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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Everything seems to eventually link back to class war.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Fantastic alternative insight, thank you.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  We went from mass surveillance to hardware confiscation real quick.

  These companies are so large that they don’t need the consumer market anymore. The consumer is now the competition. They can essentially purchase the entire planet’s output of computing hardware years in advance to force us out of the market and lease it back to us at inflated rates. All while using all that tensor compute to make everyone’s life a living digital surveillance hell.

  Forget Internet freedom, computational liberty is now at risk. Who needs all that expensive legal and technological architecture to steal your data, report on you to the government, and enforce DRM when you can only use rented and approved corporate cloud hardware?

  We need to elevate the prosecution of anti-trust to religious inquisition, and burn these companies at the stake. They’re using AI to literally enslave humanity, and it’s working.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Accusation in a mirror

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Hey Don, youre a real class act.⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s just how Donald Trump’s face is.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Good luck⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Why does everyone like giant, awkwardly shaped, gawdy, hand was only in lukewarm water, non-microwave, non-dishwasher safe mugs that start peeling after 3 months? Is your talking pikachu mug with a speaker and light up tail really worth all that effort when it winds up in the back of the top shelf cupboard and you go back to white ceramic after 3 weeks? How many Looney Tunes mugs from Six Flags can one person reasonably store in their home before exceeding the legal limit for dissolved lead concentration?

  Why would we invent a machine that cleans the dishes just to invent dishes that the machine cannot clean? What are we DOING with our LIVES??

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Has happened to me a few times⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Make sure you yank the emergency brake as hard as you’ll can so that the car stops nice and quick.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Haste/Impatience should have been one of the deadly sins.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s a system of morality utterly based on magical thinking that begins with the dubious requirement of faith in the existence of an omnipotent creator, a laughable and absurd premise that to me at least, invalidates most of its subsequent conclusions.

  I would hazard a guess that that most Christians would say that the sins are commandments from God, a who purposely omitted the “sin of haste” for reasons that cannot be comprehended by man and that you should go read your bible. What I would recommend instead is to continue the ethical line of thinking about the harms of haste, look for real world examples, and seek out what other ethical thinkers have to say on the issue instead of trying to fit that exploration within the context of an arbitrary belief system that encourages you not to think at all.

  I find Christian “ethics” to make much more sense when understood as an autocratic system of power rather than one that is trying to grapple with what it means to be “good”.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Haste/Impatience should have been one of the deadly sins.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Very little critical thought went in to that belief system. Its results can safely be discarded.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Dell admits consumers don’t care about AI PCsDell is now shifting it focus this year away from being ‘all about the AI PC.’⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  The TPU is not for you, it’s for tech companies to surveil, train, and exfiltrate your data at every level of the stack from hardware to application in a “secure” fashion. The “features” they proscribe feel forced because they are - they exist to make it seem like you’re getting the next new thing, when really the features that you actually want (like an ad-free experience and a local Windows account) have been so enshitified to hell that they functionally no longer exist.

  • The hardware manufacturer gets to sell you extra hardware you don’t want.

  • The OS vendor runs classification on all of your pictures, documents, and software.

  • The browser vendor sees every site you visit and when, every product you buy, and every porn site you watch.

  • Then, it all gets trained into a personal model that is cryptographically tied to you that can be queried at any time by tech companies, data brokers, advertisers, and law enforcement.

  You get to ask a finders-fee-biased chatbot which product to buy. AI is the ultimate surveillance and advertising device.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Amazon angers retailers by listing products from other sites without consent⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Why would a retailer turn down an additional resource that drives customers to their site?

  Amazon also rolled out a “Buy for Me” feature last year that surfaces products from other brands’ websites and lets shoppers complete purchases without leaving the Amazon app.

  Ah, that’s why.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨ublock Origin can get rid of Cookie Banners⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Shorts are deliberately and effectively addictive. Once Google found out they could copy the TikTok paradigm without being sued, they forced it down everyone’s throat. Ever wonder why you can’t disable shorts? Because they KNOW it’s addictive. We are being farmed.

  YouTube is a vital tool for news and information. It should be NATIONALIZED, and purposefully exploitative technology like shorts should be BANNED.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨ublock Origin can get rid of Cookie Banners⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Oh my GOD thank you

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨EU lawmakers to study ban 'loot boxes' and other addictive features in video games⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m of the strong opinion that we control the media that we are exposed to and that the resolution for problematic or undesirable media is to simply turn it off.

  However: advertising, LLM’s, social media, and the Internet have forced me to capitulate that certain forms of media constitute a legitimate memetic hazard, and are capable of fueling addiction, misinformation, and general misery in large enough scales. I hate this conclusion because while I still heavily err on the side of media liberty and self-control, I cannot square that value with the reality of poisonous, hostile media.

  We should not be subjected to predatory practices to enjoy the products, services, and entertainment that we depend on, and that are part of our shared experience and culture. Loot boxes, advertising, and financial scams are near universal in popular gaming products, and even software in general. To me, this eventually constitutes a monopolistic behavior that becomes reasonably unavoidable and must be regulated.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Every decision led him to this point⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Just the most perfect metaphor for humans destroying ourselves with technology. 👨‍🍳💋

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨X's Generative AI Image Edit Tool Ignites Backlash — Users Fear Image Misuse⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Get ready for the post-reality Internet. You think deepfake porn is bad? Wait until entire voting blocs are swayed by what AI trash their side puts out during that election cycle. They’ll even be aware that it’s AI fakery and they won’t even care. It’s already begun.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Jealous much?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  What are you a fuckin’ onion lawyer?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨NVIDIA Puts 100-Hour Monthly Limit on All GeForce NOW Subscriptions⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The goal is to get you to rent your computer forever.

  AI, vast datacenters, hardware “shortages”, cloud services, DRM, TPM… it’s all part of the same pipeline: remove compute power from the user and concentrate it under control of the manufacturers in order to lease it back to the public in tightly controlled environments.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Nothing to see here folks⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Those are mature teenage cobs and they knew what they were getting in to.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨new haircut, felt cute, might delete later idk⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Behhhseuuhboohhhllll Reeehhhy

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft Edge Pushes an "All in One Browser" Message on Chrome’s Download Page⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  They DESPERATELY want you to use Edge because they DESPERATELY want to watch what websites you visit, for how long, and what you click on. They want to know EVERYTHING about you:

  What you buy, what you masturbate to, what you like and don’t like, how you vote, what you watch, what music you like, the clothes you wear, what you children are like, what movies you watch, who you know… THEY WANT TO KNOW EVERYTHING ABOUT YOU SO THEY CAN USE IT AGAINST YOU: ADS. PROPAGANDA. VOTES. CONTROL.

  WE ARE BEING FARMED

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨This bedroom game is weird⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  No, the puppy straps on a big knotted dog dildo and fucks you.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Hmm⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
  • safely removes flesh from the penis
• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  At this point, “stealing” from any sufficiently large corporation is just consumer recuperation of stolen wages and tax revenues, especially if that company finances lobbying.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Half of the US Now Requires You to Upload Your ID or Scan Your Face to Watch Porn⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I would like to dispute the primary supposition here that pornography is harmful. The use of pornography is nearly universal, and most of the harms that it supposedly causes are symptoms of other issues, or are invented to impose control of sexuality. The ability to reach out with the power of the law to impose religious edicts or project sexual hangups is one of the most esoteric, yet effective, forms of political control available other than violence. If you can control the way that people express their sexuality, you can probably also control their views through the monetization and restriction of sex.

  Sexuality and privacy are human rights, and the creation of and access to pornography is protected by the first and fourth amendments under which so-called “age verification” is an unnecessary and excessive burden. If the idea is to prevent access to children, ask yourself why now all adults must now have their access prevented or interrupted.

  Furthermore, it is not the state’s role to control childhood sexual development, and the idea that porn is harmful to minors is debatable at best and dubious at worst. Access to objectionable material is solely at the discretion of parents. The fact that they cannot effectively manage this is a symptom of another problem.

  When Meta shows teenage girls makeup ads after they delete their selfies, or streaming apps are flooded with violent movies that are easily accessible to minors, this is acceptable. But when I want to watch porn it’s now my job to “protect minors” by compromising my privacy and security?

  The real “danger” here is the availability of ideas that do not align with state power.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Zig quits GitHub, says Microsoft's AI obsession has ruined the service⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Move ZIG for great justice!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Netflix kills casting from phones⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  What possible benefit does this offer to Netflix? Are they trying to avoid paying licensing fee or something?

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Elon Musk’s Grok Goes Haywire, Boasts About Billionaire’s Pee-Drinking Skills and ‘Blowjob Prowess’⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  sigh yes… and also porn. So, so much porn.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Elon Musk’s Grok Goes Haywire, Boasts About Billionaire’s Pee-Drinking Skills and ‘Blowjob Prowess’⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Humanity invented the assembly line and the first thing we did was have a huge war with the rest of humanity.

  Humanity invented the atomic bomb, and the first thing we did was drop it on humanity, twice.

  Humanity invented the Internet, and the first thing we did was figure out how to censor humanity.

  Now humanity has invented AI, a queryable sum of all human knowledge, and the first thing we do is try to manipulate humanity with it.