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- Comment on Duolingo CEO on going AI-first: ‘I did not expect the blowback’ 17 hours ago:
Seriously - LLMs are much more adequate to do a CEO’s job than an engineer’s. Maybe the crazied scramble to push AI “features” into products is to distract customers, workers and shareholders from this fact?
- Comment on How the US is turning into a mass techno-surveillance state 1 day ago:
Definitely not a “all criticism of the US is literal soviet propaganda” coping mechanism
- Comment on Too bad we can't all act like this 6 days ago:
Yes
- Comment on Why doesn't Nvidia have more competition? 1 week ago:
How to create a successful GPU company in 2025:
- Step 1: build a time machine and go back 30 years
- Comment on Bachelor Chow slabs, anyone? 1 week ago:
Are food labelling laws really that bad in the US? Can you really really buy “dinner” without having any idea what its main ingredient is?
- Comment on The Copilot Delusion 2 weeks ago:
Then I apologise about my ignorance on the matter, but you’re now making the same point as the author - were you mocking or sharing their perspective?
There’s a lot that goes behind “work” that you don’t see in the final output. It’s important to care about that art, and a shallow copy is just not the same as “the real thing”. Right?
- Comment on The Copilot Delusion 2 weeks ago:
Stupid comparison, tbh. Scribing is just boring and repetitive work, programming is cognitive work.
- Comment on "You can't just have Geralt for every single game" says his voice actor, and if you think The Witcher 4 making Ciri the protagonist is "woke," then "read the damn books" 2 weeks ago:
When some chud on YouTube in 2025 says “‘Woke’ is ruining gaming,” he means that awareness of systemic racism is ruining gaming. For him.
I don’t think it even goes that far tbh. Especially for less political, more gamer-type “conservatives” it just means “the other side”, forcing so many girls (1) into their game. Maybe it’s just to deflect having to admit to being a misogynist.
And when an American politician calls himself “anti-woke”, he’s saying that he opposes the awareness of systemic racism. Not that he denies the existence of it, but that he’d prefer no one talk about it, so that it can continue.
Yes, exactly. No sane person would call themselves “anti-woke”. Unless they’re successful in subverting its meaning to be “those we’ll put in concentration camps”
- Comment on "You can't just have Geralt for every single game" says his voice actor, and if you think The Witcher 4 making Ciri the protagonist is "woke," then "read the damn books" 2 weeks ago:
It’s not about claiming the moral high ground, it’s just that you can’t have a word that can be used to mean its opposite, even if “sarcastically”. The word woke is just the past tense of wake, nothing else. It can be used to represent someone “waking up” from the hide-your-head-in-the-sand routine, or becomes able to see things from a new perspective. For the right, it doesn’t really mean anything, but they are pretty much using it as the new “sheeple”. Which doesn’t make any sense.
But the important thing is this: if someone is ridiculing people for wanting to be informed, involved in society, or generally just themselves, the only thing they’re actually insulting is their own intelligence and heart. If we let them have their use of woke as a generic mean insult, we lose sight of that.
More than swastikas, I think this case is closer to saying “you can use literally to mean figuratively because it’s common use” to which I also say no, fuck that.
But yes, swastikas forever symbolise Nazism. That doesn’t negate their original, positive meaning previously found in history, religion and culture. This is not an “achtually it’s ok to draw swastikas because they are actually good”. I’m just saying that context, and intent, matters. Should those cultures stop using it because it’s now “forever bad”?
- Comment on "You can't just have Geralt for every single game" says his voice actor, and if you think The Witcher 4 making Ciri the protagonist is "woke," then "read the damn books" 2 weeks ago:
Don’t let the alt-right dictate what “woke” means
- Comment on Some people have it worse 2 weeks ago:
In the US. That’s the point. If I get asked that, the other person generally has some degree of interest in my genuine answer
- Comment on Stop it jeff 3 weeks ago:
- Comment on Let's put an end to the discussion; what is the best way? 3 weeks ago:
Wouldn’t want to get those inside it’s plastic bag
- Comment on Netflix will show generative AI ads midway through streams in 2026 3 weeks ago:
*only if you use the Netflix app on “supported platforms”
I guess the answer to your question is to get on a private tracker for high-quality releases ;)
- Comment on Is it weird to juggle in the park? 4 weeks ago:
If someone sees you and thinks “wow look at this weirdo” it’s on them, not you. And in truth they’re probably just jealous of someone that’s having a good time :)
- Comment on xkcd #3084: Unstoppable Force and Immovable Object 5 weeks ago:
In this example your car is not an unstoppable force, it is just a “travelling” mass
- Comment on Seriously Jesus, who was doing that for that to be added 😭 5 weeks ago:
Check, check, probably not, check, check, check, check, maybe?, check, check, check and check.
- Comment on It's not time for your point release yet. 1 month ago:
Nvidia is breaking their graphics driver. Rolling release distros just get fucked by it
- Comment on Am I going crazy, or has people's spelling gotten awful lately? 1 month ago:
I think that it’s mostly just Lemmy being less dominated by native English speakers. Many of those mistakes that seem baffling “make sense” in some other languages
- Comment on Meta is failing to stop dangerous disinformation in the world’s most spoken languages. 1 month ago:
Zuck: Yeah so if you ever need info about anyone at Harvard, just ask. I have over 4,000 emails, pictures, addresses, SNS
[Redacted Friend’s Name]: What? How’d you manage that one?
Zuck: People just submitted it.
Zuck: I don’t know why.
Zuck: They “trust me”
Zuck: Dumb fucks
- the liz in 2004
- Comment on Meta is failing to stop dangerous disinformation in the world’s most spoken languages. 1 month ago:
Failing implies trying
- Comment on Bots increase online user engagement but stifle meaningful discussion, study shows 1 month ago:
At least they’ll never find a complicit management. Still it doesn’t matter, I’m going to enjoy this space while it’s nice :)
- Comment on Bots increase online user engagement but stifle meaningful discussion, study shows 1 month ago:
Exactly what the big platforms want, and exactly what’s different about Lemmy. Low-volume, high-quality interactions
- Comment on Shopify CEO Tobi Lütke tells employees to prove AI can’t do the job before asking for resources. 1 month ago:
I know for certain the CEO at my company is like that. Not even how or why to do something, but what we should do. Fucking mental
- Comment on Today's Survey. One point for everything that you have NEVER DONE 2 months ago:
I am actually glad I started my photography experience in film. Really taught me to think about framing and timing before hitting the shutter
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
Sucks, but well handled.
- Comment on Power is not energy: why the difference matters [Technology Connections] 2 months ago:
How are energy and power “loose terms”? Energy might be difficult to fully explain rigorously, but it’s one of the fundamental elements of our universe. And power is just energy over time
- Comment on You are not living in reality if you do not see the huge difference between THEN and NOW 2 months ago:
You mean a full time wage?
- Comment on I'm leaving the US for good, anything I should do before I leave? 2 months ago:
Why would you need an FBI background check outside of the US?
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
A brain can also do that
