plyth
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- Comment on All while the skeletal, crumbling, dusty bones of an econ major pulls business backwards into hell. 8 hours ago:
Who is holding them up in the sky?
Astrology!
- Comment on Google will require developer verification for Android apps outside the Play Store 1 day ago:
- Comment on Stop children using VPNs to watch porn, ministers told 2 days ago:
Because the goal is to outlaw VPNs. To do that they need enough children to use VPNs to make it credible enough.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 days ago:
Real racism is if you have a half-white president and think of him as the first black one.
- Comment on Why aren't you creating more workers?? 3 days ago:
Capitalism
would alsocharges for every part of the processFTFY
- Comment on The internet kind of sucks right now 3 days ago:
If an AI company pays Discord they won’t scrape but get the data directly.
- Comment on The internet kind of sucks right now 3 days ago:
What prevents Discord from selling the chat logs to AI companies?
- Comment on In a first, Google has released data on how much energy an AI prompt uses 4 days ago:
The human mind uses about 100 watt. The equivalent would be 400 questions per hour, 6 per minute or one every 10 seconds. That’s close to human capacity.
- Comment on Bro wake up it's 1997. 4 days ago:
This post right next to Free rule, you say?. What a coincidence.
- Comment on 4 days ago:
Even if, why shouldn’t something doubtful be pointed out?
But in this discussion it’s relevant. That White Jesus, do we believe that it is facts? Power is using fiction to create a following first. Then those followers prevent an opposition from forming.
Now why are stories about sex opposed? There seem to be many reasons but one could be to encourage people to have sex. So the opposition tries to make people experience reality while Conservatives try to keep them in their fictional world.
In other words, fiction is not only an enemy but also a friend of power.
- Comment on 4 days ago:
What came first, kings or the stories about kings?
I think kings came first, and the storiy supported their power.
- Comment on Computer Science, a popular college major, has one of the highest unemployment rates 5 days ago:
People are not so much harmed by most drugs but by the circumstances. It’s not worth talking about dealers as long as society is cruel to the point of people needing an escape.
- Comment on Computer Science, a popular college major, has one of the highest unemployment rates 5 days ago:
is insane to me.
Of course, it goes against all values that you were taught.
- Comment on 5 days ago:
Without the funding, most of those people would believe different things.
- Comment on 5 days ago:
Fiction has been an enemy of power since writing began
x for doubt
- Comment on Neil Young Leaves Facebook & Instagram Over “Unconscionable” Policies for AI Chatbot Conversations With Children 1 week ago:
Please somebody tell him about mastodon and lemmy.
- Comment on The two types of people 1 week ago:
There are more than two types. There is the silent majority. What would they do?
- Comment on ChatGPT 5 power consumption could be as much as eight times higher than GPT 4 — research institute estimates medium-sized GPT-5 response can consume up to 40 watt-hours of electricity 1 week ago:
That are 25 request per kwh. At 10 to 25cents per kwh that’s 1cent per request.
- Comment on I could use some serious advice as to whether or not to do this 1 week ago:
I totally agry, but do it anyway. The thought of having missed out on a great joke is so much more haunting than all the disgusted faces you risk seeing at any further event. FR FR
- Comment on Just a reminder that our planet is currently the coolest it will ever be in our, and our children's lifetimes. 1 week ago:
Not if we are just preparing for nuclear winter.
- Comment on The UK’s Online Safety Act is a licence for censorship – and the rest of the world is following suit 1 week ago:
we weren’t told what it was before it was too late.
Not that it’s different on the continent but you can’t expect to be told these things. You gave to gather those informations yourself.
- Comment on Fight Chat Control: The EU (still) wants to scan your private messages and photos 2 weeks ago:
Great!
- Comment on Fight Chat Control: The EU (still) wants to scan your private messages and photos 2 weeks ago:
Do you have a source?
- Comment on Fight Chat Control: The EU (still) wants to scan your private messages and photos 2 weeks ago:
Who are those persistent proponents?
- Comment on Fight Chat Control: The EU (still) wants to scan your private messages and photos 2 weeks ago:
The title of another submission explains what it is:
Danish programmer built a website to highlight every single EU members’ stance on the new mass surveillance tool Chat Control 2.0 and its implications for you as a citizen in the European Union
- Comment on If CEOs think they can replace everyone with AI, why do they think Wall St. will need CEOs? 2 weeks ago:
human CEO, the owners
They are not the same, even in most startups. Bezos and Zuckerberg are an exception. CEOs would be replaced first if possible.
- Comment on It's 2025, the year we decided we need a widespread slur for robots 2 weeks ago:
Finally white supremacy feelings for everybody without a bad consciousness …
with the usual threats
We have a social need right now to respond to the proliferation of AI, especially when AI is taking human jobs, especially when they’re replacing online creators," Aleksic said.
and promises
In Dorr’s view, which he describes as optimistic, this creates a chance for a world in which humans will be free from toil.
Why not do something new?
- Comment on It's all connected 3 weeks ago:
You would what, name a channel?
- Comment on The EU still wants to scan all your chats – and the rules could come into force by October 2025 3 weeks ago:
War is likely.
- Comment on It's all connected 3 weeks ago:
Is there an active conspiracy theory channel on lemmy?