HailSeitan
@HailSeitan@lemmy.world
- Comment on Ed Zitron on big tech, backlash, boom and bust: ‘AI has taught us that people are excited to replace human beings’ 4 days 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 4 days ago to technology@lemmy.world | 40 comments
- Comment on AI companies will fail. We can salvage something from the wreckage | Cory Doctorow 4 days 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 4 days ago to technology@lemmy.world | 56 comments
- Comment on US Trade Dominance Will Soon Begin to Crack 3 weeks 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. 4 weeks ago:
There’s the Shkreli Awards for healthcare profiteering
- Comment on TikTok allegedly monitoring users’ Grindr activity, digital rights group claims 4 weeks 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 5 weeks ago:
Ireland has entered the chat.
- Comment on [deleted] 5 weeks 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 5 weeks ago:
You can’t shop your way out of enshittification.
- Comment on Netflix kills casting from phones 1 month 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
- Comment on Android QuickShare is now compatible with AirDrop 2 months ago:
Adversarial interoperability FTW
- Comment on AI country singer Breaking Rust tops Billboard with ‘Walk My Walk’ 2 months ago:
But it’s not copyrighted if it’s AI-generated, right? Or are there human co-writers and/or performers?
- Comment on Red Dead Redemption 2 overtakes Mario Kart 8 as the 4th best-selling video game of all time, boasting 79 million sales 2 months ago:
Why should we care about this particular horse/kart race?
- Comment on 2 months ago:
Ignore OP’s weird question, the book looks really cool
- Comment on What do you call the beleif that gods are just higher beings on other planes of existence? 2 months ago:
- The non-profit helping people from all over the world to become successful game developerswww.theguardian.com ↗Submitted 3 months ago to games@lemmy.world | 4 comments
- Comment on The Ensh*ttification of Everything with Cory Doctorow [1:49:08] 3 months ago:
His recent monologues are decent too, like the ones on why AI is bullshit and why there are no ethical billionaires
- Comment on The Ensh*ttification of Everything with Cory Doctorow [1:49:08] 3 months ago:
The last 100+ pages of his book are about solutions
- Comment on The Ensh*ttification of Everything with Cory Doctorow [1:49:08] 3 months ago:
He just published a major new book entitled Enshittification
- Comment on NCTC Discovers That Online Gaming Platforms Have Chats, Image Sharing 3 months ago:
TIL the feds think Fortnite doesn’t have text chat
- Submitted 3 months ago to aboringdystopia@lemmy.world | 2 comments
- Comment on "I’m Canceling My Subscription": Xbox Players Call to "Boycott" Game Pass "Hard" Over 50% Price Increase As Microsoft’s Website Crashes from Mass Cancellations 3 months ago:
Well he cheated on his wife with something
- Submitted 3 months ago to games@lemmy.world | 15 comments
- Comment on ‘I’m a modern-day luddite’: Meet the students who don’t use laptops 4 months ago:
That’s not what being a Luddite means
- Comment on How did it come to be that only two companies supply all of the world's PC graphics chips? 4 months ago:
Matt Stoller had a nice writeup recently in his monopoly newsletter BIG about how we got into the current mess. TL;DR: basically financialization (prioritizing stock price over innovation, like at Boeing) and a lack of antitrust enforcement as a previously competitive market got monopolized (see chart below)
- Comment on How did it come to be that only two companies supply all of the world's PC graphics chips? 4 months ago:
Never root for a monopoly over at least some semblance of competition
- Comment on Wealth inequality seems like the only outcome in a system where capital gains are taxed less than labor 5 months ago:
r > g
- Comment on Hundreds of thousands of Grok chats exposed in Google results 5 months ago:
- Comment on Death Stranding 2's stunning new statue somehow makes Sam look even more realisitic than he does in the game 5 months ago:
Now the real question is: Will it also let me bypass UK age-gating on the web?
