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- Comment on World's Biggest Anime Piracy Streaming Site (Hianime.to) Put on U.S. Government's Radar as Major Threat 1 week ago:
It’s a threat to capital’s control of “IP”. The fundamental point of policing is to serve capital and attack the poor.
- Comment on A Record Number of Scientific Papers Were Retracted in 2023 For Being Fraudulent or a Having Conflicts of Interest 1 week ago:
Science and technology are developed to serve hegemony, not humanity, not even the researchers themselves.
These workers are just trying to survive under a brutal capitalist regime like anybody else.
- Comment on 7 years ago there were no billionaires worth more than $100 billion - today there are 18! 1 week ago:
Well when paper money is continually speeding towards zero value, it’s no surprise that the most privileged have an endless supply.
- Comment on New Yorker’s ‘Social Media Is Killing Kids’ Article Waits 71 Paragraphs To Admit Evidence Doesn’t Support The Premise 1 week ago:
Yes, facebook should be shut down. The oppression of children is a gross attack on a defenseless population that’s not actually going to improve anything.
- Comment on New Yorker’s ‘Social Media Is Killing Kids’ Article Waits 71 Paragraphs To Admit Evidence Doesn’t Support The Premise 1 week ago:
It strikes me as pretty
lowreasonable to hand wave away thegriefanecdotes because they’re not scientifically meaningful. - Comment on Devs gaining little (if anything) from AI coding assistants 1 week ago:
I’m fine with searching stack exchange. It’s much more useful. More info, more options, more understanding.
- Comment on Russian authorities prepare to block Discord. 1 week ago:
This is great news. It should help justify banning TikTok! We can save the children now! \s
- Comment on I investigated millions of tweets from the Kremlin’s ‘troll factory’ and discovered classic propaganda techniques reimagined for the social media age. 1 week ago:
The imperial core is so fragile that troll farms are an existential threat.
- Comment on NASA Bought Facial Recognition Tech Clearview AI 1 week ago:
Clickbait spoiler: “bought access to the powerful facial recognition tool”
- Comment on Tesla Finally Enables FSD Ten Months After The Cybertruck's Debut, But There's A Catch 1 week ago:
It’s cool if these idiots want to waste their own lives but why does my life and my homies need to be endangered?
#bancars
- Comment on Social media is becoming infested with climate change denial and misinformation 2 weeks ago:
This currently leads to a rise of misinformation, anti-scientific thinking, and so on. Which just so happens to align with extreme right-wing ideologies.
It’s not some accident that just happens. Fash are actively opposed to science, thrive on misinformation, and so on.
- Comment on Social media is becoming infested with climate change denial and misinformation 2 weeks ago:
The education system can’t and won’t ever teach “critical thinking” because the point of education is indoctrination and control.
- Comment on Social media is becoming infested with climate change denial and misinformation 2 weeks ago:
Capitalism is the problem. Profit driven anything is just a symptom.
- Comment on Social media is becoming infested with climate change denial and misinformation 2 weeks ago:
We’re told lies about everything: cars, zionism, etc.
Then we act surprised when nobody believes the truth.
- Comment on Microsoft's CEO for Israel to Appear at Event Celebrating Israeli Military AI 2 weeks ago:
Like the article says… It’s listed on the website. Here’s a link from google translate. Just click on the list of speakers.
- Comment on AI sees beyond humans: automated diagnosis of myopia based on peripheral refraction map using interpretable deep learning. 2 weeks ago:
There’s no “AI” involved. The authors quickly retreat from their misleading title to the sightly less misleading “deep learning”. Either way we’re actually talking about a machine computing the statistics of images. That might be good for patients. But it’s got nothing to do with “AI”.
- Comment on TikTok Videos Spread Misinformation to New Migrant Community in New York City. 2 weeks ago:
TikTokVideos Spread Misinformationto New Migrant Community in New York City.Any story that blames only TikTok is highly sus.
- Comment on Exploding pagers and walkie-talkies are a reminder of how easily your devices can be hacked – here’s how to make sure they are safe. 2 weeks ago:
EVs. Why do you think they want to ban parts from the alt-empire? This terrorist attack was a major wake up call for lots of people.
It’s another example of how car dependency is a complete societal failure.
- Comment on Putin pressure 2 weeks ago:
Chomsky and fair.org and many other people do statistical analysis. It’s not a mystery at all. Here’s a top search result for example:
- Comment on Putin pressure 2 weeks ago:
Bro, read some Chomsky ffs.
- Comment on China’s biggest AI model is challenging American dominance. 3 weeks ago:
Grifting is a feature of capitalism everywhere.
- Comment on MAGA World’s Belief In Their Made Up Claim That Biden Is ‘Censoring’ Conservatives On Social Media May Kill KOSA 3 weeks ago:
Mr. Scalise said. “And so you got to narrow it. You got to focus it just on kids.”
It’s always about the control of kids, etc. but never the politicians themselves. At least it’s for their own good though. \s
- Comment on Don't let the media and the masses fool you, It is possible to visualize 4D 3 weeks ago:
It’s possible to “visualize” 4d with projections to lower dimensions. This video is just bad at explaining.
- Comment on Don't let the media and the masses fool you, It is possible to visualize 4D 3 weeks ago:
Who is trying to fool people? Any mathematician knows that 4D can be visualized with 3d projections, etc. It’s a topic in Flatland. Ancient news.
- Comment on Cyborg: A Documentary – new film about first upgraded human asks whether we should just because we can. 3 weeks ago:
It’s probably straightforward to scale the wavelengths of the visible spectrum to the wavelengths of audible tones. But the choice of scaling is subjective and any further interpretation/effects even more so.
- Comment on What’s the most overhyped tech trend right now? 3 weeks ago:
Quantum computing? The hype isn’t so bad lately and I’m somewhat optimistic but it’s worth a mention.
- Comment on What’s the most overhyped tech trend right now? 3 weeks ago:
- Comment on United Nations wants to treat AI with same urgency as climate change 3 weeks ago:
my issue is AI is a pandas box, we already opened it.
The big difference is that there is no “AI” box, it’s never been opened, and nothing has happened except wasting energy and foolish money.
- Comment on United Nations wants to treat AI with same urgency as climate change 3 weeks ago:
“AI” is a scam that’s contributing to planetary destruction. But it’s nowhere near a problem on the same scale. This kind of political theater only fuels the “AI” BS.
- Comment on Thankfully, Trump Is Still Alive. Unfortunately, So Is His Misguided Crypto Project 3 weeks ago:
World Liberty Financial was previously criticized after a Coindesk report claimed the project would involve an unusually unequal ratio of public to private tokens.
Ooof. Dude is an egregious gifter even by crypto standards.
According to the Trumps, the world of crypto isn’t—as some onlookers have frequently characterized it—a predatory milieu in which wealthy con artists take advantage of (and monetize) the hopes and dreams of financially illiterate lower- and middle-class investors, but rather a bold technological space that can democratize finance and make traditional gatekeepers irrelevant.
Why not both?