reasoning behind the alarmist headline. But it’s all okay, since getting people to hate Trump more is the goal, so if you have to bend the truth a bit over your knee to achieve that, who can blame you right?
“Journalism”
- Comment on AI models routinely lie when honesty conflicts with their goals 4 weeks ago:
I mean, it was trained to mimic human social behaviour. If you want a completely honest LLM I suppose you’d have to train it on the social behaviours of a population which is always completely honest, and I’m not personally familiar with such.
- Comment on “The masters of the universe are Jews,” former US Senator declares in Israel 4 weeks ago:
I mean, my whole point is that you have to actually learn for yourself if you ever want to understand the minutia of how and why that strategy works.
- Comment on “The masters of the universe are Jews,” former US Senator declares in Israel 4 weeks ago:
The reason is that most people think they already know everything they need to know and never actually develop themselves spiritually to the point they can actually understand what’s being said, and act against it. Instead most people will continue to pump tokens into the skinner box which “proves” they are owned in these people’s eyes, without ever doing anything to contradict the notion that they’re owned.
It’s not about being true. It’s that they’ve successfully sold enough people the perspective that it’s true, that people are willing to go along with it in exchange for profits.
- Comment on Raspberry Pi cuts product returns by 50% by changing up its pin soldering 4 weeks ago:
I was really confused by the headline for a minute until I realized they were talking about products returned instead of profits returned.
- Comment on Instead of Orange Man doing Tariffs would it not have been better for him to talk about shopping locally and so forth. And giving more tax breaks to companies that stay and sell in the US? 5 weeks ago:
I mean, all I can say is that 5 years ago we were trying to get people to buy local because of China, and now Trump has managed to get all the people who didn’t listen back then to become really hardcore about buying local now, thanks to his tariffs.
- Comment on Sydney woman who sold a cartoon cat T-shirt told to pay US$100,000 in Grumpy Cat copyright case | Australia news | The Guardian 5 weeks ago:
How can you call that logic? Clearly, as she must pay $24m for a copyright claim, then those corporations ought to also pay around $24m for their legal obligations.
- Comment on Sydney woman who sold a cartoon cat T-shirt told to pay US$100,000 in Grumpy Cat copyright case | Australia news | The Guardian 5 weeks ago:
In September last year, the court ruled a default judgment in favour of Grumpy Cat Ltd. The company was awarded damages of US$100,000 per defendant.
If the payments were made in full, the company would win more than US$24m.
Curtis earned just over US$1 from the sale. In the six years she had been running her store, she had generated about US$200 in revenue.
This is why copyright laws are a joke to the public. Corporations can infringe with wanton abandon and pay pennies on the dollar as just a cost of doing business. Random nobody makes a simple mistake and gets raked over the coals for ONE HUNDRED AND TWENTY THOUSAND times what she actually made.
- Comment on EU fines Apple $568m for deterring third-party payment methods on App Store 5 weeks ago:
$568m is a day Apple will never get back!
- Comment on 4chan Is Dead. Its Toxic Legacy Is Everywhere 1 month ago:
I vaguely remember reading that some dude created 8chan because he thought 4chan was too heavily moderated or smth, which considering the little I saw while perusing 4chan ages ago, makes me wonder the depths to which 8chan can go.
You’d be surprised how uptight people can be about certain things, even while being extremely liberal with others.
- Comment on 4chan Is Dead. Its Toxic Legacy Is Everywhere 1 month ago:
4chan in the past years was mostly known as a FBI honeypot.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
I’ve put a fair bit of effort into trying to understand the Japanese perspective, because as a northerner it frankly displays an odd contrast of values, being extremely sexually liberal, while also holding firm to tradition and social responsibility. It appears to me as though they manage this by maintaining quite clear social boundaries regarding empathy for each other’s individual perspective, and so they don’t appreciate when things which hold a strong sentimental place in many people’s hearts, such as the master of anime’s unique style, or a Shinto shrine in a popular video game, are portrayed in an uncharitable light within the public sphere.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
The tools matter because of the sheer volume of content which literally any meth head can produce, which has already severely tainted the whole online ecosystem, and will only get worse.
- Comment on "I was born in the wrong generation" has turned from edgy to a sad reality for some 1 month ago:
I’m a pretty odd person.
- Comment on Jack Dorsey would like to ‘delete all IP law’. 1 month ago:
- Comment on American Truck Simulator is adding a road trip mode where you drive different vehicles, 'say, a powerful pickup or even a sports car' 1 month ago:
Oh great. Nothing is safe from the Trans Am agenda.
