Dragonstaff
@Dragonstaff@leminal.space
- Comment on Waiting for Capitalism to collapse, so we can get this over with so we can reverse climate change and have nice memes, technology and the good end 4 weeks ago:
We’ve already had decades of massive corruption and general enshittification. Nothing stopping us from making things better.
- Comment on Parenting advice 4 weeks ago:
I didn’t have the stew that makes you go blind for one day, so I substituted beef broth. My daughter didn’t go blind. One star.
- Comment on I signed up for Trump Mobile two weeks ago and I still don’t have my SIM 5 weeks ago:
Because his deadline was today and his sim hadn’t arrived. “Waiting an extra day” is not an option.
- Comment on Guaranteed to save you money 1 month ago:
Just cut your MAGA family loose. Why do you want to spend time with assholes?
- Comment on I've heard New Yorkers are devastated 1 month ago:
Not saying you’re wrong, but Kid Rock is far from “average”.
- Comment on turing completeness 1 month ago:
AI cannot be relied upon to follow its own rules, prompt injection or no.
- Comment on turing completeness 1 month ago:
There’s no question. Chatbots are implicated in a lot of suicides, shattering the first rule.
There could be an interesting conversation about whether the environmental impact ALSO breaks the first rule, but that conversation is unnecessary when chat bots are telling kids to kill themselves.
- Comment on Controversial startup's plan to 'sell sunlight' using giant mirrors in space would be 'catastrophic' and 'horrifying,' astronomers warn 1 month ago:
“In theory”? More like “Move fast and break society.”
- Comment on ICE's 'Frightening' Facial Recognition App is Scanning US Citizens Without Their Consent 1 month ago:
What is the point of comments like this. Yes, we realize this. Are you just hearing about it? Do we really have to face each new horror with admonishments that it is distracting us from the last horror?
- Comment on sushi delivery 1 month ago:
Pizza is A toast. Like avocado toast.
It’s bread, toasted with sauce, various meats, cheeses, and vegetables. This seems pretty unassailable.
- Comment on Go Green 1 month ago:
Marijuana’s a lot more difficult to grow than this. You need to keep the males and females separate.
- Comment on NOW! 1 month ago:
Nobody cares about the long run. You can fool all of the people until next quarter, pull your golden parachute, and go suck the marrow out of the next corporation like a locust.
- Comment on NOW! 1 month ago:
The “true meaning”* of Black Friday is clearing out old stock that didn’t sell and getting it off the books before the New Year.
You used to be able to get some decent deals, but now it’s just warmed over crap produced specially to be sold at a discount.
*This is meant in a parallel to the feeling of “the true meaning of Christmas”. Not the literal meaning.
- Comment on ‘There isn’t really another choice:’ Signal chief explains why the encrypted messenger relies on AWS 1 month ago:
How much of the economy in the 60s was telecommunications vs how much of the economy today relies on the internet?
- Comment on ‘There isn’t really another choice:’ Signal chief explains why the encrypted messenger relies on AWS 1 month ago:
3-5 companies in a sector is an oligopoly, which acts nearly the same as a monopoly. This is not “actual competition”.
All of these companies cornered their own markets, and now they own the backbone of the internet.
If we broke up all of them and required open standards and interoperability then other companies could innovate.
- Comment on ‘There isn’t really another choice:’ Signal chief explains why the encrypted messenger relies on AWS 1 month ago:
AWS needs to be broken up way more than Ma Bell ever did. We need to have open protocols developed so that there can be actual competition.
- Comment on YSK tricks for one of the cheapest meals: beans and rice 1 month ago:
Taco seasoning goes great in beans too.
- Comment on Hollow 1 month ago:
I too am immediately eaten by squirrels.
- Comment on No fucking way! I got invited to the Illuminati 2 months ago:
Hey, it’s me, ur Illuminati.
- Comment on No fucking way! I got invited to the Illuminati 2 months ago:
I am saddened that the Illuminati sent out fake notices to all of you to mask their attempts to recruit me.
- Comment on ICE Will Use AI to Surveil Social Media 2 months ago:
I think it’s more difficult to identify me from an anonymous account where I don’t even talk about myself that much than from an account under their legal name with a bunch of pictures of themselves.
- Comment on Don't fix the problem just change the parameters 2 months ago:
45 year old here…I’m pretty sure I’ve never bought an analog clock and I think it would be weird for a school—or any place, really—to have one. I’m not surprised kids don’t learn outdated technology and anybody who is mad about it should pick up a slide rule.
- Comment on mercy merci 2 months ago:
I am fine with a few spiders around, but the detente does not extend to eggsacs.
- Comment on Corcoran Group CEO says Gen Z’s housing market struggles mirror what boomers faced 30 years ago: ‘Stop buying Starbucks coffee,’ she advises 2 months ago:
Rich boomers who are starting to suspect that they destroyed the world and need someone to tell them everything is fine, every single person under 50 is just whiny and lazy.
- Comment on Amazon Allegedly Replaced 40% of AWS DevOps With AI Days Before Crash 2 months ago:
The thing is that Amazon needs to get broken up way more than Ma Bell did. Most people have never heard of AWS before, but it’s crazy to have one company own so much of the internet, even before you get into their stranglehold on internet commerce (which also should be broken up).
- Comment on engagement 2 months ago:
I mean I’m not going to say no to the Nintendo porn
- Comment on Apparently Palantir can access the content of social media accounts that were deleted a decade ago. 2 months ago:
The sale to a right wing Trumpbuddy proves what I have been saying. The position of the US government is quite consistent: “WE get all of your data.”
- Comment on Apparently Palantir can access the content of social media accounts that were deleted a decade ago. 2 months ago:
When people were up in arms about China getting data from TikTok, I wondered if they had any idea of what the NSA does.
- Comment on Apparently Palantir can access the content of social media accounts that were deleted a decade ago. 2 months ago:
Lying that they have the Reddit comments that they showed everyone?
Anyway, Reddit is one of the most scraped sites on the internet. Be sure that everyone who wants an archive of Reddit has an archive of Reddit. Anything you put on the internet is forever.
I don’t exactly mean to say this is nothingburger, but it is one of the less interesting bits of living in a dystopia and is too low on the list of evil shit Palantir is doing to care that much about.
- Comment on Mom they're fighting again 2 months ago:
If the venemous claws fit.