HailSeitan
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- Comment on Covering electricity price increases from our data centers 15 hours ago:
Don’t post reputation-washing corporate PR. Billionaires aren’t heroes when then make undemocratic donations to charity that never should have belonged to them, and LLM companies don’t get credit for trying to stem the tide of bad publicity around data centers.
- Comment on Revealed: How Substack makes money from hosting Nazi newsletters— Site takes a cut of subscriptions to content that promotes far-right ideology, white supremacy and antisemitism 4 days ago:
- Comment on Emotional Support From Social Media Found to Reduce Anxiety 1 week ago:
Haha fuck science, amirite?
- Comment on Epic Games CEO Tim Sweeney supports the $900 million lawsuit against Valve, arguing Steam is "the only major store still holding onto payment ties and 30% junk fee" 1 week ago:
It’s not apples to oranges, because the network effects (and coercive pressures they create) are in fact incredibly similar: sellers have to go where most customers are, and most PC gamers begin and end their search for games on Steam, just like most online shoppers begin and end their searches on Amazon.
- Comment on Epic Games CEO Tim Sweeney supports the $900 million lawsuit against Valve, arguing Steam is "the only major store still holding onto payment ties and 30% junk fee" 1 week ago:
Nobody thinks that it’s impossible, which is incredibly rare, but rather that it’s very costly not to comply, which is the source of every monopolist’s power. Could Pepsi refuse to sell at Walmart to avoid the huge wholesale discounts they demand over smaller stores? Sure, but it would shoot themselves in the foot, and that’s the source of Walmart’s anticompetitive power, which coerces Pepsi (and lots of other suppliers) and hurts lots of smaller businesses who don’t get the same discount.
- Comment on Epic Games CEO Tim Sweeney supports the $900 million lawsuit against Valve, arguing Steam is "the only major store still holding onto payment ties and 30% junk fee" 1 week ago:
Anecdotes are not data!
- Comment on Epic Games CEO Tim Sweeney supports the $900 million lawsuit against Valve, arguing Steam is "the only major store still holding onto payment ties and 30% junk fee" 1 week ago:
And Hitler was a vegetarian, but that tells us literally nothing about whether we should abuse animals in factory farms
- Comment on Epic Games CEO Tim Sweeney supports the $900 million lawsuit against Valve, arguing Steam is "the only major store still holding onto payment ties and 30% junk fee" 1 week ago:
Because partisanship. They are on Team Gaben, and can only understand criticism of valve as expressing support for Team Epic. It’s exactly the same as when libs construe any and all criticism of Democrats as support for Trump.
- Comment on Epic Games CEO Tim Sweeney supports the $900 million lawsuit against Valve, arguing Steam is "the only major store still holding onto payment ties and 30% junk fee" 1 week ago:
Appeal to expertise is not an appeal to authority. Otherwise we could never cite scientists, epidemiologists, or other experts. You might be interested in the fallacy of equivocation.
- Comment on Epic Games CEO Tim Sweeney supports the $900 million lawsuit against Valve, arguing Steam is "the only major store still holding onto payment ties and 30% junk fee" 1 week ago:
I would use other words, but I don’t think you are actually interested in understanding market power, coercion, or network effects. It is a little tricky, but if you’re not just shitposting in bad faith, Lina Khan has a great paper on digital platform monopolies and Matt Stoller has a good podcast on Valvle’s monopoly in particular. Or does Matt Stoller also not understand what a monopoly is, according to you?
- Comment on Epic Games CEO Tim Sweeney supports the $900 million lawsuit against Valve, arguing Steam is "the only major store still holding onto payment ties and 30% junk fee" 1 week ago:
And ecommerce sellers don’t “have to” sell on Amazon, so they don’t have any market power they can abuse to extract 40-50% fees from sellers, right?
- Comment on Epic Games CEO Tim Sweeney supports the $900 million lawsuit against Valve, arguing Steam is "the only major store still holding onto payment ties and 30% junk fee" 1 week ago:
Being obviously self-interested doesn’t make him wrong about app store monopolies, whether Apple, Google, or Valve.
- Comment on Epic Games CEO Tim Sweeney supports the $900 million lawsuit against Valve, arguing Steam is "the only major store still holding onto payment ties and 30% junk fee" 1 week ago:
The commentor was saying that skins cost Apple nothing to produce, not Epic, which is why the Apple App Store profit margin is estimated to be around 78%. I think you misread the comment.
- Comment on Epic Games CEO Tim Sweeney supports the $900 million lawsuit against Valve, arguing Steam is "the only major store still holding onto payment ties and 30% junk fee" 1 week ago:
Exactly. The number of people on Lenny who simp for Valve’s monopoly just because Epic (along with every game developer, big or small) stands to benefit is kind of shocking.
- Comment on What technology takes from us – and how to take it back 2 weeks ago:
I don’t know, that just seems too simple. There’s a good argument to be made that technology can embody political values and power relations, apart from its designers. The “guns don’t kill people” line doesn’t hold much water when all the empirical evidence shows that the mere presence of guns makes us safe.
- Comment on What technology takes from us – and how to take it back 2 weeks ago:
Why not both? We can oppose both Gemini and Pichai
- Comment on What technology takes from us – and how to take it back 2 weeks ago:
If you’re picking them, you’re probably paid by the gallon
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- Comment on YSK: 1930s Germany used Jim Crow America as a model, which was a resurgence of Antebellum American racist policies — segregation, imprisonment, enslavement, and homicide. 2 weeks ago:
Minnesota goddam
- Comment on Ed Zitron on big tech, backlash, boom and bust: ‘AI has taught us that people are excited to replace human beings’ 3 weeks ago:
Informed for sure, but pithy they are not, with a recent post clocking in at 19,000 words!
- Ed Zitron on big tech, backlash, boom and bust: ‘AI has taught us that people are excited to replace human beings’www.theguardian.com ↗Submitted 3 weeks ago to technology@lemmy.world | 40 comments
- Comment on AI companies will fail. We can salvage something from the wreckage | Cory Doctorow 3 weeks ago:
The truth is paywalled, but the lies are free!
- AI companies will fail. We can salvage something from the wreckage | Cory Doctorowwww.theguardian.com ↗Submitted 3 weeks ago to technology@lemmy.world | 56 comments
- Comment on US Trade Dominance Will Soon Begin to Crack 1 month ago:
Kamala would have defended DMCA and Big Tech to the death. The only difference might have been a little less crypto grifting, but it’s nonsense to suggest there would have been a major difference on the issues this article is actually discussing.
- Comment on There should be more negative awards. For example: the most pathetic nation or the most monstrous person of the year. 1 month ago:
There’s the Shkreli Awards for healthcare profiteering
- Comment on TikTok allegedly monitoring users’ Grindr activity, digital rights group claims 1 month ago:
A manifestation (or “manif” for short) is the word for a (political) protest in some languages
- Comment on How French spies, police and military personnel are betrayed by advertising data 1 month ago:
Ireland has entered the chat.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
Because desperate voice actors famously have so much leverage in contract negotiations, right? Why do you think Hollywood actors and writers unions went on strike in 2023?
- Comment on LG Update Installs Unremovable Microsoft Copilot on Smart TVs, Ignites Backlash 1 month ago:
You can’t shop your way out of enshittification.
- Comment on Netflix kills casting from phones 2 months ago:
Mandatory licensing of video content to anyone who can pay for it (similar to what the music industry does) is the only thing that the might disrupt the streaming industry, like a sort of Paramount Decrees for the streaming age, since monopolies on originals is what keeps people locked in