wakko

@wakko@lemmy.world

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Donald Trump orders US attorney general to 'produce' more Epstein documents⁩ ⁨⁨17⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  “I totally wasn’t in a cult when I voted for a pedophile! It wasn’t a cult at all. See?”

  Okay great. So, if you’re not in a cult, then why DID you think a known associate of Epstein and presumed pedophile given the way he talks about his own child, was fit to occupy one of the most powerful offices on the planet?

  If you weren’t brainwashed and in a cult, then why did you vote for the pedo?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I want to leave tech: what do I do?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  What do you do if you want to leave tech?

  You don’t. Every aspect of modern society needs some amount of tech. But the tech we need doesn’t automatically need to be the adware-laden, spyware-as-a-service enshittified garbage that BigTech foists on us in the name of ever-increasing quarterly profits.

  We all have a choice. If you can make tech, you can choose to make tech for humans, not corporations. There are numerous apps that we would all love a simple, cleanly implemented version maintained by a small team of individuals dedicated to creating a useful application that solves real-world problems without ripping anybody off or filling our viewscreens with pointless ads.

  There’s a simple equation anybody can follow. Make something useful that someone else finds value in, sell it for a reasonable price. That’s it. That’s all any of us need to do in tech. Grab the off-the-shelf hardware, the open-source software, make something useful, and sell it for a modest profit that the makers can live a modest life on.

  We all can choose to be less greedy any time we want. We can choose to work for less greedy people. We can choose to maximize for human impact, or for quality, or for longevity. We do not need to keep choosing maximum profit at the expense of our own ecological well-being.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨AI can kill information⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Try asking deepseek about why Tienanmen Square is famous or whether Taiwan is an independent nation. Compare deepseek’s answers to chatgpt’s answers for the same question. See for yourself.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨AI can kill information⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  There are already AI models trained for distributing intentional misinformation. Grok and DeepSeek are two such examples.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Henry Kissinger died.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Kissinger died in 2023.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why do we tolerate it that Luigi Mangione is being held in prison. We know its absolutely the least safe place he can be?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  How do you know that to be true? What evidence do you have to support the hypothesis?

  Even if the outcome you fear to be true comes to pass, that will not mean you were correct today.

  Without evidence to support the hypothesis, you’re doing nothing more complicated than guessing the result of flipping a coin.